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THE HONGKONG DAILY "RIES WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10TH, 1903
me
That you, old skap ?" drawled Volue from is dumb wind on the one side and up again on his sat on the broad-box. Said ye were the other, and rased, crouching, for the first into dead. We've got no ond of a find here. Whole which they again disappeared The man who pig. If you'll let me know as olsen from his place, and whose A CHRONICLE OF CASTLE BARFIELD 'ro bagged a ham, aut I'll invito self to face as he went by might be distinctly seen,
dine with you, and bring my own rathe with was Major de Blacquaire.
· · * Leading a forlorn hope, you devil, are you ?** Tha-anks," said de Blacquaire. Don't said the sergeant to himself; but the words were trouble. I shall find it my duty to sort this vacant and he felt a simple throb of almiration scene of rist and disorder. Forward. Larch," for the sot mouth and rosolute eyes of the man Grand rounds went by, and the scatted fire who had climbed past him, and wished himself
in his plass.
The racing, crouching orewd, had dived into fadod. .
"If you can manage to book a al'of that
sergeant!" said Volnay. "I'oasily the foremost trepel and had ro-appeared again before it was discovered by the Russian sentries; pork off kungry"
one, I think, to a ture," sidolson. but a hundred yards away from the foot of the glacis, the whole advance was caught and swept "Who's got anything that will out? ress, with a risk gily brogue is it, "there's gunshot, cannister and rifo Are. The half- I'm told, vir, or in it, dark and twisted, us by a whirlwind, by opt heams of difference between here and Trick.m-lted, new-fal:cu suor clung to the sloping Won't it be Christmas morning in old laud, glacis of the Redoubt, and made greyish background of dim light against which a "Yu're ont in your reckons
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Down in the trench the fire grew to a rich and splendid glow, sad one or two of the fareared of fortune, who, owned pipes and tobacco, pluckt bright embers from it, and nostling ander the shelter of the wall, sucked away at their comfort with simple animal noises of satisfaction,
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Out of the blank darkness of the night the fue ant glow from the second parallel resmed Malakpe, in, and as its brightness grow, it to time. But the of the gunners of the
ily from tim
said ther watcher could perceive not only the whole GENERAL DRAPERS; HIGH-CLASS DRESSMAKERS, AND Paddy's Leadership had already was under
oxuntly ther motion of the line, but the gesture of any darkness towards the Turkish camp. the open and were making a muddy way in the Your folks is going to bed in Lirick.single figure in it. Hate and interest and ad-
asi wa kuck of risin' in the East, Ind, miration alike prompted Polson's
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to follow that matter, of Ireland, or Aberd for the slim, attive figure with the waving sword thinkia. It's doop miniga are, and star crash, and all the black front of it went flery ealers, but it's a tasit mindin' the exeleti- which silently beckoned on his followers. The (suma two halm Reduabt opened as it wore with an earthquake or so beyond it, and they'll be over their ph red and yellow, and at the first discharge of bowls, yooner. That's so, sir. I'm boling this inferno, the figure with the flourished abro
lit of a sin to talk about punch bowls, is it, to left, and men dropped amongst them as if **I don't know, upon my word," and Way.in his right hand fall prone. The double line "You're out of my depth, my lad Bats of the invaders shook and wavered from right ou a night like this, when there isn't a link the seythe of Death was literally sweoping "I say, Bill," says one. Was you ever
withio a hundred miles ? Sorg.aut, thiork there. The lines advanced, wavored, paused, angry before you soon this Gawd-forsakon is like mann in the wilderness. Look up targed, tarned again, advanced again with mad Crime?"
before you report yourself to "Lor' love yer," says the man questioned,
Majdo cheering, source heard amid the rattle of Blacquaire, will you? I'm responsible the muskotry and the roaring of the guns; aud "I was born hungry, and I've boon hungry, you nederstand. It was my duty to fire finally broke and ran, utterly routed. The on- ever since. But if the Honourable Paddy the whole crowd of you nider arrest, bw, looker had no part in this confist uxcept to bite finds that 'eg and I get hold of a hind leg of but there isn't a lot of fuu going foron and ram down a cartridge or two and to send him, I won't complain before to-morrow mid-bears here, is there Goop-night, serat, night.".
and don't forget the hour in the morning
"Good-ni. ht, sir," "A merr. Christmas and a loight Larg to "God go with yone." you, for m ny ay.ar."
The fire glowed with richor and a richer light, and men of hospitable minds wiped their half-smoked elays on the insido crook of coated elbow and passed on luxury and rofresh ment to lesa favoured aoighbours, It was a time for contradeship, if only for the fact that it was Christmas Eve, and coming fast towards makors, &c. Fresh Water suplied telain porker was in all men's minds, and muda Christmas morning. Bat the thought of the Vessels in the Harbour.
them expansive and geuorons and reserved by taros. Boom! said the gun from the Redoubt, and the earth splattered between the cobar of Sergeant Polson's jacket and his neck, and than any charity he had know of lately-frozen dribbled
comfortlessly down his back, colder earth, half thawed, with wet snow on the top of, and a sulky boom behind to add a threat to its cold sling.
