After eleven straight days of eating beans and applesauce for breakfast, lunch, dinner, afternoon tea, and midnight snacks, Mogey and Smush decided they would have to make some money. So they went to the park and Mogey set up his easel, while Smush, who was a natural born salesman, set about finding some customers.
"Step right up, step right up, ladies, gentlemen, babies," Smush hollered. "See Mogey, a true Renaissance man, draw the most lifelike portraits in all the land."
"Say, that sounds pretty good," a young passerby exclaimed. "I'd like my portrait done, please."
Smush sat the young man down opposite the easel, as Mogey made some final preparations. He clenched his jaw, stuck his tongue out thoughtfully, and commenced to draw. Thirty seconds later he was handing their first customer a Mogey original.
"That was fast!" the young man said. "Hey - wait just a second! What in the world is this?" he demanded, holding up Mogey's crude stick figure drawing.
"Just what you asked for," Mogey replied. "An extremely accurate portrait."
"It hasn't even got the right number of arms!" the man retorted.
"Oh," Mogey said taking another look at his drawing. "Well isn't that a third arm just there?"
"That's my backpack," the man replied in disgust.
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