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HOP-FROG
Continued from page 7.)
Come, drink! the wine will brighten your wits."
"Oh, this is exquisite?" exclaimed the king. "Hop-Frog! I will make a Iman of you.”
increasing the confusion by their "The chains are for the purpose of
ber
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Steamer
"CONTE ROSSO.” From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI. PORT SAID, HOMBAY, COLOMBO, AND SINGAPORE.
Hop-Frog endeavoured, as usual, to get up a jest in reply to these ad- vances from the king; but the effort
jangiing. You are supposed to have was too much: It happened to be escaped, en masse, from your keepefs. CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby the poor dwarf's birthday, and the Your majesty cannot conceive the effect informed that all Goods are being produced, at a masquerade, by eight landed at their risk into the Godowns command to drink to his "absent chained orang-outangs, imagined to be of the Hong Kong and Kowloon friends" forced the tears to his eyes.real ones by most of the company; and Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd.,
"Ah! hat hat hat" roared the rushing in with savage crica, among Kowloon, hence and/or from the king. as the dwarf reluctantly the crowd of delicately and gorgeous-wharves delivery may be obtained.
ly habited men and women. The con- drained the bonker.
Optional Cargo will not be landed "See what alk.
trant in inimitable."
here, unless notice has been given 48 glass of good wine can do Why. It must said the king: and, the bours prior to vessel's arrival, but your eyes are shining already!" council arose hurriedly (an it was carried on from part to port to the Poor fellow! his large eyes gleam-growing late), to put in execution the final port of call to which the optios ed, rather than shone; for the effect scheme of Hop-Frog.
extend His mole of equipping the party a No claims will be armitted afte of wine on his excitable brain was orang-outangs was very simple, but the Goods have left the Godown, an not more powerful than instantane effective enough for his purposes. The all Goods remaining undelivered afte joun. He placed the goblet nervous animals in question had, at the epoch the 7th instant, will be subject to
ly on the table, and looked round of my story, very rarely been seen in rent.
any part of the civilised world; and All claims against the vease) mue upon the company with a half-ns the imitations made by the dwarf be presented to the nerdgned on insane stare.
were sufficiently beast-like and more before the 16th instant, or they will than sufficiently hideous, their. truth- not be recognised. "Now," said the king: "Come, fulness to nature was thus thought to All broken chafer, and damaged Hop-Frog, lend us your assistance. be secured.
Gooda to be left in the Godowns. Characters, my fine fellow; we stand! The king and his ministers were first where they will be examined on, the in need of characters-all of us--encased ja tight-atting stockine: 7th instant, at 10 am. by our sur ha ha ha!" and as this was seri.shirts and drawers. They were then veyora, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. In the case of dutiable cargo. Coa ously meant for a joke, his laugh aturated with tar. At this stage of
the process some one of the party aug. elgaces are requested to inform the was chorused by the seven.
gested feathers; but the suggestion Imports & Exports Office that they was at ones overruled by the dwarf, have such goods for examination. who zoon convinced the eight, by ocu- No Fire Insuranes has been effect
demonstration, that the hair of ed. such a brute as the orang-outang
much more efficiently represented by ed by flax. A thick coating of the latter was According
ng plastered upon the coating
Hop-Frog also laughed, although feebly and somewhat vacantly.
"Come, come," naid the king impatiently, "have you nothing to suggest?"
from the centre
Bill of Lading will be countersign
DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.
to
■ moя-
examine
"I am endeavouring to think of of tar. A long chain was now procur Hong Kong, 1st April, 1932. something novel." replied the dwarf.led. First, it was passed about the abstractedly, for he was quite waist of the king, and fled; then about hewildered by the wine.
another of the party, and also tied; "Endeavouring" cried the tyrantsams manner. When this chaining ared Hop-Frog, his shrill voice making then about all successively, in the "Leave them to me!" now scream- fiercely: "what do you mean
by rangement
was complete, and the self easily heard through all the that? Ah, I perceive. You ure party stood as far apart from each din, "Leave them to me. I fancy I sulky, and want more wine. Here, ther as possible. they formed a cir- know them. If I can only get a good drink this!" and he poured out an-cle; and to make all things appear look at them, I can soon tell who they
natural, Hon-Free passed the residue are," other goblet full and offered it to of the chain in two diameters, at right, Here, scrambling over the heads of the cripple, who merely gazed at its grand saloon in which the mas- wall; when, scizing a flambeau from
across the circle. | gasping for breath.
the crowd, he managed to get to the "Drink, I say!" shouted
was to take place was a cir-i querade the cular roam, very lofty, and receivnit he went, to the centre of the room one of the Caryatides, he returned, as monster, or by the fiends-—~"
the light of the sun only through leaped, with the agility of The dwarf hesitated. The king single window at top. At night (the key, upon the king's head-and thence rew purple with rage.
