Judge — April 16, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

JUDGE Dh “This is one on the Boss- Paul Revere’s Ride if Paul’s Wife Had Been Along “Yor know I never talk about any one, Paul, but I’m sure you're wasting your time. Your friend will no more hang a lantern in that tower tonight than I'll fly across the ocean. He’s off drink- ing somewhere, while you're standing here in this chilly air— and April has the chilliest air of the year, you know— onsense! That isn’t a lantern, Paul. That's a shooting-star. . . . What? Well, it’s stopped shooting for a few minutes— “Well, all right then, it is a lan- tern. It certainly took him long enough to hang it. You'd think we had nothing else to do tonight— “PAUL! How dare you throw me up on that horse like that! You might have broken my— the old Scrooge can’t get along without me!” Unfortunately “Hold me! HOLD ME! If I wouldn't have better control of a horse— Suppose it does tak minute longer to get sta You'd think the world depended on your taking that message to- night. I'll wager tomorrow night would do just as well—just as— “LOOK OUT for that hitching- post! What a rider you are! If I hadn't yelled you'd have struck that post and killed us both. Missed it by a mile? You did not. ed it by much you s six feet— Left. Left! ... Turn LEFT. The road to Middlebury is Left. - Now you'll have to go back. If you'd only listened to me in the first place—but you never do. What? The sign says the road to Middlebury is right. I don’t be- lieve it. Some one has changed the signs. Who? Some boys of course. Boys do things like that . . . Ask at that house and you'll see... What? Th y it was the right fork too? . .. Paul Revere! Such language. Suppose I did make a mistake. I never pretended to be God, did I? . . . “Stop! Stop!! STOP!... Oh! You didn’t have to stop so sharp. I almost fell on my head. +++ What did you want to stop all the committee of “The best book of the month club” had novels published the same month. comicbooks.com