1961-12-20 — Page 12

•BY THE

WAY

By Beachcomber

TF I said that the North

Eastern Gas Board's

trus— trated offempt to demonstrate the cooking of kidneys in Bur- gunay. ip a temperance hall, had encouraged the South Eastern Gas Board in demon- strate the cooking of vegetables in a meat sauce, in a vegetarian hall, who would

believe me?

half

One half of the Gas world does crot know how the other lives,

Getting results

THE

man who walls along the platforms whacking the wheels of trains must have been puzzled to know how he could "improve relalims between the

staff and the pubie" He said

a tali. fat passenger. who beef to the heris like

to

was

MR-

lingar heifer, "Would you care

to have

20, sit? The

passenger had a go, and knocked

a wheel to pieces.

Lollir lashes out THAT

Jard-faced

model,

Lollie Poppe, referred to by the North Milstone, PodbuTY - 51.- Anne-on-the-Wold and Lossingborough Cross Evening Argus, Messenger and Gazett

"a walking clothes-horse,"

instructed her sohcitors, Messrs. Twiddie Twiddle, Twiddie. Smaltpiece. Quist. Frazetti, Goyle, Umbrage, Olliot, Yendon, Bibe Jorjey, Spodde

ໂຄ

Mossidge. Davey. Cadmole

Birdmarch, Ravensbinon Wy. grass, Tumult and the rest of the firth stop end report,

Lit-tle Bo-Pest

"DADDY, if Am-er-i-ra or-

ders us to support the Bonn Gov-en-ment's de-mand for m-clear wea-pons for their att-empt to re-coy-er their ort ter-for-y, could-n' we fuse to ob-ey, just fo Dad-dy, 1 ck-ed you a qtr - 1-on."

re-

"I am bey. Go to sleep

That stung you, die-n't, Dad-dy?"

London Express Scrmee)

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Who does this Dr. O'Brien think he is? John Osbome !!"

London Express Service.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1961.

JACKY'S DIARY'

This WEEK

IN SKOOL

We LEARNT all About

how AN- atomy WORKS

aN of HeR,

ANATOMY is Something

WHICH EVERYBODY

has, only it don't ̈

Show on a COUNT

of its COVEREd

UP WITH

SKINE

IMPORTINT

PART IS THE SKULLS)

Which KEEPS the DOCTOR'S PAPERS FROM

BLOWING WAY

BY JACKY

MENDELSOHN 28 342

AnbroMY UNDERneeth

Aktually HUMAN BEADS HAVE GOT OVER 2 hundRED diffRiNT BONES, WHICH IS

WHY I guess DOGS LIKE US,

The love game

otter wins

(abridged from Tarka the Otter)

STARKA

was alone. His cubhood was ended. and now he was a wanderer and homeless, with nearly every man and dog against him.

One night a restlessness came over him, and he rode on the flood-tide to the head of the Bran- Lan pill, which was not much wider than the gravel barges made fast to bollards of rotting wood.

The only living thing that saw him arrive at the pithead was a rat that was swarming down one of the mooring ropes, and when it smelled offer it let squeak and ran back into the ship.

Tarka padded out to the mud.

on the

and along the footpath top of the sea-wall, often paus- ink with raised head twitching nostrils.

and

Entering the water again, he swam under a culvert. following the stream round bends and past a fanyard, through another calvert under a cart-road. and on till he came to a stone bridge near a railway station He saw

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Great Animal Stories,

| Anatomy is MainLY

MADE UP OF:

BLOOD VESSILS..

MUSSELS

HEARTS..

BRAINS.. BONES..

J & C ( F

And OTHER SPOOKY THINGS.

Some of the Most. POPULER BONES

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BoNe

EXE

Wish-BONE

CLAVICORA

Chess

bONE

HUMER-

| but 'mostly its mADE UP OF A SKELiting which is usefull to have Cause if you didnt & You Laid DOWN, YOU WOODEN be Able to get up aGAIN,

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FUNNY

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Bone

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WRISK

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Thigh

BONE

Bone

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TIBIA

BONE

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PINKY

YOUR FREIND, TACHY.

HELP.

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BoNe

TOE-Nail Bone

.@ 1961, King Features Syndicate,

World rights reserved.

9-3

He heard a whistle, and an- Ewered it gladly. Grey-muzzle was fishing in the estuary, and calling to White-tip.

the patient old #

She sprang after him and they romped among the clumps of Lowering rush.

DAWING BY BARRY DRISCOLL

by Henry Williamson

as

At dusk he slipped out and her over, standing on her went upstream again. Just above though she were a salmon just the bridge was a chestnut tree.

lugged to land. and under 11 a shed, tucks were solly quacking.

whete

He climbed Q11 the bank

a hole and crept up it. It was standing with his feet in sprays

He

the mouth of an earthenware drain, broken at the joint. found a dry place within.

