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FLY:

DAMN that noisy fly, I must

swat him." sald Stanton junp- Ing up to get a newspaper, as a big blowly tlundered on to the window.

"Oh I don't know," said his companion. "I never kill them, I have a kindly feeling for them. A By once saved my life."

"Saved your life, you're Joking, Wiltshire," said Stanton.

Waking nothing," said the bik a high detective. Wiltshire held position at the "Yard" and had hla nd an adventurous Hte, as friend knew.

"Ahat there's story behind What. Come

with it, on, out

there's just time for a yarn before my wife comes and Juuls me off

party."

to a

Wiltshire smiled with a far away Jook in his eyes. Yes, it's a good story, but an old une now."

Stanton settled huself in his chair, knowing by experience that left to himself the detective would talic freely.

"It's

a good many years ago," he began." "I was young in the Service, and mad keen on my job. There had been a series of rob- berica, all cleverly planned and carried out, big hauls of loot, and the, police hadn't thing to go on.

"The thieves were too clever in leave a scrap of evidence ainst themselves. 1 was working under Wetherby you remember him? A clever chap, but expected Jut froin his men. I had caught it hot from him for not getting a line on things. This put me on $113 mettle. I am afraid I did some rather unorthodox stunts to get Information. I came to the con- clusion that the whole thing was planned by one brain, and car- ried out by experts in their own

won't go into all the details how I got the information, but by banging about low pubs, hearing u

here and there, and gener- ally putting two and two together.. I found out where the gang hung out. Being young and cocky. I determined to

to get into that house, and not a word about

say a

it til f proof that I

had

I was right. Well, I ког

into it and hid in -an-entity-cupboard, Lord, what

a fool 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 getting out while the going was good.

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

July 24, 1940.

By Walt Disney

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Telegraph Short Story Even The

Reading Time: 4 minutes

lashes. Gave me the slivers to Jook at him. He was giving direc- tions and had gut everythilig work- rd out.

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

I curved myself 1 latened. for not saying at the office where I was going. Nobody knew where I wan and I was helpless. The only way out was Buough

routh.

aloud the gloss carefully on the 'card. One struggle and that will be over your face. Now, boys, tre's fixed, off you go.'

to

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"In a few minutes they were all gone,

and I Was Jeft thoughts. If only I dared

niove, I could make the scoop of my life. Belleve me, Stanton, I funked it. movement and that, awful One stuff would spill and land-where? 1 tinat

dlared scarcely breathe when I thought of it. It was then I began to notice the buzzing of a big fly about the silent room. The noise got maddening affer a bit, as I lay

wondering helpless there

what would happen, and if I should be discovered!

the Presently

By began to libver round as if attract- ed by something, and finally settled on the glass by my face.

By Estelle Cliffe

"In my anxiety to see more, I made a rash rave and the door rattled. In a moment the man had whipped round with a gun, in his hoza

Who's in there! heurled, open the door and come out, be- fore I put a bullet through it.

"There was nothing else to do. no 1 stepped out as coolly DI 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 awkword munnent, I'm afraid 1 can't stop to enter- tain gut. Now what shall da with you? Better not kill, might 1 a mistake. His cold eyes glared at me. i think of Kaine- thing. Hurry up,

follows,' Here he gave some final direction, as if I was of no further account,

Bille suddenly snapped

B-

you

pers, I've got it, I know how to keep you quiet. Johas, pull that couch up here and get me some rope. Now, my friend, he turned snarl. Lie down on me with

and quiek, before I change my mind and put you out for keeps,

"In a incment I was lying bound om the couch. I sined to myself, I could easily get out of that He úp.

saniled too soon.

"I watched with surprise as he fetchell bottle and glass. Was i to be doped? Then he found a small piece of cardboard.

A neat little plan,' be grinned, and worthy of my reputation.' The white face looked devilish as He placed he stopped over me. the card on iny chest and poured

full glass from the bottle. It was then I saw the label on that bottle.

VITRIOL. God!

what was he going to do?

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

These trips to

the

"Ah! my friend, one sip of list and you're for it, I snid aloud. Taking no notice of me, the y moved up to the glass ki that dawdling way les have. He'll S005 And

his mistake, 1 thought.

The

1

HUSBAND'S

No. 2 FRIEND

At tea Ume when a little nour- Juhment is indieated the egg drinks are in order. Here is a popular swizzle:

me

1 ounce of gin white of one egg Juice of half a sugar to taste, ice and shuke and serve in tall glass.

