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ஸ்வாமி ராமதீர்த்தரின் வாழ்வில் சில சம்பவங்கள்! – 1 (Post No.7591)

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Post No.7591

Date uploaded in London – 19 February 2020

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ஸ்வாமி ராமதீர்த்தரின் வாழ்வில் சில சம்பவங்கள்! – 1

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ஸ்வாமி ராமதீர்த்தரின் வாழ்க்கையில் ஏராளமான சுவையான சம்பவங்கள் உண்டு.

அவற்றில் சில:

நாத்திகப் பெண்மணி மாறினார்

அமெரிக்காவில் இருந்த போது ஒவ்வொரு நாள் மாலையும் அமெரிக்கர் அவர் இருந்த இடத்தில் குழுமி அவரது உரைகளைக் கேட்பது வழக்கம்.

நாத்திக சங்கத்தைச் சேர்ந்த ஒரு பெண்மணி அவரை நாத்திகராக மாற்றி தனது பக்கம் சேர்க்க நினைத்தார்.

அவரைச் சந்திக்கச் சென்ற போது அவர் சமாதி நிலையில் இருந்தார். அவருக்கு முன்னால் அந்தப் பெண்மணி அமைதியாக உட்கார்ந்திருந்தார்.

சிறிது நேரம் கழிந்தது. ராமதீர்த்தர் கண் விழித்தார்.

அந்தப் பெண்மணி, “அட, கடவுளே! நான் இனி நாத்திகவாதி இல்லை. உங்களது ஒரு சின்ன பார்வை என்னை மாற்றி விட்டது” என்று கூவினார்.

அந்தப் பெண்மணி அன்றிலிருந்து ஆத்திகவாதியாக மாறினார்.

விறகு வெட்டி உழைத்த சம்பவம்

சாஸ்தா நீரூற்றில் (Shasta Springs) என்ற இடத்தில் அவர் தங்கி இருந்த போது அவர் தான் தங்கி இருந்த வீட்டாருக்கு ஒரு சுமையாக இருக்க விரும்பவில்லை. தனது பங்கிற்குச் சிறிது உழைப்பையும் தர வேண்டும் என்று எண்ணினார். ஆகவே மலையிலிருந்து விறகுகளை வெட்டிக் கொண்டு வந்து வீட்டிற்குத் தருவார். அவர் தங்கி இருந்த இடம் டாக்டர் ஹில்லர், திருமதி ஹில்லர் (Dr Hiller and Mrs Hiller) ஆகியோருக்குச் சொந்தமான வீடு. அவர்கள் ராமதீர்த்தரைத் தங்களுடனேயே அமெரிக்காவிலேயே வசித்து விடுமாறு வேண்டினர்.

சாஸ்தா நதியில் தவம்!

ஸ்வாமி ராமதீர்த்தர் எப்போதுமே தனிமையையே விரும்பினார்.

சாஸ்தா நதிக்கரையோரம் அவருக்கென ஒரு சிறிய தொங்கு படுக்கை (Hammock) அமைக்கப்பட்டது. பெரும்பாலும் அங்கு அமர்ந்து அவர் தவம் புரிந்து கொண்டிருந்தார். வேதாந்த பிரசாரம் என்றால் மட்டும் உற்சாகமாக அதிலிருந்து வெளியே கிளம்பி கூட்டங்களுக்குச் சென்று உரையாற்றுவார். பொங்கி வரும் சாஸ்தா நதிக்கரையோரம் அமைந்த தொங்குபடுக்கையில் இருந்ததைப் பற்றி அவர் கூறினார் இப்படி :- ‘அமெரிக்க ஜனாதிபதியை விட பறவைகளுடன் இருந்த அவருக்கு அதிக சந்தோஷம் இருந்ததாம்’ (‘In tune with his birdies, feeling happier than the President of all the United States’)

சாஸ்தா மலை சிகரம் ஏறும் போட்டி!

