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About
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SIR DOMINICK
SARSFIELD
(Continued from Puge 10.)
"
His heart beat thick as he drew
near it.
There was not a sound.
not even the distant bark of a dog. from the village behind him. There was not a lonesomer spot in the country round. Soften and slower he stept as he got, once more, in under the big branches of the oak- trees; and when he got in a bit, near where he met with the bad. spirit before, he stopped and looked round him, and felt himself, every bit, turning as cowid as a dead man, and you may be sure he did not feel much better when he seen the same man steppin' from behind the big tree that was touchin' his elbow a'moet.
"You found the money
good." says he, "but it was not enough. No matter, you shall have enough and to spare. I'll see after your luck, and I'll give you a hint when- ever it can serve you; and any time you want to see, me you have only to come down here, and call my face to mind, and wish me present. You shan't owe a shilling by the end of. the year, and you shall never miss the right card, the best throw, and the winning horse. Are you will-
Marseilles. Havre, London, Hamburg.ing?"
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Rotterdam & Antwerp.
The young gentleman's voice al- Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, most stuck in his throat, and his hair was rising os his head, but he did get out a word or two to signify that he consented; and with that!
Bombay.
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Antwerp & Hull Marseilles & London Maraelles & London.
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BHUTAN
RANPURA
**BEHAR
1934. 6,000 3rd Feb.
17.000 10th Feb
6,000 17th Feb.
**SOUDAN
COMORIN
CHITRAL
**BURDWAN
17.000 24th Feb. 6,800 3rd Mar.
15,000 10th Mar. 15.000 24th Mar
0,000 1st Mar.
RANCHI CARTHAGE
17,000
15,000
7th Apr. 21st Apr.
**SOMALI
&
NALDERA
CORFU
76,000 16,000
+ BANGALORE
MANTUA RAWALPINDI
+ BHUTAN
10,000 2nd June 17,000 16th June 6,000 23rd June
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the Evil One handed him a needle, was safe out of the bargain. There, with the hangman waitin' for him ten outside. Down the stairs he comes, and bid him give him three drops was not more than eight or of blood from his arm; and he took months to run now before the seven and two or three of the gentlemen them in the cup of an acorn, and years war out, and he lived all the peeping over the banisters, to see. gave him a pen, and bid him write time according to the bishop's ad- My grandfather was walking six or one words that he repeated. and rice, as strict as if he was "in re- Sir Dominick did not understand, treat." on two thin slips of parchment, He took one himself and the other he sunk in Sir Dominick's arm at & the place where he drew the blood,
and he closed the flesh over it.
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BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
+TAKADA
7,000
SIRDHANA
8.000
1934.
4th Feb. 18th Feb.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta,
DO
TALMA
10,000
4th Mar.
DO---
TILAWA
10,000
18th Mar.
8,000 at Apr.
DO no
Calls Rangoen.
SANTRIA
Well, you may guess he felt quarej enough when the mornin' of 28th of February came.
eight steps behind him, and he seen the stranger take a stride out to meet Sir Dominick, and catch him the up in his arma, and whirl his head against the wall, and wi' that the ball-doore flies open, and out goes The priest came up by appoint-the candles, and the turf and wood- ment, and Sir Dominick and his Well, Sir Dominick went home. raverence wor together in the room ashes flyin' with the wind out o' the in a drift o' sparks He was a frightened man, and well you see there, and kep' up he might be. But in a little time prayers together till the clock struck along the floore by his feet.
Down runs the gintlemen. Bang the hall-doore. Some comen runnin' up, and more runnin' down,
their
hall-fre, ran
gocs
he began to grow uisier in his mind. twelve, and a good hour after, and Anyhow, he got out of debt very not a sign of disturbance, nor quick, and money came tumbling in nothing came near them, and the with lights. It was all over with to make him richer, and everything priest slep' that night in the house Sir Dominick. They lifted up the he took in hand prospered, and he in the room next Sir Dominick's,
a and all went over as comfortable as the wall; but there was not a gasp corpse, and put its shoulders again" never made a wager, or played game, but he won and for all that could be, and they shook hands, and left in him. He was could and there was not a poor man on the kissed ke two comrades after win-stiffenin' already. jestate that was not happier than Sirning a battle.
Pat Donovan was coming up to Dominick.
So, now, Sir Dominick thought he the great house late that night and So he took again to his ola ways; might as well have a pleasant even-after he passed the little brook for, when the money came back, all ing, after all his fastin' and pray that the carriage track up to the came back, and there were hounds ing; and he sent round to half a house crosses, and about fifty steps and horses, and wine galore, and no dozen of the neighbouring gentle to this side of it, his dog, that was end of company, and grand doin's, men to come and dine with hire, and by his side makes a sudden wheel, and divarsion, up here at the great his raverance, stayed and dined also, and springs over the wall and sets house. And some said Sir Dominick and a rourin' bowl o' punch they up a yowlin' inside you'd hear a was thinkin' of gettin' married; and had, and no end o' wine, and the mile away; and that minute two more said he wasn't. But, anyhow, swearin' and dice, and cards and men passed him by in allence, goin'
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for there was somethin' troublin' him guineas changing hands, and songs down from the house, one of thera
fat and 2nd class passengers.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South',
1934.
NELLORE
7,000
3rd Feb.
TANDA
7,000
3rd Mar.
NANKIN
7,000
NELLORE
7,000
4th May.
