Show i r O It happens to me mo every October Saturday morning w was s the sixth straight October Saturday it has o occurred I get up In the morning What time Mind l your own business Pretty soon after a cuppia coffee and a or- or Inch choos choo I wander out to the therose therose rose bushes to see lee If the last rose of summer lummer Is still ducking thorns thorn It Isn't Thon Then I glance Into the canal to see it If any bodies have risen to the surface toll following owing last nights night's passing parade of ot people persist persist- persistIng trig lag In placing persons in peril of perpetual puncture of the No bodies Not a single corpse T Tough ugh And so 80 to the office What's the hurry Nobody works today anyhow any any- how bow because this is the first day dayot I ot of deer In the office I sniff the air all to eee see If It the place is on fire tire It Isn't I look out back to see if the lot i up for tor My Lady Fairs Fair's tomato cans full of gold which 2 ave avo overflowed the back yard at atthe atthe atthe the the house No dig Quiet dull meek quiescent night In the surrounding hills the 30 ot of sixes' sixes and the thirty-thirties thirty and and the tho I twos thirty roar roar and each 50 t times mes to every kill This Is the opening morning remember of the annual deer hunt So then to the tho And Anda a stop atop way halt way at the coffee shop for tor the morning razzing on who Is going to buy and how cheap can a guy be for a dime and what kind of p people pick up an abandoned aban aban- abandoned dirty cup and ask for tor a nickel refill re The place Is strangely strange y empty No No Insults No coffee unless coffee unless you buy your own Incidentally how scan jean an you explain to some people i that you wouldn't Insult any anyone one it you didn't like th them thaw m f How can you you make them understand that I you'd much rather your good friends would say Get et o out t ji a dime you ou cheap chiseling SOB OB than Good morning And d now somebody pomes In probably several hunters' hunters widows and It Jt begins Well VeU how come you arent aren't out In the hills this morning Where's Wheres your red shirt How lIow come you arent aren't pursuing the wily buckskin Do you realize youre you're one of only six or eight bodied able-bodied men left In town today There arc are a number of answers I could give None of ot them would make sense I haven't any equipment You Youcan can borrow some I I Dont dare leave My ly Lady i l Fair Louise alone shed she'd shed she'd fall downstairs and break her Jaw Tie her In bedIm bed I Im Int turned around Id I'd get lost Take a compass And a dog A eye seeing one My heart might be weak I 1 might collapse on a hill hili Hitchhike Hitch Hitch- Hitch t hike bike on a Jeep Not sure I could shoot one of those beautiful animals I Throw rocks at em l Dont dare go out in those hills Somebody would love to shoot me In tho the back of ot the neet Not accidentally Youre You're going to get it through the window some night anyhow All my warm clothes' clothes are loaned loaned loan loan- ed out or worn out or standing stiff stitt in a corner comer Wrap sheets round around you Oh you you dont don't have sheets at your house bouse Use news news- paper Well Veil then okay Im I'm Just too danged lazy and and- comfort comfort- loving t to go hunting Now youre you're bud It happens like I s said ld back there a ways every third Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day In October October Mac Mac I |