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MUTT AND JEFF
MUTT, I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS MONEY CIRCULATIONI
WHAT DO THEY MEAN?
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MY TWO
BUCKS?
OH, NO! NO
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
UPSTREAM
OHN life was bitter. To-day, with bling down, pausing, shrinking away,
was only twenty-nine and al- curses. The sea of humanity came tum- the rain lashing his face, wetting the horrified, staring at something on the newspapers before he could pass them ground. John glimpsed the figure ly- to customers from beneath the oil skin ing there; grotesquely sprawled across
of. covering, chilled to the bone, enyying the steps. He heard the name
Judge Silas those who filed into the subway en- Silas Berry mentioned. trance with their sleek, contented, well- Berry. fed looks, he hated life. He hated "Hey, Newsy, how about a paper?" John turned. It was the man in the people; hated the world.
"Paypare." Payare! Wuxtra! Weal- green hat. John felt his heart pound, thy society woman slays husband and then stand still. There was a curious- He ly cold light in the man's eyes. runs off with suitor! Wuxtra!"
took the paper John offered him with- out moving his eyes from the news- boy's face; Either you Nice stand you got here, sonny.
Life
Life had been unkind to him. hadn't given him the breaks. ・・・ That's it. It was life's fault. Iwere born into the easy way, or
you Must make a lot of dough. Must see a didn't have a chance. This stuff about lot that happens, facing upstream like fighting your way to the top, overcome that. Didn't happen to see what oc- ing obstacles, being a whooping, self- curred just now on the elevator steps made success Nuts! You can't fight did you?".
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when life is against you, when the crowd is way out ahead and throwing happened?
John gulped. "I heard a shot. What Was somebody killed? I dust into your face.
didn't see a thing. I was selling a pa- Joan had no schooling beyond the per. Who do you suppose done it? grades. But he was full of ambition; The cold light dimmed in the eyes the determination to succeed had been of the man with the green hat. He strong in his soul. He'd read plenty smiled. A siren. sounded. The crowd of stories, about men who had fought scattered. John saw Officer Mike Clan-
By Stanley Cordell
their way from poverty to riches. It cey elbowing his way towards him. could be done here in America. This “Hi, Johnny! Look, you must have was the land of opportunity. All you seen who did it, standing here like that. had to do was remain alert, work hard. You had a view. You were the only grab your opportunities. Bunk! one who did, facing upstream like that.
"Buy - paper, mister? Wuxtra! See who done it, Johnny 7" Wuxtra!
Johnny glanced at the man in the Those guys that wrote that stuff. didn't know. It looked well in print. his coat. "Sure"; he said. “Sure," I green hat. The man's hand was inside They ought to talk to someone who
saw it all. It was that guy there." had tried tried everything, desperate- Then he jumped. He heard the muffled ly, and failed. Those guys ought to explosion of a revolver, saw-Clancey be told that you couldn't do it not an leap, heard shouts and swearing and ordinary guy. It took more than hard knew that other.cops were coming. work and alertness. You had to be a Then he heard more shots. He felt a genius. Or be born with a silver spoon stinging pain in his arm. He felt in your mouth. Or get a break. And something hot running down inside his what chance did he have of getting a sleeve. Things began to reel. Не break? None. Guys like him didn't knew he was fainting.
get breaks. Didn't those writer guys know a chap had to have capital these him, when he came to. "You're all Officer Clancey was bending over days to do anything besides peddle papers. If he had a thousand dollars right, kid. Just a scratch. And what now. IFI
*sa break. That was Moe" Consoletti, "Rich society woman knocks off her Ho had threatened to get Old Silas. spousel Buy a paypare, sir?".
They're both dead. And you get the A thousand smackers! Hal Fat reward, kid.......... One thousand smackers! chance. Not when the breaks were Is that a break or is that a break?” against you. A man was a fool to try John looked past Officer Clancey to- and buck the crowds when they were ward the elevator stairs. He thought against him. Like that boy in the of the man in the green hat, fighting green hat. Look at him, trying to his way up against the stream fight his way up those stairs. Didn't people. "You can't buck the crowds,” the dumbhead know that it was just he muttered. "No use trying.!! after 5 o'clock and hundreds of people (Copyright, 1938, By The Associat- would be coming down the stairs on ed Newspapers),
their way home? Didn't he know there was no use trying to battle the current like that?'
No! The fool! Look at him keep edg ing his way up, only to be knocked back again.
John watched the progress of the man in the green hat—a solitary figure trying to fight his way up the stairs of the elevator and not gaining, a foot, The stream of people jostled him, cast annoyed glances at him; pushed him to one side. Life was like that. You can't buck the crowd when the crowd ls against you. It's like waiting for a break.
"Hey, gimme a Nows." There was a man at John's elbow, looking Impa tient and Irritated. John Jerked him- self back to earth.
"Sure.
Here you are mister. syarel 'Wuxtra! Wux
pped abruptly: A shot
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