From writer observer Norb Blei of Ellison Bay (Door Co.) WI comes this posting this morning. http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/jan-morris-why-i-mourn-the-decline-of-whistling/
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Re whistling -
We are put in mind of Art Olson of Olson's Ace Hardware Store, Waukesha WI. His steady whistling as he dispenses his goods is a high point of a trip to his got everything hardware emporium.
There's a man in the world who is never turned down,
Wherever he chances to stray;
he gets the glad hand in the populous town,
or out where the farmers make hay;
he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand,
and deep in the aisles of the woods;
wherever he goes there's the welcoming hand—
he's The Man Who Delivers the Goods. (while whistling, we add)
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So many of you contacted us after yesterday's SRN posting for the recipe on the church mice candies that we obtained it from the kindly cook, Kirsten Dobson:
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