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Aha! Numskulla and that from Morning Post writer. I slap my paunch and I laugh out loud. Tis a merry life, good people all, I for one owe it no grudge.
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1981.
by way of teaching, they presume to add that syen a flea humbles me, and would leave them financially em- long after his boat who id orumble, nice, but would mean a false present- criticise and contradict and venture because it is more agile. It is true barrassed for years to come. Mouin- and he himself be mingled with the ment of life. However, ocasions for to disagree wow!.
my emotions are not all pure humility, ing sincerely as we all were, you are clay. They looked so strong, so per praise being rate, I do not want to I am old, very old. I know that for I regard him as a trespasser and to understand that we were conscious manent. The author who imagined miss any. There is a man in this some of my readers at this moment resent him. In this I surrender to of that all the time. The thought of it New Zealander meditating on the are smiling ud enjoying what they pure prejudice, for he has a vested was a sort of running accompaniment ruins of St. Paul would hardly have Colony, lately figuring more in the suppose to be my feelings. Caught interest in the human body, and he to our grief. Now, just as we got to foretold such a thing of this pier of public eye, whom I would praise, a tartar, has he? Serve him righ.. must live." It is humbling to the the graveside, in the presence of an mine, along which I have trod so often This praise will embarrass him, and be He needs taking down a peg." I can rationalist, you will now observe, to enormous crowd of people the corpse and so happily. Of course there will unwelcome, for though his motto is imagine I hear them.
find that there are prejudices even he sat up and objected to be buried. be a successor farther out, which I undoubtedly social service, he seems Well, now I'll retire from this | must share.
Said it wasn't really dead, or words to may even be here to see and use, but one of those who would prefer to do trumpery affair with an att captandum
I have this week been that effect. The family was much up. meanwhile the stone pier is being dis good by stealth and blush to hear it manoeuvre that will allow me to get
HABIT. reading that old book set, and appealed to me. "Leave it to articulated, and I pay it the tribute of mentioned. In the spirit of the out gracefully. This Morning Post
called Priests, Women, Adversarius," they said, "he's always a sigh. The sunsets I have seen from soldier who spoke of Gunga Din, he's thug has it in for you too. He refers and Families," by Michelet, and was very rational. The crowd, many mere it; the jolly marine excursions that a better man than I am. I aspire, be to you as the little crowd of num much struck by bis observations on acquaintances and sightseers were all have begun and ended there, the does. I preach, he sets an example. skulls who read his [my] weekly the forms of habit. So apparently, for calling the funeral off. They said successful smuggling that--but no. IA reading man (and a fascinating effusions regularly because they con
was a reader before me, some one who it wasn't usual to bury people alive, don't want those Revenue chaps sak writer when he likes) his books are sidered them brilliant."
read this same copy in 1850, over 70 and it ought not to be done.
ing me inconvenient questions. That cheerfully leat to mere acquaintances. years ago! He has put in a marginal reasoned with them. I remember Grimmett is a terror, and Ward would He sends papers and magazines to note about "unconscious memory that I reasoned with
them be quite capable of searching my people he thinks they will help. He cell bioplasm," which is quite to the passionately. I said they must not yacht. Suffice it that I bid the old was one of the first workers-RG point. Says Michelet. As we ad- let themselves be led away by passions stone pier a fond goodbye. I climb distinct from taikers--for the Brother- Yauce in life a considerable portion of and prejudices to which we were all the street var and look back at it, and hood League. He joined in with the French Bank depositors. He is the Can make itself very our activity escapes our notice, re-equally liable. I bagged them to use I kiss my hand to it. It is going on, Sec. of the Book Club, his notion ridiculous. Why moves from the sphere of liberty to their brains, and, not listen to this where went the med that made it.
of the duties of Hon. Sec. being large DE METIER: should น young enter that of habit, and becomes as it lying corpse. Corpses never had been
Anecdotes that and lavish, as admiring members note. journalist, whose were fated
The fatal part known to tell the truth, I said, and
A DINNER-TADLE are funny without He has other activities of which I highest literary achievement may increases within us, without our inter- would not be accepted as witnesses
STORY./ being too vular know only vaguely, but they are all have been a laboured sonnet in the ference, and grows in the darkness in any court of law. We had the death
not 20 on like lines--nnostentatious ovial Swartiku, bs too proud to learn from of our inward nature. What former certificate and the burial certificate
service. His initials are C. G. We had come to bury an older hand? They should be gladly struck our attention, now passes for this one.
