Show THE rHE- rHE Eye Ants View By By MAC While Mother Nother was living sh she ehe acted as the family postmaster Iro 1110 w to speak Every one wrote to lies her and she pas pawed passed ed on the tho letters lett ra rato to other kids After Arter she was WI gone Bone we e organized a family letter It geta gets around to the six kids and a a number of the kids' kids kids and it makes make the round about twice A Ayam year yam uL Kids Kid he he m And hes he's the youngest of six alx and look at him The six kids are located in six Colorado states states Colorado Wyoming Utah California Oreg Oregon n and Washington Washing ton ton and and there is supposed to be bo bea boa a penalty for tor keeping the letter lover over a week It lant tont strictly enforced enforced en en- forced so sometimes it takes quite a while and what's news at atthe atthe atthe the time Is Ls pretty old oid stuff when it gets back I For instance I wished every everyone everyone lone one a Merry Christmas in Decem i ber My sister in n Portland who is the link just ahead of Oot me will wilt set fet et my Merry Christmas some somei sometime sometime I i time around Happy Easter or Prayerful Memorial or Glorious Fourth F This complicates no end Especially for tor a newspaper per per man always fighting a deadline dead cline lIn line Some of the kids write about I th the weather By the time I get pet to read about the December storms In Cheyenne from from my brother who Is le the link just after me It will probably probably-be be degrees degre s In the Ih shade de In Utah Guess next time Ill I'll write about bout boutmy my health I 1 will tell them about how bow I 1 have head aches They wUl will get all the details de de- taHa tails I 1 about abo my mashed ringer anger ger Some one will wUl surel surely sympathize with me because sometimes while driving I 1 get cramps in the right foot toot and it tries to curl up underneath under under- neath and it hurta hurts so 80 bad I 1 have to stop atop the car and get out and stomp up and down and some day dayI I 1 will probably get hit by a truck The reason they will wUl sympathize ize ire with me is 18 because I am the baby see seep Ever since I 1 was born bornI I 1 have been the baby If It there had bad been any kids born after me I 1 wouldn't have been the baby baby Because My Lady Fair Fall broke her arm In Jan since we last had the letter It wont won't do much good to tell about It In detail because It will probably be allwell all allwell I well by the time most mOlt of them themI I get It It unless unless she breaks It again Which she just probably will Of course there Is Ls always my diet But Dut by the tune time the letter Jetter gets ets around again it will probably be bt all aU over and I will wUl be rounded out again All AU I 1 can say right now I ILs is Ls that Im I'm still sUll mean moan as hell bell l be because cause Im I'm always hungry I Incidentally John L. L Owen the be well known i llamas educator r U s on an dl different from fromI I Mine though He lie hat ai to 10 eat Mt P t just things things things-i 1 eat at anything I I only 1 lea 1 than Ihan halt half as much Further he has hat to diet because be be- b cause the man said aId He had by 0 pad oad d b better tto I have to diet because be be- cause callie ML said laid I had hid by Md gd ought to to be ashamed harried of that t a iDy j i By Dy the time lime 1 I b hate be e told all alt the family an All the Ibe things t hi nee that are wrong with me I 1 ought to hate haH the me letter filled tolled u up And AnI by the time it makes the rounds founds again I wilt will either be bo all cured or ur all dt dead ed Au All of which Is la my way of ung that Id I'd like to 10 get the letter lelle nei Its It's an unU unusually wonderful family Except for tor the I baby they're all nice Mac |