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Ho looks after the and the billards room
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Hving at Ash. about eight miles away. "Then she died," "and I have not troubled about leave since.
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"I have a dry off and go to Brighton or gome such place occasionally, but that is all."
"Chuck" enlisted In 1008, and has seen servico in Gibral- Africa, South tar, Bermuda, France, Belgium, Palestine, In- dia and Egypt.
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The admiral's counsel, Mr, wife. Some of the letters were
without being answered.
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admirers; novertholoss, she's smart all right, they say—and streamlined.
court that it was a storm in a tea-cup. "It was a pity it did not happen 70 years ago, when it could have been dealt with in the domestic forum, by their father, who was a judge," he said.
No
Mr Jusco Cassels, giving judgment, said that in the 1014-
This tanker is no or- 18 war, Mr L. Gaunt served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Re- serve and reached the rank ordinary tub of that ilk. The barrister is Mr Lancelot lieutenant-commander. Evelyn
Gaunt, of Kensington admiral, on the other hand, was her line; too Court, W. His brother is Ad-a "regular" who made the Navy above the rest for that kind miral Sir Guy Gaunt, of Bridle his career. Gate, Hogs Hill-lane, Cobham, Surrey.
The admiral denied that the words bore the meaning ascrib- ed to them or that plaintiff had suffered damage.
The air, oil carrying is not in "DEAR
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that the brothers had a disagree-addressed "Lieutenant-Com-
about personal matters ment some years ago and, by mutual agreement, ceased to have any communication with each other.
Mr C. P.
IN THE NAVY Towards the end of 1948 the admiral started an intermittent correspondence with Mr Gaunt's
mander."
much
4 cut
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of stuff. She hatches down BOER WAR
an exceptionally, hot cargo
asphalt in liquid form.
STYLE
66
GAMIN BAN
Good Weather for Sledding
"A"
-Punch Told Teddy All About Coastingă.
By MAX TRELL
HI, it's sledding weather
again!" Mr Punch claimed as he glanced out of
the
Ox-
window into the garden Filles and the fields and the beyond.
Knarf and Hanld, the Shadows with the turned- about rage, and Teddy the Stuffed Bear, and Whoa the Hobby Horne, and Mr Canary whose care hung right over the window, all gazed out, too,
"It's snowing!" Knart cried. Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, said to Mr Punch: "Mr Punch, sir
"Then he hesitated.
Teddy?" oald "Yes,
Mr Did you say sicät“ Teddy asked Punch. "What's bothering you?"
few more times, (*why" continued Teddy, at length consented to tel! "ald you say it was sledding what happened.
all weather when, as
of us "My first sled," ho begen. it's BDC,
just MIDWY was a Christmas present. weather?"
Was bright red and it had a At this everyone turned and cord in front to pull it up hills. looked at Teddy in surprize. It was just big enough for me But Mr Punch only smiled and t to lle flat on, with my feel said: Teddy, do you know just hanging off the end. Well, what a sled is?"
can
Mr Punch
It
"Well I sort of know," said Oh Teddy, "Sled? Sled?
That's yes! Certainly, I know!
Mr easy! Did you say sled, Punch?"
I had heard all about the fun of aledding down hills. when I went out with sled, I looked all around for a nice big hill to come sledding down on.
So ITLY
"To my surprise and delight
sure
"I did," said Mr Punchi,
Something Elso
I discovered a wonderful big "Sled, sled, sled," he said hill that I was
I had several times. I've got it right never seen before. It was be On the end of my tongue.
1hind the garden, on the other guess I can't think of it just side of the stone wall. It seem
minute," he Anally ad ed to thin
show. mitted. "I must be thinking of sho
# something else."
Mr higher
of
bo made entirely And strangely enough
to appeared be getting
and higher. For the
"A sled, Teddy," said Punch, "is something you ride DOW was a falling and it on over the snow. It has iron all kept falling on top of that runners instead of wheels. You hill.
alide down snowy hillsides on "I reached the top at last, bed I a sled. Most children who live Never in the world
Teddy
#
reached
said Mr Punch,
the bottom
*T
I
in places where it snows, have been so high up. Then I got sleds."
on my new sled, stretched my- on firmly was very pleased to self out flat, held have this explanation of a with my hands, gave myself my toes and sied.
push with "So," continued Mr Punch, away I went!"
window, of the
"Oh!" crled Hanid, "And To lep this strange load fluid
pointing out the. it has to be pumped into
"when the ground is covered what happened?"
snow is "Well," Contentedly farming his with snow, and the thus maintained holds at 270deg. F and the tem
the falling. I, generally say it is was going so fast avhen perature
A drop 130-acre holding in throughout the voyage.
that in- would allow tranquility of the Wiltshire sledding weather." In the temperature
gled Mr Punch it his pipe and stead of stopping, my the asphalt to solidify, which countryside at South Mar-
then sat down in his easy- went right up to the top of an- Then down this hill. He did not think Mr Gaunt wouldn't do Patella any good, 50ston is 70-year-old Bernard chair. "How well I remember other
has been fitted with a
In the my first ride on a sled. I'll second bill I went, and up a ever desired to be addressed by she
quite third.. corsetry of special heating coils J. Collingbourne. any naval rank at all. Yet here would round her hold tanks. Army for nearly 20 years, never forget it. It was no
faster and faster. And was the admiral asking "Has
extraordinary ride. Sometimes when I reached the top of the veteran promoted him- Everywhere there are theme this
of the Boer I don't believe It ever really third hu my sledil kept your husband
meters, to ensure proper watch and 1914-18 wars smilingly happened. But it did" Mr going up up, on temperature.
recalls having married, The Patella was specially built made his will, and left for for asphalt-carrying in 1940. the trenches in France all
in 24 hours, in 1914.
self?"
