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THE long i st; of Ham and ens to be s popular favor by illustrious pair and Hud.
No cartoonist with a 42 centimeter funny bone was ever able to depict a more entirely laugh provoking couple than Ham and Bud. Ham can be funny without Bud and Hud can be funny without Hani but together they are the es sence of canned comedy.
To begin with, Ham stands 5 ft. 1 1 ' '< in. in liis hosier\ and genially admits a displacement of 225 pounds. Bud is built on a more compact scale and claims a heighl of 4 ft. 1 1 ->4 in. and a weight of 125 pounds.
Nature and geography strove nobly to keep these young men apart. Hud — his surname is Duncan — is a son of A. (). Duncan, a well known ventriloqtfist. He lir-t demanded attention in the nation's
Brother Ham becomes an exponent of the uplift movement.
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Bud skidded tl
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About eight
Oakland, both
metropolis.
Ham, whose bills ire made out to Lloyd V. Hamilton, uttered his first plaintive cry in Oakland, Cab, something more than three thousand miles from the scene of Hud's arrival.
Hud's fond parents destined him for the United States Army and he strove hmg and nobly to get into West Point. "Gee," said Hud, "If I'd only grown a foot higher 1 might have been in Mexico now." He gazed thoughtfully at Ham's No. 1() bluchers a n d m u s e d, "That wouldn't have been 5< at that."
tilled to a real estate
Ham reneged and
became recognized as
the best spear carrier-^
Theater at Oakland while
trough all the various varie
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years ago the two met in having risen to the point
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