Judge, 1908-12-26 · page 7 of 17
Judge — December 26, 1908 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This Judge page contains two distinct pieces: **Top cartoon**: Two commuters walking to the station on New Year's morning. The joke satirizes the futility of New Year's resolutions—one commuter admits he's made the same resolution three years running without success, implying the grim routine of commuter life makes self-improvement impossible. This reflects early-20th-century urban anxiety about monotonous, soul-crushing commuting. **Bottom feature**: "The Christmas Yarn of Captain Fibb" is a tall tale told in six illustrated panels. An old sea captain recounts an exaggerated fishing story involving impossible catches, a sea serpent, and fish so numerous they form a solid path to shore. This is pure comic exaggeration—a humorous maritime tall tale in the tradition of American frontier storytelling, with no political message intended.
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ON THE ROAD TO THE First commuter—* Made your New Year's resolution, Brown ?" Second commuter—“* Naw ; what's the use? TATION NEW YEAR'S MORNING, Made it three years in succession and I'm livin’ here yet.” ‘THE CHRISTMAS YARN OF CAPTAIN FIBB. Se ae by eK. RES ter pull up fer the shore — nthe spring 0° °76, an’ Iw a mile off of .the coast ‘of Umiiji e wur nary a bite an’ I wuz jist goin’ me gits fairly aliv cle lamp xit so thick that they wuz so many that clean out 0° the w comin’ an’ gittin’ more excited !— — an’, bust me bulkhead, if they didn’t 3. swamped me boat! ‘There they lifted me little dory ater, an’ still they wuz a- — Jist then I looks around an’ I sees what the trouble wuz. Only a few feet away wuz a ter’ble sea sarpint, bigger ‘na railroad train, an’ comin’ right fer me! ies, I tho't I wuz done fer. —— Well, me heart- 5. —— I jumps outer the boat ter drown meself, but, ding bust me mizzen, if them fish wuzn't so thick that I couldn't , 80 I runsall the way ter shore on a solid sea o” fish, with that ter’ble sea monster arter me! — — An’ I lands the awful thing snap an’ L wuz saved! Y with the fish that came ashore ter escape the ter'ble ea sarpint.” the solid ground j is jaws on me coat-tails, essiree! I filled ten barrels comicbooks.com