ters. Then he was dashing up Old Lee grunted and puffed at forward, where he found the girl his pipe, and was about to roll struggling with the winch, having
Jalready cut away the hedge. the map up again, when his eye "You'll never get that up he stumbled, as it were, upon a little shouted. "Let it run the cable's cross printed on the shore about not fixed below.
some
JUNIOR SCHOOLS
Slovakia Adopts New German Textbook
A textbook entitled “German - In One Week Without a Teacher" has been introduced into junior ja quarter of a mile south of the The girl nodded. kicked back schools at Kosice, in Slovakialue
bescom The chart was an old the ratchet-pawi and jumped
Under the heading "love" It one, and the cross indicated a back as the chain whipped out gives the following phrases for wreck that had been remoted through the hawse with a roar conversational use:
six years ago However, and disappeared overboard.
"Fair creature, I love you." now that his memory was jogged, The remembered the wreck plainly Old Lee had ran up the foresail "Don't flatter. You hardly know
and was now running aft to set me
I love you from the depths of [be. mused. "A ten-ton cutter, and took charge of the tiller.
my heart." Blowing a gale o' wind from the
"You are joking. I don't be- short. Father The ship shuddered and, heel-lieve you" drowned. Daughter's ing to the wind forged ahead. waves into spray. body never found. Ten years bursting the ago, on the first of October. By They were clear, and in a few Jove, that's to-day ten years ago seconds were speeding down the
creek like an express train. to-day."
The Spindrift her name was," the mizzen. The siri followed
south-east. Lee
and
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS of the boat, which half an hour the gloom, could just make out a
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*I want to marry you.” "How many other women have you said that to? Men are like that one woman to-day, another to morrow.”.
"I am not like that Promise to marry me.”
*I must think it over. Good night."
"May I have one kiss just
time. Perhaps
later."
this Reuter
KIPLING M.S. GOES TO AMERICA
He leaned back and blew out a -Old Lee relieved the girl of the cloud of smoke, and watched it tiller. She seemed reluctant to rise and curl round the swinging hand it over to him."
"Follow that yacht ahead,” she lamp. Surely it was swinging to an andie degree? And then he shouted.
one z noticed, the pitching" and rollins |
*Not And Old Lee, peering through,
ago had been quite steady. The white sail ahead. wind must have increased con- "That's my father's yacht," said siderably to make her toss so, and the girl, noticing his stupefied yet there was no whine through expression. "Came in just after Bombay, Marselles & London.
the rigging, no slatting of the you. Same thing happened ten Straits, Colombo & Bombay.
halyards against the mast 10 years ago; I went ashore, storm Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-
barg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & tumbling of the waves against the came up suddenly, and they had ship's sides. He caught to clear out and leave me. I've Marseilles & London.
sight of the barometer hanging been wandering in the marshes Bombay, Marseilles & London.
opposite and gave a low whistle:ever since, waiting for them to Marseilles, Havre, Londen, Ham-
barg, Antwerp, Rotterdam, & it had fallen at least ten degrees come back. To-night they came since he had tapped it a couple of but I couldn't reach them in time: hours ago!
Lucky, for me you were there!"
Hall
Holl
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And by the way, there is no additional charge for Deck Cabins and. there is of course a San Deck Swimming pool, an Orchestra; and a fine -Laundry.
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First Four Stanzas Of "Mandalay "
London.
The first four stanzas of
Rudyard Kipling's "Mandalay were recently sold at Sotheby's auction rooms in London.
The stove, which had gradually | Old Lee wondered which
A single 'bid of one hundred been dying down as the pressure them was mad and did not dare to pounds was heard. That was
sizzled out together. say anything.
all. There was no other bidder. leaving a silence that accentuated
They were already nearing the The auctioneer looked at his the eariness of the situation.
beacon, and Old Lee intinctively book and announced, "I can say and the manuscript. He jumped up to have a look dged a little from the wind, £210"
shows the process - off outside, and just as he got to his which was still blowing from the which
composition of the ballad, was feet, there was a loud bump that south-east.
Where are they?" shouted the knocked down at this price made the timbers creak, the clat-
It is now revealed that the ter of oars, a light step on the girl suddenly. "You've lost them, deck, and next moment a girls fou old fool! They've turned up! buyer was Mr. Wells, of New
York-Beuter.
face was thrust through the hatchway-
Legio!
"We can't turn yet!" yelled Old
Lee" "We're not clear of the MAN VERSUS BIRD Her eyes were wild, and her beacon yet... face white and steaked with mind. "Damn the beacon! We follow M.P. Beats Pigeons
"Get out of here quick!" she my father's yacht, if it. breaks cried hoarsely. "Don't you know us!" you're dragging! You'll be on that shore in a minute!”
The face disappeared from the hatchway, and Old Lee, thorough- ly scared, stumbled up the com- panion ladder.
And with that the girl launched her whole weight on the tiller and bore it out of Old Lee's hands.
Race For Bet
A race against pigeons wasi won by the arrival at Willen- of Mr. hall, Staffordshire, Geoffrey Mander, M.P.
.
He had bet that he could get |
"Lee-o!" she shouted. Le-or The Pterodactyl swung sharp As his head into the wind, sails fluttering there from the House of Com- emerged into the open, the force like thunder. And still the girl mons ahead of 151 pigeons of the wind seemed to lift his went on shouting madly: "Lee-which were released at the same scalp clean off and fling it far to And Old Lee suddenly jezked
Lee-o! Lee-OP-Lee! Or Lee!" time as he himself started
Travelling by train and car he? himself awake and found it was arrived 52 minutes before the
leeward!
One quick glance in that direc-Joe Winter hailing him from a first pigeon.
tion was enough to tell him that motor-launch, and roaring with the girl was right, the vacht merriment at his plight! would be aground in a trice if he "OT Lee! Or Lee! Are you didn't make things snappy. He awake? Shall Oi tell ee where just caught a glimpse of the the beacon is "Arf a moïle to
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SEARCH FOR PALEOLITHIC CITIZENS OF THE WORLD
RELICS IN ARCTIC
(Continued from Page 8.)
the British delegation going one - further and proposing that the our World-State should adopt the
empty dinghy as it was swept the nor-east, oot tharl You'm An Arctic expedition from the away into the darkness, and had aground, Or Lee, you'm on the Marr Academy, of History, and I have no doubt that. time to feel a chill of horror run putty all roight, but not so 'ard Material Culture has left Soviet citizens of the world would British Divorce, Licensing and up his spine as he thought he en 'thet Oi couldn't give 'ee a tow, Russia for the Kola"Feninsula inmake the second answer. Sunday Laws.
search of monuments of the paleo-Indeed. such is the arrogance lithic period in the Arctic
read the name “Spindrift” paint; off—if you'm so minded!” led on the stern in bold white let-
(The End)
of some of them, I can imagine
"Ciften Of The World" But (unlike them) I am truly a citizen of the world," for I admire the social customs of the Continent: and I would welcome a real World-State, in which world-resources ✨ were truly pooled, so that I could en- joy the best of English and Continental civilisation at once, social and personal as well as political liberty the Paris cafe and German beer garden as well as our beloved Parliament--not to mention such "Continental” oddities as State theatres, Sun- day opera, Ministries of Fine Arts etc.
But I am not going to be had both ways. And this was one of the reasons why I declined to sign the Peace Ballot. I am not going to be a citizen of Europe for purposes of war it I may not enjoy the advantages of a citizen of Europe in peace-
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