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Show Chatter Box Dear Suzy, Joe Mercer, local drug dealer and Rook player, learned a lesson that he should have learned in childhood, child-hood, but put off until it was too late. It seems that the Pill Roller was out back burning a little trash in the incinerator when a shapely leg went past, which Joe spent some time admiring. For his audacity aud-acity the wind took a turn for the worse and whipped a nice fat blaze right over his head so that his thinning locks were thinned even further and his eyebrows about ab-out defunct. It shows that when a man reaches rea-ches Joe's age he should keep his mind on the -fire in the incinerator because that is about the only fire he is able lo kindle. And the lesson he should have learned in early youth is to not play with matches, and also to keep your eye on the ball and not be gopping about the country-side looking at things that should no longer concern one. The Paul Whickers have the most aromatic washing in Hinckley and it is said that many people there come up to the Whicker home just to sniff when a washing is put out. All this came about when the Whickers had more Whickers for company such as Flig and his wife Ruby, and Marge Hildebrand. The reunion called for more than just talk so a supply of tonic was put in fitting for the occasion, of wh-ick wh-ick there are those who can take it or leave it alone, or just plain take it. ' As the evening wore on someone some-one mistook the automatic washer for the refrigator and large bottle of what was once prohibited was put in the automatic washer for safe keeping and cooling, supposedly. suppos-edly. The next morning Ruby, the early bird, arose and seeing no one using the washer and seeing no one period, went about doing up the family wash. A capacity load of clothes was put in without so much as even looking for a mouse or anything else in the washer and the gadget was turned on. Soon a delectable aroma filled the house that, aroused the sleepers who thought possibly breakfast was ready, or at least something just as good. A gathering was held in the kitchen inhaling the smell and filling fil-ling their lungs with to the satisfaction satis-faction of all when someone had the nerve to state that something smelled clear 'from Denmark. A hur ried search for the hidden treasure and the source of the delightful aroma failed to bring to light the hidden fifth, and it was not until Ruby got ready to hang out the clothes that the reason for the smell was found. Coyly in the bottom of the washer was-her reposed an empty bottle which had been thoroughly used to bleach, blea-ch, purify and sachet the clothes. It is reported that they had such a tempting ordor that some suggested sug-gested sitting right down and chew ing them, and thus gaining back what was already lost. But cooler heads prevailed and the clothes were hung out much to the upsetting influence of the good people ci Hinckley (and some not so good) for it is also reported that some men went out back of the hay stack and took a great big breath where no one could see them ,and it is reported again that those foolhardy souls had an edge on all day sharp enough en-ough to cut glass. Mystery surrounds why the bottle bot-tle did not break; why such expensive ex-pensive stuff was used for a bleach; and why a counterof tensive ten-sive odor such as skunk oil was not put out to keep from seducing the many which it did. There are some in Hinckley who hope the practice continues and are looking forward eagerly to another an-other wash day at the Whickers when fun and merriment will reign Fuzz, Susan and Mary Jane were fishing last Saturday at Pu'ffer Lake and Susan caught five to Jane's one. When Fuzz asked Mary Jane why she didn't catch more fish the four-year old sage replied, "I haven't been baptized yet." It must have been the case because on Sunday when the baptized Susan Sus-an was fishing Instead of going to Sunday School Jane whipped her to pieces. If baptizing has anything to do with sucess in fishing there is going go-ing to be a rush on the baptimal , founts and a good many grown , ups will want a retake. Toots. . , |