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Ready for the week's test? Play carefully-no- hit-or-miss shots, Don't get lured out and stumped by the simple ones-and mind the tricky It is a more ar leke CARY ones don't bowl you. wicket this week-but there may be one or two nasty patelies. Scoring should be heavy, though.
You can score a nice easy two for a correct answer. A total of 30 just corns you your place in the si-a 40 or more total means you are but. ting well. A 50 puts you in the Braduan class. I'm hoping the first one doesn't discourage you- we're so able to forget the things they taught in the old school, aren't we?
1-It might puzzle some people, but you could hardly call yourself a mathematical genius for knowing that divided by equals:-
Two; one and a half; a quarter; the, 2- felt terrible the other day. I had a bad attack of cephalogia. That is to say. I had
Sea-sickness; home-sirkness: tootimehe; earache; a heatfache; housemaid's knee. 3--A doubloon, I'll have you know, is H-
Court jester; cloak worn by courting 4 ship of war: pirate; gold con; Spanish pleasant.
4.--1w about an experiment? Righto-just put one part of oxyren together with two parts of hydrogen and you have:--
Sulphur nitrogen: air: violet water; an explosion,
raysi
5. Got a watch or clock handy? Or, if you're start bike me you don't really need one for this... assuming the time is exactly two o'clock the num- ber of degrees in the angle made by the two hands 151--
18; 20; 30; 50; 45; 60; 80; 90.
In the good old days when we were boys, and girls together charades were a pretty popular party entertainment. A charade, of course, is at-
Guessing gang; card trick; dance; dive gaines just a practical joke. 7.-Don Bradman-ever heard
home in:-
uf him?-was
Sydney: Grenfell; Bathurst; Cuotamun- dra; Bowral.
8-Have you ever known
W-
testatrix--1 mean
Man whe has made a will; besidder: 'bad-tempered woman; boy who has made
a will; female who has made a will, 9-Maybe I shouldn't wake
controversy again, but Yampi
the:--
big deposits are, is in the
tith
up the iron ore Sound, where the
Centre of Australia; Northern Territory:
cast; north-east; north-west. InThe religious denomination with the greatest number of adherents in England (I'm only going by the statist, mind you) is the:---
Church of England; Methodist; Con- gregational; Roman Catholic: Presbyterian, 11. When I broke the world's record in the 120 yards hurdle race (yes. I'm pretty versatile) I noticed that the number of hurdles I had to loup over wasi—
Seven; eight; nine; 10; 11; 12. 12.A butsman (need i mention we're now talking about the grand old game of cricket) al-
You Know,
Sure?
You
waya hus a chance of getting out off a no-bal! by being:-
Caught; bowled; stumped; run out; hooted out; ordered out by the opposing captain.
13.-1 hope you are up in your geography well enough to know that the island of Rum is is the map of:-
The Malny States; the West Indies; New Hebrides; the Azores; the Philippines Scotland.
All brainy peuple like us know that when a chinist mentions NaCL he incans:--
Copper nitric acid; water; sulphuric arid; salt; iodine,
15-I was mildly surprised to learn the other say that two of the folkwing military terms prac- Heally mean the same:
Corps: platoon; sqund; squadron; bat- Fulton troop: rejiment.
10-If you were asked what a wapili is you should be able to come back like a flash with the
A wapiti Ist-
ADSABATL
A lake; on animal; a dh; a bird; a Alaskan village; a flower.
we feed the Aurit 17--Out here we call that moths on a dinner jacket, but in America they afer to it --
A cutaway, falls; dungarees; burberry; a tuxedo; stacks, 18-"Laugh and the world laughs with you- weep and you weep alone," was written by:
Mrs. Hemunst Dickens; samyan; Shakespeare; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Byrom; Masefield.
H-At kat we know enough about politics to know that Parliament is convoked it int
Dimbed, roused in fury; divided can bill; summoned; hell up to ridicule.
24. You've heard of Bobby Jones. I've heard
of Bobby Jones, we've all heard of Hobby Jones, the famous American:--
Foothaller: test pilot; baseballer; golfer; Darsmant ping pong player,
21-Lord Kitchener Served in a lot of wars; in- chuling
The
Hundred Years War: Russo-Japanese War: Wars of the Roses, Franco-Prussian War: War of the Spanish Succession, 22-You've either got a good or bad tense of speed. If it's good you can probably estimate that the number of miles per hour a sprint champion can develop in 100 yards race is about:-
10: 15; 20; 25; 30; 35: 40. 23-Persons to whom goods are consigned might, without stretching the imagination, be called:-
Consignors; consignerst consignments; consignees: con
consigns.
24.—Everyone-yes,
yuti,
too ought to know that the word penultimate means:-
The Arst; the last; the third last; the last but one; the one after the inst.
