Chapter 2, Trapper's Christmas

 

Chapter two of Trappers Christmas

To recap yesterday we left off with the trapper, Jim Roberts, telling his hound Beau that he deserves a Christmas as much as anyone. Please keep in mind that there will be some purposeful misspelling and dialect of a man in the woods. Read accordingly.

The trapper stand and grabs his coat hanging from the branch that he had nailed to the wall. “First thing we need’s a tree!” He says as he heads for the door, Beau close behind. They both step out into the biting December air and Jim emits a shiver. He walks to the woodshed, grabs his axe, and says to his pup, “Let’s find us a good’n and we’ll put her up right in the winder there!”

So the two companions take off toward their familiar trails into the deep forest surrounding their cabin. It doesn’t take long before the trapper says, “There she be pup!”, pointing at a six foot spruce, "there’s our tree!!!” So he took his axe to its trunk and, with a few quick swings, was dragging it back to the cabin.

Many a larger and more elaborate tree have been picked by people over the world. With the stores and tree lots in the city selling all sorts of over priced over manicured trees, many people may not find this tree to be much of anything. This tree may not be as straight or as full as some, but it is perfect for a man and his dog in the woods. After shaking the snow from the branches and clearing the dead gas from the lower branches, Jim took an old sap pail from the shed and proudly stood his tree in the window.....

Chapter three tomorrow