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One Word From You!

(Continued from Page 93

Before it had become coherent- Effe had knocked a chair over noisily.

The real trouble was the bird's deplorable habit of occasionally

When the visitor had gone, Dife breaking forth into a foul phrase-gave way to hysterics. The thought of it was a night-Either that parrot goes or 1 mare to parents and daughter go, she told Stephen Old Parr

alike.

were seven

After dinner. when the com- pany had gathered in the lounge, Mrs. Potter was attracted to Old Parr's cage.

notice.

the

went.

WOMEN'S LIFE IN ADDIS ABABA

Plenty Of Sport And A Jazz Orchestra

ENGLISH FLOWERS- **IN PROFUSION

Life in Addis Ababa. from the

The Binns gave a dinner party Fanny old boy-your friend. to celebrate the legacy. There Peter Colby, said Mr. Dennis European woman's point of view. is not as bleak as might be sup- guests, including to Captain Carter. Major Potter, late 14th Punjabis Ave" said the ex-sailor. "I did posed. his wife and his son Derrick,

Mrs. Sandford, who has lived him a good turn once, and he re- whom the Binn parents coveted as membered it. He'd never forget a 15 years in Abyssinia, and whose

son-in-law.

pal."

husband has now left the capital "Nor an enemy," said the solici- for Maji, a state in the south- tor. That's how all his money's west as advisor to the governor come to you.

taid a representative of The Daily "He had found out that the Telegraph in London recently that "Pretty Polly." said she.

Binns were ashamed of him and her boase outside Addis Ababa is Old Parr evidently thought she that they were snobbish and run by 11 servants. The wages was being sarcastic; he took no grasping. So he made

up his rum from 68. a month to 255. a mind to put them through the month without food. hoop He knew that they'd crack But they pilfer. Paraffin is the up under the constant fear of an great attraction, as their round Old Farr had apparently outburst of foul language from mad-walled and thatched huts. enough of this. He turned to Old Parr, and that they wouldn't with no chimney-hole. have wwared the speaker and his mouth enjoy the legacy for long." form of lighting. A boot-polish Segan to open.

tin of paraffin with a lighted rag in it is a luxury eagerly sought.. Delightful Climate The climate in the capital in the dry season. October to June, is That was the cream of the delightful owing to the altitude joke," said the solicitor with a

8,000ft. "above sea-level Mis Knowing look. I had it

from Sandford said It was cooler in the Peter himself Old Parr never shade there, than recently in spoke one word in his life."

England.

"Pretty Polly, repeated fatuous woman.

Crash! Stephen had dropped-a silver cigarette-bar on the floor.

"I was terrified," he explained afterwards to Ede "He looked as if he was about to s27———

"You need not repeat it." said she severely.

But I don't know what it is "So much the better. But it's too dreadful. Mrs. Potter is one of the Lincolnshire Snagsbys, and she'd leave the house if that hate- ¡ful bird--- #

know," said her husband

morbidly

A few days later an archdeacon called to see Mrs. Binn. He took! Ja fancy to the saturnine parrot and tried to make friends with him. But the feathered pagon had seemingly no respect for the cloth. Old Parr suddenly open- ed his mouth in threatening fashion

Promptly Ruth, who was seated at the baby-grand, broke into the Lost bars of "The opening Chord." and the danger was avert led."

Captain Carter grinned. -

"It would have been funny said he, if the parrot had come out with that expression before a lot of company **

(The End)

THO

Polo is played twice a week by the officials at the legations and business men. The legations have

CLAN REJECTS GIRL their tennis courts, and so have

AS CHIEF

Celtic Tradition Must Be Followed

ENGLISHMAN ELECTED

Glasgow.

The claims of a 16-year-old girl for chieftainship of a. Scottish clan have been overruled by the clan-the Macleans of Ardgoar.

The claimant was Miss Catriona

the American hospital and the Canadians in charge of the Leper Hospital

Bridge is a constant action among the Europeans, and there is plenty of entertaining, includ- ing dances. At these, the gramo phone has recently been super- seded by a jazz orchestra of two negroes and one negress: *.

The Emperor's band plays dance music quite competently at the "soirees" after banquets on special occasions.

Day or week-end shooting trips

But her parents were trembling

Maclean, daughter of the Hon. are frequent, and some of the when the visitor had gone.

"Oh!" gasped. Effe, I thought Mrs Maclean, of Ardour, and of women are keen shots. In their I should die. What would the the late chief by whose death the season, snipe and duck are plentî Archdeacon have thought?′′*

-We could never hold up our |heads`again.” said Ruth.

"If it weren't for the seven pounds a week" said Stephen in a tone of despair.

courtesy title became vacant.

Mr. William Maclean, secretary

ful, and there are little antelopes called medaqua The latest craze

of the Clan Maclear, said: "We in Addis Ababa, however, is paper-

Violets Grow Like Weeds

do not admit the claim of Miss chases on ponies. Maclean We have followed Celtic tradition and elected oar

If your hobby is gardening

"I believe." said his wife, that chieftain from the nearest male you are lucky, as nearly all Eng- lish flowers grow luxuriantly. Only jold devil of an uncle of yours heir. planned it all. We can't shift "He is Lieutenant Commander primroses object to the dryness. and. surprisingly, the parrot from the lounge, and H. H. Maclean, now living in Eng-Arum lilies

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up when land, a second cousin once removed violets, grow like weeds.

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our

But you must wire your garden against the little antelopes, which "If we adopted a girl as "It will end în our being dis- graced, and we'll be dropped by chieftain the position would be eat all the strawberries and young 20th Oct Wed, 30th Oct. all our friends" predicted Ruth ludicrous. In ancient days the rose shoots. Jackals love straw- Stephen had exactly the same position of a chieftain was to lead berries, too, and are a pest to One year all notion, but it isn't easy to give up his clan in battle and to advise outlying gardens.

Mrs. Sandford's potatoes were his clansmen. seven pounds a week.

eaten by porcupines.

"It was only recently that we Old Parr decided to keep the family on tenterhooks. As soon traced Lieut-Commander Maclean as a visitor dared to address him, to his home in England.”

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Mrs. Sandford says that a hobby was a necessary safeguard against monotony. Hers is a farm next Addis Ababa Pilfering, however, is a constant trouble, and a sudden

which Peter Colby had warned MODEL GUN THAT shortage of milk was once seri-

them, and something drastic had always to be done to silence the unfeeling bird

The climax came one day when Lady Tinkel, the Binns latest social catch, made overtures to Old Parr, who without any warn- ing began a guttural articulation.

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