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THE LAST OF THE NUTS.
A RUSTIC RAMBLE FOR DARWINIAN DESSERT.
Mr. L. Godfrey-Turner, writes to the Daily Chronicler
I have been into the divinely gaudy red and gold wood-, and picked the last of the nuts.
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aphernalia destined to crown |...é wunders of his achievement. He. like you, must not for a seeund transfer his eyes from the main object
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other. True, were he to do so, he might not lose a nut; but he would very probably get 2} cannon-ball on his own.
Thus it is that, late in October. seekets after what might be termed Darwinian dessert get the nut neck. It is your only way. It is nut-neck or nothing.
To the mind both iniaginative
I struck into them at Tibbydel Comer. 'Everybody knows Tibbyl dell Corner. It is here the duck. pond lies and that crazy gate staggers, and where, if you and speculative there is some- stand looking westwards at sun- thing peculiarly fascinating in set. the sails of old Guggan's the sport of nutting much too The almost windmill churn the fery sky lato in the year. into the biggest Catherine-wheel entire absence of the things you in all the world. I am sure you are after (I found only a couple know where I mean. Lovers of dozen in an hour and a half) would, for on the broken frame of gives the indifferent nuteman the crazy gate and on the posts endless leisure for picturesque that don't hold it up there are speculation as to what became carvings of hearts and initials, of the millions of nuts he has with here and there an unfinished missed. With his mind's eye he love-line. suggesting the sadden can see a party of children, who appearance of a gamekeeper. For have observed at the village the gamekeeper never arrives like greengrocer's that any other sort of man. He just appears.
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ninepence a pound, going into the woods at Tibbydeli Corner Well, it was at this point that upon an enterprise which they I struck into the woods with ny fancy is going to make their fortune. He can follow them rush basket and made my way cracklingly over the clearing of dawn to the green grocer's after day in the of dead bracken to the track their strenuous where the nut trees degin.
humming undergrowth, and see You don't look for nuts where their little hot faces fall when the nut trees begin-not at this the kind-faced man in the sack time of the year. They were put apron (a pew-opener by profes- round the apples on the dessert-sion on Sundays) gives them dish weeks ago; besides, you want their first lesson in commercial all your eyesight for threading honesty by offering them only a your body past the tangle of penny a pound...
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wounded branches that have Again, if be has lived. he can fallen before the destructive fury see them on the sideboard of a of early searchers. So I followed fashionable West-end restaurant the beaten track-"beaten up waiting among the apples and might give a better idea of it-pears to cheat abominably some deep into the tube of prickly demobilized young hero for daring foliage before looking skywards to take his girl out to dinner or for the silhouetted forms of the supper and give her a good time. He can see teeth getting poorer last of the nuts, and on my way paused now and again at an open-and poorer and dentists getting ing to be thrilled by the crimson richer and richer. He can see hillocks of treetops in the dell. some dercted Edwin cracking Once by something crimson Ihuts for his Angelina at the was thrilled rather unpleasantly, homely dinner-table, and Ange- It showed through a part of the lina eating them faster than he wood where the undergrowth was can supply them properly shelled. thickest, and for a tremendous He see a semi-circle of moment I thought I had come elderly monkeys at Regent's upon the Cain-work of a Eugene Park met in solemn order to Aram or a Jonas Chuzzlewit. discuss the alarming scarcity of proved to be a harmless group of their staple food, and to decide fungi that had artistically taken if possible, upon some means of on the prevailing colour of the escape and some policy of loot at trees, and my hair clicked back Covent Garden. And he can see to my head, and breath and senity British hawker of nuts being returned.
moved on" by, a British police. Then I went deeper and deeper man to make room for an Italian into the shadowy cloisters of the organ grinder.
I can tell you it is rare sport, wood, and got the nnt neck. This, which is not eo painful on this nutting when the nuts are the first day as it is on the second, over; when it is chilly at Tibbydell is caught by keeping your eye Corner at sunset, and "Guggan" on a nut, and not losing sight of windmill makes that big Cath- it even for an instant, while you erine-wheel, and the thoughts
reach out guessingly, for the come.
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Sometimes you lose a leg down
a bole, or tear your hand on a
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
At the Mixed Court Shanghai,
briar entanglement; but you must not remove your gaze from a woman was charged with at your object, or is it gone for ever. terupting to commit suicide by It is much the same thing with swallowing a gold ring. She ex- the juggler, who, while engaged plained that she had been driven in balancing upon his forehead a to the attempt by a quarrel with cannon-ball on the end of aber husband to whom the mag- billiard-cue, puts out his hands strata said, "Take your wife like a blind man to receive from home and do not quarrel with her
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JIM DRISCOLL.
WHY THE GREAT BOXER CRIED.
When Jim Driscoll cried ia his! dressing-room after his defeat by Charles Ledoux at the National Sporting Club says a writer in the Daily Chronicle, no one who know that generous-hearted and
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follow thought for a moment that he was crying for himself-he wept be- cause, through him British box- ing had received a severe blow to its prestige.
He had nogrievance against his antagonist; he harboured no evil thoughts of the strong young Frenchman who had proved him- seft to be so determined as to beat down
boxer of immeasurably superior class. He just wapt tears of disappoint- ment at the fact that Britain had failed to concede the great hand- icap of years at a sport which is naturally British.
Loser so gallant never goes unrewarded where British sport. is properly controlled, and as Driscoll entered into this band- icap of years because, owing to over four years of military perice and other reasons, his worldly possessions were not so great as they should be, it was the natur- al thing for the many followers of boxing to start a testimonial for him.
Driscoll spent a long time ic France teaching the young mem- bers of Britain's citizen Army9 to develop the fearlessness and coolness of mind that made our soldiers in France and elsewhere face danger-with calmness.
That such a man should be less to the nation because he could not bea: the bantam weight boxing champion of Europe would have been unthinkable, and it was a splendid idea of Mr. J. H Thomas's to commence, a move- ment by which Driscoll "could be retained, in order to instil bis profound knowledge of the best soldier-building sport into the younger members of the gener
alion.
By Mr. W. E. Berry it was suggested that a national testi- monial to Driscoll should be raised, and within a few minutes of the mention of this nó less a sum than £1.700 was raised. The testimonial, however, cannot re- main a national one; it is bound to become a universal, one, for in America no boxer has ever com- pelled the admiration that Driscoll did.
When in the Army, he was among the first to join, Driscoll earned many great opinions as an idstructor. The biggest dunce at boxing was never too tedious for He him to take pains with. worked so hard that he was once in danger of going into a decline, but he spared no endeavour to
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Now that schools other than the public schools are to have their boxing instructors, there is much work for a man such as Driscoll.
Though the nation has lost a contest-winner, it has found an instructor unequalled in the world.
A RACE WITH DEATH,
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Twenty years ago the Scots- man lost his fortune of £29,000
br rash specula ion and went to America to retrieve himself. He gained considerable in the Yukon gold-fields, but lost his health in pursuit of wealth,
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Dr. Caithness, the surgeon on the Empress of Britain, interested himself in the old man's case. He realised the traveller to the "land of the leal" was in a critical condition, and resolved, if it was humanly possible, to keep hima in life until he could set foot in Edinburgh.
Just after leaving Quebecɔalas, cerebral trouble developed, followed by paralysis and uncon- sciousness. Two nights the. devoted "doctor set up with the patient, but on the fourth day of the voyage Death won.
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