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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 · 1922)

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One week later Ab Man died, sud a work like Whitaker, if I were to bi

I was a victim in early boy out with a jug, for some more of the wailing of the "widow was as loud roufined "anywhere with only one

MORALS, youth of a class of liter-the medicine that cured mo. Whoop I' | aid continuous as the complaining of book and with much time to apend

ature which never let me Whirroo! Cheerio! Asma freend Rab the wife. When it began to lessen, in tending. Darwin would be very Yee Koo auffered a vagse mental anitate reading in a desert island, are getting more uppish, sad insubor-draw a moral for myself, but always micht shy: Ane said I was pushon't priated it for me in a separato par-wi' owercome o' hile, ane blethered o' discomfort that caused her to visit one but there again I have practical dinate than over. One of our leading agraph at the end, I daremy von degeneration; but a glib-gabbit loon of the Wise Women I spoke of. This service in mind. Is it, not curions | ladies was overheard complaining in know the sort of staff. The official remarked wi' a smile, try bear for lady performed certain dark and that no one ever mentions, ag 30

the Peak Station, and, believe me moral of a picture of Daniel in the sic occasion '"! Or. 85 our solemn but infallible rumbo jumbon, answer to th'a conundrum, the one and then oraculated to this effect, that book that is in all ways suitable for a syropathise with her to the limit. if you can induce the lord of the lions Shanghai treats him properly Mihi den of lions would be, I suppose, that popular Registrar might observe, if the spirit of Al Man was still angry person situated? Robinson"At Home, my dear, as you must to love you, he will not let them eat Duaquam spiritus prophetic datur, with Yea Koo, and proposed to hang Cruso" would be both neefal and remember, the shopman always you. We have all heard of the moral non nisi cara fuerit vanter bene satur, around until satisfied that justice baden raining, and as a homily of con-addresses ons re “Madame," but of one intelligent little boy, fully cum in- arce cerebri Bacchus been done. There is a matter of cak-stentment scarcely to be improved here, especially if the creatore consi- sympathising with the leonine appetite dominatur, in me Phoebus irrait, ac that you made for him, the Wise upon. You recall his balance-sheet

and deploring the fact, obvious to miranda fatur. And so, as Professor him, that there wasn't enough of Blankie used to say, I pour out the Daniel to go round. Some of us may essence of brain effervescence, and recall the moral drawn from the that's that. Heaven help the poor spectacle of Niagara by Orpheus teetotaller that doesn't know my Kerr, that those "wot err, fall." All docter. of which may seem to have little to do with the races, but the fact i‹tbat|

Woman said. They were not properly of advantages and disadvantages? Aders himself a sort of manager, he says cooked. They disagreed with his wise man, Crusoe, until he was foolish nothing at all. Positively addresses interior economy. He intends that enough to leave his island. Anywayne as an equal. There is no pleasure you shall eat no more, and is arranging let us get our ideas clear about this in shopping out here, Nons what to squeeze your neck to make swallow.desert island stunt. The sapheads who evah. I make this note in the hope ing painful. There was much more of always numre Shakespeare and the that our tradesmen will take the hint it, but that was the gist of the Wise Bible are aware, if only by bearsay and behave themselves. Woman's diagnosis.

that the literary merits of these works are admittedly high. But literature on a one-book one-man sland does not count. Literature is fine speech, and where there is no one to speak to ideas are more important than their form of expression. A dul! book on

This, by the way, is a true st ry. It is not long since Ah Man's funeral. It is not long since the Wise Woman told Yee Koo thes things.

Yee Koo went home, lay down, and ate no more. Last week she died.

NOT

UNMIXED

JOY.

