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left the coast road and turned inland
to Sandringham. I was forbidden to go through Windsor Park, so I was for giving H. Y. another chance.
| Sandringham is a very fine estate.
Listen!..
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SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1973.
were jumbled together in a position at most kind. All about and close by He is beyond criticism tow, so all I explanation is that the tide at once andignified, uncomfortable and were hamlets of intrinsic, artistic, and will say is that I fancy his writings Tarmouth raises the Broads a few hard to get car of My hardest job historic charm. Lord Nelson was a are about as dead as he is.
inches, though so far away, and the
I
as to persuade the Duchess that I Barabaco Tharpe man, Chendesly "Life everywhere," remariw Arising mere pushes the stream back st hada't done it on purpose. It was Shovel and two other Admirals hailed writer of a more durable stuff (Henry such times. It had no salt water quite # while before she for from Cockthorpe, and Capt. Marryatt, Fielding) "furnishes an accurate mixed with it, for I drank of it, and
Twe and our troubles a benefactor of my boyhood, belonged observer with the_ridiculous.” į found it quite fresh. On Tuesday afternoon the Some-give
I pulled in near by, to a village whose name slips Aristotle, who defined many things, I will try to revive all my thing th of July, 1914, a pretty incident were not yet ore.
A gentle closer to the hedge, and wedged our me at the moment. Twice I left my omitted to define that which con- recollections of the Norfolk Broads occurred at Sandrin.bam. man from the Colcaies, humping the home fi malv this time, but did not outfit on leisurely exploring trips, and stitutes the ridiculous; but I take it for you next week. swag carrying his own teat and snow that one leg was disturbing found it undisturbed on my reture. I to be anything natural and human canfees, invaded the royal demesne nest of leeping bumblebees. One was so pleased with the natives here which provokes a smile. In that case He was being turned away with stage on the neck. As for the that I tried to pay them may refer to the holiday folk I saw indignation by the estate servante, Daches, she hurried to the other side compliment; but this was the best as ridiculous. I aw men on the sands of this beautiful coast, almost buried in when a bearded gentleman came up, of the road where I heard her com- could do, and it doesn't ring right: lisboard to both sides, ordered the plaining most of the rest of the night North Norfolk men they goo's to newspapers! To come from a tom
with its trams, trains, and reading | & Lascar of the ss. "Nirpars," men to allow the gentleman from the like Mrs. Caudle.
rooms, to ach open spaces was killed instantaneously yesterday Colonius every facility, and directed
sing, breed where Jacks rist he be given tes out of a gold cap
hum, afternoon by a fall from the ship's waves dimple, ships pass, children mast, where he was working on the and javelled saucer.
laugh, and to find to better way of riggings, on to the deck below. His. passing time than to devour news neck was broken. pspets, seemed to me ridiculous. One man, in flannels, most bave spent at least sixpence
I moved too--not because I didn't believe I had a right to stay if I wished, but because somehow I didn't wish. What is good for bee stinga? The only thing that occurred to me was sucking the wound, and as mine was on the back of the neck, why, it was obvious that even the moral of Bruce and the spider did not apply hers.
3:2
It was H. M. the King!
That is what should have happened That is how it happens in the story books and the anecdotty weeklies What mally happened was this. went all up and down the place, saw the pheasants feeding on the front Heacham and Hunstanton drive, the drinking fountain that practically joined by the continuous Edward VII put up with his arms online of bangalows, bathing hars, it, the house from both sides, the adapted railway coaches, tents, etc be- front gates all garish with shields and tween them. A truly popular beach. I ious and crowns and triple feathers think the Queen has a little place of and German mottoes and things her own there. Through Halme, many of the private walks and shrub Thornham, Titchwell, Brancaster, beries-the two churches, to one of several Burnhams, Holkham, to a which the King walk to service camp in sight of Wells was my next Christmas morning everything, in journey. A week or so before, picking fact but the royal wice cellar; and out the name Burnham Market on the wasn't accosted by sayone.
Then back to the sea again, through Dersingham, Ingoldesthorpe, and Snettshan, and now; but here the
diction changes.
