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MUTT AND JEFF
NIX, MLOVE, LAY OFF!
FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE! NIX, LADY! THAT GUY'S OUR LION TAMER!.
WELL, HOW ABOUT GIVING ME THAT JOB AS LION TAMER?
· HEH, HEK, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK
YOU CAN HANDLE THE BIG CATS?
WELL, I CAN
HANDLE MUTT!
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5, 1989.
By BUD FISHER
SIT DOWN, YOU CATS! I'VE BEEŃ TAMING MUTT
FOR YEARS;
WELL, CAN MUTT
HANDLE THE BIS CATS?
HE SURE
CAN!
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
Wednesday Group
VERY one was agreeable when "The equator in April! Say, you'll
Charlie Campbell suggested that fry!"
EV
we invite Jim and Julie Redlich to join "It'll be hot, all right," Jim agreed. our Wednesday night dinner gather- "That's why we'll appreciate Maine." ings. We had adopted the practice He. grinned apologetically. "Julie and three years ago. Three couples of us. I figure that unless you have contrast We'd take turns on Wednesday nights in life you don't enjoy anything." having the other two couples in to He's crazy! I told myself. Öff his dinner. It was fun. At least it was nut. Contrast! Bah!
fun at first. Then we got to know That summer I learned that Jim had
agency.
His each other so well that we began to been promoted at the make familiar remarks to each other freshness and eagerness and the new which weren't conducive to harmony, ideas he picked up because of his slant More likely than not our friendly dis on life had made his work more valu- Jim cussions would become bouts of sar- able. In September Julie and castic implications concerning present moved into Conning Towers, the smart- personalities.
est, most expensive apartment house
Jim and Julie had been married only in the city. They stayed here for a couple of years. They wore a young three months, then put their stuff in and eager couple. Their youth and storage and took a month's cruise on freshness and naivete amused us no a cattle boat. We were disgusted. The end. Frequently we, being older and sap! At that rate no company would more experienced, had fun by making keep him on its books. remarks among ourselves which
The following spring Charlie understood but which went over their Bess Campbell got a divorce. They heads. It gave us a sense of superior- had simply grown tired of each other. ity.
Joe and Mary quarrelled and separat- Jim and Julie were good-natured ed for two months. Sam Callow lost up until about it all. They attended three of his job. Our group broke
We
By Stanley Cordell
and
Charlie and 118 at fall; then we reunited. our dinners, then entertained their apartment. Right after the din- Bess had both married again and they ner they told us that, as much as they brought their spouses into the group. hated to do so, they were resigning Sam went on W.P.A. and our gather- from the group.
ings fell once more into the old rou- "We're moving," Julie smiled. "I'm tine. For awhile we were bright and afraid you wouldn't enjoy coming to cheerful, but presently the conversa- our new quarters.”
tions became monopolised by crabbings and sarcastic remarks.
We all felt relieved. At first we had been indignant because it had occurred to us that it was our company they didn't like.
That was the year Jim was promoted to advertising manager of his firm at $15,000 a year salary. The day after- to "My goodness!" Bess Campbell ex- ward he and Julie moved back claimed. "Stop worrying. We're not Wharf street. Three months later they high-hat. Where are you moving?"
"Wharf street," Julie said.
Bess shut up. Wharf street was the cheapest, dirtiest section of the city. You could hire a couple of rooms down there for ten dollara a month.
took a trip around the world, crossing to France by de luxe liner, touring England on bicycles, motoring about France, flying to Africa, hiking around China. Returning, they rented a farm in the country and worked it at a pro- We couldn't understand it. Jim fit. Then, in the dead of winter, they worked for an advertising firm, appar went to Alaska and flew from Alaska ently made a good salary. He and Ju- down to Honolulu Jim kept writing lie were the subjects of our conversa- his advertising copy and mailing it in, tion for a month afterward. We ad- and the firm made no complaints. vanced all sorts of ideas, but curiously.
"They're nuts!" Charlie exclaimed. enough none of them seemed adequate. "They can't keep it up!” ·
January came and Jim took two of Sam said, "Wouldn't surprise me the three weeks vacation his firm al-any, if Jim was fired." lotted. He and Julie went down
to
So we all agreed that Jim and Julie needed our patronage and pity, and foll to crabbing and making sarcastic re- marks at each other.
Joe grunted, "Before they know it Florida on a de luxe liner, They re they won't have any place left to go., mained there two days, then took a Then what?” plane and flew back to northern New Bess remarked, "It must be terrible Hampshire, where they attended a win- to be like that.Poor kids." ter sports carnival. Then they flew. back to Florida and returned home on an extra-fare special train. ́-
"Well, can you beat that!" Joe Brooks exclaimed at our regular meet- ing. "It must have cost them a thou- sand dollars! Think of it! Why; they could go up to Bennet's next summer and live the life of Riley for twoj months for that amount,Bennet's was the beach resort hotel where we all went for two weeks each summer.
Dave Miller said vaguely, “It must have been well, though. I mean, swimming in the ocean one day: Skiing the next. Then flying back to a hot climate."
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We all whooped and Dave grinned in embarrassment. - “I guess," he said, "it was lucky they dropped out of our
all be crazy. ne day in rch I met Jim on the
He looked young and health". China MA (me he, and Julie
dying downs the quator In then coming back to: Maine for
aya al atared at him,
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