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THE CHINA MAIL
THE WHISTLE
(Continued from Page 1).
-***You'll break all is legs," Ber
I 'adn't gone twenty yards when the guv'nor, as a watches un. 'II
I saw that fe was followin' me. So we don't do somethin',' sex I. 'e'll
I stops, puts the saddle on again break our earts! And, 'avin' got and mounts. But would 'e budge? the tackle fixed, I gives a 'eave and Not likely. It were the most. ex-down goes "is nibs with a grunt hasperatin' affair. In the hend I and a cloud of dust.
"We 'We ad 'im fixed up in arrives back in the stable with the saddle on one shoulder and the "ossiffs, and, leavin' the lad to watch following behind Mke Mary's little 'im, goes back to stables.
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lamb. Next day 'e did the same Nathaniel watched his glass being thing to the guv'nor, and on the refilled and sat smiling reminiscent- day after did it on me. We knewly for some minutes before he con- now why the 'oss 'ad been so cheap. tinued.
The long and short of it were that "You must bear in mind." he l'e was mentally deficient subject went on, "that this 'oss was a fell to h'allunications-daft...." lof`n swell to 'is own way, of thinkin'
"Well, apart from the exhaspers--bred, an' 'e was. 'e was like one o tion and fatigue of carryin' the them royal dukes amongst 'umans, saddle 'ome every day this were no Now an ordinary common foss way of gettin' e 'oss ft. 'E was wouldn't p'raps of minded being gettin' as big as a bullock and we dumped 'down in a bundle in all the didn't care to cut down 'is grub. muck But'e did. And what 'a The Captain and I talked it over thought when all the common troops by the hour, but could not make out 'osses came past and looked at "im what to do for the best. You see, lying there you can just Imagine. secin' as. 'ow 'adn't done 'fa living' "The schoolin' ground was only tableau trick when first 'e came, it'arf a mile from the stables, so the seemed as if 'e liked new surround-guv'nor used to carry a whistle and |ings.
blow it when the 'oss went funny.
“When I suggested this to the And when I heard the whistle, I
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young guv'nor 'e agreed, but point-Jumped on me bike with my mateDISAPPEARING DOCK
OF WAR
(Continued from Page 8).
Watch them, as I have seen them,
on moonless, starlit night; when
ed out that bein' in the harmy and the shackles, and 'ad 'im on the couldn't very well travel the 'cas door in no time. Well, it were more about like a circus stoppin' in athan 'e could bear. Not that it 'urt different place every night. Orim. but the 'umiliation of it. We [course what 'e said was right. only did it on 'im twice mors, and Then I suggested lightin' a fire on the third time, when 'e seed me be'ind the oss. We tried that; but come runnin' with ropes, 'e gave
the long nets were stretched across with one kick 'e sent the burnin sort of shiver and moved on.
"Well, you can guess 'ow delight the heath, when the rabbits were Itwigs all over the place, and we
started a considerable eath fire, ed the young guy'nor and I was feeding on the short, sweet grass, for which they 'ad to turn out the We'd cured 'im of 'is hallucination when the world was silver and still local fire brigade and art the and 'a could get on with is jump-and we lay prone en our bellies, | Ing and 'is training' like any other while the atone curlew whistled in garrison.
Pos. And by the way 'e went on the stricken allence, the pines smelt "And also, when the ground was we looked like 'avin' that there goldstrong, and the dogs crept out like wet as it usually is in the winter, up in our pockets.. Gallop! linking shadows, slinking over the one would 'ave 'ad to carry a bunch could give the best of ours three heath, driving in the feeding rab- of faggots every time we took the tun and lose im over two and a bits, silent, galloping sweeps, like oss aut. Then I auggested a fire half alles. Jump Gawd!
harriers on a moor. hose, but you couldn't engage the conld jump a cathedral.
Into the net they came, a cascade local fire brigade to follow every The only fear was lest the ex of bundling tumbling fur, and be day. So that were no good. That citement of seein' a race course and bind them, like ghouls, galloped the 'OBS
no the crowd and colours should go to heirs of the old dogs of war. mistake.
'is 'ead and 'e'd "ave one of 'is at-
were a corundrum
"Well, one night I was
and
I
in the tacks. going down to the start. 1
SOUTH AFRICA.
Union-Rhodesia Link Opened.
Royal Hussar down Farnham-road, discussed this with the guv'ner, and NEW TELEPHONE IN talkin' to one or two sodjers, when ja said: · 'We'll 'ave to put our pride. a young corporal in the harmy in our pockets and not mind what 5th Feb. vetinary comes in with is arm in people say. but take the casting a sling. It turned out 'e'd injured tacids to Sandown Park with us. 'isself a throwing of a 'orse for a If 'a aces you comin' after 'Im with hoperation. One of the shackles 'adjany bundla‹ of old ropes in your broke, and the 'oss 'ad booted 'imi̇'and, 'e'll; move,op* and busted 'is arm. Well, I stood
18th Jan 30th Jan.
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Pretoria.
"Well, a month before the big Telephone communication be the young fellow a drink or two, race the 'oss was as it as could be, tween the Union and Southern 6th Feb. and a hidea was dawnin' in my and we decide to give 'Im a run at and Northern Rhodesia was of mind all the time. By the time Hurst Park. To give 'im a school ficially opened by General J. C. left I'd arranged to borrow them more than h'anythin'. The Captain Smuts, the Union Minister of shackles from the young fellow. didn't want to give the show Justice, from the Pretoria office "Next day I worked the other away, so 'e enters im in a big race of the Minister of Posts and Fosser early, and when the young where the opposition was very good Telegraphs, Senator C. F. Clark-
guv'nor goes out on Fair View and where 'e wouldn't show up too son. a-schooling I follows im on my much. 'E chose a two miles) General Smuts opened the line. bicycle with the shackles over me race, moreover, which wasn't by talking to Mr. S. M. Lanigan Another young chap came the 'osa's best distance. But even so O'Keefe, Minister of the Interior 24th Jan, with me to give me a 'and. After the 'oas was such a good un that of Southern Rhodesia, who de 6th Feb. fenoes 'e stops and does 'is pillar was very nervous"o' winning. putised for Mr. G. M. Huggins, the 'oss 'ad jumped 'arf a dozen "Not that the Captin' was. 'ot the Prime Minister, after which o' salt trick.
stuff mind you; don't think that, he was switched on to Living-
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"The guv'nor dismounts, gives E wouldn't have done anythin' dis-stone where he spoke to the 'im one look, and begins to take off honourable; but when you've got a Chief Secretary (Mr. H. F. D. C the saddle. Old on, sez I. "We'll good thing......well, you and Mackenzie-Kennedy), who deput- teach im pillar o' salt! What are know racin' win't a philarmonie inised for the Governor-Reuter. you goin' to do?' ser the Captain. stootion.
Well, at Hurst Fark I hid the 'E's taken a likin' to this spot. We'll see 'ow 'e likes stayin' 'ere castin' tackle under me mackintosh all day,' sez I, and begins to put the and took up me stafid at a place on shuckles on.
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“I tella 'im I'm in attendance on the 'oas and -'ave orders · from the Jowner and trainer to be there, but l'e's that stupid and "aughty e won't listen to any sense, and starts [a-leadin', me, away by the noller. Well, I were fair disperate, and "ád
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oss and finished fifth, pullin", the "All" broken, Chafed, and damaged. [young guy'nor's arms out, But no Goods are to be left in tha Godoyma, nothin' disparageous. The where they will be agami wed on the by our no worse; and all that we surveyors, Mears: Goddard & Douglas
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