Somerhat to this effect:-
STOSED
ACATS. acise of something striking one of my wheels with con-
siderable force. Other noises suggested
visible. I was settling down again
10
and sailors bred they be, And there bain't a braver
o' men
in all the East Countree. Lord Nelson was a Norfolk man
who beat the French at sea Ye see he wor a Norfolk man, that's
bow an had to be;
And Cap'n Marryatt, teller of tales,
whose fame lasts like a tree He was another Norfolk "bor":
true Norfolk Wood bad hs. At Cockthorpe housen be so few, no
more than six ye'll see- But Cockthorpe lies in Norfolk and
boasts of Admirals three. [Sir John Narborough 1664, Sir Chris Mans, and St Cloudeslay Shovel 1650.)
So England owes to Norfolk, (I'm
sure you will agree,}) Some gratitude for useful sons,
gallant galaxy.
The churches are ancient, usually large, and anite interesting. The post office here, like most other erections, was built of beach cobbles, but it has its facade picked out with a very old Each pattern has about a knucklebones eet in plaster, and
ornamentation
of konekle bones.
dozen
so that my halt by the way was lucky
beer
on newspapers,
LOCAL AND GENERIL
The Hongkong. Canton AndTM and I fancied that he looked Macao Steamboat Company. is now bored. I did not emile or want to at sending boats to Macao daily at 8 am. the spectacle of anothers middle a p.. (9am. only on Sundaye). aged man who was digging a pit in Bosts leave Macao daily at 8 am, and 2 p.m. and at $0 p.m. only on the sand for a little boy. With what
a serious and yet happy face-for 1 Sundaye. : saw it when te stood to mop his- brow did he strive is that ex
It is announced that Mr E. W cavation. The small boy seemed to Alderson has been sppoizel Assistant be critical, too. But both man and General Manager of the Hongkong boy were sunburnt, dirty, healthy, and Hotel Co., Ltd. Mr. C. F. Fratt. happy. I'm sure the man hadn't a Manager of the Hotel and Mr. S. K thought for Mark Lane and its sala is. Hewer, Manager of the Peak Hotel Except to the stupic, the simple and the natural can never be ridiculous: it is affectation, and the incongruitles On Thursday morning the manifested by urban appearances in Vice-Chanceller of the University (Siz rural environment that call for it.
William Brunyate K.C.M.G.), se- companied by Mr. S. W. Tso visited the Civil Governor of Canton and But for not being what they would presented the annual report on the
be thought.
Canton Government scholars at the And, I would add, a failure to Crivenity. ILE. the Civil Governor
None are for being what they are in
fault
on all counts. The weather seemed a darter marrying on a Dorset chat effect, and all six disappeared up the settled and was almost tropical. this very morning." "In the course of
BOWLS
talk, he told me he was one of the
hillside
MURDER MYSTERY,
WOMAN'S BODY FOUND AT CAVE MOUTH.
map, I Ladwired my agent to send letters, money, ets, to me there, so for once I had a destination, and one that really must be sched. I found Burnham Deepdale, Burnham Overy, After all, though our ontat was the and Burnham Thorpe, all lying well very up-to-datest, it was also a hark-apart, with difficult byroads, but it ing back to good old Chaacerian days, was only by a fake that I found my letters, at another Barabam al- Nors the un awestering was together. Hereabouts were churches (same fun as Chancer's, I fancy, with with round towers, built of Bints, counted twenty-two of them. adapt themselves to changing milieu, has forwarded a cheque in payment the same old habit) ye gallant knight velly colo" as they say in Paddy's It is a fire partridge country, circumstances, times, is apt to pat of the sciclatsbipup to August 31st, and courtly, Sir Mamalade de Joust Market. It was a bit of really cid and I don't think I remember bigger people in a ridiculous light.. I've been 1922.
there myself. thysty, gan to scan with hawk eye England, with many stone crosset.
