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JOHNNYS LETTER ii new york muny don't count for much when it conies to licking an other guy and you are short of the hitting stuff between your elbow & shoulder. thers a rich man heer who left hjs home town a long ago & comes tq n. y. where, he piles up a lot of dollqrs so as a duzzen qlerks are kept bizzy adding it up but there was 1 thing he wanted i tell you wht, he says to a frend, i wil be satisfied after i go back to the old town and lick the daylites outer willuin. finney who used to use me for a door mat when we wuz kids togather so this feller packs up ht trunk & bpets it to cahoes he haden,t been there so long that noboddy knowed him, but he hired a autermobeel & rode around town evry onct in a wile he wood stop & ast a natiye where is hill finney finally he comgsJfl a man who says that feller over there is bill finney, ut you hadent better talk to him today for he'j5 jest lacked 2 fel lers for stepping on his qorn & it usually takes 2 or 3 days to get over his mad but this rich guy goes on up to where bill is & when he sees a grate hig man liften a barrel of floqr outer a wagon with nobody tQ help him the rich guy says it cant be done & takes the next trne home now he says to his frends all my muny cant do what i want it to do, give me a part of arms that'll beat bULfioney s ' rr?x CHESTNUT CHARLIE POSTKAU I'UU BET : 60SU.ANT rr-5 AH &OM J " Nfe&ASliA. AN' IOJJJA.5 m s tf&33& V)HE IS A SA1W MOT " f. A5JC0B.? I WW. - r - - - -tc H4-. ' - , - IMuAU Tr .J -' W ?" mtTt'f At-' I AUTO SARCASM Jokum Gracious! your mud'guard is all smasHed. Did you bump into something? Bunkum No. We were standing perfectly still and a fire hydrant skid- i ded into us. Judee. titttttttttttmmtmm