Judge — July 25, 1931 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Sixe Sixc Coacu—Show this mug how to steal! NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS H* face looked familiar, but I along? You are couldn't quite place him. Destiny booking this year.” Is: had thrown us together. Fate had “Oh, I've tossed us into that iaelstrom of “What circuit broken men—lost souls. We were “No circuit.” alone, as Poe might have said, in a world of moa We were both look- ing for a prescription counter in the drug store. He looked at me sympathetically: “Indigestion?” he asked. ys er,” I said. “Well,” he said, “all that you need to do is go to the soda fountain for a bromo.” “No. I'm going to the prescription counter for a prescription.” I don’t think it’s neces- sary,” and he shrugged his shoulders. “What's your trouble?” I asked. “One thing and an- other.” hat’s life,” I said. “But,” he — continued, “I'm_on the up and up.” “Good for you,” I said, wondering where in the world I'd seen him before. “The breaks—that'’slife.” He swiped my _ line ‘Either you're a newspa- perman or an actor,” I % sa reah—I'm a juggler.” “And you're — gettin’ lucky—getting a rood booking.” I asked. “T thought you said you were « The First Charity Sweater Reaches the Unemployed. 19 gler.” Maybe the mountain moon had ine—I began to worry, wishing I'd worried earlier. I always do. “I am- away to beat the band,” he nd I felt relie And you're not on the road “Lordy, no, man—that’s got the break in my booking. “In what 7 “I'm keepir he books in a bank!" —D. S. L. “Ya gotta be careful, Otto—I stepped on something slippery that time.” comicbooks.com