CRIBBAGE COMPETITION
Sir-I want to meet the originator of the Cribbage Competition advertised in The Listener; not that I have any torture chamber in mind-lI just want to shake him by the hand and tell him what I think of him. Him? Assuredly. No woman would perpetrate such a diabolical contrivance for wasting her hard-working husband’s precious time when there are so many odd jobs to be done. Conversely, being a man, I regard the originator as a public benefactor. He has introduced something that makes you forget your troubles, your aches and your pains, and that to-morrow is Monday. You certainly emerge a little cross-eyed and crazy, but these afflictions are not permanent. You soon straighten out again when you hear the announcer’s voice "You are listening to etc., etc." But what a rest you have had, even though you have achieved nothing! Another reason why I like this competition is that there is something different about it. As a matter of fact, it is made up of innumerable differences,
A learned friend told me that there were thousands of different ways of arranging the 25 cards. He gave me the exact number; but I wasn’t interested. I told him he was wasting his time; that I had already found out for myself.
MAC
(Whangarei)_
(Our correspondent has our sympathy. If we offer him more we may keep a child out of the sun.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 14
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235CRIBBAGE COMPETITION New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 14
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