... ft li It It L E and SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere A FARMER and a professor were sharing a compart ment in a train. The farmer started a conversa tion, and they soon became friendly. Let's have a game of riddles to pass the time, suggested the professor. If I have a riddle you can't guess, you give me five shillings, and vice versa. All right, replied the farmer, but as you are better ...

... By EDWARD CRANSTON. MRS. BOLTON always referred to her only son Albert as that young ragamuffin Bert. Her husband called him a good-for- nothing waster, and the headmaster of the local council school dismissed him on the end-of-term report with a brief: This is an undisciplined and unprincipled boy. In the Navy his messmates alluded to him as the Crow, and the harassed captain of his ...

... - An Experiment in Autobiography-- VI By J. G. PUBLIC-SCHOOL EDUCATION.-- I am well aware, and freely concede, that conditions in private and public schools in the 1930's were alto gether different from those obtaining at the beginning of this century. Humanity and fresh air had blown in and dispersed a great deal of stuffiness, brutality, boorishness, convention and snobbery. The masters had ...

... C^ocLtailf to Port THE playwright, dining with the producer, was describing en thusiastically an idea for a play. He talked and talked. The producer went on eating his soup and finally, glancing at the playwright's untouched plate, said: You'd better eat your soup before your conversation gets cold. First Recruit 'Ere, Alf, I've lorst a lice Second Recruit Well, wot yer grutnblin' for Y'orta ...

... I^IP^r SOMEONE'S GoFTOn^'TrT]^ By GILBERT HACKFORTH-JONES. THE Captain S of the Nth Submarine Flotilla was accustomed to take his daily constitutional on the fore-part of the boat-deck of the depôt-ship Santiago, but to-day the weather made that impossible, and he was obliged to pace the narrow confines of his cabin. Outside the wind roared and the rain slanted with all its customary ...

... . By FRED WESTERHAM. PROOF? Inspector Davis gazed at the eager young officer sitting opposite. Don't try to be too rational, son. Nothing can be really proved, as any logic-book will tell you-- But I mean, the scientific approach I've solved my cases, said Inspector Davis, by bits and pieces of observation and prejudice and hunch. Did I ever tell you about the Jonas murder It fitted ...