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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUKESDAY, JULY 27, 1937 LIFE’S LIKE THAT. —By NEHER. Sonnysayings THE MOUNTAIN BOYS. THE TROUBLE WITH YOU WILLIE HMMM— AH AINT $O SURE. WAHL — SHORE ! iT°5 1S YOU'VE BEEN LOVE HEXED. COME LOVE 15 LIKE A THEY LIVES ONLY ABOUT ON HOME AN’ GRAN'MAW’'LL BREW RATTLE-SNAKE.. WHEN WE'D LIKE DOWN THE. AN’ HOURGS YOU A MITE O° SASSAFRASS TEA. YOU GITS BIT You N TO KNOW PIKE THERE. WALK, EFEN THEN WE’LL GO HAVE A TALK GENERALLY STAYS ®IT. HOW FAR. ABOYT YOou RUN WITH THI$ LUCY BELLE GAL.. ? TS, TWO WHOOPS LIKE BLAZES AN‘A HOLLER. THE BOSS. The show is a bust! Muvver took our hats and told Baby t' put on her clothes an' not let her catch her again wif’ em off! So how kin her | Go-Diver? ‘ THE CHEERFUL CHERUB on singing wings, = And sad they feel =5, K., T'LL FLIP YOU : 2 S < hen they are used IP YOU TO SEE WHO GETS THE LAST TWO WEEKS IN| | when they 7 JUST A FEW SCRAPS! G To say uvnkind or SANDY" i WHY, THERE'S ENOUGH BE OLD FELLOW- AS truthless § | THERE TO FEED A FAMILY M LONG AS | HAVE ¢ OF FIVE = THAT'S MORE P ANYTHING TO SAY, THAN WE HAD FOR YOULL ERT HERE | DINNER- | DONT SEE ‘ / AND HELL LIKE T WHY WE SHOULD _FEED THAT HULKING BRUTE- Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURG Mistakes sre hard to rectify Tix sometimes better not to fry ——Old Mother Nature. ’l‘HE little cub who had forgotten | Mother Bear'’s command to keep | right at her heels and had turned | aside to investigate an ant hill, the first he ever had seen, had no idea how long he had been sitting there, ! watching the busy ants steadily going | in and out of that big mound. Never | WA 1 WAVE TiE & Tt S TeonEone T — before had he seen such busy people. | ! ONLN ONE WHO r EY TO AN ROOM, \_ SiR- SOMETRING AND WOW DOING ANNTHING = AND i THE ONE He wondered what they were doing | R | JULIET JORDAW 16 VALLKIS WHO'S SUPPOSED 10 DO o down inside that big mound. He | NI - 10 DO SOMETHING, BT~ EVERY. wondered what would happen if he! 5 i SC 7 1 should dig it open. He did reach | / out & little paw and scoop away & | little of that sand. Instantly the ants came swarming to that spot and there was a great hurrying and scur- | rving to and fro. It was very inter-| PSLINR. Then he discovered that i these queer little creatures could bite, | {1 and he backed away somewhat hast- 7 . | 1. | It was then that he suddenly ve- | membered that he had laggred benind | Mother Bear and his sister and he | turned to gallop after them and catch up, as he had done so many times N\ 3 " I before. But never before had he "BUT. CHARLEY, CAN'T YOU THINK OF A SINGLE FRIEND WHO'D‘ LIKE A BLIND DATE)" | cub rushed in the direction he was| - p §*‘§§ sure they had gone. He ran as fast | |as he could. Then doubt assailed him. There were no signs of them. | VYES-- YOUR ALL RIGHT! vou Perhaps he had made a mistake and| | FATHER'S A VERY GO OUTSIDE AND had taken the wrong direction. He} GENEROUS MaAN! ILL BE WITH YOU l LIFE'S DARKEST MOMENT By WEBSTER | | vomve in st e conians even | “KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES.” Eddie Is Appreciated. -By POP MOM/ % | hear them. They had vanished. The | : | would go back and start over again.| | HE GAVE ME NOU OUGHTA! IN A MINOTE - So he turned about and ran back FIFTY DOLLARS SET EM I'LL SHOW YOU | as fast as he had been running the YESTERDAY !