MUTT AND JEFF
THAT FIVE BUCKS YOU DET ON ROYAL BLISTER, IF ALL THE DOUR
I GOT IN THE
WORLD!
COME ON AND STOP WORRYING!.
IT'S A BURE
THING!
CABBIE, CAN YOU GET UB DOWN TO THE RACE.TRACK IN TIME FOR "THE
·THIRD RACET.
YES, GIR!
MUTT, ARE YOU SURE ROYAL BLISTER HAS A CHANCE?
HEY,CABBIE! WE'RE INAHURRY! ARE YOU SURE YOU'LL GET US DOWN TO THE TRACK IN TIMB FOR THE THIRD,
RACE?
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 9, 1939.
**** By BUD FISHER
'YOU BETCHA! MY H068 18
RUNNIN' IN THE THIRD RACE! GEEYAP, ROYAL BLISTER!
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"The value of an article,"
said Shelly Richardson "is determined by the state of mind of its owner, if you know what I mean
"I don't, I said. Shelly sighed. "I mean," he went on "that if you own a horse that has served you well, yet is old and de- of crepit, his value to you, because sentimental reasons, would be ten-fold what it would be to a prospective buyer, if any."
"Well?" I said.
.
He indicated the watch on his wrist. "See that," he said. "That watch yes- terday was worth fifty dollars to me. To-day. I'd sell it for five."
It was a rather neat-looking, gold- encased wrist watch, not unlike a hundred others, apparently keeping good time. Its make was well known, "If you're trying to sell me that watch," I told him, "you've maḍd a sale. It looks to me like a bargain at five dollars,"
my
the first trade, explained that whereas I realized he had allowed me to profit on our first deal I didn't like the ap- pearance of the watch he had given me I showed and traded it for another. him my latest acquirement.
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"Will you take this in trade,' said, for that watch there, with bonus of ten dollars to boot?" I pointed to a handsome, gold-encased watch, the same make as my original timepiece.
"The jeweller examined the watch I offered him, declared that it needed cleaning and that if I would add to my ten dollars the price of cleaning, which was three dollars, he'd be glad to accommodate me.
"To this I agreed, it seeming like a fair proposition. Besides, the watch 1 had selected was exactly what I want- ed, and seemed to me to be worth more than the other two watches together. We made the deal and I departed, feel- not a little ing greatly elated, and guilty at having so successfully pulled offer the wool over the eyes of my jeweller
⚫ friend.
Shelly scowled, ignored and resumed:
"Three years ago I owned a watch similar to the one you now see on my wrist. It never ran right, was either slow or fast or not going at all. Therefore when one day I chanced to be in a jewellery store in a near-by city, I saw a good chance to You see, this jeweller owed me a con- siderable sum of money, and when I
trade.
"A week later I discovered that my new watch was gaining about five It needed adjusting, minutes a day. and forthwith I dropped in on a third jeweller, an old friend for whom I had bought several pieces of jewellery in the past.
"He made the adjustment cheerfully enough, and handed back the timepiece,
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threatened to sue,
after
repeated saying, 'It's about time you had that efforts to collect, he offered me the watch cleaned, Shelly." watch in payment.
"*Cleaned!" I exclaimed. you mean cleaned? Why,
"The make of the watch he offered was nationally advertised, the figure, owned the watch a week! on the price tag was far beyond the amount due me.
And
cally new!.
the despite
'How do I've only
It's practi-
а
"My jeweller friend eyed me fact that I was not particularly moment or two, seemed satisfied that struck by the appearance of the time. I was serious, and pulled out a drawer the of cards, "Here,' he said, extracting piece, I sensed a neat profit in
one, follow along as I read you the transaction, so I took him up.
numbers from this watch.'
Two weeks later I chanced to be in another city and was passing a jewel- lery store. The owner was the sole agent for the particular make of watch now owned. His window-display con- tained other makes that were, though not so high-priced, more attractive to
my eye.
I
..
"He pried off the back cover, peered at it through his glass, and rattled off the seven numbers on the case and the workings.
"I looked at him with a horrible sus. 'What,' I asked, 'does that picion. means?' "I entered and asked to see some of "It means, replied. my friend, that his watches, of any make that were that is the watch you bought from me different than that of the watch I three years ago. Apparently you've now owned. One that he showed me traded it for another and then bought seemed a fine-look piece of jewellery.. your old watch back again, after it had White gold it was, with luminous hands. The price was far below the value of the watch I owned.
"Tell you what I'll do," I said, un- strapping my watch.. "I'll trade even with you.
"This watch, as you know, is far more expensive than the one I
I grinned. “Thanks,” I said, "but want to buy."
"The jeweller - thought a moment, the value of anything is determined by. carefully examined my timepiece and its worth to its owner. Besides, I think at length agreed to my terms. Feeling, the watch looks much better on your that again I had made a profitable wrist than it will on mine." transaction, I returned home, only to
been cleaned and shined up. How much did you lose on the transaction?'"
Shelly sighed again. "Yesterday, he said, "I wouldn't have parted with this watch for fifty dollars. But to- day, well, I'll take up that offer you
It's yours for five dollars."? made.
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discover that my new purchase had Newspapers.) ceased to percolate. Annoyed I took It the next day to a local jeweller, who advised that the watch was a second- hand affair and was sadly in need of repairing and cleaning.
"This was disheartening though. I felt it was only my due, as both tran- saction had appeared to me quite satis fying. However, my Yankoo ancestry came to the fore, and I resolved, bes cause of traditional reasons, not to be outdono. I therefore hled myself back to the jeweller with whom I had made!
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