THE PARKERS
DON'T WANT YOUR PORNIDGE —
·POPPYCOCK! MOW WARNI
WAS YOUR AGE
A Short Story by
VIC DONALD
was a wild, a terrible figure
I that stumbled in fouch
the revolving glass doors of Nick's Superior Restaurant, and slumped down heavily in a corner scat. It was a man, un- doubtedly,
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1947.
by HODGES
Lovely Little You
Nick turned back to his customer with Southern Europenti phlegm. "Don' you wontano inore?""
The stranger bent his terrible visage towards him, "I'm hungry." "I haven't eaten for a fortnight. Get moving." Nick took one look at the gleam in the wild eyes and did as he was told. "All-a right,” he said. "I mot".
and with intensity,
In ten minutes, the steak was ready and a proud Nick brought it to the table. "Just what the quack he order," he said.
"No!" sereained the stranger. NO!". There was a binding red- white-and-brown Hasta Do Nick's colossus whistled welly terrific rend- Ing crush as it splintered the glass cowling of the juke-box. Then, there was silence.
With the measured precision of the automat, o record was swung out, the turntable slid up under it end began to revolve, the pick-up lower-frozen ed itself into place, and the atrains through the air, and of "Lovely Little You" pented forth. Nick smiled a satisfied smile. Even be knew the tune of the most suc- cessful hit in the last twenty years. "Broked," said Nick bitterly. He He went back to the stringer to turned an agonized face to the find him eating even faster than bestranger. "Waffor?" he demanded. fore. Nick waved towards the Juke- "You no like my Juke, huh?" box. "You Uke?"
The hairy one had somehow re- The same again" the
moved the battered felt, and his hair was a luxuriant mat across his fore- hend. When he sighted the steak he let out an animal growl, and yanking the plate from Nick's Creasy palm,
nol
Nick fairly hurtled off to the kit he fell on it like a wolf. Great bunks ehen. The sounds that issued from of meat began to disappear before it showed that he had his heart in the job. When he came back, "You don' | miraculously bearing a return-dish,
Nick's fascinated
The beard was flecked with foam. Just above the collar of the moth tom and mud-spattered overcoat
Hlia customer gulped the last pound loathe it!" he screamed.
Its owner palpitated with rage. "I and behind a two weeks growth of
of steals and the last egg together.de you hear? But most of all, I "Loathe it. hairy bristic, there lurked semblance of a nose, a mouth, and
voice had a terrible, cracked quality two whole weeks, I haven't slept, I he yelled. His abominate Lovely Little You! For two eyes. And above it all, squatted
about it that made even the juke-haven't eaten, because I couldn't get a hat in all its weather-beaten glory,
box round good."
away from 'Lovely Little You" He gave a quick look around and banged on the table. Nici hlwelt,
Nick scratched his head. "But she's a good number," he protested feebly never averse from doing the dirty
"She's a very". work, went across to pick up the
The ragged customer thrust a wild cruet.
countenance under "Whatya want?" Nick was
"My-n word," he said.
Nick's nose. It occurred the bedraggled overcoat was stand-manded passionately, "what it feels "Have you ever wondered," he de- one to waste time over the niceties, forget your swallow."
A cracked, hollow volce backed its to him that he hadn't been paid. ing up, and the mildewed chapeau like to be driven mad? Mnd?"
through way
the undergrowth."Twonnenees," he said tentatively. was brooding on the thatch. Al the "Slenk!" it Bald
The stranger, without pausing in sight of the food, the former sat clearly. "Juicy, thick, three-inch #tenk!"
his mastiention, reached a
grimy down again. The lalter stayed Nick turned away. "And chips!" hand into a pricket and Bung a ten-where it was, came from the beard. "Hundreds of that til! 7 Anish," he said between whiskers.;
porund
"Just in time," note on the table. "Keep chips!"
Sick turned many brain. "And Bulps, and give me the change". The juke-box paused for breath.
"Don't I know?" screeched the eytin, the lee went on relenting- Niete's fee broke into a wide grin. The completed record slicked back stranger. "Don't I know?" He gave ly wax can."
Suddenly the stranger seemed to him Into Its slot, there was
a wild, moniacal laugh. "I ought to to glow with a friendly light, "You Wheeze and whirr, and the music know! I wrote the thing myself"
started again. Something had gonely and he was gone. Hite-a some moosic?" he said..
The revolving doors swirled rapid- Little You" were on the air for the wrong. The
of "Lovely second time.
