Judge, 1910-06-18 · page 11 of 16
Judge — June 18, 1910 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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**"Childhood Joys"** is a simple domestic joke: a child struggles to remove a lollipop stuck in his mouth—the humor lies in the parents' matter-of-fact response to what appears to be a serious problem. **"The Yarns of Captain Fibb"** is a tall-tale parody mocking exaggerated adventure stories. Captain Fibb recounts an implausible series of jungle encounters: escaping a "hook-nosed Rum-Jum" (appears to be a fictional creature), being chased up a tree, wrestling a giant snake, tying the beast in a knot, and ultimately earning a royal honor from the King of Denmark for capturing this "rare specimen." The satire targets the widespread popularity of fabricated adventure narratives—particularly those featuring exotic locations and implausible heroics—that were common in period literature and tall tales. The deliberately absurd sequence (a knot-tied serpent, a non-existent creature, a nonsensical reward) exposes the genre's inherent ridiculousness. The comic acknowledges this is pure fiction by having Fibb himself frame these as dubious "yarns."
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CHILDHOOD JOYS. Oh! What's the motter with Jimmie?” Come on, Sadie, there ain't nothin’ the matter. He 's just tryin’ to pull a lollypop out of his mouth,"* HE YARNS OF CAPTAIN FIBB. 1. Whew! It gives me the shivers yet when I 2, —— Well, I hotfoo’s it fer dear life, and —But jumpin’ Jehoshaphat ! before think of it. I wuz in the jungles of Borneo when bimeby I comes to a high, steep. precipice me wuz a big snake hangin’ from the all of a suddent a ter’ble hook-nosed Rum-Jum and couldn't git no further. It looks like tree, ready to chaw me up! And right pops outer a clump of trees and tears arter I wuza goner till I spies a tree and dashes behind me wuz the awful Rum-Jum comin’ lickety split! —— . —— But with a mighty effort I grabs 5. —— Then I quick ties the squirm- 6, —— Then I leads that rare specimen to the the snake by the neck and tail and in’ thing into a knot tight around King of Denmark and gits an honorary degree throws the loop over the onrushin’ Rum- the ter'ble beast’s mouth, so he wuz because it wuz the only Rum-Jum ever caught Jum.-— helpless. — alive !"* comicbooks.com