Judge — November 3, 1928 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Father Tells a Bedtime Story (After Attending One of the Current Gangster Plays) “Settle down quiet now, you lousy offsprings, and pay en- tion or I'll empty a couple of gats into your mid-sections. This / * -"@! story is about Chicago Chipmunk ‘and the hazel nut racket, and Iet me tell you it’s a wow! “Well, Chicago Chipmunk and Shotgun Squirrel were chiefs of rival gangs in the loop district of Blackjack Woods. Now Shotgun Squirrel had sworn that if he ever caught Chicago Chipmunk run- ning juniper juice—I nuts—in his territory, he'd bump him off good and proper. Well, Chicago Charlic as they called him, wasn’t taking no chances, so he always went around with a big bodyguard—Willie the Weasel; the Rabbit brothers; Poison Peter; the Rat, and Bi “Well, one morning abo M. I'll be xx ——xx dif gun Squirrel wasn’t awakened by n hazel Turse Stare “Just a 1 of a racket going on under his hangout. There, sure enough, was the Chipmunk Gang running a truck-load of hazel nuts out of Blackj: Woods to Carson County. Well, a ck as you can Shotgun aks down out of his tree and hotfoots it liquorty liqu cut to the junction where the Chipmunk truck was headed, and plants a half a dozen genuine N. T. ers. Well, to make long story short, t finished up all his ‘gang against Chi Charlie himself, who, as lu would have it, had a date with Moll Marmoset that evening. “To-morrow night, buoys and goils—Chicago Charlie’s Revenge, or Shotgun Squirrel Encounters a@ High-Powered Limousine. And now I think it's about time all you little —— —s kissed your daddy good-night and went’ up- stairs to flop.” —Parke Cumsines moments more, Ferdinand. When the guests Then there was the barber who leave, there'll be room for you spent his vacation shingling his to come back.” house. comicbooks.com