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Mr. Whistler

Well, when it comes down to it, this is the story of a not-too-bright man doing a strip-tease at the train station, in an effort to find the ticket that he’s got in his mouth. When he gets down to his underwear without finding the ticket, he yells out about losing it, and then finds it on the ground since it fell out of his mouth while yelling.  He puts it back in his mouth so that he has his hands free to dress again, and when he gets on the train he laughs at his own silliness, thereby swallowing the ticket.  Lucky for him, he has cash to buy a new one on board because folks standing by while he stripped had thrown money into his hat. The illustrations are cleverly drawn, but colored in such drab, dreary colors, they’re not as appealing as they might have been.