him, and we proposed to carry out to profit by my exposures. Suppose unperceived. What was I let them wallow in their ignorance? difficult, in time grows easy, too easy. the programme as arranged, and I urge them to Think, I show them At last we can no longer say even disappoint nobody. You've got to how. Are they grateful? No. They that it is easy, for it takes place of remember, I said, that even if he is put their fat heads together and con- its own accord, independently of our not dead now, he soon will be. He oct columns of tedious abuse like that will; we auffer if we do not do it. cannot live for ever. You've also Ltd. in the Morning Post, which wasn't These acts are incessantly got to remember that the money has even readable. They admit (in effect) renewed. A second nature, formed already been spent on this funeral, that they were pitchforked into jobs at the expense of the first, becomes that it cannot be recovered, and that they are unfit for; they have to fill its substitute. We forget the begin- if this family does not bury him now, those yawning columns; they have no inge, and fancy we have always heen it never will, for it will not be able to strong dissatisfaction that her legs applause which greeted them. The illusions as to the quality of the fill- so."
raise such a sum again. It is now or
were still giving her trouble. Pm spir.t of the utterance was false, how- ing; they claim that "consideration"!
This applies to habits of thought never. Why pay such attention to sorry," said the doctor, "then I sup- over, and what was the good of it? should be shown them because of these as well as to others. In thinking the the selfish arguments of the corpse/pose you won't want me to call any Why not announce that the nights things. Very well. Grant that that line of least resistance is fatally at Remember the greatest good of the more?" "Oh dear, no" replied the are drawing in, or that there is a lot old lady, "for I'm most satisfied with of sickness about? I never supposed, is good argument (which I don't). Does tractive, and many men imagine they greatest number. it not apply also to me? Is it not are being true to principle, and to
the way you've treated my chest and and I do not think any intelligent possible that I could not so con- themselves, when they are merely
I wouldn't lose you for anything. But person has ever suggested, that the veniently fill my columns as by indulging bad habit. Environment,
I'm afraid you're not much good at so called disarmament proposals (they legs.
So I've called in a native were never more than for partial
disarmament) were · a pointing out and making capital of sometimes "select" and "exclusive,"
medicine-man who, I know, is good end war. They were to reduce taxa- their mistakes? Let them give me does for some men what Michelet was
at legs. You must go on looking tion. It is obvious to fool that if the consideration they appeal for, complaining that a "spiritual dire did so But no! I want none. That was tor" does for women. This perhaps rhetoric. Anything I write must explains why some highly educated stand or fall on its merits.. Bhow it men profess things that seem incon- up if it is ever misleading or false or sistent with their intellectual advance- foolish, and I will probably take an-ment, and are by consequence sus- other nok at it.
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"Disarmament," re- FROGS AND marked one of those A European doctor friend of ours
PHILOMEL. men who annoy me
by existing, "will'not, was once called in to attend a Chinese
abolish war. You cannot end war lady who was suffering from pains in
without converting bumac. nature.' her chest and a rash on her legs. He
are Under analysis his words treated her according to the textbooks and her chest considerably improved, sickeningly true and incontrovertible but the rash proved obstinate. In a that I can understand the murmur of week or two the patient expressed
after the cheat and he will cure the
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Just then my people shook me awake, and told me I had been talking my sleep, so I do not know what happened at the graveside, and or it is likely that I never may and I want to know whether
or not I convinced that crowd
rash." So the doctor and the medi- all the fighters disarm to the extent Somehow, I have doubts.
It is quite true (a cine-man divided the patient into of fifty per cent.. there will remain "spheres of influence," our friend the other half, which means war. The pointed out) that re
a little war in that between much STATEMENT duction of armaments taking charge of her down to the waist only difference between a big war and and the leg-artist assuming (a "naval holiday")
suffering and somewhat less. A small will throw men ont of responsibility for her nether limbs, baby can defile a bed as badly as a
and the doctor calling during the morning and the native practitioner in big one. Then as to changing human the afternoon. Such an arrangement atur. Quite so. To announce in was perhaps not in accordance with that way that as long as human nature the strictest Home practice, but the what it is, we will have war, means that the announcer does not believe result proved satisfactory.
in the possibility of human nature But this is also good, changing, and so far as his own share and may be used to tease is concerned, he has reason. Nine any poet you meet at a times out of ten he would rather it dinner party. Of poetry didn't change, because that would this teaser said that it prove him wrong. All we pacifists
THAT OUTS NO 10:
work and increase
unemployment. So did the end of the war. A prophylactic for an- employment would have been to keep the war going on. Will anybody rise to second that!
