1941-04-26 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 26, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF

ME TRYIN' TO HIDE

THE FACT THAT I'M JEFF AND WORKIN'

AS A MAID AT THE VANDERPANS AIN'T EASY!

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Üheare, Süpsenuj Con

·JANE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? YOU'LL DISTURB GRANDPA TWISTING THE BUTTONS

ON HIS, VEST!

I'M

NOT DISTURBIN

HIM,MA'AM!

Page 5 By BUD FISHER

I'M JUST TRYIN' TO TUNE HIM IN ON ANOTHER STATION!

WANTS TO HEAR IN TIME FOR

CHILD LAUGHTER

(By A Special Correspondent)

HE IS EIGHT-FIVE. He is an artist and he lives alone in a lonely old house which once echoed with childish laughter. Now his children have grown up and have left the nest, and the house is grey and silent.

More than anything else he wants children in his house again. He wants to hear their ringing laughter, their chatter, and the patter of their feet. He wants to paint them, too.

So he has put an advertise ment in а newspaper offering i part of his home rent free, to a. mother and one or two children. The advertisement offers Iwo rooms and the usc of others "In return for hearing the

BREAKFAST

A wounded Nazi airınan crawled, bootless, up to the cottage home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hollick on the out-skirts of London recently, knocked on the door and asked for help. This is what happened.

Mt Holliek. aged fifty-seven Ed have shot him if he'd ben wun trouble") tung open the door Land pounded his shotgun at the

Nazi

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Pete the dog ("Best rafter the district ́) dashed out of doon and grabber the man's from ;

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Mr Hollek, aged Any five I had just started to light thei

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heard the knock")

kave hum breakfast.

The Naz1 was so pleased that he funk off his floating jacket and ANT to Mrs Hollick as a sou venir. "Take this and put it up- ads before the police come,” he

said.

"I don't want 'snobby' young. sters." he added. "I would much

come from prefer them to middle class family. All ash Is to hear their voices as they play in the house and gardens." Some of the walls of Mr Engle- children's voices."

field's hause are covered Avith The artist is Mr Arthur Engle- mctures he has pamited. For many fie'd. who live at Duckshall, years he exhibited at the Royall Northwoud, MikliesON. He wile Academy In one room there WWIIN is dead, and his four children have a cluld's portrait in oils Zelt to onto homes of their oWEL "I am always painting them.

He has a five-year-old grand-¦ Mr Englefield sand, "mostly from│ daughter Vanessa, but she is with memory If I get the right type it." she said to me. "But I didn't i her parents in India.

for child, bright and intelligent, Eye ame ne magistrate to say "Come

and one who looks like being an up and see me sometinfe!! ** artist. I will teach the youngster. For years I was an art teacher. Englefield has already "I cannot tell you how thrilled bought some toys in expectation I am at the prospect of having of early arrivals. "I hope they | children here agam. will like them,” he told me.

Mr

Bought Toys

ibong for that day

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HORIZONTAL

1 Pertaining to

the doctrines

of Arius

6 To think

11 Foremen

13 Permitted

to live

14 Hebrew month

18 Force

17 Japanese

measure

10 Digit 20 Fertile spots 21 Swordsman's dummy stake 22.To engrave '24 Sollor

25 Great lake

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charged, as

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cry

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35 Remainder

37 Implement

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:42 Female fowl-

$3, Saltpetre

45 Nahoor sheep

46 Low note

47 Is indignani at .

49 Roman gods

50 To assimilato

52 Grew bitter

54 Natives of

Great Britain

65 Approaches

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VERTICAL

1 To diminish

2 Mechanical

men

3 Exista

4 Edible

mollusk

6 Jules Verne

character

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6 Literary work

7 Dance sicp

Symbol for iridium

9 Sea-nymph

10 Roman

magistrate

12 Quarrel

13 Alt part of a ship (pl.) 18 Son of Isanc 19 Arrangement

of troops in the form of steps

21 Clergymen 23 Hut

25 Roof edges 27 Seed container

20 Equality 31 Self-interested

person

33 Pertaining to

verse

34. Heraldic device 30 Delicate;

37 Dull, heavy

sounds

39 Engles 41 Servant-girls: 43 Cape

44 Short facket 47 To soak 48 To petition

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But when the police took the Naz away later. Mrs. Hollick handed over the jacket as well.

"Hs Ma. West my son called

The Nazi, aged about twenty- two, had baled out from his plane. which crushed SIX miles away after it had been hit by a night fighter.

His parachute was found late. This is the story of the adven Ture as told by the cottagers and then to

Said Mrs. Hollick

I locked the coltage tour for the first time for weeks. the night before.

"After the knock I heard some I'm. one muttering, Let me in, freezing. I knew it was a foreig ner so I called my husband.

When the man canie in. could see he was wounded in the He was ex- neck, arm and leg.

cold-he hausted with the

bad

been wandering about for two or three hours-and he collapsed on acouch."

Said Mr. Hollick-

"After I had called off the dog we put him in front of the fire. His feet and the blood from his wounds were frozen.

"He told how his

companions

were still in the 'plane when he jumped.

"He was a fine big fellow and

was wearing the

Iron Cross.

ribbon of the

"My son, Driver Herbert Hol- lick. of the R.A.S.C., was home on

his French leave and tried him."

On

Said Herbert Hollick-

"I pointed out where our win- German "dow was broken by a

bomb several weeks ago.

"He didn't want to hear about that. He was more worried about his boots."

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