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where David Copperfield, Nicholas Nice leby, Pickwick - their relations, their “Mr. Edmond O'Connor, for the Mater- friends, and also their enemies lived, loved, Cab Protection Society, said his case was suffered,

or enjoyed themselve that Worrall was an audacious and per- will for ever do so as long as

bilker sistent

He had engaged a exists. To-day, after an absence of more taxicab for a whole day for £3, and when than five years, I find myself just as The discharged the cabman gave him a young in feeling, though grey at the

was dishonoured. "War- cheque which temples, stuntering in the same streets, | rall's bank balance was id.

at the same shops, contemplat

Worrall in the witness-bar. pressed ing the same Westminster Abbey with for his address, gave that of his agent- the same incomparable background of the his official address, be explained. Houses of Parliament, exactly as I used to twenty years ago,

can-

And as I tramp along these streets so familiar to me, where I lived the best, and may be the happiest, years of my adolescence and of my manhood, not but scan with a little anziety the faces of the passers-by. Shall I recognise an old friend or even a mere acquain tanica Where is the old porter who used to great me with a grin and a

HOW do, siz" of the threshold of

club? my And the young man-far too polite who sell me the wrong collar or the

canny Scotch chemist, arar Leicester Square, who provided me with the very liver-pills you cannot do without every day in our climate" ? All gone) Where The war 7 Pitiless years!! I seem to be walking between two long rows of graves-in these old London streets so dear to me.

tan

BELLTISK. ENGLISH.

Aly letters go there," he said, "as I have had some domestic trouble with my wife. Where did I sleep last night i— at a little hotel in Craven-street," he answered.

·PRODUCED 94 PLAYS.

He had, he said, produced 18 plays in London, six in the provinces, and three In America. The play he produced at the Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, started on September 11th

Mr. O'Connor: Did the employees of the theatre threaten to strike before the last performance on the Saturday night

Did they insist on taking the box-office receipts -I agreed they should take the box-office receipts.

Did each one of the star performers receive 91s. 3d. în respect of a week's earnings i

Worrall said he did not know the figures.

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Mr. O'Connor: Did you know that one. girl spent 3s. a day in fares to the theatre, and at the end of the week only got zis 3d. Worrall said he was not aware of the fact.

Kensington, said Worrall had resided at Detective-Sergeant Percy Isaacs, of Scarsdale-studios, Stratford-road, Kens- ington, W. He had presented cheques to tradesmen which were dishonoured. ·

Mr. Cancellor, the magistrate, in sen- "This conduct tencing Worrall, said: man. on your part is very hard' on the cab- day at 0.30 am, goes right away to Here is a man engaged on a Sun- Twickenham, and is kept banging about till 10 p.m., and then given a cheque which I find this man Worrall) knew perfectly well would be dishonoured. Thiasis hard luck on a working and in- dustrious man. he stopped. A great deal of it goes on This sort of thing must

But, thank God! there are still some good fellows one has always known, and after so many yeary they are as much your friends as ever. Years may come and years may go, but a true English friend remains staunch and loyal; when you meet again you start your friendly intercourse just where you left it when life parted your ways. Did I use the word English" There, too, I find an innovation all round: Hritish" is the word of Empire-we did not use it quite so much twenty years ago. I ought to have written British when thinking of friends over here. Do I not know by experience that the same British qualities are at basis of real friendship with a Scotsman as well as with a Welshman or with an Australian or a Canadian Did not the Great War make us realise fully on the Continent what this little word in London." "British " means, better, maybe, than the British themselves? So many things have changed, here and everywhere since the day we went together into

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THE SAME CAPRICIONS CLIMATE. Another distinctive quality of London remains unchallenged-its climate. 1 en- dured it the best I could for nearly twen- ty years, and the fact that I survived this daily fight against the **coquettish

plicant, a woman, said that Worrall a fortnight ago came to her shop in Heath- street, Hampstead, and borrowed the costume, which she valued at £15, for an hour. He had failed to return it. When spoken to he said that he did not remember anything about it.

The

ANTARCTIC HERO'S EXPLOIT. LEAP INTO RACING SEA WITH LINE.

