Show the key hole by the desert rat xmas is upon us and it looks like I 1 may f fair air a little better then I 1 th ought I 1 would having managed for a small grub stake consisting consist mg of beans slab of bacon box of prunes coffee and a large box of flap jack flour so with all of that a bellew should have a merry xmas if you want to share your xmas spirit with others your uncle sam has his ware house so full of all kinds of food that he has decided to give a lot of it away for free so all you have to do is send a dollar to CARE or to your local post master and that will pay for tran of a lot of food to some poor guy that is a bout as bad off as some of us uran ium aum prospectors maybe next year we can arrange to get in on a deal like that seems like the new school build ing has put some real spirit in our high school basketball team boys keep it up you are doing wonderful also proving to the west end of em cry ery county that you can play bas netball and have a winning team whether bether A they want you too or not keep the good work up and come home with the bacon from that tour cament I 1 will be looking through tat t 0 at key hole that editor has finally got around to putting the weather report in the paper raper each week so us fellows can see how cold we got the past week if you think it wasn gasn t cold the past week just try crawling out of a nice warm bed roll about daylight have leen sleeping in my sox because if I 1 took them off they would freeze and I 1 nei neer er be able to get V t em on again and you folks know this is my last pair unless santa finds me heard over the radio the other night where those swedes up in minnesota were having some real swedish weather was so cold in one place that the traffic lights froze up also another town had its fire plugs f oze up which proves other place have their troubles I 1 am surprised that anyone would try to find out the old desert rat s name don dont t you folks know that it is our custom to change our names when ever we go from one desert to another that way it makes you hard er to find I 1 am real proud of that old mule sure foot for not telling anything have begun to think he is part republican just to keep people guessing about things will I take down lawn some lumps of sugar too the old rascal when I 1 get time I 1 forgot to mention the fact that if any of you readers don t like what is in the key hole just take your fighting spirit to the editor I 1 have made arrangements arrange mets for him to do all my fighting as he is an ex prize fighter and used to get paid for do ing mg such thugs besides that arrange ment makes it a lot easier on my old clothes for they are going to have to last until I 1 make a keU about time to slip this under the door to tiny and get this jeep start ed back to the hills with all this grub and I 1 can smell that coffee and bacon now so adios alias and a merry chrit mas to all |