Going to Grandma's

Old Man Hawkins was a larger-than-life character among deer hunters, or - more precisely - among tellers and hearers of tall tales. His self-proclaimed method of hunting deer by holding a mirror in one hand and his rifle in the other - pointing backward over a shoulder - was, he said, "to be fair to the deer."
It was a story, Davis tells us, that would occupy his father on the drive to Grandma's house.
©2002 Donald Davis; (P)2002 August House Publishers, Inc.