Big Hairy Deal by Steve Vernon

Author:Steve Vernon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cryptid, Bigfoot, young adult, redneck, adventure
Publisher: Stark Raven Publishing
Published: 2016-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen – The Tale of Old Shuck – as Told by Coyote

“This is the way that the story was first told to me – way back when I was nothing but a pup,” Coyote began. “Many, many, many long years ago.”

“You mean way back when people lived in caves?” Bigfoot asked. “Back when they carried clubs and ate dinosaur burgers for breakfast?”

“People weren’t actually around when the dinosaurs were,” I pointed out. “My science teacher taught me that.”

“What?” Bigfoot replied. “Haven’t you ever watched the Flintstones?”

I gave it up as an argument that was already lost long before it ever got started.

“I’m not that old,” Coyote angrily snapped.

“You’re not that young, either,” Bigfoot pointed out. “Besides, you only start the story that way in case you get any of the facts out of order – which you probably will - in which case you can always blame who ever told it to you first.”

“Do you really want to try and tell this story all by yourself?” Coyote asked. “I’m not sure there aren’t too many syllables in it for your vocabulary.”

“Tell on,” Bigfoot replied. “I’m not saying a single word.”

“That’d be a first,” Coyote retorted – but then he jumped right back into the flow of the story – before Bigfoot could squeeze one more wisecrack comment out of his mouth.

“It started with a young boy by the name of Little Billy,” Coyote began. “A young boy named Billy who lived all by his lonesome out in the deepest darkest woods imaginable. “

I sat down on a rock.

I had the feeling this was going to be a long old story – because so far I hadn’t actually heard any short ones - and I figured that I might as well do my best to make myself comfortable while I was at it.

“How come every question I ask you guys always has to lead to some dumb old story?” I asked. “It’s beginning to become a bit of a habit.”

“There is no such thing as a dumb story,” Bigfoot said.

“Our whole existence depends upon stories being told,” Coyote added. “So long as a story is told and told well we storied folk will continue to walk the earth.”

“So tell it, then,” I said. “Tell us all about that forest.”

I was getting a little impatient.

“There were trees in that forest that were so old that you would have to spend three hundred years of straight night-and-day calculating just to count up how many rings run round the middle of their trunk,” Coyote went on. “There were trees so old that their shadows had grown roots of their own and the roots had grown shadows. There were trees so old that their leaves had got all tangled up with the clouds and the moonbeams.”

“Okay, okay,” Bigfoot interrupted. “We got it. It was an old forest. Can you cut to the chase? I see my birthday coming up in about three months down the road and the way that you are winding up

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