Show " - - s IsssH is fr-r- E OGDEN (UTAH STANDARD-EXAMINE- THURSDAY EVENING Uncle Ray's Corner R AUGUST 19 1948 M IP WE CAN KEEP OUT DP PAPA POPOVA'S WAY Eskimos Use Hides of Walrus for Dog Harness Burgess Bedtime Stories TILL WE REACH THE 10A6T MAYBE WE CAN GET MOVIE WORK TOGETHER BART! -- "All right tell me what it is I like jokes and no one who knows a good joke has any business to keep it to himself it's selfish That's what it is— selfish" said Timmy "You don't want to be an elephant tusk Under the skin of a walrus is selfish do you Whitefoot?" "No" retorted Whitefoot prompt- a layer of blubber which may be ly "I don't want to be selfish But from one to two inches thick This if 1 should tell you this joke you fat does much to keep the animal wouldn't believe it and I guess warm in its cold Arctic homeland I'd rather be thought selfish than It also supplies oil which is used by Eskimos and which also is sold one who tells untruths" "But I would believe it" insist- in parts of Europe and North ed Timmy "Haven't you and 1 America In some years more than 2000000 gallons of walrus oil have always been the best of friends?" been obtained Whitefoot nodded and Timmy con Eskimos eat the flesh of the wal tinued "Then why should you rus and cut the hide into strips think that 1 won't believe you if which are employed to harness their dogs The hide can be tanned and you tell me the joke?" into a tough leather At "Because it is too big a joke turned some leather goods stores you may 1 for anybody to believe It is all be offered bags made of walrus can do to believe it myself" re leather strong whiskers Brow on plied Whitefoot All the time he theThick cheeks of a walrus and we was ust itching to tell speak the them as "side "I'll believe it" declared Tim- might burns" They help to give the big my "You ought to know me well to fellow a queer appearance but he enough by this time Whitefoot would be queer enough without know that I wouldn't doubt your them I believe would word anything In times it was fairly com you told me if you said that it was mon past for a herd of two or three true I don't think it is treating thousand walruses to be seen by an old friend very nice to keep a sailors in the Arctic In one case a I wouldn't to all yourself good joke careful estimate placed the number believe I don't treat you that way a in a herd at 7000 your old joke is much anyway herd of more than a Nowadays is hundred I'm going Goodbye" "Wait a minute Timmy! I'll tell rare With their large flippers work you the joke only you mustnjt ing well walruses are excellent tell anybody else because I don't swimmers On land thev are awk want everybody laughing at me" ward in their movements but they cried Whitefoot go ashore a great deal They are swiftTimmy didn't stop Hea ran animals and like to ly up to the top ofdown tall tree rest on ice or land through When a herd swims ashore the jumped and sailed the moonlight to the foot of an- first animals to arrive take places other tree more than a hundred as near the water as possible A foot nwnv Tt was more like fly section of the shore is rimmed at ing than jumping but it wasn't length with a closely packed line mis iree Those who come in late have a hard flying He scampered up Whitefoot task getting n place and there may and jumped again onniH cm him nn more He choked be a good deal of shoving and barkidown a little sigh partly of envy ngThe walrus is a rare animal at of Timmy and partly of aisaopoim-msn- t that Timmv wouldn't stay zoos One reason for this is its high For a few minutes he sat right cost and another reason is its big where he was Then he made up his mind to go home He was iust "That is the best joke I've heard roorlv r eta rt whpn there was a a for time long on which sfoft thump on the stump It was quite clear that Timmy ho wnQ ittinC believe Whitefoot's story "Now tell me that joke" said didn't after all it for the Squirrel Flying Timmy Next Story: Whitefoot the Wood was he who had made that thump White-foIs Laughed At Mouse beside close as he landed (Released By The Associated after 'sailing down unseen Newspapers) from the top of a tall tree Whitefoot did He told how he haH frierhtpned Buster Bear and made him run Timmy stared at Whitefoot with his great son gentle eyes and then when Whitefoot had finished burst