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j «A SHORT SHORT STORY
By A1 Stein II
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j Jake and Oscar were busy working their
I still making bootleg whiskey. They had
jbeen making it for the last twenty years
j (since they were nineteen years old),
j The still was off in the swamp on a
| small island just about big enough for
jthe hut and some covering foliage* They
jused a small flat bottomed'boat to get I
I back and forth from the mainland. They i
! had a small clump of ferns fixed as a
j hiding place for it while they were at- i
! the still. - ' ’ t ' |
It was getting late afternoon and Os- j
icar'stepped outside to get a look-at ,the j
\sun -to find out what time it was. As he |
| ^-stepped out of the door ;of the shack he j
|had in his right hand a old single shot j
I .22. He had carried that every time he j
ihad gone to the still, Walking toward j
jthe water he suddenly stopped and fixed j
!his eyes to a tree and sttod stone still j
|listening, (some of! these folks beleive ]
|that, if you fix your eyes on a still ob- j
|ject you could hear twice as good). As I
!he listened he heard the faint sound of I
ja motor boat far off getting’closer ev— j
iery secone.' ]
"Revenue men" Oscar hollared, As he- ]
jmade a;beeline to the shack to tell Jake j
iThey didn't have time to get to the boat j
land get away.
All of a sudden Jake grabbed an axe |
jand started chopping'like crazy into the j
istill. "In fact Oscar thought he was I
icrazyl’ Jake hollared and told Oscar to j
I get out and put the boat into plain view I
j(Now he knew he was crazy). As ?soon as I
iOscar came back Jake started explaining, j
, They heard a voice from Cutside tell- j
ling them to-Come out with their hands in !
Ithe air. Putting a dumb founded look on
Shis face Jake walked to the door and
jwent out. Oscar put his ,22 in the cor
oner and followed Jake.
' ! Jake started talking to the men tell
iing them that they wanted- to explain. He
'told them that they had been out in the
|swamp hunting when they come across the
istill and decided to save the revenue
imen some trouble and wreck it. He told
them that they were God faring men and
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(con’t from col l) -
didn't drink, and didn’t like ether.peo
ple to either, i
Oscar hadn’t said a word. He just:
stood there.listening. One of the men
came from.the shack carring Oscar’s ,22
and a couple more rifles. ■
After a bit of haggling amongst the\
revenue men they told Oscar and Jake tp;
get into £heir boat and get out of there I
As they were heading back to the main--:
land Jake explained to. Oscar and told;
him that ending up with no still is bet-i
ter than ending up in the jail, Oscar;,
laughed and aaid ”Yoif know Jake ! You j
ain’t as crazy as I thought you were," I
Name‘ADM. RUSSO as Chaplains'Chief
Washington. Rear Adm. George A. Russo
has succeeded Rear Adip. Edward B. Harp
Jr, as Chief of Navy Chaplains,
Admiral Harp,r who has headrtdrNavy
clergymen since February 1953, has been
named Chaplain of the 11th Naval Dis-r
trict, retaining his present two-star
rank.
The tenth Chief of Chaplains,; Adm.
Russo was formerly assigned to duty in
the Bureau of Naval Personnel,
Chaplain Harp is a minster of Christ’s
Reformed Church; Chaplain Russo, A Cath
olic priest. (AFPS)
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SPORTS QUIZ
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1. Who leads the American League
hnrlers in total major league games won j
among ~the still active players?
2* What hurler holds the major leag- j
ue record for the most' consecutive j
strikeouts ?
3. Who was the last golfer to win
the USGA Open Championship two years in j
a row? ’ j
4* ^o was the last amateur to win ;
the Open Championship in golf?
5* What American has run the fastest j
mile? (ans to quiz on page 7)
Daffynitions: Marriage— the first
union to defy management.
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