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BETWEEN OURSELVES.

(Continued from Page 6).

Then the man o' law, who upj to then had been playing dammy, took a band in the game.

"Did you hear a noise in the street at the I think then it would be in- time you were considering the teresting to come back to Hong-very important matter of your kong in another hundred years husband's evening meal?” asked or 10 and sea how much be, wi' heavy sarcasm.

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH:

CORRESPONDENCE.

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(To the Editor of the "Hangkong

Taingraph,"}

Billards.

habitual riding in ricksbas I could see that by this time, Sir, I notice with pleasure and chairs will have stunted the woman had given it up.. “If] that Mr. A. J. Osmund has made and withered our inactive lege. II speak the truth,, there was," a 19oord break at billiards for the grant ye that it doesna really syn she

Imatter & curse to us whether The Clark (drily)-Are you Hongkongites bave small legs.speaking the truth? big beads

OF

RODO at all

Woman-Yes, Sir.

The prospect shouldna' bother us Clerk-Well, why couldn't you the least wee bit. But man, it's speak the truth before? the pity of the thing.

Interest

Colony, and I am not surprised, as I consider him the finest player we have bad in the Colony for many years.

Yours etc..

J. H. OXBERRY.

December 1st., 1922.

With reference to your state- [ment that the previous highest break was 90, made by Gunner Even Christian Scientists will

Lord, I wish to state that this is tell ye that nowadays folk sufferj

Now I ask you. Dny woman incorrect Lieut. Golding com- from a great deal of had health will spe at once why the reply pited a break of 108 at the Palsco that could be easily cured by had to begin in the kitchen wi'Hotel, playing in the foal of brisk daily walk. What's wrong

her man's tea. She wanted to get handicap, three years ago, when then wit the idea of getting up a atmosphere into her account of he won a cup valued at $100, Walking Club. I'm quite willing the affair and it was a thoughtless to join, provided they make me act to require her to mar a good treasurer and take into considera-story like yon. If she'd only bave Palace Hotel, Kowloon, tion my fallen instep. Joe talls gotten obance, the wotan me that the world's walking might have told no only that record is one mile in six minutes there was a row in the street, but and twenty-five and some odd bow the row came aboukand bow split seconds. If you want to the seeds of discord that ended realise how the rickshaw and in · Tow bad been BOWD chair coolies have been the means weeks, months, years before whan o' making you neglect your leg some woman's man got some

Sir, I am directed by the Com. muscles, you go sad try to walk other woman's man's job and how missioners to request the courtesy a mile in 15 minutes. Isn't that there had been bad blood eversince. of the publication of this letter to another perfectly good resoo No, this chip, chop, you're out'invite any eyewitness of the why human beings as a means of kinda" way o' talling &

Occurrenda connected with the transport should be dous away doesna do if you're going to get the 19th. November last to furaish story piracy on the .s. "Sui An” on wi'?

the truth, the whole truth and to the Commission a statement in (nothing but the truth. It's the writing of any information which same wit writing. So long as they may be able to give. As Janet's very fond of saying, you're interested, I just keep right on. I'll submit, odds? Ye may as well be read- though, that there's some method ing MacWhirter

MacNutt.

what's the

wading

Sui An Piracy Commission.

I am, Sir.

Your obedient servant,

W. J CARRIE Secretary.

December 12, 1922.

in my madness. To tell the truth, through "Hongkong, Twenty- sometimes when I begin a theme Five Years Azo or a bit out. I harena' the faintest idea just a the Daily Mail about Colonial Secretary's Office, whereabouts it's likely to end. The Ravages of Rabbits." The When yo need time to think, the paper's got to be filled sny way easiest way to get it is to ramble also what diference does it make? bit. What's the hurry onywa Genius.

so long as we get there in the end?

WRIST DRIVE.

