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58 said that it didn't make any difference whether he stepped off the wharf to get a drink or whether he drank first and stepped off the wharf afterward.

Uncle claims the school children aren't getting their history right in nowadays schools. It doesn't make 'em patriotic. They take their history like ice cream sodas when it used to be all sulphur and molasses. He said look at John D. Rockefeller. He's a great philanthropist, ain't he? He gives away money to little babies. What does that D. stand for? It stands for Dime. Yessir, Uncle would say, John Dime Rockefeller. He gives so many of them away I think he must be trying to make 'em popular.

History is changing. Uncle said it was a great war when the North fought the South, but wait until the East fights the West. Never thought about that, did you? With California boasting about its climate and Florida claiming the biggest grapefruit, there is bound to be hostility break out into totally unexpected places.

Ohio is a great State for hog raising, although they have stopped that and are going for Presidents, because the people feed the Presidents and corn costs a lot of money.

So you can see that was is coming between the