MUTT AND JEFF
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C'MERE, EIGHT BALL! “AGAINGHUH!
GEORGE, THAT'S THE THIRD TIME I SAW YOUR BOY GET PINCHED,
FOR STEALING CHICKENS!/
YES SUH, MR.MUTT, HES JUST NO GOOD, THASS ALL! AH DON'T KNOW..
WHAT IT DO
WELL, WHY DON'T YOU!TEACH HIM TO BE GOOD! SHOW HIM THE
RIGHT WAY!
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 1, 1989
By BUD FISHER
OH, AH SHOWED
HIM THE RIGHT
WAY, MR.MUTTA
“BUT DE LITTLE FOOL
STILL GETS CAUGHT!
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
Peaceful Village
Raymond stopped his car at the edge emotions unleashed, humans aroused to of the village and stared with satis- a pitch of insane violence. faction at the cluster of white-painted Led by a big, red-bearded man carry- houses. Greensville, was exactly what ing a pick axe. handle, the mob surged The expected: A quiet, drowsy, peace up the town hall steps while crowds of
loving community. It was inhabited spectators jeered. by a happy, contented people, a people "But they can't do that!" Raymond who weren't easily aroused.
cried. "Where are the police? Pri- Raymond drove slowly down the soners should be protected.? main street. He noted with satisfac- “Ain't near as much reason for pri- tion the half dozen stores, the picket soners to be protected as it is for poor fences that enclosed well-kept lawns helpless widows like Miz Andrews." He and clean white houses set back from added dryly: "Chief Emmott, who is the street and shaded by wide-spread- the whole police department in this ing trees. He saw the white-spired town, has gone down to Hathaway to church, the town hall with its barred call on his sick aunt.” windows in one ell, the school house, · Raymond ran a finger inside his col the fire company's headquarters. the lar. He stood in a sort of paralytic bank.
fright, watching as the leaders of the He looked at the bank closely, but mob suddenly burst from the jail car- not too closely. It was a nice little rying between them a shrieking,' ter- [bank, vine-covered, trusting. Like the ror-stricken prisoner.
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rest of the town, it looked prosperous. With growing,'- horror Raymond The bank, Raymond guessed, was well- watched the citizens of the quiet, sleepy filled with the savings of prosperous village of Greensville carry their vic- farmers for miles around, Raymond tim to the town square, where, with a smiled to himself. These accumulat- good deal of ceremony he was first
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
ed savings were going to make him a flogged, then tarred and covered with nice little nést egg. ·
feathers.
Raymond drove to the hotel and hir-
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ed himself a room that overlooked the The business consumed the better church, jail and bank. He sat for a part of thirty minutes and in all that long time studying the latter. Yes, time Raymond stood frozen in the he was smart in coming here. These doorway of the hotel, experiencing hot people were simpleminded country and cold and terrorising sensations. folks. Trusting. Why, the clerk down When the cries of the shrieking victim stairs had even called him air when he had grown faint up the street and the explained that he was representing a spectators had begun to disperse, the large western manufacturing concern, hotel clerk grinned once more at Ray- interested in locating a factory in the mond.
vicinity, Oh, it was going to be easy "That's the way we treat all smart winning the confidence of these people, alecks. You plannin' to stay here for
a spell, mister?" Raymond had travelled for that day and he was tired. He lay down on the Raymond grinned sickishly, "No," he bed, breathed deeply of the fragrant said. "No, I'm moving off up the val- breeze that drifted through the winley to-morrow. Got some important dow. Presently, like the rest of the business to attend to.” town, Raymond slept.:
Raymond stopped his car on the edge
He awoke to a peculiar roaring noise of Greensville and looked back. It was in his ears. Outside, night had fallen, a quiet, peaceful, drowsy village. Pros- but the town was illuminated by a weird perous. Filled with contented inhabi- sort of flickering ‘light,
tants. The type who weren't easily
Curious, Raymond rushed to the aroused. window. Far up the main street he "Yeah!" he snorted. "A quiet, sleepy saw a band of men moving toward the placesitting on a keg of dynamite!" north end of town. · The men carried”. (Released by The Associated. News- torches. As they approached, their papers.) deep-throated angry cries amote Ray- mond's ears.
In faint alarm'. Raymond raced down- stairs. He found the hotel clerk loung- ing in the doorway, looking down the street. IND
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"What's up Raymond demanded: "What's happened?!!?
The clerk grinned at him without moving. "Some of the boys are storm- |ing the jail, Stick around and watch
the fun
"Storming, the jail? Why? What are they going to do?”
“Oh, they'd decided to tar and fea- ther one of the inmates and ride him gut of town on a 'rai
"What'd he do ?” ·
Widow An-
Tried to swindle" the drews out of her savings by selling her oil stocks."- The; clerk regarded mond du Hoally,:/:"Jigger} dropped in 1195, 80: ago, posing sa an
wallowi and looked:
MiaThe mob hild com
calm and
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