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MUTT AND JEFF

POP, WILL YOU GIVE ME TWO BITS FOR THE MOVIES IF I PROVE TO YOU A DOG HAS TEN

TAILS?

I WILL

IF YOU (CAN PROVE

THAT MY

BOY!

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WELL, TO BEGIN, ́ONE DOG HAS

ONE MORE TAIL THAN NO DOG, HASH'T HE?.

NO DOG HAS NINE TAILS,

AND IF ONE DOG HAS

YEH!

ONE MORE TAIL THAN

NO DOG, THEN ONE

DOG MUST HAVE

TEN TAILS! RIGHT?

THANKS,

-POP!

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 4, 1939.

By BUD FISHER

I KNOW ANOTHER ONE YOU CAN SPRING ON HIM

SOME OTHER

TIME!

FLIP!

WILL YOU GIVE ME A

FREE SHINE IF I PROVE

THAT A DOG

HAS TEN TAILS?

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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

BAD REPUTATION

Erla James was warned-against he'd done for her. He looked at her Jack Thurber the day after she moved and smiled and said: "Ma'am, folks with her family to Little Creek. are starin' at you, You better

talk to me." And he walked away.

"He's a good one to keep away from," Maxine Carson confided. "He'll ask you to go out with him, but don't do it. He's got a bad reputa tion."

"Why?" asked Erla,

Maxino's eyes were wide and scary and her tone was awed. "He's wild. Ho gets drunk sometimes and gets into fights."

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Two days later Erla purposely rode out toward his ranch and met him on the trail.

"Look," he said, “you're foolish to do this. I've got a bad reputation. Maybe you've heard about Grace Fairfax,"

"You saved my life. I-I don't care what folks say."

Erla didn't press the subject. She But she did care. That night she was mildly curious, mildly interested. thought about Grace Fairfax. She'd Within the next fortnight- she saw hate to have the same thing happen Jack. Thurber twice. Once at the to herself. Maybe she'd be smart post office, once coming out of the never to see him again. Cattlemen's Association building. But after a week she was riding Both times he had stared at her. again and she circled around toward Boldly. Frankly admiring. With the Thurber range and presently she just the hint of a smile about his lips. saw him. This meeting was one of

She tried to convince herself that many.

She didn't dare tell her folks. the only reason she had noticed him. She was too happy to have it spoiled. was because she had been warned. It was too exciting. Too romantic. But he was handsome. He walked Then one day Jack Thurber said to with

F an assurance. He had a her: "Listen, to-morrow afternoon devil-may-care. manner. Hig eyes you come out to the ranch. I've got were clear and alert and dark.

a surprise for you, I've got some- thing I want to say."

She found out that he was twenty- six years old and that he owned his own ranch, It was generally believ- ed that the stock on his ranch was

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She didn't promise. She went home and thought and thought. She thought about Grace Fairfax. This was pro-

By Richard Hill Wilkinson

She buried her face in

stolen, but nobody could, prove it, bably the way it had been with Grace Twice he had fought and licked Big Fairfax, A shudder went Jim Mason. Both times over a girl. her body.

through One of those girls was named Grace hor pillow and cried. But when Fairfax, and she and Jack Thurber morning came sho knew sho had kept company for a while, Then was going. She loved him and she suddenly Grace Fairfax had gone was going. He had known she would away and everyone in town knew why come if she loved him. she had gone, though nobody dared Once in sight of the ranch she al- mention it to Jack Thurber.

most turned back, She went on and These things, and everything else Jack Thurber was at the door to meet she had been told about Jack Thurber her.. He took her inside .and there. flashed across her mind the day Her was another girl there. A nice, sweet- horse stepped into the prairie, dog faced girl.

hole and broke its leg. She remem- "Meet Grace Fairfax," said Jack bered them because her rescuer that Thurber. "Only her name is Mrs. day was Jack Thurber. The memory Jim Mason now. Jim was my fore- made her a little sick with terror.

man and they ran away and Jack Thurber swung off his black married,

got She didn't tell anyone be- horse and came over and looked at cause she was afraid her dad would her pinto. Then he shook his head come after her." and drew his gun and shot the pinto dead. Then he came to where she lay and knelt down and felt of her knee.

She cried out, half with pain be- cause the knee had been twisted, and half with fear of Jack Thurber,

Erla stared and stared. "But- but-”

Jack Thurber laughed. "You thought like everyone else thought. Well, until the other day I didn't care a damn what anyone thought. Then suddenly I cared, so I asked "Shut up!" he said, and she lay Grace and Jim to come pay me still while he examined the injured visit. Then I asked you to come out knee. Then he picked her up and without telling you about Grace. You started toward his. black horse, see, I knew if you came you loved "Where are you taking me?"

"To my ranch. Any objections?". "Can't you take me home?" : "I could, but I won't. Got work to do."

He stopped, holding her in his arms, looking down into her eyes, "Tell you what I will do, though. I'll -leave you here if you like."

She didn't know what to say. The thought of being alone with Jack Thurber at a ranch miles from any -body was terrifying, but the thought of being left to lie out on the desert beneath the blazing sun wasn't very pleasant either. So she said nothing

and, Jack. Thurber smiled, and set

her up on the back of his horne

me enough Well, I was thinking Jim and Grace are my bestfriends. and they could run the ranch while we were away on our honeymoon

So Erla was no longer afraid, only happy,”

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