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MUTT AND JEFF
HERE'S WHERE I
WHAT CHA
DOIN'?
HAVE SOME FUN
WITH MUTT ---
HERE HE COMES
NOW!
I JUST KEWED. A MOURNING BAND. ON THE LEG OF MY PANTS!
精
MOURNING BAND?
WHO DIEDY
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 27, 1989
By BUD FISHER
TOO BAD,
BUT WHY ARE
ONE OF
(MY, FAMILY!)
YOU WEARING IT ON YOUR LEG INSTBAD 'OF YOUR ARM?
IT'S MY
STEP MOTHER (SNIFF SMIFF)
OH, WELL!
I GOTTA HAVE
A LITTLE FUN ONCE IN A WHILE!
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
Cousin Olive
If it weren't for the fact that ments to be with the gang alone, but Davey's birthday occurred two weeks for moments to be with Olive without He found that he had is the famous French "Moulin-Legume," millions of which are hence, and his mother had promised the gang.
a new pair of ice. skates, ho not only lost interest in things that in daily use on the Continent. The conical sieves are inter-might have objected, when it was an he had heretofore delighted in doing appetite and changeable and enable food to be mashed or strained according nounced that his cousin Olive, whom but he had lost his
he had never seen, was arriving with couldn't sleep nights and that 'mostly The whole machine is absolutely her mother for a fortnight's visit and he was beset by a burning sensation to consistency required.
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Why What Davy hated the name "Olive," there- did these things have to be?
make? He had fore it was easy for him to conjure difference could it
a distasteful picture of his cousin. It never seen her before. The fact that was equally easy for him to imagine they were related gave him no sense the reputation ho'd gain among his of possession, nor made him think
him playmates when they found as of her in no less an ardent light.
and. sociating with a girl.
For two days. Davy brooded .Oh, life was hard at this point, but suffered and pitied himself and con- ice skates are ice skates.
sidered running away- and becoming Olive and her mother arrived two a hermit. He could understand now Butch days later. Olive. had golden curls. why. Olive 'was interested in and blue eyes and a warm, friendly and Ribby. She, like, him, realized smile. The first time, she looked at that cousins 'could never be more than him the picture of distaste which informal and casual.
Davy Davy had conjured was dissipated as Three more days passed. completely as the 'first
sun was maddened by the sight of Butch dissipates the ice on Miller's Pond. and Ribby monopolizing and basking Davy's gang had never considered it in the warmth of Olive's smile. She
warm
By Karl Grayson
dis-
masculine to associate with members seemed to have forgotten Davy. In for- of the opposite sex, but holy smokes, fact, everyone seemed to have
He was left to suffer" thought Davy, this was because they gotten Davy.
the task had never seen, a member of the in solitude and he found
re- almost unbearable. opposite sex who even remotely sembled Olive.
On the fourth morning Davy awoke The day after Olive arrived Davy's and came down to breakfast to mother held a party to which most of cover two packages at his place at the neighbourhood children were invited. the table, Both were large, though To Davy's dismay he discovered that widely different in shape.
His Birthday! Davy's heart leap- the gang members shared his feelings
be ed, and then was quiet. Even birth- toward Olive. They fought to near her, to dance with her, to wait days to one in his condition could not on her. Davy was disgusted to realize allay the pain in his heart. Pretend- did not his gang could display so much in ing an eagerness that he terest in a girl. Not only disgusted, feel, he opened the first package and but annoyed. And more annoyed still a momentary warmth of feeling ran when he saw that Olive liked the at- through him at sight of the ice skates tention she was getting. He couldn't that reposed, therein. understand what a girl like 'Olive could see in boys like Butch Dixon and feeling in his exclamation of delight, then opened the second package. It Ribby Flake and all the others.
was long and slim and he knew bo- off If Davy had continued thinking fore he had, half the wrapping along his original lines to the effect that it was a hockey stick.
He managed to put some genuine
Attached
that Olive was going to be an ok to the handle was a card. Davy blink- stacle in his daily routine these fears ed at it. The card stated definitely
next would have been allayed the
in an unfamiliar and childish hand day. For Olive proved to be an un- that the stick was a gift from Cousin
she 'Olive. derstanding soul. She realized, said, that boys didn't like to have Davy didn't know until later that girls hanging around and for Davy Olive had saved from her small per- He not to think about her because. she sonal allowance to buy the stick. could entertain herself,
found himself groping for words to This was disconcerting, and left express, even a fraction of what he Davy with no alternative, but to seem felt, Then he blurted: "Geet If only appreciative. She had brought a you wasn't my cousin, Olive!" ..--
her pair of skis, with her She got them Olive's eyes widened. Then out and climbed the hill behind the warm smile flashed. "Why, Davy, house and Davy, to whom skiing was I'm not! Your mother and mine are still a novel sport, was amazed at the just close friends. We call them Aun- exhibition she gave.
tie and each other cousin, but we're Even so, he might have left her not. related at all. I thought you alons except for the fact that ten knew!" minutes after she had appeared on Olive stayed four days longer, and the hill, Butch and Rioby and three during that time Butch and Ribby other: boys appeared. Resentful, see didn't rate a thing. Davy carried ing, an excuse to play a mild role Olive's bag to the railroad station, of hero, Dayy mounted the hill and and when he took her hand to Bay Fordered the other boys off, allowing good-bye he felt all choked up inade that Olive wanted to be alone. But Watching the train, pull away through Olive' only smiled warmly. “Oh, no, misty eyes, he decided that he guess It's nice to have. Butch and Ribbyed he'd be a hermit after all-until and all the others, here, she said.. next summer when he had promised "And you, too, Davy, of course” to visit Olivo during vacation,
During the week that followed Davy (Copyright, 1989, By The Associat- found himself battling not for, mo- ed Newspapers).