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This Funny World
-“Remember, if it's me you're seeing in the dancing flames, be sure to take off 10 or 15 pounds,"
• BY. THE. WAY.
by Beachcomber
Tlast there is an explanation frale's splendid aquiline adorn-
of the popularity of bud- ment.
gerigars. I read that they can
be taught to imitate the neise of car engines and of water drain- ing out of a sink.
The noise of car engines can
sometimes be heard On the
radio, by those who cannot get enough of the real thing, but I doubt whether there has yet been a broadcast of water leave ing a sink, with a commentary, What Is needed now is a method by which the birde
low-flying
<an he
pianca, and
falling on a tin roof,
A full-blown nose
Tula
Another billet-doux,
I
CAN only attribute your failure to keep our trist in the bar to an unworthy fear of having to pay for the second round. Money, ravishing moract, is but dross, and surely you
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have enough of the stug to despise it, as I do. Perhaps your a aunt has turned you against me, Ever since the day the bottle fell out of my overcoat when fought to Imitate road-drills called for you at her house she Pas looked at me as though I in the were an illeit still mountains. I told her that, in spite of the label, It 1009 medicine for my sore finger, but your laughter spoiled my story Come, pretty vampire, to lower tomorrow. After all, if you are to be the future fra Foutenough (Ah! What music that is in my ears!) you will have to get used to me.......... Low life above stairs
N account of the theft of a
A large quantity of cigarelles "from under the tobacconist's nose inclines me to believe that the man had a nose of fabulous dineruatons. Presumably be sheltered his goods under this gigantic proboscia 0% n hen eholters her young. believing that they would be safe from Intrudera. It's a long nose that
has no turning, as the man raki.
when he tweaked the magi
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Lomorrow.
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"PARDON me, Sir Ambrose,
but you
are splashing your soup into my fure." "So clumsy of me. Tarrant. Our charming teistess plways tells me that I use my
poon like an ear."
THE CHINA "MAIL," WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1958. .
• JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Disaster Loomed With Trump Lead
con-
By OSWALD JACOBY WITH any opening but a trump, South would have had no trouble with his tract. All he would need do would be to cash both black acca in dummy, discording a club from bis own hand #ind then make all nine trumps on a Cross rul. There also would be a double dummy play for alx with a heart lead if any of you roadero want to work it out,
West did lead a trump
and South saw that he had no valid play for the contract. He could have settled for down one but he decided on an all-out play
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that would require both and an error by the defence if I were to succeed.
East
South won the opening lead in his own hand, led a club and finessed dummy's nine. won with the queen and led a second trump,
South won, ruffed a heart In dummy, discarded a heart on the ace of spades, trumped © spade, led a heart and discarded a spade from dummy.
West was in and led his last spade. South ruffed, trumped a heart with duminy's last tramp and ruffed dummy's last spado with his own dast trimp.
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this point West Wna
squeezed. He had to discard n club to keep his high heart. Now South led a club, "fressed
WOMANSENSE