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BRIDGE NOTES

Catastrophe

By Ely Culbertson

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1936

My sympathy always goes out

to the player who finds himself in that most baffling and provocative of bridge

situations:

is

The Man Who Grew Wings

(Continued from Page f)

Now look here. Flo---" be be-

wings one of these days."

"Well, what if I do?" roared Mr. gan, but she held up her hand and fending his virtue against this Tannin, angrily and miserably, de- smiled winsomely at him. "Nor for me, Albert?"

ribaldry, Ooh, if it's for you. I sup

yes." he said, puzzled.

ཝཱ ཝ

And extraordinarily, he did.

Now comes the part of the tale

TRAR.

And he began to go less to the which you may or may not believe. "Copper Cock.” At first it had the part which Fred Bight, Mr. opponent all right, and there had been Hand and Mrs. Tannia will all with a part-score makes a bid, hech chaff about "respectable hus- quite solemnly swear to, the part holds a fair hand-shall be deals from Mr. Hand as he push, which tells of how Mr. Tannin be- fend or surrender?

ed across the yeasty tankards, and to grow wings. Even with such a bidding yard-nel winking froin Fred Bight, it must be understood that at stick available as the Culbertson and much story-telling and asides is time he was a very changed! "rule of two and three govern-about "the missus.

He no longer pulled the legs But when Mr. Tannin found that of people, told funny stories, lin ling defensive overcails, it

dicult to hew strictly to thei Flo simply, let his dinner go cold on red over his lunch, kept back a line when the opponents are about if he was a little late at the bit of his salary to put on a horse. drunk beer with friends at the "Cock," and replied, when he re- to sail blithely to a rubber on a baked her with a righteous smile Copper Cock" or any other tavern. miserable bid of one. The temp an appeal to his better mature had very seriously come to obey tation to try and find a few use which he but a great deal the irresistible Mrs. Tannin in all jable cards in partner's hand is there seemed nothing to be deac.things, even to smoking only thres almost overpowering at such times. After all, he loved her, and, sigh,pipes and five cigarettes a day, to Certainly a catastrophe such asing, supposed that it was a biting wool rugs and changing bis I am about to describe seems dis-lord on her being left alone that Sunday newspaper.

"My shoulders." he said one proportionate punishment for the way. But he hankered greatly for

eheerful freedom of

morning. hurt me, my dear. Ca *Cock," and didn't really see the you anything?"

Mrs: Tannin looked.. "Looks to For in it.

minor offence involved.

East, dealer.

Both sides vulnerable East-West part-score $0.

'S. 10'4

H. 109852 D. 74

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Ta

the

Mr. Hand and Fred Bight backed she opened. "like two little. aim ap in this. You take a stand, cysts. Little lumps, you know. I'll my lad, advised Fred. "don't be put embrocation on them."

allied by a woman. "I con't," "She embrocated Mr. Tannin's feried Me Tannin with much deter slanders for a whole week, but at the end of it the little lumps had chination, and set off to put his foot

increased in size. had thrust them- (down.

Flo listeriod sadly, then shook herfselves out like small limbs, and. head, then said, "Allert, you are with their growing Mr. Tannin be #great disappointment to me. In to hind fault with her. Gently,

You of course, but fimnly. Bad hoped for so much. jalways seemed to me, well, a cut powdering her nose, he pointed out He condemned her vanity {1} Bu you're just tendency she had to gossip, he

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North INT

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One pint or three pints, it's all

satne.

I don't go buying my pints of ten, do I? I don't

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The bidding:

South East

Inbove other men.

he same, it see

Bombay, Marseilles & London

Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-

burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Huli. Bombay. Marseilles & London Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham- burg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull Bombay, a Marseilles & London Bombay. Marseilles &

&London Marseilles, Havre, London, Harm-IS

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only had a pint," said Mr.suggested that the entire contents of the Tisbat box-be used not for Taani, deflated,

their own selfish ends. but for claritable purposes.

“Are you mad, Albert ?” she gasped.

burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall, bad, as any other bid he could this soft of thing is to go on, then Mr. Tannin. I am just seeing the Ham- one spade bid was as good, or 25versary things, do I? Albert, if, He sighed wearily, then smiled at her with much love. "No," said make, Certainly, it appeared as can't, that's all.” safe as a two heart overcall with

Marseilles, Havre, London, Haz-

Marseilles, Havre, London,

burg. Rotterdam, Antwerp &

Ham-

"Very well. Fle." said Mr.light.**

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall his four card suit. He could Tamin, and put the ninepence for And then one morning he awoke stand either a diamond or a club the pint he had intended to return to feel something sharp scratching! response from North. Waether and have into the Tisbut Box. Jagainst the sheet, and, turning to At once she smiled at him, ut investigate, discovered that this Hall should have passed to East's

Her was the first of the little blood quills | once made a fuss of him. double of the no trump is a moot art was full of little birds it seem: thickly about his shoulders.

which so soon were to sprout so point-he undoubtedly felt that trilling of righteousness and the fat already was in the fire and is for her work. He sat, as u 1," he said piously, "am grow- that he might only make 3 bad husband should, slippered ing wings, my dear."

