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I just wish what happened to me out in 

 my barn last night had a-happened to the 

 whole editorial Eoot shebang and everybody 

 else that is picking on to me for using just 

 natural language when my deepest f eelin 's 

 are roiled up. If it had, they might think 

 different about it, and not keep pilin ' on to 

 me and threatenin ' nie and my job here. 

 You see, it came on awful cold all of a sud- 

 den yesterday. I had dug the last of my po- 

 tatoes the day before. It was warm that 

 day, and a geewhilliken good afternoon for 

 bass to bite. So 1 worked a sort of com- 

 promise with my waverin ' disposition to 

 labor, and instead of sorting over my pota- 

 toes and getting them safe into the cellar, 

 as I suppose I orter have done, I just toted 

 them in the wheelbarrow as far as the old 

 barn and dumped them any way at all in one 

 of the hon^e-etails there. Then I sneaked my 

 fishin ' tackle out the bark door of the house 

 — some that dear old kitty overlooked when 

 she left me — and I -went and had a good af- 

 ternoon on the creek with my neighbor Lutz. 

 There wasn 't any Eoots around to pester, 

 and when a fish would gelt on my hook and 

 then get oft again earlier than I callated 

 for him to get off, I just commented on it 

 to him and myself and the creek and the 

 Avoods around there just as I felt like. Give 

 me a fishin ' stream back of a big woods with 

 no Eoots around, and I'll show you 24-earat- 

 fine freedom of the press and American pub- 

 lic opinion as what Thomas Jefferson was 

 always talking about and stickin ' up for. 

 Yes, siree, for full and unchoked freedom 

 of expression of the real sincere kind give 

 me a lonely fishin' creek just after the big- 

 gest one has got off. 



I see I am side-stepping a little here by my 

 discussion of freedom and liberty. But I 

 had a good comfortin ' time on the creek that 

 warm afternoon two days ago, and was sooth- 

 ed considerably by it until that awful cold 

 spell began surging up yesterday afternoon. 

 It surged over me a good deal particularly, 

 for I began thinking about those potatoes in 

 the horse-stall and rerollecting that the last 

 time I had promised my poor dear long-suf- 

 fering wife that I woiild nail some siding on 

 to that staH side of the barn I had gone 

 fishing again that time and left it till when 

 winter coming iiigher would make such labor 



