Show I 1 ROGER RO AGE I 1 R S BEVERLY HILLS well sir air you get pretty interesting letters from folks sometimes here Is 13 one from a farmer armer from yakima yak am a washington IS saw aw y y yoa ln in a picture v last ast night the wits wife y A ni and add 1 ait it was pretty V good lots loti ot of tb these a e movie shows we see we dont understand st a or r they dont caid rea athey scorn e real 1 to us and wo N e kinder come away feeling we wa missed something but this one we kinder felt like we was right in the hog pen with you and blue blua boy I 1 thought perhaps ir if it dasent too much trouble would you send two complimentary tickets to this friend ot of mine who lives at miller south dakota ile he could take mother kotner V and see this picture when it gets there ile he dont dent have much to go to shows on now I 1 think that was nice sentiment and the friend gets the passes put but let him go on I 1 with ith his letter 1 I am still wondering why that hampshire boar aident get up in the pen when you prodded him I 1 ot of know hampshire hogs now aou ou take lake a duroc or chestek white or a poland china when they get tat fat they are just like most human beings plain downright lazy but not a hampshire they are quick to be on their feet an and I 1 have yet tu to see L hampshire when he ii was as p prodded rod that aident get right up back in south dakota I 1 had a big rangy hampshire boar ile he ina was the onliest thing you ever see ile he would jump a forta inch woven indre ire fence like a cayote cabote and go miles to pick a alg fight lit with altu another boar I 1 used to go after him horseback and with a blacksnake whip and chase him home my mother is a widow woman has been since I 1 was six years old she lives back in dakota and this fellow I 1 want you to send the passes too Is her neighbor ile he can tak taka her er to the show he Is a bachelor and Is so homely he says no one would ever marry him he farms next to our old place he has done a lot tor for us ile he would come with his horses and help me put in our crop then hire me to come and help him put in his bis that was nas away when ichen I 1 was six years old hard times never did mean much to him he kept right on raising hogs hampshire ho hogs a by the way ay he started me up lit the hog business by giving me a few runts now and again people used ased to make a lot of 0 tan fun ot of him because he listed his coin instead of 0 plowing the ground and planting it you could always depend on him one time my hogs all got the cholera A couple of tat fat ones were already dead and the rest were awful sick about sundown I 1 went over to his house and told him about it he tied his team at once to the fence unhitched one horse and rode back with me took one look and said why cholera the roads were terrible but he rode twenty miles bareback to the nearest town ho he could find that had some cholera medicine and a vaccinating syringe come back that night and helped me and my mother by lantern light vaccinate them hogs bogs it was several months before we had enough to pay him tor for the medicine several years later it was him who told me 1 I 1 can get you a pass on a hog train going to the coast you might get something a little better out there your kid brother is growing up now and I 1 will kinder help him bira out it him and your mother need any help he took me to the train and as I 1 went to leave I 1 tried to thank ill him in but he woul dent let me said aw shucks I 1 will never bs be good tor for anything but a plug farmer then be pressed something lat into 0 my hand and turned around and with a well so BO long he had left in ir my ky hand two twenty dollar bills 1 I guess he knew I 1 only bad three dollars with me in the six years I 1 have been gone I 1 have never heard beard from him but once but every time mother writes she mentions that blank was over today and helped bring in a load ot of hay patch up some harness arid and grease the wagon I 1 have nver written to any movie actors before and I 1 dont know 4 whether they care to read such letters as this the theatre was packed the night I 1 went and everybody enjoyed tile the whole show them other actors and actresses lit in there with you was good too but I 1 sure did enjoy that hog but I 1 dout doat know why he aident get up alien when you poked him now I 1 call that a wonderful love story that devotion of that homely batchelor to that neighbor widow that would make a movie slid and I 1 would like ilka to play piny the hog man nothing appeals in a story like simplicity well 1 I wrote and told this old boy why tho the old boar got get up when I 1 poked him but a secret among us actors we dont tell everybody h how 0 w we do things nud old blue boy was the test best actor of the two of U us Q MS 1933 i WN c shuan lafe inc |