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1947.
Sitting on the
THE pink - checked young man sitting in the Barley Mow with The Only Girl in. the World is St. George who slow the Dragon just about two years ago.
In the Barley Mow they are unaware of his identity or his high destiny. They have even forgotten that he was a soldier in the British Army.
Athough he is popular because he is mode, courteous and forever at the service of damsels in distress, they are always wondering why he hangs about so much, why he doesn't do something steady,
Fence
by NATHANIEL GUBBINS
"There you go again with your
old dragon," says the Only Girl.
"Before wa
both go, screwy you ought to see a specialist or some.
With that English gift for being affectionately insulting they call him thing.
the
"I'm not screwy," says St. George. prived of her chain-smoking "I have fought the Dragon for by the Budget, the Only Girl in the thousand years, but I have never World looks sulkier than ever. With been thanked for it,” her heavy make-up end ever- "For Cripes anke," says the Only developed figure she reminds you of Girl that menale of the movies, Jane
Russell.
St. George, admiring every detall of her pudgy, powdered face, thinks her für loveller than all the women in the world, and far lovelier than all the lovely things in the world, the moonlight, the sunlight and the flowers.
He is distressed because he can't afford to buy the goddess another packet of cigarettes,
The trouble with you the 18 telling him, making faces at herself in her handbag nýrror, "is that you can't stick anything. What you need is Euts,"
"Not that a true and chivalrous knight expects thanks or seeks re- ward," says St. George, "but one cannot tolerate insolence from serv ing men and lackeys"
"So your oss, who is paying you money, is a serving man and a lackey now, is he?"
"When I rescued my first damosel," says St. George," auch fellows would have cleaned my harness,"
"Lite the way you cleaned the colonel's buttons when you was a batman, I suppose?"
The pleture of the ginger and white kitten on the captain of Warsplie's mantelpleer.
mennest
It was evident to tho Intelligence that at some mo or another two ginger and white cats in Warspite has fallen desperately In love with each other,
The Conference
DOUND about nine o'clock in the
Revening Captain M. H. A. Kelsey
DSC... IN., then in command of Warspite, invited newspapermen to his quarters for an eve-of-the-battle conference.
To cheer us up and make us feet at home, there were all kinds of drinks, cigars, cigarettes and ginger and white kittens.
There was even a photograph' of a ginger and wirte kitten on the captain's mantelpiece.
I heard voices discussing to morrow's action but my eyes were fixed on two ginger and while kittens engaged in a Efe and death struggle Found the captain's ankles.
SILA
The captain
saying that although at a staff conference no trouble was, expected on the way,
POCKET CARTOON
"Maybe it's the effect of the wet weather on the unseasoned wood."
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
NE of the most difficult
Oroblems incing Britain is
"Members will cri-
to was personally not so optimistic. to decide how hunting the fox Along the coast we had to pass can be carried on during very people you love, not for their virtues or their accomplishments, but for were batteries of modern German bad weather. their odd ways and their foolishness. 11in. guns(one of the kittens tried
Nobody who read the recent on- I shall always remember Warspite to escape, punishment from the other for her tinger and white kittens. by scrambling up h's trouser lex nouncement,
Wardeavour to keep contact with hounds these guns were superior to Dented and scarred, stripped of
hunters of being frivolous people, all her defences but her ack-ack and spite's old thunderers. And we had by using cars," will accuse fox- to keep to a mine-swept channel. 15-inch guns, and with her bottom
(The But couldn't they have given No getting out of range. full of holes and patches, she Wito escapist kitten
hounds was dragged down them in "She was goldy all over just like begin at 8.30 am. on November, the stomach. The eastain brushed sniling to her last bottle, timed to
by the tail and severely bitten in 1. you. Goldy hair, goldy brown eyer, 1914. t: enver the landing of Marine goldy hairs on hier
trousers,
"You are very much like the first
damosel I rescued."
"Must have used the same make- up.'
"I suppose it is," says St. George thinking of the time he faced the Dragon alone, almost unarmed."
"Look at that last job you had voldy slippers on arms and sort of Commando at Walcheren, with her
expect that's what it is."
nastoreman," she says, "thrown
for away. And
Why? "Because I don't like sitting in a slore counting things," Jays St. Gearge.
was
"Perhaps the
Goldilocks magazines full of cordite and the
rest of or full of kittens. herself," suggests the Only Girl
"You are also very much like the
I met at Agincourt." virl
"Haven't I heard enough about Aldershot without Agincourt?"
