Bob Rae strums on Banjo down by old fishin' hole. - The Beaverton

Bob Rae strums on Banjo down by old fishin’ hole.

ARNPRIOR, ON – Former leader of the Federal Liberal Party sat down by Gomper’s pond and strummed on his old banjo, sources reported late Monday afternoon.

Ontario’s twenty-first premier, or Big Bobby-Rae Keith as folks call him around these parts, arrived at the pond with his old hound dog Duke just past noon, once he had finished up feeding the chickens.

Rae, shoeless and clad in nothing but worn denim overalls and a straw hat, commenced to strum old tunes he remembered his daddy singin’, while occasionally taking a gulp from a brown jug filled with Big Bob’s famous white lightnin’ moonshine.

As the day wore on and the sun dragged down, witnesses confirmed that old fool was laughin’ and carryin’ on like he didn’t care who was watching. Rae’s neighbour Milly up the road reported that just before dusk, Floyd Laughren, Rae’s Deputy Premier from 1990-1995, showed up with his gutbucket, and those boys were just a-hootin’ and a-hollerin’.

“Sheriff don’t mind if they’re not causin’ any trouble,” Milly said.

When questioned by reporters regarding the upcoming federal election, the current negotiator for the James Bay First Nations remarked that “boys will be boys”, tipped back his straw hat and skipped a stone clear across that pond.