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MUTT AND JEFF

JEFF'S THE NEW TREASURER OF THE LION TAMERS' CLUB - THEY SAY HE'S GONNA BE TOUGH ON POOR PAYERS

LIKE MYSELF--

CONGRATULATIONS, PAL! HERE'S

A FIVE-DOLLAR BOX OF CIGARS FOR THE NEW TREASURER-

AHEM!

NIX, MUTT! THAT LOOKS LIKE A FORM OF BRIBE. I CAN'T TAKE 'EM!

AW, DONT BE SILLY, MR. TREASURER! IF YOU HAVE ANY CONSCIENTIOUS SCRUPLES YOU CAN PAY ME ‘A QUARTER FOR THE CIBARS!

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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

Everything O. K.

CANDACE was Ironing

draperies when she heard Charcoal yelp. The tenor of his yelp sent a chill to her heart.

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window shouted at the strong masculine voice, "are scarcely better than his master's! In two or three days from now father and mother are arriving. My father is six feet and one inch tall. I shall tell him of your insults!!"

She reached the back door in time to glimpse the fleeing form of a brown and white setter vanishing through the gate in the hedge. Charcoal, one ear flopping crazily, came and lay down at her feet, whimpering.

"Poor Charcoal," she cooed, strok ing his glossy fur and examining the injured ear. "Did big bully of a dog next door hurt your ear?”

Charcoal whined and whimpered. She picked him up, carried him inside, administered to the ear (which wasn't nearly as bad as it first seemed) and then, eyes blazing in wrath, she stalk- ed through the hedge gata and rapped on the door of the cottage next door. She waited and then rapped again, but no one answered.

The masculine. voice didn't speak this time. It laughed. Or rather chortled." Candace banged the receiver down and said: "Damn;"

At 5.15 the next afternoon. Char- coal let out a bleat that must have Candace ran been heard for blocks.

back to the rescue, arriving in the yard in time to greet Charcoal as he scrambled up the back porch steps, tail between his legs, shrill, frighten- ed yelps issuing from between his teeth. Out in the yard a big brown and white spotted-dog stood with challenging snari on its lips.

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Candace picked up a basket of clo thes pins and heaved it. The spotted cur let loose a cowardly shriek and grape high-tailed it for the hedge gate. A setter moment later the brown and white the to setter came scurrying through

From a dog house near· a arbor the brown and white vipped at her. Her impulse was

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went: Candace reached down, picked

to

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heave a stone at him, but instead she gate, yipping in shrill fright. The went home, wrote a curt note and setter saw Candace and rushed fastened it to the screen door of the her for protection. Instinctively. cottage next door. Then she back through the gate and tried to setter up in one arm and Charcoal în fasten it, only to discover the catch the other. had come loose and the gate wouldn't stay closed. Angrily ahe braced it with a clothes pole and returned to her ironing.

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From: beyond the hedge came oath in a strong masculine voice, fol- lowed by a series of mongrel yelps receding in. the distance." Then there About six o'clock the phone rang. appeared at the hedge gate a young "Is this," said a strong masculine and very handsome man, whose height voice, "the person who pinned the and weight made her boastful descrip- note to my screen door?”

tion of her father seem silly.

"If you refer to the note advising you to keep your mutt in its own back yard," replied: Candace,: “it is.”

"Mutt" cried the masculine voice, horror-stricken. “Do you realise that Bones won the blue ribbon at the county show last year?

The young man stared at her. Can- dace stared at him. Both seemed a little startled, and no end embarrassed. "Put down that dog!” mapped the young man.

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Thus brutally reminded that was holding the setter, Candace re- leased it, flushing prettily. Bones "I only realise," declared Candace, raced toward Its master, who picked "that he's an ill-bred, cowardly bully her up and stalked toward Candace. and picks on dogs half. his size. I'll She held her ground, eyeing him de thank you to keep him in his own flantly. He eyed her back. yard hereafter.”

"So!" she declared, having a happy There was an incoherent sputtering thought, "that big ugly dog belongs at the other end of the wire, but to you!" Candace didn't wait for articulation. She slammed down the receivor.

"It doesn't belong to me. You know very well it doesn't. Furthermore, if you had any sense, you'd know that Bones wouldn't hurt that--that-

“That what,” demanded Candace

It was the vary next morning that she was startled by another canine yelp. Rushing to the rear door, she observed" Charcoal, yipping shrilly, icily, tearing through the hedge gate from The young man started to speak,'- the yard next door. Indignant anik stopped, grinned.” “Of course,” ho amazed that Charcoal should have said, “you wouldn't know. Bones is a left his own yard without permission, young lady, Ladies and gentlemen she scoldat him, locked him in the don't fight." He looked at her in- kitchen and then went to brace the tently, and

clothes hedge gate again with the

Candace opened her p

closed she

pola which had fallen down in the it. Then the too grinned. night.

said, Madios and gentleman • don't fight. Or they shouldn't.".

About 7 o'clock aha beard a stop on the back porch and went out to discover a note pinned to her screen door.

"If that flea-bitten mongrel yours sets foot on my property again,” the note read, "I'll kick his spine up through his collar.”

Furious, Candace went phone. "Your dog's manner

So the young man put down Bones and Candace released Charcoal and- they watched the canines frolic. Pre- sently, because it was inevitable, the two humans glanced at each other, and- laughed and reverything, was call ́right.1

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