Judge — June 1937 — page 26: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Death in Famous Faces the Day Coach 4 pes man with the box sat down by me although there were still some window seats left. The box had holes unched in the cover. He put it on his nees and fidgeted. I felt he was going to speak. “I beg your pardon,” he said finally. “I don’t suppose you would care to buy a cobra?” “T hardly think so,” I said. “They're poisonous.” “I know,” he said. “That's why I don't want to take it home. I have five children.” “Quite a large family,” I said politely. “It's a great responsibility,” he said shaking his head. “I don’t want to have to worry about a cobra too. But it is a very handsome cobra. See.” He took the cover off the box. It was a handsome cobra, sleek and shining. It raised its head a foot or two out of the box and spread its hood and swayed back and forth. “Have you a whistle with you?” asked the man. “I think they are going to bite when they do that. You have to blow a whistle or something.” “It's a flute,” I said. “You have to play a flute.” “Maybe so,” he said. “I don’t play anything. It charms them, doesn’t it?” “TI believe so,” I said, “I never tried it.” “Wouldn't you like to?” he said eager- ly. “It would be something different.” “No,” I said firmly. The cobra swayed forward and bit the man in the seat ahead. It bit him in the neck. “You see?” I said. Just then the conductor came through and saw the cobra. . “Say,” he said. “You'll have to take that thing in the baggage car. No animals allowed in the coaches.” “This Bat an sain said the man. “It’s a reptile. But I don’t su; it makes any, difference.” ans “It certainly don't,” said the conduc- tor. “The first thing you know it will bite somebody.” “It bit me,” said the man in front in- dignantly. “The hell you say!” said the conduc. tor. “Do you feel sick?” The man didn’t answer. He fell over into the aisle. “That settles it,’ said the conductor. “You get that thing out of here right 12 away.” The man put the cover on the box and got up. “You're sure you won't change your mind?” he said to me. . “Positively not,” I said. ind their names on page 31. He shook his head and went off to- ward the baggage car. —Epwarp W. SPOONER. In these caricatures of a dozen celebrities, Frank Dunn has eliminated everything from their faces and caught them with one or two pre lines. If you can’t recognize all of his victims, you'll fi Judge comicbooks.com