IG. P. LAMMERT.
ÅTCTIONEER, ÄFFRAISER.
AND SURVEYOR
-Public Auctions-
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Tons to sell by Publio Laction
EE. Cudursigned has received instruc-
FRIDAY, August 15, 1919.
commencing at 3 p.m.
độ KGA Starvar, Nanchai,
The 15 Motor Boat "Boronia" 3. (Fitted with 4 cylinder engine. New Sim's Magneto and Paragon Revere Gear
sèrgon... Awnings and side
Speed 9 miles per houry
Alsó
The Gael Class Yacht. “Telastte"
+
(Winner of 3 cups during the 3917
seas, in good conditionn
On view now.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
CEO. F. LAMMERT, Auctioneer,
Hongkong, Augnat. 8, 1913.
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that kitten he saw troubled inquiry SENSATION IN HIGH LIFE.
in the eyes of the sleek mother, so [By RONEY GILBERT 18 X G.D.N.}|--For not, gente mother it, we to her he pledged himself, saying:
a
And in those days there own it it svage from the inter realme and presented to the Son of Heaten mother eat. That was very ng ago when cuts were not used to abile with men, and when men, having no knowledge of the nature of the gat, feured it for its tiger-h aspert.
Yet was the Son of Heaven right well pleased when he deemed to) know this mother cat, for she car STAMPhined in her person all the virtues
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are not robbing thee of the favour sape breed by sending himn
We do but horor thy hand myal misst in the Service of the empire tun which we shall being line back with kencur, with us bebourne we hestow upon our chami pious who go forth with sword and fan mi render us loyal service. To this I plight my word."
And it so Ippened test when the which lave since en reizen haurer of this precite little vrou in her ungriad offspring. She w tare, brought hi torth from the gentle and sit, clean and kind, wale skeve in whch he carried in and showed in her fond attender |and shooed but the tip of his nose to upon his bolines the empers no the overgrown and overhoid rider of tendency to suspicion or temper. at the mice which were devastiring such as matern can Mira, except: Run Layeh damn, that a
the presence of such vermin as: pudent nouse dd utter but one disturbed the peace and quiet ni his holiness the emperor's repone. Mosqueak of terres and fed both the prefecture and the empire, bis fol. bolt of all the verin in the celesores squeaking at his heels, never tial palace were the anfce that dwelt to return.
in the crevices between the beans. and upon these możsy and impudens
Then wis there at rejoicing marauders the mother eat, with her the land and thea would had been presented by the sarage
Tao Tao-yeh have returned the pre- from the outer rens, did wage
cks mil ont to his harness the pitiless war.
eaperor in fitting state; but his perle, long afflicted with the ravages of the huge mice, did implore him to retain the fully ittle guardian of their crops and when he refused did Breaten reyes and would even have
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the
Asahi reports an attempted suicide A San Francisco special to the
Prince. whose departure for Japan on on the part of the Rumanian Crown
Japanese Court had been announced. a complimentary mission to According to this story, he was dis- covered just in time to prevent him pulling the trigger of his pistol." His life was saved, but in the struggle that ensued, "he got injured in the leg. It is explained that the Prince. fell in love with a girl neither of royal blood nor of wealthy connections, and the affair having gained much notoriety at Bukarest, the Queen, who was greatly con-! but none of her admonitions had cerned, attempted to separate them. any effect. Recently a child was born to them. It was his father King Ferdinand, who, equally anxious, thought that if the Prince had a tour of some months' amidst the beauties of Japan, for which the purposed mission afforded opport unity, it might' cure him of his attachment. It is rumoured, says the dispatch, that his grief at the coming separation from his sweet heart drove the Prince to attempt suicide.
Now, as it happened, the mice in the palace of his holiness the m
anbling plaint against nii himan per were not great mice; but in
end, and especially against Pao Lao. the south, in a certain prefectures in arms, so that Pio Ladyeb, yeh since she dust not upbraid his they do as pro lice, dere accounting of the site of the people's cryptic phrases the sons of men fo ruled by one who was widely known ane e destrung, di molte fud holiness the emperor, cursing in
Hisu sung pu sung, Pão Jaayer tha trang,
Hsu sung, pu, burg, pu su
pur-rri. Which being interpreted means: He promised return, but he becke
his pledge,
Pao Taoycha bribplace was un-j
der a hedge
And this dismal, plaint, with its reflexion upon Pao Lao-peh's family honour, the old mother cut taught
developed a species of huge mound to be holinks the emperor the theft of her precious child in this like creatures as big as the fouls of und di inquire tmbly, and with wit Honan donkeys, and there wn full acknowledgement of h's Auct among these vermin a mouse of city, as to whether the small cat extremely faridable size and poten. could be spared. and his hodiness, tialities for evil. This particular thoughtless of mother feeling, mouse not only devoured the stores thoughtless of tripledge, and sodi of the poor peasantry and the bulging itous only for the once of mind of grain stacks of the gentry, but did his people did reply that the tat also enter the palace of Pao Luo-yeh tribe had so multipled that not only helf and did nibble boldly among one but a dozen, if need were, could the imperial stores reserved as tribe renday spared, and that Fao Eno. bute to hria holiness. On this eyel nrglit ratain the nem his count was Pao Lao-yeh much disposension as a lasting word against tressed, and when the news ereul the ferrong which had afflicted his ated' through the empire that the six people. In nothing did the faithful mother cat, presented by the taughtless ruler take into account go from the outer realire, had the feeling of the original old given birth in the throne costicer to mines cut presented by the saves no less than four handsome and from the outer reakce. active replicas of herself, Pro L40- yeh, emboldened by the distraction of his people, did indäre in his best Now is old mother cat, in due siyle, upon hubs of choice bamboo, course was blessed with and a humble petition for the loar of a children and great grandchildren least one precious kitten to stilt the and her kind did nitiply, unli'sbe
her children and her grand- hidren, and they handed it down to their children and grundelleen, widelity, so that no real out ever together with the tradition of hun fully trust human being und, no faithful descendant of that old mother cat ever comes into close and mate contact with an, without chanting, the hereditary, denuncia
in
Some of us think in our garmzés? plague of the large mice which were lost all reckoning of her aunbers, ruining his prefecture.
but yet did the mape and phe and Wat the cat pum because it The right heartily and willingly the fer days and years in ead for pleased, but we love cely terem- and the proporrany the return of her face, and when i wait the cats of the Chinese-the one kitten for the relief of his crild she learned inadvertasly that her parent and most direct states to ren the people, and did forward by master, his holiness the emperor, how that every time a cat pilis it speciu tourer under specul escort had exiled her chi or aver to the reminding us of our lack of good! the first-burn and the stress of all distant prefectul polerted by Pao fallurid is shying?” the small cats littered in the throne Jaogel, she did velk la a dark cushion to his faithful dependent corner, and an uneartily part came Puo Lao-yeh. Now when has hod into her gentle Bylar had she did new the emperor had come to take commence in herged throat
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