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Show IDlncle jfub from Punkintown sez: Dear Mister Editor: I can always tell when spring gits here official. My old lady starts house cleaning and rearranging re-arranging the furniture. Fer instant, in-stant, I've moved that sofa in the parlor ever spring 'fer 30 years. I've wore a place in the upholstery uphols-tery off the dem thing pushing it from one corner of the room to the other. But it ain't no use arguing with your old lady when spring gits here. It's better to just listen even if you ain't hearing nothing. Of course, I ain't complaining about spring, just about the way wimmen abuse it. It's mighty nice ever year to come to the end of the longest, nose-blowing-est, disagreeable winter you can remember. It means it won't be long till you'll be enjoying the longest driest, hottest summer you have ever saw, including the mosquitoes and gnats. Adam and Eve made several mistakes, but the worst they made was not swatting them two mosquitoes in the Garden of Eden. And I don't think much "of Noah's judgment for taking a pair of 'em aboard the Ark. In spring it's mighty good to see the trees putting out, the calves gitting 'frisky, and the grass gitting green. But I try not to git too poetic about these things, try to use restraint. Long ago I come to remember that if the buttercup? is in. bloom, the weeds can't be fer behind. Any piece of farming land looks mighty pretty in the spring, when it's just broke and there ain't a weed in sight. But spring is like a politician at election time. It sounds good and most folks fall fer it, but spring and politicians with their promises run out, summer comes with hot weather and flies and weeds in the crops and taxes gitting higher, high-er, and no more paved roads than you had before the election. elec-tion. And I never fergit that summer sum-mer brings 'fruit canning time, the time when my old lady can screw on a fruit jar top so tight it'll take a can opener, a chisel, a hammer, and 20 minutes fer me to git it off next winter. I see by the papers where Poland upped her defense . budget 80 million doUars fer the coming year, the eact amount of our "aid" to that :tir.try. You can'J beat thai system fer keeping taxes down IN POLAND. Here at home news is lean. Ed Doolittle's son and daughter in law has separated agin. They fall out about twict a month, so that ain't news. Ed's boy says he loved Hattie enough to eat her up when they was married, and after living with her 15 years he wished he had. Yours Truly, UNCLE FUD. |