ஒரு முறை சில அமெரிக்கர்கள் சாஸ்தா மலை சிகரத்தில் யார் முதலில் ஏறுவது என்ற போட்டியை அமைத்து அவரையும் பங்கு கொள்ள அழைத்தனர். சாஸ்தா மலை கடல் மட்டத்திலிருந்து 14,444 அடி உயரம் கொண்டது. உற்சாகமாக அதில் கலந்துகொண்ட ஸ்வாமி முதல் பரிசை வென்றார். என்றாலும் கூட பரிசைப் பெற அவர் மறுத்து விட்டார். இதைப் பற்றி எழுதிய பத்திரிகளைகள் பெரும் விற்பனைக்குள்ளாயின. அந்தப் பத்திரிகைகள் அவர் முதல் பரிசை வென்றும் கூட அதை வாங்க மறுத்ததை விவரமாக எழுதி வெளியிட்டன.

30 மைல் மாரதான் ரேஸ்!

இன்னொரு சமயம் 30 மைல் தூரம் ஓடும் மாரதான் ரேஸ் (30 mile Marathon race) ஒன்று நடந்தது. அந்த ஓட்டப் பந்தயத்தில்  கலந்து கொண்ட ராமதீர்த்தர் முதலாவதாக வந்தார். அனைவரும் அதிசயித்தனர்!

கங்கா தந்த செல்வத்தை ஏற்கவில்லை

அமெரிக்க பெண்மணி ஒருவருக்கு ஸ்வாமி ராமதீர்த்தர் கங்கா என்று பெயர் சூட்டியிருந்தார். அந்த கங்கா என்ற பெண்மணி ஸ்வாமி ராமதீர்த்தரிடம் வந்து தனது வீடு, செல்வம், பெயர், புகழ் அனைத்தையும் அர்ப்பணித்ததோடு தன்னையும் அர்ப்பணித்தார். சந்யாசம் மேற்கொள்வதாகச் சொன்னார்.

ஆனால் ஸ்வாமியோ அவரது பரந்த உள்ளத்தைப் பாராட்டி விட்டு அதை ஏற்கவில்லை.

வேதாந்தா காலனியை இந்தியாவிலேயே அமைக்க விரும்புவதாகவும் அமெரிக்காவில் அல்ல அவர் தெரிவித்தார்.

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ஸ்வாமி ராமதீர்த்தரைப் பற்றி விரிவாக விளக்கி எழுதிய நூல் தமிழில் இல்லாதது ஒரு பெரும் குறை.

ஆங்கிலத்தில் பூரண் சிங் (Puran singh) எழுதிய வரலாறு அதிகாரபூர்வமான வரலாறு.

அடுத்து லக்னௌ பல்கலைக்கழகத்தில் பணியாற்றிய பி.பிரிஜ்நாத் சர்கா (P.Brijnath Sharga M.A., LL.B) எழுதிய Swami Rama His Life & Legacy என்ற நூல் ஏராளமான சம்பவங்களைத் தருகிறது. 720 பக்கங்கள் கொண்ட இந்த நூல் 1936ஆம் ஆண்டு மார்ச் மாதம் வெளியிடப்பட்டது.

அடுத்து பாரதீய வித்யா பவன் வெளியிட்ட வாழ்க்கை வரலாறும் குறிப்பிடத் தகுந்தது.

சுப்ரமண்ய சிவா ராமதீர்த்தரின் உரைகளைத் தமிழில் மொழிபெயர்த்திருப்பதாக (அதைத் தமிழில் பற்பல ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னம் படித்திருப்பதாக) ஒரு நினைவு இருக்கிறது.  

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அடுத்து இன்னும் சில சம்பவங்களைக் காண்போம்

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God and Commonwealth are on Different Sides” – Politics Anecdotes (Post No.7563)

Compiled  London Swaminathan

Post No.7563

Date uploaded in London – 11 February 2020

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There is a story how Eyre, the surveyor ,called upon his friend and neighbour, Lord Lyndhurst, the Chancellor of England

“I find, said he, “your lordship has changed your politics “.

“Yes, said Lord Lyndhurst, and is ready to change them again if you will make it worth his while”.

Xxx

President Wilson has been asked to receive a group of Irish American leaders who wished to present a paper. He had consented to do so, with the proviso that Daniel F Cohalan should not accompany them. During the war he had been a great disturber. Nevertheless, the committee had shown up, headed by Cohalan. Tumulty was urging the President to relent,

“Oh governor, he pleaded, this will make a terrible impression on his followers”.

Cohalan was an influential political leader.

The President took out his watch. That is just what I wanted it to do , Tumulty; but I think it will make a good impression on decent people.

