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THE HONGKONG

NICKI Frames

UNCLE

LUDO

wasn't rohug to be much of an afterutti Nickl could sen fret. It would be hours bofey Pt, a came: back, but one tulit Uned 69 out. She had been warned not to leave the house on pain of Bevore punishinent.

Nicki yawned ont of sheer barodom what a lite.

Her eye fell on the picture of her- calf as a baby sitting on Uncle Ludo's lap. This photograph hadn't Been the light of day for many year. Only yesterday had it been dpr up, dusted off, and given pro- #ninence. Uncle Ludo, rich, infirm, and with no next of kin except Eleanor, had come for a month's visit from America.

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NICKI took a few listless stops and stopped in front of the photograph. With a slow deliber- ale movement of her hand the thumbed her noze st hån. (Too tender

age, alas, to apperclite thin virtues - offerble unric with money bags). Then, with her Langenes bedween fin gart Is the gure him the wel: "kwangaberry" without much tives. In spite of inany hours spent Schlagen. (privistes pumutire the art of 11 Branz Cheer" cluded her. Al bed she was able to novomplišta only a fait buzzing, round, Novoline, 110 Bower, natally bilim her tongue in Tata and cribblue down her

chin, c

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Today's Book

AFRICANA

GAU GAKE

By Hugo, Bernabrik (Constable, 10%. Gd)

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ND so rewell to he Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Kland of bentling sim und friendly telber 11 were a Dim travelogue“ vont end this Amperfetal accinuut of a alettante journey.

The letterpress it Dr. Berantija †ok is not worth „ngbody's, while ex en plus cutanat entertainment. Although fe seems to have vratec zævend Bitlis Broszul triben, Hy doen, mit ihow here de outlook and the trung to multe Lang, deep discoveries,

But the 110 plus with which the bon is lustrated are very dearly kuchi the penny or på eich at which they work out Ties are almost ali Aoposed studies of Didta, Ghulluk and Niter people their dady tasks or dancing nt feasin.

These photographs show, as the wilhor writes, Orel the women of these regions Iman F ants which does not escape European nges. M. II.

by

Shirley Bishop

elfort gave birth to the following ifrs:—

Unki ludo has a, funny

face,

I wish Jind fur any

place

but here.

Unki huo has a funny

hed,

it would be nice if he

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in our bed.

The ringing of もしゃ phono put an abript end

Inspiration. It VAR Eleanor. She wanted to know whether Uncle Lulu with still haleep and how Meld was amuslog bre- Hel.

poetry

"I'm about Uncle Luito,”

why. Nickl, how per- Tretly lovely. What П ***** rought Put 10 nway, dear, what you can show it to him when he Rets up

Nicki mahl sie dan think Uncir Smith would ke it much, but Eleanor thought she was being molest. She toll Nicki she'd be home in two hour,

Time hung heavy on Nicki's hands “until she caught sight of little Bobby, who was having his inoming airing in he gram Then she came to life in a Standa

te unde quick dive under her bed, ragged out her box of toys, and, after finging them out one by helter-skelter on the fluor, she ente lo her anost treasured tint for- bitden ponsession. The pen-shooter. Armed with ammunition, she raised the window, and placing the pen- hunder in her mouth took alm. A sull'eye!

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ITILE Bobby didn't know what had hit in. He jumped a foot out of his pram, und raising a bewildered little hand to his bald

4. bowled like a scalped Indian. e allowed up by a volley of

Blažin 141 ntud down in his pram and envering to turn his head, fure and neck ward quick successive move. inunds of his netites, Bobby looked like an nama puppet,

His mother', Beard -lis shrieks nn! chine rung out of the kotse, cryin murder. Meis qucked behind the em Lariss

Mrs. Lema took one look at Habiby -- strteking. His twee covered with red spota; -ana.... thought he was having fil. Terred. she teaned over the pram.

Nicki's art skipped a beat-what a target!

SHE adjusted her pea-hooter'

and scored another bull's-eye. Mrs. Levis straightened, up as t she had been shot, Then light

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Hor aye fall on the picture of herself as a baby sitting on Uncle

Ludo's top.

dawned. She looked up and say Nicki's grinning face. It served only to fan the flame of her fury, he was 4 mnd she couldn't speak for a min- ule. Then-

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA King's Building.

**Nickli Elencor or so Eleanor. I'm coming up to give you the best hiding you've ever had in your ter

"You can't," called Nicki. "I've gat mumps," and she pointed to an un usually full-blowis and puffed-out face. She lowered the window,

Nicki's exuberance wore off short time, and again boredom took possession of her. A knock at the door brought a renewal of hope.

I was a tramp. He wanted a hand-

out.

He wasn't slow to size up the situa tion when Nicki told him that she was alone. fund her mother wouldn't be back for two hours. He said he'd come in and wait.

"My hune's Nicki," she volunteered "And mine's Montmorency Astor.. but just call me Dopey. Put it there Neki ad he bark mut a dirty hand

**

SAY, this is a pretty swell Joint 'rou've got here. Who's the the wummy-looking gent With walrus moustache, the old man?

He's my rich unele Ludo. He looks like a dope, doesn't he? ** ..

"Well, he don't look too bright st that. Does he live here?"

No. He lives in America. But he's here on a visit-he's asleep in our guest room."

Dopey got to his feet.

"Say Nicki," he salt in reproachful tone

("I thought you said you was

alumn

Well, he doesn't count." said Nicki, * sleeps for hours in the afternoou frardes, he's deaf.“

Dopey sat down again with a sigh of reikt.

