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MUTT AND JEFF:

MUTT, DID YOU

HEAR ABOUT THE

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HE GOT CAUGHT

HE

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TAKING MONEY

STRETCH!

FROM THE TILL!

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~ AND THE ACROBAT. FELL HEAD OVERHEELS IN LOVE WITH THE GIRL ON THE TRAPEZE AND' SHE FELL FOR HIM-- AND THE CONTORTIONIST.

IS SO HARD UP HE DON'T KNOW WHICH WAY TO TURN!

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Lesser Of Two Evils

AVERY one thought Harriet Parsons Surprisingly, Harriet didn't

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had more sense than to marry plain. When she wanted things done Barnaby Bench. Barnaby was the she did them herself. The summer laziest man alive. He lived on the passed. Fall came, then winter. Snow farm out on the Sleepy Hollow road lay on the land. The little farmhouse that he had inherited from his folks, was snug and warm. Now there were It was a good, farm, the best in the no chores but the milking and feeding. country. But Barnaby let most of it and Harriet did most of these. Barna- go to waste. He had a small income by was content. The kitchen was al- from a trust fund, left to him by his ways warm when he came down morn- father who knew Barnaby's ways, and ings; his wife was an excellent cook, had decided that a trust fund was far Then one blustery January day, wiser than leaving the money in one Barnaby awoke and came down to the lump sum,

kitchen to dress and found it cold. The Barnaby hired old Mrs. Pitman te fire was out, Harriet was gone, Grum- keep house for him, and he lived bling, as much annoyed ав he ever happy, contended and idle life. He could be, Barnaby built up a fire and was a lovable character. He never cooked himself some breakfast. He worried about anything, and he always expected Harriet would be back, but had an attentive ear for any one wish- she didn't come. Driven at last by the ing to pour out their woes. He went lowing of the unmilked cows, he went fishing in the summer and hunting i to the barn to milk and feed the stock. the winter and never failed to appear of a Saturday night to join the gossip mg group about the stove in Miller': General Store. Sometimes he went to sleep in his chair and more than one. Toe Miller let him remain all night because Barnaby was too lazy to rous himself and. walk home.

Returning, he found the kitchen had cooled again, and he had to build up the fire. At noon he, was forced to cook his own victuals. At night he went to milk and feed the stock again.

Two days passed and Harriet didn't return. Barnaby was miserable. Then. he thought of old Mrs. Pitman, Per- Yes, every one thought prim Harriet haps Harriet. had gone for good and he Parsons had more sense than to marry could get Mrs. Pitman to return and

By Richard Hill Wilkinson

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a lazy good-for-nothing like Barnaby, keep him comfortable and warm. The She was an efficient, capable, buxom thought pleased him. It would be nice woman of 30 odd, an excellent cook, a- returning to his old-way of living. fastidious housekeeper. She could

So he called on Mrs. Pitman. But have had her choice of any of a dozen she refused. Harriet, it seemed, had countryside swains. But she rejected been ahead of him. He called them all, encouraged Barnaby in his several other women in town. But it slow, indifferent courtship, and when one day in a fit of rashness he laugh now. Nobody felt they had the right He was married was always the same. ingly said they ought to get married to enter his house and take over. sometime, she snapped nim up and set

Barnaby scratched his head. This the day for the nuptials.

Folks shook their heads and wonder- Harriet was the only one in the entire was a dilemma and a serious one. ed how it would all turn out. Living village he could call upon. with a lazy, shiftless good-for-nothing like Barnaby would drive Harriet crazy. The marriage couldn't last. ;'

The fact of the matter was that Barnaby didn't figure it would last They went back to the farm and either. He had a secret fear of Här. Harriet gently suggested that Barnaby riet, of having her living at the farm, take over the milking and feeding. Ho interrupting his pleasant, contented complied, because he had his suspicions existence. But he'd committed him of what would happen. if he didn't. A self, and there was no backing out now, week later he experimented by remain- So they were married and. Harriet ing an extra hour in bed. When at moved out to the farm with all her length he came downstairs the kitchen goods and chattels, First off she fired was cold, the breakfast uncooked. old Mrs. Pitman, who seemed glad enough to be relieved of the respon- sibility of looking out for a shiftless unappreciative soul like Barnaby,

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So at last he went to Harriet. Har- riet was pleasant and kind. Of course she'd return if he wanted her to.

So Barnaby begged Harriet to return once more, and now he does all the chores, and this spring he is ploughing up the lower lot. Working, he has de Then she proceeded to arrange the cided, is the lesser of the two evils. house to suit her own tastes, and she Harriet too is contented, and now no mildly suggested that Barnaby spend one condemns her for lack of sense in a little less time sleeping and more marrying Barnaby, for the Bench farm time making the farm productive. Next is the richest producing, farm in the spring, she declared, he could plow up state.

the lower lot and raise potatoes. And

the year after that he could cultivate

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the west lot and sow it to corn. In no Papers.)

time at all she said with a gleam in

her eyes, they'd have the richest ́ pro- ducing farm in the land.

Barnaby groaned at the prospect and made a secret resolve that nothing of the sort would happen. He'd begin at once to show Harriet that he didn't Intend, to change his mode" of "living. Bo Barnaby became lazier than ever, And

"man of his talents this was

«bed an hour later. Vd tell Harriet, het?

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