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A blak cat sai 03
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a sewing
EGYPT.
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I would like to think that among from the papers Home you read you
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1922.
were
Young Tom 'e goes up tu Exter and zees 'ia gel o' coarse, and 'bout a week after e takke to the ol' mno
At last, at Just.
AKTA. our ECONOMY. Statesmen at Home are serious about eronomy.
to print the air I composed for it. them. They may even aspire to getting himself murdered. Now my it points out that one swallow dụ s on un like-till one day e Those who desire to know how it "gons" | detachment from those privato ambition leans the other way. I not make a summer." This prisoner's lookin' at Vidu, and an idea struck may either interview me personally interests which, a. Plato said do not yearn for obscurity, and reset even proforence plainly shows, it it can un.
When e zees ol' Tom, 'e zays to (nominal fee of $7) or they may tako, deserve to be taken too seriously; th the small share of limelight that this show anything, that the cat" is less
When in the privacy of their own homes, a fact that we must take them seriously job gives me:
was a bench- of a deterrent than the pengluorvitude. un, "Fayther "ay" en eard 'bout large bedroom jug, fill it with beer bring the groble
part of
comber at one criticised me, praised To me it also shows that he was an that man up th Ashburton way what and stout, and then pour the contents | condition."
or dispraised me. I had to please intelligent man with a love of freedom | can make dogs talk." into the basin. That's how it goes.
For those who did not
no ons but myself, and I'm casily who preferred to suffer physical pain Lor bliss 'ee hoy. What bu The reason 3 ato such a great port is |
rad that bt carefully piased.
for an hour or so rather, than mental talkin' 'bout?" zays the ol' man, that I always base my melodies upon
fun'o make our Vido talk (" through, but skipped, I
It looks very like a case pain for five years. I have no the
rhythms fluent
of natural
"Eos, feyther" BEER of Cause and effect, docs objection to the "eat" ou human-
zaya young Tom, proffer tus, 11 more phenomena like that.
auite to their mental siz AB
it, not, thit the very itarian grounds, for though I ought" but I 'cars s'e wants payin' vur Habit is the key to American manufacturer of sewing
wook after T asnounced that to love the criminals who get it. 1 it." HABIT AS - everything. Your machines. Famed Ransome, whose had given ap drinking beer, don't, and can't, and it would be Weil", zays the ol' vale," ere well-established habit trade-mark was a black eat, advertized the vendors thereof should announce wrong to pretend. But I'in sure such be a zuvr n. Tom, Take it up to no, and treats you us Legree for an advertisement writer The great reductions in pris. If I thought a punishment does more harm to the e co make our Via talk proper treated Uncle Tom. They enslave you, test he put the applicants to was to that by announcing my intention to inflictor than to the sufferer. It must I'll give un another." and escaping hurts. Things you do write a rhyme wmbodying those coas living I could bring down the brutalize him, and we none of us habitually are well done. The sober details. The one who get the job high cost for you
require that. Oor brutality uceds no exercise to keep it alive. righteous, and godly life is only wrote the following: achieved by the formation of gooil
IRELAND AND habite. Faith itself is a habit of mind. Last week you were kept waiting 481 hours for your Adversaria. It wasn't my fault. I wanted to shove it at you on Friday, and every word of it was written before the morning of that day. There has born a lot of grumbling by people who seem to think that newspaperren should not. Now play the game, and hark back take holidays. "It's a buisance" and read, attentively, the hit you said one of these, because it is on skipped. What d'ye think I took the the holidays, and especially riny trouble to copy it out for, if I didn't holidays, that we want our newspapers think 'twould be good for you? Do most." Talking to the Buss about it, you a lot more good than that I as ured him it would be a good plan nonsense, I assure you. to suspend publication two or three days every month. I said you'd ap- preciate us more then. But he said He said that newspapers are not Ltd.
really necessaries, and that it you ORA 100 the habit of taking might become teetotallers. Come to think of 15. he's probably rig t. These business minds can be wonderfully shrewd about human nature sometimes, and give us philosophers yards and a beating when matter of applied
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ADVERSARIA.
All men do sigh
Suka lang-a-nigh.
"He talked my One piecee lie.
en,
V
it com a to + peychology.
Philology and pay. PHILOLOGICAL ehology are different QUESSES things, though they share certain family features from the Gre-k lingo. A fair idea of what the first one resily meate is afforded by the following guesses at the derivation of the word Hogmanay.
