Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • Page 55

SHE VGLLS AT ME TO FIX TH 1 FURNACE-THEN TO PRACTICE MY MUSIC BY GOLLY, I KNOW HOW I CAN GET OUT OF THIS-' HAH-IF I HAVEN'T GOT TH' MUSIC, I CAN'T IT GOES RIGHT INTO THE FURNACE, AND SO WILL EVECY OTHER ONE THAT COMES INTO THIS HOME, THAT I CAN FIWD, FROM NOW ON. AWRIGHT-IN A MIKINIT ER 6O -GOSH, IT MUST BE AWFUL ON WIMMEN WHO AIWT GOT WO SONS. I'VE VOLI THREE TIMES, NOW, TO PUT SOME COAL THE FURNACE, AND MV PATIENCE IS ABOUT EXHAUSTED. GOOD NIGHT-' WE 5OT A HOCKEY GAME ON, i PROMISED I'D BE THER.E' I'LL PRACTICE SLIPPING AWAV, HAH? VOU KNOW VOU HAVE YOUR. MUSIC TO PRACTICE, AND GOING TO DO IT IF I HAVE TO STAND OVER VOU EVERY SHE DON'T LIKE ME RE ADI THESE ROU6HKIECK MAA2IMES THAT LIL BRIM65 HOME, AND SHE'S SURE TO BUKN THlS'N UP IF SHE SEE'S ME R.EADIM' IT- INSTEAD OF PRACTICING, ARE YOU? i AND ONE OF THOSE LOW-BROW THINGS-' I'LL HAVE TO TALK 'WITH LIL ABOUT BI2IN-I IMG SUCH WHAT'S WRONG, NOW 1 HAVEN'T "HEARD THAT sS PIANO LEAST FIVE MINUTED- HE DOESN'T NEED THAT MUCH REST.

YOU SHOULD BEMOCE CAREFUL ABOUT GRABBIN 1 THINGS IM A HUFF A BAD TEMPER. BLUES youE BEAIN. 'COME BACK HERE, MISTER VOU DIDN'T FIX THE FUR.NACE IT f- I WENT OUT AND HERE IS VOU'RE NOT THRU, i HOPE wny, you HAVEN'T PRACTICED TWO FULL MINUTES, LET ALONE WHY, CAN'T PRACTICE WITHOUT MUSIC, AMD My LESSON WAS IN THAT MAGAZINE VOU BURNT UP. THE COMIC ZOO By Scarbo CHARLIE TOU SHOULD E6 ASHAMED OF YOUIZSELF DO VOU tZEALIZE THAT PuTTHiu 0 SPOILED POTATO in Mfzs, VEGETABLE PASHET? I'M So OH MGS. I'M 1 DECLARE, THE YOUMG- SOCA2E- M6 tO WATGH ALL THE NOW PERSONALLY OFYOufZ.

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