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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,. 1936.
COUNTRYMAN'S LOG ⭑
Private Menagerie
|OUNTRY children collect a qucor assortment of pots. One by one they are mot with, brought home in the pocket handkerchief or oven a match-box, or upturned pinatore. A corner has to be found for them. Again, in the villages, hawkers ply a most varied traffic from door to door.. The farther one liven from a town with its shopping facilities, the more often these Itinerating merchants call round with their rolls of floor covering. their clothes-12 · pegs, and their tortoisco,
As for us, foll for/a: pair of tor toires, a not very expensive outlay.
Someone had given me the kien that aturteize thrives on green dies, aluga and wood-lloc, an omnivorous friend of the garden, a crenture capable of tending for epif.
4.
Ond has a lot to learn. Yet per sonal observation of oven the humblest Greature brings its own interest.
Our tortoltes turned away time and agals from pest delicacies one would have imagined they must fancy. Dut as vegetarians, they advance with a precision and determination upon any gleaming head of dandelion that could hardly bo Improved upon were they flesh caters
The same thing applica where the creeping clover on the lawn essays to blooin its unwanted flower.
To alt and watch the champing satisfaction of thoes jawa la to feel gardening certain that there are worries a well left to be dealt with by A pair of hungry tortolica.
They have given us a nice lutto problem to solve in another direction. "However. After a winter spent hiber nating,beneath n,hehp of sand, and dried leaves in the greenhouse "one of the pair laid an ex
In fact, there have been two, as yet another wat inid only a few days ago in a border of young chrysanthemum.
All one can do to satisfy the young fintiers of such monstróstion is to con
hot linen aign their locubation 14 cupboard.
Heris cannot manage this business if what one to told is correct-that a tortoise eng takes 14 months to hatch out under natural conditions.
Hungry Hedgehog
Not long ago a family conference was held to discuss hedgehoga The conclave camo te a unanimous decl- sion that one would be welcome.
It may be hard to believe, but i was Not long after that one of these weird but docile creatures wandered into the yard, a to dazed on meeting day- liglit for the first time following a lank winter sleep, and was easily caught
Unfortunately, this spiky, playmate
by JOHN
SUSSEX
made himself far too popular with our family.
Nobody quite know what consti- tuted a fair square meal, for a baby hedgehog. Nearly
felt everyone wain't getting enough. Aläs, in a fow days it was dead. from 100 much mallk
It
Yet another telo ATC
of favourites
the rabbita. Ам Icast there аге nine now, as Liese lotte han more "Than fulfilled ex- pectations with the recent delivery of a batch of six.
Sho is not as certain of her pedigree as the other two, but, as is often 50, the mixing of blood makes for liveller, sturdier off-spring.
A child grows up to take a lot for granted after watching the maternal preparations even in a rabbil-huich
Stripping her breast of long tufts of white wool, Lieselotte's cosy anticipn- tions left not even the smallest in doubt as to their purpose, the war making a nest, much as birds will
Still They. Come
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Already there are claimants for each of the arrivals, themselves another keries of additions to this miniature but personal menagerie.
An odd couple of pups are also pari of the picture. Both come from the same litter although a stranger would ba excused who doubted the fact.
Bo on from pups to silkwortus and from these to cocoon Mid-suminer nights with the French windows open and winged trophies like a gigantic eyed-hawk moth par into the collee tion. And there is always in cal.
Nearby there is a pony, which even though it in another's, stieres the con- versation on the way to school ns do rabbles and pups and alikworms.
Perhaps it sounds like exaggeration, but sharing the same field and hang. ing over the anme gate lives a donkey who, like a good many more of this fraternity, prefers a pat on the neck to one on the back-alde.
It is a wise approach taught early, to come at an animal by its head and not by a heels. And if there is ong
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... approaching an animal by its head and not its heels."
Terru secs his employer Mrs. Schmidt hand a man and woman, whose faces he can not ace, some letters, She has just dismissed him in a rage, but now fawns on
.ft him and says she didn't mean. and intends to raise his wages. Terry ridor off with Sury to be married and Mrs. Schmidt gives Terry name and address to her callers.
Chapter IV
"What's the matter, dear?" Terry asked. "You aren't going to tell me again that you won't be doing right by marrying me, are you? It'll be Just a waste of breath. This night's going to be perfect- I know how
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Metro Goldwyn Mayor LUCY HÚTFAKER
"She's gone," some one screamed. as the crowd entered Terry's room and found him lying on the floor. "Get the murderess,"
"We'll get her, all right," said one of the police.
