HERE'S A RITIN FRUM
FOR JULY 1999
Here's wat tyme it is in Dallus, Texus wear I live:
FOR JULY 1999
Hi, evrybudy! This is Old Bear ritin 2 U agin and the musik U here playin is called 'birthday' and why it is playin and why there is a pitcher of a birthday cake is cus my unkle Dick's birthday is on FIRECRACKER DAY. Sew Happy Birthday unkle Dick. Unkle Dick don't live out in the kuntry and he don't ryde no horses that I no abowt but I thot that wus a pretty gud pitcher of kowboys and I member how my unkle Dick and my man used to play kowboy and indiun wen we were all little.
Here's a pitcher of my sore foot that I kum bak frum Alaska with. them wite spots are wear holes got in my stockin things and that stuff that luks lyke blood is jist sum of my stuffin cumin out. It don't hurt a hole lot but I aint duin much walkin cus I don't want no more stuffin 2 cum out.
My man Kalled a doll doctor lady who sed she thinks she kan fix me up purty gud but it will have 2 be after she is back frum goin sum place. So my man will call her wen she gets bak and make a pointmunt 4 me 2 go get fixed up. I sure hope it don't hurt very bad wen I get my foot fixed. I member it didn't hurt hardly at all when I got my ear sewed back on and my arm fixed and sum new eyes. The doll doctor lady who did that wurk on me a purty long time ago wus reel, reel nice but she don't du no more doktorin sew my man kalled this difurnt lady doll doktor and he sed she sounded reel nice on the telfone.
I shure hope I get 2 C this doctor lady purty soon cus my man sez he is goin 2 Amarillo in July to sit in a canyon and watch a pagunt kalled Texus. He sez I kan't go to this pagunt with him if my foot isn't all well. I shure wuld lyke 2 go 2 a pagunt cus I've never been 2 one. Neither has my man. I asked him wat a pagunt wus and he sed it is sort of like a play and this one in the canyon near Amarillo kalled Texus is sort of a singin history lesson. He sez it has been goin on now evry summer for 34 years so it must be a purty portant history lesson. I shure hope I get 2 go.
Another place I'm purty shure I'll be goin in Oktober is 2 Boston cus my man sez he alredy has the ayrplane tickets 4 this trip. We wus supposed 2 go to Boston on our way to Spain 2 years ago but sumpn happened and my man had to change our plans. He has hung on 2 those ayrplane tickets 4 2 years cus they were wurth purty much money so now he has fixed it so they are good agin. He knows sum things 2 C cus he wus in Boston 4 abowt 3 days maybe 10 years ago wen he went on a 2er 2 see sum pretty tree leaves in Nu Englund. I wusn't travelin at all then sew I didn't get 2 see wear Paul Revere woke evrybudy in the neighborhood up by hollerin reel loud that the British R Kumin and eat Boston Baked Beans and du the other things that peples du in Boston. My man sed we are goin 2 be there jist 4 a long weekend and du sum siteseeing things like he did B4.
Did U know that it wus cus Mr. Paul Revere hollered that the British R Kumin way bak a long tyme ago that the kalender has July 4 as a speshul day? The peples in Boston got sew mad cus they got woke up erly that wen the Britsh soljers cum they sed "that's revolting" and started a big fite with the soljers. Well, sum other peoples who were reel smart like Mr. Thomas Jefferson rote down on a peace of paper how kum they didn't like 4 the British soljers 2 wake them up and sent it 2 the King of Englund who sed my soljers will wake U up any tyme they want and besides it was Mr. Paul Revere who woke everybudy up. Well, there wus lots more arguin and then fitin and the British soljers got beat up purty good by the Minute Men and went home and evrybudy cheered and that is why 4th of July is kalled Independunce Day but my man kalls it FIRECRACKER DAY.
U no I lyke 2 give U sumpn speshul 2 read evry time I du a ritin 4 U sew here's a poum about a kitty kat that Mr. Wendell in Arizona sent and my man used it in his magazine cus he thot it wus gud. I bet u will 2.
I'm getting on in years, My coat is turning gray. My eyes have lost their luster, My hearing's just okay. I spend my whole day dreaming of conquests in my past, lying near a sunny window. Waiting for its warm repast. I remember our first visit, I was coming to you free, hoping you would take me in and keep me company. I wasn't young or handsome, two years I'd roamed the street. There were scars upon my face, I hobbled on my feet. I could sense your disappointment as I left my prison cage. Oh , I hoped you would accept me and look beyond my age. you took me out of pity, I accepted without shame. Then you grew to love me, and I admit the same. I have shared with you your laughter, You have wet my fur with tears. We've come to know each other Throughout these many years. Just one more hug this morning Before you drive away, And know I'll think about you Throughout your busy day. The time we've left together Is a treasured time at that. My heart is yours forever. I promise . . . This Old Cat. Submitted by Wendell Griffin
My man sed that this poum reminded him a hole lot of the old kitty named Thomas who lived
with us 4 a wile. That wus the kitty who lyked to have his tail sucked up in the vakum kleener
and who died one nite frum a hart attack when he wus sitting in my man's lap. My man kalled the cat
doctor place to find out wat 2 du cus he didn't no how kum Thomas died and they told him 2 put
Thomas in the frigalator until morning time. Well, he sure wusn't going 2 du that sew right away
kalled the cat funeral man who cum in his little hurse 2 pick him up and take him away. That sure wus
a purty excitin nite. Thomas kum bak home in a little wooden box.
Well, I guess that's all I kan think of 2 rite right now.
