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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1947.

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Sitting

*ATION-WIDE Interest will

be aroused by the news

that the Nest, or Tottering Towers, where your Uncle Nat has lived in extreme discomfort for many years, has been burgled

at last.

Normally the Nest is never locked up. In the summer all windows and doors (sometimes the front door. In the too) are left wide open. winter the wind sometimes blown. then open,

Dogs and cats walk in and out of the place at will, scrounging a meat or just lying around on the chairs.

The butcher, the batter, and the

rest open the back door and leave

whatever they have to leave. Nobody takes any notice of them unless they demand money.

Neighbours have often been found nitting in front of the fire reading the papers or snoring in the shade of the apple tree. according 10 the

kenson.

on the

Fence

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

If this description is correct you are certainly not an intruder, beenuse the windows were shut and the doors were locked,

BUT

>

"

DUT as the Nest was unoccupiest

between 11 am. and 0.30 pan you could be either a housebreaker or a burglar.

Whichever way it is you are just athlef to me, nid not a very elever one at that.

For instance, why did you leave the wedding presents in the bed- room? They were all laid out on neintives have been discovered the bed as it put there for your con- locked in the bathroom before your venlence.

Then, looking 18h Hunt Brites ouin, you ran into the diningroom where you found an electric clock that wouldn't go.

This was too much for you. You went berserk ns a mouse would ge berserk. You santched a tle plc- ture of the wall and stamped on it. -What happened after that depends on what time you were in the Nest If it was about 9.30 pm, you saw D car draw up at the garden gate. Then, your Uncle believes, you You heard your Uncle Nat say | dusted across to the wardrobe (hop- good-night to the friend who drove where you found nothing but soing ing to find

some salcable clothes). him home from the wedding re- shirts and rocks full of holes and ception.

ls falthfui tweed jacket, Moth's Relish, hanging meekly on a hook.

Somehow Moth's Relish seems to have mnoyed you. He was found fung in a corner together with his lifelong companion, the grey flannel trousers,

Elephant's Legs,

Did you try them on and look a Cool in them? (Sneak thieves are Usunily hollow-chested little runts) Or did you take one look at them and estimate their market value at 4d.?

Hopping Mad

You saw him walking gally down the garden steps full of food and wine and in n ripe mond for any- thing.

| POCKET CARTOON

IVOMBERT LANCASTER

"Hai Corrupting your mind and wasting our dwindling dollar ass

assets as 'urual, Pilkington !”

BY THE

WAY

Then you bolted through the kit by Beachcomber chen, window with the carpet and

the clock.

•

"ONNOISSEURS.

bons

viveurs, gourmets and ju ne sais quoi, ma fol, are eagerly discussing the news that whales are in danger of extinction.

En WELL, dear burglar, it was

unproftable evening. And the chance will never come again,

Not many weeks ago there were tales of the excellence of whale's The wedding presents have been flesh, which was to take the place taken away by the bridegroom. of beet. Never believe it. I lived

Uncle knew they were in the house. You probably knew they were

By this time you were probably The other us and carpets are be- on whale for a week with a Basque In the absent-minded moment he there. Otherwise you would have hopping mad, You snatched the Ing stored before we move. Bare crew of Newfoundland.

(the field boards won't make the Nest much two sat on one of them who was sleep- waited in at any time in all these only article of value Ing on a settee under an elderdown. years instead of breaking in on this glasses) from the desk, missed the more uncomfortable than it is.

occasion.

bedroom where the wedding presents were laid out for you, and ran down- stairs, where you put the field glasses lery will be stored, too, though it Probably the little bits of jewel. on the hall table.

seems hardly worth R.

Birds build their nests under the only parts of the roof which are rain-proof and fly in and out of the windows if they feel they like it.

No Scotch Now

0

On one occasion wild rabbit walked in, twitched its nose at the eat, and ran oT to Anish up the lettuces in the garden.

So any burglar could have walked in at any time, sat down, picked up agazine, and pretended he was a new neighbour or a distant rela- tive.

Before the war he would have been offered a Scotch (probably several though now he would get nothing (but a cup of lea.

Maybe you didn't think they were very good presents, but they were better than the electric clock that doesn't work. And probably more valuable than the old carpet which must have been very difeult 10 carry away.

And why did you take the field glasses from your Uncle Nat's desk and leave them on the hall table"

And why did you wrench a pleture off the dining room wall, throw it in the fireplace and stamp on it?

We know where you came in. You forced the kitchen window and

jumped on the chair below. We have seen your footmarks.

