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THE PARKERS
DADEN-WHY NOT PAINT
RINGS ROUND THE GARDEN TOOLS 50
YOU'LL KNOW WHICHI
ARE YOURS
A Short Story
MS A GOOD IDEA! JONES
İS ALWAYS BOAROWING.
AND WHERE DID MY CLEVER
GIAL GET THIS BRAINWAVE,CH?
OUT OF THE
E walked in the shadows and wanted me, and Freddie laughed and wanted, so Push shot him; he didn't he went. He walked warlly, even take the gun out of his pocket; and always in the shadows, and he didn't, even give. Freddie a counted the lights because he chance." must have something to occupy his mind. He was going to see Push Malone; he was going to talk to Push about a woman, and he knew Push would try to kill him.
H counted the street lights dad he had to fight for what he
FIFTEEN-sixteen seventeen.
walked steadily the shadows, and the lights came 19 meet him, flickered briefly, and died behind him. They were not street lights, but lives. That was all life was. A light powered by some un- known force which illuminated everything for a short time and then, when the power was suddenly ex- tinguished, flckered and went out From darkness to darkness, and the little time in between was life,
Freddie Lunden had been like that. His brief life had been bright and gay, then Push Malone came to see him, and they talked about woman, and the light had gone out for Freddie.
Twenty-twenty-one.
The woman came to him, and she was sobbing, but there were tears in her eyes.
"They gol him, Bill," "They got Freddie."
He looked at speak.
nu
spoke his voice was flat.
He looked at her, and when he "Freddie was a fool; I told him not to get mixed up with you."
ȚE rose sumy to his feet HE
and buckled a shoulder strap, so the pistol alted snugly under his left arm, then put on his coal.
by HODGES
MR JONE'S
NEXT DOOR!
by SIMON CASTLE
SHADOWS
Push apparently did not think he BILL walked stimy to the telephone was coming, or someone, would have on a small table, his automatic met him before this. It smiled held openly, thinly in the darkness. Maybe, if he admitted it, that was the reason he had chosen to walk. So he might get an excuse to pump a slug into one of them. Like Freddie got his.
Twenty-nine.
He was a young fool, and he had paid for it. But his foolishness had often proved valuable and now someone else was going to pay.
There was a sudden scuffle in an alleyway, and hard metal was in his hand as he pressed against the wail, This was it, this was when some rat got a bellyful.
"What she should have said, Push, was that she was finished with you. She wanted to get you well and truly out of the way and she used me and Freddie. She thought when she told me you kled Freddie I would not walk to ask questions. But Freddie told me. He knew she was going to frame you, but he didn't know how. But I knew to-night She found out that he was passing information on to me, and thought she would get two birds. A clever woman."
"You are no good," he said. "You should have got the slug," She trembled slightly and half turned, He said: "I don't want you in my There was another scuffle ond way to-night." He pushed a whisky | big black cat darted across his feet. bottle at her; there was a little fuld Strange how his movements were in the bottom. "Drink this." She always so stiff after sudden action or drank it and grimaced.
shock. His lips curled slightly den.
He lifted the telephone: "Get me the police station. Hullo, constable? Tell Mac to send a wagon for Push Malone-accessory to murder. And that woman you booked u little while ago drunk and disorderly: hold her for the murder of Freddie Lun-
"Me?
"You will go to the police station he slipped the automatie back into on the corner," the fint volce wents holster. Cats meant good luck, Yeah. on, and throw the bottle through or bad luck, he couldn't remember. the window. That will take care of It did not matter much; if something you for to-niglit."
was good luck for one it was bad for another.
"But, Bin," she gasped.
He ancered at her. "You wouldn't want Push to get you before I find him, would you?"
She shivered and took the bottle off the table. ""All right.”
He passed three more lights and
hie
turned to mount narrow
steps. This was the front entrance, so was never watched.
The
dour She walked out the door and down the steps to the street, and he opened easily to the first itey
und waited in the shadows until she had tried, and he closed it quietly
steps. The softly ascended more thrown the bottle through, the win-second door from the landing show- she said.dow and had been taken inside.
ed a streak of light from the bot-
the three men tom, and
sitting i around a table littered with and money did not know he was Inside until he spoke.
TWENTY-FIVE-twenty-six.
a long way to walk,
her and did
not
"Push Malarte: came," she said woodenly. "He come and said he
TW
It was but he was not in a hurry.
Children's Corner
Conducted by Uncle Peter
An Unpopular Queen
Test Your Brains
This week I am giving you some I will tell you a few things about the beautiful queen of Franco whom exercises to test your brains. Try everybody hated. She was Marie to work out the following problems. Antoinette, the spendthrift queen, and then compare the answers given and her stury is a sad one.
on Page 10,
cards:
"Hulding all the aces, Push? Al five of them?