I have been privileged a friend of mine lost a lot of money,

GEORGE

The gunfire on Wed- needay was in honour

of an English colonial

to look through some and was cursing his luck. I drew the who had a mental lesion in youth was li'e the dog which made him unable to tell a lie;

schoolboy essays this moral that he

week (while you were at which dropped the bona to grasp but he recovered and grew up to be a the races) and I found some things at the reflection of it, and he perforly healthy American. Having too good to keep to myself. How do said that was a rotten refrat o practised on the comparatively soft

fome Bort of honourable having it. So

ONUE FOR

ALL.

of

I am not going to keep on telling you this. I have protested about such atrocities as "sa

geology would be vastly more interest. Fou like this? "Many of Henty's Whereupon by a swift revulsion of wood of cherry trees he chopped "X" sends me a le.tering to the castaway than a whole shelf works are read with pleasure and feeling I learned that we have all off a perfectly sound limb

profit, but most of them are historical along been unjust to that dog, and English oak, which grew and congratulating me on the of belles lettres, or poetry, I can con

Probibition cime SERIOUS way I get things done. ceive that the beart throbs of Romeo tales, and one may learn from the that it may have got a lot of fun and flourished til

more genuine history than one will excitement out of grasping at the "Last Saturday," he and Juliet, might be very irritating to from many a tedions toms."

that along. After A little bone that did not materialize, just as goes dry, and you'd better ask rome- my history writes, "you spoke up for the rights a marooned bachelor, where a work misquotation of Sir Walter Scott's my friend did. 1 could just manage body else. I ouly remember that at of the mosquitoes, and demanded the on eo chology would keep him

introduction to "Ivanhoa" does no to perceive that he was really rather the famous Washington Confereroa attention of the 8. P. C. A. See what interested and pleased and busy real harm, since the writer merely enjoying the job of cursing his arose the saying of "Let tearge do it." bappens. On Monday morning they "Which is the most likely book: for a

luck, and feeling that there began sticking ap tin dishes on the man who is thrown upon a desert points out that the Normans were

"reluctant to acknowledge themselves | was

distinction in Ltd. tops of the mud stacks around Statue island with my hande quad, ou, of the same stork" (as the Saxons),

Square. These tin dishes will undoabt-empty head?" That is the question, which perhaps was so, the Stork being if we must draw morals. let us draw edly provide desirable acconimodation it stems to me. for the young mosquitoes." I do not answer, especially for a man whossa busy bird in most lands. It is all this one, that you cannot judge a regard this as a serious criticism. Ibead is not empty. I am inclined to / of forty years since I read "Ivanhoe," potato by his overcoat. So queer is have wearied of it. Once for all, when

Fet I have not, forgotten the play that buman nature that ostentations gloom will be easy to treat the tio dishes" the surmise, however, that the most Scott made with the fact that oxen, may cover secret satisfactions and a word begins with an aitch that is to with kerosene, for that matter. It is satisfying book in such a case would

u (when pronounced "you" the probably a sly jeer at the decorations, bone that told, in plain words and sheep, etc, are good Saxon while liv-private prides. Is it always gesturing? be distinctly aspirated, or with eu or article an" is improper. Use "a." which, by the way, should not have with vivid diagrams, how to make ing, and become Normanie, beef and Is there nothing else? Sometimes been judged in their incomplete stages. useful things, like fish-hooks from of language does ant seem to have stage, and men and women in it "n" is proper only in front of words

mutton, when they die. This curiosity. suspect that indeed all the world's The art (1) critics would have been shells, knives from fints, string struck my boy, whose tender Chinese merely players, posturing

beginning with aitch when the sitch is wiser to wait for their completion. from fibres,-in short, true wealth heart was attending more to the detail themselves as audience.

mute, as in "an honourable man," "an beir One of those vague and "a uncommon thing." [Reply You say "a useful thing" INFALLIBLE moods of melancholy to "K. B."1 that come to all men

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A query from "Three Balls," who of genius captured me has received an invitation to dinner,

Chapter IV. At dinner. Page 61. If you have occasion to expectorate,

hand."

Answer to P.R."-You were mis-

Press you knees to your pouy's

Bide

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And your bowe close to your own. If after the you should be chucked

And your any gallop away Limp back to the paddock chear-

fully.

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OUR

A priest at a lonely

unfinished jobs," Гове "mud life of such a student in such circum of Rebecca's unrequited love. We calls them, are going to look quite he presently reach the stage of baving so much leisure that the Eternal well, I think.

