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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1934.
"Dead" Dog Likes His Liver
For the first time since he was officially declared "dead" two weeks ago, Lazarus, canine subject of the "resurrection" experi- ment being conducted by Dr. Robert Cornish (inset) at the Univer sity of California, sits up and eats a bit of liver. The dog, killed by gas, was revived by a powerful heart slimulant,
TWO MEN AND A VIOLIN
Bucharest Grocer. Falls For Clever Trick.
PAYS £80 FOR FAKE
Bucharest.
Here is the drama of a grocer, two men and a violin. The scene is a local grocery; the time the present.
Act 1. A tattered gipsy hur ries into the grocer shop and bar- ters a shabby violin for some ca- viare. He leaves promising to redeem the violin.
Act 2. A well-dressed man en- ters the shop. makes a small purchase and catches sight of the violin. "What's this?". he says. The grocer explains. "Em but man" stammers the cus tomer in his excitement, "It is worth a fortune.. It is a Stra- divarius" They bargain and The agree at a price of £160. stranger leaves £20 as a deposit! and says he will call back.
The Man Who Saw Within gipsy accept 100. The grocer
(Continued from Page 9.)
Act 3. Re-enter the gipsy to! redeem his violin. The grocer hesitates "Would you like to sell it?" They haggle until the
is satisfied. He has £20 in hand and £140 to come. The gipsy He approached one of the shelves.leaves.
Act 4. The grocer waits ah- He came into a large entrance hall, Nestly printed in enamel waa "Arnos
Road." Above be read "Acton xiously in his shop-in the dis- magnificent colonnaded atrium with yet another lifeless fountain Street" and below. "Aston Avenue."tance the gipsy and his confe- recalling, in the grotesqueness of its As he walked on he saw other names, derate are splitting a net profit
Borough Street, Bostock Street, of £80-Reuter. carving, some of the less Italian examples he had once seen on Bridge Road, Bunyan Avenue, Castle a visit to Rome. The marble walls Road, Catford Street. He approach- seemed iridescent, luxurious-buted one of the shelves and took out a dend. It was all so magnificent, but book. It was bound in leather, red like all the rest, with gold lettering! what was it? There was no picture] postcard stand, no little table where on the back. Jone could buy a catalogue, no pigeon)
could make in- hole where one
gross
quiries, no rack to hold one's um- brella. Not even a door marked "Private."
GREAT BRITAIN ABBOTS ROYDON
4, DRAKE STREET ROBERT DUNHAM
He opened and looked at the title' page.
ROBERT DUNHAM
BUS SERVICE ON THAMES
Scheme Awaits State Guarantee.
L.TA.C. TAKES MATTER UP
London.
entrance The wall opposite the
One may soon travel by bus was bare, but on either flank was a
PLACE OF BIRTH: L/149862/A842 on the Thames.' staircase. He noticed that slightly
BORN 1902.
People have been talking about Ito one side of each staircase was s
He turned the pages Idly. It the subject for years, but now Traffic Advisory notice board and he hurried up hoping that here at last would be a seemed to be a biographical diary. the London clue.
The board on the left said At the top of a page would be a Committee has taken it up in "A-M." nothing more. The board date, like "January 8, 1912," and earnest. It is to conduct a pu- on the right said "N-Z." He chose sometimes there would be a whole blic inquiry Into the "possibili- 24th July the left staircase, because people al-year to a page like "January 24-ties of the use of the Thames for
ways do choose the left when there December 18, 1918." Sometimes a passenger transport services,"
single day would occupy several pages.
