Show In the office of a country print shop youre you're apt to see seo most any mind of ot furniture up Beat chairs And desks desk maybe Papers piled en on tables tablea probably Usually space apace Is at of a premium stud nd the boss boos id apt to put dough which would brighten Up the office of tire fice ice into equipment for the shop chop Which Is probably why Ive I've I used the same editorial chair for the aix lx years weve we've been here Its It's a see I It At least 40 years year ears ago it was probably the prize of some ones one's dining room Its It's tall and straight straIght and the part part la Is of brown tin t le tether leather ther fastened with brake M When I 1 moved in I 1 noticed that ihal one on W Qt the wells under the l leather ather I Lad had lJ broken ro 1 loose and was hang hang- In ling down malf way half way to the Ute like Ilke a sock Back on a cloth clothes s D But t tJ 2 J didn't notice until this thU morning o more were hanging there One thin web has been holding my tall oft off the floor Now this throne thron Is obviously no M thing of beauty no joy for for- ever eve But i I got pot kind of used to It There were were a few times when I wished It could have I I been een a Q little nicer though Like for tor Instance nce when when I 1 come comein comein comein in and find the Governor or a Senator tor waiting very briefly for forme aae sae and iid perching gingerly in that wreck The Governor Is la at least leastA A web two-web man lie He hasn't been sere lIere since election fortunately i I The Tho times when It was fine tine for I It to be bo shabby and sort of pitiful w. w was when collectors and tax men came In Some time in the past year th the the e I I I editorial uplift developer quite a I Couldn't m move mote ve around any aul It II Ilk a 11 rooue with a bugle bogIe Sort of em- em at times time The legs leg lelM got j I kind of ot Mf ky And It became more lof of a ro rocking chair than an up UP- tl right ht Still It did the Job When youre you're thinking About something you usually dont don't notice what youre you're sitting on Or that your our tall Is la hanging hl a o saggy hole Or when you lunge hinge for tor the phone hone it Rives gives a startled Squeak Or that frankly the Junk man wouldn't have hav It and If It it were at home you ou would have burned It 20 years ago I This la In a chair which after I became famous some dome one ono will I buy and put it in a prominent I place by the fireplace with whit a a. little sign on it Jt I I I Mac sat lIat at here 1956 to 1662 1062 when he was wu just Juat a punk small town newspaper publisher If Ir It gets gets near our fireplace nobody Id w going to h have c to go out for kindling Saturday night My Lady asked me meto to e loa tho the house while she and friend R Ruby Unloaded my nil gift Mystified pleased only slightly hurt J I w wont won't to the the and sulked quietly until she ehe phoned phon phon- j I Ild ed ld me to comb home ome II I I i I It was there under the tree with a blanket over It to hide everything but It Ita dimensions dimension I was ordered not to touch It It Very fragile might break I Looked like a kind of happy coffin corrin draped with blanket I guessed everything Box Dox full lull of up dug-up tomato cans finally portable portable port port- able potato pit new TV set bear I trap midget Japanese girl such euch I I as somebody to smuggle back from Honolulu Incidentally ln the TV set is included in eluded eluded there because bEcause the wish for that la tl just as ludicrous as the other guesses Ours has been fixed ever er since June and were we're getting stubborn 1 And so Christmas Eve we took off the wraps wrape and and you'd you'd never I gue there there It was in all ali its I glory I I I I Brand new office chair for forI forthe forthe the editor and publisher Its It's I a gorgeous thing with lots Iota of gad gadgets eta and solid leather and chrome and foam rubber Every time I. I I sit down I 1 exp expect ct it to to break out in organ chimes God Save tho King If you come In soine ome time you youcan youcan can an see It I If you had a bath today toda an and are are re in a s state te of Holy Grace you you may may m sit it in it for a a. few rew sec sec- But If It you are a a. collector or a tax man and I see you com ing Ill I'll throw that blanket over It lt I I Still SUll cant can't understand whether It w was my great Joy and pride In I j I ownership of or such a stationary I vehicle or my grief at putting I Ithe I the old horse out to pasture I which caused me to break in Into to sobs Mac I I |