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THE CHÍNA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, · 1958.
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Following Set Rule Isn't Good Advice
"Farnsworth, I'm placing Miss Nelson in your hands!”
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If that doesn't rouse you, nothing
By the way, 12 Gobine still with you? HR 1968 to have come down" the chimney. and should by now have produced the flags of all the nations from an
In * bus the other day is still unsolved. It his been suggested that the
It dropped from an aircraft,
theory so ridiculous that my pen - almost refuses to set it down in writing. A more reasonable sug- gestion in that it waO somebody' inascot. It seems to me to be waste yt time for the police to sear Londen for a horse with a hind leg Intralog, na It is extremely unlikely that the leg was severed in the bus--or that the horse lilf wa ever in the bus. The only known case of a horse boing in a bus wAR
When a man was kicked wile paying for ticket. The "horse" was, ot course, twu saliory out in a spree,
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to your warrior lord, I don't think he was cut out for viroua. Nije. lie never oven smiles when Scorpion de Rooftrouser rolle like a ball alt. round the Ubrary.
Your old pal,
Ernie Wigwelt,
Miss Unrationed Tea WHEN MUnde
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third
rule
"second hand low, hand high, and fourth hand win the trick if you can." This works more often than not, but it may make things easy
for the other side.
The hand shown today, was played in a recent team match, and ปล Ranie contract was made in ond but defeated in the other rooni
เมน that оле room, The regsun defender blindly followed the rule Just quoted, whereas in the oiler room the defence was more decoja- tive.
la hotle rocaus Ure opening lead was the four of hearts," and "Soulli won with the king. Declarer ther chtered dummy with the queen of clube to lend a low spade towards his king.
In the first room West hopped on the king of spades With his NCS, barely suppressing ale, chortle of glee. He then cashed bit "three heart tricks and looked around for new works to conquer. Un. fortunately for him. there ware no now worlde,
By STELLA, the other room South
having your own
PORN today. You are " very ulled up and running fast again.
determined person. You want You will be happiest. If you wed your life to be based on sound, parly-in the early or mid-twenues. strong principles ntul kave no use for You will enjoy znakeslufta cu subterfuge. formally speaking, such a person would not brauch to a diplomat. but you have a definite "Talent" for "tuaking friends and a modnelle personality whitch draws people to you. You can be a real foren for good if you develop the fine qualities which the stars liave given you.
You have great deal of nervous energy and cannut be completely happy wifes you are busy #1 some thing all the thae. If enough deem't present itself for you to do, you wat gu out looking for it. You are u real expediter. If the wheels - QË any enterprise are running too slowly, You are just the une ta gel Utein
home and famly to manage. This is especially true of you women, who may not be 100 much interested in having careers. You will find your owa boine a sousfying' inedion for your boundless encry. You are fond of children and would like a large family. You are a good manager but will be highly annoyed it put on a rigid budget. Your mata must learn that you can be trusted to take care of the family purse and do a little saying, as well.
have in
To in what the stars store for tomorrow, select your birth- day star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8
CAPRICORN (Dec. 2an, 20)- GEMINI (xy 22-June
If you do get involved lu an This day for inspiration. If you argumpet, let others any what they have
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West gol out safely enough sifting to slub, which South won bị his own band. South How cash- ed the queen of spades and run the rest ul the cluba. Finally, since there was no other way to make his contract, South felt obilged to try the diamond finesse, When this fliesse succeeded, South
his contract.
like- wise won the first heart, entered dummy with a club, and toda space towards the king. West nonchalantly played · The spades, allowing, South's king to lold the trick. "Now South could count eight tricks: one spade, one hear, one diamond, and five clubs. How should he go about develop- ing the ninth trick?.
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Ever See A Crying. Hyena?
-It's One of the Odd Animals General Tin Caught-
By MAX TRELL
"ONC
❝NCE," suid General Tin, the tin soldier, to Knef and Hand, the shadow-children with the turned-about names,
or "I went hunting and caught
'South didn't know wheiker που the diamond fee would succeed, but he didn't see any need for trying it. Apparently the ace
some very strange animals."
Karf and Hanid (as well as of spades was in the East hand, so the ninth trick could be developed | everyone clc) knew that
nother by leading
*pade from General Tin was onc dummy'.
of the South therefore ran his the-club greatest hunters who ever lived. this because tricks and then led a second spade They all knew from dummy. This gave West the General Tin had always told chance to tako, two, spades and three hearis, setting the" contzuet:
them so.
"What very strange animais
CARD Sense did you catch when you went
Q-The bidding has been; West
North
1 Diamond Double 1 lieart
South
caught were red bluebirds. Ind you ever hear of anyone cutch- ing a red bluebird?"
