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Paul Bunyan

Yesterday and Today

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It Was a Short Holiday

Uncle Mose, as he had done for more years than he could keep count of, dropped in for his Christmas morning visit at "de cunnel's house." The cook, as usual had given him liberally of the leftovers from the Colonel's breakfast table, ham, sausage, grits, eggs, hot cakes, plenty of cane syrup, and all the hot coffee he could drink.

Then when, well stuffed with food, he started for home over the slippery, frozen path that pointed toward his house, the Colonel himself handed Mose a package, just as he always did on Christmas morning. The shape, the weight, the feel of the package left no possible doubt in old Uncle Mose's mind as to the contents. It was a full quart. And he knew it was his favorite "red licker." Let the white folks have their Scotch, and their various other alcoholic beverages, but to Uncle Mose there was just one kind of sure enough libation, and that was "red."

made his way along, until he got within a block of his cabin. It was there the awful thing happened. A patch of ice with a sprinkle of snow, covered the path at that point. Before old Uncle Mose knew it, his both feet slipped. That survival of the fittest instinct caused him to throw up both hands and clutch at the top of the rail fence. He made it, and was able to pull himself back to his feet. But he knew all too well the meaning of the terrible scrunching sound that he had heard as he let go the bottle and grabbed the fence. At his feet lay his package, a wide circle of liquid drifting out from it and covering the ground for a yard square.

Uncle Mose bowed his old head in stoical resignation. It was a sort of a "thy-will-be-done," gesture, as he solemnly said:

"Crismus done come an' gone !" To "yo,r

Carrying it proudly and tenderly under his right arm, he

9;\t @oo! Wiststs to Our

Friends

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In our mind one underlying principle should govern oll problems of trode whether thot trade is between individucls, powerlul lirms, or governments. Thcrt principle is friendship. Where there is friendship, there is I Ioir trcde; there is no dumping; there is no price SouS- lll ing; crnd where there is friendship, credits cnd collec- lll tions qre hcrrdled with eqse. Indeed, we could trulv H soy thot "Friendship meons thot Friend's Ship." fi

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