| Show I 7 u fiAt I IBy By fly Mil MII I I flack Back In the days when tim didn't seem to be such a precious precious prec prec- ious thing and employers weren't were nt nit paying so much for Cor labor If itt was Wn a n Jolly good Joke to play playon I Ion on new employees In a 11 print I Ishop shop to send them over to the I neighbors for a n type stretcher Most of oC the old oM hands delighted delight I ed cd In showing the new fellow I Isome some type typo lice The gag was I made up by putting some lome water i In a galley gatley and then as the vi vic victim viem tim Um was looking closely to see seethe seethe seethe the tiny lice the type typo was Jam jam- ned med together which splashed water al lover the onlooker Of course Ol Qt Mil has been through the mill and was wal too old n a hand to be caught In such gain on It did get my goat though when a complete stranger stranger stranger stran stran- ger stuck his head In the door and said youre a Baldwin arent aren't you I said Yes sir and Ive I've been that way for twenty years but I dont don't think you know we well wen enough to kid about It It turned out that he was looking for Don Baldwin who was having coffee with the editor at that moment Well names are arc funny Cunny and a person can get all an confused with them at times For Instance one day I had loaned by boat out to the bread man and was concerned concern concern- ed about him getting In before dark I asked the first boat in If he had seen Kennth Beach He said salet Now Naw he didn't beach it hes he's just out of gas about a mile down Theres There's a fellow In town whose name Is pronounced Coette Just as plain as day and who would think about looking In the phone book for Caouette Did you ever notice how many Days Day's there are In the phone phonebook phonebook phonebook book Not a one of the Days Day's have named a n child How appropriate though that Bill Faast got ot into the transfer business The word Faast really realty adds something to it And to think too he could advertise advertise- the only real Faast Transfer in town The other morning at breakfast break fast we overheard a tourist say sayto sayto sayto to her young son Come dear were we're going to the Rock Shop Shot now The little tittle fellow said I dont don't care about the rocks but butI I sure want to see the muscle muscleman muscleman man that runs it It CPA Ed Claus has promised all his friends that If and when whon he will name nam his first son Ion Santa A friend out at Is named Ted Izzo mo One I called and merely said Izzo tere The girl on the switch said Yes Tse here here Is Is you them Upon entering the city council council coun coun- council cil room not long ago one councilman councilman councilman coun coun- cilman said Just as I came in but we promised we would knock off a mill last year Now being the only Mil I know of ot I took off in a hurry Come Cometo to find out they were talking about a Mil Levy whom I dont don't even know |