(1) From the Greek agia mene,
thely moon)
(2) From the French Homme est
ne (a Man is born)
A Ransone machine, it. ran su fast
black cat's pust. Sure it ran sms.
on occasion.
0.
Young Tom pulls out a letter 'e nd fr his gel, and shows
There a bee zays, bold like,
Feyther," a7s. "that man up th Asburton du zay as 'ow wants vor teachin' our include Truth. It may make mist Als They propose to save inom sixteen other zuven.
Ville." There is no paper and to twenty millions sterling a year- no writer that doesn't. But taking it from education | Watch to the re
Dú er zoys the of man quick like. That it put ton stitches in the by and large it shines like a flame of port of the leddes Committee. Our
Tow 'o 'ee kraw !! honesty in the darkness of meretriads at the war had a eftain, "Ow, eous and truckling journalism. It
lovely war," that coo. ow, i's a continuing exposure of Hottomley's as enough of the right emotion. devious career has been as interesting if you change "war" into political as a play. On Dec. 28 it had some game, to fit the present situation, very manly notes about our "policy in Egypt, winding up in this way: The poor devils will probably find that they have not as much chance
JAN 31st
1922
Although I had dined and though I had wined And was sitting quite cosy and warm in
"
OP Tom looks at the letter- couldn' and a word, wind 'ee and e zighs dep like, and 'e gives uo another zuvrin. Tell an I shan't pay n no more" zays 'e.
No in zaps the of man. very virm Jike. Yh Ko v-teh Vido, and mind, if 'ce don't bring in back, I shall go and vetch un
The works of I1. G. Wells WELLS. in the past have given me So much pleasure, and profit also, that it must sem ungrate
Nex' week young Tom zays tu his as the frish, but that only makes the ful to belittle him now-especially to fayther, Woyther, 1 he goin' up tü attitude of our Government odious the young mou who I know regard Ashtuarto to vetch our Vido: be and cowardly as well as unprincipled." him as the Big Pot in literature goin to give me any moneyć
We can never quite love the well-confess that my regard for him my chimneyside nook with a favourite meaning person who at a party points diminished when he begs to be a book I wasn't quite easy in mind, (1 | out that we have a smut of oar nose sort of Pope. He would be sent was not at ally in mind) because but is 's it better to know? Ian't to Washington for the sake of of the noise of the storm. You know the temporary embarrassment prefer his acutely, observant brain, rather well how the wind comes a rattling able to the permanent disfigureinent? than because of his literary style, I the blind and howls through every That's up to you, of course. I know
suppose. This is fortunate, because hole it can find in front or behind which I prefer.
his Washington articles are not ay ዲኑ Our Pout is surely unkind
"It's rotten being a well written as "Mr. Polly" underlined when ingratitude tortured
prince," is a reniark Tono-Bangay" were. He speaks his mind. It was now that I yearn-ed
attributed to our ap-in one, for instance, of a widespread aad pined for the summer to cour
proaching royal visitor. and spreading unanimity." Think it I think I can guess what with the musical hun of 'skesters to which I'm res gued.
(Plerir behaviour 1 never did miud.) But I find it a grind for my spirit. re- fined to hearken to bowlings like these, from a wind that is more than
MAN
AND
PRINCE.
he was up against, and I guess he will find it again, here in Hongkong.
over.
DE
VALERA.
It is impossible to read the Home news circum Christmas without com-
"FANCY COMMON POLICEMEN, MY
UGAH
*
myll."
Well, young Tom comes back lute that night, but adn' gut no Vido.
"Where Vido then?
Bars The ol' man tur'ble angry like.
"Well, it be like this 'ere, feyther,' bringin
0
ay young Tom was ido ainag, an' wo was talkin' "to- gether proper; when all zudden 'e
Tom, zays to me, be your feyther so fond of that a there of' milk-maid as 'e used to be?'' 'I knows 'ee wouldn' like mether to 'ent Vido talkin' like that, would 'ee,
What'e this I bear of government order that policemen
POST FACT)
ORACLEM
It is the fashion here. not to tell the Gov-
ernment what it ought
a breeze that troubles and tosses the
ing to the conclusion travelling on the railway on duty leyther? So I drowned un!" trees; and in sadness my spirit deth biad, ruelancholily seal-ed and signed.
that de Valera is an ass, and more of must henceforth travel second class ( was. It cannot be a wie bit of official a knare that I thought he So I've often and often upiued that Happily he does not matter so much economy, sacing that it merely means such soughing and wailing unkind. (even when our has died well nad
(3) From the Scandinavian hoggwined) is against true contentment of
nott (hoggight, or night of killing for the Yule fen-t.)
