Judge, 1932-06-04 · page 5 of 36
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# "Skippy Dialogues" by Percy Crosby This page features a humorous dialogue between two characters—Yacob and Skippy—discussing the practical uses of horsehair. The conversation satirizes folk superstitions and everyday logic through a child's perspective. The joke centers on horseshoes as good-luck charms. Skippy points out the absurd contradiction: people treasure horseshoes for luck, yet the same horsehair used in furniture caused an accident (referencing "old Holsapple luck"). The narrative builds to a comic payoff where a snake bite is ironically blamed on the horseshoe's "old Holsapple luck" rather than actual danger. The cartoon mocks superstitious thinking by showing how people rationalize contradictory beliefs about the same object—treating horseshoes as both bringers and preventers of misfortune based on convenience.
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JUDGE Skippy Dialogues By Percy Crosby 7 acos: Why ain't horses’ tails in one piece? Skippy: 'Cause. YAco "Cause why Skippy: ‘Cause birds have to have nests, don’t they? Yacos: Y ‘ceptin’ them what lives in Cuckoo clocks. Skippy: Well, there ya are. YacoB: Do ya mean to say horses just come so’s birds could have nests? Why don’t h come out o’ the srround an’ save all that horse? Skippy: 'Cause the other part o” the nest comes out o’ the ground an’ that’s grass. Yacos: It’s the same thing. The horse eats grass an’ then gets hair on his tail; seems like they’s more to life than that—two ends of a horse an’ then a bird’s nest. Skippy: Now that ya bring it up, they is. Ya mustn't be forgettin’ about horsehair furniture. That got a lot o’ people together. Men with tight pants on used to jump when they got pricked with horse hairs stabbin’ them, an’ the woman folks'd fall into the rms—thinkin’ they was cave men when it was the horse hair all the time. Yacos: They’s somethin’ to that, maybe I wouldn't be here if it wasn’t for horse hair. Skippy: An’ then ya mustn't forget that horse shoes bring luck to lots o’ people. Yacos: Not if they’s a horse on the other side of the horse shoe. Skippy: When there’s a horse on the other side even—look at Abner Holsapple: gets kicked through the back o' the barn an’ not a minute “An’ then ya mustn't forget that horse shoes bring too soon ‘cause he would o’ died o’ ‘ snake ‘bite. luck to lots 0° people.” Yacos: Did he know the snake was goin’ to bite him? sraver lookin’ for work. When he hangin’ over the door, then his wife Skippy: Not from what was moved in an’ heard about how Abner ks where he jerks his thumb, an’ un’ at the funeral he had was saved from the snake, he began she reads the engravin’: “Lest we no idea—but people what seen the to warm up to the horse shoe. Him forget.” A blast o’ wind suddenly id it was the old Holsapple an’ his wife used to go over the blew the door open an’ Zowie! down ain. Mrs. Holsapple would- story again an’ again. Pretty soon comes the horse shoe an’ beans him t with that horse shoe for Christmas come aroun’ an’ he didn’t on the head. Well, sir, from that anything, so what does she do but have nothin’ to give his wife, so he day on he’s been coc eyed. When tie ribbon aroun’ it an’ hang it over gets down the horse shoe an’ goes to the town seen what the horse shoe the door. A week after the funeral work on it. On Christmas mornin’ did, they all shook their heads an’ she gets married to a travelin’ en- he’s standin’ under the horse shoe said: “It's the old Holsapple lu : comicbooks.com