The next quadrillion idea, Ill keep! Top that! Ill keep the next trillion dollar idea, Ha ho! Million dollar idea I get Ill keep for my self!Īn the next billion dollar idea Ill keep, so Ha! Id drop that Bomb and Id force Peace right down their bloodthirsty throats! Ha! Id show those whod live by the sword. It takes more! If a man of goodwill like me could get his hands on this new bomb. Nobody doing what he can for Peace.īut we is bein jes bout as peaceful as they com. Well, tis the Peaceful Season and half the World sleeps. Silent Night is effective played fortissimo on a steam calliope. Why not ?! It happened durin my administration dint it? Its a wonder you wouldnt do somethin leaderful . You been complainin ever since you been leader, Albert. gittin soaked to the skin offerin unrequited love to a mess of indoor, unsportin, summer soldierin, sedentary, pis catory pussy footers! They kin dig their own worms. Theys down below sittin roun the fire tellin lies bout the big fishermens who almost caught em. She crawled 43,000 miles on her elbows to ask em to take back the dog cause he was eaten her outen house and home.ĭing bing it! Jes when a migratory man needs a fish, it starts to rain! Them fish aint gone bite now. A fambly in Oregon give their dog to a ol lady in Maine an, you know, one night they hears a scratchin at the door.

I aint said much, but I is been pushed aroun ee-nuf ! I is gone stand up for my rights an I is got rights I isnt hardly used yet ! If yo public is gone give you honor, son, they isnt gone let yo personal taste stand in the way. Theyll speech at you an feed you chicken foot stew an.īut I dont like to listen to them speeches an I dont care for chicken foots.

Why dont women marry people what understands them? * Quimbys Law (passed by the town of Quimby after the trouble with Harold Porch in 1897). Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.

So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. * Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. Specializations and markings of individuals everywhere abound in such profusion that major idiosyncracies can be properly ascribed to the mass. On this point field workers are in some dispute. Some nature lovers may inquire as to the identity of a few characters here portrayed.

Gone Pogo by Walt Kelly