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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 21, 1940,

UPPERDUGERY

BACK TO LIFE

*Ever do you tool this morning, Jock P

"Ugh!****

"Han nobody told you about Gimlets?

* For dhe that f***

"Good party, though. Nover enjoyed an evening sa much for yours." "l'er weer backed a mornby sa munch. I'm still tossing feverishly on my bed of pada. In fact I don't cuppam I shall ever get up again. Send ma come books from shame to time, will you § And a frm flowers. Tell the bowa I'm keeping

•stiff upper lip "*

I stuck to them all evening. Feel us fresh me a whole field full of daisies,**

* You mean that Ronde Lima Juter takes care of the hangover before it start!~

"Deilateely. It's icnown sa 's thera peutic gear if that conveja mus thing to you.**

I might, ⇓ my mind could grasp words of more than one syllable. I say

I think I'll send out for zom right away. May act retrospectively Thanks for ringing old boy, ì Jers better already. Jer you saw of their days at the club. Good-byr.”

Passport Photos

Executed Promptly

MEE CHEUNG

PHOTOGRAPHERS

CHOO!

Let's

Play

CHOO! Trains

I'm glad I gave up being a stationmaster. There's too much responsibility.

Small country stations are the worst, although the big ones are not much better

0N

"

rain came along- that's

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there The one lying on its side."

"How did that happen

N my last station, scarcely and a

dog passed without train-wreck of some kind owing

10 some signals.

of

trifling

matter

" Mu of investigating oferir Visites the while I won dusun the

vefreshment 1/12 a trend w rezin

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ULA!

I always say that just because' a with every season ticket bought. But man has to work for a living is no as this would have entailed the em- have his ployment of a large staff and there reason why he should dignity injured.

There was all my work in Railway Department gone to waste.

was insufficient room in the ticket

Somo bosses are like that. They offer, I had to abandon the idea. try to order you about and get you If it weren't for the to do things,

After all, there's not a great deali wages I get each week, I wouldn't

of scope for a man of intelligence in work at all.

The men in the railway service. the charge are not progressive enough,

who go You know those men Around trains tapping the wheels thyle I HAD started off as a packhorse, with a hammer? I observed carrying luggage for miserly, sicin-

ridiculous procedure and in a special Aint passengers, opening carriage

10 the superintendent doors for them and plling their lug- letter gage into the racks and all I got for pointed out that the men had no it was a pink smile or perhaps six- possible chance of knocking a wheel pence.

off with the type of hammer used,

the

"Well, the lipes are a bat knocked

I suggested that sledge hammers From there I graduated to * couple of ticket office. I think there's

1 didn't last long in about.

there because they said the returns be used and offered to demonstrate ras missing, here and there"

from the aile of Úckets fell off Afty my ability to smash a wheel right

off in one blow. What Wilh "Girl heavensi

per cent. while I was in charge.

This offer was promptly considered They couldn't reconcile this with awful crash?"

in the usual "That would be the three-aftern the fact that there had been still by all departments She's running a bit late Same of about the some number of tickets spirited Publie Service manner, and these engine-drivers

terribly sold as before. They even went so two years later I received a reply

for as to say that I'd appropriated rejecting my proposal. CHETICRA

are

station We don't know whether "He couldn't have seen the NTOP ball the takings.

would be cheaper to shift the wreek- signal!" age of shift the station "

yut, pu

No wonder the railways are run- dignified silence ning at a loss.

I maintained towards this accusation.

As the Rallway Commissioner said I furget "Bah! That explains i

flow silly of www how : " all about the signal.

After all, I'd let them be in fifty- to me only the other day, "Every Well

A definite passenger means fifty with me. All they had to do extra By me" a bun with

to UR We are trying replied, polishing

was to supply the tickets and the loss jundkerchief, "a man's only got one

"I'm afraid, my man, that

we office and I had to do all the work. utmost to discourge traffic on our pair of honds, and if another train comes through while I'm serving in shaadi have to relieve you of your And it look every ounce of sales- railways, but people will insist on the refreshment-room, or doing a bil post. "

of gardening on the platform, that's

not my inull

"Where's your assistant

He got killed a fortnight g had him down on the track polish-

the

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ing the lines outside

"You mean I'm discharged” ""Yes."

"Sacked?"

I

"Yes,"

manship i had to sell some people going to places,"

dur

tickets.

fait I was showing o the ticket office, and al

and giving away free

A

The Department, however, is try- profit in Ing hard, and by all pulling together one ume and making a supreme effort it is

tea-towel year than last year.

"Don't you talk to me Hike that thought of printing my own tickets hoped to make a bigger deficit this: station, or I'll resign." I tid.

I

Regular.. Junior .... Super

You scarcely Amour .

you're wearing it

A LITTLE H-P SAUCE MAKES A BIG

DIFFERENCE

Urea ce HLP, Samos

with povez, Balz, 15,008,

at in sandwichpan. 2nd

rich, vigueur Server

Sulcians. They bottle to-day and riwaya

keep it handy.

Having Wonderful Time-

SAIT 10

✓ WONDERFUL

COURSE HERE, BUT A TRIFLE TOO MANY *TRAPS

MOST OF THEM WIDE OPEN

AND NOISY.

AND THE CARD SHE MAILED TO THE BOY BACK HOME READ:

*HAVING WONDERFUL

TIME... WISH YOU WERE HERET

THE SEA IS ALIVE WITH TUNA MARLIN AND SAIL PISU AND WE GO OUT EARLY EACH MORNING. VERY SPORTING AUTHEY PUT UP.

TERRING BATTLES DE ETC.

PLAYING TENNIS MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT. IT'S" WONDERFUL! "GETTING ALL THE SOLD PEP BACK........

咽

·IVE TAKEN BP HORSE-BACK- RIDING TO REDUCE AND FEEL FINE PANDERE AND THERE.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

By KEMP STARRETT

"MY SUITE IS IN THE WEST WING OVERLOOKING THE PRIVATE BEACH AND IS CHARMING.THERE ARE ACRES AND ACRES HERE AND SERVANTS GALORE MY MAID. ETC.

NOTIC we're leaving today.

∙tirid but happy

OF OLANGI

TRAIN SC

ON AND AFT after two gorions STED: weeks of fove and

relaxations.