I take it there is no Why would begin to exercise big/author for his bad arrangement." as I was siting chewing a pencil this rather baffles me, because I am not MY TURN Copyright in the notion mind, he would start all square with Evidently a champion of the happy week and wondering what the devil familiar with the Social Swim. I have, of picking the beat the authors of the most splendid dealing with Oliver Twist's workhouse and Watt-tells-use-ness, if you get "Etiquette in High Society," and ending in fiction, Another boy, to give you. A feeling of fed up-ness however, consulted the office copy of possible minimal library books dealing with such matters, to suit life on a desert island? A namely, from ignorance. He would fare, remarks that "the bowels me. Says I to myself, why am I so found this passage, which may be crony uf mine has been saying evolve bis own philosophy, and it (bowls] never wanted washing," which sad? There's chow, and a drop in useful to him shrewd things about it, capucially would be as good and as true, because is also a good shot, since the one the bottle, and a yacht for next in pointing out that We are quite as efficacious, as aby other target is as good as the other, I guess Sunday, and pay day in less than ten more verifiable. I my friend Mr. Conrad never had a days, and the Bass in n good humour, all more liable to experience desert man's, and i land conditions than we think we hope that some people here may greater compliment paid him than and the weather tolerable, and the do it discreetly and behind your are. I want to offer a remark or two never have the bad luck to be cast on this by a boy discussing "The rheumatism more or less under

Typhoon." "When reading it we control, and everything. I ought to Reply to Elect:ician."-Mostly about the people who always natne a desert island, even with the Rest seem to be in a picture house looking be happy. Why not? And still the canaries. Whp? Shakespeare and the B.ble as their Hundred Books. I suspect they final selections for such a situation, would be 'truthappy. The answer to at the kinems." That is sincere black. dog rested on my shoulders, takon. The Gristle is their national,

praise and great praise. I was and still I felt as if I were alone in a I declare that they have not tried to the conundrum, most likely from the delighted to find that Chiness boys boat at sed, with a dozen perfectly emblem, not their staple diet. No ralize the position, nor thought type of man who could be happy on here are exactly like English boys, good camsha cigars, and no match, wonder you go yourself disliked. about the problem seriously, who give a desert island, would be Maskee

and that they mostly like the right You know. Down in the mouth. Answer to "Offday."-Probably that hackneyed answer, It may be tonks at all. Give me a tool chest."

books, but they give the wrong Blue. Like seventeen cents. Hollow, referring to the well known poem by one of those questions that cannot be

Although no one reasons sometimes. Some of Wishing I were young enough to Henry Wadsworth Browning, which properly answered without experience.

seems to bave them Liy to impress the weep on the amal's bosom. What? went: It is certainly one the terms of Which

epoken of this teacher with humbug, which is You don't know what that feels like?

Keep your head and your heart should be carefully expressed. For

before, and it gives not unknown in English schools. Lucky you! Mind you. I hadn't

well up. instance, it may be taken for granted me one more opportunity to display I dare not say too much, for these lost a bean at the races. I finished Your hands and your heels keep that on our desert island the o dinary the wonderful originality that sets me essays were not shown me for the dead square, by keeping away, by

down, necessities of life are secured, and that apart from vou common men, I can purpose of making jokes about them, being what that frightfully intellectu we shall bave so much spare time on not help feeling that everybody must and I might easily drop into unfairness, al China Mail leader-writer called our hands that our choice of book is have observed one fact while watch So I may not even mention the title a nonconformist rogue. Digestion all to be determined by the sule con- ing the China potius gallop. That is of one glorious adventure book about right too. I ransacked my mind for sideration of which one will best help the absurdly obvious fact that their which one boy offended me deeply, the cause of this pipp, so bappily us to pass it. Otherwise, my answer hind legs go much faster than their pretending to draw morals from what unusual with me. At last I put it to the question has always been: fore legs. The after quarters make should have been pure entertainment. down to the realization that there are "Some big book like a Popular immense strides. It is plain that I hope that boy will somehow ex- 52 Saturdays in the year, and that I Educator, that shows the uses of they are the mainsprings of action, perience a change of heart, and be was only in the middle of feeding the Fools, and teaches contrivances.” | and that the short forelege come reasonably wicked like the rest 8th. Forty-four more bunches of entered the house to eat, be heard Books about primitive peoples and are merely struts to keep the keel off of us, in his regard for pirates. I like adversaria to produce, and me with- again the complainings of Yea Koo, their tools might be even more useful, the ground, serving the purpose, as it my pirates to be piratical, and I think out a pair of ideas to rub together, who really meant nothing by it. if. I had first to make my tools out were, of a temporary falorum for the all honest boys must feel the same And supposing I lived through the

inland station up north There canie a day when the failing of the raw materiala on the island. magnificent levers behind that really way.