Xxx

Capitalist and Politician

The following is a statement attributed to late G K Chesterton,

“The mere proposal to set the politician to watch the capitalist has been disturbed by the rather disconcerting discovery that they are both the same man. We are past the point where being a capitalist is the only way of becoming a politician, and we are dangerously near the point where being a politician is much the quickest way of becoming a capitalist.

Xxx

Hotel episode!

In Washington, during the career of the notorious Huey Long, a political follower of the Louisiana senator was pleading with him to procure him the nomination, which would be equivalent to election, for representative from a certain Louisiana district.

“I can’t do that”, said Long

“It is all your own fault. Even I couldn’t  get you elected. Not after that story about the Hotel Episode in New Orleans.

“That story is a damned lie! “ cried  the aspiring politician

“Why there isn’t even any Hotel Episode in New Orleans

Xxx

When Oliver Cromwell first coined his money, an old cavalier looking on one of the new pieces, read this inscription on one side

‘God is with u’s — on the other ‘Common wealth of England’.

“I see, said he, that god and the commonwealth are on different sides”.

Xxx

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Weighty Politicians

A New Jersey Congress man once brought two citizens of that state to visit the president seeking to impress Lincoln, he introduced them as being

‘Among the weightiest men in southern New Jersey’

Upon their departure, Lincoln said to one of his aides who was standing by

“I wonder that end of the state didn’t tie up when they got off it”

Xxx

Dancing Anecdote

There is a legend of doubtful authenticity about Tommy Hitch cock , who, at a certain dance, was paired off for one number with a young woman with whom he  had not been formally introduced.

Slightly apologetic he said,

“I am afraid I am not dancing very well this evening; I am a little stiff from Polo”.

His partner answered coldly,

“It doesn’t make any difference to me where you come from!”

Xxx Subham xxx

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DO YOU PREFER TO DIE IN EXPLOSION OR COLLISION? (Post No.7548)

Complied  BY LONDON SWAMINATHAN 

Post No.7548

Date uploaded in London – – 7 February 2020

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“Rastus “, said his friend who had been reading in the paper of a number of fatal incidents , “if you had to take your choice between one or the other , which would  you rather be in, a collision or an explosion?”

 “Man – a collision”, said Rastus.

“How come?”

“Why man , if you are in a collision, there you are, but if you are in an explosion where are you?”

Xxx

Injury Anecdote

An enthusiastic lady told a group of friends in delight of the opportunity she had had to apply the knowledge she had acquired  in her First Aid class. “ It was wonderful”, she said, “it was so fortunate that I had  had the training.I was crossing the Fifth Avenue at 57th street and heard a crash behind me. I turned around and saw a poor man who had been struck by a taxicab. He had a compound fracture of the leg , was bleeding terribly, was unconscious  and seemed to have fractured a skull. Then all my First Aid came back to me; and I stooped right down and put my head between my legs to keep myself from fainting”.

Xxx

Accidental Death

The new foreman was puzzling over the formal papers which had to be filled out explaining the details of the  casualty in which Murphy, one of his workmen, had lost his life by falling from a high scaffold. At last he managed to complete all of the task except for one more unfilled line which seemed to stump him, finally, licking his pencil, he applied himself firmly to the section headed, “Remarks”, and wrote “ He didn’t make none”.

—subham —-

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Card playing Anecdotes (Post No.7448)

Card playing Anecdotes (Post No.7448)

Compiled  by  London Swaminathan

Post No.7448

Date uploaded in London – 12 January 2020

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You can’t beat Texas ! a supercilious and wealthy new yorker asked the desk clerk in his hotel if there were not a card game which he could get into.

There is a poker game going on in room number 600, said the clerk, but you would better look out. They play for mighty high stakes.

The New Yorker sniffed at the implication and went to seek the game.  Entering the room he found a table surrounded by grim faced, flinty eyed Texans, methodically sorting and handling their cards. Stepping up brashly the new yorker drew out a hundred dollar bill from his pocket and threw it on the table, saying,

“I hear you boys play for big money. Well, give me chips for that”.

No one said a word. The dealer motioned him to a chair, looked him coldly in the eye and deliberately pushed across the table at him – one white chip.

((White chips normally are worth between $0.50 and $1, (at times grey, blue, and red chips may be worth this amount, as well)).