"Do
you remember the ball at Brussels jual before I slewo the Dragon again at Waterloo?"
I remember seeing my first ginger and white cilen in the wardroom the night before we eailed, A couple ployed round my legs at dinner.
each other down alleyways, leaped at my trousers from behind rile meks, and quile a little bodyguard
"Picky and choosey, aren't you?" "Perhaps I am," says St. George.
There were several in the warrant "And then my lord resigned, if
asks officers' mess, where I spent most you please, from the responsible St. George, gazing carnestly at her. of the evening. Several more chased position of commissionaire outside
"For the love of mike give me a cinema because he didn't want to a cigarette before I go crazy." look like a Rumanian general."
where ton are" says St. George, Who does?" asks St George. gluing her his last. "You was never more Lan
Ta, ever $3," says the Only Girl. private soldier yourself," says the "And Georgle boy. Don't Only Girl.
spivving any more. Try a regular Army was plate in their is job. And next tree a doctor, Wan't I was a private in the British job. And next time you see them you?
1
bla
For our information we should be German battery passing the Arst just before duwn so they pught not (The kittens growled and pot us. screamed us they strove for a knock
would And that
uli Dut.) gentlemen. Goodnight.
Battle begins
وط
T 8.30 am, precisely the battle A started. The same two ginger and white kittens, refreshed after
the
lift instead of chasing cars? And could not by parachute to the hounds? "Foxes planes have been used to drop foxes tilely ventured into town streets." says my paper. What! Was there no M.F.II. peering round the curtain in the library? "Mason! Lay out my hunting it! There's a fox out- slue the Six Bells." Suct clears it up
THERE has been a temporary hold- THERE
up in the four-way registration scheme, due to the fact that many regional officers do not know which two forms to send out first and to their hesitation to mark them "up" a good night's sleep on a Marine's and "down" before getting back the followed round on a tour of
blanket and Amashing breakfast first two sent out under the back of fried fish in inspection,
a corner of the and forth process. By withholding the second two the other people are Further below, the ship seemed battleship's vast kitchens, were on alley were either sitting on Marines, tongs. alled with ginger and white kittens, deck and. at it again, hammer and getting the first two confused with the ones sent back before the second directive different."
or Marines were sitting on them,
Like us, they had escaped possible lot came in. A strong "And then, of all things," says
destruction dawn by German guns om Suet himself says: "Unita of "I will," says St. George, "Maybe, accidentally, of ecurse.
multiple registration, calculated the Only Girl, "my Lord Picky sooner than you think. All the spius
because we learned afterwards)
two groups of two each, must be Some had been sat Choosey has to take hold of the will be
on by very Canadian troops had stormed and dealt with aimultaneously, in order accing doctors-seeing large Marines and were manager of a gentleman's outtters, they're fit to slay the Dragon again." made a great fuss of, propped up we passed. So, like, us, they were necks."
therefore destroyed the batteries just before to avoid overlapping and bottle- who is paying my lord £5 11 week,
in curners with pillows aid, saucers feeling fine. of warm mille.
They watched the tattered battle Weather forecast Dozens of others wero altling on ding go up, and when the first 15-inch salled with the kneza of very large Marines, shell was Ared at the shore the MEN who have
Warsplte-wrecked in a Cornish pop-eyed, like kids at a party, playing kittens, like us, jumped about a foot haps, only in its infancy. cove into her many battles must with buticns and eating out of paper in the pir. But when they had remember her, as you remember bags.
and clock him on the disser for being
checky."
"He was a conscientious objector
when I was fighting the Dragon," says St George. "I saved him from the Dragon, then he talks to me like a dog."
