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FLY:

AMN 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 ki them, I have a kindly feeling for them. A fly once saved my life."

"Saved your life, you're joking, Willshire," said Stanton.

"Voking nothing," said the big detective. Wiltshire held a high position at the "Yard" and had had an adventurous life, s 11 friend knew.

"Aha! there's

think,

Come

story behind

on, out with

there's just time for a yarn before my wife cones and hauls me off to a party."

Wiltshire smilled with a far away look in his eyes. "Yes, it's a good story.

but an old one now."

Stanton settled himself in his chalt, knowing by experience that left to himself the detective would talk freely.

"It's a good many yours ago,"

began.

"1 Wes, young in the Service, and mad keen on my job, There had been a series of rob beries, all cleverly planned and curried out, big hauls of loot, and the police lindn't a thing to go on. "The thieves were too clever to leave a scrap of evidence against themselves. I was working tinder Wetherby-you remember, him? A clever chap, but expected n Jat from his men. I had caught it hot from him for not getting a line things. This put me mettle, I am afenid I did some rather unorthodox stunts to information. I came to the con- clusion that the whole thing was planned by one brain, and ear- ried out by experts in their own

on

on

del

"I won't go into all the details how I got the Information, but by hanging about low pubs, hearing a word here and there, and gener- ally pulling two and two together, I found out where the gang hun out. Being young and cocky, I determined to get into that house, and not say a word about it !! had

"Well that i was right.

I got into it and hid in an empty cupboard. Lord, what

a tool I was, I was sure I had been, -too-much for the clever scoundrels. Sure enough, they came in, and I had them under my eye, and what an 'eyeful.'

"They had evidently heard that we were on their trail and were #elting cut while the going was good.

"There were three men and the boss. A white-faced, white-haired bloke, with pale- eyes and no eye

Telegraph Short Story Even The Russian

Reading Time: 4 minutes

lashes. Gave me the shivers to look at him. He was giving direc- tious and had got everything work- ed oul.

"They were all going by differ- ent routes to the Continent with passports all in order, ready to shown clean pale of heels.

"As 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 thint ruong).

By

On the

stood the glass carefully card. One struggle and that will be over your Ince. Now, boys, he's fixed, off you go.'

"In a few minutes they were all gene, and I

was left my thoughts. If only I dared move, 1 could make the scoop of my life. Belleve me, Stanton, I funked it. One

movement and that awful stuff would spill and land-where? I dared scarcely breathe when 1 thought of it. It was then I began to notice the buzzing of a big fly about the silent room. The noise got maddening after a hit, as I fay here helpless wondering what would happen, and if I should be

Presently the began to hover, round as if atirnct- ed by something, and finally settled on the glass by my face,

Estelle Cliffe discovered

"In my anxiety to see more, 1 mnade a raskt sove and the door rattie. In a moment the ion had whipped round with a gun in his

now!

Who's in Lhere?' he snarled, open the door and come out, be- fure I put a bullet through it.

"There was nothing else to du, so I stepped out as coolly could.

"Well, I'm blessed if it isn't our dear friend from the Yard who has Leen snooping round. You've ente at a very awkward moment, I'm afraid I can't stop to enter tain you. Now what shall I do with your Belter not kill, might mistake. His cold eyes glared at me. I'll think of some- thing Hurry up.

follows. you

Here he gave some final direction, fey if I was of no further account.

utto suddenly snupped his fin- I've got it, I know how to gers. I've 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 my mind and put you out for keeps."

"In a

moment I was lying bound en the couch, I smiled to myself, I could easily get out of that tle up. I smiled loo soon.

"I watched with surprise us he fetched a bottle and gliss.

Was I to be doped? Then he found u small piece of cardboard,

A-nent-littic 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 was going to do?

he

The thin smile never left his lips. 'Nasty, what? But only if you move, he explained, us he

to the

These trips to

fly

"Ah! my friend, one sip of that and you're for it, I sald aloud. Taking no notice of me, the fly moved up to the glass In that dawding way Bles have. He'll soon And out his mistake, thought.

The

HUSBAND'S

FRIEND

No. 2

I

At tea time when a little nour- ishment is indicated the egg drinks are in order. Here is a popular swizzle:

1

ounce at gin

white of one egg julee of half

lime

sugar to taste, Ice and shake and serve in tall glass.

"Dut no, moving slowly up the gins, he stopped out the rim. Then he began to move down the inside. Then he started to taste the stuff. I expreled to see him for stead, 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- Tung myself off that couch cold fury. Fooled by that dama crook, a grim fake that might have succeeded In keeping me there in- definitely but for that fly.

"The rest of the story was told In court and, with

my information, we rounded up the whole gang.

"I expect you remember the case; anyhow I made my name and I have always had a pully feel- ing for a fly since then."

moon

are just MOONSHINE

Por the University of Went DROFESSOR A. D. ROSS, Australia, has been talking about how one could journey. to the moon in à 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 necit for the duration of the trip.

The professor adds, as an after- thought, that getting back to earth again presents a serious problem. I suppose you'd just have to jump and risk jarring your ankles when you hit the earth,

Anyone who has actually thought up methods of going to the moon must be in a pretty bad financially or domestically.

why

Also it seems that if the rocket missed its mark it may wonder aimlessly through space

all eternity.

for

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

of

bo either hanging on to the outside it or lefl on the ground. In either case you'd look an awful

Fost

Balloons are different. I simply love travelling in balloons. I have not been up lately as my own bal-

Being 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 duc

for it. Anyhow, I have nothing in common

with the Man in the Moon.

loon is slightly perished on one side, but I advise those who can afford it to invest in a balloon.

