A Debt Repaid, ch. 10

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by: Marty Chrisman

Early the next morning, shortly after breakfast, Luke, Bo and Shelby got ready to head up on the mountain to make sure there was no evidence to use against Shelby for making moonshine. At the last minute, Daisy decided that she was coming too. Jesse ordered them all to be careful. They could all still be arrested if they were caught dismantling the stills or getting rid of the shine the Lynns still had stored.

They decided to take Daisy’s jeep since it would better on the rough terrain than the General would be. Shelby directed Daisy to a rutted dirt road on the far side of the mountain. Bo realized that this must be the way Cory had taken him to the Lynn Cabin when Luke was hurt. But Bo could never remember how to find the road afterwards because he had been so concerned about Luke that night that he hadn’t been paying as much attention as he should have been. They drove for almost an hour taking a couple of turns that Shelby had to warn Daisy about in advance because they came out of nowhere.

Finally, they reached a heavily wooded area where the road seemed to just end, until Shelby told Daisy to keep driving through some brush. When she did as Shelby instructed, they suddenly found themselves in a large clearing with the Lynn Cabin sitting in the middle of it. Now Bo and Luke understood why they had never been able to find the Lynn cabin when they tried to. They had decided to stop at the cabin first so Shelby could gather us some clothes and load up her car.

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A Debt Repaid, ch. 9

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by: Marty Chrisman

Shelby looked at her reflection in the mirror. She had already changed clothes twice unsure what to wear. Finally, she settled for jeans and a blue denim shirt with her hair pulled back into a braid that hung down the middle of her back. Today was the day she met with the attorney in Atlanta about her case. Luke had volunteered to drive her and to stay with her for moral support. At the moment, she needed all of that she could get. She was scared to death.

Jesse and the rest of the family was gathered in the living room when Shelby came out of her bedroom. Daisy smiled encouragingly and gave Shelby a big hug,

“Good luck, sugar.” She said

“Yeah, good luck.” Bo said giving her a big hug of his own “It’s all gonna be okay. I know it.”

“I know it too” Jesse told her with a smile “Now you two best git going, you don’t wanna be late.”

“Thank you all for everything…” Shelby said as Luke waited patiently for her come with him. She gave Jesse a kiss on the cheek then turned to follow Luke outside to the General.

“Nervous?” Luke asked as they climbed into the General.

“As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rockers.” She told him with a grin

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A Debt Repaid, ch. 8

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by: Marty Chrisman

After supper, Luke asked Shelby if she wanted to take a walk. She hesitated for a moment, and then agreed. As they left the house, Bo looked at Daisy and grinned. “I think Luke’s might be getting sweet on her.” He said

“I hope he is.” Daisy said, glancing out the window and watching the two of them walking towards a trail beside the barn that led into the woods that bordered the rear of the Duke property. “Luke deserves to be happy again.”

“And that little lady might just be what he needs to get all better.”

Luke and Shelby walked along the trail in silence for awhile, and then Luke said

“You thinking about Cory?”

“You doing your mind reading bit again?” Shelby asked him with a laugh “I thought that was my specialty.”

“It’s not hard to figure out. I know you have to be worried about him.”

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Bo Gets Even (Sequel to Luke’s Squirrely Friend)

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by: Bo Schneider

The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and Bo and Luke Duke were doing some fishing out at Hazzard Pond. Bo was still steamed about that squirrel that kept bugging him the day he and Luke went out hunting, and vowed to get revenge on the squirrel and whoever if anyone who was cahoots with it. Luke had been in a good mood all week, ever since he and his little squirrel friend pulled a fast one on Bo.

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Luke’s Squirrelly Friend

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by: Bo Schneider

Bo and Luke Duke were out doing some hunting on a Saturday afternoon. Luke had noticed a deer in the distance that he thought would be good for dinner. He had the deer in his sights and was about to release his arrow when he heard Bo shouting.
The deer heard this and took off running. Luke was cursing under his breath at his young cousin’s sudden out burst. He took off at a jog towards his cousin.
When he got to where his cousin was, he couldn’t help but stop and laugh at what he saw. There was his baby cousin trying to get a squirrel out of his hair. The squirrel noticed Luke standing over in the distance watching them.
The little squirrel jumped out of Bo’s blond hair and took off up a tree with Bo right on his tail, cursing the whole time and yelling at the top of his lungs. Luke couldn’t hold in the laughing fit that he had been trying to hide any longer.
He burst out laughing and fell to the ground in the biggest laughing fit that he had in a long time. Bo heard his cousin laughing at him and turned around real fast. His face was red from anger and embarrassment and not to mention all the scratches from the squirrel’s claws and teeth. Bo stormed over to Luke as his older cousin was standing up still trying to control his laughter. Luke saw his cousin’s face. He decided to make a run for it before Bo decided to do something he would regret doing later on. Luke took off running at top speed having dropped his bow and arrows before he took off. He looked behind him and saw Bo running after him as fast as he could run, which was fast. Bo was catching up to Luke very quickly. Luke saw a tree and decided to make like a squirrel and climb like his life depended on it, which in his case right now it did. He heard Bo getting closer and made a leap for life onto the closest branch to the ground. Luke made it with no problems and started to climb higher all the while Bo was quickly closing the gap between him and Luke.
“LUKE DUKE GIT YER BUTT BACK HERE!!! I’M GONNA TEACH YOU TO LAUGH AT ME!!!” Bo yelled at his cousin.
“No way cousin! I’m not dumb I know what you plan to do to me if you catch me!” With that, Luke just kept climbing and jumping from branch to branch while Bo was doing the same, closing the gap between them at a rapid rate.
Luke started to become worried when he started to run out of branches to climb and jump on. Bo caught up to Luke and was about to knock both of them out of the tree, Luke from the impact of the punch and Bo from loss of balance, when an all to familiar critter jumped off of a branch above Bo and landed in his hair. Bo was so surprised that he jumped on the branch, which was enough to snap it. The branch, Bo, and squirrel all fell to the ground. Luke looked down expecting to see the worse. But when he looked down he saw Bo sitting up, the squirrel still in his hair. Luke couldn’t help but laugh at his cousin, who just stood up and started walking limping a little towards the farm mumbling something under his breath the whole time.
When Luke figured it was safe to get down, he started climbing down. Everything went good at first, but when Luke stepped on the second to last branch it gave way under his weight and he fell to the ground. Luke sat up and looked around dazed.
“Well I guess that teaches me not to laugh when someone falls out of a tree.” Luke said to himself. He stood up and brushed his pants off and started towards the farm. He stopped and looked up into a tree and saw a squirrel sitting on one of the low branches munching on an acorn. Luke smiled at it and the squirrel jumped down and ran over to Luke. It sat down in front of him. Luke reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out a large acorn and bent down and handed it to the little squirrel who took it and looked at Luke again.
“Good job. Same time next week?” Luke said to the squirrel. The squirrel looked up at Luke and winked. It scampered back up the tree and into a hole in the trunk.
“Boy it sure does pay to train a squirrel. Especially when you raised it from a baby.” Luke said to himself. Luke started walking back to the farm. Chuckling to himself the whole way.