PEACOCK
ON
POETRY.
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How stupid, how utterly to me to have the minds of elderly i
Barius. Please WARNING. false and contrary to all charwomen, without the common MISUNDERSTANDING. forward."
experience are some of savvy and native wit that those good
Envelopes so the thinge we learn in youth, and ladies acquire. I am out to ginger addressed are sent me by the Editor. later must unlearn with pains greater them up a bit. They need it.
Each one is opened in a mood of than the learning cost. This is nearly was the mental rattle that awakened try to do or even haps to do is by The banding back lively, almost anxious speculation, the opposite of a striking passage I the attention of intellect in the attrition to start the change. We can abolish admiration of war to China of leased Will it be of the sort that opens mut this week in my reading, that infancy of civil society; but for the territories in abruptly: "Sir. To a fool of your "everything tends ultimately to sink maturity of mind to make a serious and to that extent have succeeded. China, by various calibre, etc"? Or one of the breezy into the condition of being taken for business of the playthings of its We can convert here and there hu Powers, has been discussed at Wash-"Dear Old Thing" kind, with "I granted. The great truths have childhood is as absurd as for a full-man nature to a disposition less ready ington, and the case of our Kowloon think yon ought to be told, etc" in to be recreated as novelties for grown man to rub his gama with coral, for war, less easily acquiescent, and hinterland was mooted. It is a pity it? One this week calls my attention each generation." That also is true. and cry to be charmed to sleep by the that also we are doing. This is the leaven that may yet leaven the lump, that there was none better advised to a misspelling in the China Mail of The first sentence is nobly pregnant, jingle of silver bella,"
His Four Ages of Poetry," in so that by and by any civilized com- than Mr. Balfour to explain and show the name of Harrogate, which out It was, however, the things that have that this territory is on a quite differ-reporter and proofreaders allowed to risen to the condition of being taken which he was so rough on the pany will look at a man who men ent footing to others. He said some- appear as "Harrowgate," As a fault for granted, things that should never affectations of Wordsworth, Shelley's tions war as they do at man who thing footling about it being necessary finder? Not on your last chance of have been taken for true at all, that famous defence, and Browning's essay utters an indecency at a mixed party. to protect Hongkong from artillery ginsling. He simply has a story for were in my mind. I was thinking on Shelley, have recently appeared in I do not expect this oracle I write of of myself in Saturday's Morning Post. on the landward wide. It is much me, apropos, and he delivers it thus: particularly of that common opinion one cheap volume, Percy Reprints, to help, but I'll do my utmost to prevent him hindering. I protested 1 bad glanced through the Post and more important than that, and much A curate staying at the famous spa, which holds that after a great shock, by Blackwell of Oxford, 4s 6d.
mach at the time, and got vote against ANDERSON,~On December 2, 1921, missed it. I am privately considere sympathise with China's se- and wishing to write a letter, found notably a narrow escape from death,
at Shanghas, to Mr. and Mrs. ably flattered by this attack, capecial pirations for complete home rale, we himself in doubt as to the spelling man can never be the same that he THE NEWS THAT's pleasure in pas-him. Now I would like him to say
cannot allow the main objection to of the name of the place. Beckoning was when it happened. Save for the
GOING BOUND." eing on this poem similar things publicly, so that I may John Andersun, à daughter. ly as I think I know the authorship. the return of our hinterland to be a waiter in the writing room, he asked abstract truth that no man is ever
to you. 'Tis by a name him. FENTON.-On December 5, 1921, at Based on voluntary confessions of
Has not Sir William him in a whisper, for there were the same from hour to bour, but is in boy that means well, but is troubled Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. E. my own in the past, the tirade makes Rees Davies pointed out that the others writing whom he did not wish a state of constantly becoming, that with a pimple on his afflatus: Fenton, a daughter.
me out a gifted man who has failed; CARNOCHAN-On December 31 am described as a "might have Fanling Golf Course is world famous? to disturb: "Is there a Win is a misleading untruth. I saw death was face to face recently. Now that I am What would our Civil Service do, if Harrogate ?" 1921, at Shanghai, to Mr. and been." That is quite true. I Mrs. J. Carnochan, a daughter.
