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Article: [ 'Twas the night before deer season ]
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- November 29, 2001
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'Twas the night before deer season
Outdoor notes compiled while thinking it's time I did an outdoor
rhyme. So here goes, some outdoors prose:
'Twas the night before deer season and all through the house
You could hear the harsh words of the hunter's spouse.
"What is the matter, what's wrong with you?
"You're acting weird; I don't have a clue!"
"You've been in the basement, been in the attic;
"You're trying to give me a heart attactic!
"After all, it's been a whole year;
"You should be prepared to go after a deer!"
The hunter heard her but didn't respond;
He didn't know what he was doing was wrong.
The fishing had been good all during the fall.
And deer preparations had shrunk kinda small.
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