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Show Chatter Cox Dear Suzy, You would think that when it conies to making donations one Herman Minister, part time farmer 1 of the North Tract, would make them to a local town rather than : to such a place as Orem, but he made it to Orem as will be relat- J ed. J It seems that Herman and Nell were chugging to Salt Lake in j the it-miry gas buggy and Her-1 man's mind was far away and , ' straying just like his sheep do. ! The ncx thing Herman knew he was rudely awakened by a siren and a burly officer flagged him down. While slopping and before the officer reached the car Herman Her-man started thinking of stories, at which he is very good, and was trying to figure a way out of the mess he was in. But the cop must have heard of Herman because before the Flying Fly-ing Dutchman could open his mouth to make sounds like words the cop said, "save the chatter, Bud, I have heard them all. It is just a little matter of you going through a 30 mile zone at 50 miles an hour, which will only take a few minutes and a few bucks." Now Herman is the type that hates to part with a buck, let alone a "few bucks" which the cop had intimated, and so Herman went into his first yarn. "I was only going 18 miles an hour." The cop looked astonished and kept on writing out the ticket. Quoth Herman, Her-man, "Maybe a little faster than that but not over 27 miles because this car is gaited and won't do very good on anything but down hill." The Cop wrote on. "Lieutenant, "Lieu-tenant, this is an emergency, my wife is sick and I am hurrying her to Salt Lake." The cop looked at Nell, and as Nell was not following fol-lowing the conversation too closely close-ly figured it would help to smile, which she did. The cop pulled down his eyebrows and wrote a 'few more words, and said to our Honest Herman, "Mister'you have an honest face, but I can't say the same for your tongue." And handed Herman his little greetings and went about his business. bus-iness. The greeting took Herman to the judge who was not at all interested in Herman's stories and plastered a nice little fine on the Dutchman which irked Herman no end. Herman's outburst of words left the judge a little bewildered, but he got the jist of Herman's talking and learned that Herman was trying to tell him that in the future he would go through Tooele Too-ele and never thorugh Orem a-gain a-gain and included that he would never spend a dime in Orem come hell or high water. The judge listened politely and when Herman finished said, "you look like the type to me that does not spend anything anywhere but your time, so quit wasting my time, pay your fine, and take your hot air by way of Tooele in the future. They might like it as it gets right cold over there." The poorer and downhearted Dutchman paid offl, padded out and drove to Salt Lake in a sedate and careful fashion, which was really re-ally something for Herman. Herman feels better now since he got home (by way of Tooele) because he snitched the fine money mon-ey out of Nell's egg money and Nell hasn't found him out. He figures it was her fault for smil- ing when she was so "sick." So his financial loss is nil and all that hurts now is his pride. He has always figured he could tell a whopper that would get him out of anything and is wondering how he happened to slip up. Which proves that there is many a slip between tongue and truth, ( especially with our Herman. Toots |