Deets

“Does the predator in question answer to the name Deets?”

Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

“Does the predator in question answer to the name Deets?”

Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

Mrs. Nesbitt says, with an air of not being bullied by anything Deets.

Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

The medicine salesman tips his hat—“Mr. Deets”—but he shakes his head in a sorry kind of way after Cecil passes onto the road toward town.

Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

But I feel as misplaced as Cecil Deets would be in this leafy habitat of hers.

Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

“Mr. Deets said Dr. Nesbitt had to go pronounce the man dead.”

Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

It is a farm, but a man named Cecil Deets does the field work.

Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

“Miss Nish, might you know how we could contact Pansy Deets?”

Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

"We've all heard about the pirates, and we're all sticking to the American side of the lake, because those are some bad boys out there," said Dwayne Deets, a fisherman from Houston who was sliding $50,000 worth of cream-colored bass boat, bristling with sonar and GPS electronics, down a ramp in Zapata.

Mexican pirates attack Texas fishermen on Falcon Lake, which straddles border 2010

“We further understand why you can never—cross your heart, shake of salt, thump a banana—ever tell Cecil Deets that Mrs. Nesbitt and I had one peep of involvement either.”

Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010