↑ [THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1958.
THE OPEN-AIR PAGE
I tried so hard
to be a hero-on
the village green
I HAD an experience a few days ago which, however hard I try, I shall not be allowed to forget. It was the away match with our nearest and deadliest rivals, whose village ground has undone many visitors before us.
On one slide the ground slopes away smartly front the wicket into the middle distance, so that there is virtually no boundary. On the other, just where the square-leg umpire alands, there is mour and especially beautiful oats.
enor-
Despite these hazards, when I went in as last man we wanted only 14 to win and this number was immediately reduced; for the
village policeman, butting at the olher end, hit a ball hard and
true down the hill.
by J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P.
men flutig the ball Into the wicketkeeper's hands.
double figures even against over. arm bowling.
Then in 1938 went to live In a village which I heard went
The ball had rebounded off in for hunting, tugs-of-war, and The trunk into the wicket cricket, keeper's handa.
After the match the victorious captain apologized for my bad
luck,
I could normally have expected to kill the umpire and get at least one perfectly safe run in the ensuing panic.
IT STARTED AS A JOKE
NOW IT'S A FEUD
The following year, Bucks
on
́Pago · 17′′
This your, Bucks decided in League championship. But by were again pulled into the favour of hosing the Oxon side then it was too late to tannsfer
rundary and, protesting that of the bank to make it slippery.
my mortgage. Oxen had used a bulldozer their side of the river to ensure
Thip plan was successful, All the same, with a batting and what began as a joke has average of 4.7.1 have had a a downhill pull, issued a further
now developed into a bloed wonderful season this year- challenge,
fend which will continue until until I hit that oak tree. Doomsday.
The idea of hunting did not The next year, just when appeal, but I was told that Ducks were about to triumph, members of the hunt invariably Oxon dropped the rope so that
With a shot like that, he said. "Thank you" when you Bucks sat down heavily and were
up a sale for them, that loo shaken to recover.
spent most of the day looking for their hounds and that, while they werc engaged the fox hid among the spectators.
AN AGREEMENT How was I to know that the wretched man had nipped be
hind the oak?
DO
The truth furned out, lo be that the Aun! Invariably brought its own fox to the meet ir. a sack,
But I was not consoled.
The fox sometimes avoided Indeed, the whole incident has turn. I spoiled what would otherwise copture, so that the result of a the pitch at the have been my most memorable the local fox population by one. day's hunting was to increase cricket season in 28 years, allow-
It WAA looked up policeman,
Now my
Unhappily, alter we had run alve, I had to kneel down on the pitch and by the time I had got my breath back there was only time to run three more befor: would have had another four face. I sald, under my breath. the last of a relay of seven flelds- off that hit.
JIM
The policeman
1 bluck look.
gave me But for
me, he
WEEKEND Friell
SCARBOROUGH
HUGHI
MATTHEW
"The situation is flexible but I am convinced there will be no war between my two chinas.“
"If only we knew what was going on up there,
QUEMOY
cherie!"
TALKS ON
PREVENTION
OF SURPRISE
"But you're not surprised, Generalissimo, are you?"
SURGER HOURS
"I want a bottle of castor oil, doctor, and will you hypnotise me so I don't taste it?"
"bio danosít."
I'll wipe that look off your
Taking it steadily, and in spite
breathlessness. I dielded we could get those
the for the fact that in 28 years Mere often, by the end of the I have hardly played any cricket day, it had been caught, popped back into the sock and returned at all.
there
to store in the same van as the hounds.
Here, it seemed was the right place for me until I found that the village cricket team was to
Before that the only mishap I had was, when going for a high one in the out-field. I tripped over courting couple concealed "good that it had just won the in the long gross.
PARADE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
THIS WORLD: Two young pair
of scissors, He was in girls from Lausanne, Switzer- hospital for a week. land. holidaying by car in In a Paris court, the judge told
lift to a hitch-
Madame Soruto: 3 weeping Frence, gave a biker near the Swiss frontier. "Don't worry. It is not a serious
He told them he had just affair. Your honour is not affect been released from prison and ed, You wounded your husband, had no money.
but he deserved It,"
At Lyons, the driver passed
Ho diamissed the chargo
OPERATION
Three officem, with 80 men and 12 Land Rovers, plan to spend a week hunting llons,
CHIVALRY James C. mend his rede of court
LION-HUNT:
SCORNED: Hamm, trying to tottering martloge, the divorce horse,
to up
on
a while
日 shiold with the
white
device: "Sir Lancelot's love
charger Gwenlvere, you."
Gwenivero was his pet-nama
ing days, for Mrs Hamm in their court-
A Just long-hop to leg
True, I did once appear in a
a red frame light, A polleeman assault. But Georges was not carrying came down and 1 hit it such am of broadcasters against
whistled. The car stopped. The so forgiving. He announced le #crack that the echo at once the full might of Somerset, for
The tug-of-war had begun as policeman wrote out a sum- would sue for divorce, came back of the surrounding Johnnie Lawrence's benefit, and
a joka on Coronation Day when | mons, actually scored one run but someone in this Buckingham- hills.
A few hundred yards further agreement that shire wns an everyone on our side, should be instead of roasting an ox dropped. Ho thanked the girls village suggested that, on the hitch-hiker asked to be allowed to break his duck and, twould be more fun to celebrate for the lift, and said, "I can while I was in, the umpire got a
make not pay you, but I can you a present this."
