A REMARKABLE HOSTELRY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3483, 23 August 1937, Page 7

A REMARKABLE HOSTELRY.

There is at Combe Martin, North Devon, an inn which is constructed to represent a pack of playing cards. There is a window for every card in the pack, though, as these were considered superfluous, some are brickedin; but the building is constructed in a similar style to that adopted by children in building a house of cards. Legend has is that the builder of the inn was a Mr. George Ley, a local notability who had enjoyed extraordinary luck at the card table.

Rather!

Smith had the misfortune to lose his wallet. A few days later a friend met him and said: “Hello, Smith! Have you heard anything of your lost wallet yet?” “You ask me that,” was the reply, “and you know my wife! Yes, I have heard of it —morning, noon, and night!”

Fighting Fillip, who his friends had hoped would one day be a world-beater, was having a rough time of it. As he staggered to his corner after a punishing fourth round, and sank wearily into the chair, his chief second whispered anxiously into his best ear;

“You’re not following my advice! I told you to keep your eye on his right fist!”

Fighting Fillip groaned up at him: “Dry up! Why, it's taking me all my time to keep my eye off his right fist!”