TANDA
7,000
2nd June
NANKIN
7.000
30th June
NELLORE
7,000
3rd Aug.
Melbourne.
more than common, and one and stories, that wouldn't do anyone short and square, and the other Uks night, unknownst to all, away he good to hear, and the priest slipped Sir Dominick in shape, but there goes to the lonesome oak-wood. away, when he seen, the turn things was little light under the trees Well, when Sir Dominick got into were takin', and it was not far from where he was, and they looked only the wood this time, he grew more the stroke of twelve when Sir Do-like shadows; and as they passed he could not hear tho in dread than ever; and he was on minick, sitting at the head of his him by the point of turnin' and lavin' the table, swears, "this is the best first sound of their feet and he drew place, when who should he see, close of March I ever sat down with my back to the wall frightened; and when he got up to the great house, 30th Mar. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & beside him, but my gentleman, seat-friends.”
ed on a big stone under one of the "It ain't the first o' March," says he found all in confusion, and the
with He master's body,
the head trees. In place of looking the fine Mr. Hiffernan of Ballyvoreen. young gentleman in gold lace and was a scholard, and always kep' anjsmashed to places, lying just on grand clothes he appeared before, almanack.
that spot. "What is it, then?" says Sir Do- The narrator stood up and in- Regular monthly sailinge from Hong Kong to Shanghal and Japan he was now in rags, he looked twice and Hong Kong to Australia.
the size he had been, and his face minick, startin' up, and droppin' dicated with the point of his stick Hong Kong to Sydney 13 days,
smutted with soot, and he had the ladle into the bowl, and starin' the exact site of the body, and, as Frequent connections from Australia with the following-
I looked, the shadow deepened, the The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Newa murtherin' big steel hammer, saat him as if he had two heads.
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twenty-ninth of red stain of sunlight vanished from Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
had gone handle a yard long,
his February, leap year," says he. And the wall, and the sun It was so dark under the just as they were talkin' the clock down behind the distant hill of New tree, he did not see him quite clear strikes twelve; and my grandfather. Castle, leaving the haunted scene in
who was half asleep in a chair by the .doep
of grey
darkening for some time.
He stood up, and he looked awful the fire in the hall, openin' his eyes, twilight.
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CHITHAL
TILAWA
SANTHIA
•SOMALI
BANCHI
CARTHAGE
TAKADA NELLORE NALDERA
1934.
6,300 30th Jan. 7,000 4th Feb. 18,000 8th Feb. 10,000 9th Feb. 6,000 22nd Feb. 15,000 23rd Feb. 17,000
10,000 22nd Feb. 9th Mar. 9th Mar
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for "Tell your master," says he, In anything nor a word a'most Shanghal, Kohe & Yokohama.
· (Continued from Page 81. Amay, Sh
S'hai, Moji & Kobe.
anyone, and he only grew worse and an awful voice, like the growl of a Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
worse, and darker and darker. And baist, "that I'm here by appoint-
These natives live entirely on the Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
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now this thing, whatever it was, mont, and expect him downstairs
proceeds of the chase. They are Yokohama Kobe &
used to come to him of its own this minute.” Amoy, S'hal, Moji & Kobe.
accord, whether he wanted it or no; Up 'goes my grandfather, by these meat-eaters, for no foodstuffa grow in the Arctic except a few berries Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,
sometimes in one shape, and some very steps you are sitting on. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,
re-despite their struggle for existence times in another, in lonesome places, "Tell him I can't come down yet," and roote,, and these are Amos, S'haf Moll & Hobe. Shanghai Moji, Kobe, & Yokohama.and sometimes at his side by night says Bir Dominick, and he turns to sparingly eaten as to be quite markably good time. The per in a world where Nature's bounty formance is usually limited is very limited. I have lived Shanghai Moll, Kobe, & Yokohama.
when he'd be ridin' home alone, un- the company in the room, and says negligible in the natives" diet.
Caribou meat, seal and fish are to one man hopping and swaying to among them for many years, and til at last he lost heart altogether he with, a cold swest shinin' on his and sent for the priest,
face. For God's sake, gentlemen, their staple diet, but they eat every and fro, chanting and tapping the the impression they leave is of a The priest was with him a long will any of you jump from the win thing that runs, or files, or swims, drum, while his wife, standing op- happy, friendly, childlike people. time, and when be heared the whole dow and bring the priest here?" Often, the meat is eaten raw, Oposite pirouetes and seconds his brave and cheerful always, story, he rode off all the way for One looked at another and no one account of the difficulty of lighting song, and the rest of the party join the bishop, and the bishop came here mow what to make of it, and in the a fire, or from shortage of fuel in the chorus.
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to the great house next day, and he meantime, un comes my grand. As a rule they prefer their meat gey Sir Dominick a good advice.father again, and aaya, All dates are approximate and subject to alteration withosa notice. He toult him he must give over tremblin', "He says, sir unless you
„dicin', and swearin', and drinkin', go down to him, he'll come up to The Eskimo's principal amuse-plé games "Cata-cradle with The .. "Nellore" leaving Moll All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans-or Punka Louvre System.Dat
and all bad company, and live:' a you.”
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divil didn't come for him the minute Bir Dominick, trying to put a face
imply circular hoop games help to amuse them... The La. "T
ir-skin membrane, The Eskimo are the most con- on Febru after the stroke of twelve the first on it) and walkin' out of the room
chanting Is tented people I know, and this February morning of the month of March, be like a man, through the pres
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