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GOOFY GIMK Sy\y- * I y Hit shore v;as a time over here when we herd about the war a bein over, ' ' ' over thar in Urope* Mite ni^ ever body here shore v/as happy, ' got..me a V_" ole tin tub an a rock an went over thar in the woods, an hit v;as a siglit pr.r the rackot I made a boatjn on that tub an'a hollerin. Then I dimed up a olo dead tree whar a wood pecker was a peckin him' a hole fur to build a nest, an I ^uck a ole tin c-m down in that hole oxi when thar| wood peckor come back an started to peckin on that o3.e tin can hii^ sounded jest like a machine gun. That ole v;ood pecker' jest kep a pbck:*ji till he wore his bill plum off up to his eyes. Me and that ole wood pecker shore vjas a sellebratin, I run an tole Aszie that we had v/on the war from the Germins', an^ she tole me to hesh up, that we aint done nothin. She said you all ha( won the vjar from'tlie' Germins an I aint done nothin a tall hardly. Well,' I made up my mind that I am a goin to hep you all whip tjiem. thar Jappan- ions, I am a goin to git me a gun ari git over in the woods an if air one of them comes along 1*11 git him. Ole Velus Bivens tole me to tell Hugh V/allace that if they needed him over thar ■ i n Jaypan he wood come an bring his 22 rifle; cause-he said he diden want them thar Japs over'here bothei-Ti his chaps, Vi^o'll^ I'have been out; here a tryin to find but ivho the stingest man is so I c6ud toll yoM all, an the stingest one I have found up to now is ole ."Stick" Elliott, Might nigh all of you fellers no ole "Stick", ho used to be.the fireman on the Lawn dale Silver Streek Railroad, V/ell, they tell me. that ole "Stick" went to git out his car an he had amflat tire; so he run hit on the rim from his house out in the highway before he pumped hit up. He said he done that’so he coud git free, air from the state an diden haf to use the air from over his. land. That is gettin purty stiJigy aint hit? How are you all a gitten along a gitten'koovorneers? .1 shore wood like to have kupair of Jap years to v/ear on*my watch chain,' ^ * y/ell, the bee bizniss is'a gitten poiverful dull again. Ole Bob Bums was a sprajdh his peach trees the tuther day an he run rite smack dab into a swarm on a poach t^ee, ^ said he diden no v/har he v;ood git the lumber to make a gum to /ypyit them in. Jest about all his peaches got killed this year, hit looks like he coud taro down his littlo poach house over thar 7 X- bee gums out of hit. He coud sell one to Fred Morrison cause he ordered or\e froii Sears an Rodbuck an diden git hit, • ■ Well, you all fellers hurry up an §it that Japalmees war over. You'have got two down an jest cne to go. So till next time .01© Qoofy will je'st, say good luck. bridegroom', who was £n a horribly ner vous condition, appealed to the clergyman in a loud whisper, at the clos^ of the ceremony; "Is it kisstomary to cuss the bride?" The Clergyman replied; ’ "Not yet, but soon,"
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