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"Perhaps I'm hard to please

When I was younger

I didn't much care what I ate or drank or smoked. But nowadays I take my pleas ures, not sadly but seriously. I suppose you

would call me faddy. I hate to be put off with second- best, no matter what it is. I won't eat a peach unless it is English. If I order caviare it must be Beluga.

You see what I mean about whisky, While I can obtain a whisky as soft

and smooth as a fine liqueur, why on earth should I be

:: put off with anything less than White Horse? I admit that perhaps I am hard to please - but make it from me, it pays.”

WHITE HORSE

WHISKY

You can tell it blindfold!

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-AH-MR JIGGS-MY WIFE AND I WOULD LIKE TO HE HAVE BOTH YOU AND MRS JIGGS OVER FOR DINNER THIS EVENING. PLEASE CONVEY THE MESSAGE TO HER AND

PHONE US LATER IFOK:

THINGS

THE CHINA I

SHOW DOGS AND

ALIKE TO THIS GIRL

(By Miss Kuo Gin-chiu)

London, February 10.

an

Honourable and, Beloved Parent, When Englishman is unhappy he sometimes says, "It's a dog's life!" Who says that does not know how some dogs live in this England!

I went to Cruft's yesterday and saw all the dogs in the world together, and some of the people who like dogs watching them.

Now I know more about the English. They like dogs as well as horses.

But so many kinds of dogs there ed at it a gentleman with a green were doge as big as ponies, dogs hat and a pipe, who had the same smaller than cats, and dogs for kind of face an the hound. hunting and running.

I thought the dog looked very

Hundred flying. Instru

a party of

I was most Ir

I had expected a lot of noise, but annoyed. Perhaps it thought the say that those

dogs. the dogs seemed much quieter than gentleman was another competitor. the people. One owner told me that

I also saw some dogs called Chow. if she went away her dog would Chow. A breeder told me they ple London “i cry, so I suppose that is why they came from China.⠀ all remained..

Some of the owners spent the day sitting in the pens with their ani- mals, looking after them, eating with them, and petting them.

I learned one thing after much reflection on the show. It came to me while I was talking to the wo- man owner of a big dog. People who love dogs get to look like them Surely this is a mistake, I thought to myself.

But when I looked at the lady again her face seemed to me to re semble her

When she made

a facet it it did the same.

:!

“SHERLOCK HOLMES DOG”

、་

Once I read on an English menu a dish called Chow Chow. It could not be these doga really,

eigners, but at people who are

A lot of ther had just come

There are mor Are women: fo

I have never heard of such a men, or is it 1 word as Chow Chow in Chinese, and more time to lo Mr. Expert Breeder told me he did not know where the name came

from.

NA PETI

A lady looked shocked when I asked her, and she said the Chow Chow was the Emperor's dog of China, and looked reproachfully at me, as she went on to say that the Chinese ate them.

I blushed and lost myself in the crowd, as I could not bear to think of eating a dog, even an emperor's

one.

JOKE IN CHINA

came to a dog which looked very wise, with thick brows and

It is a joke in China, just as long cars. It reminded me of Sher- lock Holmes solving a problem. southern English people tease the They told me it was a bloodhound, northerners about eating strange and presently there came and look- dishes, so do people in the North

AND I SAID TO HER- I'M A LADY-1 AM-

SHE WANTS TO SHOW A TEMPER-

RIGHT--BUT I'M

CONTROLLED HE SAID

MAGGIE

WILL YOU SHUT UP? CAN'T

SEE I'M CHATTING

PHONE?

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