THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY
1938.
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MERRILY WE LIVE
Wade Rasolina, novelist roughing it on the Passo Coast, le atranded when the rickety old car he is driving, falls in a ma- vino. At the Kilbourne home, ho sa mistaken for a tramp, Mrs. Kilbourne has a habit of taking in vagranta, for before he can explain the situation, ho la on- gaged as chauffeur. The family le so original, he decidos fo stay for its copy value, Chance jutos is that he dons the family a num- ber of good turnă, Jerry Ill- bourne, it sa ovident, las fallen in love with Wade.
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Chapter Twolve
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by LUCY HUFFAKER
dows and the doors before we are all auffocated.
Marion allod two pitchers with water and just as aho reached tho door, it low open again, and all the water spilled on the Door.
"This in no time for games, dear child," said her mother in a gently raproving voice. "Icary, where are the smelling salta?"
"Gone with the wind" her hus- band answered. "We'll have to do with water, I guess,”
Mrs. Kilbourne was the first to enter the dining-room. At the table ent Wade.
"Good morning." she said, "did you haar the torrible thing that- ohf" She began to collapas. Wada Jumped up, caught her and placed her in a chair. He looked around for home sort of first aid, then stopped short as he heard Jerry's voler.
"Wade Wade why did you leave me? Just na we-" her volco trailed off.
Wade went into the next room.
Wade found the door of the little general store at Indian Head Lake, holted. In answer to his knock, Georgo the old colored man who did odd jobs around the place, noked who was there. When Wade an-Jerry was lying on a couch. Kano swered, he began to scream.
"Go way, you-go way you can't some around here. You don't be long here, no bow-go way."
old man.
was bending over her, fanning hor face with one hand and slapping her wrints with the other, while begged her to wake up. Wade wont quickly toward them. Kane looked
"That won't do," said Wade in and seemed turned to stone. the voice of ena taruing sharp com- mando. "Get some smelling alts- some water-hurry. Don't you hear me?"
"But" Kane seemed to be chok-
Wade wondered what could be the matter. He and George bad become good friends; he had been more than generous in tipplug the Ho called again, saying probably George did not under stand who it was He wanted to see Mr. Smith and get his bag.
The door opened just far enoughing out the words "you are dead." and long enough for his bag to come through and then was closed and bolted again. George screamed Mr. Smith was not there, nobody was there, would whatever was outside please go way and leave a poor old man, who'd never donn Anyone any harm, alone.
"I'm what?" naked Wade. "You're dead! You got killed! It's Thoy can't find your bady!
It's buried under the wreckagel
You must be all over the paper! dead!"
Katie ran through the breakfast room, toward the kitchen.
"Wade, Wade," she said. "I'm so happy just to know you are alive."
"Dad! Mother! body! Anybody!"
Marlan! Some-
It was then that Mr. Kilbourne from the kitchen aide, kicked the dear. It hit Kane full on and be fell on the Boor.
Wade thought Kano must have gona crazy, but he had no attention He to spare for himo, just then. was "bonding over Jerry, murmur- Her eyes ut- ing gently to her.
"All right, George," said Wade. "I'm going. When Mr. Smith comes back, give him the monoy-all but Avo dollars which is for you which I'm silding under the door. Tell him I'll phone him tomorrow. If this isn't enough to pay for his car, which is wrecked, I'll send him whatever he says."
"Grosvenor," said Mr. Kilbourne whon ho sented himself at the breakfast table the next morning, tored for a moment, then they "I meant to ask you to have two openod slowly. She looked at him, papers loft, but as I forgal, will Then she closed her eyes agnia. you go up and pee if Mr. Rawlins There was a happy smite on her bas finished with It? I'd like to face. 80g the market quotations."
Before the butler could answer, Jerry slipped out of har chair and: Bald she'd go, so thay nit wouldn't bo kept walling for their break- East Hor father started to say it wasn't necessary, but changed his mind after a look at Jerry's face and thanked her, saying it would bo best if sho went.
"Bay, Dad," asked Kane, do you notice anything funny about Jarry this morningsort of serene and Borious like.
"No." he satil.
What did you say, Jorry" asked Wade bending closer to bor.
"It's such a sweet dream-I don't want to wake up."
"But you must wake up" he said firmly. "I want you to, dear. Won't you try to for my pake?"
