MUTT W
MUTT AND JEFF
NAW, I SAY THERES I SAY
AT LEAST 100
FISH IN THERE!) ABOUT FIFTY-
THERE'S ONLY
YOU CAN'T COUNT THEM! ILL LOOK FOR THE MAN -
LET'S COUNT THEM!
MAYBE HE KNOWS!,
ONE,
TWO,
THREE
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 29, 1939
By "BUD FISHER
YEH, HE SWIMS-
AROUND SO
FAST I CAN'T COUNT. HIM!
WELL, DID
YOU COUNT 'EM?
YEH, I COUNTED ALL BUT ONE!
ALL BUT.
ONE?
DONT-FEED
THE FISH!
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HAUNTS; INDEED!
Joshua Turner, who sold me this After breakfast I tested the window. old house, thinks that he has put over It was snug and tight. No amount of it rattle. 'Well, a smart deal. He is, secretly of course, wind could make highly amused at my inuocence and there were other things to do.. The stupidity, for, as every one knows shutter could wait. So I forgot it, throughout the country-side, the place worked hard all day and went to bed is haunted.
exhausted.
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I have it first hand from Lafe Arm-. At midnight I awoke. The night strong, who operates the local filling was so still that a train whistle five station, that Joshua has sold this same miles away was plainly audible. house four times, each time buying it sat up blinking a moment Then it back for a song after a week of occu- began. The banging of the shutter. pancy. Though I listened to Lafe so- Again I felt that prickling sensation, lemnly I was highly entertained, for and in spite of myself I thought of he and Joshua are country men and haunts. But only a fool believes in are therefore superstitious. Only a haunts.
country man of limited intellect and I seized the flashlight, went into education would believe in haunts. I the other room and flung up the win- really felt sorry for Joshua; that this dow. The banging ceased. I looked was to be the end of his racket.
out. Nothing. I closed the window.
The house was exactly what I had Waited. The banging, began again. been looking for. It was a gem of Then I whirled suddenly, certain that But the antiquity, with a great tract of land, some one was behind me. large barn, stables and several smaller room was deserted. Without realis- outbuildings.
I laugh- Huge elms shaded it; ing it, I had begun to sweat. there was a natural spring providing ed aloud. This was ridiculous. To- abundant water; the nearest neighbour morrow I would investigate that was a half mile away. Here, I thought, banging once and for all.. I could work and entertain and enjoy the full measure of life.
So I moved into the old house and
I returned to my own room, locked the door and went back to bed.
In the bright sunshine of the next
in the excitement of becoming estab- morning I had an idea. Joshua was lished in my new home I completely responsible. He was trying to frigh forgot the story of the haunts. Forgot ten me. He had either hired some
By Stanley Cordell
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it, that is, until the second night of my children to beat on the house, or he arrival, when there was a heavy rain was doing it himself. Well I'd sur- and a high wind. I was awakened prise him. from a. deep sleep about midnight, by That night I placed an easy chair
and just inside the barn door the banging of a shutter.
Even then I did not remember about there, completely concealed, but with the haunts. A banging shutter, though a clear moonlighted view of the win- frequently associated with spooks and dow. Hours passed. No one appear- 12 o'clock the ghosts, is nothing that can not be easi- ed. But at exactly ly fixed. So I rose, and made my way banging of the shutter began. across the hall to the room from which I jumped up, stealthily circled the the banging seemed to issue.
house, found nothing. And continu- second-story back
I carried a flashlight, the beam of ously from that which showed me a rain-washed win- window a banging sound kept up. All This was dow. The banging sound came from feelings gave way to anger. just outside. I flung up the window. too much. If it were a trick I in- He Rain beat, in against my face. Wind tended to have Joshua arrested. tore at my hair. I heard the distant deserved it. If it were a defect in the muttering of thunder. But the bang- house, I intended to find out. ing sound had ceased. I reached out During the next two days I prac- house where the shutter would be, shooting tically tore that side of the
took out the the beam of my flashlight in that di- down. I
window, rection. And then I received a shock. pried off some clapboards, tore out There was no shutter outside the win- some wall plaster. But found nothing. dow.
And it didn't do any good.
an
and
"Blown off," I muttered. "Good." Each night at exactly midnight the I closed the window and turned away, banging began. It always lasted and then the banging of the shutter hour. I lay awake listening. I ask- began again. I paused.. Perhaps my ed myself questions: "Why did it be. mind had been too drugged with sleep gin at midnight? Why did it stop. to notice. This was annoying. I open- when I opened the window? What ed the window again. The banging was it? Certainly not haunts. Oh, sound ceased. And this time my not haunts!" flashlight showed very plainly that When I returned to the city my there was no shutter or marks of friends siad I looked haggard where one had been.
and and worn. I told them country life didn't I closed the window and stood agree with me. I had sold my pro- thinking. As I stood there. the bang-perty to a man named Joshua Turner, ing began again. I felt a prickling a very stupid, unintelligent individual along my spinal column. Then I who believed in haunts. laughed, Silly. Haunts, indeed! : (Released by Associated Newspapers) Of course there were a dozen or FREEFORMAVERNSAARE more explanations for it. A loose. window... A branch striking the house. Something blown against it by the wind: Yes, there were plenty of ex-
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