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Lots of them found it more [difficult to spot Danta and Dis- rash than they did Spion Kop and Archais ́for last year's Darby. Arguments for and against the control of raliways by. the State were harder to find "DOM for than Carpentier's |chane s of winning the world's champ onship WT MADJ. Christopher Wren might hare | bean the inventor of the submarine for all they kaew to the contrary, and Foreign Exchange wi' thạ best half of them had something) to do wi' the exchange of prison- |ers of war, if all we hear in true.
And to make the ordeal even more reminiscent of the worst- |terrors of their school days, there was #hother lesser, A kind of quick-fire missing-word puzzle. A couple of minutes were given to all up the blanks in half a Įdozen couplət-like things. Here they are. Try them yourself. As amental tonic they've gotten Chinese politics and the Irish question beaten easily. Now
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It's very evident to me that the wi' our Free Trado as it like but mere fact of our probibiting the it banna' alter human nature. importation of German dyes into
a man of his age he's wearing well and everything ha did was Lander at his best. His patter is,
of course, a bit more catholic nowadays as befits the traveller
Then we
But we beat them. The strik-
But ye see what I'm driving st, I hope. If the brain is apt to miss fire and boggle over the lile things in life, how can our peers this country will not prevent the But I was forgetting, it wLS expect us to be ready on the Germans from producing these something "Scotch" you were jump when something big rolls selfsama dyes and exporting them wishful for. Well I saw Harry up? I once had an officer in the to other countries. The situation 'Lauder the other might. To see (volunteers that used to
therefore, to my humble mind, bis name on the programme or about like an excited rabbit would be unchanged, in so far as himself on the stage would require when the least little thing went the possession of chemicals a lot of the imaginative staff on į wrong. Our other officer was ifacd plant for turning your part to dope out that he was
bigb jonsthing & wee bit inclined the out
explosives
Knight. Harry nowadaya is other way. But he did his think the Germans w concerned. more than a humorist; he's a ing with the right part of his They would still be to a No. 1. traveller. And to hear him per- head. The other utilised his position in regard to this, wouldn't petnally reminding you of the voice for that function. And they? But on the other hand fact you would think that he had just because of that, in the event wouldn's our own industries that paid his own fars to the different of onything more real than field require these dyes suffer? Our places he's been since the war daga ever tolling up, there wasna own dye-making despite all the came that put him in the street a man in the whole company bat bigb-faluting talk during the among the titles.
That's one bad bis mind make up as to war is apparently no worth a thing to bis favour, though, it whom he was going to pay tinker's curse set alongside the hasna' made ony difference to attention in the event of being German stuff. And so you see him. The same expansive good- up against it. The moral is, that because we can't produce dyes bumoured smile is there.
Του if yo suder only yourself for as good or as chaap, ourselves man's got personality, mind I'm your mistakes it isna quite so the Government has been asked telling ya. Every movement is Or is the carpenter, late of bad but if wrong thinking or the to see to it that the German stuff so simple-like that it's vary Gourock, going to throw & fit sbsence of it pat lots of others in is kept out of the country on the difficult to realise the art and when he reads of Arrochar's queer streat ye're very apt to ples of our national safety. Tost, practice that put him where he is school rate rising to 5 5 in the bad yourself at the wrong end of my lad, is not only wrong think- and makes him what he is. He's Found? The only time he saw the qzeze when the halos are ing but it's another attempt to an actor as well as a singer. For Arrochar was on a postcard and being disbed out.............
get us to pay more for an inferior he wouldns' have recognised it Yow policemen-but I'm too article. In short, ll's the blessed even then if the name hadna late for that, now that they've gospel of Protection in a patriotic been printed at the foot.
