Are You Quite Certain
A CORRESPONDENT
who rather modestly You Know?
signs himself "The_Dope” dimits he can't figure out my answer for the hen and a half, egg and a half pro- blem. Can I show him how, He asks.
Well, assuming it was possi- hle, 1 hens would lay 12 eggs [în-12-days, and as one hen is 2-3 of one and a half hens, that one hen would lay only eight eggs in 12 days..
gobblers; poulta; far- rows; goslings. 8.--Easter, in case you've for- golten, is:
Good Friday; the Mon- day after Good Friday; the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after March 21: the second week-end in April. 9. We all know that two. South African cricket teams Take two points for each have toured Australia. The correct answer and move heaven first played there in 1911-12. and earth to get a total of 30 at The second dazzled the barrack loast or else fail.
era in:
1-When a grown-up elephant has a baby elephant it's quite all right for you to call the young- ater:
A foal; an elephantine; an elephantetie; a pyg- my; a calf; a pup. 2.--Should you come face to face with #1
mirror CURCAVE you'll notice it makes your re flection:
Appear upside down; look narrower than nor- mal; look wider; look crosseyed,
3.-Easily the country which
has the greatest railway mileage in the world is:
Russin; Grest Britain; Australia; Amerten; Ger-
many.
4.It is not so long since the country now known as Eire was juniversally known as;
Wales; South of Ire- land; North of Ireland; Turkey; Iran; Spain. 5.-Providing you are a nor- mal person in normal health your pulse will bout at the.rate lof:
85 to 95; 40 to 60; 120 to 130; 70 to 80: 60 to 70; 19 to the dozen. 6-Tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm hoping only one of the plurals in this list is correct. Which is it?
Gladiolus
-
gladiolac;
mongoose - mongeese;. oasis-onses; sheep-sheeps; crisis-crisises.
the
7.If you want to do right thing by young turkeys
you can refer to them as:
Capons:
Distributors:
ducklings:
1919-20; 1923 - 25; 1027-29; 1931-32; 1935; 1936.
10-Aeroplane pilots find the altimeter very handy because it registers:
Distance from the aero- drome; height of nearest mountain; distance above sea level; land speed; air speed; morning ten time. 11-Specially Women
who the
buy their perfume by drachm will know that the num- ber of drachms in a fluid ounce is,
1
4; 8; 12; 16; 20.
12. When you send a bottle hermetically you:-
Put a hole in the cork; perforate the capsule; stuff the neck with wad- ding: make it air-tight; put it in the refrigerator; sen it with a kiss. -13.-A hebdomadal meeting is held once every:
Fortnight; month; seven weeks; seven years; week; now and then. 14.-I've gol 1 little pel grouse called Gertie. I'm going to get a mate for Gertie one of these days-then I'll have two:
-
A
French
cocktail
mixer; a famous Eskimo; Madame Melba; the City of Melbourne.
17. When he wasn't peering] under bushes with his lantern Diogenes, the classics say, lived in a:
Garden:
hut; cave; tent; cellar; tub; tower; light blue overcoat.. 18. Tortuous is an adjective) sometimes applied to a street-: particularly when the street:
Runs east and west; is paved with concrete; is hard on the feet; is crook- ed; has no lamppoles.
19. In the old days, before even great-grandfather was little boy, Cathay was the name
for:
Persin; Egypt; Tur- key; India; China; Cen- tral Europe.
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20. You would reasonably expect an lehthyologist to be
tell you
something
able to about:
Marsupials; old paint- Inga; Egyptian treasures; horses; fish; itching dis-
eases.
21-A name looming big in foreign affairs to-day is Herr Henlein, the:
German Ambassador to Czech Czechoslovakin; President; German For. eign Minister: leader of Germans; the Sudeten Yugoslav Premier.
22. Sterling silver, if it's the real thing, fa:
Lead and silver; silver and zinc; silver and cop- per; just pure silver. 23.-Sudeten-land, which has been given to Germany, was; previously taken by Czecho- Slovakia from:
Germany; Italy; Aus- tria; Hungary: Poland; the north Pole? 24.-Hammond' him?-has captained England
Grouses; grease; gruss; groose; grice; grouse, 15. Want to show off your geography, do you? Well, in:
Irinidad is:
A city in Spain; a town in the East Indies; an island in the West Indies;
State in India; a Bri- tish colony in Africa. 16. Even if you hate peche Melbas, it's nice to think they were named after:
heard
One Test series; two; three; four.
of
25. Just too, too easy-but you deserve it one hundred metres is approximately:
100yds. 94yds.; 106- yds.; 98yds.; 109yds.; 220yds.
