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The Red Well-Read Reader

Story 129
The Deer Hunters

When Bill went to hunt for deer
With Joe, his buddy and peer,
Bill’s wife gave him a scornful fleer

And declared with a nasty sneer,
“How can you two shoot a deer?”

Then her eyes began to tear.
Nevertheless, the men grabbed their hunting gear.

Down the road some they stopped for beer.

Now beer is excellent for good cheer
But it may make your vision blear,
And also make your judgment veer,

Thus al•ter•ing the way things appear.

In light of this, it’s not so queer
To mistake a cow for a deer.

So when Joe shot the farmer’s steer
That angry man made it quite clear

By shouting loudly in their ear
That if they so much as come near
His homestead the following year

He’d make their scalps his souvenir.

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