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THE PUNKÄH.
Br J PENN,
Reference in this column last I said I could not recall him. week to the noble pastime of lawn-old Rosse Poincaré."
Poincaré," he replied, "your
bowls has had the effect of stimuWhat are you doing, these lating a local part to action. I days?" I asked, the name seeming
Familiar somehow, may as well now confess that, as
a matter of fact, I know very little about the game, and the introduc. tion into the following verses of what I take to be technical terms is to me somewhat bewildering, if not quite being. However, po doubt ardent exponents of the art will appreciate what my friendly correspondent has to say about-
BILLYCOCK 2. PEACOCK, By the strength of his brawny arms, By the craft of his cunning brains, By gruff voices causing alarmı, ・ By the help of consistent rains, By agricultural furrows, By huge worm-casts and sometimes
rock,
By the hole where the worm bur-
IOWS,
Billycock defeated Peacock,
:
Billycock a bowler may be," But the Peacock-well he's a bird, But neither is a gaby
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Though a bowler is rather absurd. Now the Peacock swears the roller Will help wipe out the disgrace, And he'll put the bowler's bowler Over the bowler's pink face.
Such sentiments are offensive, Though Bulycock's face has a grin, His thoughts may be somewhat
pensive,
For he takes osly some 'words in. Such rubbish de spurns with his
heel,
"Que voulez vous! he replied, with a double shrug."
It was only when two shroffs who him with a fine collection of chits had been shadowing him presented
that I began to suspect him.
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thing to pass remarks about a place where you are taken as an honour- ed guest, but 'dash it all, I have had a splitting headache ever since, and I feel I have a grievance which should be ventilated. No, gentle render, it was not what I had to drink which made my head ache,, I knew you would guess that, but" terrible noise in the places Never It was the you are quite wrong.
since I left the boiler-factory where I used to amuse myself by drop- ping red-bot rivets on people's necks and hands have I heard such
This morning, a man sidled up to me sad said:"May I intro-a rumpus. The most affable con- duee myself? I am I Fenn-THEversation seemed to be carried on J. Penn, Mine's a whiskey dry." in Stentoriar, tones, giving one the But I wasn't having any this impression that a serious faction- time. I walked away.
fight was developing, whereas as a matter of fact, everybody was quité
"Whispered Mr. George P. Bottlethwaite has jolly
tips about had to receive medical treatment thares reverboruted through the for injuries received when he was building above the pandemonium ran down in Nathan Road by af the ping pong players. Friendly chia chins " and tricycle ridden by a six-year-old cheerios" and boy. It is reported that the boy let's have the other half" thun- dered through the air like the remarked, somewhat pettishly:
Stout old gentlemen should keep orders of an Admiral directing a to the crown of the pavement." battic squadron or a General lend- ing a hundred thousand men to victory, and wanting each man to feel that what he said was a per- zona! and private appeal,
Of course, I know what will be said
News to hand states that the Air Mail from England to India is a failure because the service is not being used sufficiently. George P. Bottlethwaite takes a rather gloomy
view of the affair, and says that people are not writing enough let- ters to India, while the same lack of thought would seriously handi cap the establishment of an Air Mail between Hong Kong and India in the future.
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if you don't like the noise, etay
away. I thall.
And here is another grievance-
why does not the Legislative Coun- cil pass a Bill prohibiting people from watering flower-pote on ver- andubs I know the poor plants need a drink now and again like the rest of us
but what grumble On the other hand, he says, those about is the water that comes Hong Kongites who are lucky tumbling down on one's nice white. And drawe up a hole in his belt,
enough to number Indians, who hat and clothes. The other day, have returned to their native land, while crossing a Such words a bowler cannot feel,
street, I just Though a bowler is sometimes felt. among their acquaintances, might dodged a ducking from the veran
easily keep up a correspondence dah over the arcade I had left, and Now a return match must be played with them. And the rest of us ran atraight into a thower which On a green both neutral and good,might, with a little trouble, secure
was waiting for me
the op- introductions to Indians tempor- And the Peacock will be array'd
posite side A stream of dirty": With every kind of word and wood, arily in Hong Kong and promise water trickling from your topee For nothing must give or must to write to them on their return
to their country. The heat form trousers, and en to your boats dans over your shoulders, down...your break,
And the game must never be loose, Though a bowler was once a Drake He will never became a goose.
BILLY PEA
While I was sitting quietly in a lounge, sipping a cool b. and. the other day, a ragged-looking gentle- man with long hair, and a snake and a dagger tattooed on the back of his right hand approached me and said:Excuse me, but I'm sure we've met somewhere before. My name's Conan Doyle." He talked about his books and ended
on
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of introduction would be to pur- not add to one's & lity, and if chase two dozen yards of silt from there is anything a local store, and then forge that about, it is ray di 1. would you had signed a chit for it.
impose a fine of fift lars for the first offence, doub it for the second, treble it for a third, and tanke the fourth punishable with death, with leave to appeal after execution of sentence..
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Or, we might write letters to the Indian newspapers; or send heavy parcels out, or order things from Indian shope. If none of these remedies can assist the Air Mail,. George suggests, the only thing
Bottlethwaite han always object- will he for the Government to in- vite over about a million Indians ed, in the past, to be dubbed and introduce them to lonely so of the crush." To-day, however, he journers in Hong Konz The is rather jubilant about the term, grush by saying that I was meant to be moment that friendships ripen, for he has heard that a
back will go the Indians with aesur- hall" has been, is being, or will ances of letters to be sent hy be installed at Government House. every mail.
Dr. Watson, and could I tend him two dollars! It was only when he had gone that I realised I had been hoaxed.
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