or strenger covers. I saw one fight
I awoke at six. There was a dense; of quite two hundred yards, and quite fog, and the horn at the lighthouse (take your choice: right or left) the
Lying down very tired,
A shopkeeper of No. 19, Nulla terrain on either fank, that so he
about dusk, I heard the brace in it. The Squire told me (137 feet high) was sounding. A man Terrace, Quarry Bay, was attacked by might e'er right fell and its perils:
that two keepers in the last three with a hoe came along, and asked sis men yesterday and relieved of months bad pat-dywa ninety-etĠAB-
2366 in vottur H. blew & police" Chuses goodly place in the which he
| how I liked this weather. I answered (not weasels.) These animals are and they with him might by the
considered rare in other parts. The come, and I told him cut of Dorset, just in time to see the robbers estap. Notow. When he asked how far I'd whistle and a Chinese constable arrived and safely bestow themselves for the stones. I rose, and locked out. Nothing heer here was decidedly the best yet he said “ Trass strange, Master, Iveling. He constable fired a shut after grate of Our Lady lay them downD hours of sleep. Stout heart though after Ese or ten minutes of qui
the fugitives, but apparently without bie was, the company of ye Duchess vivery," when footsteps sounded. in ye wheeled palanquin gave him co Three hulking, skulking, young fellows
The district police after- small anxiety. So on a broad stretch
were approaching. Opposite my
I played bowls with eight sons of a farmer, every one cf wards arrested a man who is being of greensward presently, upon a hill
camp they halted, not seeing me
the equire and the whom had gone foreign. He bmself detained on suspicion. locking over that traitorous bay in
apparently. Biff, biff, biff. TEO AND BZER person and all. They had sailed in a tea clipper forty years which King John did lose his crown firts pierced the tent this time. I
said I must have age He had been to Shanghai. He jewels, Eir Marmalade did presently chased them balf a mile, in shirt, played before, and I confessed that I told me I couldn't get to Yarmouth by stretch bis limba, and after feeding, parts, and bare feet; but failed to had even won prizes at it in Hong following the coast: that I'd have to be and all his company, and setting a catch them. You try running, in the kong."What? Do they play bowls go island Bad roads, mere sand watch (it's a stem-winder) he laid half dark, on a firty road, in bare in China?" was an astonished query tracks. himself down with his trusty blade feet, and you'll understand my I recall Bat by far the jolliest were My map (one I had used 20 years (my carving knife) all ready to his failure. Then, realizing that my base the long evenings in the inn kitchen. before) said otherwise, and I trusted right band, and the angels that come was left protected, I returned. II think it was called the Wheatsheaf. it. As I went along, on a fine, well- bearing sleep to the travel-weary did eat up an hour lenger, waiting; but all attended. Even the parson bad made, if early Victorias, road. I A mysterious and gruesome murder encompass him round about.
the young devils had presumably his mug and bis pipe. All argued, in reviled that man in my mind, calling story comes from Mataucheung, in But no. Romance nor realism can gone back to their own private helle. a most friendly and democratic way, him a wanton taradidiler. So I
the New Territories. The body of sr give you the effect of such encamp i would thankfully have given half a I recall that the gardener contradicted came to Eccles, where the road ended. ments. You need experience. Even sovereign to have caught one of them. the squire (bis master) az freely as he There was a farm and two or three unktowa Chinese woman, aged about had you sat there with me that Next morning, patching the holes contradicted me.
cottages, and siter that just beach. 40 years, was found by glorious evening, gazing at in my tuct, I noticed, what I should
Stevenson had reason, nodeubt, for No cad. At the farm a London slager urder & Large rock the upset over the Wash, you have Loured the night before, if I saying that it is better not to stay in doctor, with his wife and two children, st the mouth of the his would not have feet eye to hadn't been to tired, that I had a place long enough to see behind the was staying. He says it is the heal- eye with me, nor felt the same. So camped within sight of a row of farmecests, but he would never have said thiest corner of England. He admired tori care in Sungwongtoi Hill, much depends upon the bamse, in- cottages up a byrcad. It is the pleas it of Cley. From first to last was my dodge: said it would be a fine named after the mandarin who took. dividual heart, babit, experience ing custom of the young yokels, courteone interest and bon camer- prescription for
many of his refuge there when he fled after bis You would certainly have seen the between supper and bed, to come aderie. For the eve of my departure. patients. Alter & chat with defeat doring the time when the New coloon on sky and sea, and doubtless down to the main-road it on a fence, the Squire get up a match at bowls on him,
I retraced the last three Tarteries were not yet ceded to-- have thought of other sunsets you and jeer at passers-by, laughing his lawn inviting me first to tea, and miles, and by way of Lessingham and had watched in other company. Those heartily
|Britain, and struggles and change of each other's wit That day the only place thoughts would be the difference.
presenting me to his wife and daughte. Stalba got to Catfield, where my of size I passed through Your sis, even as mine, would have town of Wells about 7 am., and Doctor bowled against the School taken it away for repair, perhaps I cally of daily occurrence.
