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Show THE CURRENT boycott on meat isn't going to affect our household too much. My Lady Fair Louise is so darned tight that we haven't had a taste of store-bought meat for months anyhow. You have to hand it to MLF. She has foresight. Last winter she carefully cleaned the carcasses car-casses of all the muskrats she trapped, and put them in the freezer. They're not bad. A little musky but you gottaad-mit gottaad-mit muskrats are cleaner than Pigs. When I was a boy there were periods when we didn't have enough meat around the house. We weren't poor we just didn't have a lot of money. We made out beautifully on eggs and potatoes, pot-atoes, fixed a dozen different ways. And that's when I gained a certain amount of local fame: I FED the entire family, the folks and six kids, for three months. On 15 cents a month. In those days the plains of Nebraska were alive with jack-rabbits. jack-rabbits. From May until July they were from half-grown to almost full-grown, and that's when they made delicious eating. eat-ing. For 15 cents one could buy a box of 50 .22 shorts, and with a single-shot Stevens (Monkey Ward or Sears and Sawbuck?) I brought in two or three bunnies bun-nies daily. I still remember a three-quarter-grown jack-rabbit jack-rabbit as the finest game I have tasted. (Much better, actually, than the muskrat steaks MLF is serving at our house.) NOW IF YOU can read this letter without a giggle I suggest you see your head-shrinker. It's from the Hon. James Kilby, Esq., Park City Justice of the Peace. He's the one who, like Minnesota Fats, let me stay about even in a golf game until we reached that Cardiac Ninth at Park City and then bet me and Patrolman Pierre Mar-cellin Mar-cellin a dinner on that hole alone. Guess who bought steak. With mushrooms yet. Dear Mac: Your last article on the difficulty dif-ficulty you experience making decisions was such an entertaining enter-taining and humorous account of what people face in everyday life that I feel compelled to write and congratulate you on your effort ef-fort and expertise in this regard. re-gard. I know you have trouble with decisions because you are an Editor and Editors are very emotional, sensitive and artistic artis-tic people. Judges on the other hand are usually calm, practical individuals individ-uals that are usually fully informed in-formed in fact and premis relating re-lating to all situations. Therefore let me offer you some help in regard to your decision concerningyour doubts whether to call me "Judge" or just plain "Jim". If you would just refer to me as "Jimsie the Justice" lam sure you would have at least one decision decided. de-cided. Your Avid Fan, Jimsie the Justice. |