Kittens into battle
DANGER Of CHURCH-STATE
CLASH IN BRITAIN
-By PAMELA MATTHEWS
looked wildly round for a moment
In
The science of meteorology la për-
{Morning paper.)
to see who did it they soon forgot AND what a very silly infant. It the battle proper and flew at each sits huddled' overs fomfool other's stomachs to resume their instruments in a great building, in- private war.
stead of going out and looking at After some hours of the ear-split- the sky, or, better, 'osking a country- fing noise they grew tired (who man what is going to happen to the
didn't?) and slept
the prophets together weather. Every time like children on some
mistake, flag make a particularly bad signals. Then they
were awake they fall back on the word "com agaln ta shart A sandwich plex," Without the aid of any lunch with anybody; and, after machinery, and by merely using my washing their faces ulioroughly, were
fighting once more,
wils, I can tell you here and now that t low belt of hot air is due to meet a high belt of cold air next Monday. This will mean either southward depression moving north-
The danger of a head-on clash to Parliament is a state of affairs Its results, he believes are to be between Church and State for on which dignitaries of the Ortho-, seen in the police and divorce Britain's established Church of dox Church from Athens to Mos- courts.
or a northward depression the "Marriage is not regarded as
The Inst I saw of the ginger and word A England 13, frankly faced by Dr Cow have expressed surprise,
moying southward. Cloud, sunshine Archbishop adds: "The Church. is sacrament, but as a contract which white kittens was in the wardroom.
rain will be followed, next Cyril Garbett, the Archbishop of drifting towards dinoster it it allows can be broken by mutual consent. It was getting late. The objective and York, in a comprehensive study year to pass without making de Adultery is treated even more flip- had, been achieved. The last shot week, by rain, sunshine and cloud.
and of institutional religion entitled termined and sustained attempt pantly on the stage
In the was being fired. The battle
Right again, sir! "The Claims of the Church of from ages when the Church
inherited novel thon it was by the playwright | almost over,*
and and courtiers of the "Restoration, But not the eternal battle between England," published by Hodder Nation were one, but which now in
while fornication is excused as
Inter-planetery warfare, when it A the kittens,
comes, will certainly not be con- and Stoughton.
a time of rapid change has become harmless pleasure condemned
With no holds barred, they were ducted by bow and arrow. fraught with danger."
the
to
readjust a position
DRIFT OF STATE CHURCH
Garbett's
The strongest misgivings are ex- about pressed by the Archbishop the control which since the Re- formation in the 16th century has The general drift from the slate' been exercised by the British Par church in Britain is r ilament over purely doctrinal at Becond reason for urging reform of ters of Anglican Church policy and the existing dangerously close Hink about the control exercised by with Parliamentary control. British prime ministers over
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Though in the past, by a curious ly British anomaly, actual clashes belween the British state church have and the British Parliament.
Garbett been rare, Dr that in the future the position may be more serious for two reasons. TOTALITARIAN TENDENCY
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The present state of affairs dates from the 16th century when Parlin ment could be assumed to be made
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FAITH LOST
Dr Garbett believes that the problem facing the Anglicen Church is nothing less than the re- conversion, of a generation which has virtually lost his faith in Chris- tianity.
"The hard facts of the present position," he says, "are that there is widespread indifference to, and Today, the official considers
membership ignorance of Christian faith and of the Church of England amounts ethics, that Church attendance to some 2,500,000 persons out of a
far less general than it was 50 years population of 40,000,000, Yot ud-
ot
quence on national life than it once
ministrativo control of the oficial go, that the Church has less in- Church still lies in the hands Parliament now almost completely had and the work of the clergy Is out of sympathy with its teachings.. exceptionally difficult.""
of
The first is the "tendency to
To face this task, in an age wards totalitarianism in the state." Believing that state control of the Dr Garbett ascribes this general crisis in which disaster may ta Anglican Church, ahead, Dr Garbett appeals for in- Church of England is likely to be drift from the intensified. Dr Garbett says: "A which has now been compensated ternal reform. The Church will denomina- not be able to meet the great claims Church so controlled would be un- by adherence to other able to
to develop freely its spiritual lions, and, he says, goes so far as to of tomorrow unless in its own life life, to organise Its worship, ex make it doubtful whether Britain there is holiness," he says. press its faith, and to bear Its wit is today, a Christian country, affect ped of its wealth, its privileges, its "But amid the devastation, strip- social wrong political injusties and world wars, the disintegrating effect
to the threat of atomic destruction buildings, the Church of God will Stressing that the legal sub and widespread changes in social survive if it is loyal to its Master." servience of the Anglican Church customs,
ness against
NANCY The Opportunist!
NANCY'S GETTIN' AWFUL CONCEITED
LATELY
SHE'S ALWAYS LOOKIN' AT
HERSELF
GUM
Reuter..
HAW-HAW --- SHE TRIPPED --- DAT
OUGHTA TAKE TH CONCEIT OUTTA
KER
(Professor D. J. Maudsley.)
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