Medford mail tribune., December 21, 1958, Image 52

rornr3rr
Pfagued by a
PeaM-By
Gand
YAWN .7-? ?- AH REELIZES OUR )
( -SOLE MEANS O' SUPPORT IS VO' V
-BUT, CAlNT VO' )( AH 7A SORRY, Ll'L ABNER. DEAR.'.'
SCRUB A Ll'L. J AH LL LET TH SCRUBB1N' GO TILL
QUIETER.? J I LATER., WHEN VO'ISOFF FiSHlN' J
IT DISTURBS '
MAH SLEEP ) V
' -BUXAHVONTVJASTE
.7 MAH TfME,DEAR '
ii V AH'LL CHOP SOME CHOP
111
F DAISY MAE.'.'-THET . ,
I LAST NOISE DONE IT IT
f- HAIN'T VD'GOT NO ) i
( CORN -SI DER-AY-SHUN?
PICKURTHET A,
START A-CHOPPIN'
( WHEN TH' MEEKEST Ll'L WIFE, VTOl
THIS SIDE O'HEWIN, TALKS LM U
( THET WAV TO TH' FINEST -i
HUSBIN NAV-CHUR EVER pP ' h
CREATED SHE'S t Ij"
V SICK rJO'V f!
J SHE IS SlCK,YOKUN J
A IN A NORMAL WIFE'S :
' ( HAID,TH'UPRIGHT GLAND"
VWHARISVO'Y VT ' W
-BUT. IN HER
HAlD,SUMPTHlN'
KNOCKED IT
FLAT ON ITS
BACK
-l i
1 UNTIL HER
H 'UPRIGHT GLAND'
V IS ON ITS FEET
AGIN,SHE HAIN"
GONNA ACT
GONNA ACT Ml
AN ORNERY
he
N
fvA SMART, BOOTIFUL
GAL UKEMETEP
POhN 7DA S700PD
irv rr i ikf uim ?f
THAR.MUS 3E
SOME WAY AH KIN
GITOU7A ThIS."-)
V.
Our SIwb '-Weri-in ambrosius,
CALLED WIZARD By SOME, A
DEMON BY OTHERS. BUT LEGEND
HAS IT THAT HIS FATHER WAS A
DEMON, HIS MOTHER A SAINTLY
WOMAN. HIS POWERS CAME
FROM HIS SIRE BUT FROM HIS
MOTHER CAME VIRTUE THAT
WOULD NOT LET HIM USE
THOSE POWERS FOR EVIL. SO IT
WAS SAID IN THE OLD DAYS BE
FORE EVER CAMELOT WAS BUILT.
'MEf?LN, MERLN, MY OLD FREND AND
TEACHER, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO
MAKE YOU SO OLD AND HAGGARD?0
T KNOW THE NUMBER OPAW DAY5,
ANSWERS MERLIN, "AND THEyARE
EEW. WHATAVWIDO FOR ytXAAW
SON, ERE X PASS?
r
ilfiSll&Cli
SHOW ME HOW TO FIND AND RESCUE
MY PREND, SR GAVU4W ANSWERS
VAL READILYI
WE WHO HAVE SECOND SGHTMAY
NOT REVEAL WHAT WE SEE 70 MORTALS,
BUT HEED THESE WORDS
p) dp s-. U
' ' ? mil
i
YQUR UPEJS N DREAD DANGER WHERE" SWORD AND
SHELD WI.L AVAL YOU NAUGHT A LUTE? S BETTER
THAN A KEY A LONG ARM WLL RONT THE WAY TO
RESCUE." THE SILENCE THAT FOLLOWS THE ENDING
OF THE RUNE IS BROKEN BY A GIRL'S VOICE CALLING.
TMUST GO NOW, 0 SAY5 MERLIN WEARILY. OVER HIS
SHOULDER VAL CAN SEE, N THE GRAY DAWN'S LIGHT,
A SMALL. FIGURE. THIS MUST BE NIMUE, THE WATER
MAIDEN, IN WHOSS SMALL WAYWARD HANDS RESTS THE
FATE OF MERLIN, THE GREATEST OF WIZARDS.
1
WHEN RUY AND SIR WALDOC AWAKE,
VAL IS STILL WHERE MERLIN SAT,
RACKING HIS BRAIN TO FIND THE
ANSWER TO THS RUNE .
SWORD AND SHELD ARE USELESS,
SO J CANNOT ENTER BY FORCE
OR EVEN AS AN ARMED fNGHT
A KEY? AH A LUTES BETTER
THAN A KEY'
lwuiUiii!.iMwiiiija-aBm-ra-'-- H
fS? VAUANTSNOAAORE. TAM CD.
70NGLEUR, MJNSTREL, CLOWN
FETCH ME A LUTE, A RAGGED CLOAK.
J GO TO AMUSE KNG OSWCKAND
FTND A 'LONG ARM'0
xt wEEx-"vaI enter Ct!t Qstuick.
t 1