Wh: Dear BACKTALK: Dan’t you think people who write to BACKTALK are crazy? Nelson Lange ... Rawena, Texas —t you think I'm going to answer that, you're crazy! Dear BACKTALK: I like TC very much so | would like to put my problem in it. My brother has over 30 dollars and | don't even have a dollar. He just finds it places. What can | do? Jean B.... Clintonville, Wisconsin —Follow your brother. Dear BACKTALK: Want to hear a neat poem? Even if you don't, I'm going to tell you one. It goes like thi Roses are red, Violets are blue. Most poems rhyme, But this one doesn't. I'll bet you a dollar you don’t print this. David Hoage ... San Antonio, Texas I'll bet you a dollar you don’t pay me that dollar. Dear BACKTALK: If someone asked you to spend the night in the head of the Statue of Liberty, what would you tell them? Lori Herman... Pittsburg, Kansas —I'd tell them | couldn't because | always get a cold in the head. Herman: I'm so glad I'm not a bird, Sherman; Why? Herman: Because | can't fly, Anthony Kropelunski Mineola, N.Y. Once there was a man from Mexico named Jose tho say). He saved his money for a trip to the United States. He had al- ways wanted to see a baseball game. Fi- naily he made it to the United States and went to the ballpark, But all the seats were sold, He explained to the guard at the park that he had come all the way from Mexico to see the game. The guard said that he cauld climb up to the top of the flagpole and watch the game from there. After the game Jose went back to Mexico and told everyone how wonderful the Americans were. He said that they were the most thoughtful people on earth. Sameone asked Jose why he said this. Jase answered, "Well, there | was, sitting on the flagpole just be- fore the game started. Suddenly there was some music and everyone stood up, turned and looked at me and they all sang “Jose, can you see?" Michael Foley... White Plains, N. ¥. Dear BACKTALK: Many people laugh at my name. It is Isabel van Flugenoff, But they also say | look like Doris Day because of my freckles. What do you think of that? Isabel van Flugenoff ... Illinois —Isabel, you may not betieve this but it's true. Doris Day's real name is Doris von Kappelhoft! Who knows, someday you may be a famous singer and call yourself Isabel Day. Once upon a time there was a greedy king who collected money for everything. He putall the money in a dungeon. His cas- tle, with the dungeon, was surrounded by a shallow river. In the river were monsters called “Yellow Fingers.” When the king died the people decided to get their money back. There was a legend that whoever tried to cross the river would be swallowed by the Yellow Fingers. A couple of men tried it and, sure enough, they were swallowed up. Finally a page boy tried it and made it safely across and got the money. The moral of this story is: Let yaur pages do the walk- ing through the Yellow Fingers, Tom Voss . .. 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GOT Tie. fh LOOKIN’ FOR A GREAT SCENTIST FROM ALABAMAWHEN HS TEN TREASURE CHEST 15 YES, GENTLEMEN, THESE IGT PROCUCTS, INGLUONG MILK, CORFEE, INK, meric GES, ALL CAME Feom | OF CARVER A GENIUS. HE MAKES (MARBLE OUT OF SAWDUST AND PAVING BLOCKS FROM COTTON, GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER DIED 25 YEARS AGO. SUT HISBetty’s cat flew around the corner of the house; Billy's was right behind. “Oh no,” Betty crled, “not again." She turned to Billy. “Billy Anderson, you'd better teach that cat of yours to behave like a cat.” Betty's cat climbed higher up the apple tree as Mitzie looked up at her. Billy won- dered why Mitzie wouldn't climb up the tree. He guessed she didn't like to climb. He also wondered where she learned to growl instead of meow. Why wouldn't she purr when he patted her?’And how come she loved dog food and tumed up her nose at cat food? “What a daffy cat,” he thought. “Shoo!” Betty yelled at Mitzie. “You stay away from my cat.” Mitzie-let out a final growl. When Betty's cat was rescued, Mitzie turned to other games. Billy took his eyes off-her for only a moment, and she was gone. He heard Mr. Johnson’s bull dog barking and went around to the front of the house. Just as he thought: Mitzie had stolen the dog's bone again. Billy chased her, but stie beat him to her hide- out under the front porch. “Came out here,” Billy demanded, “and bring that silly bone with you.” Mitzie dragged the bone out and reluctantly yielded it to Billy: "Bad dog... I mean cat!" Billy scolded. Billy returned the bone, and Mitzie dis- appeared. “Where now?" Billy wondered. He soon found out. Billy spun his head quickly at the squeal of brakes behind him. There was Mitzie, beside the car, growling up at the angry driver. "I thought she was going to run out in front of me,” the man told Billy. “No sir,” Billy explained. “She was just chasing the car.” ‘The man’s mouth dropped open. “A cat that chases cars?” “Yes sir,” said Billy as he picked up his impish cat, The man sat and stared until another car tooted its horn to make him move. Billy wondered what he was thinking.The Didn't | “Qwning a cat is enough work,” Billy explained to Mitzie, “but owning a delin- quent cat who thinks she’s a dog is three times as much trouble." He held her up and looked her in the eye. “Now you behave yourself or I'll lock you up.” Mitzie ran off te play—or something. At dinner time Billy whistled. “Wheet!” Cat Who Ag. Mitzie came running. He laughed as she approached, tongue hanging out like a pant- ing dog. “You crazy cat,” he murmured. “Come eat your dog food.” After dinner it was trick time. If Mitzie was going to spend her life pretending to. be a dog, she'd just have to learn to do dog tricks. It was slow going, for Mitzie wasn't as intelligent as a dog. Or at least itseemed that way attrick time. “Roll over,” Billy, said. Mitzie rolled over. “Beg,” and ie did as she was told. “Sing,” Billy conenanded and Mitzie let out an awful moan. “Oh, you can do better than that,” said Billy. But Mitzie was finished for the night. She couldn’t bark and she knew it, and it was humiliating to try. Billy let her out. Keeping or getting Mitzie out of trouble took most of Billy's free time and-his pa- tience was wearing thin. When she tried to bite the mailman, that was the last straw. “Come on, you canine cat, from now on I'm going:to treat you just like a dog.” Billy hauled her into the backyard and tied her to the drainpipe. “Twenty feet," he an- nounced. “That's all the freedom you've got. Now let's see how much mischief you can get into.” Mitzie examined her sur- roundings and sat down to show her dis- pleasure. Billy went inside. utes later Billy heard a high- ing outside. ‘ft can't bel” he said in astonishment, and he rushed out onto the back porch. He looked toward the drainpipe, but instead of Mitzie, the naigh- bor's Pekingese was attached to the leash. Mitzie saton the fence, a smug look on her face. “If you think I’m going to believe you did this, you're crazy," Billy exclaimed Mitzie seemed to grin. Mitzie, the incredible cat, lived eight more years and raised 10 litters of kittens, but even motherhood failed to improve her behavior, All of Mit ‘ittens acted like kittens and grew up to be normal cats. Sometimes Billy wondered if Mitzie was disappointed that none of her kittens wanted to be dogs—or if the kittens some- how were embarrassed by the odd way their mother acted at times. 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