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Show anymore than you do." Whereupon the man went merrily mer-rily on his way, leaving Orran very vexed, and Carl to continue his nap. The shades of eventide were slowly falling when Carl missed Orran and went outside to see what he was doing. A feeble voice called to him asking for a ladder, lad-der, and then Carl spied Orran still communing with nature from his lofty point of vantage. The ladder was quickley put into in-to place so that Orran could de scend and he was hurried home for sustenance and rejuvenation. It is hoped that he has learned his lesson les-son and that in the future he will not labor on the Sabbath, and should he decide to labor on that day he had better carry a parachute para-chute so as to be on the safe side. Some of us have to learn the hard way, Toots. Chatter Box Dear Suzy, The long hoped for Spring gave us a short preview Easter Day, which was very much appreciated. For many a long moon we have been going through "unusual weather" wea-ther" that has necessitated the continued wearing of long handles, ear muffs, wool sicks and mittens. Then came Easter and for once the sun did pop out of hiding and give us a slight but pleasant taste of what Spring could really be like, if it would only get here. Great hordes of people loaded with eggs, sandwiches, kids and a feeling of frivolity journeyed forth to the many sand dunes surrounding surround-ing our desert home to partake of the egg rolling ceremony, emptying empty-ing sand from shoes, keeping small kids from blinding each other with hand fulls of sand and striving for peace and harmony within the ranks of their offspring. If one had the money spent for gas that day one could retire with a home in California, for winter time; a fishing lodge on the Alcan highway, a hunting lodge in British Brit-ish Columbia, and a trip around the world each Spring just to get away from it all. Every car in West Millard Mil-lard was on the roll that day, filled fil-led to the gunwales with small fry anxious to roll an egg before that egg was broken. Every patch of sand within a radius pf 30 miles had enough cars parked nearby to qualify for a 1st class used car lot. On some of the sandhills the kids were thicker than the sand, which is not hard to believe when one considers the huge amount of sand carried home by each child as there could be no question but our sandhills are smaller by far than they were last Saturdayv It was mighty nice of Mother Nature Na-ture to coperate with the kids for just this one day, and I believe she stands ace-high with them. On the other hand, parents are getting a little fed up with her pranks and wish she would setle .down to a decent Spring. The most unhappy group in West Millard is the junior class of the Delta high school. It has long been the custom within the ivy covered walls of that seat of learning that when the junior prom approaches the junior class is excused from all classes that week so that they can decorate the hall for the prom. A typical week goes like this: Monday Mon-day the juniors gather to discuss plans for decorating, after much argument they break up into small groups panning everybody's idea but their own. Tuesday someone brings a ladder. lad-der. Wednesday some wire is strung around and 3 rolls of crepe paper are unpacked. Thursday they start worrying about the .dance Friday and figure they must get to work. Friday they do get to work and I three minutes to 9 that evening the , last piece of paper is pinned and the juniors hurry home for a quick bath to get back to the dance at 9. This year they were double-crossed by school authorities and instead in-stead of just giving the juniors a week of vacation both schools were given a week of vacation, Now the juniors are decorating the hall for the prom while all the other classes clas-ses are out ice skating and holding bob-sled parties. One would think that Orran Ash-by Ash-by was high enough in the church to realize that the Sabbath must be kept, and if one breaks the Sabbath, one must suffer the consequences. con-sequences. But not Orran. He is anxiou to get his new building done and comes last Sunday we find Orran on the highest pin-acle pin-acle of his new building tearing off the forms, while his brother, Carl, being more circumspect is inside doing work there when no one can see him. Orran had made his way to the apex by a ladder and for some reason the ladder just up and fell down. Orran looked over the side to see where the ladder was and the wind blew off his glasses. So we find Mr. Ashby on a high and precarious perch without ladder lad-der and glasses and without someone some-one to shout his dilemma to, as you have read before everyone and the dog was out Eastering. Orran was quite hoarse from shouting trying to get a raise out of Carl, but Carl was taking a siesta, when a man came along the path below. The man had fortified himself 'against the inclemencies of the weather and was jolly of mind and i unsteady of foot. Orran called i down to him and asked him to put jthe ladder back up. The man finally fin-ally located Orran perched up on the building like a sparrow on a telephone, pole and started gathering gath-ering up his wits for a verbal exchange. ex-change. Orran: "Please put the ladder up against the building so I can come down." Man- "You are just as well off up there as you would be down here." . Orran: "The ladder, my good man, the ladder." Man: " I am not interested in the ladder nor your predicament." Orran: "Yes, but I would like the ladder so that I can come down." Man: " I don't care if you are up there." Orran: "Well, if you don't care, walk over to the office and ask the man inside there if he cares." The man walked over to the office, of-fice, knocked on the door which finally woke Carl. He said- "You don't care if that man out there doesn't get the ladder, do you?" And Carl, who was still suffering suffer-ing from too much sleep replied, "No he doesn't need a ladder |
