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10 THE RURAL VOICE
The World from Mabel's Grill
"I guess you can take efficiency
too far," said Cliff Murray this
morning. Cliff had been telling about
the article he'd read on the problems
they're having with roosters in
breeding flocks for broilers.
Seems the
roosters from
time immem-
orial have
courted their
hens to get
them in the
mood before
mating. Now
the big lugs
don't waste
time or energy
courting but
just use their
size to have
their way with
the ladies with
unsatisfactory results.
"Hmm," said Molly Whiteside as
she refilled Cliff's cup for the second
time, "maybe there's something in
the air that roosters and humans are
both catching. I don't know when
was the last time a guy bought me
flowers or used a little romance."
"I don't know," said Dave
Winston, "with all the flower shops
that are springing up somebody must
be buying flowers."
"Women are buying them for
themselves because their men
aren't," Molly grumbled.
"Sure," said Cliff, "I let my wife
buy her own flowers. She always
says I got the wrong thing no matter
what I buy so I figure she can pick
out her own flowers."
"But you pay?" Molly wondered.
"I'd just have to get the money
from her to give back to her," Cliff
said. "She handles all the money. She
gives me money to buy coffee."
"You wife handles the money?"
asked George McKenzie. "You let
your wife handle your finances?"
"Why not?" asked Cliff, "She's
much better with money than me."
"I guess a guy who keeps sheep
and goats might turn over his money
to a woman," George scoffed.
Molly nearly slipped pouring his
coffee and dumped in his lap.
"With guys like you around we'll
soon be needing a men's liberation
movement," George went on,
oblivious of Molly's threat.
"Your wife must either be a saint
or a doormat," Molly said.
"My wife knew I was such a good
catch she asked me to marry her,"
said George.
"Everybody's entitled to one
mistake in their lives," Molly said as
she headed to the kitchen. "Some
people just have to pay for their
mistakes longer than others."
"Now that is my idea of hell,
being married to a woman like that!"
George muttered.
"I think it would have its
compensations," said Dave as he
watched Molly walk across the room
in her short, short uniform.
"Yeh," sneered George, "she'd
create enough hot air to dry your
corn."
"That would be a lot of hot air this
year," Cliff said. "Unless we get
more help from El Nino I figure I
might be combining on Christmas."
"If it's like the last couple of years
we're going to need snowmobile
tracks on the combines," Dave said.
"I mean the last two years we had
snow to stay in early November. This
year the combines will just be
starting to roll about then."
"Whatever happened to the green-
house effect?" George wondered.
"Cripes yes," said Cliff, "even
with an election we couldn't get the
temperature up this year."
"Well remember, the one hot
period we had was in June and July,
during and just after the election,"
said Dave.
"Maybe there's hope yet with a
municipal election coming up and
all," said George.
"If not, all that talk about how to
deal with the government surpluses
sure should help," said Cliff. "Talk
about counting your chickens before
they're hatched! We're still $500
billion in debt and the media's talk-
ing about how to spend the `deficit
dividend'."
"Your wife should have been
finance minister," George quipped.
"She'd have put the prime minister
on an allowance and we'd never have
been in this mess."
"Right on!", came Molly's voice
from the kitchen.0