The son for which the apartment was chambered a few feet up the chain- tiers smirked. Trippetta, pale as ad principally by a large chandelier, the group, of orang-outangs, and still
especially designed) it was illuminal- he'ding down the torch corpse, advanced to the monarch's depending by chain seat, and, falling on her knees be-of the skylight, and lowered, or ele- thing, "I shall soon find out who fure him, implored him to spare her as usual; but (in order nat to look un-in now, while the whole Lesembly
ments of a counter-balance vated, by
Bre!" sightly) this inter passed outside the with laughter, the jester auddenly ut (the apes included) were convulsed The tyrant regarded her for some runola and over the roof. moments in evident wonder at her
arrangements of the room had few violently up for about thirty feet tered a shrill whistle; when the chain Jandacity. He seemed quite at
been left to Trippetta's superinten dragging with it the dismayed and loss what to do or say-how most seems,
dence; birt, in HOME particulars, it
she had been guided by the them
struggling orang-outangs, and leaving tion.
between At last, without uttering on this occasion. The chandelier was still maintained his relative position dwarf. At his suggestion it was that, Frog. syllable he pushed her
violently removed. Its from him and threw the contents of in
waxen drippings (which, the brimming goblet in her face.
in weather
es in respect to the eight maskers, and B warm, it was possible to prevent) would have been continued to thrust his torch down to- was quite im- still (as if nothing were the matter) The poor girl got up the best she seriously detrimental to could, and, not daring even to sigh, re- dresses of the guests, who, on account to discover who they were
the rich ward them, as though endeavouring sumed her position at the foot of the of the crowded state
of the saloon, So thoroughly astonished was the table.
¡could not all be expected to keep There was a dead silence for about out its centre--that is to say, from whole company at this ascent that a
dead aftence
of about a minute's dura-! It was broken by just
friend.
ม
,becomingly to express his indigna, calmer judgment of her friend the the fed in mid-air
half a minute, during which the fall under the chandelier. Additional tion,
ed:
K
fifty or
the
jester.
veen
and the floor. Hop- to the chain as it
rose,
10
ng of a leaf, or of a feather, might conces were set in various parts of such a low, harsh, grating sound a have been heard. I was interrupt beau, emitting sweet odour, was plac. find before altracted the attention of
anted the hall, out of the way; and 11 flam- by a low but, harsh and protracted grating sound which seemed to come ed in the right hand of each of the the king and his councillors when the at once from every corner of the room. Caryatides that stood against the wall former threw the wine in the face of
"What-what-what are you mak- Bome
Ppotta. But, on the present occa ing that noise for?"
alxty altogether. demanded the The eight
there could be no question as to Ling. turning furiously to the dwarf. Hop-Frag's advice, waited patiently from the fang-like teeth of the dwarf, orang-outangs, taking whence the sound issued. It came The latter seemed to have recovered, until midnight (when the room was in great measure, from his intoxica thoroughly filled with masqueraders) who ground them and gaashed them
into the tyrant's face, merely ejaculat-soner had the clock ceused striking rage, into the upturned, countenances tion, and looking axedly but quietly, before making their appearance. No as he formed at the mouth and glar
ud, with an expression of however, thun they rushed, or rather of the king, wold at length, the infuri-i of maniacal ? How could it have been rolied
in, all together for the Impedi- "Ah,
and his seven companiona. !me?"
ments of their chains caused most of sted "The sound appeared to come from the party to fall, and all to stumble who these hat I begin to see! without," observed one of the courtiers. as they entered.
people are now!" Here, fancy it was the parrot at the win- The excitement among the mas pretending to scrutinize the king dow, whetting his bill upon his cage-queraders was prodigious, and Alled more closely, he held the flambesu wires."
