Quick Thinking

There was great excitement at Thorby police station.Tile Inspectorhad received a telephone call from an informer.The man said that àgang intended to rob the main post office.He even told the Inspectorthe date and time for which the robbery was planned.The Thorbypolice were not used to serious crimes.Except for occasional cases ofapple stealing,their peace was seldom disturbed.Rarely did anythingmore serious happen.     

Drama at the Theatre

Jane went to the theatre on her birthday with her sister and brother-in-law.It was a historical play,set in the eighteenth ceutury,so allthe actors were wearing costumes of the period.The first act was quiteexciting.It was about a gipsy who had hypnotic powers.At firsthe had used these powers to help people who were ill,but now he wasusing them for the sake of money.He had hypnotized a nobleman and     

Country Life

I looked around me.I had been up here several times in June and July and Icould remember the sunshine,the smell of the warm grass,and the scent of flowersand pines that came up the hill from the valley below.But it was hard to relate thesmiling landscape of last summer with this desolation.The flat moorland on the fell top was a white immensity rolling away to the hori-zon with the sky pressing down like a dark blanket.I could see the farm down there     

Airport

When Jim Bruce was invited to attend an internationalconference on tropical diseases,he was delighted.Theconference was to take place in Geneva and Jim thought     

The Roger Scott Agency

￡700 was a lot of money for Roger but he knew it would not lastfor ever.He still had to find a job.A week passed and during thattime he heard of two different jobs.There was a very good chance     

A Rewarding Job

Jane needed more money for her holidays,soshe decided to get a job.Some of her friends worked in restaurants or coffeebars for a few hours every week.Some of themserved in shops on Saturdays.Neither of these jobs appealed to Jane.Then her sister Barbara saw an advertisement for a bahy-sitting agencyin a newspaper.Jane made an appointment and went for an interview.     

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Doctor Jim Bruce was on night duty when the hospital received an urgent call.A doctor was needed at once to attend a birth.Jim was given a sheet of paper withthe address.Without delay,he hurried to his car and set off for the house,whichwas about ten minutes'drive from the hospital.He had been driving for about fiveminutes when his car broke down.Jim tried to start the engine again,but nothinghe did had any effect.He gave up trying and set off walking.     

The Professional Footballer

Last week I bought a football for my little nephew.He was delightedwith it,and ran out into the garden to kick it about.Two apple trees sub-stituted for goal posts and I had to act as goalkeeper~2.He kept me busythere for more than an hour—and he is only five.Every boy has a na-tural impulse to kick a football about.And famous football stars are thegods~3 of those little boys.How many dream that one day they will be