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Show Chatter Box Dear Suzy, There is somebody in Lynndyl by the name of "Aunt Ears," who wants to use the line so I guess I had better let her do that. She writes.: I Dear Toots, i You make a very good report to Suzy, in your letters, about : the people close around Delta but i I think you should tell her more about the people in Lynndyl, Learn ington and Oak City, because we j have some characters too. 1 Take Roy Nielson for instance, : he runs a store in Lynndyl but j he is one of the best engineers In this state. Since the weather I has warmed up, the water has formed a nice little lake in front i of his store but that hasn't both- ; ered Roy. In the evenings just ; as it starts to freeze he gets out in front of his store with a shovel I and throws the water out of his I little lake in such a manner that i it freezes into an ice bank that j slopes all directions toward his i store. It is impossible for anyone ' to walk past his store before noon i without sliding in and Hoy is al- ways right at the door to open it j and grab the customers. The cus- 1 tomers are so surprised to find themselves in the store that Roy j is able to sell them almost any thing before they gain their wits. Three times last week I tried to ride past there in my car but every time I would silde right down to his gas pump and Roy would have my tank full of gas before I could tell him I didn't want any. I sure am glad that he is honest because if he 'wasn't he could put anything on your bill and you wouldn't know what it was. He writes like a blowlegged duck walks. Those fellows that are trying to translate the ancient hi-erogllyphics hi-erogllyphics should get Roy to help them because I have seen him in-trepert in-trepert some of his writing fully ten hours after he wrote it and anyone that can do that can read anything. Uncle Dud is hollerin' fo rsupper so I better get it. Yours truy, Aunt Ears, Now I am not sure that she is telling the truth and that is one thing I insist on in this coumn. In the first place when a Nielson goes into business all he has to do is get his relatives to trade with him and his fortune is made. Which Aunt Ears overlooks when she (I don't suppose she is a Nielson) says Roy is getting trade from outside the family circle. Too, the last time I was in Roy's joint he was very anxious not to sell me anything, but finally broke down after a lot of persuasion. Also, Aunt Ears speaks of Roy doing do-ing some work about his place of busines. If that is a fact, it is the first time he ever did. So hoping to hear from you again Aunt Ears, but tell the truth next time just like I always do. Orval Jeffery is planning on going go-ing into a much easier type of business than he now engaged. He says the wear and tear on him aren't worth the candle. He relates a story to explain his point by telling of selling an automatic washer to Bill Hardy out in Hinckley. Hinck-ley. He got it sold to them, complete com-plete with down payment and a date set for delivery. Orval went ' over with it and put it in the basement base-ment ready to set it up ready for operation. Like all guys who work on appliances, he had left some of his most vital tools and parts at the store in Delta. So back he came for that. On returning to the Hardy home he arrived, just as the kids came home from school and so entered the house with them. Bill was taking tak-ing a nap and didn't see him come in and Mrs. Hardy was in another part of the house. Orval went down stairs to go about making the washer run, and the kids went in to see their mother about the washer and when it was coming. One said, "Mom, where the new washer" And Mom replied, "down in the basement, but if you go down there don't touch a thing or turn it on or you won't be able to sit down for a week." So the kids trai'psed off to the basement to see the washer and watched Orval doing his ork. Orval Or-val soon had the baling wire put in the right places and so turned on the switch. Mrs. Hardy leaped six feet out of her chair, and made it down the steps in two bounds, waking up poor Bill who sat and listened to the forthcoming explosion, explos-ion, which he knew would not be long. Now Mrs. Hardy has a boy about Orval's size, and she seeing Orval bent over the machine grabbed him i by one arm shouting, "You damned little fool, I told you not to turn on that washer." Whereupon she shook Orval until his glasses fell to the floor, and when she spied them realized that there was a possibility of her making a great mistake because her boy didn't wear glasses. The shaking became less violent, but not enough less for Orval to catch his breath and try to explain . . . Finally Mrs. Hardy slowed down enough to see Orval's face as he went past hers on each shake, and came to the conclusion that there had been a mistake in identity and she was shaking up the chief mechanic instead in-stead of her boy. Bill says Mrs. Hardy came up the steps without touching even one of them and got in a corner where she sat wringing her hands and talking to herself. She said, "Oh, what will I ever do now. Maybe Orval is mad, and will repossess the washer before I even get a chance to use it. Maybe I broke his glasses and will have to buy him another pair. Maybe Toots will hear about it." B'y this time Orval had hurried and shut off the washer and was wondering why they were so tight with their power to get so mad just when he wanted to give the washer a little whirl. He picked up his glasses, put them on, and climbed out of a window in the basement to get back to his store and comparative security. Instructions Instruct-ions on the washer were mailed by him to the Hardy's and he hopes that he never has to make any further trips there, especially if he has to turn on the washer. Dapper Leigh Maxfield, man a-bout a-bout the farms, popcarn popper extraordinary and a member of the snowed-in clan, had a rather trying incident come into and mar his life the other day. He and Horn er Petersen had returned from Salt Lake and Homer let Leigh out at the corner as Leigh was snowed in and had to walk home. This Leigh did and when he came to the bridge going into his place he tried to squeeze around his snowed-in car that was parked "there. He almost made it, but finally went j down in the deep ditch which I was filled with snow and when Leigh looked about he was up to his armpits in snow. After much maneuvering he got out and looked look-ed at himelf. His new suit was encrusted with snow his hands were dirty where he had tried to climb the steep bank and he had lost his hat. Always neat, Leigh went over to the water trough to clean himself him-self up a little before going in and confronting Lois. He leaned over the water trough and was washing his hands. He hadn't watched wat-ched too closely where he stepped on reaching the water trough, and as a cow had just taken a drink Leigh's footing was not too secure as a result of the cow. Lejgh leaned lean-ed a little too far and completed a beautiful dive complete with a double jack-knife and back-flip, in to the tank. As a result Leigh was realy clean and so went into the house. He told Lois, when she asked him what had happened, "Well if you are going in you might as well go in all over." Which relates LIgh's philosophy of life, Toot's. |