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MUTT AND JEFF

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

ISLAND?

MUTT

IF WE GO TO

* YOU BOOB, CZECHOSLOVAKIA

CZECHOSLOVAKIA ISLAND

WHAT BOAT DOWG+-

-IS.NO. ISLAND!

No? WHAT

IS IT?

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CZECHOSLOVAKIA IS A SMALL BODY OF LAND

·SURROUNDED BY OTHER

COUNTRIES!

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AN ISLAND IS A SMALL

BODY OF LAND

BURROUNDED

BY WATER!

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Yankee Trader

was

You take a Yankee. Yankees are of the hotel, lobbies, and the second traders by instinct. You take Abel night he got talking with a man who Morse. Abel lived with his Aunt owned a sailing sloop and who Jessie on a farm in Vermont. He sick of sailing and waited to sprung from a long line of traders. down on a California ranch. He'd rather trade than eat.

So when he inherited the apple or chard out in Washington State, along with a few hundred dollars in cash, Abel said to his Aunt Jessie: "Aunt Jess, I'm goin' out there to Washing ton State an' have a look at that there apple orchard."

settle

So they wrangled and the next day went out and visited the ranch, and the day after that went down to San Pedro and visited the sloop. Then they leaned on the sloop's rail and wrangled some more and spat into the ocean and pretty soon the ship owner gave Abel a check for $1000 and a deed to the sloop in exchange "You ain't goin' to do nothin' of the for a deed to the orange ranch. kind," Aunt Jess replied. "You're So two days later, Abèl hired him-

an' make self a crew of two, provisioned goin' to stay home here

the maple syrup an' let those there law sloop and set sail down the street. yers go an1 sell that apple orchard for They went through the canal and stop- ped at Panama city and then went up to Havana, and the very night they arrived Abel visited a gambling joint He didn't have and lost his shirt.

he anything left but the sloop, 80 visited one of the better hotels and struck up an acquaintance with a man who owned a tobacco plantation in Georgia, and wanted to own a sloop.

you."

"Ho!" declared Abel. "Not so's 'you'd notice it. Me, I allus wanted to travel an' I allus wanted to see an apple orchard without rocks in an' I hear tell there ain't no in Washington State."

"No good will come of it,"

Jessie stated confidently.

it,

rocks

Aunt

So Abel took his cash money and

Abel managed to get a deed to the bought himself a ticket for Washing- plantation and enough money to buy ton State, and a week or so later he, himself a steamship ticket to Savannah

By Richard Hill Wilkinson

was saying to Attorney William in return for the sloop. Four days Brown in Yakima: “So this here Mr. later he was in Savannah and went Breen will gimme $5,000 for that out to look the tobacco plantation over, apple orchard I heired me, eh?" and come to find out it was a phony. He had traded the sloop for a steam- "Right on the line," Attorney boat ticket to Savannah and nothing Brown affirmed. "And you're lucky more. to get such a good offer so soon.”

"Seems like Mr. Breen appeara bit too anxious," Abel. remarked. reckon I'll keep the orchard awhile."

It was lucky that Abel was a trader a by instinct. He went back to Savan- nah and visited a trailer camp on the outskirts and got to talking with В So Abel kept the orchard and went man who the year before had sold to picking apples, for this was the his home and bought a trailer season, and he learned some mighty was now trailing around the coun interesting things about apples, try living here and there. So Abel

among them being that these apples he was picking wouldn't be eaten for two solid years. They'd go, he learn- ed, into cold storage.

Well, the last of October came and the apples were all picked and Abel

and

told this gentleman about his farm in New England and the pond with the fish in it and said if the gentleman cared to give him a ride up there he'd the let Kim park his traller beside pond and fish in it all summer.

in

discovered it was going to cost him: So along about the middle of May $19,000 to have his orchard sprayed Abel landed back home and the trailer, and made ready for next year's crop, owners parked their trailer beside the and that he was going to reap only pond and were delighted with the $17,000 for this season's crop. This Prospect of spending a summer reminded him of what Aunt Jess had such splendid surroundings. said about no good coming of this

Aunt Jessie was disgusted. "I told venture, and he began to look for a you," she reminded him smugly, "that buyer for his

Shard.

no good would come. o' you goin' out

He located Mr. Breen but Mr. Breen West. And it ain't." had lost interest.

So Abel went up Abel scratched his chin and looked to the hotel and sat down in the through the window at the parked lobby and got to talking with a man trailer.

"mebbo who owned an orange ranch in Cali- you're right. Most everything

"Jess,” he said, fornia. Abel told this man that or inherited, but I seen a lot and done a anges weren't in it with apples, and lot an had me a fine time. An' now, › the man said tch, tch, vice versa was by Jinks, I got me an idee, I'm goin' the case. So they traded, sight un- to start a trailer park down near the seen, only Abel got enough cash to pond, an' I'll bet afore the summer's pay his car fare to California,

over we'll own us a trailer an' it won't

The orange grove was in the San cost a cont, an then me an' you can Fernando Valley and Abel thought it ga trailin" "around the country like was fine, except three days after he other folke" "arrived a cold spell came on and he

had to buy so much oil and hire so Aunt Jessie heaved a sigh. “Abẹl,” many men to operate his smudge pots she began but Abel was hot-footing that he figured the crop wouldn't yield it for the barn to find materials for a him much profit, especially since the sign to advertise his trailer park so cold spell threatened to hold on all Aunt, Jusse, merely heaved another wintersc

Migh So Abel went over the hills to Holly- (Copyright, 1938, By The Associated wood and found himself, a seat in ono Newspapers:)