His First Trip

He handed his son the shotgun and smiled, "Son we've gone over all the safety rules, you've done your education course, and now it's time to get out in the field are you ready?" His son was full of smiles and was ready for the chance to go hunting with his father, "Yeah let's go, only I wish we didn't have to wake up so early." The father chuckled, "Well to kill those squirrels you have to wake up pretty early." They got in the truck and drove to the forest and got into the woods, the hickory trees would be full he knew but he also knew where the nest would be too so he took his son there first, but when they arrived they saw that all of the trees were empty. "It's on to the hickories son now follow me real quite like," they slipped through the woods like cats on prey and found the hickory trees but those too were empty. "Well Dad it don't look like we're gonna find anything today," the man's son said with his heart slightly broken. "Don't worry boy we'll find at least one," and off they went slipping again it didn't take long and there were some more nest trees and there was a couple around. "Now just do as I do and we'll kill your first one," the man said in a whisper and off they went. The boy's heart beat was rapid as they turned the corner full of excitement, then the boy looked up and saw one real close to him the squirrel had seen the stalkers but he stared right at him the boy tapped his father on the back and pointed in the tree.

"Maggie the boy did good, if he hadn't stopped me and tapped me on the shoulder I would have passed the whole tree," the man at the table said with full of pride. "Yeah he was looking at a tree fifty yards away and there theses were just sitting in the tree waiting for us." The mother had heard this kind of story before from her father who spent most of his life in the wilderness teaching his sons and daughters how to hunt, "Well your grandpa would sure be proud of you, now let's eat." The boy took his fork and got the first one laid it in his plate and smiled, his father noticed what he did and had to ask, "Anything special about that one?" The boy laughed, "Yeah it was the second one I saw." The father not understanding, "The second one;" to which the boy replied, "Yeah the second when I tapped you on the shoulder the first one ran away but the second one turned from behind the tree." The father smiled at his wife, "Maggie, I think the boy is a natural."