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THE CHIKA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1935
THE SINGING SEALS
first cough, of the bull [Continued from Paže 3) eyes at the first throw: Red they that we were a dry ship. were, and the green fire slipping said meaningly. off his head and fippers».
"Ah, Ben," said Riorden, white light from the torch looked not one drop that I've had in me mean and stupid after the beauty since this voyage began, and you lof it.
know The very throat of me's
it's
"Ah, take the light of the Dean- crying for it now. Leave me be ties," said Riorden, "why would to my three beautiful ones and go įyou be after disturbing them then, below. ll keep your watch and fand they the loveliest things, the my.oWL”
We'd seen all the patterns we God made. Leave them then Ber; there's more mystery in them than wanted then, Ben and L The souls
were there and likely to be there) you'll ever knoše.”
all the dark night. We went be-j Row
He was a queer man, Riarden. A fisherman once, from the little!
It must have been a full hour. islands outside Galway. He'd done later that we gybed. The boom: ilots of things after, but his father knew the sea folk, and Riorden half are over with a crash to port, and fetched up against the wea- believed himself. He was queerer ther summer with a smash like a than ever that trip, for we should falling mast I was out of my 't have been where we were--berth on the crash, but Ben was the Diamond Coast-and where we quicker, he was on the deck be had been was not any man's busi-
More me ness except our own, and perhaps that of the diamond police
"Christ,” he said, “what the hell {are you............”
litself.
Ben hailed at once: "Riorden
ter.
700
There was no answer. We both
Ninety days of constant hie- coughing are weakening Irene Laura, zgod 21, as Boston City hospital doctors rainly try to halt the malady by administering an- esthetics to relax ber contracted throat · itsscles.
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OPEN LETTER TO Aug 7 Aug. 9 Aug. 11 Aug. 13 Aug. 25
MR. G. DUNCAN
From the night we had set out
But there wasn't anybody there Riorden hadn't been More than ito .shout at The cockpit was half himself. All fancies and empty, and wheel was in charge of
the work queer dreams, though we'd been doing was practicalį enough, God knows, to spill the
"Continued from-Page_2) - farcies out of any man's mind.
Ben took the light off the big stepped to the edge of the coun- ball Somehow he'd looked naked
Then, long before that kaleidos The seals were still there, Land angry under the glare of it,
cope closes you will-in i»agina- swimming. and Riordea stretched, out a hand
"Riorden", Ben sang out again, tion at least re-live the joyous and put it down on the lid of the
and then, before even he could hours when "wee Tonald" would **Here
entertaining 2. few locker beside the wheel.
catch his breath be croaked out, insist
friends at his residence in "the they come again, the three won- derful things," he said to himself. The third seal...."
There I looked down.
were terrace," and you would drop in half singing, almost, "spinning the
was for a dram with large-hearted green fire. Ben lad, if ye hear the three all right-only one
agh, and that neighbour of yours.. singing of them the sorrow will be orden, and he was brighter than "Wallie" Stewart, the Irish Men in the soul of you, and it's hard the other two by quite a bit
Ben dived on the word seal, and Jack-who left Hong Kong and pat to it you'll be to keep from the
My father forted back to me almost from Kowloon after many years and found hospitality (and eternal company of them. heard their singing.. ah, but the water. it's the beautiful sound.”
"Three," said Ben, three, my grandmother. It's a bull seal and his mate."
"You've no heart, Ben, no heart
in the body of you. And no eyes Three-there are in your head. three of them, lacing the water with green, and making patterns that the heavens could not make though they flagged the milky way to a rag.":
: are
"Two," said Ben, a bull sesi
sit and his mate, and the coming, watch them now."
Never The fish were coming. have I seen them come like that. A shoal going through phosphore- scence makes a fight of Es own always, but this shoal came with
glory underneath it.
It took us most of an hour be-rest) in the highlands of Raguio. fore we got Riorden breathing A musical soul, and genial even
As again, and the first thing he said in the hour of adversity.
and he was still unconscious man gifted with an artistic soul you have revealed this then as I think it was "Ah, the-and
#
singing- -- - Afterwards be said: often enough when the prepara- Oh, the three lovely things....nons for the St. Andrew's ball, at and Ben said nothing.
[THE END]
the old City Hall, demanded from you décorations emblematic of Scotia, of "the brown heather and the shaggy wood"-you had 蟲 good deal in common with "dear
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The following officers were docks), David Harvey, Bob Lap- the cloud of the light, rolling and
sley) Wullie Russell, Russell (the swaying a little at the edges, like elected:
Governiment surveyor-now re and Organiser la prol of poison gas on a still day l・ President seen from an aeroplme. Perhaps Madame Lottie Gordon; Acting turning to his old love m the [Orient), F. Hall, Geo R. Edwards it was more like a balloon, not pro-Secretary, Miss Dorothy Baven; perly blown out, and moving along Acting Assistant Secretary, Mr with the fine tenor voice), Jack Tully, Battey, W. C. Jack, Gaalty) feebly, but always with the edges T. Lo: Acting Treasurers, Mr David and John Gow, Tom Petrie, S. Moore and Miss Winifred Charlie Walkes, Tony Milroy, Dar- round and nest.
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A corrascating microcosm, this INWARD SERVICE 23 sparks explode when they tip Aires and Master Theo Aires a penalty for 32 drinks.
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TROLLUS a Sewing Circle, on each Tues quired pretensions and assumed drops suddenly in the darkness.
The cloud of the shoal had been day at 5 pm, to assist the expansiveness, you were
a very Thurs, 19th Dec one colour before softly bright. Eritish Red Cross Society of active member of the tennis court.
smooth, nestedged agzinst the London.
your way-and Intending members are asked dark of the water. Now it
dock colleague. It was was all hard, jagged ashes, little to communicate with Madame afterwards a plot of ground was spurts of light, streaks of startled Lottie Gordon. No. 14, Hart conceded to the Bowling Club, and Thurs, 2nd Jan. 5sh, every one separate, every one Avenue, Kowloon, or the Misses a court sprang into being
1936. for himself, just as human friend-Raven, The Bungalow, North
ships break up under a sudden Point. stresa
It was beautiful, and it' was also terrible.
Honours Your
Those were days when friends were made and retained Changes. At Docks (Continued from Next Colums There will pass before your mind's eye the myriad changes at The seals smelt the fish at the same time or perhaps they heard are less fortunate) you rendered the docks. The minor tragedies them. They came forward under service when it was needed esile the cruel disappointments. four quarters, one on each side, and men bad the gift, and the person: Another George on the other side 6th Jan the green fire was brighter now ality. God endowed you with the of the harbour stood for years in than when they were playing, former. The community will be the latter category. Promotion brighter far
grateful to you for all that you came with leaden feet. He wait "Arrh, my beauties, in, in, in, so willingly tended to make his-ed-and died-Silas never hesitat- called Riorden, getting to his feet toric occasions glamorous and ed. He derided the ledgers, and la, la, la in Break them up... eventful. Hong Kong has enrich set out to carre This own destin 20th Dec. Fri Thara. 2nd Jan.
"Seris," said Ben, "ust as Ted your board of memories. You in India: A dreadful handicap in said, going fishing....
have opulence. I remember at (those" "days, was that of birth-- Sat 7th Dec “Ah, Ben," said Riorden, and the City Hall when Auchterbeing born a Hong Kong bor,"
nothing more, but Ben was quiet machty-but there Tues, 10th Dec for a while
The seals broke zurface San 8th Dec
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