Uncle NoPass
Three years nine months and twenty two days
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Three years nine months and twenty two days |
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I stopped by Uncle NoPass's house yesterday. My
aunt had told me he had one new rabbit dog and he wanted
 another
one he had found in the free column. No doubt, the dogs were the finest in
these parts and never ran a deer. I’m sure everybody says so, at least
according to my soon to be 83 year old uncle.My aunt greeted me at the door and told me that NoPass was cleaning up the dog pen. She had talked him out of getting the dog from the free column, my aunt informed me as I headed out the back door. I wondered if that was all that wise an idea considering my uncle’s luck in acquiring “ trained” “hunting” dogs lately. Some of the best over the past years have been a little heavy on the “sooner” side. The three little ladies quit trying to force their attention on NoPass when they saw me and came over to see if I was going to take them out for a day in beagle heaven chasing rabbits. Uncle NoPass saw me talking to the dogs and came over to introduce me to MY new dog. Robyn is her name, same as my cousin by way of Uncle Ulysses and and Aunt Helen. She is about the same size and build as Kate and Lady- kinda leggy though a small dog with a white shoulder and a quarter size white spot on her back. “Robyn is yours. She’s a good’un. Everybody says so. Want run nothing but a rabbit.” my uncle said with pride though the dog hadn’t been out of his pen since he had got her a couple of weeks ago. “I’ll just keep her here since you’re not set up right now. I had her spayed last week. I wouldn’t have any dog less‘un it‘s a spayed female. You just get Your dog when you feel the urge to rabbit hunt, you hear? Did I tell you she was a good’uns?, ain’t never run no deer, everybody says so. I understood, implied or not and I thought it
was a great deal. My uncle would keep the dog, take it to the vet, exercise
the dog, feed the dog and I could pick Robyn up to hunt any day but Sunday.
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