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Our ship, the "Alfonso Penna," had stopped during the night to load a cargo of logs-an unusual occurrence, for the Lloyd-Braziliero steamers are accustomed to make the trip up the Amazon with brief visits only to Santarem, Obydos and Manaos, writes Ann Conyers in the "New York Times" and continues:-

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gether and jamming the waterway, were all sorts of row boats and river craft. ple stood talking on the porch.

While Emmanuel attended to his!

ing curiosity began to take posses- sion of me, so I pulled myself to- gether sufficiently te, offer him a cigarette, and we talked there in the dusk, silently blowing clouds of blue smoke about us to keep away the mosquitoes. I turned over slow- ly In my shocked mind what reasons he could possibly have for being in such a dreary, sinister place.

can-

"How did you happen to come to Brazil ?" I finally ventured, tlously. He threw his cigarette into calmly: "I am a deserter from the the water before replying, then sald

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When the declarer can do no good with the lead his beat plan is to let the adversaries have it. They may lead up to a tenace in his hand, or allow him to discard an in portant losing card or in some other way give him valuable assia-

After cannot see each others' cards and narrow tanco.

all the defenders

A few peo-are always liable to make a slip.

Take this deal for example:- Y.-S-8, 7, 2; H-A, J, 4; D dered about sight-seeing. The wife A-SQ, 9, 5; H-K, Q, 10, 8,

wan- 9; C—Q. 9, 6, 5, 8, 2.

of the storekeeper was a thin, pock-5; D-K, J, 4. C-K, 10. marked "cabocle" lady in a scanty B.--10; H-9, 6, 8; DQ, 10, chemise, but she had a friendly 8, 7, 6, 5; C—A, J, 8. smile and

was delighted to show Z-9A, K, J, 6, 4, 3; H-7, me her home and place of business.2; D-A, 9, 2; C-7, 4. The ahop was

fuel I clambered ashore and

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rusting the third round in dummy, and then 'drawa trumps he will cer- tainly lose one trick in Diamonds and one in Hearts. But suppose Z on winning the first Club trick with the Ace leads a small Diamord and finesses the ten in dummy. B on making the Queen of Diamonds will have to lay down the Ace of Hearts at once or he will lose a small slam. For if B doos anything else Z will get the lead and discard his Hearts on dummy's established Diamonds.

A defending player can some times see when he is being "led up the garden" and can refuse the requires some courage Invitation though often the refusal tain trust in providence. Take this hand for example:

and a cer

Y-S-9, 8, 5, 2; I-10, 7, 4; D—A. Q, 4; C—A, K, 4.

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concealment occurred in a hand played at the Philadahia Racket Club In 1913 by Mr. P. Gregg The play is a classic of a kind, has be how to often been published; b as it may some of my readers 1 give it in full.

At score love all in the rubber game A dealt as follows?

Y.-5-3, 2; H-K, J,19

BS-6, 8; H-J. 8, 3, 2; D9, 8, 7, 4, 2; C-7, 6. K, J, 6, 3; C-Q, 10, 3.

Z-SA, K. Q. 10, 7, 4; H-9. 6; D-10, 7; C-9, 8, 5.

A.-S-J, 10; H-5, 8; D-10,•

6, 3; C-A, Q, J, 10, 9, 4.-

B.-S-4. H-A, Q, 9, 8, 7, 6, 2; D~Q, J, 5; C—5, 2.

Z-S-A, K, Q, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5; H-4; D-K, C-K, 8, 3.

Z got the contract at four Spades doubled over A's Club and B's Hearts. A led the five of Hearts; Y played the ten, and B won with the Queen, B then led the bidding that A must have at least five of Clubs. Z argued from the

six Clubs, so that B could only hold one more should A win the first Club trick

at most. He saw

with a card below the King, he would lead Ace and another Club, giving B a ruff on the third round and thereby saving game and de- Z's only hope was to delude A into thinking that B had a third Club.

a typical country Z is left in with a pre-emptive | 9, 8, 5, 2; C-J, 7, 6, 2. general store, with all sorts of can-bid of three Spades at love score ned goods, strings, nails and bits and A leads the Klog of of gingham for sale, and she told How should Z play! me that the Indians brought rice, Z must lose a trick in mandioca flour and cotton for them and two tricks in Clubs. to send on down to Antonio Lemi. loses a trick to the Queen of trumps and after a contest with A's Heart At love score Z bida one Spade But I gathered there was not much game will be gone. trading, for nearly all lived con- is to duck the King of Hearts led

Z's best play secures the contract at four Spades. tentedly on bananas and rice and to the first trick.

A leads the three top Hearts. Z A must then ruffs the third round, other wild-growing fruits and what switch, and unless he switches

and, after fish they could catch from the door-the Club suit itself Z will be able leads Clubs

drawing trumps in two rounds, I persuaded him in Portuguese ways of their cabins,

to dummy's Ace and to discard one of his Clubs on King+ to abandon whatever vague plans It was a blissful relief to sidledummy's Hearts and go game re-

If cannot see that he he may have had for the day and to once more into the shade, scraping gardless of the trump situation. one or other of those two cards his must throw, his Queen of Clubs on gulde me up one of the narrow over roits and through thick bushes And would. We have also many other parts streams that enter the Amazon at

"igaripes," those nameless elde-in our narrow craft.

