Life — December 1, 1927 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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EXQUISITELY FASHIONED---+ TEMPTINGLY BEAUTIFUL "vere WeNY > len Ya ware LOOK FOR THE NAME-THE SAFEGUARD OF QUALITY Speaking of PUPS: The LIFE DOG CALENDAR for 1928 is now ready, and will be mailed to any one who fills out the coupon below and sends it in, with one dollar enclosed. The LIFE DOG CALENDAR is designed for all those who love dogs (and those who don’t have no right to read this magazine). It contains the twelve most popular months in the year together with six beautiful colored portraits of airedales, fox terriers, pekes, bulls and! other breeds, by Robert L. Dickey, Mz- Clelland Barclay and Will Rannells. LIFE, 598 Madison Ave., The supply of DOG CAL- ENDARS is limited. Every a 3 New York, year in the past we have had to Dear LIFE: | refuse orders for the calendars I love dogs, and I want to have your because the demand exceeded DOG CALENDAR for 1928. Enclosed the supply. is one dollar. Please mail the Calendar We advise you seriously to to the following address: get your order in AT ONCE i you want to have the LIF: DOG CALENDAR as a cheer- ful companion throughout 1928. The Merry Outside Passenger ‘T was in the year 1827, and the month was December. An Eng lish mail-couch, its outside pas- sengers in greatcoats and mutters, was making its weary way against a swirling snowstorm and =» bitter wind. “Ha, ha, ha! laughed a large man on the box seat, as the coach lurched and all but toppled over. “IT fail to note the merriment, friend,” said the shivering passenger next to him. Dusk settled down on a bleak landscape, and at a bad corner the lead horses slipped on a stretch of hidden ice and fell amid a tangle of harness. The large man on the box seat shook with laughter. Untimely laughter, the coachman thought, for the words he growled were harsh When, half an hour later, in the darkness and the cold and the pelt- ing snow, the left rear wheel came off and the the loneliest p: ind dismay were in every voice. In every voice, that is, but the large man’s on the box seat. “Ho, ho, ho!” he roared again and again, Gents all,” said the coachman griml in a fix, but afore we tries to get ourselves out of it, there’s a certain party among us as had ought to be oned with.” Passengers shook their icy fists at the man on the box seat “Roll him in the snow and see if he'll laugh at that,” “Give him a lantern and let him walk four miles to the next stage for help,” said another. “That will eure him of laugh “Nothing will cure me of laugh- ing, gentlémen,” said the large man on the box seat, “for I have it on the best of authority that this experience we are going through, this coaching in cold and drifts in December, is just the warmest, jolliest, heartiest time ever had by mortals anywhere. And you are quite to be envied. My authority, gentlemen, is the Christ- mas cards of 1¢ one hundred years from now. And as they re t of the re ched for him an- grily, he disappeared in a whirl of wind-blown snow, and there was an echo of laughter across the frozen fields. A. H. F. Quite Agreeable HE: We must avoid all possible chance of any misunderstanding, John. Hr: Good; thes we won't open a joint checking account. x comicbooks.com