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FLY: Telegraph Short Story
DAMN that noisy fly, I must
swat him," said Stanton jump- ing up to get a newspaper, as a big blowfly blundered on to the window.
"Oh! I don't know," said his companion. "I never kill them, I have a kindly feeling for them. A fly once saved my life."
"Saved your life, you're Joking, Wiltshire," sald Stanton.
"Jaking nolling," said the big detective. Wiltshire held a high position. at the "Yard" and had had an adventurous life, as his friend knew.
story behind
"Aha! there's
that.
Come on, out with it, there's just time for a yarn before my wife comes and hauls me off to a party."
Wiltshire smiled with a far away look in his eyes. "Yes, it's a good story, but an old one now,"
Stanton settled himself in his choir, knowing by experience that left to himself the defective would talk freely.
"It's a
a good many years ago." he began. "I was young in the
and and keep on my 100.
had been a series of rob
all cleverly planned and carried out, big hauls of loot, and
A lot
the police hadn't a thing to go on. "The thleven were too clever in leave a serap of evidence against themselves. I was working under Wetherbyyou remember him? elever chap, but expected from his men. I had caught it hot from him for not getting a line on things. This put me
on my mettle, I am afrold did conte rather unorthodox stunts to get Information. I came to the con- elusion that the whole thing was planned by one brain, and var- ried out by experts in their own Zinc.
"I won't go into all the detalls how I got the Information, but by hanging about low pubs, heuring word here and there, and gener- ally putting two and two together, I found out where the gang bung out, Being determinedung, and cocky. I
and
to get into that house, not say a word about it till I had proof that I was right:
"Well, I got into it and hid in an empty cupboard, Lord, what I was, I was sure I had been fool too much for the elever scoundrels. Sure enough, they came in, and 1 had them under my eye, and what an 'eyeful."
"They hind evidently heard that we were on their trail und were getting out while the going was good,
"There were three men and the boss. A white-faced, white-batred bloke, with pale eyes and no eye-
AGAIN!
July 24, 1940.
By Walt Disney
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Even The Russian
Inshes. Gave me the shivers to look at him. He was giving direc- tions and had got everything work- ed out.
"They were all going by differ- ent routes to the Continent with passports all in order, ready to show a clean pair of heels,
"As I listened, I cursed myself for not saying at the office where I was going. Nobody knew where I was and I was helpless. The. only way out was
through that
room.
By Estelle
on the
stood the glass carefully card. 'One struggle and thot will be over your face. Now, boys, he's fixed, off you go."
"In few minutes they were all gone, and I was left to my thoughts. If only I dared move, i could make the coop of my life. Believe me, Stanton, funked it. One
movement and that awful stuff would spill and land-where? dared scarcely breathe when I thought of it. It was thien I
began to notice. the buzzing of a blg fy about the silent room. The noise got maddening after a bit, as I lay there helpless wondering
whnt would Happen, and if I should be Presently the fly began to hover round as if attract- ed by something, and finally settled on the glass by my face.
Cliffe discovered!
"In my anxiety to see more, I made a rash move and the door rattled. In a moment the man had whipped round with a gun in his hand
"Who's in there?' he snarled, open the door and come out, be fore I put a bullet through it.
There was nothing else to do, so I stepped out as coolly could,
Well, I'm blessed if it isn't our dear friend from the Yard who has been
snooping round. You've come at a very awkward moment, I'm afraid I can't stop to enter- tain you. Now what shall I do with you? Better not kill, might be
mistake. His cold
eyes lared at me. I'll think of some- thing. Hurry up,
you
fellows,' Here he gave some final direction,
I was of no further account, He suddenly snapped his flo- kers. I've got it, I know how to keep you quiet, Johns, pull that couch up here and get me some rope. Now, my friend,' he turned on me with a snarl. 'Lie down and quick, before I change mind and put you
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keeps.
"In a moment I was lying bound on the couch, I siniled to myself, I could easily get out of that tie up. I smiled too soon.
"I watched with surprise as he fetched a bottle and glass, Was I to be doped? Then he found small plece of cardboard.
"Aucat little plan,' he grinned, and worthy of my reputation." The white face looked devilish as he stopped over me. He placed the card on my chest and poured a full glass from the bottle. It was then I saw the label on that bottle. VITRIOL God! what WON he Hoing to do?