got a proper school for the lika guise. Never mind if our goods, No, my lad, ye want to pa in Hongtong nowadays. Bat dependent on the use of the best 22nd November, 1920. soft needle on when ye turn or maybe the new Superintendent dyes. fail to maintain their but he doesn't make a Cook's touri Dear S--Your last letter son chatten. It's very distract-will Do be above inducing supremacy in foreign markets. of his performance for all that. only goes to show the inadvisabi-ing for a body that's trying to though: on the lines already The home market is there to One of his shrewd hits came back lity of a man jumping at conclu- | think instead of collecting indicated. I'll throw him in one be bled white while the dividends to me when Janet and I were on sions. North of Tweed stuff for weekly parcel of Scots anippate. of my own as a make weight mount higher. There's only one our road home. He had seen the Scottish exiles abroad is maybe As a general manager of mine Now you budding babbies, eras in Protection but what a lot natives in Africa singing at their fine material but the average Scots once said-but no to me, mind front and esta out. Listen care of them you can use in its defini-work. It was natural to sing. abroad dorena 25e like to be ya It's no what ye know that felly to the following question:tion. "P" stands for Protection "It's a long while" he said "since reminded of home. That's one matters. It's what re think." So" Is it legal for a man to marry my lad, the putting up of prices we heard the Scottish workman of the beauties of being an exile.if what I think isna gcod.enough his widow's sister?" Aye, to make private profits for power- singing at his work.” Besides, let me remind ye, exiles for ye, then ye can send your know all about the Deceased fel politicians.
filed out into a wild November are generally abroad onyway. subscription in to a Press. Cut- Wife's Sisters Bill but that's no And when I'm on it just let me night and found the tramway- That's their strongest suit. Soting Agency right away.
what I'm asking ye. Maybe the say-eye, I know ye don't like men on strike. ye may as well send a chit to
Editor of the Telegraph if this dry stuff, but I've got to slip Santa Claus as expect me to ruin Of course thought on my part he's not been worried wi Ching some missionary staff in between my right band thomb wi' a pair is merely wasted effort if it does. Mail of late and is feeling some how the stunt Press is of scissors cutting bits out of the ca' cause a movement of grey/onything like good, might con-jalready putting up a sbrick abontere, I mean. That was to be! Glasgow newspapers. What's
matter at your end. By that-aider the possibility of awarding the flood of German toys alleged expected for, as I've said before, more forbye, fiour is far too dear well, what I mean is perfectly a silver cup for the first correct to be coming into the country. Do strike can succeed that has these days to be making paste obrious. It doesna include, answer. But maybe, on the know you'd rather have Scottish public opinion against il wi. Scottish news! Huh! Most though, calling one for instance a other hand, he doesn't know stuff but this is a very serious bus-about. The thing that does mat of our news come from the stunt blasted fool." That's no thought, himself!
iness. nevertheless. There's been Presa in England onyway. The that's ignorance, and the easiesti
a lot of talk about dumping butter is that public opinion is be picture papers see to that. Even way of thinking by proxy I know
coming more and more hostile no evidence, from what I can The need for clear thinking on
Folks to strike policy. our Sabbath calm is disturbed wi' of. A thing in print might often economic questions was never than the mere operation of the wasteful and that the innocent
gather, that this means soy more the pests. It's awfa' annoying look perfectly silly and yet be greater than to-day.
beginning to saves that strikes are when ye're walking to the kirk worth its weight in gold if it did dealing wi' the complicated and Germany has to pay a shilling it. The workers generally from exchange. Now I ask you if suffer when there's no need for on the Lord's Day and you maybe nothing else but make folk use delicate situation created by the for a pennyworth of raw material wondering if ye mind in which their disused brains and prick up war. packet ye put the threepenny bit their atropified mental ears. A even from some of our men of bow in the name of fortune is she will be defeated if they put for for the collection and whether case in point, my lad. Quite a lot light and leading in politics as ever to get out of having the baby ward excessive claims. Social the sweeties in your tail coat of temporary Civil Service ser- don't aye
to hold if she doesn't take advant- gst oaything lize pocket are likely to stick to-
vants during the past fortnight clarity of thought.
