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MUTT AND JEFF

THAT'S WHAT I SAID! THIS COUNTRY SHOULD STAY OUT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS! I WOULDN'T

60 TO WAR TO FIGHT FOR OTHER

COUNTRIES BUT I'M ALWAYS

READY TO DEFEND -MY COUNTRY!

QUIET, SMALL FRY!

THERE ARE BIGGER MEN

IN THIS COUNTRY "TO

NEVER MIND!

DECIDE THOSE THINGS! || I GOT A RIGHT

TO DEFEND MY COUNTRY IF I

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WANT TO!-- HAVEN'T I?

TO HEAR YOU TALK ONE WOULD THINK THAT "YOU OWNED THE WHOLE

UNITED STATES!

WELL

·MAYBE I DON'T!

LOTS FOR SALE HO DOWN BIG A MONTH

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 3, 1989

By BUD FISHER

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BUT I OWN

·PART OF

IT!

SOLD!

THIS PARCEL OF LAND HAB JPKT MEEN GOLD TO LITTLE SEFF BY THE KUPIKEN MEADOWS REALTY COUR

AISLE AND FAREWELL

"So the condemned man ate a hearty breakfast?"

“ Oddly enough he did in spite of last night's stag party. All set now for the orange blossoms.”

“And the little head ?".

Ticking over beautifully, old boy, Cool as a frame-full of cucumbers. Am 1 becoming a saturated solution — or is it just the influence of a good

·woman ? "

"Your ignorance of the facts of life, Edmond, is little short of monumental. Remember the long draught of Rose's Lime Juice 1. made you drink before retiring ? Pause and consider, Edmond

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knowing me as you do --- was that pure altruism?"

** I've never known you do an unselfish act in your life old boy."

“Right. My only concern was to save myself trouble and get you to the church in such condition that you could both speak audibly and walk unaided. With the help of Rose's Lime Juice I have succeeded. Listen carefully, Edmond, while I explain the chemical'action of Rose's -- "

"I say

look! Quarter to eleven i Where's the ring ?: Where's wey hat? Is the car ready ? ̧ It my tie all right ? Hurry up, hurry up. Where's my --- oh, here it is --. QUICK!"

ROSE'S LIME JUICE – THE WISE MAN'S NIGHTCAP

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The

Champagne

of

Distinction

Cerdon

Rouge

LORDON ROUGE.

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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

NO MORE ILLUSIONS

As they game down onto the floor of "Hush," said Ted: "We'll get out of the desert Kay's horse stepped into a this somehow." crevice and broke its leg. The animal They backtracked, but sand had went down in agony and Kay pitched blown across their trail. In another over its head. She lay on the ground, hour Linnet knew they were complete- weeping hysterically.

ly lost. They stopped.. Kay began to

Instantly Ted was off his own mount whimper and ask for water. "We'd and kneeling baside her. Linnet sat better conserve our water supply," stiff and straight in her saddle, watch- Linnet suggested. Her own throat was ing. Ted's solicitude for Kay's welfare parched, her tongue dry and swollen. sickened horis interest in the other Ted, in the act of handing Kay the can- girl had atckened her ever since Kay teen, took it back, his face suddenly had arrived at the ranch two weeks be- grim, Kay screamed at him. fore. No one guessed how she felt. Ted got off the horse and took hold Least of all Ted. She was sure of that, of the rein. "If we keep going East Sometimes her cheeks burned with we'll eventually get somewhere." They shame when she imagined that he or started once more. Kay at first kept anyone else suspected how completely up an insistent plea for water. Pre- she had believed him, how completely sently she subalded and slumped in the she had given him her heart. Too late saddle. Linnet rode up alongside and she realised that in his sophisticated, steadied her with one hand. world a 'man as handsome' und eligible When they stopped again, Ted insist- as Ted Heath was apt to make love to ed that Linnet take a drink. Then he every pretty girl who chanced to cross took a short one himself. Kay Was his path, Well, he had certainly lived dozing and ho screwed the cap back on up to the reputation. The moment, the carteen, without rousing her. He Kay Rhea had arrived on the scone he and Linnet talked in low tones about dropped Linnet like a hot potato. their location. "We'd better bear south When she had become aware of what a little," she said and smiled reassur- was happened, Linnet's only reaction' ingly. He smiled back and picked up was to congratulate herself on the nar- the bridal rein.· rowness of her escape. Or at least she The next hour was torture. Linnet had, at first, so convinced herself. But found it necessary to keep her mouth

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as the days passed she became less open to make room for her tongue. sure. She found herself watching him Frequently. she dozed, imagining and Kay; she was increasingly aware strange sights, rousing herself with a of the hurt inside of her. She was, of jerk. Kay began to babble hysterical- course, a fool.

Take this morning, for ly, Ahead, Ted plodded grimly, stum- example. Heading home from the bling now and then, pausing to search three-day camping trip with the Tuck- the horizon.

ers and the two cowboy guides, Ted had, "Look!" Linnet cried suddenly. She suggested to Kay that they try the pointed to some birds. The birds would short cut through Devil's Gulch. Kay fly into a ledge on a rock precipice, then had agreed and Ted had turned to find away again. "There must be water Linnet watching. He'd said: "Come there."

along with us, Linnet." And Linnet, It took Ted two hours to climb the to spare herself the torture of think- precipice. He found water, filled the ing about them alone had replied; canteen. They drank it all, then rest- "Why, sure. I'll come."

ed. Then Ted climbed the precipico.

Presently Ted lifted Kay to her fect, again.

She was still crying, but he grinned. It was almost sunset when the men "More frightened than burt, I guess." from the ranch found them. Kay was He left her and returned to the tortur- draped unceremoniously, over the sad ed horse. One glance at its shattered dle. Linnet was delirious. Ted had leg and he drew the revolver from his sunk to his knees in the trail, belt and shot three times."

...... It was late afternoon of the next day "We'll have to ride double," Ted be- when Linhet came into the ranch patio. gan, but when he turned, Kay had Ted was waiting for her. Without fainted. He glanced up at Linnot, and speaking he took her hand and hold it Linnet, her own face white, climbed out for a long time. -Linnet's heart throb- of the saddle and helped him lift Kay bed, but her face, remained impassive. onto Ted's horse.

**There's no need to tell you how I Ted forced some water from his can- feel,” Ted said. “You know. I've been teen between Kay's lips and her eyes a fool. Such a fool. Could you for- opened, She began to cry at once. Ted give me, Linnet enough to marry me- clucked to the horse and they started now. --To-night t” ⠀⠀⠀ 'ahead,” Linnet came behind. - She tried. Linnet thought for a moment she was not to watch the pair on the holes in having imore hällüdinations. But when front of her, but this was impossible, she opened her eyes again. Tod was Three times within the next hour still there and she was in his arms,... they stopped no that Kay could drink (Copyright, 1989, by The Associate:] from the canteen. Tad offered Linnet Newspapers.) a drink, but she refused. A wing feeling of uneasiness had come

over

hert it materialised into something tan- gible when Ted reined in the m and Kay were riding and looked the hills,

*“We missed the trail quite a

back, I think,” Linnet sald Ted : looked at her. H

Ata”. He looked

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