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MUTT AND JEFF

AH, BAKED MY FAVORITE CAKE!

CHOCOLATO LAYER CAKE!

YES, IT'S MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY AND SHE'S COMING HERE TO CELEBRATE IT

WITH US!

I LIKE CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE BUT I DON'T LIKE IT THAT

MUCH!

MUTT, WE'RE WAITING! NOW YOU COME HOME

THIS MINUTE OR

ELSE--

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By BUD FISHER

M'LOVE,THE BOYS VOLUNTEERED TO COME OVER AND HELP

MAMA PUT OUT THE CAKE!

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A

THE HERMIT

But

two

a

PARTY was in progress in the by, destiny, should meet.

great house on the cliff, and John years passed before anything like

existed between Ash, whom I was visiting in Sharon- bond of friendship port, told me we were invited. "Tell them. Then we learned that Simon man who had become. interested in the trinkets me something about this holds such large parties and invites that Moss picked up along the beach, total strangers to be his guests,"I and would sometimes buy one or two

because he thought them pretty. asked.

John looked at me quickly. "You don't mean you haven't heard of Moss Ober?

"Probably for the first time in his life Moss had a few pennies of his own to spend, and these pennies he treasur- ed and hoarded, Another year passed What and Moss had accumulated about fifty

dollars, paid him by Hermit Simon.

I shook my head. "Never. claim does he lay to fame? How did he amass such a fortune?"

An hour still remained before time for us to leave for the party, so we settled back in the dim, cool light of the porch. Beyond the porch railing breakers were white blurs in the dark

"Then one day Moss disappeared, and that same day Simon was studying some, peculiarly shaped oyster shells he'd bought from Moss, and suddenly his heart leaped. His hands trembled as he opened still further the shell he "We used to call MosB Obor the had been examining and peered down queer man,'

John said. "Right after at the tiny pellet that rolled out. he was born his father, a fisherman, "Yes, it was a pearl. And in five five other was lost at sea. Some say the tragedy of the other shells were affected Moss' mother's mind. At any pearls.

neas.

"

rate, Nance Ober took her son, Moss, "Simon, as I have stated, was funda- and went to live in an old deserted mentally honest, and the thought that shack on the beach up beyond Nabob entered his mind was that Moss should Point. No one knew how she got share in this fortune, even though the along, because her husband had laid pearls. legally belonged to Simon by

othing by and there was no insurance. right of purchase.

Some kindly folks in town tried to help "So Simon went looking for Moss her, but she would have none of their and found that Moss had disappeared.

By Karl Grayson

charity. None of their pity or com- He waited a day, two days, and then pany either. She preferred to be alone some surf fisherman down the beach Was later with her baby, and because people who aways found a body that wish to be alone all of the time are identified as that of Moss Ober. Exam- thought to be queer, it was generally ination proved that one of Moss' legs agreed that Mrs. Ober's mind was af- was broken and that there was a bump fected.

on his head, as though he had fallen. from some high place onto rocks. "So Moss grew up in a sort of hur-

“Now that is the story and you can mitage, and. folks who saw him wan- dering along the beach said that he, suspect what you like and believe what also, was a little queer. When Moss you like. All I know is that Simon. was twenty-two his mother died, and told us all about the pearls and tried he buried her on the lonesome wastes to locate some of Moss' family so that of the point. They tried to get him they might share in the fortune, but to move into town, but he preferred he never found a single relative. So the solitude of his shack home. It was he sold the pearls and invested the all he was used to, and he was shy he- money wisely, and now he is the richest cause he knew that people thought him man around. queer.

"He built the big house up on the cliff and is no longer a hermit. He holds these parties whenever the fancy strikes, which is, often, and everyone is invited.

"No one knew how Moss survived. They said that he lived mostly on fish and berries and the vegetables he rais- ed in a tiny garden. They said too "Some say that Simon is queer, but that his pockets were always filled with mostly people are willing to agree he's good luck charms and queer trinkets, only whimsical because he's rich and it He carried a shark's tooth that gave is easy to tolerate strange doings in a him courage, and a piece of alligator rich and generous man. We'll go up paw that protected him from harm. there to-night and you'll hear him And he possessed queer-looking shells prattle about Moss Ober, and some of and round, coloured stones and many the things you hear may set you won- strange objects that he picked up in dering, but I'll let you draw your own this wanderings along the beach. conclusions.”

“A year after Moss' mother died a⠀ (Released by The Associated News- man named Simon Nason came down papers.) from the city and bought an isolated. cottage some distance from the point and took up residence there. Now Simon was a social misfit. He couldn't get along with people. Mostly, the rea son he couldn't get along was because ho wanted to be rich and he had no. special talents to make him so, and he lacked the courage to become a crim- inal;

"And so, because he had found that lack of money made him unhappy and pleasant company, he forsook civili- sation and became a hermit. He had small income, enough to barely exist on, and so heing a hermit was not a difficult business for this strange man. 19It waElinevitable that Simon, the hermit by choice, and Moss, the hermit.

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