Letters About Literature By: Tanner

                                                                     Tanner  Storjohann
 111 West Hancock
O'Neill, NE 68763

     Dear Wilson Rawls 

     After reading your book I didn’t just look at hunting different, but also reading. Before I read your book I would just go through the motions trying to get by reading. I would always get a good start and read about two chapters then give up. Your book just really stood out to me and changed my personality.

       I remember the struggles of catching my first raccoon. The first raccoon seem to take forever, them keen, tricky, striped tailed creatures was all I thought about when I was about seven years old. Every day after school I would walk through the grove of oak trees that looked like beasts, as I grace through the yellowish brown trees in the late fall. Trap after trap nothing, I knew there where raccoons in this area though still no luck.

     I didn’t exactly catch my first raccoon the way Billy did. I don’t think I have the skills to trap a raccoon with just a piece of wood, nails, and something shiny, I use my set of live traps I got for my eighth birth day. That day I saw that beast in my first live trap I about fainted, all those hard cold days trying to out smart him I finally had him right where I wanted him. After that raccoon hunting became easier to me after each one I caught. Not just did my trapping skills improve but also my effort tords reading became grater.

     After the years I have been showing my younger brother the importance and safety of hunting. Teaching him different strategies to figure out where and when the raccoons will pass by a certain area by using my trail cam in our favorite spot. I am my brothers roll model so I try my best to make him the best I can. Someday I hope we can teach our kids the values of being in the outdoors.

     I have always been a big fan of hunting but raccoons are my favorite animal to hunting just for there unique character. I will always love hunting, but thanks to you I wouldn’t have found my way of getting engaged in the right book.