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SATURDAY
MARCH 18 1992
human and lovable. It is only when talk. He still licked bis fingers from alone (of which I hope a recurd in we foreigners arrive. Instantly there they are busy with their political and habit; and when he fourd then clean, being kept, so as to avert any need is a resurgence of clamour. The other opinions that I find them hateful and consequently not worth Bicking, for eure gency planning set time) women shriek, the men bark. The and ugly. They grow red, apoplectic, te would get angry, and the anger were on such a scale, and of such a child, who arears shaken, stares noisy, savage, rude, cruel, violent, in would pass into his speech. So be kind, that they would have helped to defensively at our curious gaze. The tolerant, and very mean. If Jesus bad damned the Government, and he tire out the most determined strikers women all shriek together to this tarned the water into win for them damned the shipowners, and he dama In short, they were preparations to effect.
She fell. Fell completely down. at Calvary instead of at Caned the trikers with many large and ensure that there need be no such But I must let you follow that his tasty damns. Thereafter be damned weaknes" as the human parrots Into the water. She is wet."
One youth in the men's party torical speculation for yourselves. It the Bolsheviks, the missionaries, San have been squawking about. I dis-
the newspapers, Lloyd covered them by accident, while look-hawls out: "It appears obvious to would not look well in print.
an intelligent person that had there
Yak CDy
| ben nu hole,, she would not Este
Perhaps I have not THE GUILDS, made it clear bow fallen in it, and that if there had Seen no water, she would not hare the breed of Fed.
Facey Dress Ball, and his pointed moustaches and "imperial" belned him to do it. He had piercing black ares, and when he spoke it was in a dark brown velvety voice that made me feel sure he belonged to the best social circles. He said:
"Facderstard you want a boat?" A sailing bost, vee, said I. No more motors for me. What size is it? And what's the price? Where can I see it? "I do not think you will complain
I haven't a single opin George, the Americans, and evening for something else. about the price," said he, gravely. OPINIONS ion that I would fight Adversaria. These also were hefty
It lies at Fier 104 F, and its sable
for. All my opinions damns. When be isemed to be done sails are ret already for your trial are academic, and when people suk damning, for want of more things to mewhat do you really think about damn, I asked him to tell me just what
you a sample in dialogue of the kind of It is Queerly Queer in more than one matter that is exciting them, I always me for a moment with his mouth open thing that was threatening so unseat
Thinks I to myself, that's Queer. the strike?", or about sar other it was he wanted dose. He stared at ap" has been talking, so I will give got wet." way. This stranger must have been feel resentful of the pure asumption Then "I don't know" he roared, and very sure of his information that I was that every man man think about damn you too for making me realize in the market as a racht buyer, But such things and have opinions and that I do not know what I want." A what can he mean by sabia sails? I grow hot with the sizzling of them in soft answer should turn away wrath, cannot be the 4m2, anyway, more's kerbstone debate. Personally, when but it doesn't always. When I sog. the pity and where in Hongkong ware and crucifixions and strikes gested to him that his real heart's de
sire was to go on damning, no matter is Pier Number Whatever-hi-said? I are I prefer
OD, know Pedder's Wharf and Statue Piar fishing, and it not allowed what or whom, he uprooted one of and Murray Fier and Stone Pier, but to do that, I think of pleasant things, those new Prince of Wales Pulars and after that I'm a lost navigator.
like girls, and poems, and summer ran amok with it. This shows that days, and jovial books read by winrer Strikes are a great nuisance, and fires, and so 4th. There are people should not be allowed. They ought
to be Stopped.
to
When I looked up to ask him about it he was no longer there. And that,
most think them out you will agree, was Queer enough to bo make anybody laugh as I did. seriously, of course, especially the peo laughed, and laughed, and laughed, ple whose duty it is to do something and then I think I must have dropped about them. Bat these heroes will off to sleep, for the next thing I recall get on with their job much better
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resist it.
It is a solo, and as "co÷020 20IWETE, him or interrupts him, he grows"
middle of the groep. my reason if I hadn't taken steps to embarrassed, and withdraws to the
F. U. (giggling): Ab, Adversarius. And what do you think about it?
I: My head is bemused with rumours. I have so far been unable to think..