You can always get back to cartii. bgain simply by setting fire to the balloon. In this way it is for superior to a rocket ship.

The last time I went up was in June, If I remember rightly, There was a bit of a

a row on at home, on account of my bringing visitors home at three o'clock in the morning and starting the planela and one thing and, an- other.

Some women are most unreason- able!

Anyhow, after a few romarics had been bandied back and forth, I decided that the balloon was tho best place.

So I hastily cut a few sand- wiches, filled my thermos finsic and embarked.

cause she didn't want me to go, but because she hadn't Onished what she wanted to say,

I emptied a few bags of sand over her and lightened the weight on the balloon and slowly soared aloft. Birds Auttered 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 arm-in-arm with the ballIT.

After-reaching a height of ten thousand feet I threw out the an- chor and stopped for lunch. One has to be careful when anchoring a balloon. Once my anchor caught on the top of a picture theatro and In lugging at the rope to discon nect the anchor, I tore the roof off the theatre. There was quite

Can Raise A Laugh

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 Jests.

Yet, now and again, there peeps out signs of a somewhat gloomy sense of humour. There are jokes, and they are bandied about like naughty deeds in a good world.

Here are a few of them. Be- fore I reinte them, however, let me inform you that my frequent visits to Russla were made to the more sovielised centres. The USSR, is a very big place, in- habited by many different races and many kinds of people. It would be foolish and dangerous of me to generalise and say that these anecdotes were common to the whole country. Let us pro- cecd,

TO emphasise their loyalty to- wards Stalin all Russian communi- ties are expected to show at the November festivals some "achieve- ment" of the economic or cultural type, such as a new factory, school,

workers' club. Stich "achievement" is called

"gift for Stalin." The story goes that small Siberian township decided to show its loyalty on the cultural line," and it bullt a crematorium,

or

livered to the flames. Whether the builders of the crematorium had made a mistalic, or for some eller reason, the Are burnt very slowly. After two hours of waiting the of- ficials decided that it was time to collect the ashes and to make sure, one of them opened the small win- dow to the furnace.

"Shur that window" shouted an angry voice from inside, "do you want me tu catch a cold in the draught?"

INAUGURATING the first Five Year Plan, Stalin proclaimed that his aim was to achieve a much higher standard of living than in any capitalist country. "We shall overtake and outrun them," he on- nounced.

to outrun"

"To overlake and ("dognat peregnati" became daily slogan.)

"What do you think of to over- take and to outrum?" an old Rus- slan was asked. I don't care for this," was his reply, "my slogan is to live to see and to outlive."

When by the end of 1932 food became scarce In Moscow, and clothing and shoes were not avail- able at all, it happened that-be- cause of the good frult tarvest in the south the people in Moscow got fruit instead of bread.

to

"How do you do?" I suid once Russlan 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."

LET us conclude by the follow- ing story:-

The mummy of Lenin was sol- emnly conveyed to the magnificent "Lenin Mausoleum" on the a

Red Square in Moscow. A large crowd gathered around ta watch the ceremony pe:formed by the high- est Soviet officials. One of them.

standing in the first row of the crowd and crying bitterly.

The Inauguration of this impor tant "gift" was fixed for the first-remarked an old peasant woman day of the November festivals (the seventh). But 25 It happened, there were no dead people to de disposed of at this time. The com- mlitre, however, was lucky enough find on the outskirts of the township an old beggar, apparent- ly frozen to death by the early Siberian winter,

to

The funeral was held with all the ceremony suitable for such un oc- casion, and the "corpse" was de-

the rope. Silding up the rope is somewhat more difficuli.

I hear a remark from the backs of the hall about the rarefled air at great altitudes, Well, this has nover worried me in my scents. Anyone who con stand the atmos- phere in the smokeroom of my club can stand anything,

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The only trouble about my bal. toon is that there is so little space.. For instance, in the basket at- tuched to my balloon there is no room for a billard-table. Still, one gets used to such hardships after a time.

By the way, I forgot to mention that apart from the five thousand and twenty tons weight of Profes- sor Ross' rocket ship it would be- necessary to carry four thousand four hundred and sixty tons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen s It is always, best to have an all-

fuel. chor because, if necessary, one can. It would seem reach the earth, by sliding down

that futura travellers to the moon are going to

a lot of trouble about that.

My wife clung madly gondola of the balloon, not

to

the

Touched by such a devotion of a simple woman, the high commis- For approached her and said;

"Don't cry little mother. Lenin is dend, but his work-communism --lives on!"

"Oh, little father," sobbed the Woman, that's what I'm crying about!"

And it pretty expensive. That's why I'm all for balloons.

Mind you, the upkeep of a bal loon is something to reckon with. You've got to tear 'n hele in it in. order to get it, down and then it comes down with such a terrifie 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, so far as I'm concerned, you can travel in trams for the rest of your 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.

Don't touch them! Their trade in value is negligible. Buy a bicyclet

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Beer is the same price.

The spaniels are well. The rabbit is better.

The canaries haven't Jald any more eggs.

I am well and very comfortable. 1 am looking after Ginger for you. Hongkong is quiet and dull. I had a smash-up with the Hornsby train

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 is ripe..

Mickey the dog is at and I take m 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] hotel yesterday,

The grass widowers are. settling down to household duties.

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A number of older girls

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