Carl and I had grown up together in the sticks of south central Alabama and we swore that there would never be one person to come between the friendship we had. We hunted, fished, trapped, and even bullfrog hunted together.
Both of us knew that the local bullfrog hunting championship was coming up and we were gonna win this year. We only had one problem and it was girls that stood in our way of winning. See these girls just wasn’t plain girls. They were the biggest tom boy girls this side of the Mason Dixon Line and every time you seen them the tallest one had a chew of red-man in her mouth so big you could barely make out what she said. That’s how she got the nickname big mouth Sally.
Now Sally had a best friend named Alley and god was she something else. See Alley was the local doctors daughter from somewhere way up yonder in the North. When she moved down here to Alabama she didn’t know what to think and became the best of friends with Sally all because their stupid names rhymed. But boy was she hot. Them long legs and all them curves in all the right places just made a boys mouth drop open where he couldn’t shut it.
See me I was the hunter that kept Carl straight and forward. Carl had this crush on Alley ever since she moved down here and I didn’t like it one bit. Heck I was about to lose my best bud. My huntin partner. Who was gonna help me clean all them there bullfrogs when I caught em. Well over time Sally and Alley became as good as me and Carl at catching these here bullfrogs ya see. That was gonna interfere with the championship ya see and I wanted to win and win bad. We had not won in three dang years and I wasn’t about to get stomped another year by no girls.
So me and Carl came up with a little secret. In the championships you had to hunt together in a group of four. And what ya know we got teamed up with the two most outlawed girls in this here state.But boy was it gonna be fun. That’s when me and Carl come up here with our secret.
Our plan was to cut holes in the sack of Sally’s and we would be ok. See Alley she didn’t like to catch them bullfrogs and she was just along with Sally to hang out and be part of a crowd i guess you could say. She show enough acted like she liked it. But you could tell she didn’t. She was after Carl ya know.
The night of the championship was here and we was ready to go. The only thing you had was a empty corn sack and a flashlight. You would take off to them there wood’s and swamps and hoped that yo didn’t get chased by Ol man Johnson’s cows. Getting down to his pond after dark was never a problem until the cows seen you. Then you had better taken off hauling butt. It was something about that pond and the cows would never go down to it after dark so if you made it to the pond and the gully you was ok.
The night had started off so good and the four of us was catching them bullfrogs left and right. Well three of us anyhow. As the hours passed we had to be checked back in at the check in at no later than midnight. Around eleven o’clock I told everyone that we needed to start heading back but to my surprise Carl and Alley was nowhere to be found.
So as me and Sally looked for them we found them two making out under a big oak tree and boy was the faces on them red when we caught them. All I heard all the way back to check in was from Sally’s mouth ” Alley I can’t believe you made out with that there crazy Carl, you gonna have lip soars for a week.” You could actually hear her this time cause she had swallowed all that tobacco after what she saw.
But this was my year to shine in the bullfrog huntin championship and I was gonna win. After all those hours while Sally thought she had been putting them there frogs in her sack I was walking right behind her picking them up as they crawled through. Made my huntin easy I should say.
Well as for Carl and Alley they started dating and both went to college together and finished. They are now married and have 4 girls and 3 boys. They became well known in our small town as you can see with the most kids. Sally went off to college and became a nurse and came back to work for Alleys dad. Well for me That’s another story.
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