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Famous Funnies #6
An anthology issue featuring "Adventuring Around the World in a Small Boat," which recounts William Albert Robinson's real voyage aboard the 32-foot ketch *Svaap* through the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans, including encounters with sharks, cyclones, and pirates across three and a half years and 12,000 miles. "Strange and Interesting" by John Hix presents educational oddities including facts about Marquesan babies, Henry IV's penance, the motor-cage, and other curiosities. "The Bungle Family" by H. J. Tuthill depicts a domestic comedy in which a son attempts multiple schemes to recover his $4 allowance from his skeptical mother through increasingly convoluted mathematical arguments about making change.