Okay, now, before y’all go and blame me and John Clayton for ‘borrowing’ that Christmas tree from old man Odom, let me just lighten up yore mind. You see, that old coot is as mean as a sack of snakes, and he’s alway ragging us boys, blaming us for all kinda stuff, which we might not have done. Well, maybe we did do some of them things, but he shore can’t prove it, and according to Mr. Attaway, our Civic’s teacher, we ain’t guilty until he proves it without no doubts. So, would you blame us if old man Odom had just forgot to cut down that perfect Christmas tree over in the edge of his yard, and we slipped up a week before Christmas and ‘borrowed’ it? Naw, you see, we figured as much as old man Odom likes to clear land, it just missed that perfect 8′ cedar tree in his front yard. Yeah, and we should be kinda patted on the back for helping him clear his yard of that danged tree, but no not in a million years. Would you belive he grabbed John Clayton by his shirt collar a few days later and just went on and on how he just knowed John Clayton and of course me, was the ones that got his sorry old tree. Well, after that we scatter like a covey of quail when we see that old coot coming, slobbing tobacco juice down his beard and spitting gunk all over the sidewalk. Yeah, I know you might say we should’ve asked if he minded..you know if he cared if we cut that tree, but heck, it was about 9 at night when we decided to cut it down and after we drug it out of his yard, he started shooting at us with birdshot. I figured, as we was running down the road, that we’d done waited too long to ask. Anyway, Mr. Attaway said we ain’t guilty till we’s proven..without no doubts, so stand by and sometime later in the week I’ll feel you in on the rest of the story.

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