Tell Me a Story (youngsters:non fiction, 993 words)
Author: Lou Hill	Added: May 19 2002	Views/Reads: 5629/2765	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
You wouldn't be pulling my leg would you?

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was one of the bystanders.  The time would have probably have been in 
the late 40's. 

Minot, who was a pretty fair gardener in his own right, got the ball
rolling with a story about this huge cabbage that he had seen growing  
while stationed in Texas with the "Air Service."  It seems that this 
cabbage was big even by Texas standards.  I'm not sure if anyone fed 
him the line "So how big was it?" or not but he did go on to say that 
it was so big that it required a bulldozer to pull it out of the 
ground. 

Now it was Jack's turn.  "Speaking of big things" he said, "When I was
in France they were working on this huge kettle that was so big that 
when one of the welders riveting it together got lost they had to fly 
an 'aeroplane' over it to find him."   Minot walked right into it.  
"What were they going to use a pot that big for?" he asked.  " Why to 
cook that damn cabbage of yours in." Jack replied. 

Today great numbers of "story tellers" have been elected to political
office and can be found in such places as Montpelier and Washington.  I 
leave it to you to determine if they fit my definition of storytellers 
or are they something else? 

Palmetto, Florida August, 2000 


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