(4) From the French an qui mesez
( the mistletoe go)
mind.
A bookish man asked
now.
my
to do to-day or to-
changing the money from one pocket By the way, while to the other in the same pair of morrow, but what it should have done That naughty little bird months ago. I am not what you'd I think of it the trousera. LONELINESS.
mention of
you sometimes hear mentioned has call a slave of fashion, but I some me the other day about country cottage put it into my mind whispered to me that in the places times feel the itch to be like my That's why George Gissing was he you ever desire to get quite away where the handcuffs hang up there is neighbours. I do now.
breath of a rumour to the effect I proceed to remark that a really from human interference, bury yourself in the heart
that a lady not long out from Home strong governor would have long ago of મ crowded city, lika London, or bad spoken of the presumption of proclaimed the Irague of Fellowzbip Any one failing to be satisfied with 1y that) aud-moreover he (my friend Paris, or Sydney. (American cities are commoa policemen travelling first an unlawful society, when its dis
(5) From the Scots Hug
ne gkluna.
GEORGE
CISSING
worth while He seem- ed to him to dépressing (he is certain-
any one of these "derivations" is at
was fed up with writings about writing liberty to suggest another, whereupon men.
SANTAYANA
him.
environment...
*
about non existent boots thinking of their chits. Now, wasn't For no damage sold by a non-existent firm boing that tantalizing? described as bouts of excellent that mattered was done at all. quality?" I hadn't, and demanded explanations. "Oh, you'll probably bear by and by " was the tantalising answer. When I do I'll probably
ARRIVES
WHAT
REPORTERS HAVE TO BUTTER.
Heard a mab telling a group of friends kerb Thursday that the Gover-
On
In that case, as I pointed out purposely not mentioned, because I class. Needless to say, I regard it as, cussion of the Peak Reservation he will nk is a philologist. Poeta Gissing should be ignored. Personal. found Americans friendly und inquisi- and mentionit only as an example of, showed it to have "purposes incom- are burn, and philosophers are made, y, and possibly from privabius, I five.) Do not seek solitude in the the sort of scandal to which the patible with peace and gond order."
Some of the members of but philologists happen like Jungi.
am keenly interested, and intend to country. You will not find it. When wicked people here are for too much
TANTALUS the Hongkong Cricket I do not recommend refresh my mind about hun from time I found my cottage, over three miles addicted. It is quite evident, is it
not, that DO real lady would AT CC. Club consider our fire the writings of Sau- to time. There are evidently many away from a amall town, and no
brigade to be excessively tayana to my friends, people who keep on re discovering trams or buses or railway, I thought think of remarking such a thing,
I should be undisturbed. A because they se m to me very fed ous him.
even in the privacy of the nuptial efficient. When they heard Thursday "The Private Papers of Henty
grocer's
apartments.
morning that the secretary's office in reading. Only occasionally does he Ryecroft" has just appeared in its cart called once a week, and obligingly
Not only
scandalous the Pavilion was on fire, a gleam condescend to be simply explanatory, sixteenth edition, and the thinly dis brought other things than groceries
QUEER stories, but mysterious came into their eyes that was ald never, so far as I know, does he guised biography by Morley Roberts, that I might order. From a farm a BUOTE ones. "Have you heard reflection of the blaze. They were att impt humorous exposition of his "The Private Life of lleny Maitland," mile away I got milk, butter, cheese, and so on. Yet from the first 1 thoughts. But he often says a continues to find buyers. Wells is shrewd thing How do you like this? thereis referred to a "Rivers," and I found myself the cynosure of eyes "In oral reprobation there is alten suspect he had private reasons for previously not noticed. The rural a fanatical ekurent. I mean that complaining of inaccuracies and mis. population is more curious about batred which an animal may some representations io it. Certainly neighbour two miles away than the times feel for other animals on account Roberts, who is himself a great man, city folk are about their next door amattering af polyglotisus. Almost of their strange aspect, or because knew Gissing intimately, and as a
neighbours; and they are remarkably every language has its equivalent their habits put bim to serious inconcluse student of Gissing' own stuff, ingenious in devising excuses for in pass it on, but I cannot now,
I d not, and nor, with an armed party, had read for maskee." We say "no matter," venience, or because these habits, if I liked the biography and believe it quisitions. The limit of exasperation or "it en 't be helped. Don't bother, he himself adopted them, might be to be a portrait. The horrible effects I recall was one day in the summer,
WHEN H... although you may the Riot Act to the Seamen's Union, The French say "a'importe" and vicious in
be surprised to hear and then, after a sharp engagement, ** c'est egal."
