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I'm the comic weekly man, the jolly comic weekly man, and I'm here to read the funnies to you

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happy boys and honeys.

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Yes, boys and girls, it's comic weekly time.

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And here I come right into your house to bring a little fun and happiness.

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Right out of the pages of Puff the Comic Weekly straight into your living room, your friend

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the comic weekly man, the jolly comic weekly man.

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Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.

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Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.

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Oh, little miss honey, how are you today?

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Oh, I'm hot.

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Well, what have you been doing to keep cool?

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Well, yesterday I went swimming in the lake.

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Ah, but I'm sure you don't go swimming all by yourself.

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Oh, no, I'd never go in the water by myself, not even in a small, small pond.

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Well, I'm proud to meet a child who is careful when he or she's around water.

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And I'm sure you're always careful when you're in swimming in a crowded pool too.

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And I know you wouldn't play dangerous tricks on anybody else.

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Oh, no, and I'll never go into a river or a lake or an ocean without making sure that a grown-up

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is right there beside me because you never know when you might find a deep spot

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and step into it the way over your head.

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Well, I can tell you right now you're a good friend of mine because anybody who takes

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such safety precautions around water as you do is someone I admire.

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And you know, you're a good example for everyone to follow.

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Yes, I am.

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Yes, you are.

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Now, could you please read the funny...

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Puck the Comic Weekly?

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Very well, I'll read that in just a moment.

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But before I do, let's listen to this nice man.

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Now, here we go with Puck the Comic Weekly.

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And on the first page under bringing up father, Beetle Bailey.

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Magikwits for the music, please.

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Very well, my lady.

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Toot me a toot and tweet me a tweetle.

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Squeeze out music for Bailey the Beetle.

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Beetle and his company are out on an overnight bivouac,

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which means they're sleeping in tents on the ground.

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Beetle, who has been trying to go to sleep, exclaims,

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Oh, the ground is too damp. I'm going to sleep up here in the back of the truck,

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if no one catches me.

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Next morning, as the sergeant is shaving, he says to one of his men,

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Oh, Hot Rod, you better drive into town before breakfast and get those supplies.

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Okay, Sarge.

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Third picture, the truck is in town.

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The driver has gone off to pick up his supplies.

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And then Beetle wakes up.

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He stands up in his underwear and stretches.

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Oh, boy, that was a good night's sleep.

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The lady who's walking by sees him standing on the truck in his underwear.

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Yikes. How did I get here in clown?

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And last picture, top row, he wraps a blanket around him, leaps off the truck

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and dashes for a store in his bare feet.

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I got to find some clothes.

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Hey, look, Mama, in Indian.

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First picture, bottom row, he's in a store.

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Quick, quick, give me something to wear.

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And ten minutes later, Beetle is standing in front of a mirror,

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wearing a gay sports shirt and bright slacks.

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The clerk says, That'll be $28.50, sir.

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I don't have any money with me.

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Then take them right off. Do you understand? Right off.

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Fourth picture, bottom row, Beetle's hiding in an ashcan.

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He sees Hot Rod, the guy who drove the truck into town,

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loading a bag of potatoes onto it.

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Hey, Hot Rod, bring me a potato sack.

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Hey, Beetle, you should be out on bivouac, not in an ashcan.

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And last picture, the truck pulls into camp again.

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And Beetle gets out of the truck wearing a potato sack.

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The sergeant takes one look at him and shouts,

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Bailey, you've been absent without leave.

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And Hot Rod laughs,

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Ha ha ha, absent without pants is more like it.

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Oh, that was a big joke on Beetle.

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He climbed onto the truck and left his potato sack in the truck.

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And left his clothes on the ground when he went to sleep.

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And he ends up back in camp in a potato sack,

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looking like a rotten potato.

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That's funny, looking like a rotten potato.

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Well, I'm sure he feels like one.

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Well, now how would you like to see what's happening to Roy Rogers?

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Oh, you know I would.