Knart and Hanid had to con- fess they had
never hærd of anyone catching a red bluebird. yellow binebird and
" also caught a white crow, a
a bi bluebrest. I also caught a crying hyena."
Knart said: "Oh, General Tin, you must be wrong! There are loughing hyenas,
not crying
ones"
never
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The grink-coloured cat día · nothing but bark and growl.
General Tin shook his head. The hyena I caught didn't do any laughing at all. He saw anything to laugh about. He | hunting, General Tin?" Honid Just sat on a rock and cried, And
asked.
then I caught on clephant"
Krurf and Hanid were about First Was A Cat
to say that there certainly "Well, replied General...Tin, wasn't crything unusual about world."
In clephant. They had seen a great many of them in zoos and circuses.
strange animai
new idea, act
You. South.hold: Spados-7--- please. You keep quiel!-Inantly-for-best-succes. -----
AQUARIUM (Jan. 21-Fob.
CANCER
(June
Diamonds 6-3, "the first Kearts 23)-
Clubs K-5-2. What do you do? Allow plenty of time for carrying out
If your previously-made plans are your plans. Minor delays may retard suddenly upset. be able to adjust
A-Doabir. 11 East is serious about caught was a cat." our schedule.
yourself ta 4 set of new ones
his heart bid, you should be able to PISCES
(Feb. 20-Mar, 203-
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low a contract. If Fast has bid hearts in an attempt to talk your side out al Carry out your plan street probably
goes on the
its best contract, your double will originally scheduled.
record" and you may have to stand
show up his psychic bld. by it later.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apt. 20)- Stick 10 ie conventiona. You can have just as good a time. Being 100 Gadverturesome might
prove
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TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been: East Sonth West
3 Hearts
North
Q-10-
You, South, hold: Spades 3-3. Hearts K-7-3-4, Diamonds A-s, Cluba K-8-0. What do you do
Answer Tomorrow
#INTELLIGENCE TESTO
DEAD HEAT
In
By T. O. HARE THERE was great rivalry, this is cricket season, between Budcumbe's two star bowiern, Blingham And Trundler. Before the last match. Slingbam bad taken 40 wickets: Trundler had taken 28. Their "averages, however, were kentical. the (est match Colond! HOWEST'S XI, Trundlor and neemned Laken 12 for 110 likely to secure the batter Lverage for the season. But Slingham-pho, at the beginning of his last over, had taken 0 for 50- Anished brilliantly by now!- Inn, with his trat thrẻo balls. the Colonel's last three bais- men: And his average for the season was still identical with Trundler')
What was each bow's final averaZO 7
(Solution on Page 10)
Here Koort and Hanid both shouted: "A cat's not a strango animal!”
"Weil," said General Tin, be fore they could say anything, "just tell me what is the most unusual thing about an ele- phant,”
"The cat that I caught was," said General Tux. "It was coloured grink and it barksed!" "His trunk!" Knarf answered
Knart and Hanid now looked promptly, astonished. "Grink?" said Knurt. "What's grink? I never heard of such a colour."
General Tin smiled and suld "Grink, my boy, is half green and half pink. It's a very odd colour. You seldom seo it on
Wasn't Going Far
"That's right," sajú General Tin "The elephant I caught didn't have a trunk. He had a valise! I guess he wasn't going very for. He didn't see the cat. In fact, you seldom see it on sense of carrying a trunk with anything That's what made this him. All he needed was cat so very strange. And, as [ valize!" | mentioned before, it also banc-
ed."
"How could it bark?" Hanid, “Cats mcow"
said
This grink-coloured cat did nothing but bark and Instead of purring, it growled. And another strange creature that I caught,
General Tin went bluebird."
on, "was a
Lots of Bluebirds
다.
General Tin mentioned some of the other, strange birds and beasts and insects that he had caught. He told about a camel with a bump instead of a hump, a bat shaped like a ball, a but terfly that delivered butter. "And
ftig."
Knarf and Hanid gazed at General Tin. "What's a flig?"
asked.
replied the
thita Aying
Knarf and Hanld again raised Ganerali."very ro
their volees to say that a blue. He used to fit around the gur bird wasn't a strange creature den, snapping at flies and mo5- at all: "There are lots of blue- quitoes. He would sit in a tree birds," said Hanid, “I've seen and grunt very nicely. I was, many of them, all summer long," very sorry when the winter como "Oh, you mean the ordinary and he flew off with the robins kind," said General Tin, "the and wrens to spend the winter blue bluebirds. The kind 1 In a palm tree. I guess he must
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