"The thin smile never left his lips. Nasty, what? But you move, he explained,
only if
15 he
Ah! my friend, one sip of that and you're for it, I maid aloud. Taking no notice of me, they moved up to the glass in dawdling way Alles have, c'll
find out his mistake, thought.
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"But no, moving slowly up the glass, he stopped on the rim.. Then he began to move down the inside. Then he started to taste the stuff. I expected to see him fall dead. He lapped up the supposed vitriol with every sign of enjoyment.
"It was a minute or two before I realised what it meant, and then thang myself off that couchin
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cold fury. Fooled by that damn crook, a grim fake that might have strceeded in keeping me there in- definitely but for that fly.
"The rest of the story was told in court and, with my information. wo rounded up the whole gang,
expect. you remember the case; anyhow, it made my name and I have always had a pally feel- ing for a Gy since then."
These trips to
to the moon are just MOONSHINE
PROFESSOR A. D. ROSS,
of the University of West Australia, has been talking about how one could journey to the moon in a rocket ship. The ship would weigh 5020 tons in all.
But I should imagine that there would be a fairly loud bang when the first rocket went off to lift the 5020 tons. The jolt, too, would probably give you a pain in the neck for the duration of the trip.
The professor adds, as an after- thought, that getting back to carth again presents a serious problem. I suppose you'd just-have to jump and risk jarring your ankles when you hit the earth.
way
Anyone who has actually thought up methods of going to the moon must be in a pretty bad Anancially or domestically.
Also it seems that it the rocket missed its mark it may wander almicasly through space
for eternity.
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Now that would be monotonous, don't you think? Especially if you had nothing to read.
I don't believe in rocket-ships By the time you'd lit the fuse the thing would be off, and there you'd be eller hanging on to the outalde of it or left on the ground. In either case you'd look an awful goat.
Balloons are different. I simply. love travelling in balloonis. I have. not been up lately as my own bal
Boing somewhat despondent, I had almost made up my mind to take a trip to the moon.`-
But on second thoughts i changed my mind. Nothing unusual in that, of course. It, was due
for it. Anyhow, I have nothing in common with the Man in the Moon.
loon is alightly perished on one side, but I advise those who can afford it to invest in a balloon.
You can always get back to corth again simply by setting fire to the balloon. In this way it is superior to a rocket ship.
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The Inst time I went up was in June,
if I remember rightly, There was a bit of a row on ot home; on account of my bringing visitors home at three o'clock in the morning and starting the planola and one thing and an- other.
Some women are most unreason- able!
Anyhow, after a few remarks had been bandled back and forth, I decided that the balloon was the best place.
So I hastily cut a few sand- wiches, filed my thermos flask and embarked.
My wife clung madly to the gondola of the balloon, not be-
cause she didn't want me to go, but because she hadn't finished what she wanted to say.
I empiled a few bags of sand over her and lightened the weight on the balloon and slowly soared aloft. Birds Buttered about me as I opened my packet of sandwiches.
Meantime I could see the wife below gnashing her teeth and the landlord coming down the street brm-in-arm with the ballif:
After reaching a height of tem thousand feat I threw out. the an- chor and stopped for lunch. Onc has to be careful when anchoring a balloon. Once my anchor caught
on the top of a picture theatre and
Can Raise
By A, G. LANDAU
SOVIET RUSSIA is not
exactly a cheerful place. The people are too earnest, too much regi mented, and too consci- ously collectivised to allow much for light-hearted frivolity.
It might be a good thing. indeed, if they appointed a Commissar-General for Cheerfulness and Irreverent JCHts,
Yet, now and again, there peeps out signs of a somewhat gloomy
of веряе
humour. There are jokes, and they are bandied about like naughty deeds in a good world.
Here are a few of them. Be- fore relate them, however, let me inform you that my frequent visits to Russin were made to the more Noviclized centres. The U.S.S.R. is a very big place, in- habited by many different races and many kinds of people. would be foolish and dangerous of me to generalise und say that these anecdotes were common to the whole country. Let us pro- ceed.