Such aversion, of real poverty on the development of when (as it happened) I had a work-
me gay so, I never in which two men were shot, had The Russians cay however, is not a rational sentiment character are not pretty to watch, ing fit on, and scribbled as if against "Nitchero." The Malays say "Tid'
I didn't did, own a Court Dress. So I had arrested the lot. No fault can be justly found with a but it is desirable to know about them. time for nearly a week. apa."
Incidentally (and this word has The Spanish say "Manaus." creature merely for not resembling Roberts says that if Gissing had had bother to cook anything, but ate any sadly made up my mind to gaze at The Japanese say "Shka-tang-a-nigh."another, or for flourishing in
thing I could find that was eatable my beloved Prince through the most point) the rumour artists have ad- (Shikata ga nai " is the "Romaji" different
a sure income of fifty pounds a year old. I didn't bother even to dress. loyal telescope I could borrow. My journed the boys' and amabs' strike physical ог moral he would have buried himself in a form of it.
Every experiment cottage full of books, meaning that he So when, in reply to insistent knock-ordinary evening suit is where I said till the day after to marrow.
Householder has a row in civilization has passed for a crime would not five produced as much asing on my barred door, I opened it, it was (unless toon oncle bas disposed
JUSTICE. with his servants, sacka the cook and the coolin, among those engaged in some other he did under the spur of necessity. the lady responsible saw a dishevelled of it) so that even if the reception experiment. The foreigner has seemed It is very likely. I used to chafe author in his ditto pyjamas, and committee should bring the ball down an insidious rascil, the heretion under the yoke of journalism, and mentally bewildered by her presence to the valgar level of a St. George's or and then prosecutes the amab for pestilent sinner, and any material thought that if I were free to do so I besides. che had heard that a gentle- a St. Andrew's hop, I could not hope refusing to do jobs which she said obstacle a literal devil; while to could settle down to produce some-
man was living alone - it was reported to pass the sentry. But since I saw were not her pidjin. Magistrate Wood Possess some unusual passion, however thing better. I had even then a rough to her that no smoke had come from in the Calcutta papers that H.R.II. finea amah two dollars, with prison as innocent, has brought obloquy on scheme for a book that was to count. his obimney for some days, nor had had arranged, by his "ex] ress wish" the alternative, Amah lacks two everyone unfortunate enough not to I have it yet; but that doesn't come he been seen about-she had thought for the reduction of the State Ball dollars, and weeps. Compassionate be constituted like the average of his into this. I took a remote rural that perhaps, uppcae he were ill, way they had settled on to a common of European gentleman paid the fine, And so justice is neighbours. The physical repulsion, cottage, filled it with books, and be be dying, it was her duty, etc etc. garden ball at which "Meas Dress God bless him. however, which everybody feels to gan work. At the end of twelve The gentleman thanked her, but (not Full Dress)" was to be worn, I done. habits and interest which he is months, during which I lived quite habit of dying alone. He was, how soul has been fall of bepe, as the say asured her that he was not in the bave been wildly excited and my incapable of sharing. is nafone, I had read a great many books,
ing is. There is always some killjoy part. of rational
estimation, and made a quantity of rough notes, aver, confoundedly basy, and large as its share may be in but I found myself thinking that with er. Even then she did not take the or other hanging around, however, the fierce prejudices and, superstitious so many excellent books still unread hint, but was peeping past his and one such has told me that I am have my whack at a bit that appeared which pre-rational morality abounds there was no need to write another, shoulders to see as much as she could & perditioned fool to imagine that in Monday's Chino Mail, It was a ia. The strongest feelings assigned As there was no spur of necessity, and of the interior, and releasing jerkyMese Dress" includes the sort of clipping from the London Daily Mail, to the conscience are not moral life was interesting and worth while exclamations about " no woman to do dress we wear in Our Mess. I shall of an article by "A Briton in China,'' foclings at all; they express merely for its own sake, I very contentedly for you-how very odd" and the like. find out for sure, and that easily, for who said the methods in a ca penter's physical antipathius.
