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There must have bin a
roast in the refrigerator I
dident know about, becus
wen I crawled out frum under

. the fambly car last Sunday.

the wife’s relativs wus here,
wich you cud tell becus the

littel dog wus growling.

. There wus about four er
five of em, so I figgered it

wus about a six pound. roast ©

an with luck there will be the.

bone left fer the littel 408 but

not much else.

After supper wus over the
littel dog looked at me sorter
sad like, becus one of em had
poked out the marrow from
the bone. —

- An then the wimmen
startid talking.

This runs rite agin New-
ton’s Law, wich ‘sts you jest

can’t create energy frum a
nuthen, becus jhem wimmen .

cud talk the hind leg off a dog
without a smidgen of mental
input.

Enyways, one of em ses all
these here wars an_revol-
ushuns is becus ‘of.. them
heathen religions.

Why, she ses, do you know

they got fellers in them hot.
countries wot

climb up
towers wot they call muezz-
ins an thev jest stand there

all day hollerin ; an caterwalen
fer the faithful. to grab- a
sword er a pig-sticker of eny

. kind, jest so long as they kill

sumbody?

o

She ses that ‘gives them a
free ticket to Paradise an we

shud know how that works, if *
the girls remember the riot...
last month at the supermar- © ,

kit when they wus giving
away pantyhose fer free.

- -

One of the wimmen . ‘ses,

she seen this pitcher frum.
Moscow, ‘wich: showed - -all.
them _muezzin ‘towers, wich.
had’ onion:. domes an: she: .~
figgers if they got sumbody

in each one, jest hollerin an
cussen an getting the people

. . worked .up fer.anuther war, it
shur. as: hell .exsplanes. why —
things aint:too peaceful eny.

more.

It reminded me of Chariie:
Sing. so test Be so I jest pretendid Thad deer I had.

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dozed off frum a_ full
stummick an I took aholt of
my memory .an went back
about forty yeres wile the.

. talk washed over me jest like

waves at the seashore, ony
not so soothing.

Purty, soon the waves went
into the distance an I wus jest
a littel kid an Charlie Sing
cum up the street in the old
wagon: with the swayback
horse.an the big hind wheels

.wich. wobbled.

He wud stop at every
house’ an. say, ‘‘‘Ladish,
Missee, velly good! On’y fi’
cent.”

Or mebbe it ‘wus, “Flesh
‘lubarb, ‘Missee, velly good

‘| .dusty road with my wheels
-vall the way home, sucking on -

An always, whether you
bought or not, there wus
-candy. fer the kids...an -a
smile that wus jest about as
big an as warm as the sun.
when she « cum up ona a July
morning.

Oncta yere, Charlié Sin
made a speshul trip. Every

_ house got a Chinee lily, wich .
_ we put in a bowl with sum.
rocks an water; an arount

‘about Christmas ‘the whole
-house wus rele heavy with.

purty slim fer a ‘wile to pay
fer them, but the ony thing:

wot. sticks in my .mind jis the |
candy an the smile.

_Enyways, onct wen she wus

August an the dust wus ankle

deep in the street in the streets, I took the ses, tes I took the

a
UL~Te

. of seeing the dust sport frum

_ things in Chinee, sorter slow

sugared ginger'an we talke

then . wich thas jest lada a
all the trubbels.  --

home" ‘hat (Charlie. "Sing" s*
g. wife had died in China arthe |
. guvmint had fixed it so he

_yeres.

perfume frum the flowers.  ..
“_ they ast me wot one it wus. |
I spose old Charlie an the - .
swayback -horse both ate
‘done in white. She had a face.
‘like a Mudonna _ an there wus
‘an. old felleron his knees in

Slow: like. J+.

old bicycle an wenrit off inter
the sun, jest fer the pleshur

the wheels:

_ The! old bike jest . steered
itself an: sudden ,I found
myself at Charlie Sing’s littel
ranch, wher the cabbidges
and cauliflowers wus settin
in rows, jest.as clean an tidy
as you cud wish.

Ther : wus a fittel: shack at
the end of the field an I
knocked on the door an went
in. Charlie Sing.wus settin in .
front of a littel place wot had .
sum punk sticks smouldering
an she wus pretty. dark,
becus ther wus:ony one littel
window. He us bendin’ -
over onct in a wile an sayen

Jim Fraser, ‘Anne Marie Van Gaaten ‘Sandy. Crutkshank. aren Sinclairo, “Chuck Lees -
Manager _‘Uiiliarr Joyce. “ Rose Tse. Marlo Auzin ;

like, an -mebbe a littel sad.

He jumped up an sudden .
the littel shack wus. rele .
bright becus he wus smiling ~
again, an he giv me. sum °

a wile an Charlie Sing wus.
rele happy to see me.

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Grade-A Large an I cum back
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her say it’s them heathen [| .
religions wich is the cause of to

North Vancouver
An sudden'I remembered, an o

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So I tolt the relatives I had
knowd one, of them heathen .
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