The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 6, 1952, Page 14

Page 14 THE K ST CITIZEN Saturday, December 6, 198 FLASH GORDON (A DARING NATIVE TOSSES A LASSO, CATCHING THE GORILLA’S AR, = NS) IGS ITLL BE DAWN SOON. THEN THEY'LL BE ABLE TOSEE ex THAT IM NOT ONE [You POOR KID! WE'VE BEEN SELFISH? TELL YOU WHAT! TLL DRAG THE CORNUCOPIAK OuT AND MAKE YOU SOMETHING REAL NICE =—HUH? "S JUST THAT YOU By Lee Falk and Phil Da.: HE'LLCOME | IF TWENTY Guysc [OUT WHEN HE | BUDGE HIM,WHATCAN ONE 003 IT’SACINCH! By Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy Ag TEV APPROACH THE GECRET REEE=THE FIRST STREAKS OF DAWN <= FRANALY, I’M RELIEVED. \ I KNOW THAT WITH HELL DOHIS 4 BEST COMVISSIONER BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY THAR, THAR, LOWEEZY ti DON'T G iT HYSTEERICAL!! ire po LAND O'GOSHEN! WHAT ON AIRTH HAPPENT TO LEETLE 1h TLD ses _ GNE My EB A008 <P Gey SICK HE GOT THE LAST Time \ SSS NOW YOU ASKED Him f 6c © HE WANTED TO WORK DONT JUST COME IN WHO- EVER You ares /GLAD U ASE TOSEE 7 DON'T BE TOO SHORE ABOUT THAT By George McManus J NG SO HARD Ls or bap fp BOYLE SAYS NEW YORK (#—The last time I saw my goddaughter, Nina, aged five, her parents had conciuded after much discussion that they finally would make the Great Sa- crifice and get her a kitten. | As godparents, Frances and 1| were in on a sort of board meeting | to consider whether Nina was) ready for a cat, We examined the | evidence--that is, every place the; T= storm that had been threat- ening the night before came down in a slashing torrent of wind and rain just at midday, Driven like wild tangs before the wind, a nx of lightning- driven clouds overflowed the sky, turning the earth below into a chilled, held nei substance. The wind tore at the brown blanket ponchos Clay and Toni er sun nor shadow nor family visited. where there was a cat Nina spent all the time lugging | |the animal around in her arms. | |She' brought the neightbors’ cats, to the house, And asked wistfully | if she could show them her bed- | room. She put saucers of milk on the back porch because “‘then cats | will like me, won't they, mommy?” The conclusion was unanimous. | Yes, Nina needed a cat. | The question was how to go about getting one. We all had something to offer. Nina’s mother remembered a woman whe got her | little girl a kitten by answering | ‘ an ad in the daily paper. | I said that as a godfather | would like the privilege of giving | Nina a kitten and that I remem- | bered vaguely that someone had | offered me one ‘not long ago. 1} was sure if I retraced my steps a bit I'd remember who and when it was and could easily come up with a kitten, Everyone politely agreed, yes, it would be a fine thing, but there was a when-do-you - think-you'll - get-around-to-it look in their eyes. Frances remembered a cat fan- cier in the office and was sure | that one cat fancier would know other cat fanciers and if you went through enough cat fanciers you were bound by the laws of nature to come up with a kitten. Nina’s mother already had checked her new neighbors and had put them to checking more | neighbors, so that line was out. Nina’s father offered the solution | of .going to the A. S. P. C. A.! headquarters, wherever that might | be, but we all knew that would result in coming “home with just any cat. And we wanted the pick of the lot. ‘ But at the conclusion of the meeting we were determined to have a kitten under Nina’s Christ- mas tree by Dec. 25. The rest of the story I got by; hearsay. Nina’s mcether had a letter to be | mailed and couldn’t go out because the baby was sick. So she bundled up Nina and her sister, Vona, and | sent them two blocks down the | street to the nearest mailbox. She watched the two little girls care- fully cross the road with the old familiar mother feeling of ‘‘why | do I ever scold them? Bless their little hearts!” Fifteen minutes later she was watching again, a little nervous because they never had gone so far alone before. Then she saw | them re-cross the street carefully-- | tiny things in their bright snow- | suits, As they came up on the oes porch she saw that Nina had a small shiny black kitten clutched to her. “Whose kitten are you playing with?” she asked. Their eyes were sparkling as they said breathlessly, “It’s ours!’ The mother explained carefully | that it was all right to play with | other people’s kittens but they | shouldn’t walk off with them. Nina insisted that a little girl had given it to them ir front of a brick house somewhere around the corner. Twenty minutes and four Phone calls jater her mother hu: up the telephone and said, ‘Well, Nina, you’re right. You can keep the kitten.” All of which goes to prove that wore, and nightfall the rain had soaked m through and through, robbing them of their uncertain function of protection and transforming them into sod- den burdens on their bent and weary shoulders, Just at dusk they found a gauntly slas cliff that rose like a wall from the edge of a rain- ed river. In the narrow shelf veen the stream and the cliff d a crude brush lean-to, of tip-down ever- open’ front a feet from the . It was slow ng a fire with the rain- ‘ood he was able to the fire ate into the wood the flames of gleaming ved a double otected the fire the blowing ame a giant eat of the its slantin; hundred yards re the cliff fell rom the river to form a nar- meadow. She had shoes, for the river- q g of mud, d tucked he irt up at so that it was above her floored the lean-to ie. As Clay fed ed the dented black unwrapped the coffeepot and bread and the long freshly baked vept vacuum that th Host wea 0 given them. mirecl good that 2 fink Y Ge was almoet uate le was untou and she spread it, hai ‘ion of ev the time Clay ha firewood to last them night, the coffee was ig arth ss e pot — even the fenison had been suspended = ie fire or enough ne em a faint semblance The light of the pe Clay sank down the buffalo robe ane He look the ee know, the last two le left on earth. Nothing ph but the rain and the storm, whatever ar uration there is so far away i knows where we are—and ably nobody who gives a How do you like it, Toni? Do you think arn ie to go back to the cave-man days and spend your life in a pine lean-to in front of * other things, “There are worse Don Clay. There are such things as cruelty and stupidity. There is great selfishness and there is in- justice.” She paused, stari at} d him with thoughtful eyes. ose things are hele sehor—but they are not so bad as poverty and hopelessness. I have had those for six years, now, and I am glad to get away from them. Are you sorry we are here, Don Clay’ T WAS a good question—a ques- I tion he had been trying to an- swer within his own mind ever since they had left Dex’s cabin. It was not the fight and the neces-. sity for flight; he had been im and: ,| out of too many pitched battles, turned his face toward too new horizons to be conce! with that. It was not the of the day or the barbaric quali of their makeshift shelter; fhe Two Jax Marines er _erying for help, | uth-old girl from sday. Winn, daughter Hie Winn, was in fair condition suffering rd degree b | L. Smith, 24, -was burned on the ears, nose companion, T.Sgt. Richard P. Musgrove, 29, was un- injured. The W rines were driving their , wagon when Winn, 18, running ing to her blazing screaming, stopped by on the roa din the bedroom rawled into the ed room, found the baby, e earth seems to r niform and temperate zone a far north as Greenland. | ce is widely used in cough | licines. y life is just! s has been orget about in ACROSS 1, Expect 6. Name 28. Open 29, Related 31, Refuses 33. Contradict 37. Inquires 39. Fruit 40, Lass 12. Spear 13. Guido’s high+ est note 14 Egyptian the country sun yea 15, South Ameri. 45. Went up can moun- 47, Vase 10-8 ae 48. Old card iP 1. Com 42. Sof maze 51. With full doesn’t matter. Nobody who| not mak &F Fi g. th because you have already done, but does not 1 peed mean that you must help; He threw out his arm in a eet ture of sudden. ieepationce. ti isn’t it! Damn it, I wouldn't mind hel; them. I'd be glad to them. I don’t want to get something. I've Jong to turn my: i i lown to lone too af He E i : oa i i OlR IA! 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