CROSSWORD
SOLUTION
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An Indecipherable mumble squeez cd past a mouthful of egg, and Nick went across to the juke-box in the With ten pounds in his poc- Corner. ket, he was feeling expansive. He siid right tokens into the machine and pushed eight different buttons,
Children's Corner
Conducted by Uncle Peter
Painting Can Be Good Fun
"The colour's all messy! It runs!" Ever said this? It's a common painting problem. There are other problems, too. [ERE'S some simple advice which HERE'S
may help you overcome them. Before you start to paint anything, bave a fairly large jar of clean water handy and several old saucers, some clean rag and a clean plece of blotting paper-just in case!
came from the
strains
short
The fast-breaker swung a horrible look of black hatred at the juke-box, but Niek trundling a fat nem in time to the music, missed It: "Tra-la-lo." he hummed, "Lovely-n leetle you-a!" The beard parted slightly in the middle, and four chips, two eggs, and seven ounces of steals hurtled " their doom., Nick looked at his custanter With concern. "Heh, mister," be salt. "Whaffor you wante cat like-a dat for? It's-a no fair an da fool, no'. fair on da stomach. Whalfor, huh?"
He got no reply. Once again, the Juke-box stopped, elleked, whirred, and set off on its third Imp. So did "Lovely Little You" Nick, safe in his cash desk, smilled sweetly at the ten-pound note and then at the nutomat.
An awful cry Bfted him to his his place. His valce was a shrick. fcet. The stranger was standing in: "I want ice-cream!" he shrilled. with nuts And strawberries: And passionfruit! And chocolate! quick!"
And
fick out the brush in the water-lar, or eke the next colour will become slightly muddyparticularly if it is light one. When making a blen- ded colour-for example blue and yellow mixed to give a special kind of green-don't be too sparing with "You betcha, by Joc." He plum- "Yes, sir,meester," sold Nick. CARE OF BRUSHES: These aret, or you may have difficulty in meted to the kitchen in a jagged scarce at present so look after them enough to do the job..
matching it again If there
isn't fash Wash all the colour out thoroughly.
of speed. Leyn thian two minutes later, he was back with a when you've flaished work so the WATER COLOURS: These are sundae having a dinmeter of one paint won't harden and spoil the more transparent Elian hairs.
poster foot. For backgrounds and big colours. To put on a dat wash of The stranger's face work a Students No. 5 brush is a colour, have the brush full of paint and his eyes were wild. He snatched was purple, good size, with a No. 2 brush for all the time and move it quickly in the giant freeze from Nick's hand fine work, Pick up the colour by long even strokes across the paper, and began to gulp it at a furious getting the brush moderately full so that the colour can't dry into hard rate. Then the juke-box stopped. of water and gently moving It side-edges. It's better not to "worry" So did the stranger. He stopped, ways in the paint. Don't dig it into the colour and gu over one spot his spoon poised in mid-air-while- the colour and swish it around" tike many times. Put on the wash as he watched the juke-box with the a mop in a bucket-brushes Just evenly as you can and let it dry same awful intensity as a cat wat- hate having their backs broken. thoroughly, then put another one thes a meuschole.
COLOURS: For fint colours and over it If necessary, With practice Inexorably, Nick's tokens did their very bright effects use poster colours, you'll be able to make water colour work. Inexorably, the levers clicked Squeeze a little into a saucer and washes an not as poster colour ones. aver, the record swung out, the turn- add enough water to make thin Remember that water colour is atable rose and began to revolve. In- creamy mixture.
delicate medium and as a rulo exorably, too. "Lovely Little You" After using any colour always should not be used too thickly. started for the fourth time.
Skeleton
CLUES AFROSS
1. El arvensent
B. Gho was ROI
the perfect
Blepherdess,
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tour
thing
for Ron
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kaur erunt.
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cunatella-
tlan, to the
French no-
13. In a way
pasted in-
stead in a way.
14. I have unished this
Alas. the wrong way.
15. Old oncs msko
painters.
18. What the anako
Austered,
the
19014
beat
did-when
20. Finish of a heat that is equi
valent to A. result,
But to do this is no part of the parliamentary foller's'
job.
a. it goes to the front with mang
Highlander.
23. It sounds pretty sedate, what
the plouder did.
24 Woman'w,wear în windows,
CLUES, DOWN
2. Initially a part of the United
Nations.
NANCY
LET'S GO DOWN |TO-TH' TOUGH. [NEIGHBORHOOD'
AND SEE ALL [TH' ROWDIES AND YEGGS
Crossword
3. 18 nömothing Important did
happen on October 13, 1740. what of thnk today ?
4. To give up. In return,
6. A brush with a witch.
6. Paloz Eros or make speeches,
7. Despite her autuame, she did
a great deal in "Pygmalion."
1. A goddess causes' quite a lot
of lun.
9. After a large 'upset, tako fia
girl to dine.
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World for Women
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every black Kure to the top left quarter tust have a corresponding black in the top right, buttom felt no bottom right unustris. So lack all the squares enrresponding the four trendy indest and have 12 black squares.
Htudy the che number. Before clue i you have to Bed place- for 1, and 10 Across and 24 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 DAY. on the tra line there must be an Aerosk clús to balance No. 14. Obviously that will be No. 10, as this be ir Across citie.