I passed through the dirty, ugly The Squire, the Parson, and the map towed a "Broad" They had leaders were numerous and practi- was Downhats, an old-heard the chuckling glee of those straightway got into lovely country master, the Something to do with the couldn't see it. The Duchess didn't The body which fabiozed market town, akylaiks, the melancholy monologue again, with winding streams (Fish Bates sail me. That'll indicate to think much of Catfield, either; bat with its main sircet paved with of the yellowhammer, the insistenting strictly private") winding roada, the knowing, more than anything pointedly ignored it, so we pushed on { decomposed, had two stab wounds in honible granite. "Betts." It had, chirping of fledglings. Your brow and nadmisted fields. I saw a beron eise, what an old-world piace Tå for Ludham, leaving the Yarmouth the left side of the neck, and another.. however, three public pumps. Ats would have felt the same breeze, fishing. I saw millions of poppies, found. There was a palstable whisky, road in order to do so.
over the right eye. The ground cross-road leading оде sy to Your eye might note, as mine did,
I've forgotten to mention that in round about showed evidence of Watlington and the other to Stoke the immense variety of seeding reminding me of the song they used baccy, sud pleasant yamning to follow.
Next morning, none the worse for the my iste, when the sun dispersed the B desperate struggle for Ferry, there was a lovely bit of turf gase, the honeysuckle, bryony,
rest, I said goodby to Cley's "Hissing fog, I saw a pretty thing. Back of life having taken place between which tempted me to camp. King's Iaseestrife, bramble bloom, yarrow,
gate," and entered the beautiful the tent was a clump of gorse quite Lynn was caly about four miles knapweed, seapinks, clover, crowsfoot, There was a beech mountain fax, convolvulus, and many further on. The coppice herr, in the windward angle, more unnamed. But you would be
and a very friendly squirrel, to which I tasted pieces of cake. A most pleasant evening.
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"By the edge of the corn, Where red poppies are born; It was there-it was there. That my trousseau was torn.” I'm not positive I've got the words you, sad I L. Such "loneliness as just right, but they went after that mine was an-advantage. The sense fashion. At Stifley, there were two come to a thinking man among his young ladies caravanning.
of loneliness to be feared is that which
friends, or even with his wife that horrible consciousness that no matter how intimate and loving, there is always the invisible barrier around each ego."
السميط
was slightly
stretch of coast that holds Kelling eight teet high, and it looked, when the woman and her assailant. In (inland a bit) Weybourne. Sherring the sun shons, as if someone had her right hand was tightly clasped ham (with an ideal golf links) Rantan spread a beautiful lace curtain over the blade of a blood stained knife, East and Banton West, and Cromez it. Hundreds of geometrical webs, evidently the one with which she was Heavy zain at Cromer led me to camp wet with fog, glistened in the san. A murdered. She must have grabbed on the Heads there; and a pretty dainty woman's heart would have it in the course of the stinggle. They had camped picture was framed by my tent open ached to see it and know that it The broken handle of the knife was HOW NOT TO in marsby field,ing, of sea, downs, and the spiky and wasn't available for petticoat par found a little distance away.
The body was removed to the Kow. sending their borse not nabeautiful architecture of Cromer poses.
At Ladham I discovered that I had loon morteary, but has not yet been * somewhere, in the righthand bottom corner.
come through the thick of the Broads identified. The police are investigat- It was not a camp to spend say Here an enterprising journalist without knowing it. A policaman, ing the ezime, but have interviewed me, and if his paper, who came officially to hatry us, and so far been unable to find any clue published at Norwich, printed all I remained affably to invite us to eat to the identity of the murderer or told him, the world must have leath the lascións wineberries in his garden, the cause of the crime. Robbery
DO IT
away
drunk and incapable de- fendant, instead of assuring the magistrate that he had only one pint -too many-si sccident tha: might
kine, befall any man—sometimes claims to ɓa teetotaller. In "The Bel" at The squawking of chickens, the
squealing of swine Stow I saw a pol tical en toon that seemed to me to oversbout its mark, awoke me early. They were bound It was a chromo reprezes ting a worst for Lynn market, hundreds of beasts, and's little gid gezing in dismay at a and many farmers' carts. I strolled Still, there are human experiences length of time in, but they seemed church door acres which was nailed along slowly, through South Wootton we all more or less share and these, happy enough. They jeered at my & notice saying Charch closed owing and lovely, hily, and very twisty in camp two miles from Hunstanton, culinary outfit, but for the rat to Welsh Disabl sument Bill passed roads, until, haring" walked a pint and will be more or less understood by admired it immensely. They said
Had behalf, as Elis nad to say, I came to many. The homing rooks were the hore and the man were At sunset heavy rain fell again, and bought a larger scale map, and turned several small piece of jewellery were. fulfilled bis intention, the artist would Castle Rising Here, & Boteworthy cawing: you will know what that nuisance, which was why they had 1, fhomeless, ragged, and tanned, eastwards to cross the Thurns at untouched.
