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Show PET PEEVE To. Scott THE era of television has wrecked the' love of nature and the simple sim-ple things. The kids zoom about the house in space suits, weird looking guns in hand, and shouting such things as "blast off" and "launch your rockets." All of which brings to mind my back-to-nature . movement of a couple of Sundays ago. "Today we're going to the country," coun-try," says I to one and all "Why?" the wife asks. "To get the kids out in the sunshine, sun-shine, near to nature," says I. "And poison ivy," adds the wife. "And we'll miss our best television tele-vision program," the kids shout. But they let me win and we took off for the country. Time passed pleasantly until the youngest lad saw a cow. It wasn't the first one he had seen, but he had never been close to one. And I agreed to a closer inspection "It's a funny looking critter," he commented as we approached. For a while we stood there admiring ad-miring the creature as she eyed us with a bored expression, if a cow can be bored "What's those things on her head, Pop?" the youngest asks "They're horns, son," says 1. About that time the animal mooed or whatever it is a cow does to make a noise. "Which one. did she blow that time, Pop?" he asks "HUH!" What followed was the craziest conversation I have ever been engaged en-gaged in. Try to explain to a four-year-old that a horn does not necessarily neces-sarily make a noise He knows better bet-ter In fact, he has almost convinced me that a horn has to make noise |