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This much I OTHER TRAVELLERS verture after

being a dili sest student of the corratives of sil other adventniers I could find. Of walking tours with knapsack I have read, and myself have MY UNCLE TOBY ing with a part doLe several, notably one that took cular earn these me fate the fair land of Normandy. I

ADVERSARIA.

Some reader.har

Carapace,

CRIS VAD.

CARAPACE

carspax,

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THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1922)

borreless biting my beard, was not great is inadequat; and me thurst spoiled Bristol way anggested the temptation

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of the devil, the cities and kingdoms.

Kain, wind, handicaps (aye, and the ridicule of the duffers who always scoff at a new thing) all these account-

ed, and still I felt no ured to ask if it were worth while. P. L. 3 kaew it

OFFICIAL NEWS.

GIST OF THE GAZETTE.

my pleasure the noble beeches thereabouts. I etcamped among the bills, far from any houses; but

The Gocerament Gazelle issued to the last milestone I had seen said

That Sunday tax me in Somerest,

day sadounes that the name of Hr. was only 34 miles from Bristol. resting every hour to let a smartwell when he remarked, of similar Edward Dean Shank has been aåder Being new well fed, and the day mainsquall pass by. I was now enabled oilsome pleasures. "When the present far advanced, we decided to camp to renew my stock of potable water is so exacting, who can and himself

"What a large volume early for the first night, which was a I was on short allowance the day about the future!"

"adventures," says sh cheerfulSteine, blowy one. We did not get even so before, and couldn't afford a wash in

1. Blackford was a dear little village may be grasped within this little

H. E. the Covertor, Las far as Dorchester, which is only seven the morning.

At this hidden in a cuplike depression in the i

hills, and the people kind and friend-span of life, by him who interests his

heart in everything, and who, having provisionally appointed Mr. Herbert

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tead of admiring the rabbits and crows and Innets and cuckoor in that beantirul, undulating country.

Mr. Sin Tak fan has been appointed to the list of authorised architects

a Justice of the Peace.

of!

Besides his other daties Mr. Thomas. sct 35 Marnard Hazlerigg will Assistant Land Officer.

I had to cross a hill called Priest./eye to see what time and chance are William Bird to be an anofficial

I're

bill.

for an hour, I made a song which Q. Pricetleigh hill's a beastly forgotten. The refrain was:

And I must climb it twistily And lastly but not leastly With a relapse into prose, thus: Priestleigh bill is beastiy D-those dust-raising motors. D em Den.

IN PRAISE OF. DILETTANTISM

Looking through a book

of

holding cut to him as he

he can fairly lay his hands on." journeyeth on his way misses nothing during the sbsence on leave of the

Hon: Mr. A. G. Stephen.

On and after Jul 15 the Gree island lighthouse will be altered to

ash light of 2 seconds' duration with sonds eclipse.

an ion smile or two west of Stratton- The fictette contains a list of Js. F. on Fosse, about a dozen miles from and a list of persons qualified to, Bath, romance met me in the eyes of

practise medicine and surgery. kitten. a rustic maid, who kissed my Iran and fetched my cau and kettle full of water, and sitting on the age of the table at which I quad beer begged me for descriptions of foreign parts." You may to sure I put in all the colour. She wished she could come with me; in all innocence she: confessed it.

"My dest", I said, "wherever you

The sex diaphone for signalling apparatus will start in at Wagian of August 30. The diaphone will give a

Home caravanning is perspicaciousness.

Light as may outfit was, the muscles delightful, but it has at least three grave objections—(1) expense (2) the of my arais were not yet hardened need for camping grounds for which arms shook so that I spilled my tea. permissi must be sought, and (3) This eff ct wore off very soon, and in the hard work that the proper care of a week I had arms like the village a horse involves. The tortoise could blacksmith's, camp by the side of the highway. I thought of the long, unused strips of gren turt that line eur English roads. Gradually the idea of a carspace caravan evolved, big enough to live tin, light enough for me to pull or push miles inland.

Bah says some reader. without assistance, small enough (or at least narrow enough to be rate we shall not get far. tucked away at nights on those "long! Fray have patience, or pray for it.ly.

as we humorously call them Could you have done more?

mach? With a broken leg in the North.

Those careless Great Western Rail The first was a tent too!

I had THE FIRST closely modelled on the way people, in landing my carapace,

Tortoise. It had four had broken one of its lege. bicycle wheels, sad brought a few tools, and I wanted the was difficult to stear round corners. last ours of daylight for repair work. It was low, and crawling in and So I passed through Dorset Tery early: out of it was a repeated discomfort, in the morning-before the paus were The finty roads of Berkshire sconepen-and wuch too early to think of raiced the EYTES.

