A
1937
THE WORLD GOES BY
letter of application to a local furnish you with satisfactory testi- monials for my character, as well school:
as can provide you with perfect
faithfulness. Gentleman, In answer to your guarantees for my dvertisement in the of to-day, 1 I believe that I may have the am glad to take the liberty or honour of hearing from you in re-
ply.... proffering myself
situation in your the vacant
school-bearing
the burden either of class eight, or class seven only.
I had received good, sound and a long effective education for period of about seven years, partly Government well-known from School, and partly from the "Old Lady of Hollywood Road"—that is, has been Queen's College, which pouring its glorious, brilliant and scorching light on the divine Far Fast, and from which plently of the learned and perceptive disciples were fostered with best results. Owing to my friend's introduction I spent for several months my hun- drum teacher's life at a private preparatory school in Canton-a renowned and cosmopolitan city in South China. In the meantime, one of relations asked me to give hin my infinence and to work as a ship's checker on the "Empress
nada” heroine of the myster
BY: "ULYSSES"
of
ous, sterile, gloomy, endless and shelterless Pacific Ocean-during the 67th and 68th voyages, sailing from Hong Kong to Vancouver and returning from the latter to the former. With the approach of Sum- mer, the weather that was at its hottest, withered all the freshness of youth, and presented various kinds of dreadful, hazardous and irresistable malady to the living animals-male or female, old or: young, strong or weak: Overcome by the cruelty of the loathsome, burning and suffocating heat, 1 un- fortunately attained, an accidental and painful a
m tranquil Manila-a mmercial port in the Philippine Islands and was ulti- mately forced to put a disinclining cessation into my work, and take profound repose at home.
If you are filled with pleasure to have me as an assistant in your school, I shall in all respects ren- and der myself generally useful shall undoubtedly be able to fukill the duties which are assigned to me. With great ambition and active ability I make up my mind to obtain an extraordinary, gigantic and un- failing reputation for the advance- ment of your school, causing it "one of the most famous Engli schools in Hong Kong" magni ficent and lovable island lying the limited mouth of the restless Pearl River. At the same time I
Some reflections on reading foot- ball notes in the sports columns bewailing the deterioration in sportsmanship—
1 wonder why
It seems so difficult to play This football game from day to
day
Without there being an affray? We shake our heads, and sadly
say
"I wonder why....
er when The game will show its natu
true
Without one little scrap (or two) Whose happening all our play-
ers rue,
All so discreditable, too:
wonder when
i wonder h
To teach our sense
Will give our referees the tip Sternly to check the littlest slip And use their whistle as whip To castigate bad sportmanship
I wonder who
wonder where
We'll see a gan in half this
land
wilder players of the old tradition grand
To check themselves when a game
gets tense
And not to look for an offence Now or a hundred years from
hence!
I wonder how.
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