MUTT AND JEFF
WHO. YOU WAITIN' FOR?
GUS GEEVEM!
I'VE BEEN WAITING HERE THREE HOURS. FOR HIM!--HE AIN'T GONNA MAKE÷A....... FOOLOUT OF ME!
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"ILL GIVE HIM JUST ‚TWO HOURS MORE AND
IF HE DON'T SHOW
UP THEN
HSCAN
HIS TWO BYCKS TO SOMEBODY ELSE!
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By BUD FISHER
THE DAILY SHORT STORY
GARDEN FLOWERS
A: Jook of, alarm came into Mrs.
THE Grahams were poor, but excel-
lent neighbours. They weren't Graham's face. She stopped smiling
busy bodies, and they kept their place and stopped twisting her hands to- neat as a pin. Mrs. Drake didn't mind gether.
the Grahams a bit. In fact, she liked “Oh, no," she said. "No, I didn't. I Mrs. Graham, and had her, come over didn't. see her, once.”
"I understand,”
frequently to help with the washing and Mrs. Drake smiled and nodded wise-
? the house-keeping, because she knew ly. Mr. Graham was sickly and they need-
she said. "You ed the money.
don't have to tell me, Mrs. Graham. I It was only natural therefore when realise you depand upon all the neigh- the Drakes arriveit home from Europe bours for work. I know.it wouldn't be two weeks: ahead of time that the first good business for you to tell me you thing Mrs. Drake did after setting the saw. Mrs. Clark stealing flowers from house to rights was to rush over to see my garden.” Alra.Graham.The purpose of her visit was twofold..
Exactly Stealing. It is one, thing to accept an invitation to take a few "I'll need you, to-morrow all day, flowers for decorating one's house. It Mrs. Graham. The house needs going is another to strip every bush andorine. over from top to bottom." Mrs. Drake. I declare, if that isn't stealing, nothing hardly waited for Mrs/ Graham- to -nod i..”
"Stealing" 7
appreciation of the chance to earn some "It was, plain that the more Mrs. money. Have you seen my garden? Drake thought of this business, the But there, of course you have. Of course greater became her sense of injury. you know it is stripped of every-sin- Mrs. Graham, don't think for the gle solitary flower. And, oh,we were world, that I am trying to compromise so looking forward to the late summer you..-I wouldn't think of it, but if you blossoms.
did-see Mrs. 1Clürk1 stealing' from my "I declare, kome people are born garden. greedy. It's in em bigger than · 41 · Mrs.Graham shook harchand vigor- woodchuck. You know to whom I'mously. "No", she cried in a high-pit- referring, Mrs. Graham?"!
ched, nervous, voice." "No," Mrs. Clark
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Mrs. Graham, smiled sin embarrass--couldn't have taken the flowers from ment. She kept.clasping and unclasp-your garden. The Clarke:left:bwosdays ing her hands. She knew Mrs. Drake after you set out for Europe, They've referred to the Clarks, who lived on been spending the summer in Califor- the other side of the Drakes. The nia. They only returned yesterday". Clarks>were well to do; but they didn't "What! Mrs. Drake's jaw dropped. have a garden.
"What!" she repeated. I declare then "They're too lazy to have a garden," then why, my goodness then who Mrs. Drake stated flatly. They love did steal all of mysiflower's ?" flowers, but they're too lazy to have a 14D did,"ssmid:{Mrs. Graham, and she
By Karl Grayson
garden. I declare, I'm not a sefish per- began her nervous twisting of hands son.There isn't a selfish drop of blood again. "I took them all a week ago. in my veins. The moment I learned- I thought there'd be a lot more in Mrs. Clark doved flowers I sent, her over bloom by now"".
several bunches.. I did it frequently. Mrs. Drake was obviously shocked And then in June, when we decided to beyond belief. ""You did?” she declar- go to Europe, I thought of Mrs. Clark. ed. "You sto-took my flowers? But
Mrs. Clark, I said, while we're away why? Why did you take them all?" you just come over here and help your Mrs. Graham-bowed her head. “It self. The flowers will only go to seed, was for Mr. Graham's funeral. He and someone might as well have the cuma buried: last & hursday. And we're use of them.”
weɑso few friends and
zave some flowers for agroti always libs and I did zanore į blossoms” by
myoɑnlim't go on. undcheren :: to cry:
Does that sound, as though I'm rel-and fish? I should say not." #But:whatsh happened? Hal Mrs. Clarkė ed her an self all right. She stripped the place: think tha Every single solitary blossom. In that now. gratitude 12 Is othat wrappiomalation ↑ "Bub Hardly Did It occur to M
“thitishe broke |other neighbours and
or Mrs. Drake |might like to look at those lowers 15hen:she, too,
No indeed, it didn't. Did it occur to was all over the: hern that we might like to see a fewzeach other. Mrs flowers: in bloom when we returned choking voice: thi from Burope ? "I should any not. No, that her lovely flowersshad-ruelly done Mrs. Clark was thinkingṇonly of her- someone some genuine
sbecause Mrs. Grahai Drake, stopped forsb peer business sabe dis dent-meeks wisened little Mrs: that: there had b
blossoms in the "mbole.
{Graham, you must have seen which Mr rk taking the dowers from my and of wh
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shelp but vase 1) (0
«n moment. ry."When it nyclung to idealaced in a
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good. 'And it was gooi tion:the fact lalf dozen garden herself
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