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THE CHINA MAIL.

FEAR

(Continued from page 7.), superstitious terror. I told stories,

"Excuse me, air, but what was that drum?"

and almost succeeded in calming down the whole family.

tror.

Whenever I stopped talking

BRITAIN'S MUDDLE

OF QUOTAS.

(Continued from Page 6).

dinavia twice as much dairy pro

Unfair Taxation

At last Mr. Walter Elliot is "By the fire lay an old dog awakening to the fact that our "I don't know," the traveller re- asleep with his head on his paws. plied. "Nobody knows. Military He was nearly blind, and with his imports must be dimished, as in- have often been moustached muzzle he was the sort deed it is high time that they were. officers who

jacquaintance. startled at this singular sound are of dog who reminds one of some seeing that we import from Scan- "Outside the tempest beat fierce- generally of opinion that it is caused by band acudding before

Does any one seriously maintain the wind and brushing against on the little house, and through duce as we make at home. tufts of dry grass, the echo being a small square opening, a sort of intenalded and muftiplied to pro-peep-hole near the door, I suddenly that Danish bacon and butter are volume by the valler saw, by the glare of vivid light-better than Wiltshire? As for

of trees; digious

jeggs, I maintain that you will get formation of that desert region. It ning, a confused mass

tossed about by the wind,

better eggs from Backs or Berk- has been observed that the pheno- "I realized that. in spite of my

shire than from any collecting menon always occurs near small!

jefforts, these people were under

station near Copenhagen. plants burnt up by the sun and as the sway of some deep-seated ter hard as parchment. According to this theory, the drum was simply

But of all the outages perpetuat- a sort of sound mirage, nothing every ear was straining into the more. But I did not learn this til distance. Tired of the spectacle of

these foolish fears, I was about to ed upon our docile taxpayers and retire to bed when the old forest-patient agriculturista, commend me guard suddenly jumped up from to the proposal to raise a couple of from which they have been ousted "I come to my second experience. his chair, seized his gun again and millions to resettle Araba on land "It was last winter in a forest gasped in frenzied tones: in the north-east of "France. The There he is. There he is. Ito make way for Jews under the. policy of Zionism, that costly fad sky was so overcast that night fell can hear him.' two hours before its time.

"The two women fell on their of the philosophic Arthur Balfour. guide was a peasant, who walked knees again and hid their faces; Let the £2,000,000 rather be spent beside me along a narrow path the sons picked up their axes. I on re-settling some of the British beneath overhanging fr trees was preparing to make another at-farmers who bave been unable to through which the wind howled.tempt to calm them when the meet the competition of foreign Through the tree-tops I saw the sleeping dog suddenly raised his meat under the quota scheme. clouds scurrying past in wild con-head and stretched his neck and, Straws show the way wind fusion, as if fleeing in dismay and looking into the fire with his dim blows. The statement of the ac terror. Now and then, struck by a eyes, uttered one of those melan-counts of the Yorkshire Penny furious blast, the whole forest choly howls which startle the be-Bank show that the deposits for the first six months of the year groaned as if in pain and swayed nighted traveller.

later..

ing.

+

My

in one direction. In spite of my! "All eyes turned towards him. have reached the respectable gure rapid pace and my thick clothes. He stood there perfectly rigid, as of £31,326,060, an increase of over was perishing with cold. We were if he had seen a ghost. And again £2,418,312 compared with the first to sup and sleep at the house of he howled at something invisible, six months of last year, and parts a forest guard who lived not far something unknown, and, to judge of Yorkshire have been regarded away. I had come for some shoot from his bristling coat, something as distressed areas.

Here is another very different that frightened him.

the forest-figure. In the first three months of "Livid with terror,

this year French wine growers ex- guard cried out:

than twice as much "He scents him. He scents him.ported more "Then he talked about the people He was with me when I killd him. champagne to Great Britain as in to whose house we were going. "The two distracted women be- the corresponding period last year,

"Now and then my guide looked jup and muttered:

Miserable weather!

The master of the house had killed gan to mingle their howls with although the price has risen by a poacher two years before, and those of the dog. In spite of my about one-third, owing chiefly to a There are signs of returning 1st Sept ever since he had seemed depress- self, a cold shudder ran down my trebled import duty.

ed, as if haunted by the memory, spine. The dog's clairvoyance, in

be Everything will His two married' sons lived with that place, at that hour of the prosperity; but let us look facts in him. The darkness was intense, night, in the midst of those terror., the face.

dearer under an all-round tariff, and it is because our statesmen are could see nothing before me or stricken people, was

22nd Aug around me, and the boughs of the thing to see.

an uncanny

22nd Sept.trees, clashing together, filled the "For a whole hour that dog went afraid to face this fact that our

night with a ceaseless uproar. At on howling without stirring from progress is so slow. You can't Jast 1 saw

a. light and my com- the spot. He, howled as if in the spend £300,000,000 a year on social aagony of a nightmare, and fear, services without somebody paying. panion was soon knocking at door. Shrill cries of women appalling fear, came upon me. Fear Is it not fairer. that the classes answered us.

Then a man, speak of what? I have no idea. All I,who receive the benfit of these ser vices should contribute to their can say is that it was fear. ing is strangled voice, asked:

"We remained there pale and 'cost by indirect taxation than that "Who goes there?" "My guide gave his name and we motionless, awaiting some dread- three-fourths of the cost should be entered. it was a

scene I shall ful sequel, with ears intent and borne by the small minority who never forget. A white-haired old beating, hearts, convulsed by the do not receive the services but who Courage to explain the truth man with wild eyes stood waiting slightest sound. Then the dog be-pay direct taxation? 5th Sept. for us in the middle of the kitchen gan, to roam about the room, snif

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We must develop our Colonial Empire as Lord Beaverbrook urges, and appoint as Governor of the Bank of England a man who, in- a simul stead of wringing his hands and was choosing fancy travel-names, would ***You see, sir, two years ago to gliding along the outer wall on the occasionally make a correct diag night I killed a man. Last year side nearest the forent. It brusned nosis of the future.

business. "Immediately the dog was still, explained our The old man replaced his weapon and we remained plunged ip 21st Aug. against the wall, and ordered my silence which

room to be made ready. As the nerve-raking.

"Suddenly we ali gave 10th Sept. women did not stir, he said to me

taneous bound. Something 20th Aug. abruptly: 27th Aug.

J

24th Aug; he appeared and called me. I ex-gainst the door and seemed to!,

fumble there with hesitating touch. pect him again this evening."

"And he added; in a tone which Then followed two minutes of si lence that maddened 08. Then made me smile

the thing returned, brushing

So we are rather uneasy.“ "I did what I could to soothe against the wall as before, and him and felt glad that I had come scratching on it ligthly, like a child that evening, just in the nick of scratching with its fingernail, Sud- time to witness this exhibition of denly a head appeared at the peep- hole, a white face with gleaming Jeyes, like those of a wild beast. And from its mouth came a vague sound like a plaintive moan.

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