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PUNKAH.

By J. PENN.

man told me

I knew it I knew it all along. The other day' a Just as we get the whole city est something that geems incredible tered up with tanks, and the divers even in this Colonyrité assured arewandering about sweeping up theme that the parties responsible for floor of the harbour in readiness to allocating grounds for gamce gave lay water-pipee, and scores of ships the baseballers & plot for their are coming from all parts of the very own. Why all the fuss, then. world loaded with water-when we about not having a ground Dely have done all this, down comes the fecause the lot is not big enough in It's enough to make a parto play ont It is, though a son swear. indeed it is. Then one cricket-club. asking for tank must go and break itself in were given enough ground to set half, just to ease further annoy up their wickets, but without room And before I forget it, let a place their Heiders! And why is une work off that joke about the it that nobody seems disposed to Englishman who, wishing to be help the hall players out of their polite to a French friend whom he difficulty? Lsuppose baseball is was leaving, said:-" Elu reser- not prohibited in the Colony under voir !!!

Whereupon the Frenchman the Defence of the Realm Act If nid Tarka !'

ance.

a pitch,

it may be played, then it should

It is rumoured there are more Mormons in Hong Kong than in Salt Lake City, but their wives: don't know it!

daddiņa un qu

Veronica Bottlethwaite holds that the Scots cling to the hagpipe be- cause they don't have to take lessons to learn to play it.

Bill McCartly, of the good ship Empress of Andalusia, sends this one:-

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man's

A steward, going into a stateroom to help him get dressed him what he had done with his as he had been very seasick, asked

clothes,

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"put them in that little round i closet up there with the round door in it, the man replied.

My Gawd, cried the steward, that's a porthole "

Mary had a little dress,

A dainty hit and afty: It didn't show the dust a bit.

But gosh, how it showed Mary

Heard at twilight along on the

Caste Peak road:-

Sweet Young Thing: "And now. Reggie, you must really tiike me bome

Shocked Young Motorist: Bus, sislie. I'm staying at the YM.C.A.

The next day, he joined the Boy

Scouts.

be played; a number of people want 1 sec "The Geisha is still at to play, and very many more would tracting a little public attention. go to watch them play, yet nowhere Such girls usually do. The discus-¦ in this Colony does it seem possible sion in the Press at least shows to find a vacant lot to play on. I that the public is interested in the bear of ong pièce of ground which Philharmonie Society and its dis reserved for the Navy to play 25, But that Ιού remaius | football on for. 365 days a year. strangely silent. I wonder why? During the hot weather the blue

· Perlmps it is considered undignified jackets don't play football on this to take part in public controversy, ground-for one reason, it is too *We shall present The Geisha,' hot to play, "and for another they and if you don't like it you can are not here to play even if they do the other thing seems to be wanted to, Ie there, then, any the attitude. Very well, if this is barth y reason why the baseballers the case, there's no more 'to, be, should not make use of this unused id, except to question the wisdom piece of ground? Probably there of such a superior attitude toward is, and probably it will take three the common herd-whe pay to see months or so for the authorities to the show.

think of a reason, by which time it will be too late to start playing Two well-known membera of a ball, and the footballers will want seal club recently walked on to the the ground themselves, thus settling called. Popp gazed at him, and bowling green without socks on the question amicably and anally.self a couple of cocktails. When he

It's a queer world.

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Here are 1 few extracts from Veronica Postlethwaite's diary - when i think Poppa must be mad Mon. July 3.-There are times To-day he said that Patagonia must be populated entirely by fish, I asked him what he meant and he said, "No fish would submit to the indignities forced upon the resi dents."

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Tucs, July 8-To-day, Mr. Penn never spoke, Mr. Penn shook him

There has been so much comment

went, Poppa hanged his head pon this incident that the move

against the wall until he fainted, has become fashionable locally, and

Wed July 10-Poppa refused to the Hong Kong Ludo Association "A mosquito has twenty-two put on his boots. He said, "What have held a special committee-meet- teeth, all of which can be seen is the good of wearing boots in this ing to consider what action, if any, through zilk stocking,"

auid darned Colony if it doesn't matter ehould be taken against Ludo cham- George P. Bottlethwaite, reading

hoot where one goes in them " pions who walk to boards, wearing | aloud. from

Thure July 1-Poppa said, "It waistcoat-pocket

is intellect that counts: Mind must rule the world. My great brain has thought of a wonderful saying which I shall have inserted on every page of every local newspaper. It HA Don't Waste Water? then lay full length on the floor and sobbed.

socks in future.

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Sockless Ludo is certainly more Wow! he swore a second later, hygienic and decidedly exhilarat clapping his hand to his ankle, inz," said well known Peak and I guess every one of those hostess to me yesterday. At the durbed teeth can be fait through same time, I do not think our silk sock ! grandfathers ever played the game in that state."

Speaking about mosquitoes, have you heard that one about the coloured woman who went into a store to buy a collar for her hus. hand.

George P. Boltlethwaite went as far as to say that it all came from allowing subversive matter to be published in the local newspaper and in the "Reports Upon the "What size?" asked the nssist- Water Crisis in the Colony of Hong ent

Kong and the Measures Consider- "Ab done forget de size," replied ed. Proposed. Spiked, or Adopted the woman, "but Ah kin jest man. by the Emergency Water Comage to reach aroun' his throat wif niittee of the Said Colony, issued mah hof hands by the Committee.

Bolshevism is a "menace," said George P. Bottlethwane, vigorous-

.

He has taken Castle Towers for

"

Everybody laughed when Bottle- thwaite sat down at the piano in the Selena Gay Institute the other

the opening of the Fanling Races, evening. Why Some darned fool in the autumn.

I had removed the stool!

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Fri, July 12-Poppa stopped cry- Mr. Peun called and ing today. shook two more cocktails. I have thought of a saying even wiser than the laet," Poppa said. It is, To Mr. Pena Heck With Water!!!

did not think the newspapers would use that one.

"Hebe Ray is the loveliest spot

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