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1 Funny (5).
4 Eight-legged creature (8),
A Sarcastle (8),
10 Division (5),
12 Surrounded by a ditch (8).
14 Securos (7).
17 Portable canvas shelter (4)
10 Neek of land (7).
20 Introduction (7).
22 Despatched (4).
23 Naive (7).
27 Abundance (6),
29 Cricket ground (5).
30 Unmarried (0).
31 Indian soldiers (0),
32 Young indies (6).
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1 Steep rock-face (B).
2 Moves Ustlessly (5).
3 Offence (5),
5 Agreement (4). "
U Tiara (0),
7 Plants again (6).
D Tapering (7).
11 Dendly (0).
13 States positively (7).
15 Land measure (4).
16 Crested (6).
18 Fruits of a kind (6),
20 Sacred songs (0),
21 Enfold (0)
24 Article (3).
25 Famous composer (5),
20 Plants-to-be, (5),
28 Powdery (4).
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWO KD—Across: Poll, 9 Revealed, 11 Released, 13 Stay, 18 Reprisal, 10 Diligent, 19 Item, 21 Generals, 25 Carous al, 20 Moke, 27 Resulted. Down: Spur, 2 Bill, 4 Hues, 5 Rued, Inlet, 7 Giddy, 0 Rapid, 10 Venal, 12 Erect, 14 Annul, 10 Stres, 17 Libel, 19 Incur, 20 Earis,
21 Gull, 22 Nove, 23 Agog, 24 5lew,
120
YOU WERE AMBUSHED BY
CATTLE
· THIS DREAM MEANS : The second part of this dream indicates that you feet Insecure: the first part reveals why
In the second part your balance is pre- carious and if you lose it you will be at the marey of the sea (sea-your subconscious emo- « (lots)
Just as the horse, lion, eagle, etc., sym- bolise the masculine instincts, so the cow is
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"OH DEAR, FLAT
AS A FLOUNDER."|
BAKE PERFECT CAKES ALL YEAR THEN BAKE ONE FOR THE BENEFIT
• PIE AND CAKE SALE:.
WEAR A NEW HAT—"AND THE
MARCH WINDS WILL DO THE REST.
HOW ABOUT BREAKFAS
WHEN ITS HIS DAY OFF HE IS UP, WITH THE BIRDS – BUTTON
WORKING DAYS HE.... REXELYAFOUNDS MIS E
Here is an example of a very pleasing informal arrangement
of a family group. Note the natural and relaxed pose of the
his life.
subjects.
The Family Group Picture
YET THERE'S A WHIFF OF THE THIEVES' KITCHEN; A HINT OF THE BLACK MARKET, IN THE "WAY LONDONERS TALK
THE COCKNEY. ‘By Jullan. Franklyn. Andro”. Deutsch,
16. 332 pagos."
YOU can take one of two views about the vernacular
You
of London, properly pronounced Cotney.,
EITHER "the Cockney mode London women sometimes of speech, with its unpleasant plur an Initial 1 thus, “Every twong, is a modern corruption Tuciday Tom's tsaime fch without legitimate credentials, fren changes." (Every Tuesday and is unworthy of being the Tom's time for tes changes). speech of any person in the How many Cockneys,will be- [capital city of the
Empire. lleve Mr Franidlyn when (Report on the Teaching of tolls them this? How many be- English in Elementary Schools, lieve that their ancestors used Published LCC, 1909)
to say tu, vot and ven (why, retort, what and when); "Wol? ..,Mpj-
On
vigorous this
made by someone with the not greanfawyer weren't, a
very Cockney name of Macken fawrner!"
zio MacBride:
"London dia-
lect is a per-
fect legitimate and recognis- able
of
child the old Kentishi
tongue."
Professor Ernest Weekley declared that
of all the Eng-
by
GEORGE
MALCOLM THOMSON
he
blee
In London m
is apt to be-
come n ("A lot of enty bottles near a lanpost whilst them in rc- venge creeds Into words
It does not properly h
|lish dialects "none is of such in- long. "We were under cam- terest as Cockney, thai noblo vas," Brem-bu'er is "bread and
biend
East Merclan, Kentish butler; but boxing bout may Tant East Anglian which, writ- be either boxing belt onboxi
ten by Chaucer, printed by ing bout; only Cockneya, Caxton.....has given
the tell. terary English of the present day."
us
Gun or guvnor Is a
· ́ ́is a' moed bl Address conveying respect, but emphatically not servility; cock, i Indiscriminately applied to all
mustn't pass up the op- up in stiff rows, like pickets In Yportunity for
making ple- a fence, and let them sture into
In spile of both the praise ages and both sexes, is az öll, That Is the easiest tures that every member of the the camera. family will treasure throughout way to do it and the reason the criticism, the Londoner as Bow Bells and has a nuance.
will probably go
consideration. on speaking of
"Smarra why most family group pictures his dialect and (but why?) cock?" is the correct way fo address a weeping child in the make you wince when you come blushing for It.
consist streel. Fal has come in from What does Cockney across them in an album. rule, they are pretty grim.
of Mr Franklyn, an enthusiast America; so to a less extent You'll find it very worth your for speech and speakers alike, To convey the true flavo
has brus (brother);
Posing a group of people is, more often than not, something of a problem. If you follow the course of least resistance, as so ..many people do, you'll line them
THEN YOU WERE ON A NARROW BRIDGE OVER THE SEA-YOUR LEGS WERE UNSTEADY AND THE YIND WAS BLOWING
STRONGLY
one symbol of the feminine instincts. Being fenced in by cows symbolises, your fear that your freedom may be restricted by the de. mands of the femininity in your nature: pre-
sumably what you fear are the responsibiltles
of marriage and family life.
while
As a
plan a little and manage devotes the liveliest portion of To con to place your subjects in a re-his book to this topic.
of Cockney, says Mr Franklyn, laxed, natural, informal pose. Cockney is quick where most idlem is more important than would Keep your eyes open for spots dialects are slow. It is not sim- phonetics. A Cockney around the house where fairly ply a special pronunciation end never have sald of Mr. Chani- large groups can be arranged in-idiom, but a whole repertory berlain's trip to Munich, formally.
of obscure allusionă,
dn't reaching
ought to a went." version: "E never nw-do- For group pictures evenness of their logical climax in rhyming light is very important.
