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Show Chatter Box Dear Suzy, With the annual trek to the hills fast approaching in which the men and some women will try and knock off a large sized deer, the stories are starting to appear. Truthful George Roundy, always one to try a new system to get his deer each year, comes out with another story on how easy his group got them last year. You will remember that George was the first one to kill his buck with a ball pein hammer a few years ago, but tired of this method as he says it was too much bother. George got his deer with a hammer ham-mer as follows: he and his partner part-ner would wait in a row boat until they saw some deer swimming across Yuba Dam. Then they would take off in hot pursuit and while holding on to the horns of the buck would knock it between the eyes with a hammer. This mean't that George had to hold onto the buck to keep it from sinking until they got to shore, then bleed it, dress it, and carry it to the car. George has improved this quite a bit lately. Now his party goes to Piute reservoir, still using a boat, they approach the swimming bucks and while the bucks are swimming along they cut their throats. The bucks slowly bleed and when it is timed right, have just enough strength to swim the lake, climb out on the bank, and the hunters herd them over to the cars where they die and are dressed. George says this type of hunting sure cuts down on the amount of ammunition used, is "foolproof, and very little trouble. He says an outboard out-board motor would help, but they like to row anyway and so everyone every-one is happy. All except the deer. If all the handshakes that the politicians are putting out during these times were put to good use a mighty big herd of cows could be milked. It used to be the custom cus-tom for the political apsirants to go about kissing babies, but the parents put a stop to this when they started kissing those around 18 years old, forgetting the babies, or trying to give the impression that the babies were all about 18 years old, at least they were the ones that mattered most. Now they only shake hands and many an office seeker has had to go home nights and soak his hand in hot salt water to get it in shape for the next handshaking spree the following day. It gives one a warm feeling to have somebody shake your hand and give you a pleasant smile between the two the voters should send them both to the senate with half a vote each. Toots. wnen ne nasn t spoKen to you ior nigh on to 1.3 years preceding the handgrip. And after election he doesn't speak to you any more again. What a politician needs is some sort of an X-ray eye so that he could see into the minds of those he was approaching and tell at a glance whether he was wasting his time, or had a chance. Or maybe may-be the voters should wear badges marked D, R, or O. We can easily understand what the D and R stand for, and the O would stand for Open to suggestion. That way a Democrat could save his time when he saw a person per-son with an R, and vice versa. They could concentrate on the O group and save a lot of wear and tear on two hands, one set of. vocal cords, and one ear on the listener. It is going to be interesting to see the outcome of the race between be-tween Freer (D) and Paxton (R). They have a corner on offices and when either of them files all others oth-ers forget about filing themselves and let the two of them punch it out They have met twice in the past, and each one has won one round. This is the big third round and both are getting ready for the knock out, which they both intend to plaster on the other. Maybe to save all this tussling |