Judge — May 14, 1932 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Skippy Dialogues By Perey Crosby Grivey: Well, I just come from the O horoscoper Yapry: The who? Swippy: You know » reads off'n the ar gossipin’ YAPPY the woman you know, Oh, fortune teller. SKIPPY not exactly. E horescoper don’t look for trouble in the erystal, an’ she don’t look for th frem bridge table raps, an’ her, cards is just cards. the horoscoper res thro for the sky answ to wha nerin’ ya. She works from a chart that looks like a cartwheel an’ sh can tell everythin’ that’s ever yoin’ t If ya’re ever u ipox, she can tell kmarks ya’re goin’ pen to ya. have chick how many p' where most of them is yoin’ It’s nice to know all that stuff ut it don't make ya happy. For in nee, I'm to “lo out for man tose name beyvins with an ‘E’," she \n’ don’t put any stock in a « man whi initials is ‘Y. E” went through a whole line o’ eople beginnin’ with ‘M’ an’ ‘EF’ an’ on, until we yot the alphabet used There was just one 0’ them 1 tru an’ judgin’ from what I yuess that was myself ) warns me very carefully by An’ there's a hat’s ‘ ake trouble you.” T dn’t have to rake me mind over to now that that was the teacher. Yappy: An’ all this is’ in women for the Skippy: All in the stars. Yappy: I always thought they was put out for somethin’ better than the What else did she tell ya? Skippy: Oh, she told me a things lot o° but I can’t think o° them all. She says if I ever buy a farm, I sheuldn’t oush’s plant barley if Venus is in the ascendant, an’ I houldn't plant potatoes if Mercury rules the heavens, Yappy: Hew the moon is ful bout spinach when Skippy: T don't know that, but it eems all richt to me. Yappy: Anyway, she doesn’t know nything about farmin’. Who ever Jl DG heard of a farmer plantin’ barley or corn or potatoes when tars is out? skippy: Weil, if 1 want my crops to be right, it when Mercury is in call-it. Yappy: It seems like a very funny kind 0% farmin’ to I Vall day, then hitchin’ up the es when the stars come out KipPY: Well, 1 yon seems I yot the to do it what-d'ya me. | in’ didn to be a farmer, say I did I. She T buy ari Well, suppose fillin’ ition mustn't fill was use a open a eee an’ she unless says you cars lercury is in the ascendant, or Venus is this or Venus is that. A swell lot o’ busi ness ya roin’ to he doin’. First thing ya know, they'll be takin? ya iway in a wire wagon, ippy: You don’t unde horoscoper only has the future. She knows what's to happen before it takes 7 Yappy: An’ do people pay her for all this? Skip? her livin That's she makes but with me it’s diferent I know the woman downstairs, an’ the horoscoper uses me rore- hearsals. Yarpy: Well, if she knows all about the future, why don’t she make money on horse n’ clean up before they take p Seems to me she oughta know all the winners. Skippy: Well, that’s yamblin’ an’ horoscopers don’t yramble. Yappy: I don’t: know—tellin’ ya when ya're yoin’ to have smallpox seems like ygamblin’ to me. vre liable to have — s¢ fever or diphtheria or somethin’ else monia, maybe, an’ all the was bankin’ on smallpox. Skippy: Listen, I don’t think you pneu- time ya und und what the horoscoper’s tryin’ do for people. Yarry: [think I understand. Peo- ple pay her so they'll have somethin’ to brood People what ain't vot any troubles so to he they an’ when me back, they got enough to bout they don’t. know whether they want to go on livin’ or not. SKIPPY: think That'd be cheatin’—I to end your life when ya know ya should wait around for an acci- dent, Yappy: I don't know—I think it’s very smart. Suppose ya're yoin’ to fall out of an airplane on Septe: ber 16, 1940. Why sho up to Idn't you live eptember 15, 1940, an’ then » racket by jumpin’ out of an Skippy: No, I don’t see that at all. You lose a day. Yarpy: Did she to marry stu py: Yes, she marry Lizzie Krausmeyer that’s what bothers me ‘cause I Carel. But 1 suppose hrough with it. Yapry: An’ are ya yoin’ to have children? Skippy: think they happy ’ a was yoin’ says I'm goin’ to an’ love T yot to po Lot's o” them, but T don’t re goin’ to make me very ase TH always be thinkin’ how much better the children would i was Carol's. Well, why don’t you marry Skippy: How can I marry Carol if it’s Fate that 1 must marry Liz Yapry: I know, but ya don’t love Lizzie. Carol loves ya, don't she Skipry: So it’s been whispered. But ya see, the horoscoper says I’m born under Scorpio. (Page 31, please) comicbooks.com