age the exchange gives her when justice, on the other hand, is no Who s
territory has deservedly been and their reward for passing is a talk like that? Aye, ye might importer? Yet on the other hand gained by working man. If we permanent statue in the Civil well ask. But let me tell ye, in there's lots of folks expect her to go back fifty years ago when Service. Now the ordinary every-case ye don't know it that pay all she owes is and who there was too much smag com- day work of the Government clerk thought's no are the handmaid would prevent ber from doing so placency and more than enough
to put the paper in if you did buy missioners thought of including in need to go through a University by which she can pay.
was the last thing the Com- of education. A man doesna by closing the only possible way of national bypocrisy, many it. It's even more vexing to the examination papers.
Natur-gate in order to be able to use the strong suit of the starters is that underpaid. Marvels of human think that the same papers are ally, for none knew better, they brains God gave him. Many of competition is crippling home adorance were asked and often all sold out by the time re come recognised, that say individual as are often Laarticulate no able that before. Protdetion it seems Slavery it was in everything but industries. I seem to have heard gotten for a pounds week. oat of the Kirk. I would put is Third Standard education to say or write what we think must be made possible so as to stop to yon Sunday newspapers.could address envelopes and fill but by the Hokey Fly we're no
¡name. All that has passed away. up stereotyped forms. So they dummies for all that when it schemes of private philanthro-though, that one kind of industri- prevent pulverising the pet LAnd rightly toď. It is importani, But if it's Scottish news ye're had to discover some other way comes to using the old nob on the phists. The home toy, however, al tyranny should not be replaced itebing for I can give ye plenty of being able to separate the sheep top storey, of that. Let me ask ye first, from the goats. And they did. Now you take the case of the shopkeepers will tell you more two that the rightful policy of
it appears is too dear. Lots of though, if ye think you kind of They made ability to think and German dyes At the moment over that in isn't in the name the Labour truly lit. It's no by another. It is in between the pars for exiles abroad are likely think quickly the test. On the the commercial side of the pro-street a the German article. to interest the average Scot in same principle as ministers are blem is very apt to be obscured by well that's no particular slight Power that's wanted nowadays Hoogkong. Is the
dockyard required to understand mathema- the question of national safety on British enterprize for Germany so much and here I come back boilermaker, struggling wit a tics before they can wag their This is because the chemicals has are specialised in toymaking to my text again--as brains. white shirt preparatory to head in a palpit so was the trap used in the dyes form the basis She has aye inclined to the cheap
Yours truly, jazzing at Wiseman's or the set. Brains or nothing it was, of some of our most powerful ex- cappersmith from Govan busy And there's many a man in Scot-plosives, Lots of our papers of nd nasty while our folks have telephoning for a car to run a land to-day putting in overtime iste have been hammering away Now what kid wants a toy to last gone in for the dear and solid. party out to Repulse Bay likely, wishing he had cultivated the art at the national aspect of the questill he's at the football and even if he is away from home, of reading instead of attending tion and the commercial side bas cricket "stage? Wr folks of to get excited about the epidemic football matches in his spare been quite ignored by the sugges bumble means the choice be that broke out in St. Kilda and time. It's an easy thing, some of tion that we should prohibit or tween dear and cheap ones often its studente not to take up which ultimately turned out to them discovered, to lose perfectly curtail importation of German means a toss up whether there's dentistry as a career on the be the mumps? Or, I ask ye, is good money to an illiterate bookie dyes so as to preserve our very ey got at LIL For obvious ground that the training is now he likely to lose any sleep about as compared to even reading the existence. Surely there was easons then the shopkeeper will Tery xpensive and the chances Carlake turning "dry" and him news of the day in a half intell- never a more perfect example of plunk for the cheap toy every of making a financial success of comes from Dundes in ony case? gent manner.
confusd reasoning than this, Itime. Government may tinker | If are considered poor.
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