Moreover, this calling to pay my respects to Thomas squat affair was apt to frighten Hardy, even bad I intended to do so. matter of fact I had not yet

two seconds blast every two minutes. sketches, I now see borses. So that summer went br. As a

In the event of a mechanical break- that they were and there was shother winter for settled down to the true and sppro- meditation and invention. At last Ipriate pace of leisurely contemplative!

down as a temporary signal, a gun poor work, if compared with the pair of travel that was my ideal. I was like: I imported &

The P.W.D. calls tenders for new got it. ricsha wheels, the thin iron tyres of a young horse fresh yoked after long works of real artists. But that is not which should last long, and be repair. rest. I was too energetic, too fall of able if necessary at any wayside animal spints. I almost harried along the point. I wasn't emulating artists, might ge, you would be there, and it will be fired twice every 10 minnies. Horace, a writer you, woed Road to Wongeeiclong Gar swithy. Between these wheels, on that Sherborne and Yeovil road, ins- but aiming to enhance my joy. But you are not happy in this lovely springs of course, I mounted a fost

as explanation of this would have in hollow, you may depend you'd be no roads from Wanchai Gap to Middle have made it into an essay and the and I know. China Mail published it as a leader" won't even have heard of, eays that Road, a motor road from Shek four feet long by under two feet wide.

terrupted the fow of my narrative, I more so in other places. I've tried it, Gap, Mountain Cameron, from Broad-

331 On this a framework of light wood,

On a gate, climbing the long

on Wednesday. If you didn't read it no ship goes far enough to leave care, Gap to Shek 0 Village, and a lowlevet behind. We take it with us, my dear." road to connect Big Ware Bay and pisned to three-quarter fach square,

you missed it. Let me resume.

I gave her a brotherly kiss at Island Bay. and fitting together by socket Dorchester. I had noticed a boldly

Hail, sleet, and a real gale from the was the painted text-that God would bring joints. The framework skeleton of a small but with a Noah's every work into judgement, whe-westward, made me camp early-parting, on one of the rostest cheeks Ark roof. All tents hitherto tried ther good or evd. This bucked me about six o'clock, at a milestone the West Country paints, but I stall had been leaky. I hit on the ides of up. Going up till I was apt to think making 42 miles from Weymouth, and not soon forget the wi-tful expression

To-day is the last day of the American cloth, that glazed staff with what an as I was, not to be lying from Shepton Mallett, which the of her brown eyes.

the Indian fasting which they cover kitchen tables. a deck chair somewhere. Downwards, Dasser folk seem to know as Shepton By way of contrast, at Stratton-on- With brass drawing pins I pinned or on the level, I sneered at motorista Montague. Ladies passing in motors, Forse (just outside which I camp d) « Ramthan.”

Now those with whom when it faired up, saw a whiskered the village boys, after watching my month, and to morrow the first day the hot, and on; three walls of

have talked of this trip tramp sitting in his tent door, preparations for the night, began to of Shawal" EATS. stretching the cut-to-measure roof

have invariably eagaired amoking a pipe, nursing a cat, and throw stones. They made two holes tightly over the ridge stick, I pegged

Did I depend on sketching the scenery Langport and in my teat, which I had to patch, and would have made a Lola in me, if I' it down with the same. My door of concerning eats. the same materis! I mounted one, and such like questions. I did Yeovil way. a roller, window blind tashion. not. I had a saucepan and a frypan, Drinking a pint of delicious ale at hadn't dare scipe live's dodging. had all fixed so that, by laying

hight board across the handles, to say nothing of an appetite. I the in a mile back, I thought of that They stopped when sa old fame "You speak to those boys, will replenished my stores at village gre venerable error which traces the eay came up." I spoke to him. snd

a flap. polling forward I had a sheltered bed over six feet ceries, sticking mostly to plain and ing, Mind your p's and q'e" to an

wholesome foods, and as you shall old custom of chalking up for you, and tell 'em they mustn't.

"That I will, Sir, but it'e natural, see hereafter) profiting well when "ticking" customers a P of a Q long, and nearly two feet off the

"What! To throw stones!" ground. I made the r.dge high enough passing through districts having gar- according to the measure (Pint or your afair being a novely like."

