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I'LL PEDDLE THE BERI

AND YOU SELL THE

P'TATOES

YOU ALWAYS

PICK THE EASY JOBS!

MORAIN, LADY" LIKE TO BUY A

BASKET OF P'TATOES, ONLY NINETY CENTS A BASKET!

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OH, YES UM! FUSEST PTATOES WE'VE HAD IN

MANY A SUMMER!

WHY ARE THOSE ON THE BOTTOM 60 MUCH SMALLER

THAN THOSE ON

TOP?

WELL

PTATOES IS GRO FAST THIS SEASON THAT BY THE TIME WE GET A BASKETFUL DÜG THE LAST FONES IS ABOÛT TWICE THE

SIZE OF THE FIRST!

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THE recession was indirectly respon- "Tom, I'm sorry, but this is the end. sible for the animosity which more I've made up my mind to leave you. You and more came to exist between young You don't love me any more. Tom Evans and his pretty wife. Un- treat me as if I were a piece of fortunately Roberta Evans was one furniture. I'm tired of it. I've: writ- who demanded a lot of attention from ten mother that I'm coming home. her husband. And whereas she res- You can arrange for the divorce. I'm ponded in kind, the situation kept Tom aure you'll find it much easier to get on his toes trying to remember to bring along without me: She paused and home a box of candy on Valentine's looked across at Tom's humped up day, flowers at Easter, etc...

figure, "Tom did you hear me?"

·

Tom roused himself and smiled More unfortunately, Roberta couldn't understand why Tom didn't continue sheepishly. "Oh say, I must have with his little niceties after he lost his dozed off. In bad shape, I guess. Job as assistant manager of a local, Sorry, Roberta. By the way" he chain store. At first Tom didn't mind, reached into his pocket and produced

package. either. He was told, that it was only a small

"Here's a little a temporary layoff.

present for you, honey. You see," he explained. "I got another job to-day, Swell place and a great outlook, with much better salary, I guess from now

But as the weeks went by and the store finally closed its doors entirely, Tom became distrubed. He began to

By Barbara Ann Benedict

look for another job, and discovered on I can pay more attention to my them to be few and far beween. In wife. You've been a darn good sport something of a panic he realised that about all this, Robby, and you cer- he had suddenly joined the army of tainly deserve a lot of credit."

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He pulled her upon his lap and hands. It was then that Roberta began to placed the package in her notice that there were no more boxes Roberta's eyes were wide, wide with of candy and bunches of flowers. shame and understanding. But, like all good wives, she didn't "Tom Tom you're sure you complain. Whereas Tom told her lit were asleep? Tom tle of his business affairs, she realised that his surplus must be running low and economy had become a necessity Thus far she had a perfect and a sympathetic understanding. But when Tom came home one evening and for- got to kiss her, she felt hurt.

"I'm sorry, honey," he apologised. “I'm worried about getting a job.... or about not getting one. I'm not myself. Please forgive me.”

"Job or no job," Roberta returned hotly, "a man should never forget to kiss his wife. When he does they. might as well part company. It means she's no longer a help to him."

That was the beginning. It grew worse as time went on and no job ap- peared. Tom not only forgot to kiss Roberts on returning home, but often he forgot to return home at all-that is until late in the evening -

She paused. Tom's head was nodding. She kissed him tenderly, made sure that his eyes were closed, and then quickly reached inside her blouse and produced the letter, ad- dressed to her mother which she threw into the flames and watched it burn happily.

(Copyright, 1988, By The Associated Newspapers.)

YUGOSLAVIAN PRINCES ARRIVE IN ENGLAND

London, To-day.

Let it be said that the situation was aa much Tom's fault as Roberta's. He told her only part of the problems,

Four Yugo-Slav princes-Prince that confronted him.. And his mind Tomislav and his younger brother was too taken up with them to realise Prince Andrew, brothers of the the neglect he was showing his wife.

are

It was not like Roberta to keep fifteen-year-old King Peter of Yugo- harping on the subject. Once she had Slavia, and their cousins, Princes

withdrew into her shell Alexander and Nicholas, who exploded, she Return: £76

and made secret resolutions. She would leave him, she told herself, un sons of Prince Paul, Regent of less he mended his ways. And pretty Yugo-Slavia, arrived yesterday on.

their way back to school in Eng- land after the summer holidays. -

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