1935-03-01 — Page 11

Devil-Bird Vengeance

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The girl ran, catching her ragged blanket round her. The villagers,. clustered round the pilot who had been dragked from his machine and shot by Bu Maza, did not see the

girl pass...

She found the machine. It had come down cleanly on the ́sund, and did not look damaged. Panting with eagerness, the girl clambered into the ecckpit, fingering the con- 'trols feverishly.

Now she remembered. She had been flying across Africa; her ma chine had crashed; she had man- aged to crawl away from the wreck- age; after that. nothing. Bu Maza had found her, robbed and abondon- ed her. Her face #ushed as she recalled his evil triumph.

But now she need not fear him. She could get away, fly back to Europe. If the plane were un- damaged.... Then she saw patrol gauge. Empty!

the

Anight she cowered in the 'plane, in fear Bu Maza. She had cast off the althy blanket which had been her only covering for weeks, and was wearing a heavy coat she had found in the machine. Perhaps the French would send other machines to look for this one. Fear and hope kept her awake. She huddled closer into the cockpit, waiting for the dawn.

Before the first streak of light, the draning of several heavy 'planes eamo to her from the north.

And then the bombs began to fall; the air was tortured with noise. They were giving. Bu Maza and his tribe: the punishment they deserved for defying their author- ity.

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Terrified, the girl etched in tho cockpit. Once, a shower of sand fell upon her, thrown up by a ter rifying explosion' which seemed to shatter the world. A single sob escaped_her_

Day broke at last, and the pani- tive squadron lunded, one by one,, flinging up clouds of dust as they came to a standstill. Over, the stretch of sand the girl watched. They hart machine guns ready now but no attack came.

Some of the men. from the squadron had noticed the machine, aid came running. They plied her with questions; she told them all she knew, begged them to take her.

away.

One of the officers broke through . the group..

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THAT WUZ A FUNNY THING-ME: BAWLIN' OUT MAGGIE, THINKINI. SHE WUZ OUT AN' SHE HEARD ME AN IT FRIGHTENED HER NOW I'VE GOT THE UPPER HAND AROUND HERE AND IT'S ABOUT TIME-

AH! HERE SHE COMES BACK AN' THE DOCTOR IS WITH HER-1 MUSTN'T ! LOSE ME NERVE- I'LL STILL ACT LIKE I'M VERY ANGRY..

WELL! 1. JUST WANT

TO SAY. YOU ARE ALL RIGHT- JUST A LITTLE STRONG-- HEADED-

THE DOCTOR SAYS YOU ARE FEELING BETTER

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1935

JUST A LITTLE HUH? SAY!

FROM NOW ON, IF I AIN'T BOSS, THERE AIN'T GONNA BE NO

BOSS-

1 NEVER FELT. BETTER IN ME. LIFE-I'M. JUST ME OLD SELF AGIN-

Bringing Up Father

OH.DOCTOR! I WANT YOU TO COME RIGHT OVER AND SEE MY

LIKE

AWFUL RAGE HE NE

THIS BEFORE

REA

E'S IN AN INKIF1 HADN'T RUN OUT OF THE HOUSE, HE WOULD HAVE STR

JUST BE CALM WE

YOU KNOW,DOG

WILL GO

・IN

AND TI

TALK HIM

WELL! MR. JIGGS. HOW ARE YOU FEELING? DID YOUR TEMPER GÉT THE BEST OF YOU?

HOW IS HE. HE DOCTOR? IS HE ALL RIGHT? DID HE AC STRANGE TO YOU?

THAT'S ALLI WANTED TO KNOW

LISTEN! I'VE GOTY THE BEST TEMPER IN THE WORLD AN' 1 INTEND TO KEER ON HAVIN'AT-T

NOT AT ALL”. HE'S IN FINE SHAPE A WEE BIT

FRANKY

ALL-

WAS A BOY HE TH

AMMER OUT OF

WHEN HE

HE SECOND

STORY WINDOW AND FORGOT

TO LET GE

THE HANDLE

NOW KNOW YOU WON'T MIND SO JUS- SAY AH" THREE TIMES-

OF

IF YOU'RE TRYIN' TEACH ME HOW TO

FOR A COLLEGE DOT-BALL TEAM; YOU'RE WASTIN MY TIME AN YOUR S, TOO-

NOW HERE COMES MAGGIE-

IL MUSTN'T LET

DOWN FER A SECOND IF I

WANT TO KEEP THE UPPER HAND-

WELL- 1 WUZ:

BOSS FER A

· FEW MINUTES, ANYWAY-

After work or play REFRESH

with Scrubb's

When you are tired

or

sticky with the heat, bath to which you have added Scrubb's will refresh and relieve you, making a

new

man of you ready for fresh work orplay. Scrubb's conquers per spiration. Let

SCRUBES

It benefit you to-day,

Rosie's BEAU GED.M-MANUS

Ragined U S. Past Office,

ARCHIE! MOVING

OH, ARCHIE! DON'T YOU WISH WE WERE SAILING ON

THIS BOAT RIGHT NOW?

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YOU BET.I DOZ

BUT DON'T WORRY, DEAR- SOME DAY:

SOON. WE'LL BE GOING TO EUROPE-

DARLINGEET. FEELS AS IF. THE BOAT IS

MOVING-

GREAT HEAVENS WE ARE AWAY

OUT AT SEA-

WHY WE ARE TEN MILES OUT AT SEA

WE ARE WELL

OUR WA TO EUROPE

NOT ONLY RES MOVING, BUT ROCKING AND. AT DON'T FEEL

SO GOOD

WE

HOW TO KEEP FROM GETTING OLD

THINK THE GAS IS ESCAPING IN THE CELLARYpul do

VN AND SEE-

SCRUBBS

CLOUDY AMMONIA AS

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