10
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SAN FRANCISCO vin Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolula,
ASAMA MARU
TAIYO MARU
CHICHIBU MARU
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER,
Wednesday, 11th January. Saturday, Wednesday,
21st January.
8th February.
21st January,
HEIAN MARU (starts from Kobe), Saturday, LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM vin
Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez KASHIMA MARU
YASUKUNI MARU
Saturday, Friday,
7th January. 20th January.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE vis Manila & Ports.
KAMO MARU
Saturday,
21st January.
29th December. 11th January.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
+ NAGATO MARU
TANGO MARU
Thursday,
Wednesday,
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan. Honolulu,
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Wednesday,
11th January.
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and Valencia,
Tuesday,
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† DURBAN MARU
† RANGOON HARU
† PENANG MARU
+ MURORAN MARU
+ Cargo only.
17th January.
Thursday, Friday,
20th December. 8th January.
Wednesday,
28th December.
SHANGHAI, KUBE & YOKOHAMA.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE THREE INFERNAL JOKES
(Continued from page 7.)
...
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
Frem LEITH, MIDDLESBRo', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
The Steamship,
*BENARTY"
In fact that the "Briton") for theJing even to glance at the papers, usa of Its name, and to obtain or but you did not need to glance at ders "for **The Briton Dic-them, big type was bandied about CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby tionary of Elèctricity" was the that day as though it were common informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazard- occupation of my unfortunate type, the words of the headlines ous and/or extra hazardous Gedowns friend. He seems to have had a stared at you; and the headlines of The Hong Kong and Kowloon way with him. Apparently he said: "Twenty-two Dead Men at a Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd, whence know by a glance at a man, or a'f Club."
and/or from the wharves delivery
be obtained. look round at his garden, whether Yes, he saw it then; the laugh-ma No claims will be admitted after to recommend the book as "an ab- ter had not stopped; some had pro- the Goods have left the Godowns, and solutely up-to-date achievement, the bably burst bloodvessels, some must all Goods remaining undelivered after finest thing of its kind in the world have choked, some succumbed to the 27th December, 1932, will be sub- of modern science" or as “at once nausea; heart failure must have ject to rent.
All claims against the steamer qualut and imperfect, a thing to mere fully taken some; and they most be presented to the Undersigned buy and to keep, as a tribute to were his friends after all, and on or before the 10th January, 1933, those dear old times that are none had escaped, not even the or they will not be recognized. gone."
waiters. It was that infernal joke. All broken, chafed and damaged So he went on with this quaint He thought out swiftly, and re- Goods are to be left in the Godowns, though usual business, putting members clear as a nightmare, the 27th December, 1932, at 10 am, by where they will be examined on the nside the memory of that night as drive to Victoria Station, the boat-Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. an occasion on which he had train to Dover and going disguised То comply with the General Bond- "somewhat exceeded," as they say to the boat; and on the boat, plen-ed Warehouse Regulations consigneca in at- in circles where a spade is called santly smiling, almost obsequicus, must have a Revenue Officer
tandance when damaged dutiable neither a spade nor an agricultural two constables that wished to speak
goods are axamined. implement, but is never mentioned for a moment to Mr. Watkyn-Jones. No Fire Insurance has been effcet- at all, being altogether tou vulgar. That was his name.
ed. And then one night he put on his guit of dress clothes and found the three jokes in the pocket. That was perhaps a shock. He seems to have thought it over carefully then, and the end of it was he gave a
simple truth, and a very poor affair dinner at the club to twenty of the At the trial he was defended by it seemed after the impassioned and members. The dinner would do a. yourfg barrister of considerable beautiful things that were uttered no harm, he thought-might even ability, who had gone into the by the counsel for the defence. help the business, and if the joke Cabinet in order to enhance his Men and women had wept when came off he would be a witty fel-forensic reputation. And he was they heard Watkyn-Jones. Some low, and two jokes still up his ably defended. It is no exaggera-tittered. It no longer seemed a | sleeve.
tion to say that the speech for the right and natural thing to leave Whom he invited, or how the defence showed it to be usual, ever one's guests all dead and to fly the dinner went, I do not know, for he natural and right, to give a dinner country. Where was Justice, they -, 'began to speak rapidly, and came to twenty men and to slip away asked, if anyone could do that? And straight to the point, as a stick without even saying a word, leav-when his story was told the judge that nears a cataract suddenly goeeing all, with the waiters, dead. That rather happily asked if he could faster and faster. The dinner was was the impression left in the minda make him die of laughter duly served, the port went round, of the jury. And Mr. Watkyn- too. And what was the the twenty men were smoking, two Jones felt himself practically free joke? For in Во grave a waiters loitered, when he, after with all the advantages of his awful place as a Court of Justice no fatal carefully reading the best of the experience, and his two jokes effects need be feared. And jokes, told it down the table. They intact. But lawyers are still ex hesitatingly the prisoner pulled! laughed. One man accidentally perimenting with the new Act from his pocket the three slips of inhaled his cigar smoke and splut- which allows a prisoner to give evi-paper; and perceived for the first tered, the two walters overheard dence. They do not like to make time that the one on which the first Mon., 6th Feb., 1988 and tittered behind their hands; one no use of it for fear they may be and best joke had been written had man, a bit of a raconteur himself, thought not to know of the Act, and become quite blank. Yet he could quite clearly wished not to laugh, a lawyer who is not in touch with remember it, and only too clearly. but his veins awelled dangerously in the very latest lawa is soon regard. And he told it from memory to the trying to keep it back, and in the ed as not boing up to date, and he Court. 9th Feb. end he laughed too. The joke had may drop as much as fifty thousand “An Irishman once on being nak- succeeded; my friend smiled at the a year in fees. And therefore, fed by, bís master to buy a morning thought; he wished to say little de though it always hangs their paper said in his usual witty way: precating things to the man on his clients, they hardly like to neglect Arrah and begorrah and I will be 30th Dec. right; but the laughter did not stop it.
after wishing you the top of the and the waiters would not be Mr. Watkyn-Jones was put in the morning." silent. He waited, and waited, witness-box. There he told the wondering; the laughter went rear-
In a third-class carriage with Bill of Lading will be counter- handcuffs on his wrists, with fore-signed by,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., ed conversation when any, he re-
Agente. turned between his captors to Vic-
Hong Kong, 20th December, 1982. toria, to be tried for murder at the High Court of Bow.
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was
gone on for three or four minutes when this frightful thought leap ed up all at once in his mind: it forced laughter! However 3rd Jan. could anything have induced him to tell so foolish a joke? He saw its absurdity as in revelation; and the 2nd Jan. more he thought of it as these the people laughed, at him, even
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waiters too, the more he felt that The could never lift up his head 8th Jan. with his brother touts again. And still the laughter went roaring and choking on. He was very angry. There was not much use in having a friend, he thought, If one silly joke could not be overlooked; he 29th Dec. had fed them too. And then he felt that he had no friends at all; and bis anger faded away, and a great unhappiness came down on him, and he got quietly up and slunk from the room. Rad slipped away from the club. Poor man, he scarcely had the heart next morn-
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