SKEETERS ON S'CUTTERS.
Simpletons and the Simple Life.
(BY "GADABOUT”),
as long. They weren't twice as long, so they were not all right. They were all wrong.
was all George's fault. George won't bara it, Sut I shall always told him to blame. You don't know George, do you? Five minutes went by. Then a Consider yourself lucky. I same grim muttering and much moving times wish I didn't. I'm wish-about in George's cubicle. ing that now. George is one of those happy-go-lucky youths, with his bead chock-a-block with alleged brainy Dotions and schemes for the improvement of the leisure hours of those he calls his friends.
It all happened this way. On Saturday morning George had a brain wave. When George gets his next brain wave I'm hoping
Marcel wanted to know what was wrong
George said he was only put ting things right early so as he wouldn't wake us up later on. I could see that we shouldn't want anybody to wake us up later ca. I took advantage of the disturb. ance and quietly changed on to the floor.
Silence again. Not a move- I'll be in Coney Island or Con-ment. The floor got harder and stantinople, or maskee if it's harder. Then-buzz. A mosquito
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midnight!) George said if we'd) never bathed by moonlight we Idida't know what we'd missed. We told Gearge we didn't want | to know what we'd missed. { We just wanted to go on miss ingit Marcelsaid we'd get away from the mosquitoes in the water, anyway. I had my doubts aboutį Stonecutter's mosquito not be 10 able to stand the sea, but gave
in in the end.
We got tired of bathing in about less and less inviting the longer three minutes. The idea seemed
stayed in. Wa crept back to our cubicles again, and I was just wondering if Robinson Cruses had many mosquitoes on his island- when I woke up, the sun well up in the sky, and old George and Marcel romping about with Ponto. on the sands. Morning at last!
BASEBALL.
Chillianwalls; as long as it's a got into my left ear. Then Notes on To-day's Game thousand miles from George. another came. HA chose BD
George's great idea was a week-
The Hoogkong Baseball Club
SATURDAY, MAY 26. 1923
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ankle. Then another. He in-will play the Club de Recreio THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. right cheek. Then another mossie afternoon, in a seven-inning game my Baseball Club at 5 p.m. sharp this 'took a chunk of wrist. "In very
way I get sleepier and sleepier texin will be:-Pilcher, O'Connor: The Hongkong Baseball Club and sleepier Holy smoke, I'd catcher, Proulx; 1st. base, Ryan: have like to bave old Coue trying 2nd base, Church: 3rd. base.
tricks lying mossies all round bira on the floor right field, Bradford: centre field, the Dowrick: short stop. Seback: of that matshed.
Davison: centre field, Finan. Re- serves-Carroll, Lynott, Seidle and Wallman.
with
end at Stonecutters, and he wanted, beded bis proboscis in me to come. I didn't jump at it. I've been cut with George before. But when he began to paint the picture-up at sunrise and nothing to do all day but lol! about in bathing costume, swimming, boat-his ing, fishing and all the joys of the simple life-I wavered. If Georce was a gilesman he'd sell a case "Old soldiere never die: they of Scotch to a prohibition agent, simply fade away." That's what that's the kind of man George is. I did. I bustled into my clothes Think how you'll turn in tand boots and faded out of that right; he said," fanned with the cubiclą, mighty quick, believe me cool sea breezes, with the wonder. At the door of Marcel's cubicle tut old moon shining down from was a vague, shadowy figure it above, lalled to sleep by the lap-white. Marcel was fading away ping of the waves on the shore too. George had suggested get and up like a lark in the morning, i ting up early. We had. Marcel fresh as a daisy and it for any and I'd got up after half a thing."
It certainly sounded good. I surrendered and went.
bour of it.
yesterday, have recently opened The Recreio Club, as we stated
and they have been practising a baseball branch in their club hard of late, and all indications point to a strong team from that Club.
weakened to a certain extent by The Hoogkong team has been
Marcel said he couldn't sleep Brown, but the arrival of some! the loss of Scott, Townsend and for mosquitoes. He said he'd new fast "material" should offee: George managed to pick up tried putting his head under the their loss another poor innocent-Marcel-gramaphene cover. That made Colony but will return shortly. Dome is out of the during the day, so there were too hot to sleep. I thought, my and Captain Koch, the catcher. three of us and a dog.
self, it hardly seemed an ideal will be unable to play, having Evening began to fall. In all method of getting a night's repose. sustained a painful injury to his her glory out came the moon. We "Must be getting nearly day-finger while practising last Satur. lay, gazing upwards at the hea light now?" I queried. Varcel,day. The American team have rent, dotted with her millions and with the aid of match, obliged. lost their last year's pitching millions of atare, whilst out of the It was just eleven o'clock! stillness of the tropical night came
We decided to go for a stroll on strengthened
Staff but expect to De strains of Hawaiian melodies on the sands. We told one another arrival of a new
again by the the Magna Vox-we were living, what a fine time we were having person of Carroll, a youth who twirler" in the Across the harbour, a mile away.