TERATION has been brutally 44, there would be another 62 to digestive processes of Ab Man But if agreeable time passing be the produce the gallop. It seems to me

PRESSME murdered by robbers. obacurely disturbed his inner nature, object in choosing the book, it must that the only useful thing about the

There can be few things follow. And what would be the good

I do not repeat the and sapped his Buddha like phlegm. be obvious that the previous history forelegs could be conserved, and the

PRIVILEGE more irritating than to 576 columns of bull, what and where point in the. I repest a journalistic of it all? After I had produced these

unpleasing dtails, because there is no The voice that had for so long sound of the castaway must be taken into handicap

see a rule which is would I be? "As you were footnote the story, apparently of their relative binding on oneself broken by other, could only go fishing at the end of it, added by a hanghai Mercury soribe. ed to him as no more than the remote account. I, for instance, would not alowness of movement deleted, noises of the sea-shore, suddenly pick the Bible for such a situation, by strapping

especially if those others are party the two: front

just as I could do now (without doing Strange coments," he says, "on The cynic may say I am seemed more near and more menacing. because in my case it would be coals hooves to a little platform mounted inconvenience of a rule can be calmly it) and may be by that time I might the move or the abolition of ex-

the making of the rule. The personal now writing of the Impos. It became as the insistent battering to Newcastle. My mind is so saturated on ball bearing wheels. The idea overlooked when one understands the felt low. Rotten. As miserable as declaration the Chinese government

be less keen on fishing! I tell you I upon the door that makes a weary with it that I think I could remember may remind you of the toy that it rule to be reasonable; but its reason the young man of Cape Horn who that they re able to protect all A rise to see who is there. In enough cf it for the purpose. It would called, I think, the Scooter, no doubt goes when breaches of it are per wished he had never been bora. A foreigners if the country." That is a know une man who disbelieves in shot, not to make & too roundabout be better pastime reconstructing the because it was first invented by one mitted, especially when the reason for supels, not because they i ave wings passage to the facts, one day some- Bible on one's desert island then read- of Baden Powell'e Boy Scouts. Such such permission may be only privilege sure enough. Well, it ever you get No goverment in the world can

thing seemed to saap inside Al Man's ing a copy. For example, when I was an arrangement might even conduce

wretched feeling. Miserrimas Doleful comment onreason almost imbecile. head. He rose up, took a bamboo, imprisoned on the old Hygeia I began to better starts." if some braking this general way the

based on snobbery: Put and gravely gave the astonished Yee to make for myself a pack of patience device were added. As I know that position is not sufficiently arrest about it. I finng my pen at the day. as unfair to comment on the $800, Pro once. Don't delay. Don't think guarantee to prevent occasional Koo a beating. Then without a word cards.. I was about half way through the people here are very conservative,

ontrage. e cannot. It would be he returned to his lettuces. the job when the narre noticed and and rejudiced against any change concrete case in my mind. It seems (Wonder if I'll get blue-black this priestad. In his headline the I will give you the I poured all the ink into a flower pot. the watch the gun and pistol, that After the fashion of her kind, Yee said. Oh, if you had only asked however advantageous, I suggest that there is a rule by which children are nasturtiums 1) I told my people that oranlist fors to the death as a quote him as a typ, and as an Koo sought confort for her lacerated me for a pack of cards I could have the Jockey Club should not bother excluded from the paddock at the I wouldn't want any chow till I came martyrdom It is of the essence of indication of the advarion of logical epitit by appeale to public opinion. saved you all that trouble." She about introducing my ech me into races. It is not the cafest place in back and yalled for it. And then I martyrdon that it shall be voluntary knowledge. What i w-nt to say, and the howled to her neighbours. She brought me a dirty pack of full sized regular racing right away, but try at the world for children That may made a bse-line for a place where they and for testimony. Was this what I must insist upon, is that there raved. She said that beyond doubt playing cards. I carried on and first at a gymkhana. All those to make it a reasonable rule. My are wise women. Her in Hongtong a devil had taken possession of the finished my own pack, patience size, whom I have mooted it do Lar are formant, knowing of the rule, did razzle dazzle for drinke. By the time armoury how willingness, and the there are. I have a true story to wretch Ab Man, and caused him to drawing all the designs carefully with unanimous in saying that they would not take bia child, though he would I had beaten four sixte with flyg rest of the property that tempted support the claim. These wise woman beat one who bad ever been a model a penuit, and (you rou) pasand a grout very much like to see it done. Given have liked to do so. At the pats, he bootsmen, and been laat roan in, four the thieve the testimony? I have are Chinese, and elderly. They are of the domestic virtues, one who had deal of time much more pleasantly smooth course and lots of saw two parents turned away because I felt that I had never met more estament advance, my intention or five times, life had a rosier colour, admitted the unfairness of this not exactly fortune tellers, though assuredly deserved better treatment, than I could have done by lubricating oil I think the time they probably work like harta. Lone who was prepared to call the playing patience. I had the pleasures for the mite abould be lowered they had a child with them. He was charming fellows, even though two of being only to show that it is more- forget the Chinese nume for them, but rods to witness

