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MUTT AND JEFF

MUTT, I

·CAN'T LICK }{

THAT GUY I'M TOO SMALL!

COME ON -- ITS NOT THE SIZE OF THE MAN IN THE FIGHT, IT'S THE SIZE OF THE FIGHT

IN THE

MAN!

GO ON NOW, JEFF — 1 WIGH AFTER HIM! THE CROWDS WITH

WAS WITH

THE CROWD!

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JEFF STOP

STOP'EM?

THOSE LEFTS! LOOK AT ME-

STOP THOSE LEFTS!

THAT'S ALL I'VE BEEN',

DOIN'!

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 26, 1988.

By BUD FISHER

MUTT, I CAN'T

1STÉN, I.

GO ON! HE'S ALWAYS HITTIN' ME!

GOOD IDEA!

THE NEXT TIME HE

HITS YOU, HIT

CHIM BACK!

GONG!

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the Meanwhile, Pedro, riding home, was form of the old prospector appeared beset by a fear. The hat. He should, over the top of the rise: Behind the of course, dispose of it.. But if he dis- prospector came the burro, loaded down carded it there was the slight possibi- with equipment of the old man's trade. lity that Old Man Matthews would find The prospector's name was Matthews, it. Or someone else. If he kept it, and to Pedro, as to everyone else in someone would notice and begin to Desert Valley, he and his mule were wonder. What to do with the hat? Ah, there was a way. He would stop Pedro sucked in his breath. A num- by the shack that Old Man Matthews ber of thoughts had occurred to him occupied on the edge of the town. He all at once. First, the old man's step would arrive at night. He would leave was brisk and his head high. Second, the hat in the shack and the burro Matthews shouldn't be coming out of outside. Someone would see the burro, the hills at this time of the year. He would go in search of the old man, find was a month earlier than usual, Why? his body on the desert and come to the To Pedro there was only one answer logical conclusion that the burro had to that question. He clucked to his wandered on home and Old Man Mat-- horse. His thin lips flattened against thews had perished on the desert. Of

old age perhaps. his teeth:

Old Man Matthews saw Pedro com- ing. If he suspected the other's pur- роде

his weathered and wrinkled old face gave no indication.

"You have made the strike, eh, Old Man Matthews ?" Pedro said, resting one hand on top of the other over the pommel of his, saddle. His smile was friendly, too friendly.

Pedro chuckled to "himself. He was a smart man Pedro,

Toward mid-morning of the next day, the Lefty Barrows, riding in from

sent Lazy Y, sáw what he believed to be an apparition. He reined in, then his horse galloping across the desert,

Old Man Matthews was delirious. He. kept mumbling, something about his Old Man Matthews Lackled and hat, and about Pedro. Lefty looked shook his head. He told Pedro that with astonishment' at the slab of cac- for twenty years he had been going tus that Old Man Matthews had been into the hills in search of gold, and luciding above his head. He was curi- this time he had been as unsuccessful ous, but he would save his questions

until later. as before.

Lofty reached 'Matthews' shack Pedro ignored the explanation. “You have made the strike, else why do you half hour later. He carried the old come out a month ahead of time, eh? mun inside and fed him water slowly. Perhaps you have a map of this strike, It was an hour before the old

came to life. He looked around the eh ?"

By Vic Yardman

Old Man Matthews knew then that shack.

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man

he was in for it. He removed his bat- Lefty said, "How does Pedro figure tered old hat, scratched his head and in this?".

tried to look indifferent, But-Pedro Matthews raised himself, on an elbow got off his horse, and one hand was and reached for the hat that he saw resting on the butt, of his six-shooter. lying on a table Lefty brought him Old Man Matthews had lived long the hat. Old Man Matthews, his fin- and hard and he believed himself cap gers trembling, ran his hand along the able of withstanding almost anything inside of the sweatband. A weak cry in the way of physical pain. But he of exultation escaped his lips. He did not know the tricks of this man brought out a folded scrap of paper. Pedro. Twice, when it seemed that all Lefty looked at it. It was a mapl the gold in the world was not worth An hour later. Lefty set out for the such torture, he almost gave, in. But sheriff's office. He was thinking what [he didn't. And finally Pedro, sweating a pity it was that the best the sheriff and angry beyond description, stopped would do was to clap Pedro in jail. But then, he reflected, Pedro was not very smart, and such a punishment "So! You will not tell, oh? You would probably teach him the lesson he will; die Brat. Vory well, you shall die

the lingering death.” W

(Copyright, 1988, By The Associated Pedro acooped up the tattered old Newspapers.) sombroto that Old Man Matthows had been wearing. He "folded it, his thin: lips contemptuous, and tucked in be- neath a saddle strap. Then he mount- ed and spar`down at the old man.

to rest.

Old Man Matthews watched his tor-: mentor ride away driving the burro ahead of him. Ho know, as Pedro know, that no death could be worso than a day spout on the desert beneath that blasing, torrid aun without a hand protection.

nooded.

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** Canton, To-day. Messages from Swatow this morning state that three Japan- Old Man Matthews sighed and lay ese transports arrived off Namoa still for moment or two. For the Island yesterday and attempts to first time in his life he had something land troops were made without to live for. 8o presently he got to

[his knees"; and crawled to the scant success.

shade of a cactus. He lay there gasp, Gunboats continue shelling the ing Strongth came back slowly. After Chinese on the island but no a while he got to His knées again and," A VIRT

using a rock for a weapon, began to material damage has been suf- hackat the cactusie

fered by the defenders,

Ordinarily Old Man Matthews would It is believed, state: the mes- have, giyon up, believing. bis efforts gnges, that the Japanese will try uselos Now it With diferen Now mit somehow, he must make

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