Judge — May 28, 1932 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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Skippy Dialogues By Perey Crosby : What becomes of ya after : Your soul leaves the body an’ goes to Heaven. Snoopsy: Why doesn’t the body yo too? Skippy: An’ throw the undertak- ers outa work? Ain't there enough people unemployed? Snoopsy: But if the body went with the soul, they’s never would've on undertakers. Skippy: An’ there'd be more people outa work just the same. Snoopsy: Well, they'd have been somethin’ else. But what I'm tryin’ to get at is why the body don't ;ro with the soul. It belonys to the body. The body give it nourishment while it was here, an’ zinyo! soon as the soul’s through with it, the body's left with nothin’ but a vest o° daisies. Skippy: Ya say the soul lives in Snoopsy: SKIPPY house an’ it keeps him warm, but Well, a man lives in a when he goes out he le: don't he? Well, sup, was goin't to « a loaf o’ pumpernickel an’ fifteen cents worth 0’ boloney, you wouldn't expect him to call up the house mov- rs to get him up there, would ya? Snoopsy: There's somethin’ to that. Skippy: Ya_ bet somethin’ to that. aves the house, »sin’ the man licatessen’s for life there's Take a football— it’s a bladder inside what makes it so, but without the bladder the skin's no srood. : What's a football made Skippy: Pigskin, 5 sy: I told Freddi KIPPY SNoopsy ference sheepskin, ya wasn’t sure. He didn’t know the dif- n’ neither did I, so neither of us was the wiser. Skier Yeah, but now ya know the difference an’ ya'll worry yaself wonderin’ if Freddie will find out the differenc: Snoop: I was lyin Skippy: Why don’t ya tell him ya didn’t know? Well, if he does, I'll say JUDGE Snoopsy: An’ have him ease it around that I don’t know a pig from 1 sheep? Kippy: Yeah, but it’s forgivable if the pig’s dead. Snoopsy: When a piy'’s dead, doe: his soul go to Heaven? Skippy: They don’t let pigs di They rush them off to the butche ya'll be sure o’ havin’ chops. Say, wi botherin’ ya about the soul takin’ the body with it? Snoop: Well, I'll tell ya. 1 got a hankerin’ after soul learnin’ so I brings meself up to the liberry an’ asks the forelady if she’s sot a book on souls, an’ with that she takes me * points to a church their to the window 3 an’ say they'll learn ya. on the church an’ Sunday school, an’ I minutes when 1] business- T looks in put in a n't there ten rn that we mustn't let the Pope come over an’ take the country. It was the Pope this an’ the Pope that an’ beware o’ the Pope. An’ then they got tellin’ me about God an’ I got scared, so I was won- derin’ if the soul just went away by itself, could it burn? What's the soul made of? Skippy: Well, I'll tell ya what the soul’s made of. Take a lot o’ people singin’. Let’s say it’s a church on Christmas an’ the candles lit on the altar, an’ the people singin’ “Holy Night, Silent Night,” an’ some o’ the people that’s singin’ ve has lost somebod. very much—maybe a father, maybe brother, an’ maybe a mother. Tears is comin’ down the cheeks 0° them people an’ the voices is very beautiful. Well, sir, take any part o’ the space in that church an’ meas- ure it to the size of a kid or a “When a pig's dead, docs his Heaven?” soul go to "sa soul. utiful. man, an’ th That's very be woman or SNoops Skippy: Oh, don’t get me talkin’ on the Episcopal church ‘cause I'll keep here all day. “Nune Dimittis”’—ya don’t know what that is, do ya? oopsy: Chin Skippy: No, it’ in’t it? just somethin’ us Episcopals know but we ain't tellin’ everybody. Snoopsy: Well, the souls don't burn, do they? I ya're bad? Skippy: My father says there was a very smart man—very smart—a Greek, an’ I says, “Pop, don’t be takin’ up with foreigners, the ns has got to stick togethe “When this Greek was round, the only Americans over here was the Indians, an’ the earth was flat. Anyway, the people thought the earth was flat.” I couldn't see where the Greek was very smart if he thought the earth was flat, when ya can take any little earth is round. Anyway, pooh-poohed that an’ s th that oul only sticks to the body when been evil—I mean when the soul an’ the body was out to ve a srood time. The way Pop explained it to me, he says when the body tells the soul what to do, an’ they’re just like that! Well, some day they got to part an’ the body goes first with a bad person, an’ the soul begins to mourn for the body an’ gets so heavy that it can’t leave it. It gets thinkin’ o’ the good times the body an’ him had together, an’ so help me if it don't look like the body. That’s why ya have ghosts, Pop says. (Page 28, please) mean, supposin’ school kid an’ he knows the Pop comicbooks.com