1

HOW HE SAVED HIS CREW.

weather of the world tellsing other was at Bou-street for "bik

a cabman who said that the meter.. in favour of my constitution and foretells registered £ 16. 3d, and he had only to its owner a too ripe old age. One can been paid £2. verily say of the English climate that it is as fickle, as treacherous as the typical English character is loyal, unswerving, reliable. But there is no cloud-even over the British Isles-without a silver lining, and it is to their climate that the Anglo-Saxons owe their Empire, much more than to the sea-methinks. To win through, a'race reared in this rough, Commander Frank Worsley, D.SO., ever changing, cruel climate must have who was captair of the Endurance dur- sterling physical qualities, backed by ing Shackleton's first South Folar ex- anique staying powers and a super-pedition

commanded the human moral energy. If it can prosper Quest, in which ship Shackleton in the Old Country it will thrive in any miled on his last expedition, has other part of the world, where average been

the bero of another sad Europeans will die like fiies. That alone

adventure- explains quite satisfactorily to my humble Kathleen Annie (332 tore), of London, of The four-masted schooner mind **a quoi tient la superiorita des Anglo-Saxons." There I am quoting the which he is now master, left Kirkwall title of a book which was the rage in foundland and encountered a fierce gale (Orkney Islands), recently, for New- France and in England when I was The vessel, in the darkness, with the scan boy-but who Pemembers to-day Demo-running mountains high, struck on the

lins and his pet theories?

and later

Green Holms, a low-lying portion of land off. Eday Island, in the Orkney group, and began to break up.

COURTESY OF THE POLICE. Traditions again are maintained un- changed by the "bobbies "just as cour teous

LEAP INTO SEA... 4.9 ever and always willing to oblige. Ah me! What a glorious sight peril of his crew, Commander Worsley Realising the ship's plight and the for a pedestrian to behold the whole dropped from the bowsprit into the rag

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traffic of a busy thoroughfare held up solid in order to allow two little urchins ing sea with a fine which he made fast dragged by their motherly sister to cross ship, and by means of the rope the whole ashare. He then struggled back to the peacefully at their own convenience un- der the sailing protection of a stalwart crew gained the shore in safety.ne policeman. Picture such

The ship became a total wreck. Paris! And hear the language from all

The crow were later taken to Kirkwall parts and parties! But here, not a word in the steamer St. Magnus, of Aberdeen. of protest; no gesticulating from the To a newspaper representative Com- bobby" as of old, what counts in mander Worsley mid that when the ship London town is the man, or woman or struck it was so dark that he could see child on foot not the 100-miles-an-hour nothing. He ran a line ashore because scorcher.

he was afraid the ship would go to

"

One remark I made does not quite pieces. tally with the above impressions. Am I. I ordered the men one by one to jump mistaken. It seems to me that buses are for the rope," he added, "and haul them. an going somewhere in a frantic hurry.elves up the rocks. The orders to jump It matters little to them if they be half were given at moments wher I judged empty

They must go on--but where that the breakers had receded to their In ту. youth

they were more homely maximum and I also allowed for the things. Who will ever tell the tragedies natural momentary hesitation to make and the comedies of the peaceful horse the leap. By the time each man was in bases of yore? Then one had plenty of the water he had the assistance of the time to live one's life, and other people's, oncoming waves to bear him shorewards. too!

"One man, in his excitement, grasped the wrong rope. It almost cost him his Dressing anyway

men,

verdoems little life, but some of the crew already ashore different from what it was herese ran into the water and seized, him.” war. Still more lounge suits than tainly. Commander Worsley was master of the fat many more tails and top-hate than Endurance when that ship, after being Paris. One thing, moreover, struck crued by ice, sank in the Weddell Sea. me. Every male one meets wears a grey He was decorated with the D.S.0, by the OF, & brown solt felt hat! Could it be King in March, 1918. that the

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opposed to healthy and Lon. Some kind friends tried to make sneezing of fellow-members, young and me feel ashamed of my dear old black old. It was a cold afternoon, without soft hat so dd foreign in looks, don't you known." In a moment of weak

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