In went on reading, and neglected Yes, there is one decided advantage our amal knows the sister of the shop out here are so different from chivalroue war, we acknowledge the writing. As it happens, this was about the big cities. They will let amish at-well, never mind. It's a these to which we are accustomed.
place where they ate in the know, and I am wondering to what kind of right of others to pursue ends contrary just as well, because my book, you die alone if you want to.
don't you forget it.
Home carpentry this bird was to our own. Computitors who are able or throw fob the of it, us
aquustomed, for he seems strangely ignorant about it. Describing the sawing of huge logs (which isn't usually done, in carpentare shops, by the way) he told our ectly Low two men do it, one on the log, ono below it. Apart from circular or band saws, this is the universal quy of awlug logs. It is, aut paulinsly, Chinese, ever our Chiseler Un Juropean, saws for it. He next mention a form of tool which may bost be described an arosa butwer a European hatchet and a plukaxe.
Continued on Pagi
Maskoe" I cry Shka tang-a-nigh. P'raps by-and-by Again we'll try ?
Praps pigs may fly? Shka tang-a nigh. All doomed to die, We wonder why, Give up and-eigh Shka-tang-a-nigh. Hopes hang too high? The wise reply,
People who do not think <RIGINS & all about such thing
but carry on rudely with maxime provided for aber, may be classified outright as ignorant -although phía would astonishi many of them. People who read a good deal, and from the ideas of the various schools of thought, or more likely from some one of them, make their own select.on, do but barely escape from that category. He only may claim to know. in the fivest sease of knowing, who bas thought them out for hima-ll, after making! bimseli acquainted with the position of representative thinkera. He is liable then to make the astonishing: and disconcerting discovery that he has attained a philosophy which it is manecessary to prouch, because the mass of men are already living their lives and conducting themselves precisely as if they were aware of it. The ultimate sanction of morality is reazon-Cousensus of opinion Reasoni 18 based on human oxporiches,
to feel this ideal comity, and who lead since appeared, from the poo especially in the sifting of desires and
ing different lives in the flushy lead the of a distinguished Frenchman, I ipulace whoso satisfaction does not
samo life in imagination, are incited have also among my papers the stole entail more pain than pleasure. This
by their mutual understanding to rise ton of a novel; but why carry on Bas almost universally produced the
above that material ambition; perhaps with it I can make more money idea, variqusly expressed, that no
gratuitous, that has made then with lous trouble, amusing you people, Lord Chief Justice said this "showed focus of hunkh anxiety is worth the
enemies. They may ultimately wish and any ambition I may evog bave that all the terrore which were spoken pain of the anxiety. The game is not
Persons desiring to to runounce that temporal good which had to becoine fatious died at a very of by humanitarians attent the cat Vaimer Tom were very fond of. is worth the candle. Masked.
WHY I AM sing that truly moral deprives them of spiritual goods in early age, when I was using about a were without foundation Theson, young Tom, who were a proper One fruit of my numerous A dasar and philosophical poem trathininitely greater andre large status of both in thy native Manchester Guardi rasts him lasy youn roski ho were loud ti of HASEKE. Voyages, bidore the mast,
'nt courorté taky do no appealing, to bio soul-lohócóniás, town. I unit to what to know who nicely for thus “standing s plecs of 'in dog Vido, d bolied the most, and
without les; but are justic and intelligence. They may be and what he bad done. They ovidence on its had," and for arguing Now young. Toin would to go up ometimes up the maet, has been expected to tell the audience where prefer an enlarged mad to relatged all know his name. but no one from a single particular id a general til Extat way gallivantis after some be naquialtion, generally rating they got it. The China Mail has no frontiers, and the comprehension of sumed to know we he had done, rule Evan ordinary bong use aid or other, and 'à'" ndu" got no amoonscious on my part, of a pleasant sensio lyps, naturally, so I am finable things foreign to the destruction of beyond the memorable fast of his gustda against the same fallacy when money—this ol' man bela' vary tigilt
O fio! O fiel Baka-tang-a-nigh Some thieving guy Has pinched your pio Just wink your eye.. Bbka tang-a-nigh. Should you feel dry And can't get rye, Soka-tang-a-nigh Thors's water nigh To win or tie To sell or buy Both you and I With men will vie,
Schomes go any Buka tabg a nigh
EVET,
One prisoner having THE LORD expressed a preference - CHERY for the "cat" and. Juer ou's hard labour, rather THINKING." than for fiv years penal survitude, the
DOO
This is an attempt TALEATIVE at a story in the Devonshire fashion of speech. Did I avor tall ou bout of Tom Magar's dog what could talle ?
No? Well, it were like this: O
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