25-11 you've been finding them a bit hard this week here's one to help your score along a bit- a cassowary is a:--
Vell worn by Persian women; free; animals; bird: Hindu temple; reptile now Answers on Page 3
extinct.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1938
DEATH IN THE BACKWATER
HERMANN DREIP- Titmus Carabass .. Who's tie? Oh, known to anyone save his host-be
As he put 1 buck in the coat- pocket,
M NER, & wel-known figure another City Humminary. I'd like to had boarded Dreipner's punt. He had pueret, he saw red. "Why the hell
оп
the Stock Exchange, was
a result of Dreipner's mishap. But would, he calculated, hold good un- ke Dreipner walk about with gold! cigar-cases while I have to face the drowned yesterday in a quiet I don't suppose he'll tell me any til his return.
On the surface, the relations be- music in Carey Street? I should be backwater near his charming more than he'll tell me where he was
tween Carnbass and Dreipner were a fool if I stood for it." home at Maidenleigh. The body on Thursday afternoon."
fact that the former Carabass was a boxer and a Rug- round him Actually, Mr. Titmus Carabası-a cordial. The was discovered by Mr. Dreip
youngish man of athletic build and stadd to lose heavily by the latter's ger player. He looked ner's gardener: it had then been of considerable charm of manner- speculations was not, explicitly, al- carefully. There were wide, men in the water for some hours. had already made a pronouncement, luded to by either. The ostensible dows on either side of liim; there "Mr. Dreipner had apparently "Tin distressed to hear of Dreipner's object of Carabas visit was to in was ho one within sight or within fallen from his punt-as a result, of a sudrien seizure; the perhaps, punt, with his jacket and some flu- ncial newspapers neatly folded on the seat, was found, abandoned, some few hundred yards away; and the pole was floating nearby. Mr. Dreip- her was very fond of this particular form of exercise.
"Is death likely to have seri-
INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR: EPISODE 73
earshot. To trip up Dreipner, fling- Ing him into the water; to knock him senseless as he rose to the surface-- this, for him, was the work of but
a few moments,"
Within
**
(en minutes
Dreipuer was dend.
Hermann
And within another ten minutes Carabas was back in his car. The
Put whose woodwork he hnd 1
Guardian chies Dreipner to take over certain pus repercussions in the City, where death," he had tok
I'd balk in shares in Heu of ensh.
wiped away his finger- be had lately been engaged in reporter. "Curiously,
"Mind if I punt up-stream a bit?” prints-was floating harmlessly down jended to go over to Maldenleigh to series of spectacular transactions."
see him. We were n deal to asked Dreipner, when Carabass was the stream. The tell-tale cigar hud It happened, though, I settled in the punt. He took off his been flung into a hole by the river- There were ironical undertones in gether, As
"Must get exercise."
bank. (Playfair, patiently search- the day fishing, at Plover's coat.
was very Jostun Playfair's voice as he read spent
"Carry on," said the other. "Does ing, found it there; and dut these artless paragraphs from the End."
10 as Playfair me good to see you chaps hard at much puzzled thereby.) And this statement, Guardian. Maldenleigh
Mind if I have one of your current
Carnbass, when he got back he com- was at palus to discover, was not it
fell Plover's End,
exhilarated, al- "Serious repercussions," mented. "As George What's-his- altogether without prima facie cor- cigars?".
"Help yourself. The ense is in most exalted. "Not a shred of evid
ence, he muttered to himself, as, name used to put it, I should shay roboration. Carabass had been seen
at Plover's End both before and af- ny right-hand coat pocket."
fulfilled, he tank his With a few graceful strokes Drelp their
purpose sho,"
Let t now acquaint what you like, Dumbell, Mr. Her-
it-had steered the punt into mid- muddy water. "Nothing in your life mam Dreipner was murdered, with what had actually occurred.
On the afternon
of Dreipner's stream. Carabass, meanwhile, had Dreipner, you swine, become you don't fall out Chaps
of punts in
had met him, by taken out one of his host's cigars like the leaving of it."
Forty-eight hours later, after a quet backwaters when their sudden death, Carabines death means tens of thousands to arrangement, at a landing stage not He had come to Maldenleigh with
from the main road. Here intent to murder: but what-as he short interview with Joshua Play- other chaps. Dreipner was on the far
His fair, Carabass was arrested. was the sight of What was the mistake he made? verge of bringing off a big coup. Eve having drst equipped it with false afterwards confessed-elmehed
Solution op Page 3 found that much out, Dumbell. I'd number-plates-Carabass had parked determination,
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Playfair was excited. "I'll bet you fer the tragedy of the back is net an experi punler und proud of false number-plates in 11 fect of
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SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS
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Hearts
trumps. South leads and North-South have to win seven of the nine tricks.
Solutions by first post Wed- nesday to Bridge Problem, Hongkong Telegraph.
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO. 70
South leads queen of hearts rumps) and North discards
The change from MUCH! to LESS! in 8 moves, in 4 moves, La-Much- mush-muss-mess-less. Well, to- day we have a chance to THINK be- fore we SPEAK. In other words, Aryace of clubs. South leads a
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How Long Win It Take? There are 12 stop lights on a high-mond for South to ruff. An- way. If it takes 1 minutes to puss other spade lead gives North two tricks.
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Another list of 10 words and their clubs and small space. synonyms to be matched,
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Correct solution from A.E.G., 58023, S'easy, Mrɑ, K.A., O.E,G., Finesse.
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