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 THE FROG HUNT

 

                                                   

 

"LOOK OUT THERE'S A SNAKE! SWEETPEA CRIED.  “I SEE IT, IT ISN’T A COTTONMOUTH.  IT’S ONLY A FISH SNAKE.  IT WON’T BOTHER US IF WE DON’T BOTHER HIM.”   I SAID.  “BUT I DON’T LIKE SNAKES OF ANY KIND, THEY MAKE MY SKIN CRAWL.”  WAS SWEETPEA’S ANSWER.  SWEETPEA SPLASHED UP A LITTLE CLOSER BEHIND ME.  “DON’T CROWD ME AND BE QUITE, YOU’RE SCARING THE FROGS.”  “THERE’S ONE NOW, AND I’M GOING TO GET TO HIM BEFORE THAT SNAKE DOES.”  I DREW MY 22 RUGER FROM IT’S HOLSTER AND TOOK CAREFUL AIM.  “CRACK,” WENT THE LITTLE PISTOL AND THE FROG WAS KNOCKED OVER BACKWARD.  SWEETPEA WADDED OVER AND PICKED IT UP AND PUT IT IN THE TOE SACK HE WAS CARRYING.

 

SWEETPEA, MY HUNTING AND FISHING BUDDY, AND ME HAD GONE TO THE SABINE RIVER BOTTOM FROG HUNTING.  IT WAS LATE SUMMER AND THE BAR DITCHES WERE DOWN LOW SO WE JUST WADDED THROUGH THEM SO WE COULD HUNT BOTH BANKS AT THE SAME TIME.  THE WATER WAS ONLY ABOUT KNEE DEEP.  I HAD PUT MY HEADLIGHT ON AND CLIPPED THE DAD LANTERN BATTERY TO MY BELT.  I HAD STRAPPED ON A HOLSTER WITH MY RUGER 22 CAL. PISTOL AND I WAS READY TO GO.  SWEETPEA FOLLOWED ALONG BEHIND ME CARRYING A TOE SACK TO CARRY THE FROGS IN.

 

NOW IF YOU HAVE NEVER EATEN FROG LEGS YOU JUST DON’T KNOW WHAT YOUR MISSING.  THEY ARE ALL WHITE MEAT AND HAVE A TASTE ALL THEIR OWN.  A BIG BULLFROG WILL HAVE LEGS BIGGER THEN A CHICKEN LEG.  THE BULLFROGS AT THIS TIME OF YEAR WERE BIG, AND THERE WERE A LOT OF THEM. 

 

A LOT OF FOLKS DON’T KNOW HOW TO CLEAN FROG LEGS.  OH, IT IS EASY TO SKIN THEM BUT YOU BETTER KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO TO THEM WHEN YOU CLEAN THEM OR YOUR GOING TO BE IN FOR A BIG SURPRISE  WHEN YOU COOK THEM.  THE FIRST TIME SWEETPEA CLEANED FROG LEGS AND ASKED HIS MOTHER TO COOK THEM FOR HIM WAS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT HAPPENS. 

 

THIS WAS BEFORE SWEETPEA STARTED GOING FROG HUNTING WITH ME.  HE HAD KILLED TWO BIG BULLFROGS AND SKINNED THEM.  HE ASKED HIS MOTHER TO FRY THEM FOR HIM.  SHE HAD A PAN OF GREASE ON THE STOVE AND HAD ROLLED THE LEGS IN FLOUR.  WHEN THE GREASE GOT HOT SHE PLACED THE FROG LEGS IN THE PAN, AND THEY JUMPED OUT OF THE PAN ONTO THE FLOOR.  SHE SCREAMED AND RAN BACKWARD! 

 

NOW YOU SAY YOU DON’T BELIEVE THAT.  I DON’T BLAME YOU BECAUSE IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE IT.  BUT YOU SEE, IF YOU DON’T PULL THE NERVE OUT OF THE LEG BEFORE YOU PUT IT IN THE HOT GREASE IT WILL MAKE THE LEG CONTRACT SO HARD THAT IT CAN JUMP RIGHT OUT OF THE FRYING PAN.  WELL AFTER THAT I TOLD SWEETPEA HOW TO REMOVE THE NERVE WHEN HE CLEANED HIS FROGS, BUT HIS MOTHER NEVER WOULD TRY TO COOK ANY MORE FROG LEGS.  AS FAR AS I KNOW SHE STILL HASN’T TO THIS DAY, AND THAT WAS 45 YEARS AGO.  BUT THAT’S A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME.

 

  BY LOREN MOORE

COPYRIGHT  2000

 

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