out laughing Whitefoot laughed too "It's a great isn't it?" said he social o' a lot I have joke know I "Tt'c a Brent Irvke that VOU actu faults but I don't apologize for that YOU frightened the looks o' my livln room just ally thinkBear!" Buster replied Timmy to fish for compliments good-size- J I "tSUr WAW IS RADTZ T WAMT WF UUCDf C1C1 S fVi? mini iiTw F"r r rr TAi I ME KLAIKJKMWA' IHt Of- - c 5TAK5 IN A J V A single tusk of a good sized walrus is likely to weigh from 10 to 12 pounds The tusk is made of ivory and brings a high price on the market Usually it stays white longer than the ivory of Whitefoot Tells Timmy The Elying Squirrel By Thornton W Barges Some things there are we cannot keep Like those o'er which we laugh or weep Whitefoot the Wood Mouse kept to himself just as long as he could the wonderful fact that he had frightened Buster Bear and made him run I suspect that one reason he kept it to himself was that he knew that no one would believe him if he told it It was absurd to ask any one to believe that he tiny timid Whitefoot actually had made great big Buster Bear run nwav "I wouldn't believe it myself if I didn't know it was so" thought Whitefoot "It isn't the least use in the world to tell anyone It will only get me laughed at I'll just it" keep it to myself and enjoy But Whitefoot just couldn't do You that He had to tell someone see it is this way with most folksm There is a great deal of pleasure done abig knowing that you have is a great deal thing but! there more pleasure in having other peowas the way ple know it That Whitefoot the Wood Mouse felt He was tickled almost to death he over what he had done but He it of to know others wanted knew that all his friendsas and too neighbors looked toon him frighten anysmall and timid d fly thing bigger than a And yet he had frightened o the most looked-up-tbiggest strongestGreen Forest Do person in the you wonder that he wanted to tell about it? He kept his tongue still as long the as he could but when Timmy one of is who Flying Squirrel friends Whitefoot's particular wanted to know what was makingit him so happy he couldn't keep to himself another minute Tt's a joke a great joke rev plied Whitefoot -WILL YOU HOLD THOSE LOVELY LIP& STILL A MOMENT MY A SWEET 7 1 FIND IT HARD TO HIT A MOVING TARGET! iI HHHP' Walruses on Cake of lee a appetite The shellfish on which it likes to feed are expensive Men on a whaling vessel once captured a young walrus and made it a pet They fed it with blubbei salt pork and pea soup It seemed to like the soup very much (For general interest section ot your scrapbook) —UNCLE RAX Tomorrow: The Laughing Jackass leaflet telling An illustrated about the everyday life of the ancient Romans will be mailed without charge to any reader who encloses a stamped return-enveloaddressed to himself Send your letter to Uncle Ray in case of this newspaper As for Rome and the Olden Romans and allow about 10 days for reply 21 YOU FIGUBE HIM I TUY TO 8E SYMPATHETIC BY VALKEB ANYONE AMD CAM MAKE A MISTAKE I WELL IS A MEDICINE SERIOUS BUSINESS WITH BPECK LYNN THE THOUGHTT 1 HOPE fTHAT MAY BE THE ANSWER X HAVE AN IDEA BRECK IN — DOESN'T LIKE YOU THE GREAT MAN NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE LYNN AGAIN y WEBBBBHI B ) THE ROLE OF MCTHj pe rIMM' HARD WORK KITCHENETTE Poor Pa T SO SICK OF UOOKIN s!f T1—-W&HB? - HUNGRY' GUESS 1'L 5HUT UP THE OFFICE AN' MG AT BREAKFAST FOOD BOXES WITH THEIR TOPS TORN OFF ' ' UL T I XJ SURE JNEEP THAT KERRY J y GIRL ' tt PATTY YOU LARSENy ARE CHARGE O SHOPLIFTNG' WITH GUILTY YOUR DUE TO HONOR Y X J AORCUMSTANCES 1 k ) I V wj Aunt Het ot Side Glances Time Out I I I 53 i WIND- HI never go to my brother Bob's home again I don't want to be near a woman like Nora that talks as insultin' to me as she does to her own husband —By r- - Wf ) BUT ) GOOD LUCK W Oh BROTHER' CHRISTMAS WLL JW BE r '' GUESS PAPER AND IT HAD TO 1 THAT GIRL BLOW AWAY S CAUGHT IT A LITTLE FAPLY BEG MISSI - YOUR BUT jPAPE PARDON THAT R - - ' HS W - fiFiY' VOU cu MST 7A BE ppiB 118 Galbraitk B M 3'asC SI IQWEK ONLY COPY Y OtilY A OOLt AR FOLKSKVW COLO'S ' ' 00660NED fONE OF WAT PHONY WHOOPEE-- HET-- ' jTM ' PDTUPTHAT v 5HOV0I5 tOLiWWS THE WEST-- ICOfK 194$ ST NEA SMVtCt IMC T M EES V VWTTW jrP"':ginTira 1: — — Jj 7' Gad! 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