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MUTT AND JEFF
CERTAINLY, I AM ADMIRAL OF THE SWISS NAVY!
WELL, I'M CERTAINLY GLAD TO SEE YOU! NOW I CAN PROVE TO MUTT THAT THERE IS BUCH A THING AS A SWISS NAVY, IF YOU'LL ONLY CONDESCEND TO GO WITH ME TO PROVE IT TO MUTT!
WELL, IT'S UNUSUAL FOR AN OFFICER OF MY RANK. TO ASSOCIATE WITH ORDINARY SAILORS BUT IN.)
THIS EXTREME CAGE--
YOU'LL BE DOING ME A BIG FAVOR, AD! I'VE BEEN TRYING TO CONVINCE MUTT FOR A LONG TIME THAT THERE IS A SWISS NAVY!
·SİR, I AM SURPRISED, NAY, APPALLED TO LEARN THAT A MAN LIKE YOU DOES NOT KNOW OF THE SWISS NAVY! HOWEVER, I SYMPATHIZE RATHER THAN
^^ SCORM YOU!
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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 26, 1989.
By BUD FISHER
SURE: BUT
·HAU ÉRTY BOY SHOULDN'T RUN AWAY FROM NKCE ASYLUM?
I'M SO
(AINT I
SORRY, ADMIRAL!
POLEON?
SEE SMARTY?
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TIFFIN, MY BOY, TIFFIN
"Lovely smell of cooking in the club this morning, Scrambled eggs, cut- lets, and that excellent curry the secretary introduced from Penang. Makes a feller's mouth water. I've half a mind to go through the lot."
"Can't you talk of anything except food P'I doubt if I shall ever eat again.". "Fairly dripping with sweetness and light this morning,, aren't you? Advanced case of hangover, I'll bet a couple of chips. Some of you young fellers haven't enough sense to come in out of the rain."
"That's right. Moralize, you hypo- crite. I suppose you never woke up with a head or a tongue like a strip of ancient gunny bag.”
"On the contrary, I have in the part cultivated some of the finest hang. overs of all time. But that was back in the bad old days before I'd heard of Rose's Lime Juice.”
What on earth has Row's got to do with hangovers §.!!
"Everything, my dear Watson. It wipes them out. If you stick to Gimlets or have a good stiff swig before going to bed, you'll have no regrets in the morning."
"Rose's Lime Juice you said P”
Yes, Rose's."
"Lend me a pencil, and I'll write `it
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R. NICHOLS was firm and merci- the bandit being shot and killed in a running gun battle with the police. "It's no use arguing, Knight. You She had also told him that the bag of know the rules. One complaint and money, more than $2,000 had mysteri- you're through. You can't run a thea- ously vanished, Mr. Nichols, who was tre with ushers who aren't polite to recovering from a slight gun wound, patrons," Mr. Nichols turned back to had been able to throw no light on the his desk, "You can work the week out. matter. All efforts to locate the miss- That's all."
ing money had failed. 08 So Irwin lay in bed and thought of Irwin Knight hesitated, looked though he wanted to defend himself, the culvert and the black bag and the then turned away with a half angry, money it contained. They'd never be half resigned gesture. What was the able to trace that money. Anyone who use? You couldn't reason with a man found it would be $2,000 richer. And like Nichols, couldn't make him under what if a man had just lost his job and he needed $1,000 to set himself up stand you had tried to be courteous.
California? A man came from the dimly lighted in a paying business in auditoríum and headed for Mr. Nichols', What if you knew that Mr. Nichols office. Irwin was too occupied with his was one of the richest men in the city thoughts to notice that everyone else and didn't need that money?
Irwin ran his tongue along his lips, had left the theatre, or to wonder why
He looked up at his wife, She loved one lone man still remained,
He was thinking of Louise and how him, believed in him. She was the one hard it was going to be to tell her. He person, the one thing he could depend was thinking of the golden opportunity upon. She wanted things that money his brother Charlie in California had could buy. He knew that. But she written him about. If Irwin only had never complained, because she wanted a thousand dollars and he and Louise him more. FR
A nurse came in and announced that could get out there
Irwin's lips curled bitterly. A thou a Mr. Nichols was there to see him. sand dollars! What chance, what pos- The muscles in Irwin's face tightened. sible chance was there of getting a He wondered whether he could look He Mr. Nichols in the eye and lie. thousand dollars?
away. It Irwin had walked down the centre wished Louise would go aisle and was stooping to enter the would be easier with her not there. bulkhead beneath the orchestra pit, Mr. Nichols entered. He beamed at Without Irwin. He was gracious to Louise. the shot. when he heard standing erect he looked toward the Irwin's heart filled with contempt.
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
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rear of the theatre. A man, carrying How much a man could change when a small black bag, suddenly darted in he was the seeker rather than from the foyer, rushed along behind giver.
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the back railing and tore down the left "You must have passed the man in aisle. Irwin's mouth fell open, and the foyer, Irwin," Mr. Nichols was "You must have seen him. swift, startling thoughts ran through saying,
Perhaps you saw him later. his mind.
Irwin opened his mouth. Then he He had recognised that black bag. He knew it was the bag in which Mr. saw Louise standing behind Mr. Ni Nichols carried theatre receipts to the chols, and suddenly he knew that he couldn't let her down. Not even for bank, twice a week.
The man was almost down to the that golden opportunity, in California. "You'll find the bag in the culvert- stage when Irwin disappeared through the bulkhead. He ran along the dimly in the alley behind the theatre. I saw lighted corridor, expecting to find Joe him throw it there." Irwin smiled the watchman or some of the other faintly. I guess I can afford to tell
you that now, Mr. Nichols." ushers. But no one appeared.
At the end of the corridor was a Mr. Nichols was very agreeable. He flight of stairs leading to the dressing rose, smiled down at Irwin, then stop- rooms above. Irwin took them two at ped smiling when Irwin didn't return a time. As he reached the upper level the gesture. For a moment a look al- he saw the man with the bag disaps most of fright came into his eyes. He pearing through the rear door that led wet his lips.
"Look here, Knight, I'm well aware out into the alley. Irwin cust a wild look about, but not a soul was in sight, that you can sue me and collect plenty. I didn't have insurance and I should. In five strides, he reached the alley door, opened it and leaped outside. To have. You've been honest with me. his left, running up the alley; he saw I'll be honest with you. I'll settle for the man. As he watched, the fleeing a thousand dollars.” figure made a quick, forceful gesture Sold!” said Irwin...
(Released By The Associated News- with his arm. The black bag flew
from his hand and went straight and papers.) true for the open end of a culvert. In the blink of an eye it had slithered away from sight along the iron cylin- der
The whole act took less then a min ute, and the rumning man had not slackened his stride. Impulsively, win shouted, then leaped in pursuit. At the sound the fleeing" man," as though for the first time aware that emight be followed, stopped aho reached Inside his coat and wh out in: Irwin was conselon
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