"Aw, well. I all tell 'em. If so 30. to give me headroom sitting up in dens and good home-grown things in Quart) they had. On that explan side. I now had a caravan both light season. Into my saucepan would go asioa the saying mrant, Mind how

The annual meeting of Wa and strong, and astonishingly execme water, a piece of fat bacon, & your chits accumulate. Ithink, bow be ye like to goo in my field; yer

Nice old mas. It wasn't till Powell Ltd, will be held on June 7. to dissemble or semble, I screwed rind of cheese, an egy of two, with eser, the the explanation is the welcome." brass hooks into the ridge pole of potatoes and greens-s mixture of simpler one, that in the days when

closed from June 1 to 7 both days f which to hang light articles. Coder avenes bat nourishing withal. It was writing was a less common accom found his field-gate was locked that I The company's transfer books will be

As for those boys, how I longed for 'clusive. the floor 1 fixed a fair sized drazer, mave to the Weymouth customs plishment, it would be natural to doubted it.

I put in

men to find no less than seven pounds mind the budding scriptor of the risk for groceries, diacies etc.

Elijah's she bear. As a scaless man,

A lady advertises the loss of (after much careful thought) cheap of French onions in my luggage, for of confusing p & q.

In his "Travels with I am fond of boys, yearn over them, editions of Boewell and Sterne. These why should onions be brought to a

a Donkey" R.L.S. and all that; but I could calmly have a pair of piace nez between Queen's lay between the hair mattress and the

"There is watched the scriptural bene devour Road Central and Kowlcon about teather pillow, One good blanket cocotry that grows them? Had they been Hongkong customs men they

nothing more harasthese young leats, who made my 5.15 pm on Thursday. A reward is- was ali i considere necessary for! bedding. I wheeled it all down to the would have looked in my onions for Eteamer, and myself pushed it abuardopim, belike. My fellow members sing to an easy mind than the England seem more dangerous than ofered for its recovery.

of the Orion Club will understand me necessity of reac ing shelter by dusk China. There was an old abbey at

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An advertisement inviting offers for the purchase of two first French appears in another part of this issue. Premium bonds of 500 fsnes each.

Air. Frederick W. Stevens, Ame can representative of the Barking Consortium, sails on the "Empire State" for the United States or Mar

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** restored" for my Among the departures by the on the deck. There was an argument without further argument, well know-

"Suwa Maru" were Mr. and Mrs. F. bought Nert day ī with the purser, who proposed to

fresh green peas, and S. d'Almada, Mr. Sugimura and Mr. charge exornicus freight, but I con ing that onions are the primest food as village inn is not always to be Stratton-on-Fosse, somewhat orez

pacing, though it slows the pace, is some vinced him (in a way I know) that it that earth provides. It was when reckoned sure by those who trudge zealously

when one

is Burt House Inn, two and a half miles to the Singapore Conference) Mr. and was in a micat particular and positive approaching a place called Cerne that foot" The advantage of car liking. way essentially passenger's luggage, (after lunch by the wayside) I made that one can stop almost anywhere halted to cook them opposite the Katchi Gunji (Japanese Consuls going

me a marching song about onious, of and so got to Weymouth, which 15 which I now remember no more than tired, or when it rains. De Quincey from Bath. I had dipped down into Mrs. Hill Mr. A. Wilson and others.

is more severe than RL S. about the and laboriously climbed out of, a

-Glamour of the Orient tinges this. in Dorset, which is in England. This

the following chorus: was in the Spring of 1914-to me,

trians. In his time they saved their of which I remember thinking that all evening's Coronet Theatre attaction. more perhaps than to you, an event.

attitude of ins to dusty pedes coal mining village called Radstock, coach; now it is the rich looking trickled down into this bollow, they the great desert wastes and partly in cheerfulness for those who saived by the houses looked as if they had "Sabara" which is staged partly in motorist who enjoys their nods and huddled so. There were noble views, gayest Cairo. Louise Glam has a The The landlady of the Crossways Inn-anotable role in the leading part: The becks and wreathed smiles.

Paramount picture of carapacer is at no cost for the neces- lonely place-begged me to give her or Kowloon Theatre is showing ar sary bed, and runs less risk of what sell her the Duchesse; but I resisted. excellent

tol year.

I had nearly forgotten to mention that at the last moment I caught my kitten, popped her into a basket, and

ESGLAND

there.

Quite a new idea in outfits" said the oldest of them.

So many songs have been made and

Jung,

Songs that are catchy, and songs that Starties for ses and brave lilts of the

be wrong.

road

H'a!

