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MUTT AND JEFF

HEY, MUTT!

A BIG BLACK BEAR

JUST ESCAPED

FROM THE Zoo!

OH! HERE

HE COMES Now!

'ALL RIGHT! DON'T GET EXCITED!

HERE, DON'T RUN! THAT'S SURE DEATH!

THERE'S ONLY ONE

WAY TO SCARE

HIM OFF!

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 28, 1988- By BUD FISHER

JUST STAND YOUR GROUND

AND LOOK HIM SQUARE

IN THE EYE!

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HARDY

PRESENT

THE DAILY SHORT STORY

FLING AT LIFE

SHEILA adver

HEILA, decided her deception wasn't and fail, and soon he would have for- existed in the fast think she was somebody. Paul Berk- whirl of his own social activities. Oh, ley was the reason for her decision. why, why had she fallen in love? She had fallen in love with Paul Berk- Sheila went back to the fifth floor ley. He thought she was rich and had Market street flat where she lived with family background. Because she loved her mother and father and sisters and him she knew she must tell him the brothers, and picked up the threads of The truth about herself. It was going to her life where she had left off. be the hardest thing she had ever had house and Market street itself seemed to do.

more sordid and dirty and depressing. It had all begun three years ago. than ever. Even the memory of her. Three years ago Sheila had decided glorious adventure was besmirched by she would be different. She wasn't thoughts of her deception to the only going to be like the other girls who man she had ever loved. lived on Market street and worked in A fortnight passed. The Christmas downtown department stores. They season was coming on and Sheila se- never went anywhere, except for one cured a job in a downtown department week in the summer, when they spent store. It wasn't as good as the one every penny they had saved on bargain she had quit; it would take years and basement clothes, pooled their remain-. years and years to save enough money ing resources and hired a cottage at for another cruise, and by that time Melbourne Beach. At Melbourne her youth would have flown and the Beach they did the same things they spirit of adventure would have died.

the Her despondency increased as did when on Market street, except they had more time to do it.··

Market Christmas season drew on. Steila hated. Market street. Three street seemed dirtier and noisier than years ago she, decided she was going ever. Her family, unable to under- to save every penny she could until stand her long periods of glum silence, she had enough to take a month's cruise became irritable and nagging. on a luxury liner. Then she was go- set in. with a vengeance. Sheila's four- ing to quit her job and have one, gor- year-old coat was thin and threadbare. geous, beautiful fling at life. After She looked and felt almost dowdy, but that she never allowed herself to the money she would ordinarily have think about what might happen after used for a new outfit had gone into

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It all worked out' exactly as she planned, except for one thing: fell in love with Paul Berkley.

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Winter

One night, coming home late after a She hard day, she stepped into the entry- Up way of a Talmage street shoe store to

By Meredith Scholl

until that moment everything was fine. escape the wind while waiting for her

had been even

sidewalk The adventure

more bus. The

was brilliantly glorious than she anticipated. Then, lighted, for now with the holiday close, on the last night out, Paul Berkley had all stores were keeping open evenings. taken her into his arms and told her Snow and sleet swept past on the side- the he loved her, and she knew that sne walk. Sheila, huddled down into loved him too,

collar of her thin coat, did not see the

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It had been a. new. experience. She bulky figure that suddenly stepped off had never been in love before. She the sidewalk. She looked up with an hadn't known 'what being in love did angry word of reproach on her lips to you. It changed things. It chang when he jostled her-stopped with her ed your ideas about life and people and mouth half open. the future. It made you want to be"; "Paul!" honest. It made you unhappy because The man stopped with his hand on you knew you had to be honest or all the doorknob. He looked at her intent- the rest of your life you'd hate your ly. "Sheila!" There was a moment in self.

which each looked at the other, sur- So now it was morning and the S.S. prised, uncertain. Paul wet his lips. Caroline was being warped into the "I lied to you. I didn't have pier. There were only a few minutes courage to tell you. That's why I left left during which she could tell. Paul the ship. I'd saved for years for that about her deceit. It was going to be trip." He paused. "My home is on the most terrible ordeal she could ever Market street. I work in this shoe imagine, but she lifted her head brave- store." ly and dried her eyes and went in

A great feeling of joy and thanks- search of Paul.

She searched everywhere, but Paul giving surged inside of Sheila. Market wasn't to be found. She went down to street! Oh, how wonderful!. How glor- ious. And to, think-to think that she his stateroom and found the door open had but why think? What good to and all his things gone, Then she searched the ship again, but Paul had think now except that sometime later they could. think together, think and vanished.

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At first she was angry, angry be- plan for another trip, another glorious

fling at life! cause he had gone off without saying (Copyright, 1998, By The Associated good-bye.. The anger gave way to de- Newspapers.) spair. An emptiness formed inside of

her. He was gone. She'd never see him again. The address she had giv-

en him was fictitious. She had made it-up on the spur of the moment. When he went looking for her and the lovely hotse she had described, he would dis cover it didn't exist.

Depressed, unhappy, Sheila got her own bags and; disembarked. Now things were worse than ever. She was never going to e even see him, let alone being given the opportunity to con- tess her lle. He would try to find her!

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