a failure. I ought to have Fanling went back to China? Chauge momentarily flabbergasted, but al- still here, having dodged him for this is unthinkable.. Whatever happens most instantly answered, "No, Sir." once, I am expected (if only by that Fanling must abide under the British Then confidentially he added "Not part of my mind which retains past in- DEATH.
flag..
since the ostler's wife left here, Sir."structions) to be a reformed character. I am to be more loving, to quarrel. Speaking of the need DOESN'T for giving reasons for less, to be more serious, In there and faith, the Archbishop of like waye I aim to "profit" by my Canterbury is reported to escape. It was, in the old-fashioned
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At Shanghai O'BEN.--Early on the morning of why this happened. It was my own
EXTRATERRITORIALITY, a policeman fault. My anonymous assassin does December 5, 1921, at Shanghai. not indicate it. He would not even
bos bean san- Mr. A O'Ben (Au Ben), Maunging if he guessed it, for he will is to tenced to two months imprisonment for Director of The Sincere tomund, Ass! How possibly wound technically arresting & foreign gentle-have asid that "personally, he found diction, "a warning," It is wasted on one who is invulnerable, packyder-man during an opium raid. It was that one of the strongest bits of me, and when I think of the slow, matous, indurated, dwelling remote as laid down that without a warrant armour when attacked with certain cumulative growth of character, of an in stellar spaces? He telle a malicions from the Consul concerned, no for- questions, was the simple answer I individuality, I am not surprised that le. How do I feel? Excited, sugry? eigner can be arrested. I call the do not know." Hardly armour, one isolated emotion cannot do sa No. Merely bored by the necessity attention of the other newspapermen surely? More like "He who fights much as many years of impingements, *TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE" of pointing it out, when I might be to the fact that this has bearing on and runs away, may live to fight of stimuli, of the countless co- HONGEONG, SATURDAY, Dec. 10, 1991.writing something amusing. He says the subject of extraterritoriality, another day."
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ADVERSARIA.
Bay! Have you galoots
A MEAN got no love for literature
JUNCIL.
Our YACHTING SENSATION
operative causes of the effect we call personality. Doubtless the smotion,
I have
It is no more distressful, that land
where green is worn, And Erin dries her eyes and laughe;
at freedom newly born. Bare now the folk may toss their bulla, and shaughrauns happier
be
Since Carsonism has been waked,
and the Irish State is Free. No more will mad shillelagh's swing,
Do more Sinn Fein need hide The Irish Free State now existe, and shares the Empire's pride. Och, the long turmoil is over, that
the world so sorely vaxed: And Pat avick can trail his coat
and az aloud "Who's next! " As if he was a barber in a busy
barber shop.
A shaver shaving very close and
shaved afore he'd stop. The shamrock weak lifts up ita head, bewide the bluabing rose, And all in the garden's lovely; at
least so I suppose.
It is a pity that LODOERE IN Mr.Pollock didn't GOVT. QUARTERS. ask those ques
tions
(about Government servants in expensive Government Quarters having lodgers). "off his own bat," instead of citing an anonymous correspondent. It permitted such an unctuous condem nation of anonymous correspondents, and forces me to recall that the peculiar manners and customs of Hongkong still compel anonymity in some cases. In any case a Civil Servant's lodger is never a lodger. He is at most a Paying Guest, and how are we to prove that he pays? Still, as ons frank man to another, I inform any official who cared to listen that I am sasured such casa do (or recently did) exist, and that I believe they do. I do not say it is wrong. I cannot understand the fuss about it, but I believe the official denial to be mistaken.
ORANGB. FREE STATE.
one of my methods is cleverly to Suppose that a consul could be in-
It is not often that a such as it was, will make its mark, and twist words so as “tɔ attribute some duced to come "in" on a smuggling
pun is no appropriate that mark appear in some later Me; obviously ridiculous statement" to deal with his nationale, what then?
as one made, on the but for the nonce I have the same im those I quote and criticise.
