Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1928, Page 37

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1928, 87 | T DROPPED WTO MR. TOMATIS STBNO | | GOOFY, TH PAPER Y| JEH, IT WAS A i THE. 1Eeis 117 Goory, tve aor A [RIEHKIAIE T BEDTII“E STORIES BY THORNTON THE CHEERFUL CHERUB || e B o I ity Sheae Hey soue!! |t um@?kfim % se excrren |l \l i 5 PP Yo fiA's STATUE WS W. BURGESS . of| 6V | BoARD oF ADeRMen [ | FOR HER WHEN TH' BELL JUST |[YoUuRE ALL I THINK THE OL' LADY S| [l COMIN' ALONG, BND HE WAS OUT, BUT [ oched doors are HANE PRACTICALLY || THE UNITED ORDER|| RANG = DonT || EXCiTED ! STATUE 1S GONNA TH JANITOR WAS THERE CLEANING UP - : mi ings. € q : TH PLACE SO I'WENT IN. Guy a little way, He didn't feel like climb. | | AFFOW minded things Vhfl‘ :ig\b;%‘.& fl‘ffi fi:gi:lflxv‘:ll:ff 1‘;::\11 HAS PUT SIX FINGERS O YOUR A RIGHT HAND = Six ¥ QA You BEAT IT:" ] Suspicious natures tl’uy reveal — If all the doors were THE opened wide |ing trees, although he could climb if he had to. He was satisfied to givel | Chatterer a good scare and then go| o s bus nd he suc- Chatterer the Red Squirrel was in | iy h‘;“:’,‘,’gmc Lty uood; ;m\lblc He was in great trouble. At|scare. On and on raced Chatterer. least he thought he was He had|pjs Jegs were tired and he was out | discovered that Shadow the Weasel Was | of breath. But ev time he ,wpged A GRANT PARK WHEN [ | A MONUMENT TO ITS FINISHED ! ISNT Her ! JoX | Y Pop MOMAND [|The thieves might t|| be too proud ~ following him. Now, there is no onme, to res Yow, ¥ to rest a bit he got so nervous t in all the Great World whom Chateret | he couldn't sit still - He fust had the to steal ! ars as he does Shadow the Weasel. | feeling that Shadow was likely to pop || . { G His other enemies he can gt aVaY |out an g | A Generous 4 rom by hiding. but he cannot get away | hdear, if T could only break my E from Shadow the Weasel by hiding, for | IR, aat fac | Sculptor. / 4 Shadow is so small that he can £0|jow seems to know just what Il do | 5 " w ‘v;r‘(:‘\rrn‘c"ha;‘::‘rflr“i?nr‘m;u» nought | £¢5, 510 he seems to know just what i s all o au thouy 11 do. ' It ve him get | fil’ Chatterer. “I don<t Know why T Game | o (fiw-s e M l ek *way over here anyway. I just felt like | presently ahead of him Chatterer | soaming. If I had remained at home | saw through the trees a gleam of water. He had never been just there | before, so when he reached the pond. | | for it was the pond of Paddy nwi | Beaver, his heart sank. He was tired. to him that he could And now here was ‘pond! To get to the| ME E ~ AN T WITHOUT A WET STANDIN' ON TH EDGE OF | - I R TH CLIFF WITH A SHEER } e 2 'D",o\) =N ap oF INDRE / ANDIN DRAP OF &% HUNDRED ) EboE OF TH' CUEF WITH Y\ / L¥ING, 7 3 \ F w | . /l‘u. oM DOWN TO i ) FIFTY FEET AN’ TWO WILDCATS BUT 1LL BE DADGUMMED IF 1 GVE NVUH A'NOTHER FOOT g e Mt il i | Foot BEFORE ME = AN AT A SLEER DRAP OF TWO A, LYING AN c 4 nd he fust didn't feel as | RIGHT BEHIND ME WAS \ ( vinG ) e ‘\ sl Iy il orR JOTHER CAT . couid. He simply must rest. He | irbarle & ay) & / HUNDRED FOOT BEFORE ‘ - NINE FEE-ROCIOLS HONGRY L AN RIGHT BEHIND ME WAS