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All right, then turn over the page

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and go past Prince Val, who is in Ireland.

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Turn over page three.

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And here on page five is Roy Rogers.

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And you remember, Roy was trying to catch the man

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who robbed the railroad payroll.

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And the trail had led him to the construction camp.

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And the three crooks were there.

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And while Roy was talking to Hard Rock Higgins,

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that's the leader,

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one of the other crooks was going to shoot Roy.

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But he slipped and fell, and Roy heard him,

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pulled his gun and went after him.

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And Higgins swung a great big hammer to hit Roy.

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I wonder what'll happen.

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Well, let's read now and find out.

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Here we go with Roy Rogers,

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King of the Cowboys.

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Hi-yip-a-yo, now here we go with Roy and Trigger.

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Hi-yip-a-yo.

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Roy dashes past Higgins.

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Higgins swings the hammer.

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Wildwood yells for Roy to duck.

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Roy quickly ducks and the hammer sails over his head.

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Oh, blast it, I missed.

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Wildwood pulls the gun,

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and Higgins sees he's covered and pulls up his hands.

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Then Ham, one of the other outlaws, runs for his horse.

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Roy shouts, hey, hold up there, mister.

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The third outlaw, Smiley, starts for Roy

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to get him from behind.

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But he trips, last picture, top roll.

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Roy whirls around.

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Oh, no you don't.

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Smiley is knocked out.

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First picture, bottom roll, Roy exclaims.

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Two men were hiding behind the ties, one got away.

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But I think this pair can tell us plenty

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about that payroll robbery.

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A few minutes later, Ham, the escaped outlaw,

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is burning leather, heading for the hideout

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to get all of the stolen loot for himself.

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At the same time, Dangerfield,

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the owner of the carnival, is approaching down the road.

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The outlaw sees him coming and reins in behind a rock.

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Last picture, as Dangerfield's wagon reaches the rock,

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Ham shouts, all right, pull up there, Dangerfield.

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Whoa there, whoa.

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All right, Dangerfield, you're going to help me

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grab a bag of loot, dead or alive.

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Oh, no, please, please, no violence.

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You should have my complete cooperation.

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Well, I don't think much of that Mr. Dangerfield saying

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that he'll do everything he can to help the outlaw.

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Dangerfield doesn't fight like Roy does.

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No, he doesn't.

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You think Roy will find the trail next week?

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Well, I'm afraid we'll have to wait and find that out next week.

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But now let's turn over the page.

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All right. Oh, look, Brer Rabbit.

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And I know you want to read that.

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Oh, yes, indeed.

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All right, here we go with Uncle Remus

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and his tales of Brer Rabbit.

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Say the magic words with me, please.

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Hippity hoppity, make it a habit to give us music for old Brer Rabbit.

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Uncle Remus said,

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This is about the time Brer Bar overslept his hibernating time.

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Brer Rabbit is sitting on his porch reading the paper

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when Brer Coon and Brer Possum come running up.

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Hey, Brer Rabbit, Brer Bar has overslept his hibernating time.

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Yeah, nobody can wake him up.

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Well, if you've tried everything, then I'll try something else.

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You'd better come on inside.

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Five minutes later, Brer Rabbit is pouring something into a salt shaker.

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This is my extra special magic wake-up powder.

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First picture bottom row,

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Brer Coon and Brer Possum have led Brer Rabbit to Brer Bar's cave.

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And we see Brer Bar lying on his back,

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his hands folded over his chest, snoring away.

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Brer Rabbit whispers,

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Now everybody keep quiet and let Brer Bar do his grunting.

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And then Brer Rabbit shakes his wake-up powder onto Brer Bar's belly.

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Sprinkle, sprinkle, little dust.

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Now go ahead and do your rust.

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Suddenly Brer Bar's snoring is interrupted by a

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snorting sound.

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And Brer Bar jumps to his feet and dashes down the road.

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Oh!

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And last picture.

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As Brer Bar disappears around the bend, Brer Possum asks,

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Hey, what is that magic wake-up powder?

