Plantation Snipe

[charlie cleveland]

theres and old man lives east of me that still makes and sells board stretchers....told me he mite trade one or two to you boys for a guided snipe hunt provided yall have a extra sack.... we call them sky cranes a shy hook in these parts...friend of mine that served in world war 2 said his old mess hall sarge sent him after a set of cheese stretchers and told him not to come back till he found them...he came back late that after laying up and resting in another outfits quarters....he said the kp boys were madder heck at him and said it wasnot fit to be repeated what that old sarge said....he said he told that old sarge he had hunted high and low for those cheese stretchers but could not find them told the old sarge he would start early in the morning if it was alright with him.... he said that old sarge bout come unglued...but said for some reason they never would let him go and hunt for those chesse stretchers again.... charlie