F. U: I think the Government
The circle of women talk like Er crackers.
"Silence" growls the foreman” There's here with us the Number One Taipan. What is one g`il to him?” « The child fixes her, eyes upon ns should never have let it get so far.like dumb animal in fear or in pain
shivers. acted sooner.
She is one of the opalant Chinese Ther should have been armer, and or both. She makes no round, but
1: In what way? F.D: Supposing all the Guilds.labour force with whom some people are so righteously peeved just now. 1: Bat they could not do that...
The little hassy! It is quite likely immediate future. F. U: Fasily. They could legislate she will live to take part in the next
"The events of the
strike.
*FOR WAYS THAT ARE—.”
TROM KETXES will not be shaped 1: And the Chinese would ignore by the deliberate the Legislation. The Guide would is the Doctor saying: Below without my meddling than with it acts of statemen, l'ut by the hidden exist as secret societies, with exactly the hundred at last. He will Without yours also, if I may say so currents, flowing continually beneath the same organizations, and with the be all right now. No. He without being impolite. If every man the surface of political history, of same potentialities.
F. U. Well then, bribe them. The
Bret Harta's Heathen Chinee wast cannot have his book in bed would mind his own job at such times which no one can predict the octrome with him. He must lie and doze." and concentrate on it but there In one way only can we influence Chinese are always amenable to the
have lived in Hongkong, must have Ltd. And then somebody shoved a chunk I forgetting the leader these hidden surrents by setting in money argument.
I stared, aghast, ralizing that he taken a governmen: omncial for model. of orange in my month. I opened writers and the harlots and the armed motion thors forces of instruction
How else could be have learned ther which change was quite serious, and that he thought dark ways and vain tricks that bara my eyes and saw my pal sitting near, robbers. You cannot make a general and imagination and it was in my own bedroom, and rale. These people, the prostitutes, opinion. The assertion of truth, the he was talking intelligently about a I asked him to get my people to send the editeza writers, and other unveiling of illusion, the dissipation setions matter. You'd be surprised passed him into proverb! Frequert- ly obscure, frequently capricious, the And so it went out the jag for the beer, but be criminals, should not concentrate. of hate, the enlargement and instrac-if I named him.
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was nothing doing in the beer time like there, but what I know be the meats." line. "Near squeak this time, old zot, for I am a umple man that never
The diference beedacated talking like the most illiterate unpleasant. Capable man. For three consecutive nights did profess ability to set all the
tween Ramath-lehi and stupid peasantry. Indeed, far moments of sanity. it is also capable of sudden moments of well, since you crampled, you've had high world s dislocations. I was thinking
OLD BONES and Hongkong is less shrewdly than that. At last, as of serious aberration. Times it can. fever." "What day is it ?" demanded of the brokers and auctioneers and |
chiefly
that I am too polite a this.
be very casual, very lofty. Obviously I, and be told me, Sunday. Then I clerks and W. S. Bailey and that Mr. whereas in the former place a "nonsense" to such people, I began to knew it was too late to finish Ross and the Hongkong Club fellows thousand Philistines were slain by the dodge them, and when I couldn's do these charges, uttered in the first heat of annoyance are unjustly sweeping adversaria. It must already have who were all so angry about things, jawbone of an ass, in Hongkong a that, told 'em that if they mentioned of course, the Colony has many appeared. Yes, he said. It appeared and who would have been just as well thousand such jawbones failed to kill the Strike to me I'd scream, as my officials refreshing for their bread
nerves were absolutely on edge. And was pretty rotten. He's my best off and certainly happier (I think) if
one government official,
humanity and easy tolerance. Nat- pal that, and talks according
they had minded their own jobs and
What A typically
And what d'you think is ural annoyance, however, is not Bat he does not seem to their own games.
their grievance now? That always patient, not always disciminar- "TED-CP" cheeky letter that was I am wondering how
the summer is coming ing. And we are annoyed greatly care for Word-Building, so
in Thursday's China BUILDING that partly explains it. I ARISTOCRACY much of the anger Mail, and Low inadequately the
too soon! Fheeoo! they annoyed at a proceeding we would “ won my bet with my
and the peevishness leader writer handled the presumptu said, on these perfectly delight have deemed incredible, had we not, have just berg with our readers and those of the friend easily, and my friend (unless he was due to humiliating self-discoveries one snitterling who wrote it! Really, fal days re does the obvious thing and awards it made during the stike, when the these regular newspaper fellows almost having. March not gone yet, and Colony's. other evening paper. beer to me) eares his pipe The Erst trae aristocracy of the place was deserve to be tyrannized ever as they already warm. They shook their silly made the victims.
