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SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1930. 陸拜體日登拾月壹年卅百九仟登英
THE
PUNKAH.
Br J. PENN.
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True to tradition, I have faith the peace engaged in a friendly the angry golfer, but I allowed fully kept a diary for the past ten
Battle with a squad of Shanghai for it!" nese chauffeurs. One party, was days, making note of the minutest lined up on one side of the road,
That gives you an idea how diff- thing that has taken place every while the other, was mastered on cult is is for a man to keep his, day-how much work I did, how the opposite pavement, and the equipoise when a wriggling worm
great idea was, to throw huge crac-uddenly crosses h pach at much I did not de, und an on and fears, which go off with a terrible critical moment. It puts a golfer so forth, and last but not least, how explosion, at each other! No right off his game, in just the same many times I tried to keep the notice was taken of people or tra
way as the sudden popping of a fic passing along the road, and the great New Year resolution about best part of it was that the police cork out of a bottle will make you. signing chits. Sad to say, although men were on duty (they were carry; ance should be made to a man thus miss an eary cannon. Some allow- have been really conscientious ing revolvers. At any rate!) and put off when he is addressing the about making my entries, I cannot what do you suppose they lighted haland that reminds me Out at claim to have met with very much their crackers with? Cigarettes Fanling the other day a novice was success in regard to the Inst-named You, of all people in the Colony. asked by his friend why he didn't resolution. Well, I suppose it is policemen should set a good exam address the ball. Foozler glanced all in the game, for if one shouldple to the hoi polloi, and I hope over his shoulder and and-"My keep any New Year reeulutions, somebody in authority will paes the dear fathead, I would if there were there would be none to make for word along to this effect.
no ladies. about!" the next year, and that's that.
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I see the printer's devil has been
And of course you know that one However, there is one thing busy at his tricks again, telling about the clerical gentleman who which has struck me very forcibly, people that one of the rooms in a
was not a very good player and, on nt that is Mrs. Botileibwaite has hotel had been reserved on ball-being asked what was his handi- not made use of the rolling-pin yet.night for cars! Justasi! Fortu- cap, sadly replied: "The Church." What is more, she actually believed him when he got home early an Sunday morning and, in reply to the question, "Where did you get to last night," said he had been Inspecting the, new swimming-bath at the Y.M.C.A.
This sort of thing is really too good to be true, and porchow I cannot help thinking this is the calm before the storm, so to speak. My suspicions were more or less confirmed when Botticthwaite told o later that he had found a parcel ou the umbrella-stand, containing half a dozen nice new rolling-pins, and very formidable weapons they wère, too!'. My old friend wante to know where he can lay hands on the fortune-teller chap who said: "Master, 1930 for you very happy must be, I can see in your hands, your eyes and your face, but..." And curse him, he got away with Bottlethwaite's last five-dollar bill
nately, nobody seems to have at: tempted to drive up the grand atairense with the object of parking in any of the drawing-rooms on the plush carpets. Then I see a refer- ence in the paper to the Home Rum King."
At first I thought this was a bit of news about hoot-
I was greatly interested to read the other day that at the next meeting of the English Aerociation there will be a lecture on the Eng- lish of the Army. Stroiling down Wanchai wey the other evening I leggers, but discovered en closer met Sergeant Major Grimjaw, and examination that it concerned base after the customary proposal about hall affairs. Babe Buth is a nice lubrication had been moved, second. enough fellow, but I wear if he goted, and carried nem. con. I said: ahold of the printer who described "Listen, cully, you should be able him as the Home Ram King the to give a ruddy fine lecture on the empire would have to call strike Englieh of the Army. You have ene and that one would be quite had nearly twenty-five faming years. sufficient.
in the Service, most of which have heen devoted to telling-off blakes in. Something will have to be done different ways for not jumping to about this dollar business, other-it-why don't you give an embel wise I shall have so much money lished lecture about English in the that I won't know what to do with blinking Army ?".
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it. No, that's wrong; pardon me.
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strained in my use of the colloquial to depart slightly from the crtho- dox manner of expression in order to make my desires, crystal-clear and compréhensible to intellects which occasionally certainly do ap near quite incapable of assimilating the simplest ideas communicated to them."
