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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

COWBOY

HOLIDAY

P

ERHAPS you have for- gotten your holiday? Mine, I know, will always Hnger in my memory.

I went by freighter to the where Gulf Coast. South, Negroes practise voodoo in New Orleans cellars; whore the Spanish moss drips from dark boughs like vampire-bats; and speech is alow; and men still talk of the Civil War.

Then South-West-where the Shawnee and Goodnight- Loving cattle trails.wind across Texan prairies, cowboys ride through the mesquite brush, off derricks are silver against the flerce sky, and barbecued rattle. snake is a dellency,

My voyage was a featureless track but down to the fringe of the Sargasso Sea. where ancient ships lic eternally be- calmed in seaweed; past cays where buccaneers hid their plunder; past low shores, where pearly skyscrapers preside over distant cities, like cathedral spires over an English town.

New York manners, or the movies, may have given you a wrong idea of American official- dom. In the South-West, om- claldom will not bark at you,. but greet you with friendly courtesy.

At Panama City, the Customs officer (shades of diamond- smuggling Hollywood starsi) drove me into town in his car; at Tampa, the immigration off- cor (shades of Ellis Island!) was glad I had not gone East, and hoped I'd have a pleasant time.

Even the policet Why, the town constable in one prairie centro tried to sell me a car! He was either a car salesman or a policeman in his spare time- I forget which way round it was. I know he took the job because it meant he could legally "tote hla gun around "-so useful in dealing with awkward cus- tomers!

You see, they are not used to _foreign_tourists in the ranch country, or along the Gulf ex

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copt New Oricans (Negro "N'cans") and look on us as be non-adult individunia to shepherded. examined with curiosity, and treated with that superb hospitality which their tradition.

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Wherever you land you can go to the cowboy country cheaper for by bus than train

The last 300 miles of my Journey into Western Texas cost one pound and a few pence, took

from breakfast to supper (early meals the rule); and allowed ample pauses for refreshment at bus-stations, where loud- speakers announce departures in sunny restaurant, waiting- room, and even wash-room.

A wonderful bus line that! For it will take you from New York to the Mexican border, or across the continent to the blue Pacific.

The driver-conductor incl- dentally called "operator "--is introduced to you, to give the personal touch that America loves, by having his name in- scribed on a sort of wooden visiting card which he hangs over his seat.

He is careful, courteous, and dressed Hike n Ruritanian prince: two tones more sub- dued, perhaps, than the Texas Highway police, who are as good looking as movie prin- with polo boots cipals, in lavender breeches striped with red.

If you are plutocratic, you can buy for £0 or less a second- hand car, warranted for “thou- sands of miles of carefree trans- portation" in a land where petrol is cheap, and tourist- cabins provide you with cottage and garage for four shillings a night.

the

manners

of officialdom: but haven't exaggerated the West, as Texas shows it. No, siri

You will have mot everybody bo-

fore,

the

APRIL

1937.

This is not the author, but he did things nearly as 'unconventional,

on screen- tanned men thronging small- town aldewalks, with wido hats and khak! pants tucked into half-boots; floppy niggers; Mexicans with hats as big round as the table on which our coloured aspidistras stand;

lasses tied up with bows like Topsy dolle, made up with lip-- stick and mauve, face-powder, and with hair dekinked as sleek as sealskin; and armed police- men lounging in shirt sleeves, with cigars between their teeth.

all exactly ns It is

you thought.

.

And it the Alms make the cowboy out to be a sentimentalist- belleve I've seen tears in the eyes of a tough cattleman (who had had nothing stronger than iced tea) as he sat under a star-dotted sky lla- tening to that beloved song of the- ranches, "The Last Round-Up."... And Shirley Templet The great heart of the Prairie just lies at her feet.

.

I can't say I 12w any shootings, Sorry!

But I drove a car full tilt across the prairie, rounding up an indig- nant bull I met "Doe "Somebody, the sheri-"a durn sight too

I ready with his gun, brother!" met a Congressman who cut his telephone line and flung the in- strument into the road to register annoyance.

I went to a cattlemen's barbecue, where a thousand of us had a free feed of beef roasted in a trench, bread, potatoes, salad and beer; fell in love with a cow-girl- Practically the only advertise- nothing on the films to equal her! ments you'will encounter-will-be--I said "Howdy to a meek little.

had father thirteen, who

of outside townships, where under- takers beg motorists to be careful, pumped hot lead into a gentleman and-if you are not-advise you with whom he disagreed. that they have "wrecking-truck" and ambulance on call, as well as a funeral home."

-The films may have lied about

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day in America. But no one tried to live up, or die down, to the over- tural

I met a judge. It's easy. There aro hundreds like Louisianan colonels. I had met him before anyway--in nearly every American Aim I have ever Bern.

He had a platinum blonde secre- tary, and a inane of white hair. He could roll n'elgar from side to side of his mouth while he talked, and spit accurately over his shoulder into distant cuspidors without turning his head, or interrupting the flow of conversation.

