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BRADMAN’S DUCK
LONDON, Saturday
Headed “Rare Specimen” Tom Webster’s Daily Mail cartoon depicts a colossal pigeon-toed, cross-eyed duck in an Australian cap, being led across the Melbourne Museum stage by a gloomily-attired undertaker.
Wagga Daily Advertiser
Rowland groaned as he listened to the news report. A duck! A golden duck no less. How could Bradman have been dismissed without scoring anything? Glad now he’d missed the actual broadcast of the Test match’s first day, he turned down the Radiola’s volume dial in disgust, glaring at the wireless as if it were responsible for the offending delivery.
Lenin sighed and slumped onto the rug, his single ear drooped despondently. It seemed, he too, was unhappy with this inauspicious start to the second Test.
Edna sat primly on the co
