The deer who came to smell the flowers

well now I'll tell you folks about the little misfortune that I didn't have a chance to see what my neighbor did she it was WC and Marie and they have built a beautiful little cabin and an addition for a bedroom on the side just out of board and she bought some apple trees and plum trees and stuff and they made a real nice garden and she enjoyed it very much and so did he and they sold their home place where they used to live for years to their young one of their young sons well anyhow she was situated there and she asked me to come

over to visit and I did and she says you know I She says, you've got such a beautiful flowers all over around your house and all, and it would really be beautiful if I had it here in the woods.

Well, I said, that ain't going to be so bad for you to have. I said, you just come with W .C., your husband, and bring two or three boxes, and empty boxes, grocery boxes. And I said, we'll dig you up, whatever you like.

come over with him and then you can go and plant a plant whatever you like so she did and he made kind of a bank alongside of their driveway and he braced it with posts and planks and everything and made it real nice you know within three four steps away she had beautiful pines and then her cabin you know So she really made it nice So I gave her all kinds of plants And everything The first year She watered it They carried water from the creek So all the plants caught Well she had a pretty nice There wasn't too many blossoms But it all caught

nice and started growing Well So then Well we were kind of nice So together we got together See one another and stuff But she said You know she says I got these apple trees and they're doing nice and all that.

And I planted some raspberries, she said, and strawberries and the other garden. And it looks like okay, she says, I think we're going to just love it here. But we didn't see another too often, mostly at church, you know.

We went to the same church on Sunday to say hello and a few words and stuff. And so the time went on, and she said, oh, she said, said one day at the church, she says, Agnes, can you possibly come and see me?

I got something to tell you. I said, sure, sure. So she was really the closest neighbor to me and about my age and so far. So I went up there, and she says, you have no idea what we've seen.

She says, look at them flowers. Aren't they beautiful? That was until two years or so after I gave her the flowers. I says, you sure got it nice. clear than me yet. I said, I'm very happy for you as you can enjoy the flowers.

Well, she says, it ain't only me that enjoys the flowers or Jim, my man. It's the deer. I says, don't tell me. Yes, she said, the other night, the other night she says, I woke up, oh no, she says, I was listening to the TV there till after 12, some kind of a special she always watched.

And Jim, her husband, was sleeping already. And it was a beautiful moonlight night, just like daytime, practically. And she happened to glance out of her window. They had two big windows in the front kind of towards the flower garden.

And she says, I've seen five or six deer smelling to my flowers. So she says, I got all excited. I went and I woke up my husband and showed him with my finger to his lips to shut up, not to say nothing.

And I motioned to him to come to the window. So he did. And there, him and I, we watched for a good half an hour of how the deer loved the flowers. Because, as she says, each one went different to smell different one and they went by one another and smelled this and smell that.

And they were walking the whole length of that bank that he fixed up with these planks and posts where he planted all these nice flowers. Oh, I She had a beautiful riot of different colors and smells and everything.

And she says, we spent more than half an hour just watching them. And something, oh, Jim, she says, I think made a motion or move or something in the glass, in the window. And one of the deer must have seen it.

And she says, great big whistle. And the way they went all, three of them had velvet horns, a great big jelly. horns, you know, with a fuzz on them. She's seen them just as plain as if it was daytime.

And she says, this one of them with these horns made this whistle. And she says, like if somebody shot into the whole five, they all went different directions and disappeared. Well, she says, that was some experience that I never dreamed ever seeing or, you know.

And I says, well, I sure would have laughed twice. I said, that was my misfortune that I wasn't here. She says, what the heck would you be doing around midnight down my place? Well, I said, they should come and smell mine.

I got nice ones too, you know. But our house was a little further away from the woods. Hers was right in the woods. You might as well say a beautiful spot, you know, up on a hillside and stuff.

And she lived there for several years with him. And that's the man that was picking than blackberries. Maybe that'll be another story I'll tell you about.