By BUD FISHER
AHEM! MRS. SCHMALZ -WHY
NOT TRY ME?
HEY I DIDN'T
SAY NOTHIN'!
UNCHANGING MORE PRECIOUS
WORLD
(Continued from Page 2)
eye now.
ner mechanical. Jessica and he clung more desperately than ever to each other when they met.
Granny's penetrative watched him more closely She was a shrewd old and there was something Relfie that made her afraid.
THAN GOLD
Next to me at the bank coun-1this country has a place of honour ter a man paused for a moment in men's and in women's minds. in his stowing away of notes and woman,
about loose change.
"The great ambition of every Austra- vaguely He held up a florin between Australian-well, every
finger and thumb; read out the lian I know-is to go Home. They "Drat the boy!" she muttered:|lettering on its face' "Georgius save for years for it," she said. but it was a protest against cir-VI D: G: Br. Omn; Rex. Fid: Miss Watson drives thousands cumstance rather than against Def: Ind, Imp."
of miles to homesteads which are Then he remarked to the cash-practically self-contained worlds There came that Sunday after-ier: "Say, reckon you Britishers of their own. The farm provides noon when Granny found herself should get a kick out of handling meat, vegetables, fruit. Each little alone in the house. Edith Duncan these even when you're just pay-bread, and weaves stuff for
colony makes its own butter and its had gone to the village on some ing them out."
clothes. matter connected with the chapel
And some make hats, she attended. Granny had seen Reminders in copper or silver too, from raffia. Relf go into the tool-shed at the that the British Empire exists far-end of the garden. She was
that's how our coins im-
him.
glad that he was within call, for pressed that American. But we Granny's pains were beginning to are used to them. give her a twinge or two again.
TIES STRENGTHENED
You'd think that, way back in places so cut off as these
from
Most of us don't pay any more outside news and views, far-of She went to her room to fetch attention to the inscription on the England would be forgotten.
her drops. But when she opened the black box, though her sover- eigns were still inside, the bottle was gone.
to
By Enid Corrall
A dreadful thought came Granny then: an intuition that face than we do to the statement sent chill through her old "One Penny," or whatever it hap frame.
a
But from what Miss Watson said, these voluntary exiles seem to know more about this country than about their nearest city, to which some of them have never been.
told
This was one story she pens to be, on the "tail" of a coin. me: A farmer from Victoria had And yet "Britt: Omn: Rex. made the journey to. Sydney for With a remarkable agility and Ind. Imp." When you turn those the first time in his life. with the aid of her sticks, she words loose in your mind for a The American Fleet was in. He hobbled out of the back-door, minute or two they become im- was shown over the ships down the garden path, still hug-pressive--like a salute of guns. ging the black box to her.
She rapped urgently with one of her sticks on the little door.
"Relfie! Relfie!"
and
admired them enormously.
When he got home the "locals": collected to hear what he'd done and seen and heard.
EVERY COIN A LINK Then you can see, as did that American, every halfpenny and every half-crown as a link in a "The American men-o'-war had She was aware of sudden agita- chain, which stretches across seas just steamed into the harbour," tion inside; of tense whispers, and and Continents. But the chain is he said. "There they lay, then the sound of a shattering not of metal-it is more valuable finest fleet in the world. glass. She hammered again quite than any metal mined.
The rest of his sentence peter- frenziedly.
At tea time the same day the ed out. Every man in the au- Eventually, Relf edged the door American's comment of the morn-dience had leapt up and was sing- open an inch or two, and peered, ing was brought back to me by ing "Rule, Britannia" at the top white-faced, out at her. He look- someone who said:
of his voice.
ed extremely sheepish. A gir. "I wonder if you people over
began to sob, as though action.
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from re-here are as interested in the Co- lonies as we are in you-and if Granny, with a prodigious you realise how interested we are effort,, wrenched the door open, in you." and passed inside. The girl was It was an Australian tea-party Maj-Gen, Sir Walter Maxwell Jessica.
I was almost the only person in Scott and Father Alfonso Zulueta, Instantly, Relf made an attempt the room who had not been to, or Roman Catholic chaplain at Ox- to conceal something behind his lived in, Australia. The hostesses ford, who are visiting Madrid as back, but it slipped from his ner-were officials of the Society. for representatives of Cardinal Hinsl- vous fingers, to join the other the Oversea Settlement of British ey, Archbishop of Westminster, .glass fragments on the floor. A Women.
and British Catholics, were re-
bit of bottle labelled "Poison" What was the answer to the ceived by Cardinal Goma, Primate winked wickedly up at Granny, question I'd just been asked, I of Spain.
of
"Young idjits!" growled Granny, wondered, in intervals of listen- They brought a quantity considerably shaken. This was the ing to the experiences of a Scot-vessels and vestments provided. sort of thing you read about in tish girl who had been to Austra-in Britain for Spanish churches the newspapers. "Young Couple's lia under the Oversea Settlement devastated in the war. Suicide Pact." That's what the scheme.
Cardinal Goma was visited in
thick type told when it happened. THE PLACE OF HONOUR the nursing home in which he is "Young idjits!" She raged at We are interested in our Colon-lying seriously ill. He sent his them, "Who d'you think you be-ics and Dominions, of course. But blessing to all British Catholics Romeco an' Julie'?" Granny had are we interested actively enough "in this hour of trouble." always been proud of the fact that to keep the ties between us A 17th-century crucifix, a per- she was not without a bit of strong? Do we know as much sonal gift from Cardinal Hinsley "littery" knowledge.
about the conditions of their lives to Cardinal Goma, was handed at Oh, but it was dreadful that as they know about ours?
the British Embassy to the De- desperation should drive young They know a lot about us. The puty Bishop of Toledo. lovers to such things! A heritage Vice-president of the Country- A garden party in honour of of hope was meant to be youth's, women's Association of Victoria, the delegation was held at the not-not this. How much more Miss R. Watson, whose job keeps Embassy, vital were their desires than hers her in touch with people living in how more poignantly sharpene owns and villages and "back
woods," told me that everywhere!
were their fears),
GERMAN COLONY IN
THE COTSWOLDS
Impulsively, Granny thrust th black box into Relf's hands. The trepidation of youth, and the
A petition signed by residents 'courage of age!
When you tell your mother over in the neighbourhood of Ashton "Here! Get you off with you to tea that you be going away, don't Keynes, Wiltshire; for presentation that big chance o' yours and let her talk ye down like you to the Home Secretary, Sir John| take the gel with you. You deallus have done. She'll say you be Anderson, protests against the need to be married to a young a bad son and that things bain't freedom allowed to the German body what 'ull look after you, what they were when she were a members of the Cotswold Bruder- young man, that you do!!! - Įgel, un' all the rest of the jabber.hof; a Christian society.
of
In
She hunched there in the doof-But you stick up for yourself, Mr. Arnold Mason, one of the way irresolutely for a moment mind now," uma peresponsible British members
So much for me coffin" money!" She grunted. "Aye, things bain't the Bruderhof, told me to-day she was telling herself Ironically. what 'em were," Granny mutter-that the number of Germans Then, exasperated by the tearted ruminutively; and then she the colony was 70, of whom 36) she found welling to her eyes and added ungrammatically, though were men. by the fact that she was really out of the wisdom of her 86 years. "We went to the Home Office," he j very fond of the boy: "An' now "But then; they never was." added, "and were told that they be goin' in to toast a pikelet for Taking a firm hold upon her knew all about us even before we two sticks, she began shuffling came to England. We were guar- She turned, on an afterthought: back up the path again, clicking anteed asylum because we were There's summat else, young feller.her tongue as she went.
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