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Page 14 THURSDAY, Blackie Bear DONALD DUCK - ": " - Z . v By, IDEAL JOB He had managed to get a job as collector for a gas company. "Take this master key and go round and empty all the coin box es; get all the pennies and shil lings," said the manager. He was gone for three weeks. Then he walked into the office and announced: "Can I have another key? I've lost t'other one." "Certainly," replied the man ager. "But where have you been all this time? The cashier has stopped late every Friday night expecting you to come for your wages. ' "What!" exclaimed the man beaming, "do I get wages as well?" Tit-Bits. CANNY The battle for Bengasi was in full swing. The colonel of a Scots regiment was jealous of the large number of prisoners the Austra lians were taking, so he called his men together and offered 2s. 6d. per hundred prisoners brought in. The next day a Scotsman march ed in with 800 Italians; the officer paid him one pound, at the same time asking how he had managed to get 80 many single-handed. The Scot replied: "I bought them from the Aus tralians at a bob a hundred.' Tit Bits. THE SUMMER VACATION 40 weeks of anticipation Add 10 weeks of bustling prepara tion Plus 1 to pack and reach the station Leaving 1 of final realization. ECONOMICAL WAY "I can afford to look at the best," said the shopper. "How fortunate' interrupted friend. "When I'm just looking," con tinued the other. ORSO IT SEEMS Visitor : "Say, some of these taxicab drivers are good. Why, they can turn around on a dime." Native: "Yes, but they charge 50 cents for doing it." DOUBLE TALK Down South a Negro woman was buying eggs in a store run by an other Negro. "Is dese aigs fresh?" she asked. The salesman replied, "Ise not say in' dat dey ain't." To which she countered, "I ain't askin' ye ain't (ley ain't, I'se ask in' is dey is?" LIBERALITY THAT COSTS Mr. Newlywed (solicitously) "And tell me, dear, how do you get along with the butcher?" Mrs. Newlywed: "Oh, wonder ful, darling! He's such a gener ous man. Whenever I order a four pound roast he never fails to send one that weighs from six to eight." ON A ROUTINE TRIP The irate parent stormed up and down the room before the trembling suitor. "Do you mean to say," he shout ed, "that you came to my office to ask for my daughter's hand? I might as well be frank with you and tell you that you could have saved yourself a journey." "Oh, that's all right,' sighed the suitor. "I had another message to deliver in the same building." Mountain Joe . . . The way people are planting gardens around this county, indi cates that they are heart and soul in sympathy of the program to plant a garden and can the sur plus. The people of Haywood have al ways been more or less self-sustaining, and a thrifty group of hard workers. They believe in liv ing at home, and the program as now launched on a nation-wide basis is meeting with much favor in Haywood. Down at Burgin's the general theme of live and let live has pre vailed throughout the years, and that is why so many people know that they can get more for their money plus the service which means so much. BU RGIN BROTHERS WE DELIVER Pfcene 334 At The Depot ; " : . 1 1 1 ' r- Slum , By Perry L. Cn IT coMS ONeR to the House C I Zzr: " CH&Cc Sni S AN oee THE owcLL IDtA I GOTH ' vitf LtA AAn 14 : I POLLY AND HER PALS . GLORIA'S Z' BUT ASM G&VE ME THIS I I j I -, ' : - - - . f DONALD DUCK By Walt Di I 'rJS&- ( hL-Y U yl I -HUM FT Pn IN 1 1 flf here's the keys this is V I HTT Ml . -. II t flF ' J oJP 1 - 7 THE CARS IN J AWFULLY ) T I " ' 1 F ! i-: ( PV4cAi9?SV yy - driveway! ry sweetofT, i -7- r : USAISY! . r----rnT f YOU, AFTER ALL f ': i 1 " SKIPPY DID YA HAR THAT NOISE? IS THE HOUSE HAUNTCO -i POLLY AND HER PALS ''' 'i x f IF VOU'RE GOIN' INTO TW' V I I BUT, UKJK, "THERE OUGMTA BE SOME I I ' " I SERVICE, VUM1-L MAPTA ) ( BRANCM OF TUE SERVICE WHERE A J ( COME T TWINJK OF IT ) ? START AT TU' BOTTOM ) r MAN OF MV ABILITY CAN j Tl-IEV IS JOIN TM' ' START AT TH' TQP RAcU lCPS) The Mountaineer Phone 137 -.cre uueu ' -I I i,,,,nl " ' l! ( 5 r.r t.v''-. '. vo&m i coat ir t www n 1 WHAT DlO IT SOUND LIKE f u Quality OFFICE Ihie OME BOTV DROWN IN OR G ETTIN' CHOKED fAAV5E . I t-m. V I I ' Moonlta i mieer 1 y O H , SUPPLIES By Perry L. 0 THATS ?NUY PAPA HANIN HIS CUK Phone 137
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