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And Brer Rabbit answers,

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Well, in the language of us creeders, it's what us call cow itch.

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And Brer Coon exclaims,

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Great day.

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And Uncle Remus says,

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Sometimes nonsense makes a lot of sense.

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Brer Rabbit certainly woke Brer Bar up, didn't he?

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Yes, you bet he did.

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But how long will Brer Bar itch?

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Oh, until he gets to the first stream where he can jump in,

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take a bath and wash the itch powder off.

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Oh, that Brer Rabbit, he's some trickster.

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You bet, he's some trickster.

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Well, now let's turn over to the very last page of the first section.

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And look, here's Dick's Adventures.

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Oh, yes.

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And you remember, Dick is in the early days of America in California,

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and he was working on the newspaper.

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And you remember that last week some men came into this frontier town carrying gold.

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Mm-hmm. And they said they discovered a rich gold mine.

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And I'm anxious to know more about it because gold is the richest thing in the world.

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So could we read, please?

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Why, you bet we can.

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Here we go with Dick's Adventures.

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Say the magic words with me.

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Riggity-pack-a-zack-a-zick.

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Let's have music for adventurous Dick.

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Feverishly, Dick and Mr. Campbell work to get the news of the discovery of gold in their paper.

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Second picture, Campbell says,

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Mark my words, Dick, no one's going to believe this silly yarn.

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Well, gee, I don't know, Mr. Campbell, I got a hunch they will.

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Last picture, top row, the door bursts open and a frenzied crowd surges in.

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They've heard of the discovery of the gold mine.

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And first picture, second row, the gold craze mob snatches the papers as fast as they come off the press.

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Hey, it's true. Look, it says here gold mine near Sacramento.

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Hey, I'm going to get there and stake me out, acclaim.

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Yeah, me too. We'll be rich. Won't have to work another day in our lives.

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Last picture, second row, editor Campbell pleads.

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Now, don't think you're going to get rich just because somebody found a few ounces of gold.

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What do you mean a few ounces? There's piles of it lying there in the ground just waiting for us to go get it.

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Yeah, and I'm leaving right now.

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Yeah, me too. Me too.

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Last picture, at daybreak, after working all night putting out their paper,

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Dick and Campbell leave the office.

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As they head home, Dick says,

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Hey, Mr. Campbell, how about us going ourselves and looking for gold?

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And Campbell snorts, what? You mean you believe it too, Dick?

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Oh, this is going to turn out to be the greatest hoax of the age.

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Oh, that was exciting because the men really believe that gold is there and that they'll get rich.

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Yes, you bet they do.

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You think they will? Dick thinks so.

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Well, as in all things like this, there are those who will be lucky and those who've had a little more experience than the others.

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And these are the ones who'll get rich.

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The ones who are unlucky and don't know so much about how to do things, they're the ones who aren't successful?

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Well, worse than that. They probably give up their jobs, jobs they already have,

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and spend all of their savings trying to get rich, and they end up by losing everything.

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Oh, that's terrible.

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Yes, it is, but that's what happens when you're foolish.

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Well, I wonder if Dick and Mr. Campbell will go out and try to get gold.

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Well, we'll find out about that next week.

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But now look below Dick's adventures. There's Rusty Riley.

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Read that in just a moment, but first, here's that nice man again with something interesting to say.

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Now here we go again with Pup the Comic Weekly, and on the last page of the first section, Rusty Riley.

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Magic words for the music, please.

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Very well, my lady.

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Gallop and run till the road is dusty. Give us music for us, Horse and Rusty.

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Tex and Rusty were on their way home to the Milestone Farm in the truck carrying Silver Lad,

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the last of the famous line of racehorses.

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A rival horse raiser, Velvet Kane, doesn't want Silver Lad to reach the Milestone Farm

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before Kane closes a deal to sell horses to a wealthy South American.

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He sent two of his men, Porky and Scrub, to make sure that Tex is prevented

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from delivering Silver Lad to the Milestone Farm.

