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WHAT HAPPENED
To You?
MUTT AND JEFF
I CANT TALK RIGHT: BECAUTH THUTRAN'S FATHER KNOCKED MY TWO FRONT TEETH OUT JUST BECAUTH
THUTHAN AND I WAS PLAYIN'A GAME!
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WHAT KIND OF A GAME WERE YOU PLAYING?
KITH
AND
KIN!
KITH AND KIN? (WHAT KIND ́OF'AŊ] GAME IS THAT?
WELL, I WOULD THAY TO THÛTHAN, "KINI!
KITH YOU!!
AND THOTHAN WOULD THAY
AUGUST 23, 1988. By BUD FISHER
"YOU KIN!"THUM
FUN!
Michae
THE DAILY SHORT STORY
SHE KNEW THE ANSWERS
You couldn't tell Peggy anything.
Peggy was flattered when he asked on tho She was too wise. Especially about her to give him a workout marriage. She'd been around and courts. Tennis had been her long suit. studied the situation and she knew all She loved the game. She was good at the answers. Marriage wasn't some it. And she felt pretty satisfied with thing to be jumped into. Impulse the showing she made against Ray; shouldn't, be a governing factor. felt she deserved the compliments he Choosing a mate was a serious busi- so freely bestowed.
ness. A contract. You should con-- Tennis might have been responsible At any rate, it was sider the pros and cons, the ifs and for the romance. ands, the thisa and thata, and spare a new wrinkle. It seemed to us that yourself regrets and remorses. Be Ray's approach, though original, was practical. Be level-headed. Be sen- turning the trick. mean, Peggy seemed to be tottering on the brink of
sible.
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All good, sound advice. We admired love:
The summer wore on and they saw a girl who, at an early age, could and did entertain such mature ideas. And a lot of each other; seemed happy and practice them too. No one ever con- wrapped up in their love. It began to tradicted her, because Peggy had the look as if Peggy, the practical, had at support of all the lovelorn columnists. last found someone who would fill the and psychologists and literary biggies, bill.
Far be it from: us to think of arguing. I had the main details of what hap- The trouble was, Peggy was lovely pened from Ray himself, and I pieced to. look at. Gorgeous, One of those together the missing links, arriving at rare creatures with auburn hair and a pretty accurate conclusion as to thu deep blue eyes and a warm smile and events the night we had the corn roast Peggy and loads of personality. Also she could over on Timber - Island. play tennis and golf and swim and Ray had strolled up the beach and sat ride horseback and dance like a fool. down on a log under a pine tree. The At one time or another we had all had beach was white in the moonlight at a case on her. But we learned early their feet. Behind them 'the group at that moonlight nights; and sweet-scent- the campfire was warbling out some ed breezes and following one's instincts plaintive love songs. The melancholy didn't mean a thing to Peggy. She cry of a loon drifted across from the
marshes around Stonedam Island. knew too many answers.
The summer that Peggy was twenty-- They sat there for quite awhile, four we all went up to Island Cove on then suddenly, unexpectedly; Ray slip- Lake Winnepesaukee. There were a ped his arm around her and kissed her couple of other families in the colony, lips. Natural: Everything in favour among whom was a young lad from of it, past and present. circumstances out of the West named Lon Davis. justified it. Yet Ray drew away quick- Lon had been an All American full- ly and mumbled an apology. "Sorry," back, and was, now doing well in his he said. "I shouldn't have done that.
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father's bank. He had good prospects, Lost control for a minute.” - and when he fell for Peggy we thought "Why shouldn't you?" Peggy de- what a shame it would be if she didn't manded. grab.him off. But the thing we fear- “A man," said Ray, "should keep ed happened.
himself under control at all times. I
"I'm like a tennis ball, eh?" said Peggy
I don't how the particulars, but learned that in tennis. Bad business to make a pass at a tennis ball unless one night they came in from a canoe trip and Lom looked mad. The next you're going to follow through." day hespoked his things, and we didn't hear from him, again, until the follow- ing Chestias, when Betty Phyla ré ceived in announcement of his mar. riage to girl' in Denver.
Oh, no, please don't misunderstand. But kissing girls and marrying them is like a game. You must study all the angles. You can't rush into it pell mell. Sensible thing to do is study the
That same winter another dope- this time a literary light from New York, who was enjoying the winter angles, learn the rules. Never team up with partners until you know them sports at Glencollapsed when he was: introduced to Peggy. He rushed her thoroughly, until you're sure they have what it takes. Marriage should be all over the place, and before a week like that too." had passed was proposing marriage.
Proposing after a week! Hal That - "Should it!" tried Peggy. ““Ana was Peggy's dish. How in the world moonlight and soft music and white beaches and things don't count! What could he expect them to know, one soli
tary thing about each other in so short a man! It's men like you who never a time, Peggy wanted to know? I get any fun out of life. Let's get out wasn't sensible!
La here!ER
Two weeks later Peggy married a So the literary light went back to New York, and that was the last of bank clerk named Smith He met her him. Another summer passed and an- at a party and proposed marriage the
same night. She grabbed him., other winter, and Peggy met new men
(Copyright, 1988, By The Associated and had a fine time orating facts to
Newspapers.) them when they got sentimental. That summer, she went abroad with her folks and "was gone for a year. R64 turning the following spring, sho pick- ed up the threads with the old crowd where she had dropped them, and when ofun summer arrived the same gang of went back to Island Cove.e **P*203 was twenty-seven, but she gif pay
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