the heart of the king with glee. A
flaxen coat which enveloped him, "True" replied the monarch, A on the honour of a knight, I could have}}Crocious-looking who supposed the minute the whole eight orang-outanga | much relieved by the suggestion; but a fewbeen anticipated, there were not and which instantly burst into a sheet of vivid flame, In less than half a that it was the gritting of this beasts of some kind in reality, if not shrieks of the multitude, who gazed at
creatures to be
were blazing fiercely, Amid the vagabond's teeth"
precisely orang-outangs, Hereupon the dwarf laughed (the the women sweaned with affright; without the power to render them the
Many of
them from below, horror-stricken, and king was ton confirmed a joker to ub-and had not the king taker: the pre-wh ject to anyone's laughing), and dis- caution to exclude all weapons from slightest assistance. played a set of large, powerful, and the saloon.
might soon his party
length the Rames, suddenly, in- Zlat Apr. vowed his perfeet willingness to swal-As it was, a general rush was made be out of their reach; and, as he made very repulsive teeth. Moreover, he expiated their frolic in their blood. creasing in virulence, forced the jest
er to climb higher up the chain, to Jow As much wine as desired. The for the doors; but the king had order this movement, the crowd again sank, monarch was pacified: and having ed them to be locked immediately for a brief instant, into silence. The draised another bumper with no very upon his entrance; and, at the dwarf's dwarf seized his opportunity, and once perceptible ill-effect, Frog enter-suggestion, the keys had been deposit. od at once, and with spirit, into the ed with him.
more spoke: 6th Apr. plane for the masquerade.
While the tumult was at its height what manner of people. these mask "I now see distinctly," he said, 6th May
"I cannot tell what was the associa and each masquerader attentive only
are a great king and
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For freight, pastage rates and 'information apply to the wine in his life, but just after your sure of the excited crowd), the chain does not scruple to strike a defence undermentioned. majesty had struck the girl and thrown by which the chandeller ordinarily
Mily less girl, and his seven councillors wine in her face-just after your bung, and whi, might have been seen myself, i am simply Hop-Frog, the
who
All- bookings are subject to the provisions of the Com- abet him in the outrage. As for Dealy had
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og the pany's Bill of Lading........... 5th Apr. Parrot was making that odd is thalon its removal, might have been 891922 Jester and this is my 14.
nolso out- very
10 gradually side the window, there came into my
descend, until ite hooked. axtremity came within three Owing to the high combustibility of mind a capital diversion -one of my feet of the
both the fax: and the tar to which it own country frolice-often enacted Soon after this, the
and his adhered, the dwarf had scarcely made 4th Apr. among us, at our masquerades; bat seven friends having réeled about the an end of his brief speech before the 19th Apr. here it wil be new altogether. Un-hall in all directions, found them-work of vengeance was complete. The
fortunately, however, it
weight corps
in their and. pany of eight persons and Tere
and chain contact' wish) we are!” cried
the chain. While
they were thusable mass. The cripple hurled his of the sitanted, the dwarf, who had follow torch at them, clambered leisurely de coincidence; "eight to a fraction and ed noiselessly at their heels; inciting the ceiling,
and disappeared
Lhrough 8th Apr. my ministers. Comel, what is them to keep up the commotion, took tha
the diversion 7
hold of the
their own chain at the inter- tioned on the roof of the saloon, had
Trippetta It is supposed · That of the two,
which portions Eight Chained Orang-Outanga, 9th Apr and it really is excellent sport if well (Balling 3 p.m.).
angles Hers, with the rapid his flery revenge, and that, together fonacted."
ity of thought, he inserted the hook they
their escape to their
wai scen
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20th Apr Jabe at his acute the king,
course, in
AL
"We call it," replied the Caring the circle diametrically and at been the accomplice of her. Friend fn)
•Sutho
We will enact IL" remarked the from' which the: chandeller had been awn.com for neither
2nd Apr. king, drawing himself up, and lowering wont to depend; and, in an
"The beauty
by sams, unapon agency, the chandel of the game," continu- chain, was drawn so far cupwanda od Hop-Frog, lies in the fright it ta
hook out Lake
out of reach, and Joccasions among the women."
as an inevitable consequence, to drag "Capital!" roared.
ared in choru the the "orang-outangs together in close monarch and his ministry, connection
and Ince-to-face [equip you'së, orang-oulange? proceeded the dwarreve all that recovered in come measures from Mr.
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