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Colonel Manderley's LOST BOY
S Harnell Buckfast entered
Ahle mat he heard the phone
bell ringing.
"Mr. Buckfast?" said a voice. "Buckfast speaking."
"This is Colonel Manderley's secretary. The Colonel will be all alone to-night, Mr. Buckfast. He wondered if you could drop In after dinner and play a cou- "ple of games,"
Buckfast thought rapidly. Ho had long been waiting for pre- elsely this occasion. "Excuse me just a moment," he said. "I'm afraid I've an engagement, but I'll just have a look at my book
Then: "Yes, I feared as much, Miss Wainwright. I'm dining with some people at Baron's Court. Please give Colonel Manderley my regards and way I'll ring him to-morrow."
"Pause.
"He'll be disappointed," said Miss Wainwright. "You know how fond of chess he is. I suppose he'll be Getting out those tournament records and playing games over by him-
f."
Last
Move
Inspector Playfair
Episode 83
a
dale, His alibi was already mapped out. Next, he changed into his din- ner Jacket; then, taking from drawer in his wardrobe a sealed pas per package, he slipped it into his pocket. It contained potassium cyanide. He had bought it in thi North of England, and had signed for it under an assumed name, seve- tal months before.
"Cemparatively painless," was his muttered comment. "Anyway, the old bird's got to die some time.“ And Harnell Buckfast was badly in need of money.
Buckfast now got out his little than "Well, that'll be better
two-seater and drove Buckfast, "though
rapidly to nothing." said
Baron's Court. He knew perfectly I'm sorry I can't get along."
well-from some chance remark that Danvers and his wife had gone out that evening.
*
E hung up the receiver." Hammell, my
boy," he sald to himself, "your big oppor- 1unity has
чуд not come." He afflicted with nerves. He methodle- ally set about his preparations for one of the most callous murders in the recent history of crine. The murder of an old nun from whom, some years, he had received nothing but kindness, but of whom -unfortunately for himself-he was the heir.
Ior
His first act was to write in his engagement book "Danvers, 7.15." Actually, he was engaged to dine with Danvers at 7.15 the next day: he had nat, however, booked the
BRIDGE PROBLEM
No. 81
This Week's Problem
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AKA
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South is playing the deal in No Trumps, West leads heart queen, which is allowed to win. How many triexs can South now win?
Solutions by first post on Wednesday to Bridge
Problem, Itongkong Telegraph, Wyndham Street.
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SOLUTION TO NO, 80
Tricks No. Weat North
East South
1
1 2
RK
1 7
I #
D3
D K
D #
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D8
DA
DO
D 4
4
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C J
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C 5
C D
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10
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D J
D 10
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11
11 5 # 3
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D Q, South's D 7 will take the 12th, trick and North's H. A will like the last trick. I! East leta to his 11 10 North takes the fast two tricks with H A and H J.
It is amusing to note that the problem is impossible if one exchanges West's D 8 against East's D.
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men. I haven't had a game weeks."
"I must get
for
I
this over quickly,” thought Buckfast. "The sooner can make Shepherd's Bush the bet- fer." There was whisky and soda en the sideboard. "I'm thirsly. Un- clo Charles." "Help yourself."" "Can I get you one?" "Thanks,"
DENIES
HIS NAME
"Lost" for more than a week, a 10-years-old boy who was found wandering at Uxbridge : And now, indeed, all was very was recently Identified by his quickly over. Manderley, poring father as Dennis Coates, of uver the chessboard, did not look up
as his murderer, mixing him a steading-gardens, Hayes, Mid- whisky, (ipped into it the contents dlesex. of his package of cyanide. His gaze was still fixed on the game as he picked up and drained the glass. Within three minutes-less, probably, for his heart was in poor condition
he was dead.
K
BUCKFAST, too, drained his
whisky at a gulp as he set about staging his guardian's suicide. First, he burnt in the fire the tell- tale paper that had contained the deadly cyanide. Next, he went intu the kitchen, where he washed, and wiped clear of fingerprints, the glass that had contained his whisky. He put this back on the sideboard.
The other glass, he was certain, was free of any fingerprints of his; he had held it in his handkerchief when he handed it to the Colonel. He left it where it had fallen, by the side of the old man's chair.
Finally, he had to convert the chess game into a game for one. He took from the bookense-holding this, too, in his handkerchief-one of the tournament records which had given the old man so much pleasure, Opening it at random, he found the diagram of a critical position..
