Life — December 18, 1924 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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SSS SS IF SKEPTICISM NG FOUR-YEAR-OLD INCREASES IL- BE NECESSARY SANTA v CHIMNEY-CLIMBING CLAUS SIBLE LINES. The Rover Boys on the Farm Or; A Happy Christmas Holiday OOTBALL, baseball, basketball, track athletics, soccer, checker-playing, tennis, golf, fishing, and various other forms of sport—Hooray! Who are we, who are we, who are we? GUESS! Yale? No; guess again! Harvard? No; guess again! OAK HALL? YES!" As the college yell of old Oak Hall rang into the crisp winter air, the three Rover Boys, all dressed up in their mackinaws and galoshes and big fur gloves, set out from the familiar campus to spend the Christmas Holidays on the farm. “Hooray for the Rover Boys!" shouted the college students. Good-by!" called President Putnam. “Don't get run over by the horse cars!” “Don't take any wooden nickels,” retorted Tom Rover merrily; and the crowd was con- vulsed with laughter. Joshua Gooseberry, the Rovers’ hired man, met them in the carryall at Oak Run, to drive them out to Valley Brook Farm. “Well, Mr. Tom,” he grinned, “I guess you'll be the death of me this vacation, I guess.” Poor Joshua had often been the victim of Tom's “pranks” in the past.* the fun-loving Rover had re- d the axles from the carryall, and filled the hubs with butter; and at this remark of Joshua’s he winked in a manner that set Sam to roaring. And sure cnough, as the big carryall reached the top of the hill, off came all four wheels with a bump! and Joshua and the three Rover Boys pitched headlong downhill. The brothers could not help laugh- ing merrily to see how completely the gul- lible hired man had been “taken in” by Tom's prank. “Dear me, Mr. Tom, you'll be the death of me yet,” moaned Joshua, as he crawled out of a thorn-bush and started to collect the pieces of the carryall. Yet with it all he could not help liking the boy; Tom had such curly brown hair and sparkling eyes. “Hooray for the Rover Boys!” called the farmers. “Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!” echoed Aunt Martha and Uncle Randolph as the boys drove up to the farm and sat down to a steaming hot meal. “Good-by ! atime *See the “Ground-Glass-in-Soup” Prank, Vol. 49, page 21; the “Kicked-by-Jackass” Prank, Vol. $7, page 3, and the “Tar.and-Feather” Prank, Vol. 79, page 114, “Well, Tom, are you over the sleeping sickness, as related in ‘The Rover Boys Congress'?” inquired Aunt Martha tously. Christmas Eve saw “big doings” on t! farm. The three boys had over the thre girls of the last book, and after fun crackin nuts, in which more fingers were smashed, they hung up their stockings. “Now watch for Santa Claus!” said Aunt Martha. “It's Uncle Randolph!” wi “He's coming down the chimney. Tom Rover grinned, because he felt prank coming on. He left the room hurriedly A moment later who should appear t the fun-loving Rover leading his uncl across the front lawn. Inasmuch as it wa dark, and the Santa Claus whiskers had got into his eyes anyway, Uncle Randolph couldn see very well. Tom led him to the big wel in the front yard. “Here's the chimney, Mr. Santa Claus, he said in a disguised voice. “Now craw! down.” So Uncle Randolph did; and at the dis tant thud and faint splash the young folk could hold themselves in no longer. “Such a joke on Uncle Randolph!” Sam. “Three cheers for the Rover Boys! shouted the three girls. The cheers were ven with a will; and the contents of that will, and how it led to the discovery of their missing godfather, who had been stranded for years on a New York Safety Zone, will be related in the next book of this series, entitled: “The Rover Boys in the Psycho pathic Ward; or, How Tom Bought Radio.” And here let us say good-by. Good-by. solici- pered Sam. shouted Corey Ford. Analysis of the One Hundred Per Cent. American REJUDICE—against Catholic Prejudice—against Jews.. Prejudice—against Ne Moral Cowardice Gullibility Damfoolish: 12%" 124° roes. 124° IRST OFFICIAL: Don't you think thes reckless motor drivers ought to be exam ined carefully? Seconp Orriciat: But is it fair to throw so many men out of work? comicbooks.com