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MUTT AND JEFF

THAT HAY WAGON

| WILL KEEP BEXTECE)

MOUTHS AS LONG AS THE HAY LASTS)

VEH, AND THAT HAY WAGON

| WILULPAQ US RIGHT INTO THE CITY---THINK ILL TAKE A'LITTLE NAP!

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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 21, 1939

By BUD FISHER

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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

NO HAPPY UNION

She knew

THE young folks in Ashton thought agreed quickly enough.

it would be fine if Jennie Hayford what was coming. would fall in love with some one and It was a beautiful night. A full marry him. Jennie had a combina-

moon brightened. the country-side. tion of physical beauty and personal Chet parked the roadster in a pine charm that was rare, rare indeed in

It

a community the size of Ashton, She grove on the shore of the Take; the was so much more attractive than het water gleamed through the trees.

was warm, but there was a soft contemporaries that she had things breeze, wafting to them the heady pretty much her own way with local odor of growing things. young men and strangers who came to Ashton to visit.

Jennie's girl friends, had long since resigned themselves to her superior- ity. If Jennie took a fancy to a man, they withdrew. They knew their pride would suffer if they didn't. If they felt bitter and resentful, they covered up these feelings masterful- ly, for only a fool would try to com- pete with any one who had what Jen- nie had.

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"Isn't it wonderful?". Chet said after awhile. "Gosh, this is the kind of night you read about. It-it sort of makes me feel well, look, Jen- nie, ever since Betty introduced I've been unable to think of anything else but }}

us

"Wait a minute, Chet. I think I know what you're going to say. Be- fore you say it, I feel that we ought to have a frank and open discussion about the eugenic law and heredity."

"What's that?”

After awhile, however, the situa- tion became a bit annoying. The other girls of Ashton began to wonder if "Well, I wouldn't want you to Jennie would ever fall hard enough well, I think you ought to know some- for one man to marry him and there-thing about my background, and I by put her out of the running.

about yours,"

In fact, Jennie herself had begun "Really?" to wonder if she was ever going to "Yes. It's only fair for you to meet the right man. She had learn- know that my grandfather drank a

By Barbara Ann Benedict

in our blood,

led that, she could be choosey, and to lot. 1 suppose it's

date she had found something wrong though my mother and I have no in- with all the swains who offered their dications of it yet." hearts and hands. She was almost "Humm."

on the verge of believing there was "And my Uncle Fred was put away no man in the world who could quite for six months once. He struck his satisfy her demands-when she met head when he fell out of an apple Chet Long.

tree."

"And grandma,

Chet had come up from Philadel- "Good heavens!" phia, representing a construction com-

on father's side, pany there, and was spending u was once indicted for murder, though month at the Ashton House. He knew she was acquitted." the Butterworths, and Betty Butter- "You don't say!" worth introduced him to Jennie, and "Now, tell me about your folks." Jennie knew right then and there "My folks?" Chet lighted a ci- that she had met her man, She knew garette, thoughtfully blew a cloud of that he was the only man; that she smoke. "Well, there was granddad, could never be happy without him, now. He was arrested and hung for So she turned on her charm, ignor- being a horse-thief. My other grand- ed the bitter, enraged look in Bet- father spent the greater part of his ty's eyes, and proceeded to gast her life in Sing Sing. Grandma was di- spell over Chet Long.

vorced three times, and all my un- Chetwas willing. Up until the cles are bugs. The moon's gone be- time he met Jennie he had

been hind a cloud, let's go home." thinking seriously about Betty, but

Three days later, Chet Long Jennie made him forget a lot of turned to Philadelphia. Betty But- things. A week passed, two weeks, terworth went with him as his wife. and Jennie knew she had Mr. Long The girls of Ashton are gnashing their right where she wanted him. She knew teeth because Jennie is unmarried, that the next time they went out to- and Jennie is mad too. But none of gether, Chet would propose.

them know why.

That day Jennie read an article in a magazine in which a learned man discussed young people getting mar- ried. The learned man declared that

if youngsters on the verge of ma-, trimony would pay less attention to Hollywood and more to hereditary and eugenic laws, there would be a lot more happy unions and fewer di- vorces. In the country.

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Jennie mulled this over in mind: The learned man, she decid- ed, was right. Moreover, she had better take his advice. It was going to be comparatively easy to

catch Chet Long, but she certainly wanted to hold him after she caught him.

Chet called for her the next even- ing in his aports roadster. They drove out to Raymond's Pavilion and dan- ced, awhile, and then started home, taking the road that led around the.

Jennie's lake by way of Clairville heart beat a little faster. She had acted surprised at Chet's suggestione to start home. so early, but she had

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