| Show c. c A Bad Year For Marty Hall Hallby by Joe Shelton Marty Hall cant can't figure it out A year ago he had a wife a couple of kids a big house and a nice tidy sum of money stored away in a savings account Today Marty is going through a divorce the wife has custody of the kids and there isn't any money left in the bank Marty is struggling struggling struggling gling through two jobs as he dwells in a cheap one bedroom bedroom bedroom bed bed- room flat that even the mice refuse to live in It seems that Marty has two cousins who live down in Austin Texas Frog legs are a delicacy in Texas and Martys Marty's two cousins were interested in starting a polliwog polliwog polliwog pol- pol farm So they phoned Marty asking him if he wanted a piece of the business Marty said sure who wouldn't and sent his cousins fifteen hundred dollars to help with the cost of development Well the two cousins purchased ten thousand polliwogs polliwogs polliwogs pol- pol which they dumped in various ponds on four acres of property they had previously leased Things were running running running run run- ning smoothly until the raccoons found out about the polliwogs There are thousands of raccoons in Texas who also consider polliwogs a delicacy Martys Marty's two cousins would wake in the morning to discover their pride and joy polliwogs squirming helplessly between the lips of rac rac- coons So naturally the two cousins decided that if they erected a twelve foot cement wall it would keep the raccoons away They phoned Marty who was horrified to find out that raccoons were eating away the profits He sent his two cousins twenty-five twenty hundred dollars the cost of a twelve foot cement wall It was a beau beautiful wall Martys Marty's two co cousins sins hugged each other when 1 it t was completed tears filling their eyes with dignity Somehow they just secretly knew their polliwog business would now bloom with frog legs Except the next morning they were a awakened wakened to the chortling happiness of many raccoons atop the twelve foot cement wall naturally each one with a polliwog stuck in their smile The two cousins hugged each other when they cried in despair Down in Austin there arent aren't very many discos Western Western Western West West- ern type nightclubs are the big thing cowboys whooping it up on Saturday nights Martys Marty's two cousins had read that discos disco's were now the most popular night spots in the country and since they had four acres of leased property and no more polliwogs they knew they could become immediately rich by opening a disco So again they phoned Marty asking if he wanted in on the ground floor of a disco in cowboy country Marty said sure who wouldn't and sent them three thousand dollars The disco was called Cousins On opening night a up pick-up truck full of drunken cowboys who thought that anyone who went to a disco was either a hippie or a pervert attended the big event However dancing wasn't on their minds instead they set fire to the disco burning it to the ground Of course there wasn't any insurance N Now ow you can understand why Marty Halls Hall's wife left him and why he has to work two jobs Has he heard from his cousins lately They called the other night related a distraught Marty Wanted to know if I was interested in building a volleyball gym on those four acres of prop prop- erty What'd you tell them I I told them Who wouldn't I went down to the bank and borrowed two thousand dollars to help them get started |
