JOE RENARD’S TALE
“MIRACULOUS” BRIDGE HAND IN ARCTIC WASTES
An Eskimo, two trappers, and a Hudson Bay Company employee have had an exciting game of bridge which promises to go down to local posterity as a 11 miracle.’’ says Reuter from Churchill, Manitoba. The game which is believed to have beer, the first cv er played in Canada’s barren Arctic, was played at Chesterfield Inlet, and details have just reached Churchill.
The pack was well shuffled anj cut. One of the trappers bid four hearts after gazing spellbound at the full suit he held.
The bidd : ng continued until the Eskimo, shedding hi s stoical calm, bid seven spades, and threw his hand down on the table.
Joe, Renard, the trapper who told the story, swears for its veracity on all the Bibles this lonely spot can boast.
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Grey River Argus, 2 April 1932, Page 7
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