"I pass he don't count, then. Just so much dead weight, you might sny."

"Yes," agreed Nick

· America, eh? I spent a good bit of than there myself. Born there. Ever Jard of a place enlled Ossining? No? Well, there's a big house in Ossining. later than any house in London- sagded bullding you might say-called Sang Slag. I lived there for a couple of years."

T

*tolin club?" asked Nicki. "Yeah, that's it, n club. We must oʻ bad about a thousand members,' I Bay, they were great guys. Nickt. That is all except the prest- dent-none of the boys like him inuch. He used to go about all puffed up about bein'. the president of the club, and because he hnd all the keys to the private rooma. Never let any

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of the boys have a key, you know.

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SOMETIMES you'd find your- self locked in and couldn't Fel out because the president had

the keys. Come to think of

.. that happened about every

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night. Well, one of the boys got sore once and tried to kick the door down-funny doors they had, too-made of Iron. And if It hadn't been that he had a saw he'd a' never got out. Well, he

tho

was so mad at president that he sawed

a hole big enough to get out of-and he quit the club.

"We used to play a lot of swell games there - Cops and Robbers Any, was a good one. Nicki, how would you like to play Cops and Robbers?"

"Sure, bul 1 don't know how."

"Oh, that's nothin' It's easy, I'll tell you what we'll do. I'll phone a pal of min and ask him to come down. He was a mem- ber of the club, 100, and

he knows all the rules. besides he can bring down all the things w need for the game."

Nick! told h he could use the phone in the hall. He dialed a and in 3 number. minute was in touch with

his

fraternity brother.

Hello. Dutch -- Doper. Llaten, second house on

the corner with the white chuttem We're gonnJA

Ik for

play Cops and Robbers. Bring Gome rope and Komething soft, Jimmy or crowbar Uncle Ludo, who's here from America with a vad, Do you gel me?

TA

pipe. Inside co-operation →ple isn't the word for K. Five minutes? Okay."

He hung up and timed lo Nicki, who was stand- Ing by with gildening eyes.

Now, Nicki, here's what you've got to do. You furt alt in a chair, ser? Then when Bulch comes, hlm and me go into Barle Ludo's room. Uncle Ludo'a got to play. too, 'cause we need four for this game, Then Butch hits Uncle Ludo on the benn-not hard-just a lule tap, and then Uncle Ludo makes as if he's un- Conscious:

"We fetsk him, I mean, we take his money and some rings, 1 he's got them, after which we tie him up. Now, here's where you come in, because you're the cop. Well, when Butch and me see you we begins to run, see? We'll run around the block twice, in the meantime you'll be untying Uncle Ludo, and then when we'come back we'll play it apin Okay?'

Okay," sald Nicki, CiLTI hit Uncle Ludo when we play it the second time?"

"Sure thing. Here's Butch now- Hatch, I want you to meet Nick!." Nicki and Butch shook hands. "Well, I guess we can begin now. Now you won't forget what I told you, will you, Nick!?"

NICKI led them up to Uncir Ludo's room, and then, her eyes sparkling with excitement, ran back to sit in her chair as she had been told.

In less than a minute she heard n thud. followed by a grunt that sounded like Uncle Luco. Unable to suppress her excitement any longer. Nicki ravi. into the room.

Uncle Ludo had certainly entered He was Into the spirit of the game. knocked out cold.

"There," "said" "Dopey after Uncle Ludo had been bound so thist he looked like an Egyptian mummy. "I gues that hold him."

The boys were barely outside the door when Nicki spied Uncle Ludo's watch, overlooked apparently in the ex- eltement. Nicki picked it up and flew to the window.

"Hey, Dopey," she called, "you for got Unblé Ludo's watch-catch!"

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ROUND ABOUT by

The Showman

HAT about some fine, Imaginative writing for a

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start? A beaker full of the warm South, as it were, full of the true, the blushful Hipnocrene. Very well, you shall have it.

The counter-counter-counter. revolu Lion had broken oul. The Dictator was alone, waiting. What had lippened? The morning had shaken to Lite thunder of guns. Now there was . ailence....

Then the Chief of Staff entered, raising his foot in anlute.

"Hal" barked the Dictator. "Have you any news?"

"Yes," replied the Chief of Staff, "I thought you would like to see the following.

"What is IL7 **

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Well," marinured the Chlet Of Staff, at the present moment 11 con- Fists of me."

Side Issuo

THE Man With the Iron Teeth has guessed correctly. It was from Kents that I cribbed the fine words al the start of the preceding paragrapli. Yes, Keath, whose "Ode to n Boot contains the unforgettable ilie-

That night drink, and leave the pub unicen.

Toorul Rural!

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Has the someone never heard of my prt novelist, Mr. Peter Peroxide? Why, four-leafed clover In FCOTCS Brow themselves into his ammu for a good-night kins Daffodils purr and rub themselves against his legs, The Lesser Milkwort curdles in ecstasy as be passes on his whey,

Full Point, Phobia

NE of my revered contemporaries suffers from a full point phobla. It just won't und full stops in con- ventional groups of letters like UB.A.: It says USA. and sticks to It.

Thin, it was led to announce that "It has now been árcided to charge 110 for special places in the centre of the building."

A Certain Old Party protested. "You must put a stop to this," he said. All my friends' have been saying it Abould be a guinea--you know: one. full stop: one, full stop; nought, full stop-and, not a hundred and Len pounds. You must educate the pubile

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Sorry." was the reply. Can't do that. Gotta be modern, streamlined."

*

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Bo the Old Party rang olf, consoling himself with the fact that ninety-nine per cent or wou

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