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TARA CAPTAIN'S GOLD TOOTE
THE LEVITY OF WAR-TIME, and interpretation. No one can tell how many of the bravest and faint youths in history have gone to their death ainging When it was announced, that "the
a musia hall refrain. They exercise, you, PLEASES THE ARABS Cabinet had 'consented to go in mock would say, no discrimination in the session upon the Rim, a great many matter. It was hy sheer good luck, as Mra Gwatkin-Williams has complied people seemed to be of opinion that this William Archer remarked, the other from the diary of her husband, Captain tay, that the song of the day chances to an interesting account of the Gwatkin-Williams, HS, was enite the proper thing. Everybody be a rather charraing uce. A few years nineteen weeks spent by him and the iras doing it. The captains and the go instead of Tipperary," it might survivors of bis crow as prisoners of the kings were, to all appearance, quite as easily have been Coine where the boost Sanasai in the Libyan desort, after being is cheaper on "Ta ra ra boom de ay."topedoed by a German suboprius in the
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ters of parison with deans of the choruses to published by C. Arther Pearson, Ltd. which the boys have marched. A divert Fleuriceta street, W.C the price 10g/story of Mr. Kipling's early period is the and devated to Captain Gwatkin-William attempt to escape tells of an Irish regiment on the Indian from his captivity. After three days frontier scattering, the tribesmen to the wanderings he fell in with a party of tune of Fenian difties breathing ferocity Bedouins, of whom he has some interest against the Empire under whose fing thes ing
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supply of food, an expression of hauteur, "tricks' being Do more thati Ress, contempt or vanity These cilious caused unfailing yells of laughter and had to many times repeated, and after display- ing my gold tooth, tattoos, medal, rib- diary, the show was considered anished, and we were wenerally well repaid with dates and milk”. In another place he says the arabs discussed remoy.. ting his head as the best way of getting
the gold tooth.
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While on the march the Arabe pro- 1914, had any deep sense of the thing. What are we to say? Is the ingradie cured food by the simple method of we were up against. The general public abia impulse to self-expression that comes mandeering sheep. as they required could not envisage it; and besides, a four in these preposterous ways to he and Captain Gwatkin-Wiliams relates how he and five others ate two thousand years of security bad shaped taken as proof that the English character complete sheep within about four hours. them to indifference. An irresponsible is at bottom quite lacking in seriousness? That night," he adds.. "I felt co hunger mood, especially - in - 'the' Kitchener Of course not: does anybody believe it? but very decided
pains chap," released as they were from the No doubt it would be better if English devoted to Omens and Coincidences, In a chapter at the close of the book, men and women could be induced to Captain Gwatkin-Williams save that the For 3 month per cent per annum incredible adventure of the world war, clothe their berojans and purpcae in more
"Tara" was torpedoed on a Friday, and was the most natural thing to look for, scomly forme. No doubt it would be it was on a Friday that they reached But what of these some fellows when the mare consumat with the dignity of the Walls of Bakkim. Ous Friday they
N. J. STABE inferne in Flanders or Gallipoli became and worked to something a little more on a Friday also. early exciterent had worn off and the great nation it they marcbed and fought reached home, and the ship was paid of were rescued, mailed for England and
Chief Manager Tersis the most reality to every man among them? like Luther's palm and a little less like sacred place in Ireland. It was proper, makes of the young Englishmen bred in we must suppose, they can't. Largely The number of the oloak oor ticket Who is it in the race and the age that Mr. George Robay. But they don't, and, therefore, that the "Tara's crew
crew should be rescued on St. Patrick's Day. our modern cities the most impenftently no doubt, it is that they prefer, as a taken by Captain Gwatkin-Williams on and elaborately light-hearted and frivolous rule, to hide their deeper feelings. There was "U 35" the same as that of the sub- of a visit to the Coliseum being in the whole civilised world?.. is in most strong characters an immense
marine which torpedoed them. We are, seemingly impelled to the hand of reserve, and there is besides in belief that in this regard he has simply meat Englishmen a deep dislike of "kido no equal, one might say no competitor.of anything, that is, which seems to Beside him the ordinary Frenchman or suggest that the person displaying it is Italian is a highly organised compound better than or different from the ordinary. of gravity and theieric, the Teuton (of Thus, the external manifestations of coume) a lungo of torinese, the Bussine fasting correspond in their case perhaps or Scandinavian an abyss of melancholy less with the serious reality than with The young American, possibly, comes intra naturally expansive peoples. Eut neareal, but ho by comparison, is a person rothing is so esey and so unassuming as of enormous external seriousness. Every mere light heartedness and even folly,[" absorver, whether Briton or foreigner, and hence, perhaps, since sheer animal who has endeavoured to describe the epirita demand at least rcice and more British army and its ways has dwelt upon ment, these tend to take the somewhat the unconquerable frivolity of the private remarkable and even disconcerting forms soldier, who, while,"grousing about which have been observed. Let us be every imaginable trifle in the day's round, thankful that beneath is all we can still confronts with a jest the worst hocrom count upon a rational fibre so extre of field and trench. His songs have ordinarily vigorous and unspoilt in inspired a whole literature of description Manchester Guardian.)
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