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MUTT AND JEFF

YOU DON'T WANT TO BE】

WATERING ELEPHANTY

ALL YOUR LIFE, DO

YOU? COME ON, I GOT A SWELL NEW IDEA FOR A FLYING TRAPEZE ACT WE CAN DO!

KERE'S THE IDEA--YOU GET UP ON ONE TRAPEZü AND I GET ON THE OTHER! THEN WE SWING TOWARDS

EACH OTHER-THEN--

200 FEET ABOVE THE GROUND,

·AND WITHOUT A NET UNDER US, YOU LET GO AND DO A TRIPLE GOMERSAULT AND I'LL CATCH

YOU BY THE PEOT!

YEH?

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 14, 1939.

By BUD FISHER

WELL, THEN WE'LL TRY IT

OVER AGAIN!

SUPPOSE YOU MIGG!

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TOO STUBBORN

And now we have the case of Oscar "Of course," said Otis a bit testily, fish. Sage who worked hard and made a "the idea of fishing is to catch lot of money and practically ruined You've got to be patient." his health. Oscar's most notable trait "Humm," said Oscar, "maybe you're of character was tenacity. Whenever right." Then he opened his tackle box he tackled a job he stuck to it until and took out a Gray Hackle, which is Otis he had conquered it, which is prob- a dry fly and a very pretty one. ably the reason why he made a lot of and the boys stared at him in horror. money. And probably, too, the rea- "Don't be stupid," they told him. son why, at the age of 34, he was "We've finished this pool for years. practically a nervous wreck.

These salmon won't touch it." Dr. Owen Ryerson, who was a per- But Oscar tied on the Gray Hackle sonal friend of Oscar, advised him to and dropped it into the pool and go away and rest for awhile or else, there was a splash and the water be- but Oscar laughed at him. And so gan to churn: Two minutes later Oscar Dr. Owen, being sincerely concerned had pulled in a twelve-pound salmon. about the future physical condition of The boys told him it was a fluke, that Oscar, appealed to Otis Swayne, who it wouldn't happen again. was also a friend of Oscar.

But Oscar ignored them.

He con-

and the steadiness

one

Now Otis was a hard worker too tinued to fish with his Gray Hackle and had made a lot of money, but he and continued to catch fish. It was had a hobby, which was fishing, and incredible, and if those boys hadn't which was the reason for his excellent seen it happen they wouldn't have be- health

of his lieved it. Oscar was the only

nerves.

who caught fish that day. The boys "If you could get Oscar to spend a were pretty glum during the evening week or so up at your lodge," the doc- and Oscar was indifferent to them and tor said, "It would probably save him to what he'd done. from a nervous breakdown."

The next day they went to another "I'll try," said Otis. "I wish the pool, but when Otis offered to rig funkhead weren't so stubborn."

Oscar's line he shook his head. In- "That may be his saving grace. stead he produced a tobacco can 'from Take him fishing, but arrange it so his coat pocket and juggled a mud-

By Stanley Cordell

he catches only one or two small ones, worm out of it. This to Otis and the It'll make him mad and he'll probably boys was practically sacrilege. They stick there until he catches the big- gest one in the lake."

protested violently.

"But the object is to catch fish, isn't it?" Oscar said.

"That may be an idea," Otis agreed. So Otis went to work on Oscar and So Oscar fished that day with mud- after a couple of weeks of heckling, worms and caught so many fish he Oscar, out of sheer irritation, agreed couldn't carry them all home. He was to spend a week-end with Otis at his going to leave them on the bank, but fishing lodge. Otis invited a few of Otis picked them up and put them in the boys, and they all went up by his basket just as a tall man with a

mustache came. train.

along and asked to 12.00 Noon

2.00 A.M. Oscar didn't know one thing about see the catch.

The tall man was a game warden- fishing, but since he had made this 1.00 A.M.

trip he thought he might as well learn, and he told Otis he had three fish over so he asked Otis and the boys for ad- the limit and the fine would be $15. vice. Otls and the boys were all ex- That night Oscar said he was going pert anglers and nothing pleased them home the next day. He said he didn't more than to have their advice asked, see anything difficult about catching The evening of their arrival they ex- fish, nothing to arouse a man's enthu- plained the rudiments of angling and siasm. Otis and the boys talked it angling equipment, and the next day over and decided that if they let Oscar they handed Oscar a five-ounce trout stay on any longer he'd get all the rod and tied on a Silver Gray and fish in their lake, and then where they started out after salmon. They would they be?

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went to a pool where the water was So Oscar went home and Otis went so clear that you could look down and with him, Otis called on Dr. Ryerson see the salmon resting on the bottom. as soon as they got back and said he Otis and the boys knew from long was turning the patient back to him. experience that these particular · sal- "As a matter of fact," declared Otis, mon were very snooty and would "I guess you'd better prescribe some never rise to the lure of a Silver Grey, sort of nerve tonic for me, Doc. I'm So they fished, and the mosquitoes bit all worn out trying to make a fisher- and they caught no fish and Oscar be- man out of that guy. But it's no use. gan to get nervous. Otis. thought it He's too stubborn." was about time to let him catch a fish, (Released by The Associated Newspapers.) so he tied a Thunder and Lightning to Oscar's rod and winked at the boys. These particular salmon were on a diet: of Thunder and Lightnings. They always rose at sight of one,

But this particular day the salmon had apparently talked it over and de- cided not to rise even for a Thunder and Lightning. Time passed and no were caught and pretty soon a dis=|- gusted look began to come into Oscar's face. Otis looked. at him. and began to feel desperate. He removed the Thunder and Lightning and tried in succession a Silver Doctor, a Mar

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