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MUTT AND JEFF

WELL, HOW ABOUT

NO!

THIS JACKET,

M'AMI

HERE'S THE LATEST

THING IN TIES,

MAM!

NO, I WANT SOMETHING DIFFERENT!

Page

f: WELL THEN, HOW-

ABOUT THIS SHIRT OR THESE SOCKS

No!

MADAM, IF

YOU'LL TELL

ME JUST WHAT YOU WANT MAYBE I CAN HELP

YOU!

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 20, 1989.

I TOLD YOU!---

I WANT TO GIVE 'MY HUSBAND A SURPRISE ON HIS BIRTHDAY!

By BUD FISHER

WELL, WHY DON'T YOU JUST JUMP OUT FROM BEHIND A CURTAIN

AND SAY, BOO!

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Tragedy Of Years

his

mark about his rheumatism and age, remembering what Hawley had said about Old Lafe.

No,

that if he turned

back now would be a certain admission that he did not feel equal to the run unless So they conditions were just right.

He'd thought he was getting old, eh?

They were thinking of show them!

man in his place, putting a younger eh? Ha! Just let them bring on a younger man and put him out in wen- ther like this.

Ivan Wales had never known fear

of fear man his life, neither

condition. nor of a thing nor of a For thirty years he had carried the mail from Welkirk to that far-flung

of outpost civilization known as Kodiak Pass. He had a record of which he was proud. Neither blizzard; nor cold nor breaking ice had defeat ed him.

Old Ivan WRS tough and hard and proud. His dogs were the same. Nine of them in all, big, powerful huskies, half wild, part and parcel, his like their master, of the rugged, untamed land in which they were born and bred. Between Ivan and Atkim, his lead dog, there existed an A companionship, run. understanding, mutual pride in accomplishment.

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So old Ivan was not afraid when John Hawley told him what had hap- pened on the MacKenzie run.

"They're layin' off Lafe Langdon. A youngster from outside somewhere is taking his place."

"What's that Ivan snorted.

old fool quitin' for? Why, Lafe's been on the MacKenzie run near as long

as me."

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"I didn't say he was quittin'," John Hawley said. "I said they were on EL layin' him off. Retiring him pension. He's too old."

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eyes

Old Ivan pulled tight the strings of

parka hood, squinted his against the thickening snowflakes, cracked the long black whip about the backs of his team. "Mush!" he yell- ed. "By thunder, we'll make a record They're not We'll show them!

me out because I'm going to crowd old."

Under

Ivan ordinary conditions

camp would have stopped and made

But now a sort to wait out the storm. of rage possessed him, a stubbornness, He'd blind determination. a grim, show them! "Mush, you huskies, mush!" The black whip cracked. The dogs strained into their collars. And It was the storm grew in intensity.

It blotted out the worst of the year.

It moaned all but near-by objects.. and shrieked and screamed in the tree- beneath tops. Its icy fingers crept the parka of Old Ivan and sent stab- bing pains through his wrinkled old body.

Even then Old Ivan knew no fear. Fear was strange to him, so he pro- bably would not have recognized anyhow.

to. But something akin Ivan's rage grew to match the fury fear beset him two weeks later. The of the storm. As the wind and snow

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Chinook had come and the ice near increased so did the magnitude of his he was imagining the shore along the Abaco was thin thoughts. Now

A and treacherous. Atkim

the things that had never happened. Raw

The opening first and braced himself, but meaning tone to Hawley's voice. Ivan was a split second too late in studied effort of his friends to avoid applying the steel-pronged brake, and mention of the fate that awaited him. the momentum of the sled threw They knew. They all knew. The thing, the dogs off balance. Sled, dogs, Ivan was brewing. This was to be his last season. Next year a new and young- et al plunged into the icy waters..

What Cursing himself for a dumb fool, er man would take his place. Ivan floundered out, hauled Atkim a fool he'd been not to realize what and the other dogs back. onto solid was happening! Well, by thunder, he

He'd make a re footing, and pried the sled out with wouldn't let them! saplings. He was still cursing when cord run through this blizzard. They

hour couldn't fire a man who did that. he. doused the drying-fire later and started north once more.

But it wasn't stubbornness, hor -Princely, the factor at Kodiak Pass, noticed that Old Ivan was limping pride, nor grim determination when he brought the team in four was driving the old man through the storm. It was fear. Fear was hot in hours later.

his veins. Fear was searing at his soul, burning his thoughts. Fear, and. fear, alone kept him going into al- · most certain disaster.

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"Ho!" roared the big factor. "Turning soft, eh? Can't take a little soaking without catching rheumatism. Gettin' old, eh?"

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Disaster. No man could live in the Without realizing it, Princely had grip of these elements. It was folly been asking himself the same ques to try. Old Ivan wasn't himself. He Was he gotting, old? Were his was mad. He didn't even know when

He heard days numbered? Was some younger the thing happened. man about to crowd him out? Heguely the yelp of Atkim. Then aud- cursed aloud at the thought. He denly they were all piled up in a heap would not think of it again. Why, and the storm roared and shrieked and there were twenty years of trail screamed in triumph about them. But mushing left in his bones. Ha A. Old Ivan didn't know this. Old Ivan Younger man! He'd like to see a still thought he was fighting his way. younger man' handle the. Kodlak run through the storm, making a record. better than himself,

Already he was sinking into the Long Sleep of the northern trails and he was happy and comfortable, for in his fancy he was driving ahead.

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The Chinook passed. Cold weather with a threat of snow set in. And Old Ivan, ignoring the advice of.

They dug him out two weeks later Princely, refusing to heed his own bet-.

They ter judgment, set off on his return-Hawley and his assistant, trip. He had not gone ten miles be looked at each other and shook their fore he cursed. himself for a fool. He heads. A pity they thought that he should have waited.d sangthan couldn't live to enjoy his pension in would attempt travel iuch weather., his old age.

(Copyright, 1989, By The Associat. He decided to turn back then changed his mind, remembering Princely's reed Newspapers),

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