Another Letter

Dear Alvis:

Things are much the same here in Hootin Holler. Recently, though, when I shop, about half the stuff in my shopping cart says, “For fast relief.”

The other day, Bertha Smedley lost her purse. She told me that a neighbor boy found it and brought it back to her. When she opened it, she said to him, “That’s funny, there was a $20 bill here. Now there are twenty $1 bills.” The boy told her that the last time he found a lady’s purse, she didn’t have any change for a reward.

Dudley Goodley was recently struck by lightening. When they found him, he was unconscious and had a big grin on his face. When he woke up, they asked him why he was grinning. He said he thought he was having his picture taken.

Goober Bean told your father the Bean family was related to everybody. When your father asked how that could be, Goober said, Well, we’re all human beans!”

I think I wrote you that little Johnny Clinton is now in school. He is very smart. Recently, his teacher was asking him questions about his numbers. He got most of them right until she asked him what came after 10 and he said, “A Jack!”

Donnie Glotz and Dottie Gack just announced their engagement. They are taking their time saving their money before they get married. Speaking of engagements, that reminds me that your father says the most common form of marriage proposal is: “You’re what?”

Well, got to go help your father. He went out to our old pond to see if the ice was thick enough to walk on. It wasn’t.

Love,
Mama