Xxx

King and Knave

Horne Took, the sly wit, being asked by George III, whether he played at cards, replied,

“I cannot, Your Majesty, tell a king from a knave”.

(KNAVE- a dishonest, unscrupulous man; in card game- a Jack)

Xxx

Quick Exit

A bridge expert was being harassed by many questions from the hopeful bridge player.

And do tell me, Mr Jacoby, how would you have played the hand, under the same circumstances.

Under an assumed name, Madam, said Jacoby tersely, and made a quick exit.

Xxx

Three enemies

Dr Parr was a constant and conscientious whist player. Nothing annoyed him more than to have as his partner one who could not match his skill at the game. One evening he was coupled with just such a player. As the evening wore on, he became increasingly disgusted. When his hostess came to the table and asked how the game was going Dr Parr exploded,

“As well as could be expected, Madam , considering that I have three adversaries”.

(noun: whist

  1. a card game, usually for two pairs of players, in which points are scored according to the number of tricks won.)

Xxx

The following is without doubt a is a nice description of a ‘friendly’ game of bridge:

The old quarrel between North and South has spread out to include East and West, and is now called contract bridge

Xxx subham xxx

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Mark Twain ‘Damnedest Liar in USA!’ (Post No.7414)

Mark Twain ‘Damnedest Liar in USA!’ (Post No.7414)    

Compiled  by London Swaminathan Uploaded in London on  – 3 JANUARY 2020 Post No.7414 contact – swami_48@yahoo.com pictures are taken from various sources; thanks.     Mark Twain,according to one story, was returning from a trip to the Maine woods. Chumming up in the smoking car with a home spun New Englander occupying the same seat, Mark said, Stranger, it is the closed season for fishing up here , but just between you and me, I have got two hundred pounds of the finest rock bass, out there in the baggage of the car, that you have laid your eyes on.   Was! Drawled the Marks , that’s interesting, new acquaintance ,but dy’e know  who i am? Not guilty , Mark replied, who are you ? Wall,came the reply, I am the State Game Warden Quoth Mark, Now doesn’t that beat the Dutch? Say , d’ye know who I am, Warden? I am the damnedest liar in the United States!   Xxxx   Daniel Webster liked to commune with plain people whom he encountered. On one of his fishing excursions he wanted to try a certain brook and he drove to a house of a certain Mr Baker whom he knew nearby,and asked permission to leave his horse a few hours. Mr Baker volunteered to go with Webster and show him just where the people usually fished at the brook. The old man pointed out the spot. The ground was very muddy. Mr Webster sank in half way up his leg. Said he, Rather miry here, Mr Baker.   Mr Baker answered, yes, I know, that is the worst on’t.   The mosquitoes began to bite annoyingly. With the hand that was not holding the fishing rod  webster was busy all the time slapping and scratching. Said webster, these mosquitoes are pretty thick and hungry. Baker answered, Yes I know it. That is the worst on’t. Now the heat in the damp, low ground became intense. Mr Webster wiped his forehead and rested. The he said, It is very hot down in these bushes, Mr Baker. And  Baker answered, Yes I know it. That is the worst on’t. Webster resumed his fishing and an after an hour’s struggle with the heat, the bushes, the mire, the mosquitoes, Webster said , There seem to be no fish here, Mr Baker . Came the answer, Yes I know it. That is the worst on’t. Xxx subham xxx  		  
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Football Anecdotes (Post No.7343)

WRITTEN By London Swaminathan

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Date: 14 DECEMBER 2019

 Time in London – 19-30,

Post No. 7343

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Football and Religion


In Belfast they still tell you about the football game that took place between the 100 % Catholics and 100% Protestants. A Limey attended that game and when the Catholics made a skilful play he applauded and when the Protestants in their turn scored he again joined in the shouting. At this point an Irishman jabbed the Limey in the back and said,


“My God, Man, haven’t you got any religion at all?”


Xxxx

“Girls” won the match

Coach Dana X Bible of Texas A and M college delivered perhaps the quietest, shortest, most effective pep talk in recent football history. His team had been badly trounced in the first half of one of their big games. The interval between halves was one of silence and gloom in which the coach said nothing. At last, as the team prepared to go out again on the field, he looked them over slowly and deliberately and said,
Well, girls, shall we go?
They won the game.