THE DUCKS

as

of ivy. his nose upheld, his heati peering. The scents of the ducks were thick and luring

vivid colour is to a child

Then, across the vivid smear of duck scent, strayed the taint of man. Tarka dived. He could

With a yiny

of anger She Threw him off, and faced hlm with swishing rudder, tissing through her teeth.

Afterwards she ignored him, and returned, to the river 265 though she were alone, to search under stones for mullyheads, and cels.

to

He searched near her. He caught black and yellow fish, whose round He was awakened next day by

eel-like the noise of pounding

sucker-mouth was fastened. hooves. not swim far, but swam up- the side of Below the bridge was

a trout but she a ford

stream and crawled out on the would not take it. It where farm horses were taken

was #

Eu water.

bank,

lamprey.

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He had been

travelling for He dropped it before her again and again, pretending 10

an hour, searching for fish, have caught it anew each time.

when on a sandy scour he found She swung away from his the pleasing scent of otter. He offering. whistled and hurried upstream,

following the scent. Soon he The lamprey escaped alive, for beard a whistle, and a feeling Tarka dropped it and lett

of joy warmed his being.

A small otter was waiting for him, sitting on a boulder, liek ing her coat with her tongue, the white tip of her rudder in the water.

White-tip in dejection. He had gone a few yards when he turned to see if she were follow- ing him.

Her head was turned, she was watching. He was so thrilled that his whistle-a throat sound,

As Tarka approached, she like the curlew's--was low and looked at him, but she did not flute-like. She answered. He

she cease to lick her neck when and as in all wild birds and

as

The

The old otter, patient in life ufler her mauv SOTTOWS and lowed him to lick her head once him over, and bit him several fears, caressed his bitten face even lieking his nose before times. Tarka was so mouled and neck and licked his hurts. running away. She wus that he ran away. The dog fol They hunted together, and slept. frightened of him, and yet was lowed him, but Tarka did not during the day in a drain in one glad to be with him, for she had turn to fight. He was torn about of the dykes of the marsh, which been lonely since she had lost the head and neck, and bitten was watered by a fresh stream Greg-inuzzle, when a marsh thrice through the tongue and from the hills Iying northwards. man's dog had chased them out narrow lower jaw.

of a clump of bushes.

SLOW-MOVING

Night after night ibey hunted He stopped at the boulder in the sea, and often when the where White-tip had been sit- tide was low they played in the ting when first she had seen him, Pool opposite the fishing village and listened to the whistles cf that was built around the base his enemy.

of a bill.

Tarka caught her, and was prancing round her on a bank of

The water sang its stone-song The north-east wind blew cold gravel when down the stream in the dark as it flowed its over the pans and sandy came a dog-otter with three course to the sea. He walted, hillocks near the sea, but Grey white ticks on his brow, a heavy, but White-tip never cume, So muzzle knew a warm sleeping slow-moving coarse-haired otter he sank into the water and al- place in a clump of round- who had travelled down from lowed himself to be carried headed club-rush. the moor to find just such a mate down past bends and under

as the one before him.

Torka cried Ie-yang! and ran

at him, but the dog-otter, who weighed thirty pounds, bi him in the neck and shoulder.

stone arches of the little bridges.

WARM SPOT

The current carried him down Tarka fan back, fissing, to salt water. Tarka rode on It took him into swinging and swaying his head with the tide. before he ran forward and at the estuary, where the real sea

dog rolled was fretting the sandbanks. tacked. The older

She became dear to Tarka; and gave him fish as though he were her cub, and in the course of time she took him for her mate.

-----(1 andon. Express Service).-

COPYRIGHT:

HENRY WILLIAMSON 1927/1981

Paris Newsletter from Sam White

lonely life

of the dancer who

ran away.

Paris.

-

M. Gazivoda who has the General De Gaulle which he Legion of Honour and who is was invited to attend re- treated with special courtesy by

the French Foreign Office, rater cently. At one point the a one and a quarter hour inter- General, so he claims, asked view on the subject of his visa him for his opinion. with the United States Am-

bassador, General Gavin.ma He replied: "Ah, well, heaven.

knows." Speaking excellent English he told General Gavin, "Look

Then, thinking this was too here, this is just not playing brief a response, he added: cricket."

"Yes, of course." General Gavin may not re- The Cabinet meeting over, he alise it but a foreigner who can was surrounded by Ministers use an expression like that is who pumped his hand in con- clearly above suspicion.

gratulation. All said the same thing: "No one, has ever spoken to the General as frankly as you did."

