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HAT'S Aunt Ella when she went to Lake Hopatcong on her vacation with Uncle Ed. Uncle said that if America ever went dry he would be a man without a country.

Uncle was very historical and loved to read how the United States got started. It seems that Christopher Columbus discovered America by getting some jewelry from women, and uncle used to say that it must be so, because us men have been giving it back to them ever since.

Then everybody got tired of being independent and signed the Declaration because there was a tax on tea. They went on a boat and threw tea overboard, and uncle said if he had been on a boat he would have thrown the tea overboard and also the rest of the meal.

Tea was the only thing that was taxed then, but now they tax everything. Uncle said that if you wanted to drink something else, you had to step off the wharf onto a U.S. Shipping Board boat. He