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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935.
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get at that Land Bin
ain on the
to the ship th George
lo is to buy let us have", have to pay
month, and us in clover sey for old
these poor.
good turn,
think how
heir healths
iat muck! It's
n't thought of
mutt, o' course lls him, but able to get the
re, thoughtful ko that "And to do it"
"
t to me. I'll fix
1 George let it
sind, like he al- was a question
't waste no time,
up to old Valdez!
in through the
/ît to him diplo-
it the first go-off.
in down cold.
sible, Senor!" be
my honour! The h me!**
unay won't take
smoking good to- hange Bill points ing voice.
the old boy says ad. There may be
i take bribes from. indistas, but not pitiful · five-peseta be Valdez from his
bit of quick think-
't insult you by of-
re pesetas," he says.
g of ten pesetas and a so-good cigarettes." linked a bit at that. en pesetas...." he said. wo tins of cigarettes,"
ed off for him. It's not uch for that
that did it. O' course, utting into the profits like i
at Bill figured that they'd the right way, and he was there'd be plenty more to later on. now that he'd got jez fixed up.
They made their first run the
it night, but it wasn't all that
have they
ey'd hoped for. because the ste ard wouldn't let them nore than ten tins, and could only scrape up three more between cm He knew they'd gotį something on. o'course, but he was a sport, and didn't even ask for a cut in it. Only he wouldn't) wire 'em any more, no matter what they said.
**We've only got about enough| to last us back to Swansea,” he{ told them. "You fellers can't hog everything and leave the rest of the crowd short. If you'd let me know when. we started that you were going to start smoking stị the rate of a couple of hundred a day, I could have made the ar- rangements.
"Well, there was nothing to do about it. so they just told him that they'd be worse than over next trip, and beat it ashore with what they'd got. Valdez let 'em through without batting an eye- lid, and their shore pal paid up like a man; but all they cleared that time was a measly ten pesetas profit by the time they'd squared the old watchman.
"They were sailing in the| morning, but they tapped him about having another go when they came back, and he told 'em it was all hunkydory with him a
**And we'll make it big nex time. Bill says, as they went back to the ship. I ain't in this for my health, and we'll make it a proper kill while we're about it"
"All the way home he made George knock off smoking and save, and when they'd cleared the ore out and loaded again be start- ed in to collect tins from the ste- ward, till by the time they made the Spanish coast they'd pretty near seventy tins stowed away in their, bunks; they owed
the steward about a fortnigh pay, and their bongnes we
Lig out for
HOW ABOUT ME TROUSERS?". ARE THEY READY?
OH! THERE YOU ARE- BUT WHERE ARE
ME PANTS?
Rosie's BEAU
RATS-THERE GOES BOTH BUTTONS OFF ME TROUSERS-NOW": ILL HAVE TO GO HOME „AN” GIT ME OTHER PAIR-
OH! SOME GIRL FRIENDS. CALLED AND I. JUST COULDNT SET TIME-
·SO I GAVE THEM TO. LUCY, THE COOKTO FIX THEM FOR YOU-
SORRY-SIR- BUT I COULDN'T FIND ANY THREAD, SO I SENT THEM TO THE
TAILOR-
WELL-IF THE WORST.. COMES TO THE WORST
I'LL HAVE TO GIT A COUPLE OF NAILS. THERES CLANCY-
MAYBE HE KIN
GED MEMANUS
Registered U. S. Patent Office,
HELD MEH
YES-ARCHIE AND') QUARRELED AND WE ARE BOTH STUBBORN AND WAS WONDERING IF YOU COULD THINKL OF A WAY TO PATCH),
WRITUP-
Bringing Up Father
THOPE MAGGIE. SEWED THE "BUTTONS ON ME OTHER PANTS AS TASKED --HERTO DOIT
THIS MORNING-
IS ME OTHER
STROUSERS
READY?.
OHLI HAD TO TAKEA SINGING LESSON TODAY, SO 1.GAVE THEM TO DAUGHTER TO MEND
FOR YOU-
-JUST AS I WUZ ABOUT
TO FIX EM BURNED ME FINGERS ON THE STOVE,
SO I GAVE 'EM TO
JARVIS TO FIX-
BUT I'LL GO RIGHT AFTER THEM-THEY MUST BE READY BY NOW-
SAY, KIN YOU SEW? I MEAN, KIN YOUR A PUT A COUPLE OF BUTTONS ON 'A PAIR OF TROUSERS?
WELL-THAT'S THE BEST - EXCUSE
I'VE HEARD
YET-
NEVER MIND - I'LL GO AFTER
THEM-
WELL-1 NEVER BELONGED TO ANY SEWING CIRCLE- BUT 1- GUESS I KIN DO THAT-
1933, Ming Zosures Syndicate, Inc. Great Britain rights reserved.
ARCHIE DOESN'T KNOW THAT I KNOW: HIS BOSS AND I'M
GOING TO HAVE HIM:
CALLED AND HAVE HIM FIX UP OUR.
QUARREL-
ICAN-YOU JUST CALL UP MY OFFICE AND GET HIM ON.
THE PHONE-
OH I'M SO GLAD YOU CALLED-
I THINK YOU GOT THAT BUTTON SEWED TO ME UNDERSHIRT,
WELL YOU KNOW, FOR YOUR FATHERS! SAKE I'M PLEASED
TO BE ATM YOUR SERVICE-
WHAT YOU SAY, HE IS OUT WHAT- HE HAS GONE TO
THE
RITZ-MORE FOR LUNCH.?
BY GOLLY- THOSE TROUSERS WILL BE WORN OUT FROM HANDLIN ́ BEFORE I GIT 'EM BACK- WHERE IS JARVIS?
'WHATS THAT?
BRING THE NEEDLE OVER HERE AGIN”
DINNY-
THE TAILOR JUST. -LEFT-1-SAW HIM
GIT IN HIS AUTO-, HE ALWAYS CLOSES UD AT THIS HOUR-
COME AN GIT IT-À I'M TIRED OF WALKIN'
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IT'S THE GYPSY IN ME
I THOUGHT: IT WAS THE ORCHESTRA AT FIRST-
AND EVERYTHING | HE EATS LOOKS WELL ON HIM-
BACK AN FORTH-
1955, King Fea
Great Britain
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