Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for February 12, 2018

If he lost his head, he would be dead.

Somebody lost something, but I’ll be damned if I know what it is.

I guess this was funny in the language it was originally written in.

I suspect the original was written with a gross error in it. It likely was supposed to say "Is it OK if I call a mule “policeman.”

And frame 2 should have read "So I mustn’t call policeman a “mule.” I think Bud Fisher must have written this after a trip to the local pub.

Yeah, this doesn’t make any sense.

Hmm, I’ve read funnier Mutt & Jeff strips.

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I understand Fisher’s staff might not always have had the best lettering, but surely someone could check the computer-typeset replacement to see if it even parses?

I’m trying to figure out where Jeff came up with a five dollar bill to pay his fine?