And he honded the girls the policeman's notebook contain
the particulars of their Ing traffic offence,
six remaining runs there and
then.
Shoulders rounded and head down, sel off up the pilch,
sore throat shouting "Norball," pulling representatives of the
THE TRUTH.....
I also appeared once or twice But the policeman stayed for the Lords, and Commons where he was, bellowing Blue when, for purposes of pairing, bull and pointing over my it was necessary to balarice the shoulder,
Tories in the team with an equal number of Socialista.
Unfortunately, the
My smashing hit had not produced
echo after all.
nn
1955
adjacent Oxfordshire village across the county boundary.
As the county boundary was the River Thame, Buckingham shire would have the pleasur: vt pulling their rivals no merely across the boundary but into it as well.
But it happened that Burks,
"I was sent to prison for hitch- pick-pockcling" the hiker explained as he walked off.
not Oxon, got itself pulled MARCH OF PROGRES5-1: scientists, searching into the boundary and at once, Russian
been for the secret of eternal ute. The noise I heard was when General Election put paid oven protesting that Oxon had It struck the oak; and now I to that, for il produced a number wearing halls in its boots, Issued have grafted the head of & heard another noise of trium- of new, young members who a, challenge for the following phant appeal.
were fully capable of making year.
FLAT-DWELLERS FROM FAIRYLAND
Do you believe in fairies? It's a serious question deserving a serious answer-at any rate it's a question that would be taken seriously by many people. More people than you might think. People who believe they have actually met fairies.
Delegates at a recent meeting of scientists in Glasgow, Scotland,
mongrel pup to the neck of a full-grown siantian dog.
Jubilantly, Tass reports: "The dog with the now head fecia well, Both heads react to out- side irritation and both accept food The experiment is a
Success,"
MARCH OF PROGRESS—2: Twenty painted aborigine witch. doctors completed a medical course this week and were given boxes of quinine pills.
"Try these first if your peo-
fall,
charms and
SURPRISE IN STORE!- A burglar alarm on sale here starts a siren, rings a belt, hoots
pic fail ili," they were told, "If they
potions,"
a hooler, telephones the police,
heard of the existence of many such people, some of whose stories have and releases a lear-gas bomb, proved quite mystifying to investigators.
From time immemorial, fulrics have generally been us- sociated in the popular fancy with the countryside, forests, woodland dells, mountains, por-- ,toral arena.
two ille
Lately, however, people belonging to the realm of the supernatürgi have been reported as occupants of a flat An the fashionable quarter, of a capital city,
The city is Edinburgh. The fat is the home of a lady whose account of the mankesta- tions of the two little people has so impressed a keen in- vestigator of psychic pheno- menon that he has gone
By.
A. Carney
UNWISE CHOICE: It was Eve a.m, when Georges Soruto returned home from a celebra- tion.
hls There to greet him was wife, Janine. Bravely, Georges began to serenade her
indicating that some fairies or evilly disposed towards mortals; alories in which fairies behave Ilke malevolem! poltergeists, ruining the handiwork of men,
might have ended with bringing disorder into the homes hangover and apologies had of tidy housewives, and even he not chosen to sing an aria abducting children.
from Verdi's Rigoletto-Le
All
much
The lady In the Edinburgh flat | Donni C Mobile (Woman is. La seemingly lucky, in that she Fickle). there have been innumerable has been singled out for al- Thai
for 100 Was tales concerning talrics.
In tention by two little people of Madame Soruto. She wounded. many of these, tales of the the benevolent sort.
Georges in the shoulder, with a supernatural the elan creatures Do you believe in fairies? Involved have been represented If so, you will find support for us friendly to mortals, bringing your belief among quite learned them good fortune, or assisting
the
the
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then in everyday tasks such as people, even among professional
sowing of seeds, the cul- men, tivation of crops and their tar sceptical, and prefer to regard But perhaps, like me, you are carrying-out vesting, the
of fatrics as figments of record as stating that "the cir household chores, and so on.
Their true domain is also re- imagination, designed to enter- cumstances appear genuine."
presented as being a paradise tain the young. One of the 'itiile people in which the chief Pastimes been described DS 4 seem to be dancing and feasting. gnome, only about twelve Inches Even in this modern age of high, of youthful aspres, pale- scientific wonders, there are complexioned, and with bright parts of the civilised world blue eyes. His dress consists of where peasant-folk leave food a miniature brown jerkin, red out for the fairies (minus sali, pantaloons, and pointed brown which the supernatural crea- boats. His disposition
lures are supposed to delest). amusingly mischievous and play and often the Arst drops of ful, but not in any way harm- milk from a cow are allowed ful. It seems that, intermit- to fall to the ground becauso tenlly, he has made the dat his the fairles are reputed to be home over a very long period, especially fond of that nourich- He delights in shirting things Ing beverage. around with his tiny hands, and On the other hand, folkloro
in sportive mood he sometimes contains a proportion of stories takes a delight in pleking up, the reading-glares of the lady who owas the apartment, and hiding"
them.
the
Ho usually perches on chair in which she happens to be sitting and, though he seldom speaks, she has heard him, ulter her namo on occasion. Sho has also been given to understand that he will always look after her."
The other manifestation is a fairy
tao more-or-less accepted sense of the term, apparently of the : feminino order, though she never reveals
distinctly herself as
да tho -g0qme.. She first mado her presence known to the lady of tic flat as a bright, glowing. light. When the coines, she seems to radiale, en ‘atmosphere of unmistakablo‘happipers,
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