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THE CHINA MAIL" MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1936
Fer Film's "The Gay Decep tion," which is coming to the King's Theatre shortly, being
Lederer and dashing Francis lovely Frances Dee together.
DUTCH ELM DISEASE
Royal Avenue To Be Cut Down
The Weed Sack
(Continued from Puge-7)
I danno," Wolf answered. Was a mealy bug bosybe"
Conit you eat a mealy baked, Pop?"
God some place of whose whate "It abouts he was not sure himse
but which was most certainly mat bugfar." *ll fed out where the
Lord-and-sew his field. Hy „Tuzson, "weed and dociler, and Wolf shook his head. "Go ask broomsadge in his hay. We'll your grampaw He'll make you gwest all the smoguness and the up an answer. Grampaw'll answer stone out his hide. Well grin (anything you want to know.”
him till he bowls like w ̈bengle “Grampaw", ain't here," Jamie hunting. We'll stoop him till he said. "He's gone off pickin' things knows what stooping mesas?”
He lifted up his fierce, muddled
Old grampaw Brian, crazy as face and grinned at the drying
a loan,
Gore pickin' cheeries,
Huntin' for the moon.
found a tater, Pop"
CANADIAN PACIFIC
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and around him."
"We may take it long, Or War- £/Asia
1936 SAILINGS
Hong Skuunga Saga Kobe Yake Kong hai
kan Honolule Victoris
-- Louve Arrive Leave Leave Lawe Leave Arrive
Jan. 29 Jan. 31 Fab. z Feb. 4F &
Feb. 16 Feb. 18 Feb, 25 Ma
ren Nickels, we may take it lons/Russia Feb. 28 Feb. 28 Mar. Mar. 3 Mar. 5.
E/Canada Feb, 12 Feb. 15
and quiet, but we ain't going to
moves 1***
He held up a shrunken brown take it lying down. The Lord moves in a mysterious way, War- knob and Wolf stooped down, peer ren Nickels, but He moves He ing at the warped root.. Then he picked Jamie up and threw the hoe
The old man picked up the great Twenty big sacks out sack again and moved on down the Jaway.
empty in the shed, Jamie. That'l go a far way that rant potater, calm and cunning, and a holy {hate taking place of the mid mare He burst out laughing; and at first his eyes. the little boy laughed, too,
Wolf was sitting quiet on the then began to cry at the sound porch when Brian came up steri- All around them was a field of
thily from the woodshed and sat brown char and nothing alive but down by him For a while thes the crawling Htle stink-bugs and
were there without speaking, and late, white butterflies.
watched the red light wash over
sand
Brian straïned his sight down,
holding his hand up to shield his the fields and the dead potato jetalks, and a ̈piakness come over eyes, and saw Wolf go back up to the rock ledges like a stain off the the house carrying Janie; but hot unclouded sky. The old man King Edward the Seventh could see Kate nowhere, and crouched in his chair, excited, not Avenue of over 100 elms at thought of her lying on the hot
Ee opened and Wolf Windsor is to be cut down, fol- sheets inside waiting for the black willing yet to speak
and shut his month. lowing a report, that they have sms to stop dancing in her headed toward him, inviting his been attacked by Dutch elm and the pain let loose of her cheeks father by the gasation in his face. again. They seemed to him, un- disease.
"What say, Pop?" he asked when "The avenue was planted in seen above them, watching down, Brian opened his mouth again, but commemoration of the crown little jointed wood things--his son
Istill held back the words. ing of King Edward VII, who and his son's wife and Jawie, and
“I didn't say nothing" Brian himself planted one of the himself, too, a little wooden mov-
answered. "I was just long trees.
Others were planted by ing man, cracking in the sun and (thinkin'.” King George and the present rain-warped....always going on. "What didja think about?" Wolf jone farm to the next farm.asked. He talked only to be kind, Prince of Wales
Many trees in Windsor Great moving or moving on a year and hardly ever listened to what Park and at Eton College have one place, two years in another the old man said. been affected by the disease.
COUPLE BURNT TO DEATH
Fatal Accident On Bath-Road
drought following in their wagon
I ain't goin to tell him, Brian tracks like a big dry dog. Always thought. Fu ask him round.
of
the crop failing, the recent money swallowed up in the 20owth other debts."
"I was thinking this Mister Nic- kels must auce wide land” he said. cloud. "Wide, rich land."....Rich Two years in one place, three pelley acres, ripe for the fall seed, years in another. Where
were river-land where the raïna
Case
they last year, and the year before ....Seeds of the dodder falling on that? Calhoun....Clay Cedar the ripe earth....seeds of burdock County Prayerville falling....poison-burrs falling on Omarston-.... the names marched the pastures....thistle seed and A man and his wife were and faded through his mind and mustard...hawkweed and plan.
burnt to death in a motor acci- dwindled in a fog. Wolf always tain....seeds of the morning-glory dent on the Bath-road last managed, asked ત arranged. month.
and pearly everlasting foul weets A boy and a dog were And he followed where Wolf went with pretty names, choking Nic- saved by being thrown clear and stayed wherever there was kels's pastures.corn
cockle, The boy was found unconscious place to stay.
radicernat... And then this Nic- in a ditch.
kels, this rich man, down on his The accident occurred at half the crop, and sometimes, like knees, knifing at the daisy roots, Beenham, rear Reading. The now, just the rent alone to pay hacking the plantain flowers, snart.