Three pairs of eyes jumped to the door, and the small, bald man's hand started n swift movement to his side. The hand stopped as his eyes completed thele are and saw folded easily across a chest with the right band hidden beneath the coat.
artr
I always said you were smart, Push," the even vaice said, "but not ay smart as a woman,"
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you
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The small man snarled, "What do you want?"
want you, Push. A woman came He was watching Push ekosely. to me to-night and said how killed Freddie.
"It's a lie," growled Malone, can prove I was herd all night." The daughter of Maria Theresa
1. How many times in the course ed B sald calmly. "But you were "I know It is a lie," the mon call- and Franels I of Austria, she was married at an early age to the Dau-of a day does the minute hand of a
there, and I can say it so you get of France, who later became watch overtake the hour hand? phin
life Louis XVI. But the French people 2. A and B are two towns at a Sudden beads of perspiration ap- never loved her. Yet when one distance of 10 miles from considers her ill-concealed contempt other, Y and Z are two cyclists It's
each peared on Push Malone's forehead, л frame-up," lic shouted.
for any but the nobility, her amazing who travel at the rate of 10 miles "Sure I was there, but she done it, extravagance and appetite for per hour. Y starts from A to B at the 1 could not stop her. I said, "You'll luxury, her semi-tragic influence same time as Z starts from B to A. swing for this" and she said 'Not me, over the policy of her husband-king All the time that they are cycling a Push. Not me. Then she said ng It is only to be expected that she fly fles at the rate of 40 miles per how he was starting to make. trouble. should receive little respect from hour from one" tu" the other to and on account of she was wanting her subjects.
fro until they meet. How far does come back to me, and she had to get
Her unpopularity was a minor the fly fly before the cyclists meet? rid of him." cause of the French Revolution. Al the outset she was thrown into prison, where she immediately made matters worse by trying to persuade Austria to invade France.
She was convicted and executed. Marie Antoinette was beautiful and brave. At her trial she defended herself with skill and power. Even the guillotine she on her way to maintained a marvellous composure and queenly dignity.
She
born In wis executed in 1703.
1755.
and
Rupert and Ninky-18
Pulling himself together Rupert runs to the window, climbs on a chair and leans out. Ninky han landed on his feet, taken three or four more jumps and then fallen over on his side in the snow. **This is just stupid," says Rupert. "How did he do that? If he was alive he wouldn't topple aver and fie there like that." What's hap pened," saya Bill'■ voice from within the room. But Rupem docm't wait to answer. He scrambles over, the windowsill, drops down and tutto Ninky.
According To Culbertson
"Dear
Mr
night's game
North. dealer.
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)
East-West vulnerable.
Sorry-Sergeant Landen. I'm sorry too."
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Anawers on Page 10-
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baby car, illegal Jewish Army, Iranian political
partur
2. The Queen Elisabeta mado her first Atlantio crossing in-
3, 4, 0, 0, 7 days?
3.
Which is the heavier---
Petrol ar water?
4. Alredalo? No, but a Belli terrier. What breed?
5. How many speling ma- takes hero-
Ecconomy, abscess, gargoyle, blatent interpretter?
An average ad aber is employed in
Cricket, surveying, banking, Insurance, naval gunnery?
7. The Great Lakes are in... Canada, V.Stadho
Central America. Newfoundland?
'8. In which years did these horses win the English Derby
(a) Mahmoud, (b)
Occan Swell, (c) Mid-Day Sun, (d) Sansovino?
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king and shifted to a club,
put up the ace (it would have done me no good to nesse) and, after cashing every trump, led my last diamond. West, however, showed out and now I had no place to discard my club Jack. My partner claimed I had played the hand like a plumber."
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NANCY - This Evens Everything
IS ALWAYS so NOISY WITH HIS BOTTLES
THAT MILKMAN
KEEP QUIET, DOWN
CLANK CLINK
THERE
NOW I'M SORRY I YELLED AT HIM ---- HE'S A
NICE! MAN
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Skipping all possibly invidious comparisons, one thing is certain -South did not play the hand well There were two logical plans of play. The best
percentage was to finesse the opening heart lead. despite the singleton in the closed hand. If the finesse lost, declarer. could win the to-be-expected club return, lead to the diamond ace, discord a diamond on the heart ace, then safely ruff out the diamond suit for a club discord.
The other sound plan was to win the first trick with the heart ace, then cash the diamond ace and con- cede a diamond. Declorer would then of course put up the club ace if East shifted to that sult, after which he would 'enter dummy with a trump and ruft a diamond to establish the still had another sult, while he trump entry in dummy.
I STILL FEEL
BAD ABOUT YELLING AT THAT POOR MILKMAN
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