e ed back anxiously. Every time he w a leaf move his heart jumped. | By { But, though he looked and "lookéd, | S.L.HUNTLEY he did not see Shadow the Weasel. He | to take hope. He was getting s breath back. He was getting rest- If only Shadow would stay long | Jough to give him time to get thor- night yet escape. Shadow had gone | * direction. How | JUD S e LOORED £ S . FOUR FEE-ROCIOUS HUNGRY/ / h 3 WILD CATS -1 LOOKED § BACK AN SEEN EM 7 gl', LAVIN known it. As it out on the end of A Com- He < ronisin the pond. He saw 4 2 HE SAW MRS. PADDY CLIM P ON THE HOUSE. * y t wimming along by | Situation. s hou w Mrs. Paddy climb 1 t on the hous Lightfoot e Deer come down to the shore for drink. And all the time he kept og to himsalf: “If Shadow comes mp right out into the water. sir. if Shadow comes Il jump right | down on the ground, |out into the water. I can SWim And | ceeesaess oo sn far apart |he can't follow my trail in the water. h, dear, I wish I'd stayed at home!" \'t have GENTS, YoU'LL OBSERVE T AINT \F You HoRTENSE . DEAR MISS DEBRIST I LovE MY HUSBAND BUT He Reruses T SPEAK T> ME. WG HAJC Been DIVORCED : - S B O A SR T'M LOCKING THE DOOR? INSINVATING | [ weren't knew it W s wish and wish that we hadn't 1E THAT MYSTERIOUS BoZO NOTHING . F [ wy o follow his ound n ve did do, or that we had IS AROUND TOMIGHT T'LL THERE'S ANY | it MY OLE FROM THIS, DEAR HORTENSES: - Now { fact, Shadow o e | U'[T D EIND HIM! IF HE's N HeRe FUNNY STUF ‘; MAN I'D> i et BIG Beav mrm :Q' - — " | NOW HE CAN'T GET ouT- PULLED OF CUT ME DOWN. ~ | - WAIT 0N HiM ALL THE TIME = S [ Ma"d B /ARE YoUINSINUATING| || _ WHAT SHAWL T De? j LITTLE BENNY A T'm THE GUY? 7 s. 1 | DEAR S:- - , 4 GIVG HIM THE AR N N | Pop was smoking and thinking and I was laying on the floor looking at the fotograph alban, saying. G pop, whose this a picture of? BY LEE PAPE. « ! By | BUD FISHER | Thats your lo\'mdg father at the age i of about 30. pop sed. ) o vou. pop? 1 sed, and he sed | Who Is This | —| FouR YeARSe Youve geseed it AR Mysterious ( WHAT CAN T DO TO vell G wizzikers, pop, look at how your mustash terns up and look at all iy ™ 5“; Hm T TALKR TO the hair you got, I sed Bozo? i GeRE Tas ep S me? ZoRA We Thats wat Im looking at, dont you Now . oot P notice my sad ixpression? pop sed 1T 1S. MUTTS JGEFY DEAR ZORAS Meening on account of him not hav- | ciceRo? THe DOOR'S Ask Him FoR ing hardly any' now, and 1 sed, Did it ptirshii MORE ALIMINY. MISS PEBRIS, fall out a lot at once or a little at a, e? | To tell the truth I dont bleeve I ever cawt any of it axually falling, so at least it probably, never descended in grate | clusters, pop sed. and I sed, Well jim- | miny, pop. wat made it fall out? | Probably the law of heredity slitely | aggerveted by the force of gravitation. sed. My father ran through all . is dair before he was 45, and judging | by the pictures Ive seen of my gran- | father, he was one of the originators | of the same ideer. he sed “Only twenty minutes from a bank, Well then, gosh, pop, G. is my hair | js th' way Jake Bentley advertises his libel to come out too? 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