Sometimes it was rent down and
car crashed into the back of a Once it had been half a crop and
Jing in an August sun....grubbing stationary lorry outside a cafe no rent in money, and once, a long at the dodder wines, the love-vines Mon, 20th Jan. The dead couple were Mr. and time ago, when his wife was living that strangled all his wheat stalks, Tues., 4th Feb.
Herbert Fletcher, of they had found a place that paid wound round his alfalfa, smother- Thars, 6th Feb. Mrs.
Forthgate, White Close, Plum-them instead; but the farmer hang with its skinny arms, sucking High Wycombe. gone broke himself and moved all the green life. Ah, God! that Mon, 20th Jan mers-hill Sat
1st Feb. Bucks.
laway, and they had had to get out was a sight for a tired man to see! The boy, Raymond Fletcher, and travel again, creaking Old Warren Nickels with the Thurs, 23rd Jan.
14, a brother of Mr. Fletcher, through the cold dust of an early sweat in his eye-corners, down on
He was astuda. Mon, 27th Jan. was seriously injured
He tried to reckon his knees, hacking at the weed- Thurs, 6th Feb. removed to the Royal Bath Hos how long it was since Winnie died back in Cedar County, but the time
(Continued on Page 11.) Kon, 20th Jan.pital at Reading.
was lost in the long fog of years and days.
26th Jan Stition
Thurs. 23rd Jaz
For Further Particulars Please apply to :--
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,
Telephone 28061
DEATH IN LIGHTSEIP
Wolf managed somehow. Sour and sullen and kind as any man The body was hrought ashore ever born. Always, tired now, even last mouth at Harwich of Arthur in the mornings, and Kate with her John Good; of Canning-street:
neuralgy-pains in the face that Bathside, Harwich, who died while were like fire-fingers half the time. haring : supper in the lightship She wanted a place to live, a home Edinburgh.
(to rest down and sit in, where she ļcould always stay; but there wes never any staying when the rent- month came.
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BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF SHIPS, BUILDERS OF REGEROCATING STEAM ENGINES. BUILDERS OF MARINE AND LAND BOILERS. BUILDERS OF, TURBINE MACHINERY. “Under ›License From Heisrs. Parsons.
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Motor Vessel
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From GENOA, NAPLES, FOET BOMBAY, SAID, MASSADA,
COLOMBO-& SINGAPORE.
Wolf had been a strong fellow once, a tough, grinning boy with
“This ain't the CKINSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby an inside fres
informed that all Goods are be same one" Brim thought some
the times; "this stiff old wood-sticking landed at their risk. Into ain't no son of mine!” And he Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kow- floon Whavi & Godown Company, would try to recall if Wolf had Ltd. at Kowloon, whence and/or died some place back in Cherry-from-the wharyes delivery may be vile or Newstead, and if this was obtained. some new man Kate had picked up here, unless notice has been given 48 Optional cargo will not be landed in their wandering. But even in hours prior to Tessa's rival, but to port to the
This fuddled mind he could bring up [exrried...on from porch the option
extends
nothing that was like a funeral for final port of call Chás song b
No claims will be admitted after Now they had come here, two the Goods have left the Godown, and vesiz or 50 gone, and rented, all Goods remaining undelivered, after twenty acres from this Warren the 25th inzt will be mabject, to rent, Nickels man. One year they'd Ar claims against the vessel must paid by aqueering earth till it was for belare the Bed Bebenery, or they (nearly strangled, and themselves will not the swoogutad
be tresented to the undersigned con
Feb. 15
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Japan May 6 Mar. 8
Mar. 11 Max. 18 Mar. 19 Mar. 24° Mar, 20 Max. 22 Mag. za Mar, 26 Mar, 28
Apell & A £/Canada Ap-1 3 Apr. 5
Apt. 8 Apr 10 Apt. 17 Apt. 25 Russia Ap 17 Apr. 19 Apr. 21 Ap. 23 Apr 25 May 4 5/Japan May 4 May `S.
May 6 May 8 May 14 May 19 E/Asia May 15 May 17 May 19 May 21 May 09
Jung 1 E/Canada E/Bussis June 12 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 20
May 29
June 3 June 5 June 12 June 17′′ May 31
Fone:29 July 1 July 3 July July 16 E/Japan June 28 June 25 E/Asia July 10 July 12 July 14 July 16 July 18 E/Canada July 24 July 26
July July 31 Aug. “ Aug. 12 E/Russia Aug. 7 Aug. 9 Aug. 11 Aug. 13 Aug. 15 E/Japan Aug. 21 Aug. 23
Aug. 34 Avg 26 Ang, 28 Sept. 3.Sept. 1
July
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