If you want to see ranch life from within-do what lats do! Drift up to the largest ranch you can find, and ask in your English accent if they take paying guests. Ten to one they never have, but will be tickied to death at the nolion-for the fun of it, becauso to have you are a foreigner, someone new to talk to and about!

After all, there are only six mil- lion people in Texas, a country bigger than France, Belgium and Holland combinedi Ten to one

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they will have electric ught, the biggest radio and refrigerator you over saw, three cars, Mexican house-servants-and no books!

And immediately the news will spread, and from miles around there will come a-visiting-across by-roads little better than cattle- tracks ladies in New York gowns, their-pretty faces made up to beat the band, with children with painted, finger-nails, and hospita- blo husbands with whisky-dasks in their hip-pockets-just in case supplies should run out.

Someone will lend you a horse, and nobody will mind you driving their car!

New York! Pabl Spend the same money, and go and see the Arofiles dance along the prairie trails, the armadillo diving into the long grass, old Brer, Terrapin whizzing along the highway at a hundred yards an hour, and the cattle moving like wraiths across the limitless plains, in the short. Texan dusk.

ROUNDABOUT

by The Showman

OU may know that story of the two coloured gentlemen tramping along a weary road

in America. One said: "Ocel Ah wish Ah could lay down! The other-a' type on which we should all model

"Talat brothah, effort."

ourselves - replied: no good. Just wishin',

mako yo's gotta

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At this moment I am making an effort to lle down peacefully under a barrage of foreign rumours and "bombshells."

Perhaps they will be contradicted or qualified on Monday in accordance with the usual rule. Then I could issue one of my own bombshells-Friendly Common Sense Inspires Meeting of Poweral

This, of course, has been contra dicted already.

..

A BIT ABOUT SHARKS

TOVELISTS have queer habits, Mr.

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Peter Peroxide, who is my pet, is nover happler than when dancing with bluebells in the summer, and with falling leaves in the autumn. In the winter he places a nightly hot-water. bottle at the foot of his old apple tree, and slaps the wrist of say robin who interferes with it.

Mr. Zane Grey likes flahing for sharks. He has just returned from the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland, convinced that there are sharks 100 feet long. He is going back to catch one with 18-feet sharks for balt

A shark 100 feet long is not so very long. I once caught a shark much longer than that from a launch. I had left my mats on an island, and landed to describe my catch to him.

"Starting from here," I said, "it "And wo was about this long. started to walk. Believe me, or believe me not, but, before we had covered a quarter of a mile, the "island" sank beneath an It was another shark. basking, by Jovel Overheard

HAD his supper cooked-ever so nico-because he swore he could

CANTON AGENTS get off."

for

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Tel. 13501.

"I know. It does diabearten' you, don't it?"

But what the end of it will be, I shall never know,

Quaint Old Customs"

MY antiquarian friends and I were interested to read of the beautiful Bosnian girl, Jelena Jocipovitch, who was kidnapped in a cart by a lited

·lover on, the eve of her marriage, and recovered in the samè' cart by her betrothed and his friends. The rescuers spent the rest of the night in song

That kidnapping be an old custom down Abbot's Sporting way? Ol moind the -mo... that; medarter: Ooompy, Noodger, went back'ards and forrards. ten Lolmes, the night; afore ur, were wed, tween Abbot's Anorting and Much Pupping, m young. Eli Rabbity's cart, when an apples an'. tatles 'un', arī atop of urge

Age, and fur-were brulsed-proper...

Us sang arl night for to drown ur yowlings. And ur had to stand oop Eh. in carriage on way to church. things bain't lolka they used to bain, more's the pity!

~THE PURPLE-PAPERS THIS instalment of my adventures, as "L" the Becret Service Agent with the Baronesa Blinka, wickedly seductive spy, continues from the t prisonment of myself and my Chief in the Black Room. .....

"Chief!" I gasped," "How did you get here?"

"I was suspicious," he snapped, "when I saw you get into that taxi. I was but a moment's work to disguise myself as Pogo, the evil scarred Negro, follow you here, and leave Fogo bound in a corner.”

The door opened, and Blinka up peared, leading a snarling panther on a platinum chain.. There was a lump on her head the size of two eggs.

"Sol My bravo Englecshmen!" she klased. "You had bettair zink fast, yes? For you arrro to be taken Inta ze prrresence of ze Human Snake!"

(To be continued.)

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2 This official may be proud of

his corporation

3 Change welcome for a bird. 4 In this body I am elther alde

a legislator. of a

This may be extracted from

This is used in cooking.

All possess part of it, but not profundity.entirely,

8 Taking things for granted. 12 Part of London was a mendicant

order.

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would

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to

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across.

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move.

20 This might put one to sleep.

24 Mania in this a language.

23 Feminine name.

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20 Not the first home.

31 German town, ̈ ̈ ̈

32 By no means lively.

34 Eastern priest,

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