When I survey the
name of Mr. Belilios pulses that I had before, the same That is the lin. I quote with HUMBLING world around aud
yacht, the Dwynwen. craving to express and assert, myself,
I wish I could re- meticulous care and honesty. There
mark how much there The owner was getting anxious about and the same carelessness of con THINGS. has far been po need, no
member it always at is to make me feel her, as she was week overdue at
sequences. I shall get drunk again that costs more than ten temptation, to invent or manufacture humble, I wonder that I have any Colombo, where, according to Router when the due date comes round, and
Of all conceited writers,
the right times my- self, but a ratt ing cents, or have you got ridiculous statements" in the other conceit left. In the presence of youth she has just arrival, after being be-
Hugo and somehow all writers any likelihood of so far am I from".
seem conceited, Victor good bit of advice to newspaper we money, or what? I suspect it is papers. They provide them lavishly. I am humbled because they have calmed on the way from Adon, a turning the other cheek to the what. A fortnight ago I offered to This is because of their unfitness for more time than I have. In the pre run" which took 16 days, and saiter I shall give the next pre Hugo would be one of the most con- eritics is always make sure." The book orders for may autobiography their jobs. This would-be assassin sence of age I feel my inferiority in reduced the crew of ton to biscuit sumptuous human cauliflower who spicuously so. Would it be the writer of the sub-leader in Thursday's (with history of the Adversarius notually confesses of them to avoid the matter of experience. If I meet fare. Mr. Bolilica was giving the
amily) for is mere $30, and not one clever twisting of his words I clip a depper young Portuguese, my enllat proper pronunciation of the yacht's dares to attack me Particular Brand classical case of jalousie de metier, China Mail thought be had twigged. Admiring as I do that occasion when he said of another a bowler in a contemporary, He was order (with remittance) has come in, the piece that "For the most part shames me, for his is resplendent, Welsh name, the "w" having the THE OLD the tremendous enter and greater thinker: "Moi, je regarde evidently trusting to his memory. hough one Chinese has offered mas six they had been pitchforked into the high official, having so much more sound of "00"Ab said h STONE PIER prise of the Prays Goethe comme Jeanne d'Arc aurait The Act of Union of South Africa couts a catty for the published work profession for no other reason than power than 1, makes me feel a worm friend. "I soo. The Due in when.“
East reclamation, I regardó Messaline"1 I dare not say restored the name of Orange Fred This, to a man of my high tour, that it afforded them some sort of a A wealthy man, humilistea me, he
I had a queer dream cannot helpshedding a strictly private so positively, but with all my respect. State after it was abolished in the discouraging, and I Dnounce right living. Consequently, they had no cause I am poor. A good loking: FUTILITY the other night, most tear on the old stone vier, now being ful homage to Hugo, I do deny that Boer War, so that the original re here and now that, unfa'r though it be ambitions and for illusions regarding woman robs me of all self satisfaction
circumstantial and dilapidated in preparation for inter he was anything like Jeanne la Pucelle.ference was quite in order, if rather to posterity, I rotite from authorship, themselves."
because she has beauty and charm, ARGUMENT. colerent. I was at ment. I look at the big chiselled
The job of chastising vacuous. However, I may be told
topthly writte I am much obliged If that is true, they have no right while I am an ugly animal. In the
the funeral of a por- stones they are taking away, atones NOT FAULT folly or stupidity that thing ostensibly
"for to my Brother Mc-in the profession, no vocation, and the same way an athlete, a' tall man, a son whose family were making a most word punoth by countless feet, and 1
FINDING mu make one seem divvlement does not need to ba Whirter (the only publio is inscited and injured by healthy many. but you are expensive display of it. Som how mist feel sentimental shipur them,
too censorious and taken att pied", so I'll shat up. At- really intelligen; their intrusion. How can hun how such a list must grow, one hough not a member of the family, 1 os imagint som dresingr liko myself, fault fading. Dr. Wilder advised the same time, I ball inlet on my newspaper writer besides myself in lead" or toach? That has been my embarked upon. Believe me, mes was sufficiently in their confidence to walking, for his bont, musing upru (as a writer worth advising) to private chookle at the fate of our the Colony) for calling my attentica point all along. When, in addition enfants it is no reaching alter the nhw that the cost of this flera lind mortality, and looking at, these very book for the host sida bf men and man who was the sharp. to two columne oi elcarly angry abute to publishing ridiculous statements reductio ad absurdum that makes me meant years of agrimp and waving tonen as spinething that would abide, things, nad to dwell on that. Bound" (Continued on Page: 50)
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