"But no, moving slowly up the glass, he stopped on the rim. Then he began to move down the inskie. Then he started to taste the stuff. I expected to see him fall dend. He lapped up the supposed vitriol with every sign of enjoyment.

_HTC_wana...minute_og_wo.before.

I realised what it meant, and then 1 lung myself off that couch in a cold fury. Fooled by that damn crook, a trim fake that might have succeeded in keeping me there in- definitely but for that fly.

The

In

rest of the story was told court and, with my information, we rounded up the whole gang.

"I expect you remember the chuset anyhow

it made iny nume Anul I have always had a pally feel- ing for a By since then."

moon

are just MOONSHINE

Por the University of West DROFESSOR A. D. ROSS,

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 neels for the duration of the trip.

The professor addi, as an after- thought, that getting back to earth ngalt presents a serious problem. I suppose you'd just have to jump and risk furring 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 way financially or domestically,

Also it seems that if the rocket missed its nark It may wander

y through space

for all

that would be monotonous, you think? Especially if you had nothing to read.

don't

I

By

don't believe in rocket-ships. the time you'd lit the fure the thing would be off, and there you'd bo either hanging on to the outside of it or left on the ground. In either case you'd, look an awful goat.

Balloons are different. I klmply love travelling in balloons. 1 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..

It was due

· Nothing unusual in that, of course, for it. Anyhow, I have nothing in with the Man in the Moon. loon is slightly 'perished on one side, but I advise those who enn afford it to invest in a balloon.

You can always get back to earth egain simply by setting fire to the ballcon. In this way it is far superior to a rocket ship.

The lust time I went up was in June, If I remember rightly. There was a bit of a row an at home, on account of my bringing visitors home at three o'clock in the the morning and starting planula and one thing and an-

other.

Some women are most unreason- able!

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

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

to the

common

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

I emptied a few bags of sand ever her and lightened the weight on the balloon and slowly soured aloft. Birds fluttered 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 balliff.

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

It is always best to have, un an- My wife clung madly

chor because, if necessary, one can gondola of the balloon, not be reach the earth by sliding down

Russian

Can Raise A Laugh

By A. G. LANDAU

SOVIET RUSSIA is not

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exactly 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 af humour. There are jokes, and they are bandied about like. naughty deeds in a good world.

lexe are few of them. Be- fore I relate them, however, let me, Inform you that my frequent visits to Russia were made to the more sovietised centres. The U.S.S.R. is a very big place, In- habited by many different races and many kinds of people. It would be foolish and dangerous of to generalise and say that these anecdotes were common to the whole country. Let us pro- cred.

me

TO emphasise their loyally 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, or 1 workers club Such

Such an "achievement" is called "gift for Stalin." The

goes that a story small Siberian township decided to its loyalty on the celtural and it

a crematoriu It built a auguration of this

"was-fixed"

for-13300- day of the November festivals (the seventh). But

89 It happened, there were no dead people to be disposed of at this time. The com- milteo, however, was lucky enough to and on the outskirts of the township an old beggar, apparent- ly frozen to, death by the early Siberian winter.

Tac

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 difficult.

I licar a remark from the back of the hall about the rarefted air nt great altitudes. Well, thile has never worried me in 'my ascents. Anyone who can stand the atmos- phere in the smokeroom of my club can stand anything.

The only trouble about my bol- loon is that there is so little space. . For instance, in the basket at- tached to my balloon there is no room for billiard-table. 50, one gets used to such hardships after time.

By the way, I forgot to mention that apart from the five thousand and twenty tons weight of Prefes- sur Rosa' rocket ship it would be. necessary to carry four thousand four hundred and sixty tons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen as fucl.

I would seem that future travellers to the moon are going to

Ulvered

to

the flames. Whether

the butlders of the crematorium hack made a mistake, or for some other reason, the fire burál, very slowly. After two hours of waiting the of Aclats decided that it was time to collect the ashes and to make sure, one of them opened the small win- dow to the furnace.

"Shut that window!" shouted an angry voice from Inside, "do you want me to catch a cold in the draught?"

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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 u hole in it in order to get it down and then f 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 is I'mn concerned, you can travel in trams for the rest of your life.

I don't want to rush you into buying a balloon just to have you come wingeing and complaining to me about it later.

I just want to warn you of rocket ships.

Don't touch them! Their trade- in valuie, is negligible. Buy: a bicycle!

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