"A TIME TO LAUGH" by LEROY BROWNLOW

                                                   A TIME TO LAUGH

                                   "There were times when grandpa used short speeches

                                          to great effect.

                                       Evolution was beginning to trouble the church.

                                            ---some for it,  some against it.

                                        A meeting of preachers was called in a distant (100 miles)

                                            city to consider the topic.

                                        Grandpa was invited to attend and speak.

                                            He was the last on the program.

                                       Mounting the platform in his country way, he addressed

                                             them.

                                        "Fellow-preachers, it is getting late, very late.  Much

                                             has been said, maybe too much.

                                         I don't know of anything I can say that will add to it.

                                             So I am going to walk out of here, walk down the

                                                  street and get a hotel room.

                                         Now there is not but one question for the rest of you to

                                              decide:

                                                    "Are you going to get a room or a tree?"