The Games Children Played

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Race you to the barn,
Last one home's a rotten egg.
1 2 3 ......ready or not, here I come!

 

 These were the sounds of summer in the country.

 

Late summer evenings, hot and still;
Locusts, katydids, and cicadas loudly singing,
Then crickets starting to sing in the night.

 

This was the best time to play hide and seek.
Especially after it started turning dark and the shadows were deep.
The porch lights would go on making the shadows darker.

The Old Farmer and his wife sitting on the porch

making sure everything was safe as they relaxed

from their busy day.

One night, before the game started

a couple neighborhood boys came by. They walked up to us

on the front porch steps carrying two full grown skunks!

Us kids were fascinated, at least I knew I was.

They explained that carrying the skunks by the tail

they couldn't spray. I never knew how that ended, 

when they went to put them down!

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