Show I Chatter Box BOXI Dear Suzy Suzy In the midst of oC what seemed plenty Frank A. A Beckwith ran out of new books he has just written for the Boy Scouts about things in and around Millard County He had n a bunch on hand at the office and went about blithely mailing them around the country when lo to and behold he was out of books and not even a copy for himself He went over over to the back door of oC Stevens and had on ong of the clerks hand him a n copy out as he didn't want to be seen going in inand inand inand and having to buy one of his own books The next thing you know he will be waiting until noon Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day to go In the library and read reada a copy of oC the Chronicle Bert Jensen has proved this week I that a father can be a little too indulgent at times with his children children children child child- ren and sometimes leads to rather I crowded conditions The little girl i wanted a pup and so Bert with an eye to the future and md wanting to make certain that the little girl got a pup brought home a dog who was an expectant mother just to make sure that the little girl got a pup Well the dog had the bunch of pups and the little girl got her hearts heart's desire But the mother mother mother mo mo- ther dog did not let well enough I alone and shortly thereafter brot I into the world another batch of pups from which the girl could take another choice And still later another litter of pups came to the Jensen home homestead homestead homestead stead making three batches batched of pups and nobody was happy but the little girl Now the little girl had her pups and as all little children wanted furth further r pets and demanded some rabbits Now Bert should have looked into this rabbit deal before he weakened but he lie didn't and went out and got a pair of rabbits rabbits rabbits rab rab- bits with one that was expectant I believe belleve a rabbit is always expectant expectant expectant ex ex- and brought them home to make his girl happy The dog had three litters of pups during the Ute year but the rabbit outdid herself and all other rabbits in bringing new pets to the little girl Again the little girl was happy but not the other members of the family because as Webster says saysA saysA saysA A rabbit multiplies rapidly and often becomes a pest and so it was with the grown ups Bert says that they have rabbits all over the place now and In fact they are knee deep He doesn't mind sleeping sleeping sleeping sleep sleep- ing with them but when he lifted the lid off the sugar bowl the other other other oth oth- er morning a little pink-eyed pink rabbit rabbit rabbit rab rab- bit peered forth and Bert lost his appetite Mrs Jensen is not too happy about the whole thing either and wishes they were mink so that she could as l least ast get a coat out of the deluge of rabbits on the No Tract You could easily say about the Jensens that they cant can't count their many ble blessings sings and they are making no tempt attempt to do so With the dog and the rabbits in full production no strikes slow slowdowns slowdowns I downs or shortages of materials Bert came to the conclusion the theother theother theother other day that something had to tobe tobe tobe be done and done soon He ran an anad anad anad ad in the Chronicle whereby by he offers offers offers of of- fers rabbits for sale with a pup included free in the first purchase The only thing that Bert Is wondering wondering wondering wonder wonder- ing about is wether to stop the ad ador ador ador or run it indefinitely My suggestion suggestion suggestion tion would be for him to keep that ad going right along as this is only a weekly newspaper and the rabbits will keep right along if he doesn't get them weeded out Glen Crowford big cattleman and Democrat says he bought a bunch of Republican cows the other other other oth oth- er day and put them in the pasture The action of Glen having the cows there has made his bull Democrat so mad that he sulks in the far corner of the pasture and Glen has to even carry water to him Now Glen either has to convert convert convert con con- vert the cows bull or buy a new bull or sell the cows and buy cows with Democratic beliefs Glen will think of something Toots |