"bat") and back
where
double negatives. fore, you may want to do most
slang, words arc reversed and freely, 4.1 Shakespeare'dir.
becomes
"That's not no way to talk to stop.
com-versational opening will be,
talk to mus
There-slang (tilfer it for lat. gown de
of your shooting outdoora, It your entice sockney wants to daz, your mother." A favourite 'con-
lighting equipment is limited. Secondly, the size of the group zle, mystify as well as which you should try to take in zle,
one picture is determined by the municate, There is a whiff of "Don't
the thieves' kitchen and a hint "the copacity of your camera to re- gister detall through considerable fore-and-aft distance,
This depth-of-field require
small ment calls for a
a reasonably
that meas lens opening and you need strong light or longer-than-normal exposure with a focusing-type camera,
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Mr Franklyn's 'redpší of the black market about his tongue. The sulest thing to say for speaking the noble blend of
Is that it does. East Merclan, Kentist, Vele about Cockney not sound as it is usually print- Clench-the tooth, part Ue lips ed.
e... by Dickens.
slightly, not more than an eighth The Londoner has trouble of an inch, draw them back tout with the letter 1. Buiter is pro against the gums and, without nounced without its two "The bu,"
relaxing any of the muscles Franklyn, employed, articulate, The sounds Bays Mr "ends with a sort of jerk hav-
Wyn't yeh try it, guy?, simply happen.
*
is well to set the lens for a point midway in the group-say the ing the quality but lacking the second row in a picture like the sound of 4, and without pause one we show. The small lens another such jerk precedes er," In marriage and love-as in life generally-aperture will then give forward Sometimes this awkward letter there must
is dealt with by turning it in- always... be #n element of as well cs rear-row sharpness,
lo a 8, as in droppa chance and adventuro, No way of living ca
-John van Guilder
(drop of water).. guarantee complete security.
Those Contrary Days
"YOU NEED A HOT
MUSTARD
PLASTER?
KA-CHOO
ALL SET TO CHARM
THE NEW BOY FRIEND,
AND AT THE LAST MINUTE SHE GETS THE SNEEZES AND SNIFFLES,
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"DIDN'T THEY TELL YOU? THAT DEAL WAS CALLED OFF.
WORK LIKE FURY ON ESTIMATES, DATES, DATA, AND A SHORT HISTORY
OF THE BUSINESS.
SHE DID A
SUPER WRAPPING
JOB AS REQUESTED
ON SECOND THOUGHT, I BELIEVE SHE WOULD PREFER
THE BLUE
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نالدو
COLLECTED POEMS. 1934- 1952. By Dylan Thomas: Dent. 121. 6d. 178 pagun
A
SHORT, fat, untidy, curly! hafredman born 38 years ago is the most discussed ef Br tain's younger boots! He Dylan Markis Thomas, con cf h Swansea schoolmaster, and now living in Carmarthenshire With his Irish wife, Caitlin, and thre children.
Occasionally he emerges frofi this retreat to lecture in the United States, where in Has
big public, or to read postry, the radio. For this tacter for of exhibition he has unique among poets. He recites verse, with a Welsh dramatic Arc, a Welch gravity-of-voice-
sense
of timing all his AWDERSEN Nineteen years ago, Thomas's first shent of potins were issued from iny London press near Red Lion Square. He had come
London
free-lance
to
Journalist. The poems caught the eyes of the sphs of
Lascelles
Abercrombie, disting guard port. Two years,
Thomas's second set af astounded Dents, hid, publishers, by selling 3,000 coples.
verses
"But it: the "pochar pleased some, they puzzled more. What for example, did Thoma mic when he said, "the shipyards of Galilee's footprints hidé à matsz. of doves"? What was ́
to a question kog andver.
Because the pleasure bizd whistles after, the hot wires,
"Shall the blind horse hing sweeter?"
Soon
Thomas's verse had powerful choinpions Edin Sitwell: "The work of this young man is on a huge seale." Herbert Read: "The most absolute patiry that his been-willed int time") His portraiti'w
ed by Johm. Amang
odern books in a Greatz Beslis
Britain,
was a volume of Dylan
e. Ho had arrived:
Thomas's verse.
But where?
Doubters rull
Macaulay's
postaster
choing
the
'HIS
writing bears, the same grelation to poetry which a Tukker sårpet" bears to a picture. They are, colours in the carpaty duf. of which a picture right be mide." When Thomas willes ligos fikci "And I must enter cgally the found 2tom of the water bead And the synagogue of Us (ver of umbled and telescoped images isla
secret but, do promire to impart
do
not quits keep, the protulithey hint at pictures which thể: not, paint, Thay ekel "%d on. some region of your batha hich is setultive, batwing boxaMONAT
Thomas says "ikey. Ta
of
If they weren't,dighe love of mar may yet bring the most i kis
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