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heart's content in the folds of a cradle-like shawi,  \nwhile this Guatemalan countrywoman takes fresh vegetables to town.  \n# SHIR+0FFMy BAC大\n\nOh,for shining armor to help a temperamental horse and a worn-  \nout saddle is hard enough;addedhazards in the form of low hangingbranches and thorns make it worse.  \nmy charge through the jungle!  \nThe paths through the jungle arecleared for walking on foot butnot for riding on horseback.Inself-defense,I make about half ofthe trip with my nose buried in thehorse's mane.Even with this andother contortions,the thorns stillmanage to rake through my hairand downmy back,leaving my shirtin shreds.That's due mostly to atree called unas de gato (cat's claws);it has long,feathery,soft-lookingleaves.But each leaf hides thou-  \nBY RICHARD McMONIGAL,M.M.  \n■\"I’D GIVE the shirt off\"my back!\"For many years that expressionseemed to me like a bromide tobe avoided.The jungle taught meotherwise when I started makingtrips on horseback to Lago San Josein order to say Mass for the peoplein that remote part of the Bolivianjungle.Making such a journey on  \nAPRIL,I956  \nsands of tiny hooked thorns that bution,I came across some old sport  \nseem designed to rip and tear theshirt off my back.  \nshirts.They werejust what I neededand I promptly adopted them.  \nRosalino(my altar boy)and IFrom then on I was of no furtherreturn from these trips scratchedhelp to the pastor in his sortingand bleeding.job.My newWe look asthough wehadOUR ADDRESS?shirts had tobe inspected.been wres-The labelstling with rollswere proofof barbedTHE MARYKNOLL FATHERS,positive thatwire.Theskin on ourMARYKNOLL P.O.,N.Y.the shirts hadon ce beenba cks an dsold over the  \nIt's Easy!  \narms will heal but our shirts re-  counter of a smart store on Fifth  \nAvenue.I imagined that at onetime they had been worn by abanker on his yacht or an advertis-ing executive at an exclusive beachouting,or a prosperous business-man at a swank tennis club.  \nmain in tatters.We each lost twoshirts every time we made the tripout to Lago San Jose.  \nRosalino is young and is popularwith the girls.He likes to go todances so I used what money I hadto buy him some new shirts.Every-one knows that a Padre can wearpatched clothes.But no self-respecting teen-ager would appearin public wearing a patched shirt  \nI tried one on for size and itwas a trim fit.The collars werefrayed and a few buttons were miss-ing,but the laundress was able torepair them.  \nEven though thelaundress did herbest,I was getting desperate forshirts.I cast longing looks at emptyflour sacks that some kind personhad sent down from my state,Minnesota.I was willing to ridethrough the jungle looking like asandwich board,with\"Eventually,why not now?”emblazoned acrossmy back.The cook spoiled that.Shetold me that the sacks had alreadybeen spoken for;they were to bemade into shorts for the orphans.  \nThat was how I began wearingFifth Avenue shirts on my tripsthrough thejungle.The fancy shirtsgot torn like the rest.On a couple ofoccasions,the thorns hooked a col-lar and tore it off along with thelabel.I left that tatter hangingon a branch.Some day scholars aregoing to come across it.How theywill puzzle over it and wonder howa Fifth Avenue shirt penetrateddown to the middle of the jungle.  \nBless that unsung one who sentthe used shirts.They ended up inthe service of God,taking thesacraments to people otherwise for-gotten in thejungle.  \nThen a box arrived from theStates,marked,\"Clothing for thepoor.\"While we were sorting thecontents,preparatory to the distri-  \n■■  \n■FATHER KARLOVECIUs didn't know what he was starting whenhe took the picture of the little Japanese girl fondling her petkitten.This subject made an interesting cover for our magazinesome months ago.A copy of that issue found its way back toJapan and into the hands of a tuberculosis victim in a hospitalthere.One might call this 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