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MUTT AND JEFFA

MUTT, I'M LEAVING You! YOU'RE LÁZY AND SHIFTLESS! IF I STAY WITH YOU Mucit LONGER I'LL BE JUST LIKE YOU! ---I'M THROUGH!GET ME? THROUGH!

WHAT, AGAIN?

I'M AMBITIOUS,

MAKE SOMETHING

A JOCKEY!

OF MYSELF! AND

DON'T TELL ME

I AM! I'M GONNA YOU'VE BECOME

NO, BUT I'M TRAININ' TO BE ONB!

AND EARL SANDE'S

GONNA HAVE NOTHIN' ON ME!

I'LL MAKE PLENTY OF DOUGH, TOO!

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Ski Jumper

HE had a system. You couldn't deny that, especially if you knew her past. But Sam didn't know about her past, so he accepted her for what.she appeared to be. That almost proved fatal.

Her name was Janet Riggs. She had golden blond hair and a neat little figure, and a way of looking at you, The day after she arrived she said to Sam: "Oh, I'd just love to ski, if you would show me how." And Sam, the dub, practically swooned with joy.

Under ordinary circumstances 110 one would have paid much attention. There were plenty of young things around the lodge who didn't know the difference between a pair of skis and a bobsled, but Sam and Phylis Clark had an understanding. They were a swell couple and everyone hated the idea of a baby-voiced blond being the cause of a break-up.

Moreover, it was bad for business. Sam The Norge club, of which both and Phil were members, were depend- ing on those two. Sam was a jumper, had a record of 152 feet, and was ex- pected in the forthcoming meet with the Eskimos, to win the trophy hands down.

Phil was entered in the girls' cross- country run, and the odds were strong ly in her favour.

agree that Phil had maintained her sense of balance and would probably pull us through.

A crowd estimated at 10,000 drove It up to Valley Point the next day. was the biggest crowd that was ever on hand to witness our club in action. We were pretty proud.

Eric and I went over to Whaley's Ravine early in the morning to watch The Ravine Phil do her practice run. is a sort of amphitheatre, with the starting point on the east slope.

We noticed girl in a white suit pushing off as we headed along the ridge toward the starting point. We watched her idly, impressed by the way she handled herself, by the way she performed a took the corners and neat gelandersprung at the old stone She was a stranger, and it wall, occurred to us that the Eskimos might be pulling a trick out of the bag. This girl was better than Phil.

Up at the starting point were two figures. They were standing silent and curiously tense, watching the girl below. One of the figures was Phil Clark, the other Sam Yeaton. Sam's face was white and his fists clenched. He didn't speak to us, nor even look rigidly our way, but kept his eyes fixed on the girl in white.

We sensed that something was

No, if it weren't for these things, wrong, and

were

smart enough to

By Meredith Scholl

The girl in

To say

A

nobody would have paid much atten- keep quiet and wait. tion. But under the- circumstances, white was coming up the ski tow. plenty of attention was paid and minute later she arrived. plenty of advice given. When Sam that it was a surprise to discover it cut short his practice period so he was Janet Riggs is putting it mildly. could spend more time showing Janet Riggs how to do a stem turn.

"Well," she said brightly, looking Mayfair, as president of the Norges, at Sam, "aren't you proud felt justified in registering a com-

plaint.

Eric

student?"

of your

Sam listened, and then got Sam said soberly: "So you mad. He told Eric and practically able

else to go run up a tree.

everyone

were You

He

to ski all the time, eh? were only kidding me. You're going So Eric and the rest of us decided to enter the run and-and-"

We knew what he was the best thing to do was to keep quiet broke off. and watch.

He was thinking of Phil Curiously we didn't thinking. worry about Phil. We should have too, and how Phil had worked and worked We should have been smart enough to to get herself ready for the meet. know she was putting on an act, "But aren't you' pleased?" pretending, while all the time her asked. "I was saving it as a surprise." heart was breaking.

To see her you'd never dream Sam's interest in Janet Riggs made a speck of difference. She still smiled and was bright and gay, and every morning she shouldered her skis and trudged over to Whaley's Ravine and did the course she would have to follow in the meet.

Janet

"No,"

," said Sam, "I'm not pleased. "I've been a fool. I've let you make Well I'm a monkey out of me.. going to make a monkey out of your champion jumper!"

re-

He did too. He beat his own cord by three feet, and won the meet But it didn't please him much. There was only one thing in the world that could please him now. Phil's for- giveness.

Three days passed and Friday ar- rived. Saturday was the day of the Nobody knew how they patched it meet, and Friday night Eric and Burt up, but the outcome was satisfactory. nobody ever Yeaton and I held a conference. Sam, By mutual agreement, we decided, was definitely out. Pin- mentioned the name of Janet Riggs. ning our hope on him was a mistake, And that made both Sam and Phil Cal Rhodes, the Eskimos' jumper, happy. would take him easily.

Sam was a Copyright, 1938, By The Associated fool. A dim-witted little blond had Newspapers.). made a laughing stock of him, 'and the big lug seemed to like it.

Well, there was no good moaning. Next season we'd groom another, jum- per, one with big eura and a long nose and a cast in his eye... One that no girl would go gaga over, no matter how many records he broke.

As for now, well, our only hope of. taking home a trophy lay in Phil. We didn't talk much about Phil. We were afraid of saying things for which we'd later be sorry. It was

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