The facts are simple and illuminst-v competitor to respond omitted bis found to be men who could do things, are, because they are so easy-going fat heads solemnly, and pronounced name and address, and sent only one men who could ert op meat properly; with the snooping creatures that the word sam" as a decent person ing. As secretary of the committee word for each combination be tackled and bake, and man machinery, and be arrogate to themselves the right to does the word incest. Personally. I responsible for the Prince's visit successfully. The prize was offered for useful. So many of us, non-produc- tell 'em what to do and how to do it. hope the thermometer jumps to ninety arrangements- body, which in- the biggest number of wards ing parasites on the social body. They'll go up to an editor in a way and gets jammed there. I've just dentally, has religio-sly excluded presamen from its deliberations, xxtaining those combinations. The suddenly realized then how useless we
they'd never dare approach the Gave been strolling up and down in that last two combinations floored him, were. I never did believe in the "serner er a high official. It would be blessed, bleed sunshine, and basking public interest and pablic money. and he "challenged." At the moment men being equal" nonsense. I'm a «Yes sir" and "no sir" and a mach in it. Why do local people so maskeer. Ene Rice, who is also of writing I forget what one of them big a Tory as any of you in believing more seemly attitude there, I assure obstinately rufuse to be happy? was, and haven't the file handy to that there must always be a sub you, for these dogs cringe where they
I got on the top of addressed a cinco ar letter to the look it up. One was "rsema" which ordinate class, as there always has think there is power. Moreover, I
atram one day in Colony's four papers resterday wil be found in "horseman" and in been. Where 1ers, perhaps, is ia cannot imagine the most impudent of
Strike time, after a morning intimating that the Prince's forenoon of knock-Secretary having approved the com- Noreman. That was shoved in to thinking that it may not always be them addressing the Bank Manager. show how baffling thecombinationscan the same class. In war time the that way. How did they ever acquire STRIKE TIME. ing about the city,mittee's arrangements, there would be appear, Hq in earthquake, mr in competent fighting man
and taking cat an disclosed-at long last- the re- is the this habit? It's "0. I say Cart- primrose, min warmth and bd in superman, and the cripple. is conwright", or "Look here, Burnett, I old envelope and a bit of pereil I porters would wait upon him in his arcidenton, were sent in by "John temptzously brushed aside, out of the think that leader of yours was rotten. tried to express my pent up motion office at 3 pm Admirable-bot Chinaman" who, however, did not way. In strike time the worker, the You ought etc, etc. That's what I in the form of a ballade. The top of stay! Three o'clock? Half an hour offer any additional words containing man who can help to carry on; is the think," they say, emphasising the a tram isn't the best place in the too late for the evening papers. A them. The poor response to the social aristocrat, and the useless, personal pruzoan se if such emphasis colony to seek for rhythm, and maybe governor's private secretary is natur invitation to compete Loes not prove, ignorant peison, like me, and these could possibly call attention to my ballade is the worse for that: ally a busy man, but surely fifteen of course, that the suggestion was kerostone critics, at best can hope to anything else than the fact that they but such as it is, here it is-minutes-not more. What simpler wasted. It is probable that a great be only their drudges, doing fumbling usually have nothing to think with, many readers have since been ly what they bid as to do. Thus a and never exhibit in their chatter any
In Hongkong now where'er you concurrence, than to telephone the
walk.
