Judge — July 25, 1931 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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you could have had the thing done long before this and been back to your silly old work. What do you think you're expected to do, deliver an ora- tion or somethin Now, just call and tell them to stop, th all. s every bit you have to say— just merely’ who © and to stop for our laundry. “You sce how simple it is—why, it won't take y ute, not even five seconds- “Oh, f'godsakes, all right. G'bye.” “John, wait! Do you promise you wil “Yeah, sure. G'by; “Well, I just bet you won't. John, I know you won't! “Oh, you're so in- considerate—you've kept me up all this time and made me get myself all waked up, and now I'll just go back to bed and lie and worry and worry about whether you've phoned them or not, and I know I never will be s to get back to sleep!” ua min-= “I'd give anything for a feather right now!” delay because they may be leaving on their route any minute, and then it will be too late, and I just don’t know what we'll do if they miss us this week because we've got such a terrible unmount of stuff to go, and Aunt Edna coming next) week and we'll need everything—" , I've got so darn much to tend round the office here — why the you do it yourself, since © now any a Mm not awake, I tell you, and I simply can’t talk to anybody over the telephone because if I do I will get all waked up. You know how hard it is for me to go to sleep once I'm awake! And besides, it would keep me up just that much longer, and [I’m simply desperate to get back to bed heeause you know how it upsets me to have my night’s rest disturbed. But of course you don’t ca sleep [ lose. It’s nothing to you how long I have to stand at the telephone talking to an old laundry when I'm so sleepy [ can hardly open my mouth, And besides, they might they'd already left, and you know how nervous it makes me to argue with anybody over the telephone. But they probably already ve left by this time, and if they haven't they will any minute, and you're just deliberately trying to get me all upset by del ing, so they will have left and w won't have any clean sheets for Aunt Edna—” Oh, for crying out loud.” “Now, John, really you're being awfully foolish. The idea of taking up all this time arguing about it when Miss Linewty—Hey, Bud, goin’ down to Havana? © how much comicbooks.com