Ups and downs-of road sad of

...BUSINESS

YEAT

begged of melbst I should write more have. "bumped the swag" in How far are you going with it? wonder that it should be allowed. There was one trying night in the Sanday School, and his eyes rolled of his coat which was hanging on the

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Dorchester !"

"Forther than that."

"Not as far 38 Bristol, surely?"

eastward route."

nothing of demonstrating what a re- took her with me for sale company Songs for sick lovers, and songs a la

mode At Weymouth the

I may call, remembering some inns is My unintentional entry into the city sirens life, "Under the Top." featur LANDING IN Customs officers were But say!-What about onions!

olden travels, welcome company of Bath, which I had hoped to cising athletic Fred Stoce. jolted out at their Poetson fanny uns

So that De Quincey, when he said cumvent, was en comical that I must bored isciturnity. Why not a song about,onions?

A Chinese occupying Room No.. In any case I

9, in the Fook Lee Yarn Boarding Here was ecmething very much out A few miles beyond this Cerne (or it "Happier life I cannot imagine than tell you about it next week.

may have been Godmanstore) carved this vagrancy" trudging from inn to

URBUSINEESLIKE was obliged to House, Connaught Road Central of the ordinary.

interrupt my story in order to reports that his room was enteral- between 5 and 6 o'clock yesterday of groceries, and opening my kettles, I was amazed to see the picture of a the Carspace. They had a gay time opening packets on the face of a hill to the eastward, inn-bad not imagined the coming of

wallet containing pacify an enraged

morning, and a &c, in search of tobacco that won't naked man carrying a club. It is quite on sa large a stale as the famous camping White Horse"; bit the Priapian spirit. The wind was too cold and and raging Bees. His language was

style of it makes it a bigger wonder too strong for June and for me. iolent than my ever used in 3698 in notes stolen from the pocket Dosset folk are either wickeder or middle of which I had to sit up, like those of a frenzied versifier wall near the bed. He did not re-

morning. shivering, and get out an extra reg.«Tell 'em, tell 'em," he roared. "Tell cover his loss until later in the more inrocent than some we know. of the tramp ale to which I did re- Australia, bandling up my small

Sherborne mast surely be one of the Then a raw morning, cooking breaken this week how some Hongkong

Sergt. Brennan searched pass- cently aliude. I am of the mind to do recessitics in what is called a "blusy," so for diver reasons. One is supplied in Colonial wise-which is; I say, less

"Hach further. If all goes as well most ancient of our town, so old fast at seven. Breakfast backed me business men do their business." It by one of these suppliants bimseli. comfortable than the knapsack. I

as I expect, I'm going to push it fashioned are its up and down streets, up to do a couple of miles, against a appeared, when at last I got the I who writes: When touching upon have journeyed by bicycle, with a

tent belayed to the same.

under come politics and such you as as big ansik

the average: but when Lave walked far carrying nothing but through Wales and up to the Lake its quaint architecture. Here the terrible head wind, so that I had to coherent story from him, that he had engers luggage on board the 8.x.

was hidden your money and a stick, trusting to the district; then down England by an Ducles atracted a bit of a crowd, push my carapace down hill. I began written about an argent matter to "Saian" on her arrival from Macao washing her face at the carapacial seriously to think of giving it up. Then one of our taipans, who took abeolate yesterday, and seized 138 taels of pre- allu li to parrating or

The old man, goped. A younger entrance while I was in a shop, buy- I blushed and vowed to be no quitter, ly no notice, either of the original pared illicit opram worth $1,416, own advertons you are matable. Parcels Post and occasional purchases Another reason is that one sa ai for clothing, like Mr. Wells' Mr. Polly one eaid: Well, don't push at, ing a loaf for twopence threels things Shepton Mallett seemed strangely letter, or of the chit he sent about a which

and a tra cake for the change. Ons elusive, and the fingerposts announcing month later begging for the courtesy clothing in the bottom of a box in the Mister, Pall it."

hill above that picturesque place, its nearness seemed to me false of an acknowledgment. I advised baggage roath A Travels with mirably given by my Uncle Toby. But those who have read Stevenson's Donkey" will

"Why?" I askari, innocently. showing the additjonstjoy of recalling

"Because you'll be sick of the sight liking the prospect well, I stopped preachers. But at Iset, in a beavy him to print a thousand postcards, chimed ownership of the box was and took out my sketch book and downpour of rain, I staggered into it," What about it?" and to address arrested. He was produced before. ~past enjoymente. Moreover I have understand best the itch to discover

& picture of it," for and anon on a triangular patch of soms by every mail until they were Magistrate Lindsell this morning and Lethought me how by cousasting the some original method of travel that of it before long":

While being of itsell

"Very good," said I, amiably made me

remembra: ce. The fact that I prefer grass with a finger post on it, we exhausted or did thetrick. Sead one to remanded until next week. pleasures of retrospection with those should

Many prominent people wear of anticipation I may preach you a enjoyable bring to the traveller such That's worth a drink."

