... WtB it 66 SQ\}BAY. BOASTING of his musical ability, he said When I was a boy our town was hit by a flood. My father hopped on to a bed and floated downstream to safety. But what, asked a listener, has that to do with your musical ability Well, explained the other, I accompanied him on the piano. WALKING along with a little boy was a very poor-looking mongrel dog. A passer-by stopped to pat ...

... QU fJunLyarcl By B. L. JACOT HE was stirring his coffee at the end of the counter when Joe moved over, wiping the zinc top as he came. Joe lifted his cup and wiped under it and said quietly: The Boss wants you in the back. Dizzy got off the stool and walked on through. I got a job for you, Dizzy, the big man told him. Show him what's in it first. One of the three men began to count out ...

... by FAY HALL The coming festival season at Salzburg will end an era. A new Festspielhaus is now being built behind the old one and it will come into use next year. But the famous performances in the palace courtyard will still go on FROM the moment I arrived in Salzburg I should have known that I was never meant to see Cosi fan Tutte. Unfortunately, however, I had grown so accustomed in England ...

... A story by Steve Tokaruk I KNEW very little about him. We were never introduced. We became aware of each other. He started borrowing my newspapers, then graduated to money. At first it was 5,000 francs, then 10,000, then 50,000, then it levelled off at 100,000. His name was Sarasan. I didn't know whether that was his first name or his surname. His origins were Balkan, his passport British. He ...

... mBLi 66 -QUiSAK THE explorer was telling the tale. Yes, he said, once I was so hungry that I dined off my pet parrot. What was it like asked one of his listeners. Oh, very nice. Yes, but what did it taste like Oh, turkey, chicken, wild duck, plover that parrot could imitate anything. ON a street corner two men were watching a dog blowing smoke-rings. I 've' never seen anything like it, ...

... LORD KILBRACKE N I RETURNED TO KILLEGAR, LIKE A SCHOOLBOY AT end of term, arriving in Dublin by Starflight in the small hours of the morning-- the only plane with any seats that week-- and spending what was left of the night on a friend's friendly sofa, since every hotel was full, before driving home. I meant to stay five days, but the house was full of family, and the weather was delightful, ...

... vuMLI 66 squeak Compiled by Jay Jay THE vicar noticed a woman named Mrs. Parker coming up the front steps. At he thoroughly disliked the woman he took refuge in hit study, leaving hit wife to entertain the caller. Some time later he emerged from his retreat, listened carefully in the hall, and hearing no voices, called out to hit wife, Hat that horrible bore gone Mrs. Parker was still in the ...

... mm 66 squeak Vompilvtl by l*iy A LADY who had given a special Christinas f\ dinner party met her doctor in the street the following day, and stopped to speak to him: I am sorry Doctor, she said, that you were not able 7^ to come to my dinner party last night, it would A have done you good to be there. It has already done me good, he replied tersely; I have just prescribed for three of ...

... VUMLI Mj SQuW Compiled by Jay Jay A MIDDLE-AGED and rather heavily-built man was discussing his tennis game with a friend. My brain JL immediately barks out a command to my body. Run JL- forward very fast!' it says, 'Start at once. Drop the ball over the net and then walk back slowly'. And then what happens? he was asked. And then, said the stout man, sadly, my body says, 'Who-- me?' ...

... By R. D. Faull THE three Frenchmen seated at the bar possessed a common air of preoccupation. The eldest sat chewing his lower lip without much appetite and was obviously extremely bored. Next to him was an arrogantly male young man, whose whole attitude expressed the controlled expectancy of the confident lover. His mind was clearly divided between anticipation and recollection, and at ...

... WULt SQuMK Compiled by Jay Jay DRAWING up a man's will, a lawyer paused and asked his client, You know, you 've named six of your biggest creditors as pall-bearers. Don't you think it would X be more fitting to have some closer friends for this service X No, just leave it that way, instructed the client. Those men have carried me this far and they might as well do it the rest of the way. AT ...

... mtZLl 66 SquIEAK Compiled by Jay Jay JWO little boys were in adjacent beds in a children's ward in a hospital. Are you medical or surgical? one asked the other, a newcomer. I don't know what you mean, said the second little boy. ,X, The first boy, who had been a patient in the ward for some time, looked ,X- scornfully at the newcomer. Were you sick when you got here, he explained, or did ...