Questions & Answers
Jack Britt
FWdRep resents tive
hat Social Security advice "in
hutaheU" can you give to one
hp it thinking of retiring in
? near future?
A. Juat this: Inquire before
mi retire! Get the technical
ct, from a Social Security
pdalist, at least three months
ifore you retire; then you can
lake an intelligent decision.
Us is our "nutshell advice" to
Ml.
And now may we be a bit
more particular and specific,
and make our answer more
complete and useful? We advise
you or anyone age 62 or ovei
who plans to retire in the neai
future-- or who is approaching
age 65, whether retiring or not
- to contact the Social
Security office three months
before you retire, or three
months before you're 65. Then
we can help you to be fully
protected under this law.
Have your Social Security
card, and a good old record oi
two (such as an old family
Bible, an old insurance policy,
etc.) showing your age. Be sure
to have your W-2 (withholding
slip) for last year, if possible,
or a copy of your last year's
income tax return, or at least
the earnings figure which can
be verified (in accordance with
necessary rules for insuring the
correctness of the benefit
computation and preserving
the soundness and integrity of
the Social Security program).
And if you become disabled
-- don't fail to contact us as
soon as it appears, from the
nature of your condition, that
your disability will last 12
months or more.
Q. My wife is almost 62 and
will be applying soon for
benefits on my earnings record.
Will this cause my check to be
any less -- I mean smaller than
it is now?
A. No, your benefit check
will remain the same.
CUZ'S
CORNER
Everybody said that we had Have you ever heard of anything as she was of old
the meanest, fightingest, anybody being ashamed of a Nero, our mean braying mule.
Drayingest mule of anybody mule? Mama always said that And she was continually onto
who went to our church. They had never, in her whole Papa to get rid of that ornery
were right. life, been so ashamed of beast.
He finally did but not
jefore Nero had made himself
juite a reputation and turned
learly everybody in the whole
:hurch against us.
It seemed that every time
ve took a notion to go to
:hurch that would be the very
,ime that Nero would pick to
how out the most. And Mama
vould always tell Papa that
hat was the very last time she
ntended to go to church until
le got shed of that awful mule,
'apa would always chuckle,
lap Nero lightly with the lines
ind tell her, "There's one thing
rou can sure say for this mule
ind that is he's got spirit."
tlama'd say, "It's demons he's
|ot if anything."
We would skip going to
hurch a Sunday or two then
rlama would decide that we
ust had to go back. She would
ay,"HI be doggoned if just
?ne mean mule is gonna keep
ne and my family away from
he Lord's house." And back
/e would go for another
/hack at it with Nero.
The way he first began to
listurb the public worship was
rith his braying. He'd bray
onger and louder than
nybody else's mule in that
hurch yard. If he had been
orn a human I'm pretty sure
te would have been a song
sader, and a dam good one,
oo. on account of when he
ommenced he wouldn't stop
ntil he had all the jackasses in
he whole churchyard a-singing
he blues.
He got so bad that finally
reacher Snyder and a
ommittee came to see Papa
nd they asked him if there
rasn't something he could do
bout that cussed mule.
When Papa found out why
hey had come he was tickled,
le said that he reckoned that
ras the first time in history a
elegation from any church
ver had to go see a brother
bout the conduct of a mule,
lama said she was mortified,
ly sisters said they didn't
elieve they could stand it, but
Lay was too little to care one
ray or the other. Papa and I
rere just plain tickled,
actually we were kinda proud
if old Nero and said as much,
t least Papa did. 1 just agreed
rith him but Mama said, "It's
ist like you two to think it's
unny. You've both got a great
ig devilish streak in you."
We missed church for two
r three Sundays after the
arson and the deacons met
rith Papa about our mule but
lien Mama couldn't stand it
ny longer; She decided we just
ad to get back. Before we
raved our ordeal again,
hough, she and Papa
onduded that it just might be
good idea if I stayed outside
rith Nero go kindly keep him
uiet. 1 was supposed to swarp
im with a big switch every
ime he gor ready to hee-haw.
When I found out about ny
1(w ecclesiastical
uties-getting to stay outside
nd mind that mule, why, I
iggered he was just the finest
Mile anywhere on that side of
lissouri.
My first Sunday on duty
rith Nero I did such a fine job
hat Mama, Papa, Preacher
inyder, and half the
ongregation were patting me
,n the hack. I was sure that I
had found my life'* calling and
had a job that was a lot more
exciting than sitting through
long sieges of mighty dry
preaching.
The next Sunday though, I
had a little trouble. I had
persuaded Jake Scott and
Claud Beasley to stay outside
and help me look after Nero.
They did. So, we got to
shooting jaybirds with out
slingshots, you know, to have
something to do while Nero
was behaving. We got kinda
busy with this project and
before we knew it he
commenced.
We were too far from him
to swarp him so I told my
buddies we'd just shoot him
with our slingshots and we did.
You know how a flat rock will
sorts sail when you throw or
shoot it? This one did just like
that.
Now you wouldn't think
that anybody could miss as big
a target as a mule, but, on
account of that flat rock I sure
did. But not much. That durn
rock sailed right past Nero and
busted out a big window pane
right beside where Mama and
Papa, Ray and the girls were
sitting.
Preacher Snyder stopped.
Papa said, right in the middle
of a long prayer and looked
right straight at him. Papa just
excused himself and came
outside and tore me up. Then
he went back inside.
For the next few Sundays
us boys didn't do anything
much but just play marbles and
mumbledy peg right there close
where we could knock the
H..uh, where we could knock
the stuffin out of that ole
mule. Then I was pretty certain
1 had broken him of his bad
habit, so my helpers and I
decided we could maybe risk
slipping off down to the spring
while Nero wasn't looking.
We must have stayed a little
longer than we figured. I heard
the low-down rascal beller,
sounded like he was a way off.
We high tailed it back to the
churchyard, but it was already
too late.
Nero had somehow gotten
loose and, Papa told me later,
he had come and stuck his old
head in the window right
behind the pulpit and brayed
the darnedest racket he had
ever brayed in his life. Papa
said Preacher Snyder yelled,
"AMEN, and Lord help us!"
Then Papa said he hit old Nero
up side the head with one of
our new Stamps-Baxter song
books and the meetin' was over
for that Sunday.
After Papa hit old Nero
he--Nero, not Papa-went biting
and kicking through that
bunch of mules and horses in
the churchyard, several of
them broke loose, and we and
three other families had to
walk home from church.
Mama was more than
humiliated this time. She was
mad at Papa, me, my buddies,
as well as pore old Nero. I
don't think it was so much
what all Mama had to say as it
was that three-mile walk home
in the hot July sun that
convinced Papa he would sure
have to trade Nero off. I
certainly did hate to see him
go. It was sorta like losing a
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