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...getting so it's plumb impossible these days for a cowboy to go walking on the streets of Laredo without getting his chaps all snarled up in dude professors fixin' to wring another book out of his innocent tanned hide...
...train with Diz and his brother Paul the season the two Ozark hog callers won 49 games for the St. Louis Cardinals. Paul was lustily swigging a bottle of pop when the train roared into a long tunnel. "Diz," exclaimed Paul. "You tried any of this stuff?" "Just fixin' to," replied Diz. "Don't!" cautioned Paul. "I did, and I've gone plumb blind...
...mind constantly. You'll need them to pay your salary by and by." After discovering "Thanksgiving has come and gone and Christmas is upon us and there doesn't seem to have been a single turkey dinner served up in the news columns 'with all the fixin's,'" Bernstein joyfully wrote: "Innkeeper, wine all around!" He also pounces on sloppy checking of names. When a story from Germany mentioned "Shepherd Stone," Bernstein noted tartly: "He used to work here [as assistant Sunday editor] and his name is Shepard...
...will return to his 1,800-acre cotton and wheat farm near Florence, Ala., where he was born. "I shore'n hell love that red soil," said Ed. "I'm too old to handle a team of mules the way I used to. But I been fixin' up the little old house, and I guess I'll just go there and kind of take it easy...
...farmers who sell the syrup by mail to friends regard sugaring more as a sentimental rite of spring than as a business. Their philosophy is that "It don't cost me nothin' to make sugar. If I wasn't doing that I'd just be fixin' fence." And sugaring, with wives and children turning the gathering and boiling of the sap into a frolic, is more fun than fences...