Suzy knew her feet must be mov- ing, although she felt as if she were standing still. She knew becsumm
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sometimes she was in a dark, little & O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND
atrect, sometimes in a wide, lighted one. Or was she dreaming? Was it a horrible nightmare? all Just Would she wake up and find Terry comforting her, asking what her bad dream had been?
She thought she would half a taxt and ask to be driven a long way, But she was afraid any way at all.
he wouldn't be able to speak. Per- naps the driver would notice some.
She
to finish my stabilizer, I'm practi-hing strange about her. Best to cally promised the managership of take no chances. It was too late to the factory. All because I took you go into a park and sit down.
must keep on walking. to the factory and then peeked over a transom.
Where she went she never knew. "I'm worried, Terry," she answer-As long as she was to live, su ed. "It only you knew German- never could remember anything but you couldn't understand one lear about that night-except one word they sold. What were those ning. Perhaps she had been walk- thing more than another which has
papers-and why the mystery?" ing in something like a circle. For caught on of late years around the
"Answer your awn riddles. I suddenly she saw she was countryside it is these accial institu-
don't Young
Probably that old hag is the house where how it care. tions to misleadingly called
double-crossing her partners-but must have been hours since she had Farmers' Clubs.
what is that to me?"
Lelt it. There were lights burning "But secret papers"
in the hall, as always, but for the the rest all was dark, even Terry's room. She shivered. It was too
A good half of their members inst be the more than school-children.
The young fellow who walked away with two first prizes and a champlon- ship al agriculture's premier how this year wis a white smocked yourr ster of 11. The sleek crenture he led, haltered, round the ring, this boy had fed and groomed from a calf at three days old.
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"Snap out of it. These aren't war and so what's the use of spies times or secret agents or such? Give me norrible to think of him lying in the smile now. You're a bride or will norgue. She wished she had stay- LAWALPINDI be in a few min "cs."
d beside him anything
*
Suzy said no mere of her worry; delter than wandering aron a bal 'DEHAR
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мке
-but even while they were pic is this. But there was no going buck ing the vows which would bind now. She might have cleared her- them for life, she felt she was de-self if she had forced her accuser liberately pushing something into and the police. Running away would the back of her mind, something she seem just another piece of evidence would have to face another time. against her.
When they returned to Terry's Suzy cried out In delight. There were great bowls of lovely .lowers.
Probably they were searching for ser now! She must hide somewhere before they caught up with her. But where? Then there came to her the "Now don't any 1 ever overlook ne clear thought she had had since anything, Mrs. Moore," he said. the moment when she had seen the "You didn't, but I certainly did, strange woman standing in the door know that this was to be our wed-o Terry's room. She knew what ding day at least I hoped it so the must do--if only there was sub hard I knew it must come true."
ime. "Oh, Terry she broke off und
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SANTHIA *GOGRA SIRDHIANA In a hospital room, an inspector SHIRALA
TILAWA
The Showman looked as if she were going to cry rom Scotland Yard bent over a
THE atmosphere which sur-
rounds a neat black jacket
and waistcoat, neat striped trousers, a neat black hat, and a pained gentility-all just shaken free of moth-ball-has setiled down again over our dear old Foreign Office (affectionately known in the Chancelleries of Europe as the Wanglers' Rest).
Mr. Anthony Eden has returned to take charge. And, so far as the events of Europe are coticemed, I think I am safe in saying pertly that the charge will be a nominal one.
Kindly disposed as I am to all men,
I wish the members of the "National" Gavernment would recognise public opinion of ther foreign policy. It is da63 2013;mm!
We don't expect them to do any thing cucctive or dignified while they are on Monday!...-----
We don't expect them to do any- thing effective or dignified while they are NOT on holiday;
But so do expect them to give up pretending that they can or wil
You'set, we know all the answers no well.
About Theodore
To turn now to a serious subject, there is the news (from America,
of course) of Mrs. Cullen's cecond divorce from her husband Theodore.
Bho had better be careful If she wins him a third time she has to keep him.
Tall Girl's Dilemma TWICE recently I have seen the
same question put to different ex- perta an herri-throba. It is the problem of the tall girl who has been proposed to by a very short man.
Both experts were inclined to funk the real suc. and trotted out the ancient "Do you really LOVE cach other?' stuff,'
The real cost-and 1 need hardly say that I speak with the authority of having successfully posed as Aunt Adenoid for sixty years-the real test is this. When you reach for the man's hand to lead him across a street, do you or do you not find yourselt grasp. ing the top of bis eart
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THAT nothing is too silly for pubiicity" purposes has been proved again for ine by an announce. ment that a film star sarven, teth, biscuits and pastries, every day, from her own kitchen, to all the actors and technicians in the studio.
