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I told
you about Sam, the butt biting dog that belongs to Ray and
Frances in the story ???Varmint Hunter la Grand.
Well
Sam got an allergy and was itching so bad that he was
scratching all the time. Frances gave him a bath and put
some medicine on him but it didn??™t help. So she took Sam to
the vet for a shot. The vet commented on how good Sam
smelled. Frances told the vet that she had just bathed him.
By the
time Frances and Sam got home from the vet, Sam had quit
scratching so the shot must have worked. Now Sam was back to
his old self. He ran a few happy laps and, to show his
appreciation, he nipped Ray in the seat of his pants. Ray
couldn??™t keep from laughing and gave Sam a big hug.? That
wasn??™t hard to do with Sam smelling as good as he did. But
doom and gloom were just around the corner, and no one knew
it yet.
That
night Sam took up his post on the porch to guard against the
varmints of the night. It wasn??™t long before he spotted
something moving down by the pond. Off he went after the
varmint, barking a call for Ray to bring his shotgun.
When he
got to the varmint it would not run from him. Instead it
turned it??™s back on him and let him have it. Oh boy did that
varmint let Sam have it. He sprayed Sam good with that
stinkum that every skunk has.
Ray had
heard Sam barking when he went running down to the pond so
he had grabbed his Remington shotgun and started in that
direction. When the skunk sprayed Sam, Sam came running back
to Ray. Ray shot the skunk and started running back to the
house, all the time telling Sam to go away.
Sam was
going away all right, he just happened to be going away the
same direction Ray was going. Frances had been outside on
the porch, watching all this, and when she saw Sam and Ray
running back to the porch she ran inside the house and
locked the door.
Poor
Sam was really sick for a couple of days and I??™m not going
to say what happened to Ray. That??™s a whole ???nother story
for a different time.
A few
days later, Sam started barking and Ray said he wasn??™t going
out to see what he had found this time. It was late
afternoon and the sun hadn??™t gone down yet. Frances looked
out the window and told Ray Sam must be feeling better, he
just chased their old cat up a tree.
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Loren Moore
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