The Archive · 1938

5. Impersonate Gracie Fields

Produce a rabbit out of a policewoman's helmet.

7. Cast-off the heel of a sock.

8. Blow six consecutive smoke rings down the nose while drinking a glass of water.

9. Prune a rose tree.

10. Repair a carburetter, Needless to say, he failed in all these tests and, amid general laughter, Miss Rigworthy certified him as a confirmed dipsomaniac with homicidal tendencies and a wooden leg.

Everybody then went off to a night club, except poor Tipple, who couldn't take a joke. Maurice Lane—Northcott.

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