Judge, 1928-12-08 · page 10 of 36
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# "Judge" Magazine Page: Fancher Gilcher the Filcher This appears to be a humorous tall tale from Judge magazine, a satirical publication. The main story concerns **Fancher Gilcher**, a compulsively dishonest character who steals everything ("filches") with both hands simultaneously. The narrative follows his improbable escalation from petty theft to cattle ranching. A comical subplot involves hired hands named "the Gattling Gunns" (a pun on the Gatling gun), who shoot his livestock. Another involves a character named Alger Welger, leading to absurdly recursive theft: Fancher steals Welger's holster while Welger steals Fancher's—objects later found in each other's coats. The lower cartoon mocks early "talkie" (sound) films, showing a grandmother's shocked reaction to movie dialogue, with a tongue-in-cheek editorial note about "loose nuts." The entire piece is nonsensical wordplay and physical comedy—typical Judge fare mocking early cinema, property crime, and American tall-tale traditions.
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JUDGE | alley, she sie'ed the gow on hin, | a sick gow. When the gow ght up with Fancher Gileher, | Fancher Gilcher filehed the gow. | = “I'm gowing home,” said Fancher. —"VETH DEARETH “snd start a teed” Tha, bp standers heard him start ee THITH ITH MY In no time at all Fancher had a HAPPIETH great herd of gattle. He had ” three hired men named Gunn. ih MOMENT Old Pop Gunn and hi two boys. Becbee Gunn and Shott Gunn hey were always — shooting Fancher’s gattle, and were known far and wide as the Gattling Gunns. Fancher didn't want to have all his gattle shot, so he dis ed the Gunns and they went off somewhere. ncher Gilcher got) anoth man named Alger W day A ret filched Fancher Gilcher’s holster, and at the same tine Fancher Gilcher filched Al r We ancher Gilcher’s holster that had been filehed by Alger Welger was found in Alger Welger’s ulster that had been filehed by Fancher ers ulster. a Her movie hero makes a talkie Gileher— (Is there a mechanic in’ the Fancher Gilcher the Filcher too. After that Fancher had been house with a monkey-wrench > . . . known as an Egg Th s loose nut over here. Fancher Gilcher started out in When Sarah saw Fancher beat- —" ditor.) | life asa filcher. He filched things weet and [ett Fancher was ace ing the wot hottle bottle down the ‘ Nate Connier bidextrous. While his right @ggg qty) Jl/// iY, cz . * | U / A y s hand was filching something it Lj never knew what his left hand filched. This habit of filching was bound to get Fancher into trouble. One hot day he filched a bot hotter wottle, I mean botter hottle, from old aunt Se Goosestep right on the steps of i the Hoosgow. Sarah was milking a gow. One of those mooley gows from Jersey. She had placed a bot hotter wottle on the gow so that the gow would give warm milk. | Sarah had dropped her hat in the | middle of the road. Fancher was } | passing the hat when he called to “Hoosgow you milkin’?" asked, as he ran over and filched the bot wotter hottle and beat it down the alley. It was the first time Fancher had ever run a race with a hot } hotter wattle, but he beat it. Once he had run a race with an egg, \ hard-boiled egg. He beat the egz, Graxoma—Oh, George! Such language—and millions listening! comicbooks.com