To the mold who answered his ring, however, he betrayed no inkling of this knowledge. When, in reply to his perfunctory "Mrs. Danvers" sie said "Why, no; they're out night, Mr. Buckfast," he expressed "Lasker v. Capabianca." System- surprise and consternatlon. But Itically wiping the chessen-lesi, thought I was dining" "No, surely, during the earlier game, he had left Mc. Buckfast, that's to-morrow," his reprints on any of them-he Buckfast went through the panto-set up the position. Then, interested mime of looking at his book.
*
"I've got to-night down here" he began; then, slapping his thigh. "How stupid of me. Alice, I've booked it for the wrong day."
"WIN you come in and have a drink?" said Alice. "No, thanks," sold Buckfast, "No, that's quite nil right, Allee Tell Mrs. Danvers 1'1 be around, to-morrow. I'm look in and sce
the doga
at Shepherd's Bush.
Не got back into his car and drove, rapidly now, to Colonel Manderley's house at Hampstead. He parked his car on the Heath, about six hundred yards away. Then approaching the house unobserved, he boldly rang the bell.
As he expected, the Colonel him- self opened the door. "Why Har- rell, my dear boy! Miss Walnright said """I know, it was my fault." sald Buckfast. "I found I could get away to-night after all."
The door closed behind them. "Have you had dinner?" asked Manderley. "You know I don't take any." "Yes, that's all right,” sold Buckfast. I had a snack at the club."
Then let's set out the chess-
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Word Square
Definitions are given below for words to be filled in which will read the same both across and down:
D
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1, Darkness; 2, Loafer; 3. Praiso; 4, Plants; 5, A meeting.
Letter Changing Following the usual rules, try changing WIN to TRY in 1
moves.
How Long?
At a certain spot a railway line runs parallel to a river. A train, travelling at 36 miles an hour, passes a motorboat, going down the river at 10 miles an hour, in 6 and 1 seconds. How long would it have taken tho train to pass the motorboat if both had been going in the same direction?
Fun With Antonyms More words and their an tonyms, to-day, to be paired off:
Stray
1 00011
13
LEAR
A
GOVER
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119
improve
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in spite of himself, he played through one or two moves. Kt.-Q 7," he muttered to himself. "A very pretty move. That
mny well stand
Uncle Charles's lost."
And so quickly back to his car und to Shepherd's Bush where- for what remained of the evening- he established a convincing alibi,
Colonel
**
THE coroner's verdict on Manderley Was one of "Suicide while his mind was temporarily deranged." "But that doesn't, you know,tle our hands, said Joshua Playfair to his Sergeant. "I don't like Buckfast's story. He is a hard-headed young man; he's notoriously hard up; he Inherits Manderley's money.
"And his allbl's thin-deucedly- thin-for the very hour during which the old Colonel died."
"But you've nothing against him?" said Dumbell.
"Nothing positive."
"No fingerprints, or anything lite thai,"
"No, I've said so."
Dumbell rubbed his nose with his pipe-stem. "It is an odd affair, sir. Why should a man, in the middle of playing through a chess game, get up and swallow polsan? That's your problem, sir, isn't it?"
Dumbell," answered Play- fair, "That's only a bit of my, problem. There's puzzling question
1
much more
to be answered
than that.. . Between ourselves, I'm quite certain that Manderley was murdered."
Why?
Solution on Page Three
CHESS PROBLEMS
Black
Nos. 49-50
1 Pieces]
Bu he will insists that his name Jahn vomfleld, the name he ravo to the policeman who found is tax.
There was a dramatic scene when Mr. Coates went to Hillingdon Coun- ty Hospital to identify, his son,
At first the boy did not recognise his father. "No, I don't know you. You are not my daddy,” he said. '
Then Mr. Contes began to talk of his toys at home, and eventually the boy sild he remembered his home a Hitite, and also Mr. Contex
as his father.
"But my nume is John Bloomfield," he declared.
Mr. Contes sold that he had been searching for his son since he ran of from school shortly before his stepmother went to fetch him.
The fact of the matter," ho added, "is that my son seems to have caught ths wanderlust. He has wandered off on his own ima after time.
"Most pollee stutions in Middlesex know him."
MEMORY "BLACK-OUT" "There is no doubt about his identity," an official at Hillingdon County Hospital maid,
"We are keeping him here for ob- servation for a few days. He seems to have and some sort of memory lapse because, while he remembers things a year ago and before, he does not seem to remember anything since.
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PROBLEM NO. 50
"Figure Hultery"
FOUNDATIONS
Stand by moxORS
Whitn
Diack
White
THJAINAREN
HARIRAM'S
Pléces
11 Piece
White to play and malo in three, SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS Solutions to Problems 67-48
No. 47. P-07
| No. 49.
-1, D-s
Kt-B
1. Q-Kich
Kall
K-KO
Answers on Page 3