THE POWER OF MOONSHINE

Boudreaux been fish'n down by de bayou all day an he done run outa night crawlers. He be bout reddy to leave when he seed a snake wit a big frog in his mout.

He knowed dat dem bigmouf basses fish like dem frogs so he decided to steal dat froggie.

Dat snake, hit be a cotton moufed water moccasin so he had to be real careful or he'd get bitted.

He snuk up behine de snake and grabbed him ro un de haid. Dat ole snake din't lak dat one bit, no. He squirmed and wrapped hisself roun Boudreaux's arm try'n to get hisself free. But Boudreaux, him, had a real good grip on his haid, yah.

Well, Boudreaux pried hit's mout open and got de frog and puts it in his bait can. Now, Boudreaux knows dat he cain't let go dat snake or hit's gonna bite him good, but he had a plan. He reach into de back ! pocket of his bib overhauls and pulls out a pint a moonshine likker. He pour a couple of draps into de snakes mout.

Well, dat snake's eyeballs roll back in hits haid and hits body go limp. Wit dat Boudreaux toss's dat snake into de bayou. den he goes back to fishin.

A while later Boudreaux dun feel sumpin tappin on his barefoot toe. He slowly look down and dare dat water mocassin was wit two frogs in his mout.