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That's your manual, surgonat," saine a one of the shadow in a tous thras used in Rotherham, or vary near it Ah like Captain Volnay as mooi as ah-likely he sits do wit: like of hu and hu tks bed. He's got a kind of a way with hi to us as if we wis men in place of bein' ele, which is the way in most on am.. He's
luck to Captain Voluay, au' if ch'd glass, o' that gumiu ponch they'n gain
is." doen, nie bird, ah'd said my throat
The were all fall of roast pork, or of pk more or loss roasted, and the scout of sacrifley was yet in the air, and their ut bit souls wore cheered and waras, if »ir
little.
Yis," said one lad. if half the quaty kuowed
fragrant dark.
"Hallo!" said Polsan, turning in be Row ar fem Bilston who
After long waiting, a voice in nestatie Janelator, and surely the voice of the Honourable Paddy. Shuilling footsteps in the dark, and climbing in poer into the blackness; youth the hungriest of the whole crowd in the trench) who has not yut kuished growing, and who finds the irregularity of meats a cruel thing. you born **
I'd like to know," ways the Honourable Mr. Wadgebury," said the voice. No furder Erroll cheerfully, who trasted those infernalecon Hargate, me," said Polion. Russians with a gun? They'll be hurting somebmly by bud bye, if they're not careful But hore's the pig. boys, and there's nobody but poor little Ahmed Bey the worse for us.
shot more or less at random into the black
with his elbows to the frozen turf, he saw oblong of the opposing fort; but clinging with bis feet on that precarious muddy ladder, sud
clearly the convulsiva gesture with which do Bis quaire lifted his satire in a last effort to wave on his men.
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not be finally analysed and done with until this Man is a very complex creature, and he will
Niseteenth Christian Century. Whether it was planet is very much older than it it in the
hate, or personal pride, or a sudden flush of admiration for a man whom he had hitherto despised. Polson Jorrass could not have told you to his dying day. Bat though the motives for household use. Capacity-One and Two Hundred Cigars mol. which inspired him wera vory wildly mised and whatever as to the teed to which amongst ing utility with beauty and security, with a perfect preservation of Cigars. Would be please:I very uncertain in their origin, there is no doubt Guaranteed to koop Cigars dry in a dup climate, and moist in a dry climate, combi- themselves they inspired him that Christmas morning. The Malakoff belched holl. The to have "on inspect those PORCELAIN CIGAR CASES. flying crowds hustled him and threw him twice towards the prons figure. Ho deopped jute the or thrice. But he was on his foot again, reing
front trench sud trod upon a wounded man who screamed beneath his heel, and climbed out on the further side. The air was musical with hooting shell and singing shot and hissing ballet as if a whole diabolic orchestra were dling and bugli g Poison found the fallen "I'd had it, songs it. I'a body of his foe, and hugged it in his arms, and used it. I niver heard your, voleu afore traced hack is hard as he could tear. He tumbod irat, but there's a kind of a turn of tinto the trench of the first parallel almost tongue in it now and then."
Fanyhow; but he gripped the man he hated, and knocked him on, the head from behind, and chinging sun began, ratod iu right lines l'opposite side, and came out upon the epon stopa The costiagout fell to siloneo, and a we, his soul, was a great rejoicing. He tore up the we'll be iron the worse friends to-morrow."
Bang, and bang, and bang! sounded the
Th
embors of the fir hisst under B, and the again, with the unconscious man still in his arms, guns from the Russian battery, drawn by the meat drew themselves intench shudler as they light: hat a deticious odour rose upon the sir,could find, and waited in the gorg, cold patioases ran breathlessly with the wind of shot arid ** You'll ruin me, you derj!!” said Polson, us and, the theth of the litle cantingunt watered. for the expic of relief ons daly There was a ramrod with Bergeant Polson at in coming, and by learned afterweras that th
Is was long shell is his cara. And I'ts to report myself to way frumorrow, am I? Walay rooort, ours one end of it, and Fadly Erroll at the other, ginentale rovnero-chem on that. Ohrid HIS safe for they minute, I guess and, the loveliest loin of aeroffer hands und
working was dead from dysentery poor follow He was within a yard of his own post when barriot in the muddy sarth and half frozen in his mind, and at that instant a musket what the before anybody remembered to take up took him in the neck and he fill with his intedeu his dirty.