He thought. Mr Gaunt established his case.
A British Crossword Puzzle
21
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26
ACROSS
3 Blackleg.
7 Heste.
8.Strong inclination.
9 Bondman,
10 Structuro,
12 Go without food.
15 Modify.
18
Soon,
19 Window.
21 Mean dwelling
22 Sent oq..
2243
Substantial
26 Indicates assent.
29 Newly enlisted soldier,
30 Nall.
31 Russion parliament,
32 Moving.
33 Regrets.
124
DOWN:
I Direct.
2 Implous.
Crawl.
Polish.
O Incites. 9 Examine. Images
11
13 Waterless.
14 Lofty
18 Subject.
17 Avoid.
18 Eage
20 Reparation.
22 Killed.
24 Speak
23 COLU
27 Burden
28 Blemish.
14
had
Since then she has been shuttling cargoes of it between Britain, Curacao and New York. "Queens" the Next to the Uner
ships
old
the
the
up-into passed looked around at Knart sky! I
stars. und Hanid and Teddy and the whirled around the moon,
zooming
up and down others. Then he said in a very went solemn voice: ** rode in my among the clouds. And then, sud- sled
up to the sky and down denly, I was caught in a great Of course, there's no gust of wind and came right again!
of my When recently clearing out use telling you the story of my down the chimney
first sled ride. None of you house, Fortunately I landed is one of the best dollar-carning his desk he came across
As I said on a soft carpet. And I was so would believe it. In the British merchant newspaper cuttings of the Boer fleet. Many dollars have been War Aghting which recall
before, I don't quite belleve it tired after my long ride that I myself."
fell fast asleep, still atretched carned for the Treasury by her, him the days when he was a
But everyone in the room out on my sled. And there I for she has been landing 11,000-young cavalry soldier of the Im- Yeomanry in South
when I woke up. .but ton asphalt loads in America on perial
now loudly demanded that Mr was Funch tell the story of his first what bothers me is that pes- sled ride when he rode up to haps I had dreamt the whole the sky and down again. After thing." And Mr Punch smiled shaking his head-end refusing and puffed his pipe.
to
B average one every sixteen Africa waiting, after only six days, except for periodical overweeks of initial training, for the Boer forces of Delarey and hauls in dock at Curcacao,
Kemp to attack their camp at the Transvaal,
Just now she is at Smith's Needwell, in Dock, North Shields, for survey. which resulted in heavy British Her fuel system is being con-losses. There were 2,000 Boers
verted to burn cheap boiler fuels against 700 British. ... -the adaption of Mr John
The cuttings publicly quote Lamb, Monkseaton, the Anglo-
own letter Saxon Petroleum Company's re-his
home to his search chief, which has saved parents describing the hottest
the
company may thousands of two pounds since it was pioneered on the Tyne four years ago.
When the sails again. Patella will be off to Curacao for more of the "hot stuff" cargo which brings in valuable dollars to the Treasury.
A WAND FOR THE MAYOR
EVET EX-
hours he had perienced. Both sides kept up à murderous fire which brought 203 casualties to the Yeomanry in under two hours.
"You can imagine what a hot fire it was on both sides.” young Collingbourne wrote. "The bat- ile began at 4.30 am, when I and Ave others, on mounted patrol only 200 yards from camp, were suddenly met with a hall of bullets from a belt of trees, We wheeled wound and galloped back. The remainder of our Some time in the next few fellows were turning out smart- months the Town Sergeant nfly and getting in extended line the veldt, lying
down on the ground to return
Sandwich, Kent, will go to a centuries-old blackthorn bush Doction on near Richborough Castle, and the Boers' fire. cut
The a long, stout staff. staff, or wand, will be trimmed
"It was a perfect shower of and polished for the Mayor bullets, explosive and soft-nosed. taking office for the ensuing which were being used freely on their side. It was a deluge. As [year,
Early in the 14th Century a T was pulling the raddle off a Sandwich Mayor was murdered, home it received an explosive in and by tradition his successors the stomach. Shortly after this wear a black robe.of mourning my own borse was hit in the
blackthorn wand hind legs. carry a for protection.
and
Holder of ten wands 裰 "Most of us emptied our ban- Lieutenant-Colonel W. V. Pre-dollars of 150 rounds, besides scott-Westear, Mayor from 1035- having more served out to us. 1945 and one of the 18 Barons Some of the men's rifles became of the Cinque Ports since 1997. no hot, that their hands wero
Atter Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott blistered handling them
well-known big the battle there was a scene one to witness again.
MONDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Roused, 7 Seam, Westcar, a Vogue 10 Proxy 11 Lint, 13 Beneficial, 15 Term, 10 Deal, 10 game hunter, keeps them clip never wants Mistrusted, 22 Eyes. 24 Enter, 25 Bunch, 20 Fade, 27 Harrow,ped to the walls alongside the Tho darities were busy all day of Bison and other with their mules dragging dead Down: 2 Organ, 3 Sheaf, 4 Depict, 5 Isolates, 8 Loys, 6 Exile roads
of horses and coldlera out 02 Burma and India.
camp."
12 Timid, 13 Badge, 14 Enlisted, 17 Amend, 18 Starch, 20 animals from the Jungles Umber, 21 Tanto, 23 Year.
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wiches. Hardly has he finished than something moving catches his aye, and glancing down he soca i tiny figure skim through the under growth and disappear. "What on cards was that? It looked like an
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