| Show THE GRAND MARSHALL AND TWENTY-FOUR SILVER-GREYS ON PARADE Wilma Morley Despain 683 North Main Street Alpine UT 84003 Professional Division Third Place Short Story Grandma please tell us the story about the first twentyfourth of July parade in Salt Lake City that was held before you and Grandpa came to Manti will you please Oh you children just read the whole account in that old Deseret News saved and showed you just the other day But 1tso much better the way you tell it Grandma That newspaper article left out so much Oh very well but donquit cutting the corn from the cob want to get it all spread out amd covered with clean cloths before supper Wouldn it dry faster if you didn cover it Grandma Perhaps it would but do you want to share it with the flies and bees that are zlways looking for food They all answered as if one voice No no of course we donwant those old blow-flies crawling over it but we do want the bees that make our good honey and store it in their hives to get plenty to eat David Hyrum looked at his Grandmother with eyes that were as dark as two burned holes inblanket He worried about both this Grandma and the one sitting out under the eaves of their log-cabin home He remembered the day they brought great-Grandma to them after she had fallen down and broken her hip He worried whenever he examined the lines and cracks that had formed and were still getting deeper on both these loved faces He started to ask Grandma Whitlock about her motheraccident but Grandma cut him off Do you want to hear that story or the one you asked for first Tell us both stories Grandma they chorused Another day11 tell you about Hammahaving fell on her way to the pavilion at the Black-Hawk celebration You 5l |