The long, long night went on, and the Rassinu gunner, finding his attention no longer
To be continued.) drawn to the distant fire, hail go to sleep or
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LUI SHE TAI tending under the nsad faces turrod, and tried, and turned and aga mosblar of lactin kurned cut that he was there and exaltations of un excited fancy crossed
at WING on onKHING
Kinng Moon Kwantung Canton and at No.8 the improvised spit And there were some los Lower Lasour Bow Victoria Hongkong, has on the 12th day of May 1903 applied for the nico in appetite who had akot cut heaps of vogistration in Hongkong in the Regi-ter of glowing coders from the fire, and bad fait TRADE MARKS of the following TRADE bat lies thereon and buried them fo more cinglars, and who were n w enjoying a compound feast of pork and charcoal, with auch
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The distinctive dovic: or mark of a table apon which appear tavo vases containing fern leares eadh rasa being sepurai from the other by Chinese incense Scare team which a dane uf fire is
picted on acising, had at which thee Uliuose Manlariks (two of whom hold
symbols of 1 vie office are gazing, the A whole of th curve described objects hoing oncia-ed with arcular tine, on the
show him.
said e rain out of the darkness. That's a **What are you up to her, you fellows?" oily appetising cell*
a fast rolish as no home-staying epic any bow fallen silent, when a witching noise centd egnesite arer the lordliest dish the com jose upon the sit and alt the worn, half-sleeps bine casino of the whole wide wall coulding moss-up in li-te. Sur ly there was the “4] round of churêt bells, and there was a rush to.
wards the pleasant noise. It was only a man from the smithy who happened to have a musical ear and ha riget up a kind of gallows from Fresh roast part, sir," responded one man with his month full.
wb ca bo bat burg carbin and rifle burrals of varying lengths and calibre, on the which ha Frash roast purk!" ashard the enquirer, baling wikan irou rod Th sulky dull Gerole of which is depicted a Chizzseille--int you, Sergantt. You're in luck.ginning of the daws on Christmas Day, and procession buring in their company two images of the dragon tied with banner jou year mess if you make no objection." there in the trenches the Christmus a ring and other kindred paraphernalia. Saad
Nobody mors welonane then Captain Volnay,ing as might have taug in any village asking merry on a piece of ground of you, and give Captain Volnay a seat."
earch in ol Eagloud, two thousad toes siz," said Polson. Find that old bread box, une
away. And the hearts of the listeners rose to abutting on a house and sirop dewa after
Hurry up!" said Volnay. That smell is their throats, and men were quint whilst the the European model at some dist 200 middring. How did you mon comes in for music sounded. The autos Leached far, and fell from which latter wes depleted anuntaios such a treasure trove as this."
o may alrossy ear, csajuring up visions in and see and underneath is depicted a Chinese scroll bearing at each end to
th half slambering minds, of humble white. 6 od viliure. steeples, fur and fir away,
musicion with half cold roast pork, and left him Polen's contingent drawn from a dish ne-of some two hundre yards, stuffed that agenions
Clincer characters and in the centre
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turning the ramrod-spit.
“I'm Columbas," sail the Honourable Paddy.
got a whole pig here. I say, sergeant, Fra "Why by Jing" cried Volnay, "you're
going to confiscate a log for our Christmas mus You don't think you fellows are going to be allowed to wit gourmandising here, whilst we go hungry !!
One man, sheltered by the shadow, answered spearingly:
Precious little going hungry amongst your set, sir," said be.
And precious little you know about it my good fellow." Volnay answered with his auun laugh. "Life isn't all beer and skittles amongst your officers, let me tell yon.
tent.
well rewarded for his foils.
B. one of those surprising fatuities which dinguished this paten dampoigu a'mast boid has been engaged, an attack which was a ove all others in which the English private adored for black midnight was Teud just in the gray of down, and Polson's ear caught.
bi pod word of command here and there, and whi a noise of careful footsteps. The treach of the a ladder of foot-koles just behind him, and Lo second parallel was ta fost doop, but there was
Farand nd climbed, digging his fingers inte the half-fro en turf on the Rassin side. There as the grim Redoubt at which the English gue ha hammered in vain this many and
I'd like to change, sit," said the malcon. Would you?” asked the Captain. "Well, I daresay you would. But we all have enough ta rumble at, and to spare, if we happen to boy a day, still solidly silhouetted against the built that way. Just expedite that joint, get as death and yot from old experience clearing sky of morning, dark and lowering, sergeant."
It will be all the botter for another turn a bolding a threat in the entrats of it. The w:0. twg, sir," said Polson. It's a deadly pity, bathree or four thousand of them, as one might there's no such thing as a hint of crackling, climbed into the trench of the first
Piggy came along with his bristles on, and wo have no sharing tuck to."
Who goes thore F cried a voico in the darkness, two score yards away.
"Grand rounde,' said another voice. It was Major de Blequire's, and Polson had not heard it sines the day of the Almis, a year and three months ago.
sign
Hait, grand rounds, and give the counter.
Bonnie Dundee."
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