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CALCUTTA SNAKE STORIES. PRIME MINISTER ON THE CELIC FULL-GROWN COBRA KILLED BY
MOTOR CAR.
SPIRIT.
The Prime Minister and Judge Parry were the chief guests at the St. David's Day banquet at the Connaught Rooms recently.
A great atir was caused in Wood Street, Calcutta, recently, when the news went round that a full grown cob, measuring over 5 feet in length, had been killed in the open roadway.
The Prime Minister, in reply to the
It appears that the cobra was frat seen toast of his health, said: "I should apologise to you for speaking in English.descending from a enecannt tree in the I had a message from the Press only grounds of one of the houses in Wood five minutes ago begging me that I would Street almost next and was chased by some
sent not speak in Welsh to-night-and I
It managed to escape through [backa word" that though huy English, servante. through long residence in London and an iron fence and the drain in the wall! absence from Worcestershire, was getting forming the street boundary. While tryng a little rusty, I wonki do my best in that to cross the rond the snake was run over tongue. I suppose that when an English by a motor-ear and killed. man comes to dine with you he tries to had some link by which he may explain his presence, and in usking me you have asked one who was born and bred and whose people have lived for a very long time in those border counties where in old days we knew a great dent about
you
Wood Street is one of Calcutta's old. fashioned residential thoroughfares in the European quarter. A few of the house stand in fairly large grounds with thickly planted gardens, many of which would provide excellent harbourage for reptiles. a the inmediate neighborhood are several squares and "tanks" with many a neglected A cobra was also killed in the Mantan yuity recently.
In Shropshire, whence my family miscorner. rated into Worcestershire to get a little farther from the border, there are still to-day, I believe, about one-fifth of alt the castles that exist in England. Why they were crowded into that narrow area I have no idea. And when I do go home and look from my garden, four miles across the valley, is the hill' on which ac cording to tradition. Owen Glendower had bis camp oa I think, the last invasion of our county by the Welsh.
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TWO HALDWINS.
The discovery of the Webd Street cobra says the Englishman, proves that snakes have not been completely exterminated in Caletta despite the fact that the latter has grown into a modern city. It is the belief of many people that these snakes are not strangers, but native to Calcarts. Only two years ago, a servant was intally bitten by kardit in the comp und of the Indian Museum. Were all the stories of narrow But toy fataly has some connection apes collected, they would probably nake with Wales, if you go back far enough. book of many chapters, for not so very" Long, long years ago there were two few people even in a city, have been pro- Baldwins who tossed a coin at some re-ridentially saved from an untimely death mote place on the Continent, and one from snake,hite. Thus a few years ago, s went East where he became King of lady, living very near the Froe Church ia. Jerusalem, and thereby preceded by Wellesley Street, saw what she thought was about one thousand years Sir Herbert a piece of rope lying on the floor in a corner: Samuel and another went West. crossed of her dressing room and actually meant to over, first into England. and then into stoop down and pick it up when she notir d Wales, where his name was softened, as
it more slightly. Just in time she realised y soften everything in Wales, and he it was a trait. Even hoes so ventrally. gave hisnane to what we in England call located as in Mangoe Lane have been knowù
the County of Montgomery,
Another century slipped by and an Archbishop of my name-translated to
to barlar karaits,
** Ditcher" of a older generation encounters many similar adventures. Perhaps the most curions of all was the narrow escape experienced by a clergy- man's wife uishy years ago. Her phaeton used to be kept standing under a tree in a church compound On a Sunday, while returning after service, one of her daughters suddenly exclaimed that snake was wriggling out from under the seat opposite her. With singular pre- sence of mind the lady had the phaeton halted while her daughters were made
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Canterbury from Worcester, went on a pilgrimage into Wales He went with a very specife abject. He knew that the Wel were descut, and he had been told that they made test admiralte foot soldiers, she tried to secure them for the Crusades, and he took with him a eloquent Archishop and a journalist by anie Girolds. I regret to say that how ever pure one's sutives and that ven. tury differed but little from this-there Wem those who said my ancestor, if
Wales may call him so, really went to because he wished, by clebrating ass to get out calmly, and the anake--a karait - so undisturbed by these proceedings at the High Altar ut, each of the four
that it was not sufficiently angered to Welsh Cathedrals, to establish, the sup reinney of Canterbury. I do not know strike. It had probably dropped into the whether that was true, but some of the carriage from the branches of the tree in priests in Wales, thinking it was, did the aburch compound. their best to impede his progress,ljut with no success, and the only part of Wales in which this holy man met with an unfavourable reception, I regret to say. was in the County of Carnarvon. to have been one which had mysteriously
It is a source of infinite regret to medisappeared from the Zoo. that a distinguished member of that part of Wales was unable to be present to night or we might have got to the bottom of this secular trouble.
