The Kilroys #39

Solid Jackson talks a big game about how he'd run a better ice cream parlor than Slim, the stingy owner—so when Slim calls his bluff and hands over the keys for two weeks, Jackson gets his chance to prove himself. Things start off great with his wildly popular "Jackson Special" sundae drawing crowds, but when the money doesn't add up the way Jackson promised, his new business partners discover he's spent their sixty-dollar investment without the profits to show for it.

When Katie Kilroy's friends all start wearing blue jeans to school, she borrows her brother's pair—only to get caught and grounded. But when her father's own pants go missing, a frantic chain reaction of borrowed clothing sends the whole town into chaos, and Katie finds herself at the center of a fashion crisis that might just save the day.

Natch buys his first suit on his own and heads to the park to show it off, but a disastrous canoe mishap with his pal Jackson leaves the new threads soaked and shrunken. When Jackson can't come up with fifty bucks to replace it—not even the bank will help—Natch's grandmother steps in with an unexpected solution that might just save the day.

When Mrs. Kilroy finds a stray dog following her home, she decides to keep the lovable giant—much to her husband's horror, who's convinced they've harbored everything from a bear to an elephant. But Mr. Kilroy's scheming to get rid of the pooch backfires spectacularly when the dog's real owner shows up, and his plan to profit from the situation goes hilariously wrong. A six-page romp where the Kilroys learn that outsmarting your own family is trickier than it looks.