Jean Shepherd Tonight: Part 3 of "Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid"

Tonight: a visit to Santa -- ho-ho-ho

"Every evening immediately after supper we would pile into the car and drive downtown for that great annual folk rite, that most ecstatic, golden, tinseled, quivering time of all kidhood: Christmas shopping."

from tonight's installment of the story

We've been working our way through Chapter II of In God We Trust -- All Others Pay Cash. Monday night in Part 1 we learned of the fixation developed by Ralph our narrator for an "Official Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle" -- a BB gun to you and me, and last night in Part 2 we saw the beginnings of his careful machinations to get one (the trickiest maneuver being to circumvent "the classic Mother BB Gun Block": "You'll shoot out one of your eyes") for Christmas as "that greatest time of all the year" enveloped wintry Hohman, Indiana. -- Ken


FOR PART 3 OF "DUEL IN THE SNOW, OR RED RYDER
NAILS THE CLEVELAND STREET KID," CLICK HERE


THURBER TONIGHT (including BENCHLEY, WILL CUPPY, WOLCOTT GIBBS, RING LARDNER, BOB AND RAY, E. B. WHITE, and JEAN SHEPHERD TONIGHT): Check out the series to date

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