Wee Willy and Winston had been best friends since their three years together in the second grade. And of course when they got to the sixth grade they were football jocks since they had a combined I. Q. just barely over the legal age to drive a car. When they were not trying to bash each others brains out on the field they were usually in detention or in Juvenile Court somewhere. The rest of the time they were asleep.
All their lives they had heard about the Mystic Wompascat of Caddo Lake. Folks said that it liked to eat full grown alligators with a side order of snapping turtle and was a suspect in the recent disappearance of Godzilla. So the boys thought that if they could catch the monster they would be famous and all the cheerleaders would fall all over them. They gathered all the heavy duty fishing tackle they thought they would need and headed for the lake for the weekend. They returned Monday with a tale that really is best told in their own words.
“When we got to the lake,” Wee Willy said, “the first thing we did was set out our line for the monster. We had some ¾” steel cable, a 12 foot piece of heavy chain and a shark hook that would have held Jaws. For a float we had a steel drum and used half an alligator for bait.” “Yep,” Winston said “and we tied it off to a 20 foot cypress tree. Then we built a fire and waited. But about midnight the drum float started bobbing up and down and then went completely under. We saw the tree was bent almost over to the ground and then it made a big cracking sound and broke. We grabbed it just before it slid into the lake and held on for dear life.” “After about a two hour battle,” Willy said, “we had it almost up on the bank and Winston ran to get the lantern. But the monster came up out of the water and knocked him flat and the lantern went out. By the time he got it lit again the thing had climbed up a big oak tree.” Winston took over and said, “Willy ran to the truck for a spotlight and the rifle but by the time he got back the stupid thing had flown away. Darndest thing I never saw!”