ve given me a sense of pathos. To thing happened. For the mean, perhaps; and your heart seat them away, and decided to stay bad the fan of sitting in my teat, Falgate. Five Broads on our right, these people, in whom lives the first time is 320 miles (about) soften at the thought of it. In which where they were. Oreza stone near warm and dry, while watching the three or four an ear left, we had church counted for so much, this was a man said to me those familiar, those case, I score one point.
by, marked simply "The Flood fashionable crowd run for its hotele, passed unsesing; but now at last I a cruel blow. Their weekly worship delightful, those altogether splendid And then it will be your turn. I 1912" we wazed merry and
getting "wet through. After early was aimed right for Rollesby, Or- dabarred then, what could they do? | words. "Have a drink. He had no have rhapsodized about the evening they gave me tes.
breakfast, a nice, cool morning mesby, and Filby Broads. They are Bat the artist, evidently no mere need to coax Foor chap! He was Now you may laugh, if you like,
Getting back to the sen promised good walking, and it was so. flabing meres, yachtsmen having no hireling for else an unthinking one) one of those ill equipped men who about the night,
A REST. again, I determined on Through Mundesley, Paston, Bacton, access to them. At Heigham, the a week's rest at the first along a coast dotted with bungalow,ign of the in is a gate, on which
by Radical Government.”
ed some surprising things about itself was our informant, Whereupon I could not have been the motive sa
This gate hangs high. Bat hinder none, Befresh and pay^.
- And travel on.
showed the church door grown over must have companions and be doing Posibly the sentimental mood by about three most growth of thing. He had booked his room for caused forgetfulness. At the rear really promising camp, because two hotels, and apartment": houses, I there is this verse: Creeper - so that I for one was bound a holiday fortnight, had been in that of my carapace, to prevent it of my tow and gone very sore. I did seventeen miles by lunch time, so to got the impression that these two pleasant land but a few days, and was tilting over backwards, I had what I found my place at a quaint, old world that I decided to comp where I Tanzles used the chutch only four already bored, even to the extent of called a "drup stick," attached to a village called Cley near the sea. It is lanchas, in a wild, grass covered lane times a year, and had not visited it winding up the gramophone in the hinge, which I used to let down at an not so near as, it and to be for a beyond the quaint townlet of Happis- for three mostke. In which case if bar. He was much interested in my ets leg at night. This night I quite system of dykes across the marsh has burgh pronounced "Hasbro." It was at the bridge, a hundred. they cared for it as little, the Radical outfit, but marvelled that I should go forget it. It was all right so long pushed the sea, except at vary high Somewhere back on the road, hear yards or, so lower, that I noticed flovemment had not done them much it alone. II could not stand that I waitifting up over the axle, basades, back aboni a mile. Here the Cromer, I get water from a fountain thing I never thought to see, namely karm. The point of the poster zaple collet me godsend "und whil took off my boots, and leszed behaviour of the inhabitants perserted to the memory of Clament fresh water running up tires. To quired that the notice shoe'd not bi showed a diaposition to entertain me back to hang them by theit Iscai on than atoned for the annoyance at the Scott, who by ha pen made Peppy-the exit, stammouth, by water, more than six days" o'd Weist for the rest of bis fortnight, if I would their usual hook in the stern, my last camp. They are afriendly, Findly land famous. I saw erveral “apart about twenty miles. The sourds of Diestablishment scarcely seems only stop did not, Lewerez, love bedroom reared up and fall backwarda tolk. I had even to reptides, my menthouses calling themselves the tributary of the Yarr is a the barning question now, and evan Mt. This company as he loved mute, and 1 Maims, blanket, boots, books, methyl prejud es agains, the landlord class, Poppyland. The reference is to some direction of the sex, which so the Aloyd Georgs may hava forgotter it.
tore free. A mile or two beyond. I stove, startled man and swearing at fur the Squire (Cotons Hardy) was thing of Clement Scott's I never saw. crow flies is only five miles away. The
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