GIME
She opened her eyes ngala and Then slowly she looked at him. rained bor hand to bis facó and ran her fingers across it. She drew in her breath sharply, He thought she was going to faint again. In- stead, she sat bolt upright. Hor Byen had novor been brighter. Im- "I hadn't either," said Mrs. Klipotuously, she threw her bourne. I wonder what it can be. I'll ask bar. Sarens and serious how wonderful."
But when Jarry cane lo, she was walking like a robot, her eyes star- ing straight ahead, the paper dang ing from her hand. Her father jumped up and ran to her.
"What's wrong, dear?" he asked, For answer, she banded him tho. paper. He took it and gasped: "No -oh no-it can't bal"
around and his neck and burst into Bobs. But they were strange sobs they seemed to be throbbing with happiness.
Wade, Wado,” she said. · "Im sù happy. Just to know you are allvo, ne lying dead under some old car -nothing else matters. You'll be going away-all right. You won't be going in a hoarse. Now I can-" ruddanly she broke off, speaking to him and shouted: "Mothor! Father! Everybody! Come here."
Mr. Kilbourne came running. Bho stopped suddenly in the door way.
Kane rushed to them, asking what it wan, but Mr. Kilbourne too, Boomed stricken dumb. Kano took the paper and began roading aloud: "Noted novelist dies in mountain crash-EL. Wade Rawlins killed on this? Kingsbury Grade
"Jerry, what's the meaning of
What's going on hara?" "See for yourself, Mother" said "It can't be our Rawlins." said Jerry, "It's Wade. He isn't dead Plach him, it, you don't Mrs. Kilbourne, "why he isn't even at all.
And anyway, belleve me." -here-is ho, Jorry?
you'all know he is...wns, I ma —-* tramp.".||
"It is our Wads," oried Marian, who had taken the paper. "Hero is his picture-=right mare.-
"Where's Jerry?" asked Mira. Ku- bourne:
Wade aromad to have forgotten that his arms wore around Jerry
or perhaps he did not car And I hope I won't be for quita "I'm not doad," he said: "Not yet. soms time. You see" smiling down Fat Forry, I've · something to uve Ion, Bow. I intend to make Jerry tunery, me."
She was lying on the Doors
Hana, lift har to the sofa, Grosvenor, got some smelling suite,” But Grosvenor had gone into the kitchen, to tell the maids the news, Kilbourne ran to the ballet, Find. Then they broke into cheers and
ing no salts there, he dashed lato the kitchen, Grosvenor, who fainted so often, probably had some thore. The cook handed him a big bottle. Just then Rawlins passed the win
The rest of the familly had come into the room and were staring and amling at Wads and Jerry. congratulations,--all but Mya KIL
bourne.
"Weren't you tramp, evert o saked wistfully. No, never mind-don't lie, I can stand 12”.
There was * knock at the door.
dow and smiled at her. She painted Mrs Kilbourne went to answer fl As Mr. Kilbourne reached the she came back, followed by a dour, it banged open and he dropped frowy looking an the bottle, Marian came running "Grosvenor she cried. “Gạt this through, Teary, streamed · down man something to eat. And then their favor, as the fumes from the take him over to the chaurenys emaillon saite made them choke. It room and get him everything ha was then that one of the chamber: | noods. : You can drivy." Cairt you?" maids, looking out the window, foll "Tero we go again” said Jorry, · to the door. GRA
Wo won't see what ho turns out WWII somebody stay healthy long to be, darijog” said Wade, You're enough for me, to "get something going with "me--forever and for done around hereft yelled Mr. Kil- ever.
bourne,, "Hero, Marian, get some
water, while open all the wine
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Don't let the Farmer Down
R
OUND the fringes of the larger cities, especially London, many farmers have given up keeping flocks of sheep in recent years.
Why is that?
Because the town folk who, quite reasonably, like to take a stroll in the Belds of an evening, or on holiday, like also to take the dog. with them.
That's natural enough-but dogs and sheep do not agree, except the former that are, trained to behave correctly.
And dogs as companions are on.... the increase; some say by half. So Are the people who like to go walk- ing in the fields.
And there is about that, either,
nothing wrong
But it does mean that sufficient and increasing damage is done by dogs chasing "in-lamb" sheep about, to discourage their keeping. It may be only coincidence, but as the population of people shifta further South, the trend in the sheep population is ever more Northward.
And it is not always the dog's fault. Fido, perambulating from one rabbit hole to another, sud- denly realises that he has become the
of attraction to a lot of centro wonlly mothers, half frenzied lest he should turn his attention to
heir tender offsprings.
