We got word here that
k you been workin’ under
.false pretenses!

Zjoknew donkey.

You are nothing but an V
^s[ alligator— we hxred n ^

Whoo-
r twenty-two
years of
hard labor
an’ not
even a
dag blag
gold watch
to show
for it,

Maxwelton was thunderstruck.
Everybody had said he WCLS
a donkey

I figger he must he a
duck or a chicken— any-
way they gonna stew
him up for dinner —
but I got a soft heart

An’ you can’t do it, huh? Jes’ han’
me the hatchet, son. Then you
can forget all about yo’
terrible assignment.

Why in Y^°H

tunket
can’t you
learn to
swim,
Horace?

can’t
swim
yo’self,
Pa.

Behold, sir!
The head duck
and a duckling
performing
duckly
duty

Only this morniri the good man
was countin’ his hatchets! “One is
missinT’he cried, and swore on
his fathers sword that it would
with the culprit!

~ :

Vbu go fotch back yon .
hatchet, sirrah, an’ I will
chop yo’ head off with it.
Otherwise no supper tonight.

I vows to bring x / Good
back yd hatchet, \ fellal
master, on account \Come
of it is my boundenAwith
^duty. — * A Ame.

n

1

But I bought this ) That dealer was
armor from a /the King— be sold
dirty old junk f me four times,
dealer— wasn’t
s’posed to be nobody ) 'V f°° Q
— in it- '

Well, we cant take a
man’s clothes, Quin-
cival.You’ll gotta
wear somethin’ else
for armor.

Here, try
this, jes’
for size.

How kin I
take that
out in the
light?

In the meantime,
Maxwelton has
escaped from the
farm and decides
to go to the big
city to make his
fortune as a mus-
ician. A very funny
thing happens as
he makes his way
atone, i/u: ntTU’n«

Well, Wizard, it so happen I is goin’
into the show business as a sin-
ger~I btMjlad to take you on
"" with your act.

&

You a
singer?

)OL

1 is a unemployed donkey
Maxwelton by name— youl
is heerd that Maxwelton’s
brays are bonny? So 1 is
a singer, m ph!

But you looked so really Y Ho! That
dead! I was afeared to clap, was bnly
in case you was / dyin’— now
dead, Id hurt / this is the
yo’ feelin’s. ( death

I ’Tain’t a cough —
it’s a hark. . . I was
hired on here as a
airedale— s’posed to
he a watchdog,but-

Say— if you’re dead, hold
still. How you expeck to
get proper buried?

( Suddenly
\ he sniffs
r a sniff.

zrrv

I He points at the
/ marauder— then
( fearlessly he-

— 2

r

Bein’ a dog is too
risky— I’m gonna
run off an’ join
somethin’ safe.

There’s nothin' safe to join any more.
The backwoods poets have muddied
all the little fountains. . . j-

We’ll sing
as we march
along.

We’re

sensational-
see, the hug
swooned out
of sheer
delight!

V7/

Qhis is a rare opportunity
for you to creep forward
arf invpstinn+e

-

i

Long asY Us ought to share
they is > the hazards of
havin' J invasionwith
fun— A^.our liT friend.

Food!

My sahes,^Maybe if us is
they is real friendly
preparin’ , us kin git
a banquet! A unvited.

r

How wonderful— ^l\bu gone V Course not, (\f he’s raw, put
Turtle soup is my M eat me , WQ is got y a liT jacket on
favorite color! raw? A clothes on! I the varmint an

follow me, gents! Us'll go
back to the farm an’ have a
big perloo as a reward for
runnin off them robbers.

1

r

At? that, chillun, is how come we got such a comfortable swamp. 1
All the critturs went back to the farm an' acted like themselves, \
'stead of like other folks, an’ ol’ Owl, he buried all the hatchets j
an’ soon the farm spread out an’ become a nice, swampy <^- J
woods an’ — — — : -

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