Almost
immediately young Boyd had alienated the other Scouts with his nettlesome
commentary and disdain for physical labor.
By the time the troop made its first expedition, Shreave had been
accurately pegged as the resident slacker.
Soon after midnight a prankster had opened his sleeping bag and set
loose a juvenile armadillo, which innocently began to explore Shreave’s armpits
for grubs. The unhappy camper had
reacted by clubbing the bewildered creature to death with his boom box, a
second-degree misdemeanor resulting in the troop’s ejection from the Lady Bird
Johnson State Floral Gardens and Nature Preserve, and of course, in Shreave’s
lifetime banishment from the Scouts.
(from Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen)
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