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"
May 9th. at 9 ain. May
23rd.
SAILING & FARES SUB LOT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
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FIRST CLASS THROUGHOUT
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...
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about
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Expected on or
Further Sailings :-
: about.
M.S. "MALAYA "
M.S. PANAMA "
8th. May 10th. June
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AINT YOU GOING
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TODAY, MISTER, FAIRBANKS? WE
KANTA VISTELT
YOU.
TM NOT MACHS
AIN PICTURE JUST NON. BUT YOU MIGHT DIN
OVER THERE – THEYRE
VORDANS ON
ONE.
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COAL CO., LTD.
SILIMPOPON COAL
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on
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ELEPHANT'S FOOT.
my three pet native busters took my coming for granted.
$ 1,50
Hephant's foot, grilled in the embers, was delicious exting, we took a foot also.
An Episode of Africa. This MacWhirter was in charge
In the evening we watched it I was sitting with the District of a British Cotton-growing Asso- Commissioner on the verandah ciation plantation eight miles bake whole in our camp firs
I am of his mud house. sufficiently away.
not prepared to while thoroughly fortifying ourse- cool to go out after pigeon. I swear on oath that he did not Ives with cocktails in ordez had to business there, but I had grow or buy cotton, but I never to. do" justice to
the special saw him do it. Cotton may have dish. When not seen a white man for three
it appeared weeks and bad trekked over
been the relaxation of his spare 1 table a strong aroma arose as of for a civilized meal and a talk. moments, but his real mission in
a town whose staple industries were the manufacture of glue and A nice bush station, life appeared to be connected with It was Fight of the line of the wire,guns and rifles. He was waiting patent fertilizers. However, we and the Amaletites at headquar-for us all right at the appointed each took a ration of the viscous brown mess on our tin plates, ters were not likely to hear of my place the following evening.
sampled it simultaneously, and self-appointed holiday.
His orderly appeared outside:
looked at one another. If imagi "Piecty man from bush waat
nation can conceive a compound look you, sah!”
of sealing wax, train oil, blood, and the essence of cast-off boot soles, that about describes the delicacy.
"Tell 'em come for here."
N
The laws of Nigeria decreed that a licence to sboat elephant cost £10 for six months and £20 for a year, but as there was a close season of six months nobody ever A motley group of villagers, for took a year's licence. Gilbert and the most part garted only in Lewis Carroll would have loved
The Commissioner flung his wisps of loin cloth, straggled the laws of Nigeria. None of us round the corner of the house. had a licence. but the Commis plate out into the night with a Not one of them could speaksioner was th licensing authority, roar, "Boy: tell cook kill fowl: English so the orderly interpret and we arranged that a licence make chicken cutleg one time: ed. Their story, boiled down, could be issued to the lucky man, ili tin sardine; and for God's was this, but it took a long time antedated, if and after the eleph-sake, pass more cocktail!" in the telling.
ant was shot.
If the reader is tempted to go big game shooting with the iden of eating elephant's foot, he is advised to take with him disin- fectants and a cookery-book tell. how it should be prepared-if he
They came from a group of
THE FIRST "BAG.” scattered bush villages among Before dawn we were among which a mad elephant had ap-the farms. We advanced singly peared. He must be mad, because in line, each accompanied by a he way ruining all their yam and native bunter, at about half-mile cassava farms, trampling and roat-intervals, the Commissioner in can find one.--Times contributor. ing up far more than he could eat. the centre. Toward noon I heard And would the bonourabie and his rifle speak twice (he was much-respected white man come and see about it? They did not mention the fact, but they evident ly knew very well, that the white man most certainly would. The mere mention of big game would have raised the Commissioner from his death bed. (Incidentally, A wounded buffalo got him in the long grass not long after)."
The suppliants were dismissed with instructions to wait for the white man at the central village the following evening. The Commissioner turned to me,
KRYPTOK LENSES using a doubled-barrelled 450 are the most perfect double freus cordite Express), and I hurried in glasses for both reading and the direction of the sound. I found him sitting proudly on the dead elephant, surrounded by hundreds of villagers, who had apparently sprung out of the bush.
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It was rather a poor specimen, with tusks only 31lb. and 321b. When we cut them out we found an abscess the size of a turnip at the root of one of them. No wonder the poor beast had been mad. He must have had monumental toothache.
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distant. In the ordinary bifocal lens the segment or part for reading is cemented to the distant lens, raising the segment above the surface of the main lens. The segment and the line of union are always more or less noticeable, In Kryptok lens, no cement is used, but the reading segment is electrically fused in a depression ia the main lens, while the whole lens is ground smooth on both sides to the desired focus.
"I can get through my court We gave the carcass to the Kryptok lenses of any prescrip- cases by lunch to-morrow. It is villagers-bush niggers will eattion in either regular or Toris &fifteen-mile trek, and we cando | soything-retaining only the form are manufactured by The it in the afternoon and be ready tusks, toeballs, and the hairs Hongkong Optical Co. successors fox dawn the next day. I'll send from the tail as amulets. More to Clark & Co. Optical" Prescrip- over for MacWhirter in the morn-over, since we had all read in tion Specialiste, located in 53, ing to make a third and get in 1 boys' books of adventure that els- Queen's Road Central,
Freckles Finds a Real Girl
CAL, MORA=WE SAUTI NICEST LITTLE GOL"N À MOVIE STUDIO- SHE HAD TH NICEST CURLS!
DIDN'T YOU FIND OUT WHO
SLE WAS?
BY BLOSSER
NO, BUT WE'RE GOING BACK IN TE MORNING AM.
MEET HER.