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Show Iloyle with Highballs Contract Is a good game when the partnership bidding is running smoothly. But one night, at a friendly little game between two married couples, something went slightly wrong. "I can't Imagine," said one wife to her husband, "what you bid no-trump no-trump on when I had three aces and four kings." "Well, if you - really want to know," admitted the husband, "I bid it on one queen, two jacks and three highballs." Some Tact! Dorothy Shay tells of a smart suitor who offered to lay his for- tune at his girl's feet. "It Isn't a very large fortune," the girl answered. "But, darling," he assured her, "it will look very, very big beside four tiny, tiny feet" Biggest Lie of All One day an American and an Englishman were trying to see who could tell the tallest story. The American began: "Once upon a time, In the City of New York, there was a gentleman . . ." "It's useless to continue," cried the Englishman, "you have already won." h What Price FoodT j Nurse: "Doctor, there's one thing j puzzles me." 3 Doctor: "What's that?" Nurse: "I don't understand why ' you ask all your patients what they had for dinner. Surely that doesn't always help in diagnosing a case." Doctor: "No, you're quite right-but right-but it does help in diagnosing a purse." |