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They've set up a detour sign which has led the truck off the main road through some woods,

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across a bridge, and up to a shack where Porky and Scrub are waiting.

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As the truck pulls into the yard, Porky slips away to dynamite the bridge

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so Tex cannot get back onto the highway.

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Tex and Rusty get out of the truck. Scrub comes out of the shack to meet him.

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Tex says, Oh, excuse me, friend, but I'm getting a little worried about this detour.

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How far is it to the main highway?

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Scrub replies, Detour? Why, this ain't a detour, mister.

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This road ends just beyond here. How'd you get in on it?

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Why, there's a detour sign where this road leaves the highway.

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Says the highway's closed.

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That sounds like some fool's idea of a gag.

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You better come on in the shack and have a cup of coffee.

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Thanks, friend. They go into the shack, last picture top row.

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Me and Rusty are due in Lexington tomorrow,

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so if you'll show us where we can turn the truck around,

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Scrub leans back in his chair and smiles.

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Well, mister, we can barely turn our jalopy around.

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But in the morning we can try chopping a few saplings out.

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And maybe we can find a way to get here.

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First picture bottom row, we're at the Milestone Farm.

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Mr. Miles is talking to his daughter, Patty.

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I must admit that I'm a little worried that I haven't heard from Tex since he started.

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And then he thinks, if he only knew how really worried I am.

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I stand to lose, Milestone Farm,

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unless I put over that deal with Senor Caldarez.

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And I must produce silver lag to do it.

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And at the breeding farm of Velvet Kane,

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Senor Caldarez, the wealthy buyer from South America, is saying,

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I am most sorry, Mr. Kane, but I wish to cancel my order for your yearlings.

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I am going to deal with Milestone Farm.

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I have just learned I have acquired a silver lag, son of Gallan Corporal.

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Hey, don't be silly, Caldarez. That's nothing but a rumor.

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You haven't seen that stallion, have you?

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Well, Mr. Miles is going to show him at the horse show tomorrow.

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I have his word.

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Well, word or no word, I got a grand that says he won't show silver lag.

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If he does, you can forget my yearlings.

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And last picture, back at the mountain shack.

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Porky has called Scrub outside.

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Yeah, what is it, Porky?

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Hey, listen, Scrub, I planted the dynamite under the fire under the bridge.

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Then I went down the highway to take down the detour sign.

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Scrub, it's gone.

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Yeah, well, that ain't good.

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But just remember, nobody can prove we put it there.

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Oh, isn't that too bad?

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Tex has driven right into the trap,

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and Porky's going to blow up the bridge so he can't turn his truck around and get back across it.

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Yes.

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And if he doesn't get back onto the road to bring silver lag to the Milestone Farm,

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Mr. Mouse says he won't be able to sell his horses to that man from South America.

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And then Mr. Mouse will lose his farm too because he needs the money.

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Oh, I wonder what'll happen.

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Well, let's hope that that detour sign, having disappeared,

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will get Scrub and Porky into trouble and help Tex.

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Oh, I hope so.

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Well, now it's time to go to the second section of the Comic Weekly.

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Oh, yes, and there's that funny, funny Dagwood.

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I wonder what happened to him today.

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Well, let's read now and find out.

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Here we go with Dagwood and Blondie.

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Ramaphoo, ramaphum, zim zam zombie,

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conjure me music for Dagwood and Blondie.

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The phone in Mr. Dither's office rings.

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Yes, hello?

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It's Blondie who says.

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Mr. Dither's, ask Dagwood to stop at my dressmaker's

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and pick up my new dress for tonight.

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Last picture top row, Dither's answers.

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Oh, don't worry, Blondie.

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I'll tell him, I'll tell him.

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I called you because I know he'd forget it.

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Second picture, second row.

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The phone rings in Dagwood's office.

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Hello? Dagwood Bumstead of the firm of Dither's and Company,

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Incorporated, et cetera, speaking.