That bringe me in mind o' the But I know where to draw thei last time I was at Linkoamdod. line for all that. That's the way die when I went to see Bailie I'm no' letting dsb about the Ball MacNutt presiding at the Police this week except to say that by those assembled at the month- A pleasant evening was enjoyed Court. Ye see it happened to yon Baronial Hall was a finely wbist drive held in the R. G. A. be awet day and-but there affair. It fair made me home Sergia." Mesi, Victoria Barracks, am again, ravelling on like an sick to see it. Yon man, Jamie last evening. The number of auld sweetia wife, MacNutt, he Simpson, his folk surely put him tables was small, due to counter- and I went to the same school in the wrong line of business. attractions, especially in the case together when we were boys. They should have made him an of the exponent in the noble art, Of course, he was all right, bisfarchitect instead. I hope they'll Sergt. Tribe, who was naturally father basing a farm ontbye, no' pas him over when the ques- followed by a good crowd of sup but fega what does he do but settion of enlarging our City Hall porters from the Mess. Jamie MacNutt up in the butch comes up for consideration. Mac- eting line at the time they Pherson in also got into trouble discharged by Mr. Gr. Warr and The duties of M.C. were ably: knocked down the Vennel houses foxtrotting wi' a wee bit thing at the conclusion of play prizes aff the High Street. So Jamie fin pink and an onderdone smile were. got on

distributed in the world, and Mrs. MacPherson

by looked Capewell

R.S.M. by the time he W48

made fae. Yon City Hall looks smaller following:- Bailie,

thought himself no overs time I see her in it, small drink, mind I'm telling re. Man, and she was nicely gotten So, as I was saying, the day be-up for the occasion. She was on ing wet and golf out o' the the job in her Sunday waist dies- question, I daccders doon the surement; her dress looked as if town and looks in at the mid-it had been shrunk on and, week Court. There was MacNutt befitted the occasion she had on the Bench trying to look as more than usual appearance o intelligent as a pair o' yoa nosa bojler-made virtue. Ay, a foe pecs and bald head would let figure of a woman is Mrs. Mac. him and leaving the fack of the Mac, the shrimp-but what's the work to the Magistrate's clerk use; besides you've bad enough who was also Secretary of the of the "wha's like us" stoff to last Bowling Club in his spare time, for another year. Justice.

Youth.

Man, it's a great thing to be I ony of you want to see a able to give # straigh: an-nice quiet picture you should go swer to a straight question. And to the Kowloon Theatre to night sometimes, mind ye, it's a greater and see the "Old Swimmin' Hole. thing to be able not to. The From time to time I've given the curious bit about it, however, is movies their share of bard that the one seems

to be as knocke for some of the difficult to bring off successfully outrageous staff we've been asked as the other. Take the case of the to ante up good money to see. Woman the Bailie was, peiring at But this is one of those appealing | that day.

pictures that all grown-upg

Says he, to her in the witness should see. "How pleasant was box, "Now, my good, woman, just the journey down the old tell cs. Was there a row in the dusty lane, where the tracks of street?"

our bare feet were printed so Wi' that the body seemed to plain. You could tell by the dent settle down to it. "It was just of the heel and the sole, there this way, Bailie" says she, "It was lots of fun on hand at the old Was just about my man's tea swimmin' hole." So sang in time and-"*

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between Hallamand Charlemagne, the spirit of the thing has been beld up his hand, showing the caught and screened, diamond ring on, his pinkie. Breathes there a man wi'soulso Stop, my good woman," says he, dead that he doesna' recall wi' tell the Court if there was a row emotion the old swimming' hole in the street"

of his boyhood? It was one of "And how d'ye expect me to the institutions before the age of tell ye onything," says she "if luxury. Down the burnside at ye keep on telling me to stop?" Linkcumdoddie we bad

Good, thinks I to myself, that's swimming hole but nowadays the one up against your duckhouse, youngsters swim there no longer. Je was pot-bellied butchering What between vocational train. Bailie that ye are

ing and the fear that they "Proceed my good woman," might get their feet wat if they Esys MacNutt.

went swimming in the open, the Well," says she, "as I was pool on the Link is abandoned tellinge, it was just about my nowadays to the sticklebacks man time, and I was and newt, wandering whether I'd boil him The lads that roughed it away BD agg os"

back still boast of their early Wi' that MacNuth, he got a trials and struggles--but to day. shade more brosy about the neck provides Charles wi' a bathroom and seemed to have difficulty wi' and a gas fire. We'll make ble collar stud. "Madam" says he things easier for the children, is the idea. And they do. Here too.

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"I'll have ye ken Bailie that, No, the "Old Swimmin' Hole" I'm a respectable woman," says isna a picture for our patted the witness, commencing to run youths. They havens' earned it. the hem of her white apron They wouldna" believe it ongway. through her fingers, and I com The fun and pathos of picture bere 'my ain free will into the like this is only due to those bargain," says afie.

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