Becretary and crave the boon so easily exercising their wits in this way. I man who could milk s cow might indication of having thought about know of one Mess where the game was fittingly order a higt financier to anything anywhen. A man who has
Some group of gossips you will beeg.anted? Unfortunately, as feared, has ideas, Upon the kerbstone stand and talk basy man, he had an engagement who does know little played, and over ten dollars in ten fetch the pail and the stool for studied a bit, who
Of sexling-wax, of you and me,
at 2.30 p.m. Consequently, quite impossible. Sorry! Could he spare Nothing whatever can slow about it. I myself am
Or any topic there may be more than the road to Repulse cent penalties accumulated for charity him, and scold him for being zo d they were themselves intimidated.
The very latest" they must tell a few moments if the reporters, raivotots? happen in Hongkong bumble and biddable man, and would Bay, seldom yaps as much as this Whatever it was they were of no use
that is not censored have fetched and carried for the sort of intellectual rabbit dots. And And tell it with the load tee-bee.
naturally anxious to secure the long or assistance to their European
There's gosip, so they say, in hell. awaited details for their own papers · correspondent bakers, if I had been allowed, because they're all over the place. I never
first, hurried to his office at once? colleagues when they were most by somebody; and one needed, which resulted in their calls word builting a childish waste I admire the baker above all men, heard anywhere in all my travels so
Now it was that it became clear whe No hope for you their itch to baulk ther he could or whether he could not. colleagues being of less use to the of time, especially in times like these." when there is a strike on, and i'm much unmitigated bosh talked, so rasny querulous and unreasoning. Government than they would have He may be right, "and perhaps he growing hungry.
No use to quiz their devitry It is a pity that in the complaints, or so many inane, point-
Mr. Rice certainly did not want to, They cannot tell good chesse from and certainly did not intend to give WEALTH "minds of so many of you less, and absurd remarks (all citered 1922been otherwise, and by consequence ought to be the Governor. I waive
chaik
the evening papers the advantage of the glimmer of economia with the complacency of acknow- Durell anyway, before I put my foot the print, made prior to his criticism, int, what I mean to say is that you of the educational value of the game,
And rannars serve then perfectly. their enterprise. What would themorn- 40
and I didn't get our money's worth, sad of the intellectual gymnastics it you've get is entangled with ledged oracles) as I did in Hongkong:
In fact & well told lie's their fee,
ing papers say, he asked, if the newS so that during the strike. The intellectual in a manner of speaking, and it is no provides, and I take my stand on the Socialistic propaganda,
Their only charge for all they sell were imparted to the evening papers A yarn to swap at Wiseman's Tea first Useless the rejoinder, what There's gossip, so they say, in hell could they say, Mr. Rice preferred the arrangements to appear in the morcing papers first. That was his wich, hie intention. Sorry, but-!·· No great hardship this last, irrita ating delay, it is true, but we "protest, and protest strongly, against an Demanding if you thought as he astonishing piece of discrimiation în Who said the Government's decree favour of the morning papers,; for Had really begun to amellem cure practised will not end? who shall say where official favourit- And would the public disagree? There's gossip, so I'm told, in hell. ENVOL
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ADVERSARIA.