**Growing what, Albert "" matter worse by raising the coa-jand confortable by his fire, reading

her little bits out of the paper.Those aren't

*Wings.** said Mr. Tannin. warts, or cysts,

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The play was most interesting in that very afternoon, she had ber're wings. Now make haste and exciting [except from the extracted from him a promise.notwith my breakfast, do; I must not North and South point of view]!to bet any more. East opened the diamond king andsn't it, Albert? He had had to

"It's so silly she had said, be late for the office.

Needless to say, this growing of then made the excellent shift to agree that it was.

wings upon the shoulders of a city the club

And next, she clerk occasioned him some discom-two and a half feet long and covered turb her, and he was always woo- Dummy's jack thought she would introduce, to

ing her amiles with cups of tea covered and West won with the balance these discarded activities of fort, especially since he refused all with thick white plumage. king returning the spade

**But-but- spluttered the which he brewed and brought to ten Mr. Tannin's, materials for the Mrs. Taunin's pleas that he should; North covered and East's king king of wool rugs. At first Mr. and have then seen to by a pair, but this is the most amaz-her lovingly.

Sometimes she would glance up doctor. Perhaps," he said, pleasing thing that's over luppened & clubs Tannin protested. This was not aed with the mild joke, it would be man really growing winge! You'd to find him looking at her, tears of was led and, when dummy ducked, man's work, he said. But she was the seven put West in for two strong, so lovable, so beautiful. better to consult a veterinary sur-make a fortune showing yourself, love and pity in his eyes, his head

Bert."

skowly shaking, and she would more club tricks. The low spade He truly was a little afraid of her. o.

But Mrs. Tarnia did not laugh, "I am not," said Mr. Tannin, grind her teeth together with sheer through North's 9 7 5 enabled Very well. Flo." he said.

And a few weeks later Mr. Hand for how was she to deal with these concerned with the making of for anger. East to run his entire suit. Mean-and Fred Bight met him in the goings on in her house; how was she tunes. I only want to live quietly "I know I'm not perfect," she while, the dummy was having

to supply sufficient wool and frames and decently, and it seems that shouted at him in exasperation one considerable trouble discarding. You," said Fred Eight, scorn-for a rug-making diligence which that's a hard enough thing to do in evening, but at least I'm human. When East laid down his fifth fully, in departing. will

increased day by day? There was this world." He sighed. It's no- It was only half an hour later nothing for her to do but contrive thing but greed, and vice, and pre-that Mr. Tannin, coat thrown off to plents in Mr. Tannia's coats which judice, and intolerance even in myjease the full-feathered magnificence could accommodate these disturbing own home," he concluded sadly.of those wings (a full four feet now)

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situation

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street.

APPEAL MADE TOextremities which grew day by day, As for Fld Tannin, the rigid cor-tip-toed into her room with hot milk

MAGISTRATE

Widow Without A Country

though at length she burst out rectness of her husband's behaviour and biscuits.

**YOU

mean-

angrily at Mr. Tancin as he sat infamed her almost to the point of "Take them away," shouted stitching at his work: "Albert, madness. She would come in from Mrs. Tannin in misery, "take them you're acting like a fool I posi-shopping to find that he had not away, I tell you. Albert, I hate tively insist that you have these only laid the table for supper, but you, hate you, hate you-ob, why ridiculous things amputated. It's preled the potatoes and set them can't you be what you used to be,

it's a freak medical case, that's on to bod.

In normal, healthy man 2 Why, all."

While she was reading the she demanded, choking through her Ida Aaronzohn, aged 59, a Eus-

He smiled at her lovingly. "Flo woman's page of the newspaper at tears, "don't you go out and get sian widow, of no fixed abode, dear, please, your voice; pot so breakfast time he would sup up drunk?” was charged at Old-street last loud. I suppose there's nothing un-stairs and make the bed, and even **Drunk?" queried Mr. Tannin, FASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS | |South hand cannot discard safely. United Kingdom without the leave should live that they will one of find fault with these goings on, buz

at this point the month with having landed in the natural in what is happening to me find time to dust the hall before eyes widening.

