Show TIlE THE t Ants Ant View Eye fint's Eye s-Eye Ey BY BY MAO MAOM As M another year nears its end I and arid we all aft t tape take e stock of the ant an- an situation I 1 seem to get over euer the I 1 have NOT done dione as compared to the few Accomplishments Some of them darn fW Jre always waited to do Others isn't t matter so much much but but I 1 still tin haven't done em F For For r elephant steak teak stun iWi tin e my my diet So do baled baked eggs Po And rattlesnake nake wrest eat very In the uptown uptown up up- town along with ith candied Since nobody took ook me out Into the wilderness last ast summer Im I'm already making plans to go alone next eat July Somebody's horse will tam turn up missing and 01 Ol Mac will disappear There hell he'll be alone der AIler t the e stars stare with 01 Ol Paint wrapped in a B saddle blanket lie lle will wUI end up eating the horse Well WeD anyhow that's that the one une thing I 3 realty wanted to do this year t that didn't get se t done done along along with nty getting out of debt al catching a trout Dr Durl JIG 1 I d 4 not go ro surf en on the tho beach beada at surrounded by w way wv v 1 to think of ot It I didn't go boat II riling riding either ellhu Anywhere In fact tad the only time I got rot in the I 1 wa water r was seas when I fell feU into Creek Sly My watch is II still sUU running Admiring friends did cUd not present present present pre pre- sent me with a new Cadillac Nor Nora a Chevy Nor a bicycle Nor a up beat-up roller skate Actually only thing presented to me was an occasional cup of coffee for lor which I 1 am truly and humbly grateful But then I didn't win undying fame lame for the community probably If it you want to get so darned technical Nobody mentioned ro me as aO a potential O candidate and If It this oversight overnight t continue III be too old Nor as M a future Governor Towns this thU size dont don't really need sewer Inspectors In many respects the year was wasa a complete flop fop Nobody offered offered of of- to drill for oil or dig for foi uranium on our place No Nt tot to to tomato mato cans filled with Ith money turned up under a currant bush No Alaska lawyers got in touch with me in regard to my long long- lost uncle who made his will on the belly hide of 01 a Husky dog But we made a couple of new friends and I guess they're worth more than money which refuses refused to comment on your goofy ideas Idea while white friends feel they must iMy I IMy My Lady Fair all thinks It was wasu wasa as a u pretty good year It was WWI In 1937 1987 that she he found that blue hat In the bargain basement n she found a dollar bill bUi on the I and she finally decided ed that trying to pound Into my pointed head was waft nae nae- I less lew This was a break for both bothof of us No adventures for the I gys No mysterious knocks on the back door at 2 am a.m. No h lutle Uc foundlings left on the doorstep No refugees from the chain gang crouching in the cars car's back S sect seat ct two we keep It locked No pieces of airplane coming ugh the ceiling and piercing the chair we I had jut vacated A little hum hum- drum But how we love it A cheerful open fire tire a good book un an occasional good TV XV show how good company company all all these thee Mugs are ure ae Omar Um could HII any on oil the nights we out have to work until 2 I i t enow eno Butt But no dog What that no dog No io dog And no cut neither This year I got no rejection l I slips from from from- publishers publish publishers but but s but that's all right because I didn't of offer Cl anything and I ca cant can't it bear to break i their Iron little hearts hearts' Nobody called from New York City to toI I offer me me a spot on a tu 2 I show which hurts but then Im I'm Im I'm Imi i not really an expert on anything I that people would pay to hear hearme hearme hearme me answer answer didn't try to toI I I hire me as as' as asa a clothes model but butI I then I wouldn't have had time timeto timeto to just stand there and look nice No beautiful stranger insisted she had met me on the Rue de deI dela dela I la Or anywhere else In fact no beautiful stranger i I My ly Lad Lady Fair did not get in invited in- in to the reception at the State House but b t then she did diu not have her new Bargain linae- linae ment Blue hat yet N Nobody body I urged her to be bo the Queen of the Printers Printer's Devils DevUs It has been said sold that she would look lock rea real nice in a a Mother lother Hubbard made of sacks gunny gunny but the sack gunny people have not asked ber her to d do any any mod This U is not very veri of them and I think she is a little hurt But shell she'll get pt over over It 1 have alre already dy bought her a aDew now new sack gunny ek for Christmas More I think about it this hasn't been such a bad year year And th there ie are re a n co couple weeks to go Maybe something will happen Mac Mae |