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The Song Challenge:   Don't Ya Crawl Too Slow, Move Along Lil' Suckahs . . .    – DULUTH, Minnesota (AP) -- Phil DeVore thinks of himself as a rancher.  But he doesn't ride the range tending his herd, he just drops meat scraps into the pond.  DeVore raises leeches on his farm south of Superior, Wisconsin.  He says the little suckers are like black gold.   The leeches are prized by fisherman as bait.  DeVore tells the Duluth, Minnesota, News Tribune he's working 20 hours a day this time of year to keep up with demand.  DeVore's jumbo leeches sell for about 16 dollars a pound -- more expensive than steak.  He says even if he wanted to eat leeches, he couldn't afford it.


Away With A Stranger by SharonA
(Tune: "Away in a Manger")

Away with a stranger
Whose fibs his wife dreads,
The little old leeches
Hung down their slick heads.
The stars in the sky
Looked down at the brook:
The little old leeches
Attached to the hook.

The tackle is low'ring,
The lure in its wake
But little old leeches
No fish-food they make
He loves the old leeches;
Looks down on the fly
And stays by the streambed
Till morning is nigh.

O little old leeches,
I wish you could stay
Back home on your ranch where
You scoff meat all day.
Bless all the dear leechlings
In care of DeVore
And take them not brookward
To die anymore.

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