Homebodies – Charles Addams

It was probably just one of those wild rumors ” -39″ > -40- “Just the kind of day that makes you feel good to he alive!” a “I like them. They wear well ” \ “For heaven’s sake, Ed, holler something besides(help’. People might think we’re really in trouble.” \ \ 4 6 “Something in sneakers?” a “Delmonico’s—and hurry!” . . then good old Scrooge, bless his heart, turned to Bob Cratchit and snarled, (Let me hear another sound from you and youHl keep Christmas by losing your situation” -49“ -50- “Death ray, fiddlesticks!

Why it doesn’t even slow them up” -si- W!l!| !.%| -52- a “I?5 very interesting> but Pm afraid we only publish science fiction P \ -54- uGo right ahead} Pomjret. The entries closed two weeks agoP -56- sm. -si- “Everything happens to me” \— -58- – 6o – “I give up, Robert. What does have two horns, one eye, and creeps?” -61 – \ 6 2 64- « I hen the dr agon gobbled up the handsome young prince and his lovely bride and lived happily ever after.”

\ — 66 — “Oh, for goodness’ sake, forget it, Beasley. Play another one.” \ -68- -70- -71- Well, good night, A hmed. Ij you need anything, just rub” \ -72- “A nd now we -present (Adary and Billj the story of a family that might he your next-door neighbors, and of their everyday life among everyday people just like yourselves.

. – ‘ c x uonTl’ Wouldn’t you know that at a time like this Haley would he off somewhere -photographing some damn ritual ?” -is- -76 “Mom, can I have the broom tonight?” «/ have a question from a Lady in A storia. She wants to know the best method of removing bloodstains jrom a broadloom rug. \ – 8o – g&jjgiMg “Have you got a minute, Dr. Headley? We think we may have found a new carnivorous specimen” a -86- -88- -89- “A ll right, now, a little smile” -90- ♦j • ■ f Jf * « ‘ \ % Iff ‘Usaem “If ’ p i’!

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Of the 92 drawings in this book, the 82 appearing on the following pages appeared originally in The New Yorker and were copyrighted in the re¬ spective years shown by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.: Pages 5, 49, 73 (1950); Pages 3, 8, 17, 18, 20, 27, 31, 32, 34, 44, 46, 63, 66, 72, 76, back endpaper (1951); Pages i, 2, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 24, 29, 30, 33, 35, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 62, 64, 90 (1952) ; Pages 6, 7, 11, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 40, 47, 48, 50, 51, 54, 57, 59, 60, 61, 65, 69, 87, front endpaper (1953); Pages 4, 10, 37, 52, 53, 55, 56, 67, 71, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 83, 85, 89 (1954).

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Stop all production on XPi 5, recall all shipments, wire every doctor in the country, and hurry!” i -7“ “A ll right, children, a nice big sneer, now ” \ -8- (

-13- -14- ((I should think Alice would at least be on hand to helf you move” 15 – i 6 – “It’s priceless. Normie’s building a rocket to shoot Pamela to the moon.” -17- “A nd this is your Uncle Cosimo, a man of whom it may he truly said he left the world a little worse for his having lived in it” \ – 18 – 3 -19- ‘ ^ V a 21 – 22 – a -23- > 24 a 25 X 26 “What light you giving it?”

27 28 -29- -30- “You’ve never felt that way about me.” a -31- -32- “The little dears!

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