Tall Tale Tuesday: Daniel Boone’s Dear
ate one night, Daniel Boone and a friend went out fire hunting. Fire hunting involves the shining of the light from a fire pan (a pan full of blazing pine knots) into the woods. The light reflects in the eyes of the deer, which is too dazzled to run and the hunters can shoot it.
This night, as they neared a creek bed, Daniel Boone caught a glimpse of blue eyes shining in the darkness. He dismounted from his horse and aimed his rifle, but found himself unable to shoot. he had never seen a blue eyed deer. A rustle told him his prey had fled, and he followed it over a fence and into a meadow.
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If you look to the bottom left of the page, there’s a new “Recent Reading” box, listing books I’m reading or have just finished. There’s also a new shirt in the site store, featuring a quote from Air America’s Rachel Maddow.
(Tall Tale from American Folklore.)
