MARSHALL, MINN. 
warned' them that “horses, like dogs, are 
man’s best friends”, but one of the fel¬ 
lows asked me who wanted to come home 
and have a horse jump on his lap? We 
men folks gotta all stick together and 
we’re all the same because we can’t get 
along with women nor without them. 
Last summer we (meaning my wife and 
I) didn’t go on any vacation trip so 1 
can’t tell about the bear I saw nor the 
big fish I caught. But that reminds me 
of a good one. A fellow who always 
bragged about the big fish he caught 
would always prove the weight of the 
fish by weighing them on a scales in the 
presence of the listener. One day a new 
baby arrived at his house and as the doc¬ 
tor had forgotten to bring his scales he 
reached for the fisher’s scales and to his 
surprise the baby weighed 49 pounds. We 
took a trip to my mother-in-laws for two 
weeks and called it square. I purchased 
a new car and a new dog last summer and 
they were both good buys. My wife said 
she had set her heart on a Rolls Royce 
and I told her that was the only part of 
her anatomy that would ever set on one. 
It seems to me as I sit here and write 
this and look out and see all the snow 
piled in big drifts that if it ever thaws 
we’ll have plentv of moisture this spring. 
I predict a good crop this year and the 
result will be a bunch of happy farmers 
and a pleased seedman. If you ever have 
any kick coming, please tell me and if 
you like the seed, tell others. 
This is the end of my story like the 
little boy whose teacher asked him to make 
a sentence with the words “bitter end” in 
it. He said our cat ran up a fence and 
the neighbor’s dog bitter end. 
GEO. 
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