Xxx

The football game between Notre dame and Yale was in full swing. The score was tied. The spectators were yelling wildly; the players were grimly determined that their side would win.


About the middle of the third quarter time was called at the request of the Yale Center. Walking up to the referee he said,


Look here, Mr Referee, I don’t like to complain but every time we get tangled up in a scrimmage play that big Irish Center bites me. What do you think that I should do about it?


Well, snapped the referee, the only thing I advise is that you play him only on Fridays.

Xxxx subham xxx

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Golf Anecdotes (Post No.7304)

Compiled  by london Saminathan

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Date: 5 DECEMBER 2019

 Time in London – 18-49

Post No. 7304

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Golf stroke and Real stroke


Don Marquis, author and playwright, once had a bet on with an expert golfer. The stakes were five dollars a hole and in the bargain, Don Marquis gave the expert two strokes.
Before starting the game, the expert turned to Marquis just before teeing off for his first drive, and said,
“Now where do I get my two strokes?
I don’t care where you take the second, said don Marquis ,but the first has to be a stroke of apoplexy.”
(Apoplexy is incapacity or unconsciousness due to stroke.)
Xxx

Burying in the Hole


A certain priest was chagrined by the fact that one of his friends and golfing companions invariably beat him. His companion, an older man, said, “Don’t take it too hard. You win in the end. You will probably burying me one of these days” .
“I know, said the preacher, but even then it will be your hole”.

(Hole is a pun here)
Xxx


Golfers are fanatics


Real devotees of the game of golf are fanatics of a peculiar breed. There was the case of such a man, who returned home after a long day on the links. His wife greeted him, a, while observed that their young son, William, had come in only a moment before.
He says he has been caddying for you all day.
“Is that so?” Replied the sportsman
“Somehow, I thought that boy seemed mighty familiar”.

(Caddie in golf means a helper)
Xxxx

Judge and Golf are poles apart


The late Justice Mc Kenna, of the United states Supreme Court, was an earnest but poor golfer. Deciding that his game might be improved, he hired an instructor to teach him the finer points.
One day while practicing on a golf course near Washington, he missed, teeing off. He tried three or four times, but each time his club hit several inches behind the ball. His instructor watched silently. Finally, the justice, becoming disgusted, glared at the still stationary ball and muttered,
“Tut tut”
Gravely the instructor walked towards him,
“Sir, he said, you will never learn to play golf with them words”.


Xxx Subham xxx

–subham–

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BILLIARDS ANECDOTES (Post No.7295)

Compiled by London Swaminathan

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Date: 3 DECEMBER 2019

 Time in London – 20-19

Post No. 7295

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Finding no other means of recreation in the small town in which he was stranded, the traveling salesman wandered into the local poolroom.

Indicating his desire to play a game, he was shown to the only table in the place and was given a set of balls of the same uniform, dirty gray colour.

“Hey”, he said to the proprietor

“How do you expect me to play with these. I can’t tell red from the white.”

“Oh! that’s alright. You will get to know them by their shape”.

Xxx

A farmer, from way back in the country, came into town one day with his pockets fairly well lined from the sale of his crops. Seeking to appear worldly, he walked into a saloon and gaming house over the entrance to which was a great sign proclaiming BILLIARDS.

Strolling up to the bar with a simulated air of assurance the farmer slapped a coin on the counter and said,

“Gimme a glass of them there billiards”

The bar keeper took a long at him and, sizing up the situation made no comment. Going into the none too immaculate kitchen behind the bar he came forth with a large foamy glass of dark and dangerous dish water which he shoved across the counter to his customer. The farmer, with his eyes slightly popping , drank it down in one long draught . Banging the glass back down on the counter he wiped his mouth and said

Wall, eften I warnt an old and hardened billiard drinker, I’d a said that there was dishwater.

XXXX

Bull Fighting

At a party in Paris, the American bull fighter, Sidney Franklin, was cornered by a dowager who took him severely to task for the alleged cruelty of his art. She would have none of his careful explanations, but pattered on endlessly about the poor, helpless bulls. After ten minutes of this, Franklin came to the limit of his patience.

“Madam, he said, I can’t agree with you. I have killed many bulls, but I have always spared them the ultimate cruelty — not one did I ever bore to death!”

