Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for April 03, 2024

Looks like a great improvement to me.

Which will start to stink first

Something fishy going on here.

Whew. That’s some strong fish odor. It turned the clock and fireplace bricks black.

Mutt’s wife has the has the same hat trick that he has.

“meet her at the station” did she take a taxi or the streetcar?

Mutt didn’t clean that fish before he hung it up? That house is gonna stink in a couple days!

Mutt you’re always stepping in it!

This was a running theme throughout comics for decades- characters receive a letter to announce a visit- and the visitor is arriving that very same day. Not a phone call, which would deliver he message right away. A letter, dropped in the mail and left to the post office to deliver- and somehow always timed to arrive on the day the train is pulling in.

Only worked then, because of a very high percentage of the trains arrived on time.

A big fat ugly fish. But he still has her picture in hand.