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MUTT AND JEFF
WELL?
{WELL?)
WHATSA BIG IDEA LOOKIN' LIKE ME?
WHATSA BIG
IDEA LOOKIN LIKE ME?
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1989.
By BUD FISHER
HOW CHA LIKE
MY LITTLE
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT 'TO LOOK LIKE ME!
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT
I SAID I'D SHOOT THE
DO 'I
TO LOOK
FIRST GUY I
LOOK
You
THEN
LIKE ME!
SAW WHO
EXACTLY
DO!
SHOOT!
ACT, MUTT?
LOOKED
LIKE
I'M STUDYING
EXACTLY LIKE ME!
YOU?
TO BE A
VENTRILOQUIST!
Trade Mark Bog . §. V. Ofta
OUTEM
VENTRILO
TEE FOR ONE
'Jackson, old boy, congratulate me. Kindly slap me on the back.”
"Certainly, my dear fellow, but may I ask you why ? You haven't got engaged, I hope ? ""
"No, no. This is something really important. I did the fourteenth in one yesterday. A blow in a million! The swipe to end all swipes!"
"But I don't understand. You look as fit as the proverbial Stradivarius. Ware there no celebrations ? “
"Celebrations? There's been noth- ing like it since the Relief of Mafeking."
Perhaps I'm dense, but I still don't understand. Forgive my bluntness, but where's the hangover ?"
Hangovers? Haven't you heard ? ̈ There aren't any nowadays. You just drink Gimlets, or take a long, glass f Rose's Lime Juice after the jamborec. It's just a question of therapeutic action as a doctor once described it to me."
"So Rose's prevents the mornings after ?"
"Really and truly. You know, old boy, you ought to keep a bottle of Rose's in your locker. Some day even you may do a hole în one!"
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
Harmonious Union
It was incredible that Tony and point in their married life, was impor Leah Cranston should have quarreled tant. Every cent counted. And over so small a thing. The neighbours Leah was careless the way she hand- would have been horrified, for the led it. Sooner or later she'd lose some. neighbours thought no two people were They couldn't afford that. more ideally suited.
Suddenly it occurred The neighbours
to Tony that were right, tou. this Was their first major crisis. Tony and Leah were harmoniously Somehow he'd have to break united. They were deeply in love. Leah of her habit without a quarrel. There was perfect understanding Then like a bolt from the blue he had between them. Both looked forward an idea! to years and years of complete hap- piness.
It was the next Saturday noon when he came home from work that Tony Then one day Tony came home from discovered three ones and A two- work and went into the bedroom to dollar bill on the bureau where it had freshen up for dinner and found two been absently dropped by Leah while five-dollar bills, a one and some she rescued the roast change lying on the bureau. He scoop- Furtively Tony scooped up the money from burning. ed up the money and brought it out and stuck it in his to his wife.
pants pockets. Sooner or later Leah would discover it was missing. She'd become concerned. "Hey," he said good-naturedly, "we She'd ask him to help hunt. can't afford this. I found this money make a pretence of hunting and then He'd lying on the bureau. It might have pretend to find the money where it had blown away.
Don't be so forgetful!" blown into the bathroom. All but one Leah smiled. "Oh, my!" she said. dollar had been really lost. This ought "Did I leave the change from the to impress Leah, ought to make her conscious of her folly, break her of the
grocer there?"
They had been married six months habit. when this happened. A week later Tony discovered a dollar bill where it had been idly dropped on the living room table and forgotten.
"Listen, honey, you've got more careful. Money is pretty portant to us right now."
"I'm sorry," said Leah, "but only a dollar."
to
That afternoon Tony went playing golf. All the while he was in the locker room and later in the showers, be he kept thinking of Leah hunting for im- the missing money.
He came home an hour earlier it's than he had planned. The moment he saw Leah's face he knew she had dis- covered the loss.
or
"We can't afford to lose a dollar even a part of a dollar," Tony said,
smiling.
"Darling, I laid some money on the
By Stanley Cordell
bureau, Have you seen it?".
The next time-the time Tony dis-
"It must have blown off," said Tony. covered three dollars on the kichen "Boy. I hope we can find it,” His table and one on the floor, where it face wore a look of grave concern had been blown-he didn't smile. as he began hunting. "We can't "Good gosh, woman! Show a little afford to lose a cent," he kept say- more consideration, will you! If I ing Furtively he watched Leah. She hadn't noticed that dollar on the floor looked ashamed and a ilttle frightened. it would have been lost."
Things hadn't been going too smooth- ly with Leah that day. Besides, she
had a headache,
"Darling," she said altogether too precisely, "I've never lost a penny of our money.
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"How do you know?" asked Tony, a bit smugly.
"Because," said Leah, just as smugly, "I can account for every dime you've ever given me."
This was certainly a good plan.. He felt a little guilty, but managed to throw off the feeling. She needed to be taught a lesson.
Tony waited until Leah looked as though she were on the point of bursting into tears, remembering that she had been saving for a new hat and knowing she couldn't have it unless
they found the money. Then he ain- bled into the bathroom, and, chuch- ling to himself, reached into his pocket. "Ha! said Tony. "Let's see you!"
A startled look came So Leah got a pencil and paper- He reached into his
to his face. and her movements were very deli- They were all empty.
other pockets. berate and she sat down and figured out her expenditures, to the penny.
(Copyright, 1939, By The Associated dast Newspapers.)
"Well," said Tony, "that doesn't mean you won't lose some if you con- tinue to be careless. After it's gone- well; you've heard the crack about locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen:"
"I've heard," said Leah icily, “a lot of cracks."
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Tony was worried. Very, very wor- ried, A couple of weeks later he came across a couple of dollars beneath wet glass in the kitchen. He didn't say anything this time. He knew if he did it would mean a quarrel. Ho didn't want to quarrel with Leah. He loved her. She loved him. He didn't want them to be always bickering the way so many other couples, bickered.
On the other hand, money, at this
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