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MUTT AND JEFF
SAY, I NEED ONE MAN! DID ANY OF YOU GUYS EVER DO ANY EQUESTRIAN WORK?
SURE! MY
PAL JEFF'S AN EXPERT AT IT!
O.K. PUTTHIS ON AND REPORT TO THE RING MASTER IN
TEN MINUTES!
ME? HOW ABOUT YOU
MUTT?
YOU ALWAYS STICK ME-- WHAT'S EQUESTRIAN WORK ANYWAY?
I DON'T KNOW, BUT WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE-
WORK'S WORK - - IT CAN'T BE SO
BAD!
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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1989.
By BUD FISHER
NOT BAD AT ALL, (MUTT!
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HERO AT LAST
NYRIL JONES was. small and. puny months. Then he was discharged with
to
life he developed an inferiority com- ous exercise. The warning was like a plex. Wherever he went or whatever death warrant. Now Cyril could never he did, he was just one of the crowd. be famous, because he couldn't climb Count Braemore. It angered him. He He never stood out..
Casual observers would have been felt fine. He decided the doctors were He tried climbing a amall amazed had they known of Cyril's la- crazy. tent impulses. Cyril, more than any- mountain, but the ache returned and knew thing else, wanted to be a hero. He he was forced to return to the hospital wanted to be famous. He wanted to for another month. Then he
man of he'd never become famous as a moun- be singled out of mob as n
tain climber. achievement.
Lying in the hospital again Cyril other His appearance was against it. His inferiority complex and timid manner thought and thought of some were against it. At twenty-five he means of becoming a hero. He decid- ever ed to go to Hollywood. But when he knew there was little hope of
type. realising his ambition. Yet the ambi- reached Hollywood, two months later, tion would not be suppressed. It surg- he discovered that he ed and ballooned around inside of him There were about 1000 other men of until sometimes he considered suicide his type waiting for a chance ahead of
him. for want of an outlet.
was
So Cyril decided to become a writer. But Cyril lacked the courage to take his own life. Therefore, he held a He spent two years struggling with a committee meeting with himself and novel, but when he submitted it it was decided that somehow, some way he turned down by all publishers.
was going to make himself
A hero. Ten years passed. The urge inside was of Cyril burned brighter and brighter. And having once decided there
The urge to make himself a hero be- nothing that could deter him.
one thing Cyril remembered the old adage that came a phobia. He tried if you build a mouse trap better than and then another, but in all he failed, your neighbour the world will beat n or at least never achieved prominence,
By Karl Grayson
path to your door. He considered the sports, but had discarded them because he knew he wasn't physically equipped to meet competition.
Five more years passed. Then Cyril received an invitation to attend a ban- quet given by the hospital where he had been confined. It seemed that the anniver- He considered flying. He might fly hospital was celebrating an higher or farther or faster than anyone sary and they wanted some of its ear- else, but that would involve an outlay lier patients to attend as living exam- of money. Cyril had no vast sum of ples of accomplishment in medicine.
money.
a
Cyril attended. He was examined climbing, by Doctor Bertell: Doctor Bertell was He considered mountain He lived in a country where mountains plainly amazed. He was incredulous. were plentiful. Climbing was a rage He went into consultation with some of in the vicinity. There were still many his associates. "I can't understand it. unconquered peaks. One especially. There never has been a case in which Mount Braemore. Many had attempt a victim of this form of arthritis has ed it and failed. Cyril pondered. If been anything but a cripple. This man he could conquer Mount Braemore he must have had some great reason for
He wanting to remain healthy. It is would become a national figure.
pure case of mind over matter." decided to try.
The next day Cyril's picture appear- He was not fool enough to attempt climbing Mount Braemore without first ed in every newspaper in the country. Secretly, he Magazines published articles about conditioning himself. spent six months climbing lesser peaks, him. The movies sent their newsreel
to interview him. Within conquering first the smallest, then the men next to the smallest and so on until, month's time, Cyril Jones was the most presently he had reached the summit talked-of man in the nation. of the greatest of them all, second to Braemore.
He felt triumphant. He felt that he was on the way to fame. He felt that within a month his, picture would ap- pear in every newspaper in the coun- try. He would be a hero.
The week before the day he had se
a
He didn't know why. When they asked him. question he only shrugged and shook his head. He didn't care. He was a hero at last..
(Released by The Associated News- papers.)
for climbing Mount Braemore, Cyril RAYMOND MASSEY
contracted: an ache: He remained in bed an entire day, rubbing himself with ointment and salve. But the ache per- sisted. It was a curious sort of ache. It seemed to be way inside of him; in the very marrow of his bones.
DIVORCED
Adrienne Allen, the British The next day he summoned a doctor, actress, was granted a divorce from The doctor examined him, shook his Raymond Massey, the autor, on the head gravely.and sent for an ambu-ground of cruelty, at Garson City, larice..
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At the hospital, specialists made an examination. Cyril had contracted curious-form of arthritis."
Doctors all over the country were experimenting, deeking a remedy, A Doctor Bertell had progressed than anyone else in his re-
cer
Nevada, (says Beuter). was uncontested.
The suit
Miss Allen, who is thirty-two, was awarded the custody of her two children, Daniel, aged four, and Anna, aged two
She was the second wife of Mr. Bertall wma, sent for. He Massey, who forty-two, - He
Nel, His face, was grave, ulaired in
Hope, à bar
Orll remained in the
the anti-war play, in London last year.
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