MUTT AND JEFF
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WELCOME HOME
~TWENTY YEARS AGO
I LEFT SLAPPSBURGH A POOR BUT HONEST YOUNG MAN! ALL'I HAD WAS TWO DOLLARS LENT TO ME BY OLD POP GINK, WHO I GUESS BY THIS TIME HAS
PASSED ON!.
WELL,
OLD POP GINK!
OH, NO, I AIN'T, YOU RASCAL! I'M STILL HERE!]"WELL!
I KNEW YOU'D BE A SUCCESS SOME DAY!
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Jervis stood on top of the moun his pipe and listening to the calls of tain and looked down into the valley, night_birds. The wind in the trees, and saw men moving about. The air the distant tumble of water was sweet was sweet and cool, and the tiny music to his ears. There was peace plateau on which he stood was bathed and solitude here. in brilliant sunshine. Wilderness and· He felt superior, aloof, He pictured solitude lay over the land like a soft the world below, a chaotic world; men mantle.
moving helplessly about, fighting toge- ther in the endless struggle for ex- istence.
He was glad that he had no part in it.
Jervis sighed contentedly, and then grinned at some inner thought. He felt a wave of exultation surge through his blood. Or was it triumph? Or . And then suddenly something hap merely contented satisfaction? But pened. A voice spoke to hini. It what did it matter-a definition of was a voice that was part of his very this feeling, so long as the result was being. It had been speaking to him pleasing? Results were all that count for weeks, but he had ignored it. ed, how you felt, what you got out of life.
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The voice said: "Jervis, you're coward! Go down and fight. Fight He sat still for hours, basking con- for what is yours! You're a coward tentedly in the warm sun, his eyes to give up!" watching the people far, far below,
He tried to still the voice. But it as a hawk watches its prey. A con- persisted, as it had on other nights, stant smile played about his mouth, and would not be still. and once Or twice soft laughter escaped his lips.
The sound of it beat against his brain, tortured his soul, robbed him of the contentment that he now knew
Presently the sun swung westward, and the people below were on longer was false. clear to the vision. Conscious of
He knew, at last, that it had con- sudden hunger, Jervis arose and quered him.
By Barbara Ann Benedict
moved down the mountain. He came And so in the morning Jervis arose to a jumble of rocks, and quickly cir- and descended the mountain. The cled the pile. On the under side his world was his to conquer. He joined alert eye caught a fluttering move the milling, panic-stricken throng, ment. He reached into the darkness striking back as best he could, con- beneath the rock and pulled out a science-free at last, finding a joy partridge, caught by a leg in a crude in his own strength, safe in the knowledge that it was all in the Jervis reset the trap, swung the scheme of things, and readjustment bird over his shoulder and set off was sure to come. down the mountain. He came pre- (Release by The Associated News- sently to a cabin, set in among a papers).
snare.
grove of hemlocks. Whistling cheer- fully he started a fire in an old box stove, set water on to boil and began plucking the partridge,
As he worked Jervis' thoughts dwelt once more on the people he
GUN TARGET
had been watching, and he laughed PRACTICE
aloud.
"Fools," he muttered. "Gluttonous fools."
A week ago or was it a month? -or a day? Jervis had come to the cabin to live. His coming had been the culmination of a long cherished dream, and had taken no small amount
of courage. He had been prosperous down below, living with other men in a city that prospered. Then the crash came, and Jervis, with hundreds of others, was caught.
He'd fought gamely enough at first. Even cheerfully. But it was a losing fight. His business was wiped out in less than a year. Things grew worse, rather than better. It was dishear- tening, and because Jervis was alone in the world, it was harder still..
Then one morning Jervis awoke and a panic-stricken world fighting frantically to keep alive. He saw a world driven mad by business re-
verses and threat of war.
He saw men, shorn of pride, rich men robbed of fortunes; he saw honour and loyalty and honest atruggling feebly in a world of graft and vice. Men striving to outdo their neighbours: struggling to obtain their own selfish. ends, fighting with their backs to the wall.
And then the idea came-to go away and live alone, apart from society, to liye in solitude and peace, high up on a mountain, to witness the to struggle below without a worry harass his mind.
Jervis thought of these things as he sat alone in his cabin, puffing at
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Under water target practice with rubber band guns is a novel sport recently introduced in Florida.
Donning water goggles, contest- ants dive below the surface with bamboo guns fitted at one end with heavy elactic bands that fire steel tipped spears about three and a half feet long.
After each shot, the contestants bobs up the surface for a breath of air before returning to the under water range. Remarkable accuracy is obtained with the curious spear guns, it is said.
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