This currency problem is getting The Sergeant Major, meditatively so frightfully confusing that I get blew the froth off and, having all tangled up over it. They ay slightly moistened his lips, replied: there's too much silver in China,Sir, speaking as one who admit so that's why my paper dollar tedly is cerasionally somewhat Bang! Bang, BANG!! Bang, won't buy as many cigare as former hampered be the exacting restric- BANG, BANG! No sooner do we ly. I don't quite see the connections of conventional syntax, I must get over our
own particular New tion, but that's what I am told. confess that at times I am Year celebrations than another At the same time Lam-assured that dose of this infernal" pastime" is its all bunk about there being upon us, I refer, of course to the a glut of silver in China, and the Chinese New Year, and as. pre- whole trouble is due, to unrest in caution against having my beauts the country. On this latter point sleep again disturbed. I have al I am further assured that there is ready laid in a large stock of no unrest, and that everything is double strength eleeping draught, as it should be so there you are, That seems to be the only thing to The only point on which there is de, but if any of my fellow-sufferers complete agreement is that the do not like trying this method, dollar nowadays only buye about there is a fairly useful heavyweight half-a-dollar's worth of whatever hoxer whom I know who will be you want. more than glad to administer his own brand of "sleeping mixture" for a nominal fee of $5 per dose, This particular mixture is guaran teed to be effective for at least seven hours, and can be taken either by way of the jaw or the solar plexus.
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However, I note that the author ties have already announced certain restrictions upon indulgeree in this nocturnal port" of crackering,
What's all this I hear about the worms at Fanling? I am told the golf course is being converted into miniature mountain-range as a result of werns or weevils churning up the ground. More than this several gollers have had their nerves badly shaken by these fere cious animals suddenly coming up from under the ground. People who don't play golf do not realise how easy it is to be thrown off one's
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but there is just one more sugges-balance at a critical moment. tion I wish to make, and that is now a man whore caddy was a that policemen should be them chronic care of hiccoughs, and one selves warned not to get a bad day the golfer missed his drive and "But I didn't example. On New Year's Eve, in blamed the caddy.
neighbourhood of Percival hiccough that time," the boy pro Street, "I saw three guardians of tested. "I know that.". hellowed
the
The Sergeant-Major "Sir, after serious paused. reflection, I am of the opinion that an address by my unworthy acil dealing with the phraseology of the barrack - square and mess-room would he found intolerably dull by those who might possibly be at tracted to such a discoure in the hope of hearing lurid stories relat ing to the use of immoderate lan gunge. Nevertheless. I thank you for the kindly suggestion, and how. if you will excuse me, I must go and address some of my young charges-who await my coming with impatient anxiety-on the necessity for observing the strictest and most salubrious regimen, eating none but the most wholesome foods and none but the most innocuous beverages, and avoiding as the plague the use of blasphemous and otherwise im proper and vulgar words. Good night !".
Diary of Coming Events,
To-day.
(January 11.)
U.S.R.C. Annual Tennis Tour- nament.
Dinner Dances: Peninsula Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel and Hong Kong Hotel, 8.30 pm.
Royal Marines Old Comrades Association, Annual Dinner.
Tides: High, 8.38 a.m. and 6.05
League Cricket: Division I.: K.C.C. C.S.O.C., E.K.C.C...p.m.; Lew, 12.38 a.m. and 11.38 a,ın, European Mails:-Outward: 1.R.C., 0.0.0. e. University, Army
r. Navy. Division II. C.S.C.C. v. Europe vid Marseilles (Fushimi a.m.; Europe vid E.C., H.K.C.C.. L.R.C., Uni-Maru), 0.30
Siberia (Kidderpore), 1,30 p.m. versity v C.C.C.
Friendlies Recreio . Royal i: Artillery.
Football:-Division L: Royal Artillery v. South China, Kowloon 2. St. Joseph's, Navy Recreio, Chinese . K.O.8.B., Someriets v. Club Division II Club . Navy, University v. Eastern, South China "B". Chinese "B," St. Joseph's R.A.M.C., Recreio . South China "A" K.0.8.B.. Chinese "A" Evo u. Kowloon,
Queen's Theatre: Evangeline." World Theatre: "Faust"
Sunday. (January 12.).
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First Sunday After Epiphany. Fanling Hunt and Race Club Bungalow, paperchase, Souza's 11.30 a.m.
Cricket: University Past and Fresent v. Combined, Lengue, Uni- versity ground. 2 p.m.
Monday. (January 13.)
Hong Kong University Congrega- tion Day, 5. p..
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