1918-12-18 — Page 9

THE MONKEY AND THE in the merchant

"“SCOTCHMEN.

Translated from the French.

{Bootch, or Eith, or Walih." They

are never English.”

but

Piccioni, scandalised, polita, limited himself to replying that those rare queations of a domentio charàcter into which bel must refuse to enter, and that Here is a war story in the they were all at war, with tha genial, rollicking vein into which Boobes.

the

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popular French author," Perhaps you are right,”- Heo Pierre Mille, cossionally drops. [ror conceded. "But, you see, Mile is a Fumorist with a keen {I can't stand it—I aball never be eye for oddities in character and able to stand it—when any one eccentricities in temper sad point confuses me with those people of of view. And be differs from the South. I know one thing. most other French writers in the And that in that the best people fact that his Englishmen are in the world are the Mas Ivora of Englishmen and his Boots Scots. Can Mac Iver."

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"How do you say that ?" asked Pionioni.

"Canidtaneslap.

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Every saldiar of every nation- "No," auswared Piccioni, the ality has a place in Mille's bears best people in the world are the and is a living, breathing 5gure Piccionis, of the Piccioni tamily. in his pages. His Tommies There are five hundred of us in and "Sandies" are as good as the neighbourhood of Sariene." his Frezoh poilue or hie I see from your words," said colonists or his Senegalese. Mao Ivor, "that you are capable Since the Bitish troope now of understanding me. You have fight in close co-operation with in your country clans such as we car its happens more frequently have. After the Mac-Ivors, the than it used to that their wounded but people in the world are those are sent to a French hospital for

of Cauldameslap." immediate treatment. Later on they can choose whether to stay or to be transferred. That was

It is very the case with Private John Mac easy to pronounce. Then there

the Ivor, who belonged to a Scotch are McKees, the Mac- regiment, the Lennor Fasilliers, Kinoons, the MacRae-all re Struck in the thigh by a ballet, or less related to the Mecivors, he was

barried by French After that there are the other strelober bearers, who picked him clans of the Highlands, Alter ap on the battlefeld, so ons of our that there are some families in hospital units situated just behind the Lowlands. After that their the fighting line. Mac Ivor was is nothing at all.”

"I understand,” washed and his wound was pro-

rejoined perly dressed. The ballet, which Piccioni. Or, at lesat, I begin lodged in a fold of muscle was to understand. It is a little like skilfully extracted by a surgeon the way we think in Ocreio," major wish three stripes. · Then "To explain it to you further," shey put the patient in a white MacIvor continued, "I must til bed, with sheets a little rough you, the story of a monkey who T/T but fresh, between which became once to Cald faneslap. It Demand stretched himself laxaricuely. & magnificent monkey, sa 30 d/s No more than our poilue do the rang outang a big sa a man, 60 d/s .........

4 m/s... soldiers of His Majesty the King who belonged to an Americaz

TT Shanghai of Great Britain and Ireland and irons. This circue, giving 1/1 Singapore. Emperor of India remsin iseenei- bibitions, travelled all over Boot T/T Japan 1503 bis to the advantages of a wound and with its monkey, who was a T/T Indie requiring delicate treatment.

great attraction. Bat at Lim: Demand, India The comrede has the air of mormoor, which is near Osald-T/T San Francis-1

co & New Yorkf 7234 fading life still agreeable, tapeslap, ba fell sick, very sick. thought his neighboure.

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"The circus people regretted hospitals near the front, bom-ht death because he brought 4 m/s. LIC.... bared often encagh by enemy them honour and profit. But what m/s. D[P. 76 m/s. L/C Aviators. She has herself been widey theolaeth; dead 30 d/6. Ricy and 1.3/54 wounded, and wesra on her monkey? They placed him gently Melbourno.ennie) breast a well earned Croix de on the side of the road, and then 30 d/s. San Francis-1 ¡Guerre.

whipped = their horses. Tha Tet Mme. Sure has one little des monkey lay there, stretched weaknees. She imagines that she cut alongside the highway.

"Thers" Archiá MacIvor and knows English because she learn- ed the radimente of that language Gilbert Kacitor, my cousins, at a boarding school. She exerted came across him that evening. herself, then, to make a remarks They were returning, I believe, in his own tongue to Private Mes from a little smuggling expedi. Ivor, intending it to be se flatter. tion.

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ing possible. And the produced | "I told you that this monkey Demand, Manila something to the effect that "she was as big ass men. Es bad, Demand, Singapore. 1424 was very happy to take care of a in fact, absolutely the appear On Haiphong brave English soldier.”

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that her pronunciation had been

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place, they had nos taught her firesides! And he had to die that kind of English at the without the consolations of boarding school. Mme. Base religion! We must, at least, „could not understand this out-give him a Christian burial,' H'kong 50 cis sub. "baret. In the second place, so- "Maanwhile they furned him) ·

cording to her idea. Hso Ivor over and looked at him carefully. talked too fast." People who The corpse was naked, 8 it know a foreign language only must have beans crime. Would Canton very slightly generally have the it not be advisable to inform the conviction that those who speak magietrates and to eummon the is talk too fast.

She went away, quite cat of a Justice of the Pesce, to hold an long noees. This dead man has a countenance. Some minates later inquest? But, at this moment. anub nose. Perhaps be is a Mao- the Corsican sergeant. Piccioni, Archia suggested a neomary Rse. All the MacBaes arIO VEXY who really knew English, having preliminary. spend three years in Amerios, "We must first now," he said,! They se ugly, Gilbert ad-

| Laird, who was at the same time |

ugly.

esid to Meclvor:

‘whether the deid man ie s zu’ive mitted, "but it isn't the same kind "You have cfended that wo of the country. It wouldn't be of ugliness. And they haven's man: Why did you do it? She, worth while bothering about any such large toes. This man has was only making you a polite one who waen's a native. Who, pee so big is fingers. aperch:

then, is he?" "I know that I was wrong,"

"Gilbert kept looking at the Maovor admitted frankly, "hat, figure of the poor mankey.

"Brother Archie,' Gilbert con oluded anddenly, "I am going to tell you something. McIvor, ie be??

He isn't a

It was too much for me. She took. It's strange', he said. 'He is me for an Englishman. I can't not a HerKinnon. He is not their "No, swore my cousin. stand that. It is a terrible to be type. And neither is be a Mscivore isn't a Manar, por s hit by a bullet and then to heCertainly he isn't a Ma Ivor, MecKinnon, nor a MacKee ?'

"I'm sure of it, Archie taken for an Englishman in the my cousin Actie sifirmed, in-k bargain."

digasatly, I would har re-greed. "But," said: "Picsioni, in am. coma a dbim immediately. There samsent, you are English." ¡ ars only five hundred MacIvor Let us leave him here.

Im not Biglish MecivorThen wast olan does he Bo they left him there" John protested violantly, Iam belong to ? Grest heavene, what Meolger concluded, with an sir-of

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