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SUNDAY, JUKE S0.1940
THERE'S JOHNNY )0W BOY
CURTIS. IF YOU AND THIS
CHEESE IT.
JOHNNY HEI2E
COMES NIPPIE'
STILL WANT IS THE TIME
TO CATCH HIM,) I'M GONNA
NIPPIE DO IT
HE'S
OFTEN"
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MICKEY FINN
McNausfat Sradleitt. tat,
WHY DOES UNCLE I WELL. MICHAEL HE5
PHIL ALWAYS GET V NEVER FORGOTTEN
SO GROUCHY AROUND) THAT IT WAS ON A
THIS TIME OF THE FOURTH OF JULY
YEAR, MA? THAT HE LOST THE
ONLY GIRL He REALLY
EVER LOVED
PLOTZMEYER
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By Lank Leonard
flto ( EVER LOVED ROSIE V
St WAS BACK IN 1906, MICHAEL, AND
PHILIP HAD TAKEN ROSIE TO A BASKET
PARTY THAT HIS LODGE WAS HAVING
ON THE BEACH AT LAKE PACKASNACK
ROSIE AND THE GIRLS WERE GETTING
THE REFRESHMENTS READY WHILE
PHILIP AND THE OTHER YOUNG MEN
ARRANGED THE FIREWORKS THEY
h PLANNED TO SET OFF n593Kg
PHILIR OF COURSE, INSISTED THAT HE
KNEW ALL THERE WAS TO KNOW ABOUT
SUCH THINGS. AND ELECTED HIMSELF TO
BE THE ONE WHO WOULD 5ET THEM OFF
ST
BUT, AS YOU MIGHT SUPPOSE, THE VERY
FIRST SKYROCKET HE SETOFF WENT
SHOOTING ALONG THE GROUND INSTEAD
OF UP IN THE AIRAND HEADED STRAIGHT-
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FOR R05IE! THE POOR GlRL, TAKEN
COMPLETELY BY SURPRISE, WA5 THROWN
FORWARD ON HEB FACE RIGHT INTO A
LEMON MERINGUE PIE &ND TO MAKE
MATTERS I ' I I
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THE FLIMSY WAIST SHE WAS WEARING
CAUGHT ON FIRE AND SHE BECAME SO
PANIC-STRICKEN THAT SHE DASHED
MADLY DOWN TO THE LAKE AND
FORGETTING THAT SHE DIDN'T KNOW
HOW TO SWIM, 5HE JUMPED OFF THE
END OF THE DOCK AND PROBABLY
WOULD HAVE DROWNED IF
hELMER FISHBACK, WHO ALSO LOVED
HER, HAD NOT DIVED IN AND GRABBED
HER JUST AS SHE WAS GOING DOWN
) FOR THE THIRD TIME'
Naturally, rosie left no doubts
ABOUT WHAT SHE THOUGHT OF PHILIP
WHEN SHE CftME TO, AND SIX MONTHS
LATER. SHE AND ELMER FISHBACK WERE
MARRIED
I y
WELL, HE MAY ( I'M AFRAID l J . L.
HAVE LOST HIS M IT DlDNT, L TTTTl 11 f i T 1 7-,-
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