I cught by rights to hedge; for the reason for them and their inactivity towards intimidators is yet to seek Ether they secretly sympathized or
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Government” countenances
ase to pretend otherwise, for all deceit fact that any game is a game for because you know Socialism to be level I surveyed was that of a school is wrong, and sure to be punished, thoo who believe in games. Time immoral, you infer Economics to be playground. I wanted to go and if not in this world then in the next, and money is bring sited on the immoral slsa. This is a pity. Becates have a look at. " Fed-up," just to see and I'm sure we shall all feel sorry ascent of Mount Everest, on an Economical Trath may be uttered how he pans out anthropometrically, for them when that happens, whether the exploration of, polar regions, by a Socialist whose programme is alt but it seems he had a spasm of they were personal friends or not, on seeing which pony can gallop wrong and sily and wicked, and that discretion at the fast moment, and because everyon has lis feelings, and fastest, which football team score truth may be true for you and me carefully cut his name and address to contemplate suffering, whether most points, and on all sorts of just the same. All true wealth comes off at the last moment. If be will deserved or not, is not a nice thing to, things. It is very good that men are from work. Money isn't wealth; is communicate it to me privately I do, if it can be avoided, which it can willing to do so many things that only a token, a tally stick, of work would very much like to have a not always more's the pity. Are you promise no material rewards in due: You find that out when a look at the cormscating skull, that attending? All right. As I waaay monas, profit, etc. In fact, the world World War brings a Moratorium, and could effuse the naive notion that his When I left you so ing there was a reason for my leaving of politics would get on better if more your paper mozey will not boy as own TDE EEASON abruptly last week, off so abruptly on the three thousand people of my critic's type would much bread or shoeleather as it wedt swiessness." But I can put two and after writing only nine hundred and twentieth word of run away and play, if Lloyd do. When the regular workers stop two together as well as Eastern can, *959 words, instead of my waal last week's advatants, and I may as Georg-would attend fewer conference as in a strike, wealth ceases to grow and I reckon I've gat "Red-up" 6,370, there was a reason for it. That well tell you what it was.and play more golf, and if those who but ceusumption does not; and these correctly taped. There was a strike The amabs took part in it bare be so nonly re settling the who pretends fancy for frolonging on sitting with the isa stupid remark for me to make,
strike could have roanaged to pass stakes in order to save face" po pose Red-up's" chow amah must have because there is "alwaya, a reason for
pen in my hand, buffing their time and amuse themselves in to lose more than they would asve. gone and left him paling, and everything, isn't there! Even when VISITOR Juriously, at 4 pips that you cannot learn the reason" for, a og tasted mons Foo wall and ways les hes ing to their blood: I am Bot this is very dry, isn't it, and wavering.
afraid that one of the poor dears perhas sunnying3.. And no one must ming, there is a reason why you can serined to be drawing badly, like must far gred their à alth by the annoy you must they don not. It is sweet to know that there member of the Sketch Club, when a
vehemence they put into telling the
Thejo, was a man whose reason for some things, a rerou visitor suddenly stood before me, at street what might to have been done,
ZABLY bus nens in life was buying far prticemen and starshes and Day. the other side of my writing table. Fight Saving Bills and badly cork & There had been no rock None aner bottles and brokers and the fof my "fgimals - had taken any CHITE af Cheeses ant for dewspaper tider I was ready to sweat that im GOOD TIKRA - "together into
even There it have been the door hadn't opened, only.com-
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With windy nonsense sad-QT. Would pounce upon you like
hawk
then, with the other evening paper's
Meanwhile, whose Prince is it? committee's, the morning" papers" or the people's? T
Folks! should we in sternity, Remember face fairly well,
Asked his age in court the other Tie faitly certain we shall see
"I am These gosips, it their chat, in hell, day, Lord Inchcape replied, "
ashamed to say it is 89. One may In the matter of enlarg regret one's age, if one is conscious of Those sming and self- VIGNETTE ing a nalla, a fiftesinfirmity or righs for the font graces of DOES NOT righteous folk who,
foot hole, with yellow youth, but why ashamed "I There ADVERTIZE.", without for an instant water at the botten, and crumbling is no moral obliquity in being born in defining their idea of edges. Male and female cools with 1853 rather than in 1893. sant thing and gett ng us strength, have been reproaching the picka and baskets. Habbab! A girl "Observator** 18commend When men ge much of the stub bought and sold. Government for "weskiete, might of about 14 has fallen in. With her Inchcape to read Cicero were it not
for it hrading that hat, necase.ise told me that would make Good Time, I invariably observe that Lensthon h I do not tha sitor AD
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semen and Beters
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kes them do than usual, and
ล
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to her thin that the argumenta" of the ancients. Leap of ruble, are so singularly unconvincing to the chattering mod m mind. Or, if we look at it
to tenuti of a sew of the wet - garments clingi tions that have set been form, she recliner out. Even now hiploade-bigger and okle der ordend by the Govern- und her. At 5-fittle distance them the Cainee point of view, when up. Work stopped, asked what his honourable age was be and striving recently in shape, men în a
Gover, cat, are although the job at least would bare repized something to the ord of to the best ad month behind schedule, owing to fleet, that his mean and despicable
pland of the P.W.D. the strike,
Dotat age was only
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