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Competition

Choice of three Jaspistos IN COMPETITION NO. 1786 you were invited to produce a piece of prose to fit one of these titles: Arithmetic by smell, The average flush of excitement,......

Solution To 1114: C ' I. Ri 2 0

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No. 1789: False Origin

Jack Robinson, Murphy's Law, Buggins's turn, the real McCoy, the life of Reilly . . . the originals of such proverbial characters are sometimes successfully explained in......