Notice that clue 1 ls Açtırss matt there I no 1 Down, so you can binck in the sanare under that containing No. 1, and the three others to correspond. The rest should be easy. No words of less than three letters are used
LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION
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UNDERWORLD
Nick hadn't. "But don' you hear?" he asked. "She's a heat, yessir, one verree beeg heet, all ri. They sell
hundred touran' coples in one-a- week. Dan you know?"
SIDE GLANCES
DRUGS
Are You Sure?
Answers on Page 10
1. In which sport, is the term spinnaker used-
Golf, cricket, badminton, yachting, angling?
2. When it is noon in Lon- don is
Britnight, Gall, i am, 10
in Sydney?
p.m.
3. Monkey nuts grow Underground, on low bushes, tall freca?
ALDHAM
ALDHAM
4. Not a mapmaker's error. Two villages, 15 miles apart, in adjoining counties
Do you know where?
5.
The nearest planet to the sun is
Jupiter,
Mora Venus, Mercury?
Uranus,
How many spelling mis-
takes here...
Mischevious, tracable, ver.
tical, surviver, wield?
7. What is a wapiti? Would
find It
You
N. America, New Zealand, South
Glo rico Richmond Park,
México?
"Heights of Abra-
8. The ham" are in-
Syria, Lebanon, Wales, S. Africa?
0. How many petals bas ሲ buttercup
3, 5, 7, 97.
10.
Kum is produced from- Maize, sugar, dates
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According To Culbertson
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson) The declarer started off well in to-day's hand, but he wasn't there with the follow-through.
North, dealer Both sides vulnerable
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Sinatra's Garbo Pose Not Howling Success
Frank Sinatra has decided that "going Garbo" isn't alt it's cracked up to be. After banning studio audiences for a fortnight, he is tired of being alone and has admitted the moh once more.
Only the ban on bobby-soxers remains. To get a studio seat when "The Voice" is exercising his larynx, you must be 21 and guaranteed not to cheer, moan or shriek,
Nothing is said about being in your i sane and sober senses.
cess, except for the buzz, like an "Over 31" broadcast was a suc-
overturned beehive, which altered
through th
the closed doors from tho disappointed swooners.
RAF MERCY MISSION SUCCESSFUL
Declarer viewed this sequence of plays with the disquiet it was bound to raise. Enst's sinister design was all too clear. He was prepared to grob the first trump led, then to
Racing against time to anve put West In and
ruff
a diamond re-
the life of an Indian serviceman turn, South decided that he would try to do
the British Commonwealth They turned up in hundreds, but of to do something about this! Instead of rushing to Lako
were knocked back by an army of Occupation Force, F/Lt. W. trumps, he led three rounds
policemen and of
Drinkell flew his RAF transport pages. The cluba, hoping to discard his other
special Invitation cards stated aircraft for more than 100 losing heart." He
"We regret that, obviously Was
owing to clr- disgusted when East ruffed the third cumstances beyond our control, per miles along dangerous winding club-so disgusted that he took no
sons under 21 will not be admitted." valleys of central Japan in a
"Oceans pains to analyse the eltuation. He
Emotion"
recent midnight flight. over-ruffed, then led the spado king, However, not even the special pre-
Drinkel was called from his beef. plainly, "What cautions could prevent some of the at Iwakuni just after midnight, his expression sayingHe was not bobby-soxers from getting in.
Down one!
Dressed in
of
fur coats
the
front
row
can I do about even surprised when East, hovlag
and high and told that Miho station, 120 won with the spade ace, promptly heels and specially made up for the miles away, had urgently requested underted his high heart,
putting occasion, they got through the picket transport for an Indian serviceman. West in with the Jack. The dia-lines, but, knowing the slippery hold He was told that a few hours' delay In jumping to three hearts Eual mond return and ruff wound up the they had of their positions, kept might mean the difference between.
lite was of course trying to use a two-matter.
and death for the patient. quiet throughout the broadcast. edged weapon. He wanted to reach
Two girls in
Because of night flying hazards, It is strange Indeed that South bounced up in their sente as Frankie and with F/Lt. John McMillari as a four-heart contract if West had
Drinkell called for a volunteer crew, a little help and he also hoped to did not think of the supremoly sim came in, but did not talk afterwards, radio keep the opponents quiet if, as he ple move of discarding his last heart They later presented him with a car-
and F/O. Peter suspected they had the higher when East ruffed the club. Then
nation and a card rending: Ocetus Fay as navigator, he took off on ranking spode suit. The spade con- how would East have given his
the
flight. An experienced of emotion." centration in South's hand of course partner the lead for the diamond
pilot, Drinkell knows every mile made this hope. futile,
return?
of the area and he made the trip in almost record time.
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An ambulance with the patient medlent orderly was waiting air strip at Miho, where Drinkell was warned that, because of the patient's injury, he would have to keep the alteraft at the lowest possible nltitude on the re- Britain la financing, under exchango turn journey: He flow the control, sterling transactions involv bacit
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