SIMPLE STORIES
A GAME OF BRIDGE DRAKE is in his hammock and a thousand miles away, but perhaps he heard this one from the South Pacific. It is a dark, hot, wet and generally tropical night somewhere on a little island on the Solomons. A few hundred U.S, marines are stationed there, passing the time playing-not bowls, for the ground is too wet and bumpy where the coconut palms have been yanked outbut bridge. Up comes a runner posthaste and out of breath. "Five thousand Japanese have landed at the other end of the island. They have landed tanks and guns and are preparing for an attack." There is a pause while the Marines go on with their game. Then one reluctantly rises. "O.K. boys, I'll go. I’m dummy anyway." (Contributions are invited. Send us something printable and brief, and if we like it, too, end print it, you will receive one (less tax). But 200 words is the limit).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 184, 31 December 1942, Page 11
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160SIMPLE STORIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 184, 31 December 1942, Page 11
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