Or it may be it is a herd of cows widch advances menacingly in his direction. Cows cannot resist in- terfering with dogs: they give chase the moment they see one. If Fido is a spirited creature, then ha leads them 'a pretty dance. barking reciprocates with snarling.
Ho and
But the upshot may be that the unborn calf within the cow, wecka afterwards, is presented wrongly at its birth. That's a bothersome business, bringing the vet, in. Per- haps it may even be born dead. That is worse. So with the sheep, with which more often the lambs will come wrong" as the shep- herd eays--just because some- body's stray dog chanced to lead
"Trained to behave correctly."
'em a high old dance towards the end of their period.
There is not the slightest doubt that this is why increasing numa- bers of town dwellers have to go quite a distance now before they will come across gamballing lambs The people from the larger cities mostly, I mean.
Farmers in proximity to such areas are going in for market gar- déning and cropping-not only be- cause of the nearness to the mar- kets, but quite often because it is the way to use the land without the risk of costly accidental losses to farm livestock.
Gates got left open after dark, when work is done and the men have left the fields. Next morning the cattle and horses are "blown out" from gorging on the for- bidden clover,
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There's more ill-feeling raised between farmer and pedestrian over the question of field paths than over any other single isme between them. And it is mostly that the gates are so frequently and thoughtlessly left open.
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That does not matter so much in the winter months, when most farm animals are safely in the sheltering yards. But when April comes in, it is then that the man, tired of tending cattle of all sizes, pigs of all nges, and performing the hundred and one mental jobs of feeding and cleaning, is thank- ful to turn some of them out, to case his drudgery.
But the folk who have used the path for months when there was little occasion that they could sec to close the gates behind them. cannot easily remember now to do so, because of the stock in the ad- Joining Belds.
Maybe those stocks will belong to different owners, so that trouble can come about between them by a third party getting the animals mixed.
It only needs a little more
standiness, and some under-
of the
of a farmer's life and the ways of animals, to avoid the friction and the damage.
Bottles that picnic parties leave behind them are another cause of trouble. A piece of broken glass in a horse's hoof can lame the unfortunate creaturė for months-perhaps a lifetime.
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A neighbour of mine has just lost one of his best cows because the animal awallowed a half-opened sardine tin left behind by a bunch of
plenickers. Evidently there had been enough of the oily flavour left in the tin to what the voracity of the cow's long tongue and that wrought the damage.
The vet. thought it was a case of tuberculosis, the collapse was so But the man, at the audden. Kennels found the tin and the tell- talo perforations in the creature's intestines.
Hero
then, are some of the reasons which earn for the farmer his reputation for grousing at the holldaymakers.
That people can be as thought- less as all this is proved by the trail of scorched woodlands and moors that a carelessly-discarded match, or cigarette end, kas
started up.
bo'
A
to And yet nobody wants nuisance-lcast of all those whose desire for change takes them out to the countryside.
So this is a plea for auch folk to remember the simple and uninten- tional ways in which the damage is done. ¡
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9 Only its tajt belongs to me (0). 10 Bulbs in the house in Winter
certainly do (10).
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11 After this, the decline (8). 12 "Neater edgo" (anag) (10), 17 What gave the count a start
(3). 18 Time to make amends apparent.
(8).
20 A prominent fellow? (4).
22 Politicians have to stand for it
(4).
23 This is useful in the dinner
service (5),
24 This thing is never calm (3). 20 The fellow who provided the
beef carton (10). beef
30 Most races produce it in the
first place (6).
31 This kind of thing might keep
one up to scratch (10)... 32. Not the samo (6).
33 A brass-hat starts vogueners
(10).
34 A canino (0),
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1 Not one of the hotheads of. Inbour (G)ile a card
what
2 Cite
is always embodied in an apprenticeship (0)... 4 te shows the correct order of route for this, kind of holiday
5 Sound thing to avoid when
V being shaved (6)
0 In mature diagulas for bovine
Advice (8)
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13 This wood naver escapes with-
out scratchings, (4),
14 It may give vent to 5 down (4), 15 Stirring request to us in eggs
(5) 10 The brave left it in war (5). 18 This part of the world upsets a
literal axiom (4).
10 This in red is very heated (4). 20 Log-pulling is apparently the
province of youth (83,
21 This without the fourth letter on
a roof in this (8).
25 A competitor (7).
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Ford
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cannot give as quick trans-
port as this" (0).
must look into it," said the prophet. (8).
28 Animais half feline (6)..
20 The sort of performance a tenor
gives? (6),
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