Evening star., 1932-03-15

born and bred; at the same time he
did not disdain certain refinements oi
| speech due to the yearly influx of visi-
tors from other parts
THE new swimming master" Herr
Birndl was saying; 'the new swimming
! master, there's man for you, II you
like. Just wait till We get the right
weather and the women have set eyes
on him, and then you'll see them queue
up for the ticket Office, can tell you
You see If he isn't the sensation of the
place, my friend. Not like it was with
our late lamented Adolf, with his big f1at
feet, and always drinking himself silly
However, he's gone now, God bless him
and the new one, III tell you what he
is-a sportsman, that's what he is; a
real sportsman. He's broken records
swum against Rademacher at their club
I've seen the badge with my own eyes on
his bathing suit. Record for 200 meters
that's what's put on it. He says it's
real silver. but don't believe that. He
doesn't know what he's talking about
there, but when 1t comes to swimming,
ye gods and little flshes" said Herr
Birndl, as he brought down his fist on
the table for Herr Eggenhofer's edifi-
cation, you should just see him jump
from the high springboard and take a
believe 1t till you saw him. That's a
style of my own, Herr Birndl,' he says,
and laughs.
He talks like proper gentleman.
Got 1t in his blood: you can tell that.
University man-engineer, he tells me.
Out of a job now, he says; and a man
must live, he says. And SO, YOU see
he's a swimming instructor for the
Summer. You've got to bite on it, he
says, and then he clenches his teeth
till you can hear them grind. And he's
proud-oh. he's proud as anything. I'm
sportsman he says; an amateur. IT'S
true I've passed out as swimming in
structor, but that's only by the way
I'm not one of your professionally
That's the way he talks-like a proper
gentleman" At this Herr EQgenhofer
shook his head in astonishment.
But now Herr Birndl had got to 60
ing well, and poured out all there was
10 say OF the new swimming instructor
in one uninterrupted flow. "My old
woman could stand the whole day lis
tenlng to him. He wears a little bath
ing slip only few inches long-just a
lttle three-cornered affair-and let
MIN If 1t pleases the ladies. Get back
70 your Kitchen says to nv old
woman. You'd like to stand out here
al gay staring at the swimming in
structor And so would she saws
Yesterday she cooked him some Coos
He looked so hungry Standing ont
there, she said. Well, of course he is
It's never left off raining since he came
and If he earns nothing, where's he IN
get good meal from? I give him 3G
groschen lesson, and that might come
to 5 sh1llings a day in fine weather
but with this everlasting rain a fellow
might go to skin and bone. Well al
course, he has his quarters free. too
MY old woman has put the hut In order
for him next to cabin No. So. So he's
all right, as far as that goes. And that
way, we have some one always on the
spot to see that nothing's stolen. n
saves me night watchman. He's q
useful man all round
That fellow Adolf left everything &c
to bits, but you should see how this
new chap has shoveled the sand ur
onto the beach and put all the posts tc
rights along the bridges. He's riqged
up that bit behind near the tennis
| courts as a gymnasium, and he's
brought great big punchball with him
and now he sits about and waits for
fine weather. There's been no one vet.
barring that Saxon gentleman. He's
there every day, for he's got his season
TICKET, you see, and he's going to have
his moneys worth however cold 1t is
OF course, there has to be some one
there in any case to keep an eye open
Those are his orders even if it halls,
and that's what a swimming instruc
| tors for. So now he stands about In
his swimming slip and bathing cloak
and shivers, for he isn't used to the air
here yet.
Three times day he's of to the
post office to see If there's a letter for
him. You've got a girl at home, ]
see,' says I. No. says he; when I'm
in training it's good-by to the girls.
It's fact he's in training. He's SWIM
ming for his club in Berlin in Septem-
ber-l 500 meters. I'm expecting
something more important by post thar
a love letttr,' says he. I shall have q
letter worth millions, Herr Birndl. AS a
matter 0fNfact, I've hit on a marvelo,l:
! invention Who's going to believe that
I think to myself. He only wants t