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MUTT AND JEFF

MUTT, I TOOK INVENTORY OF THE FARMER'S LIVESTOCK! HERE'S THE LIST:- I COUNTED FOUR COWS, TWO HORSES, FIVE PIGS, TWO GOATS, THIRTY CHICKENS

AND A DOZEN EGGS!

BUT GOSH, I CAN'T GET

BACK TO THE CITY IN THIS RAINI CAN'T YOU PUT ME

UP FOR CHE

NIGHT?

NO, I CAN'T!

Page

THEN CAME THE DAWN

PEEP

PEEP PEEP

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 10, 1939.

By BUD FISHER

HELLO, MUTT! CORRECTION,PLEASE! FORTY-TWO CHICKENS,

NO EGGS!

(PEEP!

PEEP!

PEEP!

PEEP

PEEP!

PEEP!!

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WARM LIGHT

"Wanted: Intelligent young girl to could ever love a deaf girl. And

do clerical work.”

John! Sooner or later he would find Edna Ross folded the paper and out! It was inevitable. The thought tucked it under her arm. She had to chilled her. A terrible dread, born of have that job, If she didn't get it, fear, began to torment her peace of she'd go hungry.

mind.

Unfortunately Edna was stone deaf. That was why the clerical job appealed to her. She wouldn't have to take dictation or converse a great deal with her employer. Conversation itself wasn't so bad, not if she could look at the person with whom she was con- versing. For, after years a patient study, she had mastered the art of lip reading. It was an art difficult to mas- ter. But once the battle was won Edna found she could understand people as well, if not better, than when her hear- ing had been normal.

There were five other girls waiting at the office of J. H. Hebron & Co., and all of them had copies of the paper containing the advertisement, Edna's heart sank. They were pretty girls, not unintelligent looking. They ap. peared happy and confident.

Edna was the third girl to be inter- viewed. To her surprise, she found J. H. Hebron to be a young man in his late twenties. He greeted her

She refused John's invitation to the dis- theatre in the hopes it would courage further attentions. But on the contrary it seemed only to make him more persistent. Scarcely a day passed but what he invited her to lunch, to drive, to dinner.

She refused constantly, a fact that seemed to grieve John Hebron. Some- how he knew that she was purposely avolding him, that she did not dislike him.

"Edna," he said one day, "why have You no you changed so abruptly? longer accept my invitations to lunch. There must be a reason?"

Edna's heart began to pound. The time had come! She must tell him! It wasn't fair to continue like this! She'd have to confess, apologize-and look for another job."

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Hebron smiled understandingly her hesitancy. It seemed to Edna to be a wistful smile.

"You needn't say it, Edna. I un-

By Richard Hill Wilkinson

little the

cordially and questioned her regarding derstand. I've guessed your her previous positions. Edna answered secret. I don't blame you in truthfully that she had been em- slightest. You've been very kind" ployed as clerk for one of the city's Edna was looking at him bewilder- largest packing houses, That

was ingly. "You know than that that before her accident, before she lost the She faltered, unable to go on. use of her hearing.

Hebron took her hand in his,

The interview was an ordeal. Al- though outwardly she maintained a calmness and composure, inwardly her heart pounded. Despite her success with the lip reading course, there was always the dread that she would mis- understand and blunder with her an-

swers.

"I know that you've found out I'm deaf," he said. "And you've been very kind not to mention it. I tried to de- ceive you by reading your lips, even asked you to attend the theatre, But

Well--"

Hebron

In his own misery, John failed to see the wonderful, warm light that glowed in the girl's eyes.

pers.)

SWISS DEFENCE CREDITS

Fifteen minutes later Edna was sum- moned from the waiting room. She had been selected for the position. It (Release, by The Associated Newsp- seemed incredible. Yet there was Mr. Hebron smiling at her from across his desk, Could she begin work to-day? And would twenty-five dollars a week

Later, be enough to start on?

of course, when she became accustomed to the work, there'd be a raise,

Edna adapted herself to the firm of

with J.. H. Hebron and company thoroughness that surprised herself even more than it pleased John Hebron. Her past experience with the packing company stood by her as an able ally. but. joy at again being able to work her eagerness to please were the main factors in assuring herself a position with her present employer for as long as she cared to stay:

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Berne, To-day.

The Council of State yesterday passed a bill providing for a fur- ther credit of 190 million francs for strengthening the national

The weeks flew by and Edna came to realize that John Hebron was bedefence system. ginning to take more than a business interest in his new clerk. She felt His eyes on her at times when ordinarily he would have been over his own desk Frequently they lunched together, and once he asked her to the theatre.

The Director of the Military De- partment, Federal Councillor Bin- ger, pointed, out that the present situation makes the concentration of all forces of the nation an im- It was his invitation that created inperative necessity. Edna the first feeling of alarm, cast a shadow over her new found happiness.

He demanded the incorporation The theatrel How she had loved it! of volunteer units in the national

And now to think it would again be hers to appreciate.

never

For perhaps the first time in her life she knew a bitterness at being de prived of something that should right- fully be hers; The ability to hear and appreciate sound..

It was this knowledge that drove home the fact that she was ever to be robbed of love. No mango she knew

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Farmy. A nation which lost the will defend itself was bound to to perish, he declared.

He added that the strength of the Swiss army had multiplied several times since 1988. — Trans Ocean.

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