Judge — November 19, 1927 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Socerasa eee | | | JUDGE “Your face seems familiar. Where have we met before?” “Head-on, on the Great West Road.” —Loxvon Oprnion An Open Letter to Dr. Perelman Dear Dr. Perelman— Your letter asking me how did I win my wife is at hand and I am sitting immediately down to tell you all about it. One day while I was having dinner at that place on 44th Street (you know the pl: flight up—turn to the second door—woo whoo tw and there you are) my foot slipped off the rail and I was in the lap of a little girl quite an obvious stra had been wee her lap and your name ( one er in town and she g so I got out of 4, “P pn me, is No,” she said, “is yours?” because she looked like a Gibbish girl I knew in Trenton slightly. But we were good friends right away. As we sat there blowing the suds off our beers she told me she was from Norfolk and I asked her did she know how to stew rabbit and she said “Yes” and I asked her would she stew some for me and she a Yes." I asked her how did she hap- pen to be here and she told me she read about a pot of gold at the foot of a rainbow in a book and she followed a rainbow and landed here. “Did you find i “Not yet,” she said, piereing me with her black eyes lau ingly. Well, the next morning when they were sweeping out the place on 44th Street they woke me up with a note in my hand. Dear Gus (is what it said)— You wouldn't get round shoul- dered carrying around that pot of gold, but I guess it’s enough to get home on. Come see us. Gwinnik. Well, Doctor, I couldn’t pass up an invitation such as that, especially with stewed rabbit in sight, so in spite of my hay fever I went to Richmond, Va. In the station I asked the Travelers Aid lady did she know Gwinnie, but she said no and says why not ry Memphis, Charlottesville or anton, so I said it was a good Golly, though, you would never guess where I found her. Kan- sas City! And she hadn't changed a bit in ten y “Come on home,” said she, “we have been expecting you. We moved from Wheeling in 1920 because Pappy didn't like it there. Pappy’s Pappy was from Kaintuck and he owned nearly all the state and most of the colored population befo’ de wo’,” she said, et cetera. “Do I get rabbit stew, or don’t I?” said I. “Sure, mike,” she replied. We arrived in time for dinner and Pappy was sure quaint. He smacked me in the wrist with the back of a knife the second time I reached for the corned beef and cabbage. Well, it was not cold sleeping out in the b a doctor in yard and besides attle told me three before that sleeping out in years y fever. I got up with the chickens to keep them from walking over my face and went into the house to take a cold bath like the Tampa doctor said would be good for my the air was good for 1 comicbooks.com