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her way to bed the mall looked into her mistress”, room. The master's locked up for the night,” she said.
"And one thing more," Terry said in malter-of-fact voice,
purse und
her
bed. On it lay Terry. A nurse was
Putting some trying to quiet Terry but he could
ot be silent. "Where is my wife?" he
into it. "It's a husband's duty to see that his wife isn't penniless.manded. Here's what's left of your winnings
"Don't
' worry about her," said the at the race spent practically aspector. "She ran away, evidently nothing of it-get yourself some in a panic when that old woman clothes. I rushed you so you couldn't argan shouting you were dead and get what every bride needs, a trous-hat she had shot you, Now don't resu. One thing more before I get get excited about that. The wound you need The kits I'm expecting." He took is only superficial but a little box from his packet. "My] rest.” father gave this to my mother the night they were married and now I give it to my wife."
a beautiful, old fashion-
*" Suzy said.
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"You'll take a sleeping powder SIRDHANA what a bea ed
now and when you wake up, she'll
·RANCHI "And it says inside With all my be right here. She'll come to her realize there is no evi- Terry whispered as he plac-senses →→→ ed it on her finger.
dence against her, even before she from her knows you are living and going to Suzy raised her face hand to give Terry his kiss, Then be living right along." ruddenly she stood frozen with hor “So you know. It's_Idiotic-to-ihlak.
Ekatr The door behind Terry had she opened slowly and allently. The
know. We haven't woman she had seen entering the caught the woman who did do it, factory stood in it, in her hand on but we will. Lucky thing for her automatic pistol. Before Terry could and Mrs. Schmidt and the rest of wheel around to see what had hap- their little circle that the aim wasn't pened to terrify Suzy, the woman so good," raised her arm, took dollberate aim
Terry and fired.
ror.
nt
sure.
we
But" "You're in no condition
a be
"Mrs. Schmidt?” Terry gasped. Terry fell on the floor. The, "Evidently you're a pretty bad woman tossed the pistol toward him, factory worker," the inspector said a laugh. " your employer and quietly vanished. Suzy tried to with scream, to give the alarm, but her had to have some one try to kill voice would not come. Shq sagged
xed you," to the floor beside Terry's limp
touched body. She
He made him, no sound. She put her head down thinking of plots and counter-plots to his breast. She could hear no now. That's our business. Yours is beat of his heart. Suddenly her free to go to sleep and wake up to see hand came in contact
with some- your wife right here." thing cold. It was the metal of the pistol. In fascinated horror she picked it up and stared at it.
She had not been stopped at the ticket office. She had walked, un- challenged on the channel boat.
There was a scream. Suzy raised Only a few hours and she would be her eyes to the door which was still safe with Mazlet
"Austrian Archduke Assassinated At Sarajevo."
(To-morrow; White Terry knows triumph and bitterness in Lon- don, a dip of a coin in Paris brings new and far-reaching ad- ventures to Suzy)
open. A middle-aged woman with She had bought a morning paper. wild eyes stood there. Sho came Perhaps but no, if there was swiftly in, looked down at Terry anything in it about what had hap- and cried: "You've killed him." pened to Terry, she couldn't read it.
Then, like one
possessed, the She knew all that mattered. She rushed through the door and down saw only one thing, a big head line: the hall, screaming, "'Arry, quicki Moore 'as been shot dead by bis girl! Call the policel 'urry. Police. And a doctor- though 'e can't do nothing."
Suzy dropped the pistol and look- ed around helplessly. She could hear calls for the police shouted from the windows of the house. She bent over Terry, trying frantically to feel his pulse. Then, when she heard the police whistles
outside, she managed to get to her feet.
She thought she would never be able to move again. But she must she must. By a tremendous el- fort of will, despite her panie, she reached the door. She noticed her purse. Scarcely conscious of what she did, she picked it up and went through the door.
Below in the hall there was great excitement as the police shouted orders for a passage to be cleared for them. There was no escapo there. Perhaps, the back stairs-at least she would try. She ran hur- riedly. · Thank God, the back of the house seemed empty and the key was "in the outer„ door at the foot of the stairs. She crept quietly out just an she heard the police mount- telling the stairs. She remembered to
Really, Mary?" wild the mistrosa, 'He' cottat have been very quiet, I didn't hear him come in...
*He hamn't, mumi,” said Mary, “The police station has just phoned to
To-day's Thought JANY people are so afraid to MANY
die that they never begin
--HENRY VAN DYKE.
to live.
straighten her hat, to walk calmly
(To be continued.)
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