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Show TOM FOOLERY. . , P r Up to new, we've always been able to take tent pegs , 1 or let them alone. This you-go-your-way-and-ni-g0.mine v relationship wiih tent pegs has suited us fine and certainly ''.i. ihey have never been heard to complain. - C It's simply that we and they travel in completely dif. '.'':-' lerent circles, have few if any common acquaintances and our likes and dislikes aren't the same at all. For instance, tent pegs, presumably like tents. We don't. Tents are a V: hangover frcm prehistoric days and are undoubtedly the '' reason prehistoric men walked with a chronic stoop. r, And any man who will leave the comfots of a modern -:' home to live in a tent, even for one night, has in our opinion vj lost some of his marbles. But to get back to tent pe73. Wednesday and many . olherwise alert citizens are still blissfully unaware of their ' overwhelming presence 11 tons of tent pegs arrived in Mt. Pleasant. That's right; 11 (eleven) tons. Since hearing hear-ing about it we haven't been able to think or speak of any- . ti thina but those 1 1 tons of tent pegs. ; You don't have to take our word for it. Ask Shel I'm- i nen. He unloaded the things Wednesday at the city park. Or ask Scott Passey of the Soil Conserva'ion service. The peers belong Io him, or ra'.her to the conservation service. Scott, speaking aj; calmly as if there were 11 instead of ..-' i 1 1 tons, says ;he pegs are to be used by his outfit for survey . " : markers. Anything to disperse them, we say. There's something sinister about that many tent pegs getting to- aether. '.i-' |