Judge — September 1, 1928 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Uncle Harvey’s One-Man One-Horse Shay Top | Whenever Uncle Harvey would tell his pals that | he had hit upon some new notion, his pals would | generally hit upon Uncle Harvey. His notions didn’t always strike his pals just right, but his | pals always struck him right, all right. Hardly could Uncle Harvey pop his new idea when some body would pop him. No sooner would he spring his latest joke upon them tha upon him, o matter how the punch lines of his cracks and gags wer don’t mind me, I'm just warming up a little, that’s all—go ahead and read the story. It was along toward the last of the summer that Uncle I top. rvey decided to invent a one-man shay ot a one-man shay that deesn’'t mean, and The worm, about to turn, observes the rules of a one the road. ne an one-horse shay either, but a one man one-l man top for a one-horse shay—that is, a one horse shay top that would « only lik “one-man dog.” only for its mas ter. Now, the advantages of such a top are too obvious even to mention, but maybe I'd better — | anyhow. Well, everybody knows how mad they t. don’t they, when they have parked their shay — | automobile, as the c: rse shay top. In other words, a one yverate for one man may be, in some crowded section, and practically everyone who comes alor fools with the top, putting it up and down so many times that it gets all worn out and has to be sent a ay to the mountains or the seashore to get away from it all and eat good, wholesome food and sleep like a top, all of which is expensive to the owner and could easily be avoided with a simple little thing like the On n Top. From Uncle Harvey's description, everybody wondered — | which was the simplest, the top or Uncle Harvey. Well, he drew up his plans, and they looked logical enough, and practical, but were they, that was the question, And that was exactly what Cor—Can't help you, Mister—I'm after a mad Uncle Harvey set out to prove. He set out every | dog! day on the back porch working on the darn thing. ; Whenever, in years afterward, Uncle Harvey was asked why he chose to make a buggy top in- | stead of an auto top, he always replied that it was |b use he liked horses better than cows. aid, he never found very companionable ; he considered their sense of humor too low. (Low don't miss that. You know—what a cow does.) Yet on Uncle Harvey's farm you would see no end of cows. This would perhaps be because they would all be turned sideways. Well, it wasn’t long before Uncle Harvey’: 5 or buggy, was being discussed all over the coun tryside. Everybody was talking about “Uncle Harvey's buggy.” Whenever anyone would sav anything about “Uncle Harvey's bu else would be sure to answe aPR Cows, hi * some ‘He certainly is With all its advantages, however, Uncle Har- vey'’s buggy had its disadvantages as well. ‘The principal one was the harness proposition. Be fore going for a driv ng his top for a “Not so high, Clifton!” comicbooks.com