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Show free him and he would be ab'e to make the opposite shore. So he marshalled his strength, gave a mighty leap, and fell flat on his face in two feet of water, which only shows that you should look before you leap. 1 The cold water was like a tonic to Earl and no sooner had he made a big splash than he was up and going again, and this time he threw caution to the winds and really made tracks getting out of there. John said he had to stop him or Earl would have run clean.' Chatter Box Dear Suzy, Last Saturday started off) serene and peaceful but didn't stay that way long due to the actions of one young Bob Smith, 3-year old son of Carl and Peg Smith. The family tootled to town and Carl went over to enquire of the seed market while Peg went to visit a short time. The seed market was poor that day and Carl was not interested. Peg finished her short visit and was very interested for when she returned to the parked car in which wh-ich she had left the heir, the boy was gone. Peg recruited Ruby Vo-dak Vo-dak and the two went in search of Carl to organize a posse and round-up the boy. Not only did they recruit Carl but also Leigh Maxfield, who was disgusted with the seed market himself that day. Off went the posse on a brisk gallop. Meanwhile Arv Rose was preparing pre-paring to take his regular Sa r-day r-day bath and looking ou the v. in-dow in-dow on the railroad track spied a small boy trying to bend the rails on the track dodging fast freights and such as they went through. He pulled on his clothes again and went out to reason with the child so that it would not be too destructive des-tructive of the Union Pacific pro perty, and finally took the boy in tow and took him up town looking fcr an owner of same. to town, and without a change of clothes. Like Snooks he dried himself on the heater as they came toward the metropolis and when he got home no one knew anything about it but John, Earl, Earl's wife, and you and me. Earl is trying to build up a little lit-tle buoyancy and may do so comes spring, but it is too late for this season. Reed Turner is going about these days looking like he was run thru one of the Case threshers he sells. But such is not the case (no in-tent'on in-tent'on of a pun there). It seems that Reed came home the other night a little late and entering the house bumped into sundry pieces of furniture. It decidedly was not his condition, but it was because during the day Betty, womanlike, wo-manlike, had re-arranged the furniture fur-niture and placed (womanlike) several hurdles between front door and the green room, which Reed was bowling over like ten pins. All this time Betty was talking on the phone with the lights out and her friend inquired of the noise. no-ise. Said Betty, "here comes my husband." Reed, acting on instinct, only, broke for the front door, and since he was in a strange house or so he thought, ran smack into something that blacked both eyes, skinned his nose, and raised rais-ed hob with his normal features. Dark glasses are covering up for him quite well, but the dark thoughts he is thinking on how he was tricked are another thing. Toots. Hfcnd in hand they walked the sirtets looking for parents while the posse was busily engaged bea-tiiii bea-tiiii the brush in other parts of town. But as luck would happen someone some-one remembered what Carl looked look-ed like and there was no mistaking mistak-ing the boy (only the boy had ftai)-) and so Clay Stapley gathered gather-ed the child up in his car, organized organ-ized another posse to look for the original posse and time passed pas-sed rapidly. It was a happy reunion when all got together finally and seeing as how the boy has so much interest in-terest in trains Carl and Peg hope he grows up to be an engineer, Leigh Maxfield hopes the seed market improves, Ruby hopes, and Arv Rose hopes that another incident incid-ent like this one doesn't interrupt his Saturday bath again, as he says he got so confused over the whole thing he forgot to take one and so will wait until this week. And speaking of baths we wonder won-der why anyone would be jealous of Snooks Black and his method of bathing, but it seems that Earl Kelly, official city council grqeter, is. After hearing of Snooks' sitz bath at the wee small hours of the day, Earl decided to be different differ-ent and take his shortly after the sun went down and by full emersion. emer-sion. It seems that Early Earl Kelly and one John Day had gone in quest of geese, or ducks, or anything any-thing that had feathers. They had spent quite some time that day-waiting day-waiting for the flight of birds and came closing time the two started homeward. John, who has a little more buoyancy than Earl, made the trip across the slough fine. But Earl kept sinking deeper and deeper as he crossed the treacherous treach-erous mud hole, finally he bogged down and came to a stop. He figured fig-ured that one mighty effort would |