A switch to Clubs ? place is at the beginners' table; for The further There is of course, no saying; but he must know that if he is stuck in on the way and arriving soon, short intervals all the way from growth overhead

we penetrated the denser was the with a hand like that he might the lead with the Queen of Clubs he motors and Aluminium Panels. including Electric Gramophone Para to Iquitos in Peru.

and the darker, easily go wrong in choosing an al- the shadows until

will have the unpleasant task of we came into aternative opening to do as little choosing between a Diamond lead up Enquiries from :-

region of perpetual twilight, Once damage as possible.

to dummy's tenace and a Heart lead accustomed to the deepening gloom, Here is another hand in which giving Z a ruff in one hand and what I saw that we were floating in a the defenders are still more likely he probably avidiously needed dis-feating contract. sort of Venetian woodland, whole floor of the forest was water, right play:

The to go wrong it left to choose the card in the other. The play will, of course, fall if Z holds the Jack of A, 10, 9, 7, 8; C-7,4

Y.-S-K, 9, 8; H-Q, 6, 3, D Clubs; but then no other play would succeed. B's only hope is that A A.-S-6, 3, 2; H-10, 8, 7, 2; can win the third round of Club DJ, 8; CJ, 10, 9, 2.

and lead A Diamond through Q. 6, 5; C-A, 8, 5, 8.

B.-S-5, 4; H-A, J, 9, 5; D-dummy's tenace and he ought to see

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Put-putting Over the River For the first time on the voyage, as my Indian guide turned the nose of his vessel slowly inland, I felt a sense of independent and leisure-Inky black and still, with occasional ly adventure. ricketty, wheezy, little boat with a sun pierced the roof of trees and Our launch was a brilliant white patches where the pile of kindling wood and the allen: beyond woods, and as the dump. black boy taking up most of the hot, mouldy air seeped up into my bottom and Emmanuel, the brown nostrils a nauseated feeling came akinned owner, all of the seat. How- evor, a tattered gray awning kept diseased place.

over me, as if I had entered a of the hottest rays of the sun and sat low in the water so that a damp coolness blew in our faces as we put-putted over the river,

Sunrise And Sunset In the boat

Colony

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Finally, though defending players can sometimes see the traps set by An Unpleasant Sensation

At love score Z deals and bide declarers to lead them astray the The unpleasant feeling soon grew one Spade; A, no bid; Y two wily declarer will sometimes con- to active alarm and I poked my Jack of Clubs.

Spadere; and all pase. A leads the ceal the trap so cunnningly by companion in the back and motioned firat Club trick, continues the sult, I ed.

Now If Z wins the false cards that it cannot be detect- to be taken out into the daylight

The finest example of this again. He stuck a paddle obe- diently in the mud and had just started to awing us around when the bushes beside us parted with a rustle and something darted forth.

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the interlacing vines and under-ever, I soon calmed down, for It brush ware speckled with tiny pur-proved to be only another canoe that 5.66 pla and orange flowers and the had almost run into us and then by universal green was splotched here a quick turn had slipped alongside. and there by the vivid red of some A queer, hoarse voice said in rubbery parasite, perched high French:

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I stared in: dumb amazement at some this sudden apparition. It was #

A cold chill ran down my spine as the suspicion grew that he must to a white man.

had grown accustomed to out in war, unshaven, little man, kneeling undersea growth. The silence I ¦ in the centre of his boat in a faded had grown accustomed to put in pair of overalls and with the inevit- the midstream was broken now by able palm leaf hat upon his head. the rustling of leaves and the soft He nodded to my gelde as if he whistles and calls of birds.

knew him and then sat gazing Twice we passed large "ciganas," silently at me after that one ques- tawny fowls, the size of turkeya, tion as though he, too, had seen with peacock crests on their heads, ghost. I scrutinized him care- flying low in the branches over fully, too, and realized slowly that hanging the river. They crashed in spite of his weather-beaten heavily along in pairs, gleaming colour and the painful red welts In the sunshafte like birds of golden of insect bites all over his face and bronze, and once a white aigrette arms he was neither mulatto nor floated lazily off a treetop.

an Indian After a bit we turned sharply at right angles up a leafy water lane, and more plam-leaf-huts appeared upon both sides. It was quite a community, hidden behind the foliage at the Juncture of the main river, and small patches of rice and banana groves broke the wild forest line. A few half-clad women stood on the angging platforme. of their homes and watched us curl ously an we chugged by. Then came again an unsettled plece of jungle, with the thick bought of the trees Interlacing overhead and casting a yellowish green lights

"You will pardon me," he began again after a bit, still in French, and smiling Paintly at my open- mouthed astonishment; but one, does not often meet people in this lagoon. You are the first white woman I have seen in seven years, or is it nine?" He took off his hat and scratched his unkempt head perplexedly, one lowes count.”

You are a Frenchman? I finally managed to articulate in the same language, not certain yet whether I was dreaming.

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