Going to Grandma's (Abridged)

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.