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It's Mrs. Dither's who tells Dagwood.

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Oh, Dagwood, would you please tell my husband to meet me

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at the Dale's Restaurant at six?

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We're going to dine there.

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Last picture, second row, Dagwood says.

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Now, don't worry, Mrs. Dither's.

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I'll tell him.

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I know, Dagwood.

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That's why I called you.

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I knew Julius would forget.

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At the end of the day, Dagwood and Mr. Dither's

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are putting their coats on to go home.

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And then Dither's says.

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Seems to me there was some kind of message for you.

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Message? Message?

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Say, seems to me there was one for you, too.

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Now, what was it?

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Oh, dear, oh, dear.

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An hour later, Dagwood and Mr. Dither's are down at the waterfront,

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still trying to remember what the message was.

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Dither's groans.

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Oh, this is terrible.

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We don't dare go home until we remember those messages, Dagwood.

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And Dagwood chews his fingernails.

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Golly, it's getting dark.

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And they think and think, trying to remember.

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Two hours later, the moon is high in the sky.

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Last picture, third row, Dither's suddenly shouts.

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I remember the dress from the dressmakers.

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Oh, yes, and you're to meet your wife at the Dale's restaurant.

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Hooray!

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An hour later, first picture of bottom row, Mr. Dither's comes into his house.

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And there stands his wife, glowering at him.

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Dither's says, now, darling, I went to the restaurant

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just like you said, and you weren't there.

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I waited for you three hours and then came home.

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Oh, dear, don't lose your temper.

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Oh, dear, don't lose your temper.

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Oh, dear, don't lose your temper.

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About this time, Dagwood comes into his house.

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And there stands Blondie, impatiently waiting for him.

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I went to the dressmakers just like you said, dear, but her shop was closed.

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That means we can't go to the dance tonight.

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Now, Blondie, remember, I'm your lawfully wedded wife.

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I mean, husband.

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And a half hour later, Mr. Dither's,

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who is now a mess of bruises and bumps from the beating his wife has given him,

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is on the phone calling Dagwood.

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Uh-oh, hello, Dagwood.

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I'm calling to find out how you made out.

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This is Blondie.

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Dagwood is in no condition to answer the phone.

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Oh, those silly men, they just can't remember anything.

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Oh, they can't remember a thing.

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Blondie was sure that Dagwood would forget if she called him.

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So she called Mr. Dither's to tell Dagwood, and then Mr. Dither's forgets.

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And the same thing happens to Mrs. Dither's and Dagwood.

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Yes. Well, after the beating those fellows took, I don't think they'll forget again.

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No, I'm afraid not.

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Aren't those people funny?

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Yes, aren't those people funny?

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Well, now I know you'd like to see what's happening in Walt Disney's story,

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The Sword and the Rose.

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Oh, yes, please.

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All right, then, let's turn over the page

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and go past the little king on page three.

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And here on page four of the second section is The Sword and the Rose.

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Yes, and you remember, it's in the early days of England when Henry was king.

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And his sister Mary had fallen in love with a captain of the guard.

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Which isn't what they liked to have happen because captains in the guard didn't marry princesses.

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No, the king and the queen try to make certain that anyone of the royal line would marry someone of another royal line.

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Yes, but I wonder what will happen here because Princess Mary really loves Charles Brandon,

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and I don't blame her because he's brave and handsome and daring.

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Yes, but King Henry has noticed Princess Mary is pretty fond of Charles Brandon.

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And the king had said he's going to break this up by having her marry the King of France.

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Oh, I wonder if that'll really happen. I hope it doesn't.

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Well, let's read now and find out. Here we go with The Sword and the Rose.

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It's Mary, Mary England when knighthood was in flower. Music to bewitch our story hour.

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Charles Brandon, who is now in love with the Princess Mary, is talking to his friend Cascadon.

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Ah, Sir Edward, what am I to do? A mere guardsman bewitched by the Princess Mary.

