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Fighting Blood
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"Shall we stroll down and watch them?" Andrews suggested. "I'll admit, I don't feel like sitting still"
Neither did L Yet, for a time, we did not move from our chairs. I was trying to con- vince myself that my vast weariness was
purely physical, that it had nothing of cis- enchantment in it. Out of his corner of the darkness, Andrews said: "He must have died instantly. He had turned to face as, too. The bullet went through his heart”
I had been oddly`reluctant to ask about the old Rajah But now I said: None of them got away?"
..ot a man!" The spark of Andrews's pipe-bowl moved a little. He shifted restlessly where he sat. "Damn those villagers and their row! What reason have they got for a feast?"
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2 4Oh, it was a great victory! Sir Edward would back them up in that. You and I are romantics, young Andrews, in a hard-headed world. No one else would bother about a man
Hike Alrah, now." I stood up. "Sir Edward will be writing to commend us. We may as well get used to it. We can begin with the feast in the village. crown 7"
Some Schoolboy Howlers
George Bernard Shaw must look suspect they have been coined: oz to his laurels. Can he, I wonder, purpose by a much older student,. perpetrate a more pungent witti- as for example, this one: "The cism than this: "Adolescence is Mediterranean and the. Red ́Sex" the period between boyhood and are joined together by the Sewage adultery." The
youth Canal" Or this one: "The Romans philanderer must also have evolv- made their roads straight so that ed this one: “Immortality is when the Britons could not hide round one man runs away with another the corners.”
man's wife.” And we may also A New Zealand boy was told give him credit for this: "Elijah to write an essay on King Alfred. was a prophet who went for a but not to attach too much impor- cruise with a widow.”
tance to the old story about the
No doubt the boy who wrote: burnt cakes. So he concluded his "A dirge is a song a man sings essay with these devastating when he is dead," had sensed the lines: "One day King Alfred visit- idea without being able to express ed a certain woman's house, but himself adequately. And talking the less said about that the bet about songe reminds me of this ter
libellous description of the rich -
There are sommer, howlers which tone of a lady's voice which comes have been made quite unwittingly below the treble: "A contralto.is
but which, nevertheless, provoke a a low kind of music that only wo- smile. Here is one: The Hugue men sing."A
ots inter-married with the Dutch
A
It is as well that the majority and produced large quantities of of children do not understand all
the tragic implications of histori. *
grapes.”
eal anecdote until at an age when And again, some are hopelessly experience softens its meaning, impossible. Here is one which One innocent tells us that "King shows a complete ignorance of Solomon was very fond of animals, the science of biogenesis: "Henry The bible says he kept three hun- Wadsworth Longfellow was born dred porcupines” And was that in America while his parents were boy inspired by his own obserys travelling on the Continent.” tion of family life when his essay. Becent activity in a certain Gor on a biblical subject waras us ernment department is responsible that, “Adam and Eve lived happily for this one: “A Cioma-taker is in the Garden of Eden-until the the man who goes from house to servant came to
house increasing the populatio 14. Of course, some howlers are no truly terrible libel on
ingenious that one is inclined to worthy and har
What price the victor's
WEST
THE USED TO BE THE BEST FLEA TRAINER IN THE WORLD UNTIL ONE BIT HIM, THEN HE LOST HIS NERVE.
No one troubled, about Alrah, now.' But
on our way we came upon a dark figure seated cross-legged on the ground, his shoulders drooping. Just in that place I had sat a few hours ago, to watch the cock-fighting.
Andrews swung bis lantern. and we saw it was Ali. He paid no heed, to us. About him in the circle of light, a smaller figure step- ped stiffly, truenlently the red gamecock. In the crook of his skinny arm the old fighting- man held Whisky's torn body. He was stroking it gently, as if mourning for all that had ever had his true allegiance, for a loss that was his own and his people's.
We went past in silence, and on towards the least.
NORTH
Bridge Problem
North and South, by much too opti mistic bidding, reach a contact of six spades. - West leads the king and ans of beats. How can South make slam conkach, taking advantage of the
ANSWER: “ South rulls second
and leads low diamond to tha acs. Ruffs third heart, leads, chib to. ace Buffs last hearts lays down spade pcs, and then Snesses against West's queen. Leads last trump fenen dunting, discending his losing club.
runs off entire diamond sut
SOUTH