"The Mater Man"
Things was beginning to get a little crowded over in Nankipooh, what with the "Fountain City" getting bigger and bigger, so me and my Ace Reporter, Scoop Biggers, decided that we would move the Nankipooh Enquirer printing press a few miles up the road to Tommy-Town, Georgia.
So now the Nankipooh Enquirer has two banners, with the addition of the Tommy-Town Times, both being published here at the Biggers-Greer Plantation in Tommy-Town.
One of the best things about not living in the city is being so close to where all the good vittles are grown, such as pole beans, okra, fresh eggs, Georgia peaches, and of course, Home-Grown Tomatoes. Now if there is one thing Old Bascomb knows something about, it is tomatoes, since my Grandpa was the champion Mater Man in the whole Chattahoochee Valley for many years. Now I have been known to grow some pretty good tomatoes, but I am getting just a little lazy in my old age, and being here in Tommy-Town, there are a whole lot of places where you can buy maters just as good as the ones you grow yourself. My favorite is Fitzgerald Farms over in Woodbury. They got some mighty good maters over there and some mighty sweet peaches too. They also got a couple of kids helping run the place, that will go out and hand pick you some fresh ones right off the vine. It don't get no better than that!
Well I took some of those tomatoes up to some of my city friends up in Atlanta, and they thought they had done died and gone to heaven. Now they are calling me the"Mater Man" and wanting me to fetch them up some fresh maters every week or so, but I told them that it was Grandpa who was the "Mater Man', besides, if I had to go up to Atlanta every week or so, I expect it would just about kill me.
"Now that's the way I see it, and you can tell'em I said so."
Bascomb Biggers
