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Show i - .... Youngster's Retort Not Grammatical, but Neat The shortage of fruit pickers In Orange-county recalls the story they tell ; of a Santa Ana man with a small grove who was too parsimonious to hire expert help and tried to do the work himself with the aid of bis small son. It was during a mldseaRon Irrigation that the old man noticed his son Idling In the shade and called out at him : "Say I When do you expect to do , enough work around here to make these oranges grow?" To which the tired lad replied: "As soon as you give me enough to eat to grow big enough to do enough work around these oranges to make 'em grow." Los Angeles Times. |