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And Cascadon replies, Aye, Charles, and you have cast a spell on my lady too.

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And at the same time in the princess's chambers, her lady-in-waiting Margaret and she are talking.

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Margaret tells the princess that she shouldn't fall in love with a commoner

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because King Henry has pledged her to marry the King of France.

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Last picture top row, the princess answers that it's time that everybody understood that she'll wed whoever she chooses.

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At that moment, there's a knock on the door.

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Your Highness.

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The lady Margaret opens the door and the chamberlain says, last picture second row.

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With license of your Highness, the King commands you to the royal presence to meet the French ambassadors.

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Mary answers, Inform the King I'm not disposed to come.

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First picture bottom row, the quaking chamberlain returns to the King. He bows and says fearfully.

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Your Grace, my liege, the princess says she will not come.

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The King explodes.

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What? Am I to be flouted under the Windsor roof? Defied?

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And last picture, he leaps to his feet.

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Ard's thunder. If she'll not wait upon us, we'll wait upon her.

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Ooh, the King is angry.

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Oh, you bet he is.

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He's going to talk to Mary himself, isn't he?

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It looks that way.

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Oh, I hope she's brave and doesn't let him scare us though because I want her to marry Charles Brandon because he's brave and handsome and daring.

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Well, we'll find out more about this next week.

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Now let's turn over the page. And here on the last page of the Comic Weekly is Flash Gordon.

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Oh, yes, and Flash is on the planet Titan.

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Yes, and they're to investigate there to see what life on the planet is like. And they were trapped inside a cave.

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Yes, and a big boulder was rolled against the opening of the cave.

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And there's just a little tiny spot at the top that they might escape through.

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Yes, but you remember that Flash saw a great big hand of a giant right outside the cave and he's sure that the giant is waiting to capture them.

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I wonder what will happen today.

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Well, let's read now and find out. Here we go with Flash Gordon.

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Riggity-ga-doon-doon, sashka-matash, let's have music for heroic flange.

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As they crouch on the top of the boulder, a foot away from the narrow opening, Flash, who has glimpsed the giant, says,

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Whatever it is, it's hiding there, waiting to grab us as we crawl out of here one by one.

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Midas says, well, it's not going to get me.

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And he fires his rocket pistol. There, it's gone.

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Flash says, well, your shots didn't seem to bother it much.

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And then the pilot shouts, hey, I smell something burning.

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Flash looks around and sees the cave is beginning to fill with smoke.

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Flash picture-top row, he exclaims, trying to smoke us out.

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We've got to act fast. Now, listen, cover me. I'll make a run for it. If I get outside, perhaps I can stop it.

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So holding his rocket rifle in his hands, he makes a run for the opening.

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Here goes.

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He crawls out of the opening, but is suddenly knocked over by the giant hand.

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He falls head first into a huge basket.

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The smoke drives Midas and the pilot out of the cave.

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I can't stand the smoke. I'm getting out, too.

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The giant hand scoops first Midas and then the pilot into the basket.

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And last picture, the three of them see Dale come tumbling down.

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Yeah, here comes Dale.

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Well, that makes the whole passel of us. Caught like fish in a basket.

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Oh, they're all captured by the giant.

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Yes, they're all captured now.

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What'll happen to them? Will the giants kill them?

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Well, next week we'll find that out.

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Now, that's all the time I have.

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But before I go, here's that nice fellow with some more interesting information.

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Well, honey and all you boys and girls, I've got to go now.

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All right, Mr. Comic Weekly Man, but I'll be waiting for you next week.

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Okay, that's a date and a date with all you boys and girls.

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Be sure to meet me with our little friend Miss Honey next week

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when I raid Puck the Comic Weekly.

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For I'm the Comic Weekly Man, the jolly Comic Weekly Man.

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I'll be back to read the funnies to you happy boys and honeys.

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Don't forget, boys and girls, see you all next week.

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Your friend the Comic Weekly Man, the jolly Comic Weekly Man.

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Puck the Comic Weekly Man