AN ENGAGING SCAMP.
While your red-handed rogue is fair game and his inevitable overthrow, for right must triumph, bring only relief and satisfaction, your scamp, if young enough to be just a trifle quixotic, can excite sympathy with his misdeeds and a faint whisper of silent, approval when be double-crosses some shady confederate. So it is with "Cairo Card," by S. C. George (Robert Hale). Hassan the Card, is a scamp by all ordinary standards, and yet the reader is ready to laugh and forgive. From his schooldays when he did his class-mates' exercises at a piastre a dozen, until he makes his last escape, Hassan is never out of hot water. In Cairo or in the desert he finds ways and means of prying the shekels loose from his fellows, but while he never does it honestly, the goodnatural lilt of his wayward strayings earns a responsive smile rather than the deserved reprimand. The "Cairo Card" is as Artemus Ward would have said, "an amusin' kuss,"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 26 (Supplement)
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167AN ENGAGING SCAMP. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 26 (Supplement)
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