that she had of creation, of art, of industry 20. An additional advantage that not feel aggrieved. He murely re from the wood is the perfect pauaces to is not ressary to argue ab length, the term Wise Woinen serves as done no more than to make a quiring co-operation of memory, eyes, have not stressed as much as I might docted that the rule ought to be for pale pink people with palpitations though the is room for it, that there orry for them, but still did them came from the ditch. That beer logical th the other. After which free rendering of it. }

remark about the sad fate and hands. Tucidentally, my Hygria have done is the increased power that better known, and should be advert such as I'd had. Two pints of it would is internal gestión in the story as Yoo Koo, wife to Ah Man, was not of women who married foolish experience has another pointed and my device gives to the onkey. The sed in the public notions that invite mond the broken heart of told of ot provocation. What was a wise women. For more than forty and unreasonable men.

She oven rather comical boating on the preannt era bit and bridle could be done ladies. When he got inside, however missionary who had mislaid his the point mentioning that he had Soars she bad shared the fortunes of came to me, and asked me to speak discussion. It happens that the one away with, if the jockey wore to steer his attitude entirely changed. He stipend. Four pints would euro just been negotiating for that industrious farmor, who up to Ah Mat severely. She was for book I managed to get on that with a se ster bundle. Tule would was made indignaut by finding several millionaire à conscience. Biz pints and for autis preciated her virtuos as partner, showing me her bruine but my desert land" experience. J.Save the iony's attention entirely children there. The rule was not curd Me, so that I wond Back and bore patiently with characterist ce modesty would not allow bar to do Mill's Liborty." I had read is free for the business of leas amiable. It should be explained that. I explained that such interven before, but on the Dygeia I very Owner who with to

rule ⠀⠀ Why ↑ There must have been to my workshop, got a new bon, and that on with mot ladies her tongue tion by a third party, eculd only nearly got it off by bearb. A man waiting for meeting of the 7p.key

privilege

aoribbled right up to this point with Kid worked as well as the rest of her. It bad aggravate the trouble. What, illed Rack Moses, a by-gone broker Club need havá, bo hesit

Lagead There is far too much of out stopping. On top of that I dran ball bearings, and was very muscular reminded her, says the Bags The Bungie lata porthole to me. It is king nia for a patiren,

le heret, 10 permbaten everything. wrote a special article for the Telegr After her olange of life, she had truly with man bewares how he treads: * grad Book, but not long enough for Kuminaricu And Paca

The Indian polioman who is bully Post, bus likely mough they wo allowed it to fall into the habit that upon the worm that hai Already deert find herbare The Bible Gadget, for I have tat

to the poor. Chinese pedestrian, and print it. It is too full of schlied nagging Al Man erent turned. Moreover, I reunided her and Ruakespeare are, good, in this patent it, proferring more and more hours among lile that it is witten and bayond all evil, Folkmon bodzane they are long fave the full behels of 18. arabe, and became more and more the true that it is boly to the dient] bức Felt Pikkun «indicated I would that I'm tire f of mere money? "good" provider; but each time he woman that justice over kearkun, Body Bnibar)" I would sooner grab shộ sửi now out purely to varn

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