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Show Letters From A . Utah Legislator Law Makin An' Things State Cappitle Salt Lake City, Ut. Dere Friends (If Enny) If I had of knowed last fall what I have learnt since I come up here, wild hosses culdn't hev drug me into bein' a candydait fer this here job. I hed no idee the folks in Hard-scrabble Hard-scrabble Crick would know how I voted, an I cud vote enny-way I darn pleesed, and no one wud no the differents. Now Ol' Man Spudholler is mad becuz I voted agin' a bill providin' rockin' chairs fer old peppuL an' Jed Slocum, who has a wife an' thirteen kids, (an' dern little to feed 'em) sez he's gonna shoot the seet out of my britches if I ever show my face in Hard-scrabble Hard-scrabble Crick again becuz I voted vot-ed fer too much fer the old pep-pul- Constituents is somethin' a leg-gislator leg-gislator cud get along mighty well without after he's elected. There's no use tryin' to vote the right way. No matter how right it is, it'll be rong fer som-buddy. som-buddy. I tele as low as . the dirt the hired girl sweeps under the bedroom bed-room carpet. Hopin' ye air all the saim (dern yer hides)- PETE TIMOTHY, Yer Repasentative frum, Hardscrabble Crick. (I gess "frum" is the word frum now on.) |