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Show I Chatter Box Dear Suzy, DUP members are consoling Waiora Wallace for her recent injury in-jury and all agree that she met her fate in the line of duty and will be given the Purple Heart. It seems that she along with other members of the DUP were all dressed dres-sed up in pioneer costumes going about the towns getting contributions contrib-utions and donations for food for their Harvest Supper they plan. Over Hinckley way there was a dog that was just as frisky as the Hinckley water and when the group went up the walk to the front door the dog picked out Waiora Wai-ora as its special antagonist. The woman came to the door and called cal-led the dog off and invited the women in, giving them a generous gener-ous quanity of food and produce for their supper. Leaving the house the dog met the group again and again it singled sing-led out Waiora on whom to expend ex-pend its wrath. And the dog up and bit Waiora right on the front porch. Had it bitten her on the back porch there is no question but that the bustle would have protected Waiora and she would have escaped with her skin un-punctured un-punctured by teeth. Waiora is wondering and thinking think-ing that if she gets a bite from a dog in exchange for some produce pro-duce what would she get if someone some-one gave the DUP a piano or some thing like that. Cecil Losee has quit drinking, as least in Wyoming, because he says it affects his eyesight to such an extent that he can't see a car on the highway. Recently Cecil and Ava were tootling along a barren stretch of Wyoming road when their car up and stopped. Cecil could think of nothing that would stop a car except lack of gas and so told Ava to wait there while he went about 20 miles in to the next town. Cecil had but just gone over the first raise in the road when a motorist mot-orist stopped to give aid and assist ance to Ava. He siphoned out 2 gallons of gas from nis car, hut when they tried to put it in the Losee limosine, it was found the tank was full. Further deduction and inspection by the samaraitan motorist proved that the gas line had become loose and that was the cause of the trouble. That was soon fixed and Ava figured she could easily overtake Cecil and they could go on their way with no further trouble. But Cecil must had thumbed a ride into the next town because she didn't catch up with him.When she got to the next town she figured fig-ured it would be better to wait at the ouskirts for Cecil and his can of gas than chase around trying try-ing to find him. Soon she saw Ceecil coming down the road in the service station man's car and they were making right smart time. In fact they neither looked right nor left and so missed seeing Ava there. Ava turned the car about and took off in hot pursuit of her husband hus-band and the other car. But the driver had had his leg paralyzed and couldn't lift it off the' gas pedal , and so Ava was soon lost and far behind. When the two in the mercy car came to where Cecil had left his they found no car there, but Cecil was quick in deducing that Ava had gone to the town back of them which was another 20 miles away. So the two piled into the ear and took off Just as Ava drove up. Now Ava was getting tired of all this driving and so decided that she would park the family car just where it had stopped before be-fore and wait for developments. While Ava adled away her time Cecil and the other man were scouring the distant town for Ava and the car, inquiring at each service ser-vice station and garage for the missing Ava and the car. They found no sign of either and the service station man told Cecil he had better get back to his business busin-ess and Cecil figured he might as well go along for the ride and stop where his car had stopped the sparkling stream there. He came to a place that looked better bet-ter on the other side and so decided de-cided to jump it. His first attempt was not successful and he landed on his side in the stream, wetting one leg and one arm. On the next try he landed in a standing position posit-ion but found himself standing up to his arm pits in water. He came home with six trout, but didn't say whether he had caught them or found them in his pockets when he climbed back on the bank and dry land. Either way he got them seems to me to be the hard way, but his membership in the club should more than compensate com-pensate for his dousing in the cold stream. Ward should remember that distant dis-tant pastures look greener, and also distant banks look farther, especially when you are half way through the leap. And another thing th-ing that should be taken to heart by Ward is that when the gray hairs- start crowding out the black it is no longer the jumping time of life and one should then buy some boots if one is going fishing. fish-ing. Toots. and look for more clues. It is reported that one could have knocked Cecil's eyes off with a broom handle when they came to the place where the car had stopped before and there was the car. Cecil couldn't figure out how he had missed it before unless it was that glass of beer he had drank in the first town while the service station man filled up a can of gas. That is why he has taken the pledge now. Ava sat quietly there in the car while the town men filled up the tank, which took the gas as Ava had run enough out. She also said nothing about the wild chase she had taken in the car and to this day Cecil doesn't know that Ava had moved the car while he was touring about the countryside with the service station man and a can of gas. Ward Moody, local seedman, and seminary teacher, has just joined the Society of Ditch Jumpers Who Didn't Make It and has been awarded aw-arded an extra oak leaf cluster, as he tried it twice in the same place and with the same results. It seems that Ward was over Kan jsh way enticing trout from |