A NUMMER PILGRIMAGE,
Mr. Baldwin said he was thinking this summer of starting a pilgrmagh himself in a motorar, leaving Bewdley by what was still called the Welsh Gate and guing by way of Ludlow into the wilds of Carnarvoushire to preside over a word of ten letters signifying a national festival to be bell in a little town of eight letters.
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It was strange, indeed, he continued, to look at the border country to-day and to think what it was for so long Severn and Wye a scene of interminable raids. Now there was no more pencelui part of England, and he quoted the woris of the Shropshire poet :
In valleys of springs of rivers,
By my and tee and elun
A country of pleasant liver,
The quietest under the sun.
Perhaps the strangest shake-story of all, though, is the one concerning the appear- ance of a python in a rice godown in the north of Calcutta-alleged by some people
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the first time in history have the Greck the last green. The prize, a silver cup was defeated their conquerors, and, indeed presented to the Princess by Mrs. W. A this country had a very narrow escape in Graham, who congratulated her on her the years unelliates seeding the success --Bangkok Times.
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Maurice Tourneur's magnificent pie-Street of Edinburgh, and not in the days in the life of a working-Prime
Tersion of the Familiar novel, Grassmarket, na stated in the inscrip Blinister when he was able, not without ture, difficulty, to get away from his urgent Lorna Doone" is coming to-morrow totion, which is now to be altered accord- Attention was first called to the mis work and disappear for a short time un- the Queen's Theatre. For years Tourneurogly. seen by his attendants and unknown to has dreamed of filming one tremendous the Press. A little while aga he was spectacle which would enable him to ex- take as the result of a visit to the abies to disappear and found himself periment to his heart's coutent with some House of Commons by 200 boys of the by accident in the studio of a Chelsea original ideas as to the proper methods Rural High School, at Edinburgh last sculptur "where he was shown an exquis of handling crowds. More than eleven summer. When, they were shown the itely beautiful statue of a young shephundred men and women were called for picture of the execution of Montrose, herd. It was the original plaster of the to appear in the brilliant court scenes one of the boys at once insisted that the brazen figure which now stool in and in the baptism scene in Westminster picture. depicted the High Street and muuntain village of Merioneth, the figure Abbey, according to the plans which he not the Grassmarket, and inquiries were of a poet who fell in the war.
drew up, while for the thrilling fight then set on foot, which have now con "When I think of what Wales means scene outside the gate to the strongholdvinced the First Commissioner that the I do not think of your industrial regions," of the Goone fortress he demanded a boy was right and the inscription wrong. continued the Prime Minister.eenuse thousand men and women, buy mind, in Wales as in England, always
WORLD THEATRE.
It is a strange" irony that Sir Walter Scott, who was probably the first to per petrate the error, was himself due at the goes back to the country, and I think of Mise Mabel Ballia is starred in a SimRoyal High School. As a tribute to the that figure as a type of what our rural version B Thackeray's "Vanity Fair, scholar's skill, it has been agreed that ivilisation in these islands can produce.which will be the attraction at the World the present inscription, which is now to Here again is a proof of the truth of the Theatre for 5 days, beginning to-day, be replaced, shall be presented to the
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As a result of the questions which is the additional truth that when he falls travelled. Be courageous while you are he proves that there are in this world upon the earth, for you will not see me have been asked, on the subject during the last few weeks, a report has been some defeats which mean more for any more in this world. civilisation than many victories and What a message for this country just received that the right arm of Montrose
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Mr. Baldwin. Be joyful and keep Yorkshire castle, and the suggestion is He quoted, in conclusion, the words your faith nothing so essential as that raade that it should be recovered, in spoken by Bt: David the last time he to-day-and perform the small things. order that it may be interred in the spoke, to his own people. These were That can be our message to the people of tomb in St. Giles's Cathedral, Edin "Be joyful, and keep your faith and be these islands, and if they would listen burgh. It is said that all trace of the GISLATIVE lieve and perform the mail things which to. it we should have nothing to fear in arm had been lost since it was reported Barrion 1924. you have heard and see with me, and the future and the name of St. David that it had been carried away from the I will go the road which our fathers have would go down the ages blessed by the scene of the execution by ous of Crom-
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