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mmmmsmm j&ik AIN'T NATURE WONDERFUL! High Prices - Well, Anton, ain't it awful the way prices have flapped their wings straight up in the ozone? The guy that first caught tie drift to raise prices sure started some cy clone. At first we were peeved when they put the pric.es in the elevator, but now it's funny, especially the fee ble alibis they dish out to us for rais ing 'em. These big guys, we'll call 'em "Money Hogs," well Norman, we'll now poem. The money-hogs ajl got their knobs side by each and they say: "Brothers, since we all are hep to the fact that the masses are some flocks of goats, the kind without the horns and don't butt, y' get me-? "Well, right now is the cinch time to rake in their shekels. We'll just tie the balloon on prices and wail to the goats, it's on account of the war." "Heh! Heh!" "Great stuff." Now Neil, 3 gotta admit we are goats, for flopping for that stuff. Y' know they're in some fuss across the drink and ain't gotvtime to think of us. Well, right here in the U. S. be fore the jam started we were supply ing them with what they wanted and now they're tied up in a squabble and can't get any, and here we're over flowing with all kinds of junk! then that, sick alibi. "It's on account of the war!" Haw! Haw J Rich stuff, eh, Roy they all chortled. 'CHESTNUT CHARLIE. GOSH, IFE6L' "oeuusH T'DAV 'S- Vrft Ssr ,rr? J F&Kci urrev, who wASTH6t FIRST THAT Bore Arms?, ., 2 ic-JF Lx" W51UWH0 'WAIT IT, "WE PHARISEES ? Jfbi 1 kW 1 ;X tt xyjj ADAM - -ff- JOB WAS SOME BABY . Tommy Why don't baby talk. papa? Papa He can't talk yet, my boy Young ladies never do. Tommy Oh, yes, they do. JoV did. My Sunday school teacher read to me out of the bible how Jc cursed the day. he was borj gncfo iMMitiihJijrtl6 "-- -