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"Happy New Year, everybody!"
embroidered on it (the hand, not Strange things happen while we That seems to me a very approT. I take it, meant “ Tired,” for he waits (Whom God Preserve) tells the arm) in battonhole stitch. The are asleep. George P. Bottleth- priate way of introducing myself. showed no sign of interest in theme that the other night a solitary Many of you know me quite well, housebreaking operations. It is one dust-cart might have been seen but have never suspected me cap of the oldest bu..dings in the wending its way through the streets able of contributing to the Press. and I decided to make some inquiry of the Sanitary Department and a Colony which is being pulled down, of Kowloon accompanied by coolies That is because of my innate as to what was going to be put in woman. It was one of the new modesty. Because I don't go about its pizce. One man told me that a flaunting a waistcoat bristling with factory for making holes in tin whistles was to be erected on the pencils and fountain-pens, that is site. Another suggested a workshop not to say I cannot wield spch im for putting spots on wooden horses plements. I have even written suspected, were in the nature of was going up These reporta, I poetry in my time. There is at least facetious rather than informative one man in the Colony who read observations, and I decided to pro- some of my poetic fights of inney cute inquiries in quarters which twenty odd years ago.
should be better informed. [Whether
he will welcome the prospect of reading more is another matter.- ED. That will start some people guessing! But, as I say, I am a medest person not given to talking
or writing about myself, though
do like to talk and write about other people.
-Oi
Dropping into Dinty Moore's bocktail factory last Monday to borrow a look into his mirror to see it the marcel-wave in my whiskers needed reviving, I met an old friend who told me that the Editor of the Daily Press was suffering from writer's cramp in the knees. Not having ever heard of such a strange complaint (or should I say never having heard 1) I decided
hygienic electric dust-vans on its way to a tryst What an effective accompaniment to the friendly silences of the moon and the preg nant panting of the night!
he drilled through his sock with a "Land-ho! 'as the coolie said when fruit knife-(ADVT).
Mon," aid Mr. Baxter to me on the Ferry. yesterday, "it's no' true that the bell of St. Andrew's Kirk rings wi'a haggis accent- there's age bell tae the kirk!"
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Veronica sent me chasing all over
is happening! I suggested that book. What does she need a cookery possibly a fireproof repository for book for 7 She can always read the overdrafts was being erected No directions on the tint response! A garage and rest-house
A happy New Year,
for the rickshaw and runners of ex- To a Young Lady.. change-brokers No response! The terminal station for the proposed Calais-Hong Kong railway No response. To these and other sug- gestions I could get neither confirm. ation nor denial. Why this secrecy
this strange reticento I with. people would realise that unless we journalists (how nice. is to writo
to make inquiries, and, sure enough,"we"!) get what we call the the Great Man was in distress. It" dope, we cannot write copy appears he went out the previous and we cannot ask the Editor for day, to look at some waterworks, a cheque! And without a cheque, never dreaming that he would have not even the most amiable of bank. to climb thousands of feet on to ers will push a bundle of notes mountain ranges and walk hundreds across the counter at least, it has of miles along paths skirting the never happened to me. edges of dangerous precipices and yawning chase. All invitationa to, the Press go to the Editor, who picks out those which look most at tractive and gives the others to the editorial staff. As there was a free lunch attached to this waterworks inspection, the Editor naturally accepted the invitation for himself. Had he kuon what had to be done to earn tha, lunch-well, I should not be writing these lines.
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It was because I called to express sympathy that in the course of con- versation the Editor asked me why I did not make use of my leisure time by giving him a few para grapha every week on things in general. Modesty forbids me men- tioning all the nice things the Editor said about me-fold and respected resident," "hardy pioneer of Empire," "one of the Colony's most treasured possessions," and so Modesty, I repeat, forbids me
on,
Mr. George Bottlethwaite (Whom God Preserve) tells me that he went to the dance given by the ship's company of EMS. Titania at Lane, Crawford's on Tuesday evening. Bottlethwaite is getting too old for high jinks I told him as much, but he maintained that no body who was not actually on cratches could resist the enthusiasm of the Navy on such occasions.
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naturally begins to think about With the coming of spring one summer, and that in turn makes one think of swimming. I see the A.A. is hoping to have a nice little bath (Thirty Tin Tickets for $55 can be Brounds. 10 Bedrooms, Hot and ing-place over Cattle Peak way all to itself, and I hope to be among the first to plunge in, and break the ice there. One thing bothers me, though, and that is what to do with the beastly prickly nickel-plated badge when I go into the water. Must I wear it dangling round my neck, suspended on a string, or have it lashed round any bald head like a tiara? We don't want a lot. of rough-necks from Repulse Bay bobbing about in our water, or pro- menading on our beach. We want to be exclusive out at Castle Penk when we go bathing. Moreover, there should be some way of dis Something ought to be done about tinguishing A.A. members who own these eggs on sale in the Chinese Rolls-Royces and those who have quarter. It is time for the whole Fords. We shall all look alike in Egg question to be, overhealed. I the water unless some sort of rulo tapped an egg on a stall with ais enforced whereby one can tell stick, and the confounded thing, ex who's who. It also should be pos ploded and ruined my best hat. sible to tell at a glance whether The Government should appoint a the bathing-motorist (or motoring- strong active man of experience in bather), has really bought his car public affaire to take charge and to or is one of the pay-as-you-ride men. investigate the scandal of the stale When we see each other on the road. egg. This man should be given we know all these things, but in the tinguish the really nice persons sea it won't be so easy to dis
from those people." I trust these important matters will be given due swimming season commences. consideration by the AA before the
to mention these complimentary repowers almost dictatorial. I can ferences to my unworthy self, but think of nobody more it for the
in the end I consented to contribute job than Mr. G. B. Sayer.
a few lines, and that explains how it comes about that I am writing and (I hope) you will be reading
these notes.
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Ferry the other morning in close I noticed Mrs Portly on the
conversation with old Colonel Chillipep. Dame Rumour has been On leaving the August Presence very busy in that quarter of late I kowtowed respectfully three times and I should not be surprised to see and then started in search of what an announcement of the forthcom we journaliste call copy." (What ing marriage between the Colonel you call it, dear reader, I-fortu and the good lady appear in the nately perhaps shall not be able to hear.) No sooner had I reached Paper before long. the street than. I saw something which seemed to me worth inves tigating Housebreakers at work And a policeman, only a few yards away, utterly oblivious to what was going on!! He had a red band on his arm, with the letter T tastefully
Diary
Today." (February 8th.)
Golf: China New Year meeting. Fazling Hunt: Paper Chase at. Canton.
Something in the nature of a sen- sation was caused at a public recep. tion held this week in a well-known restaurant when a certain gentle. man who had enjoyed marzipan pastries and Corona cigars ad lit said (as quoted verbatim by certain journals)- Ladies and Gentle men, It gives me great pleasure to By the way, I was at an At-Home be here." Of course it did! Echo on the Peak yesterday, and noticed ing those sentiments, let me now that all the ladies in Hong Kong say: "Ladies and Gentlemen, It are taking to the new taffeta boots gives me great pleasure to be stamped with the crest of a well-Bere."
And I hope to be known local club.
bere next week. (Applauso.),
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