It is said of people who live as they leaving for the office. She strove to drunk?" A diamond discard permits East of the Immigration Officer.

"Tes-drunk, Albert. Cut those these days grow wings. That is had to admit that there was never horrible things off, and go and get Sydney to cash his two high diamonds.| Police-constable Bateson said what has happened that is all. any fault to find.

If the ace of hearts is blanked, Aaronzohn told him her son. was and now I am going for a little

drunk,** East simply forces South into the killed by the Bolsheviks in 1926. walk,

If only, she wished, he were not "Do I understand that you, you, lead, requiring a lead from the She went to Warsaw, and

so confoundedly perfect, He got my wife, are actually asking me. from What's the matter with you?" upon her nerves, so that she would encouraging me to get drunk?" queen-ten of diamonds into his there to Berlin. She had been inquired Fred Bight, meeting him invent faults, shouting, "Not that] "Yes," she choked. "'At least [higher tcaace.

wandering in Germany and had in the road half an hour later. dinner service. Albert, the other it would make a man of you again. Thus, North and South manag-jno papers.

Wint are you all hunched up for, one-why are you getting so soft?"la man whom I could respect and— ed to take exactly one trick, for a Aaronzehn, through an

and what's the idea of that coat?" And he would answer with a mild, and love."" penalty of 1,700 points!

There is nothing the matter loving smile-"Of course, dear, preter, declared that at Hamburg with me," said Mr. Tannin, no how foolish of me.

There was a pause, during which You like a Mrs. Tannin turned her face to the she begged a sailor to get her othing at all. I am hunched up, change sometimes, don't you?** a boat, and later she arrived in as you put it, because I find these

wall and wept, during which she And all the while his wings grew, heard her husband say wearily, London. Appealing to Mr. Met wings of mine a little heavy, and until he now had to tuck the tipsThis I cannot stand, this is too calfe, the magistrate, she wept the idea of this coat is to accommo- of them under his trousers, and much. I have tried, and I have bitterly and asked: "Where can date them while attracting as little they tickled her terribly in bed at failed."

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they send me? I have nobody in attention as possible. I admit that night. So much so that she Then, so Mrs. Tannin tells the the world."

they are not the most comfortable banished him into another room, an tale, she heard a rustling, a whir Mr. Metcalfe made a recommen-of things to have.'

exile which he accepted with string sound, and the clatter of a dation for deportation and said.

"Stow it," said Fred Bight rude- gracious smile:

chair being overturned. For a mo- the Home Office would

ty, and come and have one."

But she, alone in the old room, ment she did not turn, but when Mr. Tannin raised his brows. lay on her face and soaked the pile did-so-Mrs. Tannin swears— Stockholm. A report from the position.

One what?" he demanded.

low with tears, and bit the seams she saw that Mr. Tannin no longer Gothenburg speaks of the "quite

"One quart," said Fred Bight, with anger and disappointment stood by the bed, that the window and drugged his friend into the since now there seemed to be novas open and the curtains flutter- "Copper Cock," where Mr. Hand thing in life at all, the Albert, whom ing, and though she is not strictly was standing alone behind the bar she really loved very much indeed, certain about this-that there, sp

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A packed meeting at Finsbury "Yes," explained Mr. Tannin, I was grown so far away from her. peared to be a dark speck flying Several such orders were re-Park, N., recently passed a résolu-am growing wings. I am growing But always, when he was around, over the face of the full moon. ceived last month. Two of the tion, which will be sent to the here. After all, Fred, you said that irritated her, irritated her, wizaTzDcoturned, and the story, if strange. wings because I stopped coming she made herself hand as flint-be At all events, Mr. Tannin never yards are so bazy that they can-Minister of Health, protesting PCO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG buyers would like, and ir-scheme to rehouse 12,000 to 15,000 cost in the privacy of Mr. Hand's showed not deliver as quickly as the Eng-against

I would, and I am-look!" He her, until she came to the verge of if sad, if unbelievable (though Fred the L.C.C's £750,000 divested himself of coat and waist- screaming at each consideration height, Mr. Hand and Mrs. Tazmin all wear to its vemcity) shows quries have been made for otherjaium dwellers on 64 acres of fiats parlour, and disclosed to their Plser 27721-

He had taken to creeping about grimly that men will be men, and builders who might be able to ac-in the Woodberry Down area of astonished gaze what was by then a the house in bedroom slippers so are best left and loved at that. [cept orders.

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very, creditable pair of wings, some] that there should be no noise to dis-1

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