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KING OF THE CLIFTS THE PRIVATE LIFE OF
Soosnak's neck in this long yellow beak, and pulled him disdainduky. aside. Soosnak screeched; made as though to attack. then sudden-
ly opened his wings, and few off Mewiac saw towards the a
[hermest,
The meal completed, Karak fol-Karak, down lowed in his parent's wake. He specting flotsamEL, screeched a welcome at the cliff see the dark invad edge: But there came no answer- the nest. -
ing call. The familiar ledge, his All his fighting wa birthplace,
deserted. He him at the sight." swung across the face of the clit just in time. calling. He rose above it then sighted for its dr
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AN AUTHOR
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August is essentially the month for patriotic, my-country right-or- wrong booming, and the automa registers an abrupt and, as it nust seen to the tyro, dangerous rise in the tide of human disillu- Įsionment. A
These poems are apt to begin, some what after this manner:
“My heart is like a tender bloom By frosty fingers sipped”“”
ΟΣ
"I sometimes think that all our
hearts are leaves Turned by the autumn wind to
bitter dust." Always, incidentally, aroid freading any poem that starts
sometimes think
And suddenly, Karak under its neck, twisted f stood, Socsoak and Siste had gone upwards Surprised because he was too strong for stinctively soared, thers. They had gone, and he was ably sited Earak's scheme of get
It was his first big victing it away from the nest.
December, on the other hand, High over the cliff edge Karak witnesses a welcome revival of In the months that followed. | flew. The strength and speed of hope, together with an ancestral Karak went north and south along his strange adversary puzzled, but reversion to hunting and drinking that rocky coast, hunting insati-did not frighten him. The eagle songs of a “Yo-Ho, Yo-Bo!" and ably, gathering strength, and wis soon gained height, and dropped with a Tow-Row-Bow! type. dom, and experience. And before Karak wheeled artfully; the long, the farred and feathered talons missed. Up, up, went the animals that were his natural prey eagle. Again a drop, and again a learnt to sense his nearness, and miss. Karak wheeled side-slip- hunting became more difficult. ped, and swing. Once, in pasting tote by no means his most serious
But. Karak did not mind this he scapped his beak-and tasted He was a born hunter. He exalt-blood
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ed in it, in his monarchy of air But the eagle was the stronger he is expected to bestow his time and earth. Once, in the earliest fyer. There came a time when he and the benefit of his advice days of spring, he attacked and dropped plumb on the back of a killed a newly born Ismb. Often
the beak upon any one who tiring Karak the killed wantonly.
could strike, Karak twisted his claim them, whatever their need
may be... He was wheeling one day above head, and fastened on the dark And how diverse is their range 2 cliff topy in the expectation of throat. Maddened with pain, the of necessity, varying from advice sighting & guillemot when a more eagle jerked its head back freupon the proper control of a hot- ment of white in the little sandy ziedly its throat was split, bub-water-bottle in the winter bed to bay far below caught his eye. He bling with blood. There was an opinion upon psychic dancing swang at once to the attack, but strength, though, to strike three or attendance at a seance! long before he reached the objectimes on Karak's skuli tive, he recognised it, în spite of
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In the ordinary way he would have passed it by but its move
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Chaperonage, too, is part of his job, so it appears. Thus only a A shepherd, passing the cliff top-fortnight ago a lady, of whom I in dim evening light, came across had never heard, but who wanted Karak's body. He saw the ugly to write a book which obliged her split in the skull, paused thought-to contemplate spending some ments were so unusual that be
fally, and passed on. Three hun hours every day in the Reading dropped down to watch. It was a
dred yards beyond, he saw a-Boom of the British Museum, te ben bird, whose wings had become other body, that of a great eagle, lephoned to bid me escort her to smeared with the of discharge with its eyes bloodshot, and its its precincts and back every day; from a passing ship.
throat torn out. He looked at it, because, as she phrased it, it was then back at Karak, and exclaim-such a grimy sort of old place” and she did not like to go there old alone.
ed aloud:
"Why - gran” blackback!**
fighting.
At that same moment Mewlac
Lion-Hunters
She cried piteously, and some thing unrecognisable. stirred in Karak at the sound. After a per- plexed contemplation of her he flew off and, "returning in a short while
Then there are the invitations with a freshly killed gillemot, s laid it at her feet. She attacked was returning from some hunting to which the author must submit, account. For she extended to him, not by friends. fit ravenously, for she was desperou her own
new intuitively that Karak, the but by those persons, who con- ate with hunger as well as fear. Monarch, would hunt for her, no tive to remember his existence SAILINGS When she had eaten he approach- ed, and commenced gently to preen ber feathers. Karak had done many foolhardy things in his life,
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The oil was bitters. new ex- perience, perhaps holding death. Yet he did not fear it, for he was
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not made that way. So he con- No. 2479, Private, ELAB tinned preening, pausing occabeiro Corps Infantry Res: Glass sionally to cleanse his beak on the "B" 20:10:35.
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jonly at certain perioda. So, every time a book of his appears, he is sure to receive an invitation from Lady Flintaye, whose house is known to all the world as "the Lions' Corner House, or from soulful persons, who claim to have known him in some tragic pre- vious existence, and are equally determined to prevent him” from enjoying this one....
Worst of all, there are the artistic clubs ran for Ladies; in-
remains of the guillemot The No. 2480, Private, C. I da Rosa. stitutions which exist solely to hen, heartened by his help, renew-Corps Infantry Res: Class "Benable their three hundred mem ed her efforts, and presently she 31.10.35 was able to drag herself to the dry sand at the foot of the cili..
In this strange manner Karak found his mate. A week elapsed before Newlae could use her wings, and even then her efforts were feeble, like those of an untutored fledgling.
(582) P. S. M. WILKINSON. Captain. Adjutant, HKV.D. Corps,
AFFILIATED UNITS Nursing Detachment, HKVDC
LECTURE
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bers to boast "I met Mr. So-and-So at dinner," and, more especially, to provide a meeting place where they may insult at their ease any painter, author or musician whom they have been able to decoy hither as guests.....
And how expert-they become! They waste no time for I remem ber my initial experience of one of these meals. I was placed
Each day Kazak Mondays. brought her nourishment, and jo at The fifth lecture in Home Nurs mights he nestled her so that she ing at PWD. Offices at 5.30 pm might draw his warmth. Then, on Monday, 4th November, 1935. next to a gentle-looking, white- Head Storeman, H.KVD.C., haired old lady with a soft man- when her strength was quite re- stored, he took her hunting, killing will arrange for beds & linen. as ruthlessly as ever, but disdain- ing now to eat until she had taken her fil
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clutch; and during the hatching Nursing Detachment, HK.V.D.C. Kazak was tormented by doubts, impatience, and indecision. He sought relief by slanghtering on a
ner and a slight but genial palsy. She turned to me at once, and said with a sweet, old-fashioned smile: "Do you know, Mr. Sitwell, I believe I've read every one of your books" (a pause, during which I clamped across my face la mask of sickly, expectant plea- sure appropriate to the coming compliment) "and I don't like a single one of them!"
grind scale, bet Mewise would eat The Weather During October
little.
She was chary, too, of surrendering the eggs to him, so that for most of this serious time the was condemned to
the cliff top, looking down on and wondering. when ever, the hand of destin
ngth the young
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