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                        THE NON-ELECTRONIC BUG

                            By E. MITTLEMAN

                      _There couldn't be a better
                     tip-off system than mine--it
                   wasn't possible--but he had one!_

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
               Worlds of If Science Fiction, July 1960.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


I wouldn't take five cents off a legitimate man, but if they want to
gamble that's another story.

What I am is a genius, and I give you a piece of advice: Do not ever
play cards with a stranger. The stranger might be me. Where there are
degenerate card players around, I sometimes get a call. Not dice--I
don't have a machine to handle them. But with cards I have a machine to
force the advan