Good for BB

IET there be no cynical

Meanwhile the pressures on sniggers over Brigitte

RUDOLPH NURE beginning to

phone calls' from Moscow,

or his

Insulted

him to return to Russia are Bardot's open and contemp- LTHOUGH it is now become equally tuous defiance of the Secret A three weeks since I left move from the boulder, nor did was in love with White-tip, YEV, who deserted oppressive. He receives daily Army organisation.

Monte Carlo, tensions con- he placed his forepads on the animals, his emotions were from the famous Lenin- Usually they are either from

By her public refusal to yield tinue to mount in the Prin- stone and looked up into her intense as they were quick. He grad Kirov Ballet Com- his mother

dancing to incir financial extortions and cipality. teacher. Both assure him that her blunt explanation"I do felt neither hunger nor fatigue,

que, pany last June, just after if he returns all will be for not wish to live in and he would have fought

a Nazl At a recent lunch party there. He mewed to her and crawled her until he was weak now that it had completed a Paris given

France" she has set an exam- attended by the United States out of the water to stand on she had whistled to him.

There was, in fact, no poll ple which many in more im- born Princess de- Polignac and hindlers beside her and

season and was about to tical motive for his detection posing walks of life have not Captain George Wood, a former touch her nose.

depart for London, is a It was a piece of artistic wil dared to follow. far from happy man.

ince.

STARTLED

J

Ever

fulness,

Not cricket

He licked her face, while his joy grew to a powerful feeling,

since liis defection so that when she continued to disregard him, he whimpered They galloped into the water-Nureyev has made plain his

keen

the disappointment at and struck her with one of his meadow, where in his growing

the professional future

West pads.

desire he rushed at her, rolling holds out for him. her over and revolling from her

He doesn't consider the de

Her

equerry to the Duke of Wind- political consciousness sor, a discussion arose as to the may surprise the general public, origin of American Independ but it has not surprised her ence Day,

friends Her Brat husband, Captain Wood said: "Surely Roger Vadim, is a man of the Left. So indeed is the greater America."

it was the day we left- ELATIONS at the mo- part of the French cinema world RELATIONS trained be especially the so-French Alum

The Princess replied. "No it so-called "new

was the day

we kicked you' and bit snapping of teeth. She sprang Cuevas. Ballet Company is of tween him in the neck. Then she slid after him and they romped

to provide sufficient standing Into the water, and with a play- among the clumps of flowering an adequate background for his circles in Paris and the U.S. By her act she places herself

talents.

White-tip yikkered

ful sweep. of her rudder.Swam rush, startling the rabbits at away from him.

IN ANGER

feed,

White-tip was younger than

Tarka, and had been alone for three weeks" before air old," grey- muzzled otter had met and takén care of her.

This has made him a difficult colleague-silent and moody.

REASONS

out."

Yugoslav Royalist directors.

The next day the Princess Embassy hore.

in serious dunger. Whether she What has happened Is that wants it or not the authorities received the following letter the US. Embassy las refused will provide her with a police from Captain Wood, coples of a visa to an eminent: Yugo Kuard. She said modestly: "In which were sent to all the slav refugee. He is M. Arsone any case 1 do not want to bor other guests. Glazivoda, & fortner couriler row General de Gaulle's body- und diplomat who

nerved in guard." Lendon and Paris.

M. Gazivoda War Jayfted to spend Christmas in Chicago by heiress, Mrs Pearce Sherman,

He followed and caught her,

Nureyev seems to have good and they rolled in play. He Tarka and White-tip returned reasons for discontent. mewed like a cub. to White-Up to the strearo, where among the He had hopart for a contract but who ran away. He follow- dry stalks of angelten and ben- with the Paris opera but this a Palmolive-Colgate ed her into a mendow but she lock they played hide-and-geek. las tera judged "diplomatic yikkered at him, and enupped at But whenever his playfulness ally premature.” his week whenever he tried to would change into 'u carëss, sho

This young man of 23 is now Hck her face, until his mewing ylony-yilckered at him. She beginning to feol a heavy tonell ceased altogether and he rolled softened after a while, and al-ness closing in on him.

His visa appileation was re- fused under the clauses in the Unlled States Immigrat on Lawa burring political undesirables.

Tough talk

THE

TH

comedian Robert Rocca tells of a Cabinot meeting presided over by

The letter reads: "Nido, regarding your rude remark at yesterday's lunch, I am writing to tall I resent it.5"

"It was mast rude of you and unless you apologise within 48 hours. I shüll let the whole English colony, know your in-

It must be the sup.

sulled my country myself,"

T

(London Expresa dervice).