The Last Free Day in the Mountains

Tommy was turning squirrelly all the sudden, away up in the hills. Out over th Goshdurned still the coyotes were a cooning boozey, just all over there, when a sudden thunder and a mournful digging sound came, and he knew just then it was the Doin It Fer Boys back from the valley.

Tommy put down his acorn and pressed tight up to big ol Mr. Elm. It was going to be a hard night, hard and tight and nighty.