A
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TO emphasise their loyalty to- wards Stalin all Russian communi- ties, are expecled to show at the November festivals come "pchieve- ment of the economie or cultural type, such as a new factory, school, or a workers' club. Such an "achievement" is called a "gift for Stalin." The story goes that a amali Siberian township decided to show Its loyalty on the cultura!
and it bullt a crematorium, The inauguration of this impor- tant "gift" was fixed for the Arst day of the November festivals (the seventh) Bui as It happened, there were no dead people to be disposed of at this time. The com- mittee, however, was lucky enough to find on the outskirts of the township an old beggar, apparent-- ly frozen to death by the early Siberian winter.
The funeral was held with all the ceremony suitable for such on ee cusion, and the "corpse" was de-
the rope. Sliding up the rope is somewhat more dimeült.
I hear a remark from the back of the hall about the rarefled air at great altitudes. Well, this has never worried me in my ascents. Anyone who can stand the atmos- phere In the smokeroom of my club ean stund anything,
The only trouble about my bal- loon is that there is so bile space. For instance, in the basket at- tached to my balloon there is no room for a billiard-lable. Suu, ono gots used to such hardships.
time. after
By the way, I forgot to mention that apart from the five thousand and twenty tons weight of Profes-
in lugting at the rope to discon 'sor· Ross' rocket ship it would be nect the
off the then I tore the roof. necessary to carry four thousand
There was quite
a lot of trouble about that,
It is always best to have an on- chor because, if necessary, one caut reach the earth by sliding down
four hundred and sixty tons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen, as fuel.
It would Beem that future travellers to the moon are going to.
Russian A Laugh
livered to
the
flames. Whether the builders of the crematorium had made a mistake, or for some other reason, the fire burnt very slowly. After two hours of waiting the of- ficials decided that it was time to collect the nahics and to make sure, one of them opened the small win- dow to the furnace.
"Shut that window!" shouted an angry volce from inside, "do you want me to catch.a cold in the draught?"
INAUGURATING the rst Five Year Plan, Stalin proclaimed that his aim was to achieve a much higher standard of living than in nny capitalist country. "We shall overtake and outrun them," he an- nouneed.
"To overtake and to outrun" ("dognat) peregnat" became a daily slogan.)
"What do you think of to over- take and to outrun?' an old Rus- sian was asked. I don't care for this," was his reply, "my slogan in to live to. see and to outlive."
When by the end of 1932 fond became
in Moscow, find clothing and shoes were not avail- able ut ult, it happened that be- cause of the good fruit harvest in the south the people In Moscow got fruit instead of bread.
scarce
"How do you do?" I sald once to a Russian official, who was an acquaintance of mine.
"Oh, splendid," answered he. "The true Paradise has been finally reached. We're going about naked and eating apples."
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LET us conclude by the follow- ing story:
The mummy of Lenin was sol- enly conveyed to the magnificent "Lenin Mausoleum" on the Red Square lu Moscow. A large crowd gathered around to watch
the ceremony performed by the high- est Soviet offcials. One of them remarked an old peasant woman standing in the first row of the crowd and crying bitterly,
Touched by such a devotion of a simple woman, the high commis- sue approached her and said:
"Don't ery, little mother. Lenla is dend, but his work-communism -lives on!"
"Oh, Jittle father," sobbed the woman. "that's what I'm crying about!"
find it pretty expensive. That's why I'm all for balloons.
Mind you, the upkeep of a bal- toon" is something to reckon with. You've got to tear a hole in it in order to get it down and then It comes down with such a terrifle smash that it's hardly recognis able.
Not only that, but you get your. clothes dirty on landing, and have to disentangle yourself from ropes and things.
It will be seen that I am not rabidly intense on balloons and, ED far as I'm concerned, you can travel in trams for the rest of yours life.
I don't want to rush you inta buying a balloon just to have you come wingeing and complaining to me about it later.
I just want to warn you off rocket ships.
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The rabbit is better.
The canaries haven't laid any more eggs,
I am well and very comfortable. I am looking after Ginger for you. Hongkong is quiet and dull. I had 8 smash-up with the Hornaby train on Sunday.
Don't write for too much money as we hear there is to be a further tax on liquid food.
The garden is doing fine.
All the corn le ripe.
Mickey the dog is it and I take him out as often as I can. Bring, back a koala.
It is a long road that has no turning.
Have a good holiday in Sydney. A hundred men and a girl at the hotal yesterday.
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