We both said how grateful we hails from the Panama regions; glittered like diamonds the lights were to George for thinking of and has played with the Brooklyn of civilisation. Surrounded by the such a good scheme. And we Flatbushers, but he will be unable beauties of nature in all their told each other what a glorious to show his true form for a while! glory, we forgot our workaday Loil night it was. And bow other yet, having "thrown" his arm out and trouble and cast our minds to people, lying in their beds in stuffy white "warming up" a few nights bigher and nobler things.
roome, didn't know what they ago. "Big Ediie O'Connor" will Then George suminoried up were missing. We quite bucked take Carroll's place on the mound courage to tell us he'd forgotten up after a bit, and in the end we and some fast twirling is expected, candier. "Our almost kidded ourselves we were while Proulx will hold him behind houghts dropped to more practi-enjoying it. We tramped up and the hat. cal levels and we told George down for three quarters of an what we thought of him. George hour, and almost got cheerful as yet, been
While the grandstand has mot, almed us with anticipations of Then, hoping we'd given the expected that it will be finished] completed. i 14 chow whilst he went to chivy mosquitoes sufficient time round and see if he could borrow transfer
to by June 2ad. their attentions to a lamp from one of the boys George, we sneaked back to our formation of a Baseball League.
A meeting to discuss looking after the matsheds.
cubicles and told each other weis advertised elsewhere in this felt like sleep.
issue.
SU
bring the
A lamp that had obviously seen better days arrived, and Geogre The enemy had not transferred began to hunt out nourishment. their attentions to George. We cheered up after dinner Judging by the reception we go, George was forgiven and then, they must bare spent their time with the idea of being up within collecting their relatives and, the sun, we decided to tura in friend. It was worse! for the night.
Ten minutes that seeroed tea hours went by. On an average, we each provided about five good meals for tan mosquitos every ten second-
George was in charge of all the arrangements, so we asked him where we were going to sleep. Georga said you couldn't beat a camp bad. Just the thing for A voice from George's these sort of stunts," said George.cubicle: Well, G, how d'you We agreed and told George we like it?"
A PUZZLE A DAY.
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thought damp beds would be fine. I pointed out very firmly to, Then George told us you could George that I did not like it, as shown in fig.
A carpenter had a square board
A. With three: get a camp bel for about seven neither did I think I should straight cuts he sawed it into four dollars in Hongkong. We told evet like "it, neither did pieces that formed fig. B. How George not to be funny. What we wanted to know was what you could get at Stonecutters at ten o'clock at night.
George asked what was the matter with a bed on the floor of one of the changing cubicles. We pointed out that there was noth Ing the matter with it, only George happened to be the only one who had a bed.
"Ah," said George, "I'll soon fix you. You'd be a fine pair if you were out in the busb, you two would." George is very proud of having been out in the busb. I pity the poor guy who got out in the bush with George.
I think I abould ever want did he do it?
Yesterday's answer:
to like it. I told George that if that was bis idea of the simple; The sentence: life I didn't want any simple life.
"He bought a baaans and put
The simple life was all right for it on ice." those people who wanted it. The contains the name of Nice, a ordinary kind of life was good French city, and Bath, an English enough for me.
city, the latter being reversed, George Faid "Think how thus: healthy a life like this was."
"He bougHT A Banana and put
I told Georgs it certainly seem it ON ICE." ed a healthy enough place. You could tell that by the wonderful physical development of the mos quitoes.
George thought we ought to have brought mosquito nets with
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Daily regularity is essential for the retention of good health. When irregularity sets in a small
Marcel thought it needed iron bars to keep out a Stonecutter's dose of mosquito.
Picking up a couple of deck epairs, putting them together for extra strength, George carried them into ons of the cubicles and George admitted they were placet them one end on one seat rather bad. He mentioned he'd and the other ап the sest heard the dog having a short opposite. The sagging canvas scule with one a little time back. made a sort of hammock. We gave Ponto up for lost. "There you are," said George, George said he'd bring his mos what better do you want than quito net with him the next time, that 7" We'd have liked quite Marcel rather fancied a couple
effective to deal with 'em.
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speedily sets matters right. Pin-: kettes bacish constipation, bilious attacks, sick headaches, liverish- peas, clear the skin and purify the hurt George's fealings too much.
free, 60 cents the vial, from Dr. Marcel rigged up a bad likewise. We wished one another good George that as far as I was con- se Road, Shanghai.
I emphatically pointed out to Williams' Medicine Co., 60 Kiang- night and hoped for the heart. corned there wasn't going to be
Pinkettes keep you well. "It's a good idea to turn in any next time. early." Gorge sait before he left 08. "We'll have a good night's rest
The beds might have been all right if they'd been about twice
A lot better, but we didn's like to of howitzers might be a bit more breath. Dealers sell them, or post
Then we all got up and finished off the beer. We got quite soci. able again after that. Then George hit on the brilliant idea of bathe. (At half past twelve,
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