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“Double, double toil and trouble
Fire burn and caldron bubble”
These were the first words from our English teacher’s introduction to Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
She placed a yard stick in the garbage can and stirred it as she spoke. Miss Hazel Stevenson was a magnificent teacher. I am not sure I thought so at the time. We had tons of memory work and papers to write every week. I thought surely she would run out of red ink correcting the stories and poems I wrote.
But we learned! And I credit her for teaching me to appreciate reading and writing.
Fast forward sixty years. I teach people to play bridge. The double is the most important bid a player can make. There are penalty doubles, take-out doubles, negative doubles, and more. I always start my doubles class with Miss Stevenson’s chant. The students learn all of them while agreeing that they are toil and trouble.
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