"He got it out of a comic paper" sketch book to camera phone you my puffed up and sat in shelter watching his office, one his house, and one to bis

along to Blake Pier yesterday to bi small sermon that shall advantagecopy" and renown as might be. you. Further, since the vagabondage And so this is where the plesenres of said the old man, jealously, I saw idea of the pace at which such the saucepan bubble. Seven small club, by each poet, I said, and then journeyings should be made. I made boys, three little girle, and the village may be be will come out of his trance.

bon voyage to Sir Parl and Lady. it myself."

Chater who left by the "Keystone to which I shall confine myrell for the anticipation are to be noted. All one

Is was rather late by the more pictures than leagues, and yet idiot, made a more or less respectful

San Francisco. "present did be dose in England, and winter I lay in a cottage by the sea,

Henolala and many readers following this parti- on the south side of the English chau- time I get out of the town, paseing a in all my log shows eight hundred audience while we ate our tifin. The After two hours of this embarrassing

A Japanese cook named F. Yadi, State on a visit to England, trics cular journey in print will be sure to ael, dreaming of journeys to beach crowded with paddlers, bathers, miles at the end, which is as yet far Duchem swore at the village dog.

Crossing the Men publicity, the rain stopped just long employed at the M.B.E. Coal Yard

Neville (representing, His Excellency asy at times: Now he is in my be made, and imagining methods.

inh to save time (rather than get oat awn county. He is actually passing Always these methods had to be and promenaders, so we called at an off and unforeseen,

man of small means

THE MENDIPS dips meant hard enough to let us get half way up Me, in Kowloop, was asleep in bix Amongst those preses are Capt.

uphill work so that long hill on the way-0, smile kindly through my own village," and the such as a

compromised I had had enough of ing, when he was awakened by Secretary (Mr. A. M. Fletcher), Sit fike, the paper shat have annour and microperunions) might essay without cooking utensils to prepare our own)

For... 1 The landlady looked was resting as well as doing at my weakness-to Bath. I had quarters about 4.15 yesterday morn the Governor), the Assistant Colonial

bare justice to fine scenery. profit thereby, and them that know fearing expenditure. The journey and I asked for a high tes fur myself

nga ing that it was as Professor Mitton, Benoble, The road: passas (son of Sher- hills for the present, and would post-more ehind the cockhouse Think: Robert Ho Tang, Mr. Montague Ede, But our Engined as they should know must be leisurely and slow, and I and mile for the Duchess

will have their geographical know-ust five zoroa while. Something pit

** For my cat", I explained.

bo ne) through miles st parked lead, pops Wales.

The Mendip Golf Links are 10 meshore, he opened the cookhouse door. Teesdale Mackintosh, Dr. Noble, Mr. #dge enlarged Sach various con- tortoises in my head, and I envied

"Oh yea, sur. "I Loticed yaz, had belonging to Lord Minterne or Lord

Digby, but I think the former, I hope from Bristol and 18 from Bath, ando Chinese ruted in and seizing and W. EL Shenton, Mr. J.T. iderations justly occasion the re the tortoise, He travels, and

a kitten." - compiling of the ensuing digest of my bes no hotel warries or expense. Kain does not matter, for he damies, which, in gratdying the in native disposition of my petion has merely to stop and withdow into Which, considering that Matilda, I got he Lordship's name, right, for it blows as hard there always as a hold of him they pushed him into the Bagram, Me, E., H. Wilson (Chap ang read to and evarelating to that shelter of his own carapace. (asmed after the Normandy Dachess cossed his wito sa awful cass, for did when I was crossings I cogut en pantry. He resisted them, shouting of the z-Active Betrice Men's that Catapace? I thought what good who made that naughty tapestry at allomag so few homes in Lissonere many lost balls. But it is country out "robbers," and the men, taking Association), Me, Potts Mr. Chapman, Sore of our home land

never be too great, to my name tha: would be for 's caravan. Baycan) was on my shoulder playfully of intence: Our pab per Bitesa miles beauteous to behold and the landscape night, fied into Reclamation Street.

and others

Chinese who