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As hel
to
echo strangely, hollowly, on the mar-
At the top was ล
He continued to turn
over
A scheme for starting "water- buses" is actually in existence, the but the Committee wants
more
it. 6th June ble treads and added to the sense pages, not taking very much interest information before authorising The crux of the matter is the of foreboding now pervading his en-in what was written because he was thinking very hard about what he
question of a State guarantee. tire being.
was going to do now that the place "But," say the sponsors of the second hall, proved to be a library, when sud- similar to that below, with a large denly his eye caught a line at the scheme, the Government may never be called on to pay any- doer at the farther end. High above top of a page, "June 9, 1039,"
thing." this door was a coat of arms and
That gave him an awful shock. Ex- It is pointed out that the ser citedly he turned over the pages of 6th July above, the words "Great Britain."
the book. On the last page of all vice contemplated by the scheme So the place was a museum. He passed through the door and was "May 27, 1948," and one entry, would employ 450 men perman- "Died of pneumonia. No will." ently, and mean the expenditure 3rd June found himself in a long passage. 19th June Stretching as far as he could see on more he had time to consider the of £345 000 for new equipment.
he heard
moine These orders would make work each side and at regular intervals, behind him and, turning, saw a man 1st June were doors, and over each door was coming through a door which had been for 8,000 men for six months,
Taking the guarantee over five A name. He read the names as he hidden by the shelves, and pushing passed:
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LONDON SERVICE. a trolley not unlike those he had years, the 450 men employed. seen in the reading room of the Bri-would save the Government in "AENEAS" ABBEY HEAD, ABOTSFORD, Ush Museum. ABBOTS LANGLEY ABBOTS Hung on the front was a notice injunemployment benefit £175,000.
large letters. "Judgment" and just --Reuter. RODING, ABBOTS ROYDON.
heneath a date adjustable by meant
CONSIGNEES.
LLOYD TRIESTINO. NOTICE TO CONSIGNÉES.
Motor Vesse
He stopped outside the door with of rollers. It was almost with relief the words "Abbots Roydon" above it, that the corpulent men, whose name! trying to summon up courage to en-www Nashem, read "September 14, "That is to-day's date,” · he ter. He pushed the handle and the 1034."
whispered to himself. Ho door swung open at hía touch.
The Bttle man, whe was dressed was in an immense room with rows very much like a French, railway overall, on porter, but wore * 'stren upon rows of books stacked
eemed "oblivious of Nashem's pro- sbelyes from floor to ceiling, all in a
Isence. He neered at the names Juniform colour, deep red.
the shelves and then slowly, as if be had plenty of time, took a ladder abs which Nashem had not-noticed previ From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI quely, and placed it against the shelf, PORT BAID SUEZADEN, Leisurely he climbed up and took out KARACHI BOMBAY, COLOMBO, # SINGAPORE: Vih a book, glacing at the last page, then PENANG, descending,
SAIGON & HAPHONG, put the bark on the trolley, which was already half fall.
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repeated the process, collecting in CONSIGNEES of Cargo are bareby a dozen books
Then he went out informed; that all Goods Para, bana by the door through which he had landed at their risk into the Godowna the Hongkong and Kewlown Whart Nasher was still standing with the and Godown Company, Lackawi Kows book in his hand. He replaced it on loon, whence and/or from the wharves the shelf and picked up others, look delivery may be obtained.
extenda.
ing rapidly through them. They all Optanel Cargo well not be landed finished on different dates-all after here, unless notice has been given di hours prior to vessel's arrival but September, 1034.
And then a terrible thought came to rarried on from port to port to tha Nashem. Somewhere in that place, in a part, of call to which the option that immense library there would be
No claims will be admitted after a book, a red book with golden lettore Goods: barg, left the Godown, and ali on the ebver. "Rochester: Ridmouth Goods remaining undelivered after the Road, Thomas Nashem. He went out 28th instant will be subject to zait. into the passage and then realised that All cļumi against the mosdl" must he had come up the wrong aircase he presented to the Understand on p En retraced his stepa but into the wo before, the 7th June [ per: Hall, the staircase Into the not be
down
recognised main entrance Hall and up, the other All broken chafed and staircase into another hall similar 10 Goods are to be lift the first. He went through a door where they wHINDI with the same words "Great, B
written above, past:-
Machar, Marmer on Malin, Mallow,&aliifwyd, paat Manchester,: Manca, Past many more Fit3)- ku wax in the'
Britain?
ran the passage seemed endli One past Pondar's End fract, Pantycjimmer, 1- Post Pontypridd, to the q's, while the sweat poured off himmiesgos
(Continued on Page 11).
DODW
Hong Kong, 22nd May, 1984
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