/ U I'M A SPORT! other way. But, being a very lirtle | oW q cub and not yet having learned really | to use his eves and his nose, he didn't follow his own tracks exactly. The result was that he passed that ant-! | hill somewhat to one side and didn't | see it at all. Headlong he ran on until he realized that he had run far- ther since he turned back than he i bad in the other direction. That ant hill was lost. Mother and sister were lost. Of course really this wasn't so; it was the forgetful cub who was lost. us CELEBRATIN/ TOGETHER® Then it was that panic took pos- session of the little cub. It wasn't = = 7 O 1 N to be wondered at. Remember that st MACE %l Novo,\fv; :‘;Ec‘:?o;@vou 25 - he wn!hn very bl:n» fellow, hardly MORE. On) ACCOLMT T >80 % M BECAUSE ‘cfo\tél SE\SSN more than a baby. Grown men = S6 = N S0U ! N have allowed panic to take possession | | YORSENT DO THS 1P el FeNle @ e g DOLLARS EVEN-) e ME YOULL MARRY |DIEFERENT FELERS. of them on discovering that they had % S ME AND TLL KNOCK THIS/ 1 GET CANDY_EVEN lost thelr way. They have made the 5 N 4 oY OUTTA very same mistake that the cub now L < AR 7 A - 2 JouR LIFE made—the mistake of going nhpndi B ¥ blindly, without an idea where they | were going. That is what the little cub did now. The feeling that you are lost is a terrible feeling. The cub was frightened almost out of his little black skin, s0 to speak. When he realized that he had lost the ant hill he changed direction again. and once more began running headliong. He ran blindly. He tumbled over roots and logs, and each time he did @937 4.V. TmiBUNE mic. this his fright was added to. He was B out in the Great World all alone and i i = he didn't want to be. No, sir; he Ll 2 didn't want to be. He wanted his " - S - L E T T E R - O U T mother. Oh, how he wanted her. He | |THis AFTERNOON WELL VISIT QK oot vzzie/ 1L . [ WHY, PINHEAD, WHAT > IE WERE CONNA SEE 7 17 i 8€ 7 > MAN- EATIN SHARKS whimpered as he ran, RIUM/ THEY HAVE ; HAND AT TWO ONTeARTH. .o THOUGHT 1'D DISGUISE After a while he was too tired HING THERE FROM OCLOCK,ALL READY 10 GO Al o . / 3 MYSELF LIKE A BoiL/ : to run. He shuffied along and he A MINNOW TO A 7 =~ BY CHARLES H. JOSEPH. s iering TRl R i AN-EATING SHARK/ s % = Z p Y P o was crying. You couldn't blame him. Now, could you? Yet it was the Letter-Out and he satisfies, worst thing he could do. He might l be heard by keen ears of some one who would like a little Bear for din- KNEES l Letter-Out and he recognizes him. ner. 8o the cub shuffied along until STARES he could travel no longer. He lay down and cried himself to sleep. Letter-Out and almost any one Now the great mistake the little caught in the rain does it. SPIDER cub had made was in leaving that ant hill when he discovered that KNAVES 'Efr‘e’ce(rx}onmnz and 'hdey tell the Mother Bear and his sister had dis- 4 i appeared. He should have remained ) W 117 right there and waited for them to Letter-Out and it is part of & come look for him. That is the thing L . YIELDS l belifeame: lo do wben lost—remain in one| nqyipen ANTY YEFF place, the place where you first dis- U J J cover that you are loat. As soon as ! DONT You [l you NAUSHTY, NAUGHTY BoY! Remove one letter from each word and rearrange to spell the word |others know you are lost they will T Y, YOUR ey \BoUT called for in the last column. Print the letter in center column opposite | start looking for you, and they will 1L£Tc°, AM;?.DDO\g \zJU No, I L;gé :w Me || You IN THE B ot o va‘:mm’mfg‘lgg;? the word you have removed 1t from. If vou have “Lettered-Out” correctly | start at the place where you were LETGOVOU! You? LEG? AKE ), o= ; HIT it’s odorous. laat known to be. 8o the nearer you ::‘if;um to that pl V] are place the sooner you will UMBRELLA! Answer to Yesterday’s LETTER-OUT. be found. s As a matter of fact, just about the CHOLERA I 0 ‘ Letter-Out for'a sirl's name, time panic had taken full possession of the cub Mother bear had missed RACHEL him and had returned to look for him. Had he remained at the ant TUFAS | U | o Eeneraily have hill she would have found him at FAST once. W GENERA g 5 % T P e e < SECANT | [ | Mot i, Feutl e CANTS My actual loss in the transaction — would be 75 cents. I have the pen b h ] Ve CAPERS ‘ R I Letter-out and there is nothing which is worth the dollar I paid the (Copyright, 1937.) real owner for it =0 I lose the original SEACE Ioan to you of 50 cents and the addi- tional quarter which I gave