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Age not guaranteed---Some I have told lor 20 yets---Some Less

Higher Indeed !

The phrase "higher up on the hog" has become a well known and accepted part of the American language. Its originator was a colored minister, and it happened shortly after the Civil War.

Old Parson Obadiah Ham stepped into his pulpit one Sunday morning in the fall, pulled his gold-rimmed spectacles down on his nose, sized up the congregation he had been facing for years, and in his most serious voice he began:

"Breden an Sisten: Ah got sumthin on mah mind Ah

ln Other Words, He UKES lt!

I take this opportunity to let you know that I read each issue from cover to cover. It keeps me informed of the activities of the lumber business. And I enjoy Jack Dionne's Vagabond Editorials and his Favorite Story.

-J. J. Rea Arcata Redwood Company

Where wants to talk to youall about, and Ah'm fixin' to do hit befo' de season gits any oldah. Las' wintah, eve'y time de fros' came an youall went out an killed yore hawgs, Ah nachally expected to git me some poke. But all Ah evah got all wintah was jes pigs feet, pigs feet, pigs feet. Ah got so ti'ed o' pigs feet, Ah couldn't look a hawg in the de face when Ah met up wid one.

"Whats Ah wants to announce to youall right now is, if'n youall expects me to preach fo' dishere congregashun dis wintah, Ah'm jes nachally goin' to have to eat highah up on de hawg-dass all-HIGHAH UP ON DE HAWG."

Coliforniq Foresfers Meet

How well are professional foresters doing at getting modern forestry practices applied in California? This was the theme of the 1955 annual meeting and banquet of the Northern California Section, Society of American Foresters, held in San Francisco December 3. Some 300 members of the professional society attended the meeting, according to K. M. Macdonald, Section chairman.

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