–Subham–

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Horse Racing Anecdotes (Post No.7086)

Compiled by London swaminathan
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Date: 11 OCTOBER 2019
British Summer Time uploaded in London – 18-58
Post No. 7086

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“I thought you were sick yesterday”, the employer said to the clerk.

“Yes, Sir, I was”, replied Jones.

“Well, retorted his employer, you certainly didn’t look very sick when I saw you at the races yesterday afternoon”.

“I didn’t? you should have seen me after the end of the fourth race.”

Xxx

Godspeed won!

Leaning from her window one fine Spring morning, a woman noticed a poorly dressed man standing in front of a vacant store located just under the window. She noticed that, in passing, many people stopped to give the man money. Impressed and sympathetic, the woman put a two dollar bill in an envelope, scribbled on a piece of paper, ‘Godspeed’ and tossed it down to him.

A few days later she saw the man again. This time he was walking back and forth in front of the building where she lived and looking perplexedly up at her window. As she walked out of her house, he came up to her and said,

“Say, lady, I have been looking for you. Here is your 52 dollar. ‘Godspeed’ won at twenty six to one.”

xxx

Prize Fighting Anecdotes

Bull Fighting

Jack Johnson, the Negro heavy weight champion, who became a prominent figure in Mexico, was scheduled to face barehanded a bull in the ring. Some days later he was asked how it had gone.

He wrinkled up his brow, rolled his eyes and boomed:

“ Ah sure wuz scared. Ah’d rather fight a hundred men than one bull any day”.

Xxx

Boxing Instructor Job

John L Sullivan was once interviewed by a reporter who asked him why he had never become a boxing instructor.

“Well, son, I tried it once,” said the famous fighter. “A husky young man took one lesson from me and went home a little the worse for wear. When he came around the second time he said,

“Mr Sullivan, it was my idea to learn enough about boxing from you to be able to lick a certain young fellow I have got it in for. But I have changed my mind. If it is all the same to you, Mr Sullivan, I will just send this fellow down here to take the rest of my lessons for me.

Xxx subham xxx

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American Indian Contest Anecdote (Post No.7074)

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Date: 8 OCTOBER 2019
British Summer Time uploaded in London – 16-53
Post No. 7074

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There is a legend about of an Indian (Red Indian) chief who was wont to try the strength of his youths by making them run in a single effort as far up the side of aa mountain as each could reach by his main strength.

On an appointed day, four left at daybreak. The first returned with a branch of spruce, indicating the height to which he had attained. The second bore a twig of pine. The third brought an Alpine shrub. But it was by the light of moon that the fourth made his way back. Then he came, worn and exhausted, and his feet were torn by the rocks.

What did you bring and how high did you ascend? Asked the chief.

Aire, he replied, where I went there was neither spruce nor pine to shelter me from the sun, nor flower to cheer my path, but only rocks and snow and barren land. My feet are torn, and I am exhausted, and I have come late, but –

And as a wonderful light came into his eyes, the young brave added:

I saw the sea.

Xxxx

Cup and the Feet

A dinner in honour of winning members of the track meet was being held at the hotel. Various honours were given to them in the form of medals and blue ribbons. Each presentation was accompanied by a toast. Toward the end of the evening, the prize honour of all, a beautiful silver cup, was awarded to the young man who had won the gruelling mile run, thee major event of the meet.

The boy accepted the cup and a toast was proposed amid shouts of “Speech, Speech”!

He won more than the ordinary cheers and shouts of the crowd when he said,

“Gentlemen, I have won this cup by the use of my legs. I trust I may never lose the use of my legs by the use of this cup”.

Xxx

Wheelbarrow Contest

Mr Block was always annoying the members of his local club with stories of his great prowess. One day a new member, already tired of the boasting and blustering, determined to quash him once and for all.

Block, said the new member, I will bet you that I can wheel something in a wheelbarrow from this clubhouse to the gate, and you can’t wheel it back.

Mr Block looked the newcomer over carefully. Not n impressive looking man, small and puny. He could think of nothing that this man could do that he couldn’t top.

O K. he said, I will take you upon that.

The newcomer smiled blandly. A wheelbarrow was brought up to the club house steps.

Rubbing his hands in great glee, the new member grasped the handles of the barrow, motioned to Bloc and said,

“All right get in!

Xxx subham xxx

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