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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930.

THREE - CORNERED TALKS & A SONG.

give you anything but love, baby," SEQUEL TO AN ARMED

at the same time.

Like this:-

I can't give you anything but ... Mashed three, cabbage two,

Catch Vitamin-Clogged beef one porsh with... baby.

Echoes.

ANNIE THE HOWLER,

Done your hair different, LI, this morning, haven't you?...Kippers two, curried chicken one, chips one. coffee one... That's the only thing I've plenty of, baby, diamond rings ... Beef two porsh with... Can't "Beef two porsh with... And say I like the way he's done the then I turned round on her and I back, Lil.... What's the hurry? Cold lamb two, salad one, beef two SAYS.. Steak one underdoue

porch with, coffea threa... any .... Mushrooms one... Coffee thing but love, baby,... Sterk two...

The cheek of her cat!} underdone one... Beef one porah with... Veal hampi and... Oh, all right, what's your hurry? Three porsh apple, haddocks one, fried egg one, coffee one ... with one of those grey coats, my dear, with the high.... Beef one persh with...And if she 25 much

us answers me back I'll one porsh ... Rabbit one, beef with

This is not a literary duet by Mr. James Joyce and Miss Gertrude Stein, but merely Annie Nolan's job.

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ROBBERY.

Thief Arrested with Booty on Him.

BRAVE DETECTIVE.

Tlentsin, Nov.-18. A remarkable instance of gallan- on the part try and promptitude of Chinase detective of the B.M.C. Police Force occurred on Sunday evening.

"Annie," I asked curiously, "have At about 7 p.m. three robbers you any theories about the obvious armed with automatic pistols enter- just of the British public for 'beeted a Chinese house in Kwa Yin Hai one porsh with'""

Eht"

"Why so much 'beef with"?" "Bout the cheapest thing up stairs, I s'pose," said Annie.

"Why do you always say 'beat one porsh with?" I asked.

LI near the Isolation Hospital and held up the women inmates, They then ransacked the premises and

got away with $1,000 in cash and jewellery and furs together valued

about $900.

"With 'veg, of course," she After the robbers left the house laughed, or beef one porsh and'a woman rushed out and spoke to a when the bloke wants Yorkshire detective posted in the vicinity a

description of the pad with it."

three men and Indicating the way they went."

The detective with the woman the robbers immediately followed

"Why not say sometimes, 'Bear two porah despite,' or 'Eggs three ...because"

"Chuck It!" amiled Annie.

and at the tram terminus in the] Annie is eighteen and has rather

"Starved Pig One."

French Concession saw them enter nice hazel eyes. She has, more.

"Some of the things we say are a.tram. They followed suit and over, the hearing of a startled

real comic, she confided. "You at the next stop the three men got gazelle and the lungs of an irritat-get a finnicky fellow upstairs who off. Two went south and one man ed sergeant major.

Annie is a "howler."

wants his salad nice and dry and north. The woman indicated the crisp with lean ham, for example.man going to the north and told It comes down the batch an 'Starved the detective that he was the man There may be restaurants where pig one, grass one."

who had taken the money from the "howlers" are unknown, where the

I burst out laughing and, en-house. The detective fallowed waiter visits the kitchen and recouraged, Annie said some more.. through the streets of the French quests: "Could you oblige me with "I know a boy in a kitchen up Concession and at a convenient another portion of veg and several West who laps dreadful. They moment sprang on him and knock- crisp chips?"

seem to make out what he's saying ed him down just as he was in the There may be; but there are un-at his place, but I'd kill myself very act of pulling at his pistol.

The detective called for asala- doubtedly scores of restaurants laughing."

"Why?".

tance and a European gendarme where jaded waiters hurry to the

"Well, One porth lobthter thalad' and some Chinese constables in the hatch and bawl the appetites of the

The man customers down its gaping mouth;fe one of the things he's got to say," French Police ran up.

was secured and was found to be in and in such restaurants at the kit- the giggled chen end of the hatch stands the

"You have to get used to the the possession of the money and tricks of some of the waiters," she jewellery, in fact everything stolon "howler."

added. "P'raps some have difficult from the house in Kwa Yin Hai Li, The "howler's" job is to keep voices or p'raps they are fed up as well as a fully loaded, automatic one ear on the hatch and the other and start larkin' about. We've got pistol

Mixing It.

was thus prevented from using it.

the cooks, listening for the one waiter who, when he's tired or In drawing his automatic pistol, vitamin-clogged echoes from above had a row or something. starts, the robber got his weapon entang and yelling them across to the making a speech down the hatch to led with a button on his coat and cookers.

let off steam.

"He goes on like this: Beef for If it had not been for this fortunate? a bald-headed old devil whom happening he would hava 11- doubtedly shot the plucky detective: The robber has been handed over to the B.M.C. Police Station and fur- ther arreste are expected.-P. & T. Times.

Annie is a superb "howler." She hope it chokes, please; coffee for can yell the, needs of a packed re-two; spinnach for one, and rosemary staurant during the rush hours and for remembrance." He fair makes maintain a three-cornered conversa-you die laughin'."--D, D. in the tion and a rendering of "I can't Dally Express.

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