7

It was colder downstairs, wasn't

Come along and see us in the Much colder than out in the garden where there are no drauglits? warmer weather. You will find the You're telling me.

doors and windows open. Walk right in and make yourself at home.

So what did you do then?

A our

We had hard-headed whale-traders aboard. and, growing angry, we threw one of them overboard.

then a sack of unions. whale got him and followed ship. We threw a plank at it, and But finally we had to harpoon it, and when we cut the beast open, there was trader number one sitting on the plank and trying to sell the onions to trader number two.

This story is also told of Wagner and the Wesendonck woman.

for North Parsley

You Uncle Nut can see you, a poor little shrimp of a man, in a thin Your Uncle Nat will probably re-j purplish striped suit, with a Bittle cognise you in your little purple suit With love to the Member hat to match on your little pin hend. and your awful shoes. But don't blowing on your blue fingers and be frightened. He won't hurt you. stamping those big, awkward feet freezing in those vulgar suede shoes

P.S. Of course, you might have each other. You ran into the lounge, which is come in after your Uncle Nat, in which chsc he must have snored even colder than the hall. You through the whole business. couldn't bear it any longer, so you But we don't know when you came picked up the carpet and wrapped

How does he look asleep? He has left. the wedding it round in or why you

skinny shoulders often wanted to know the trulli.

Do write in and tell him.

your

In a short time he would have présents and the field glasses behind. Isn't that so? bored us all to death and been left alone to take what he liked,

You probably broke in after dark. There were no lights burning. Then Up to now no burglar hos ever you made your way to the front door! taken advantage of these circum- and bolted it to cover your retreat stances. Other people in the neigh if surprised. bourhood have been burgled several times, despite their locks, bolts and bars.

DUT on one of the rare occasions D when the Nest was locked,

barred and bolted, the Nest burgled.

Was

What did you do after that?

Your Uncle thinks you went up- Stairs to the main bedroom looking for clothes and jewellery.

What a Sight!

But if you had been a clever bur

By LUCY MILLER

In Rome, the shops

are full

Thesa constant uproara in the House could surely be avoided, if members were more courteous to

(Morning Paper.)

Mr Ploddle then YES. As thus:

jumped to his feet and shouted. has a face like the back of a cab." "The hon. member, if I may say so, "My dear friend," come the reply in a soft voice, we cannot all claim a face like yours-sweet as a wild rose in the long Jung days." Mr

moved Ploddle, visibly

retorted "You shame me, Tom. If your face is at all like the back of a cab, the cap in question may well be said to be the most beautiful

cab in Europe." "That from ons with face like a full-blown rose is a com- pliment Indeed," was the gentle reply, as members blinked back their happy tears.

The interloper

-NO COUPONS NEEDED, JUST THE MONEY DURING a debate by officials an a certain village and all But there is one encouraging fact included in a quasi-green-belt town its "units" should be compulsorily.

ROME,

unsubstantial

In an attempt to solve some of the glur, and if you knew about the mysteries of the case the following wedding presents, you would have open letter is addressed to whoever also guessed that we were wearing It may concern, hoping he will be our best clothes and what JewelleryHEY have had a bad winter you must put against this slippery or in the nearest super-satellite town,

we had at the wedding. fool enough to reply:

of ceonomy in Rome: days of snow, no money-the fact that the

paper a "unit" that is, a member of the Italluns non-official class-gained admittance. conl.

mean to work. And they are work- Pleading that he was a human being The Ing hard,

and not a "unit" he was seized and and

thrown out.

Dear Burglar,

So when you had opened all the drawers in the dressing table, found

remembered han the

of typewriters can

The shops are full of things to buy eggs, butter, cheese, ham, pate de foie gras, nylon stockings and silk thirts. No coupons, just the money

But now the sun is hero, don't know if I am right in nothing in them but face powder and shops are heaped with fruit addressing you as a burglar and not flung them on the floor, you forced

vegetables-fine oranges, Lemons, |as-n-housebreaker-or-intruder.open-the-wardrobe,-found-it-almost

grapefruit bananas. As you probably know, a burglar empty and forget to take the type- is one who breaks into a house at writer locked up in it. That is. night with intent to commit a

unless you a felony A house-breaker is one who

does numbers

traced. the same job in the day time.

So far as I know, an intruder is

Then you went into the next bed- who does not break in, but room, opened all the drawers there walks or climbs in or through an Bung them on the floor and again unlocked door or open window at found nothing but face powder and any time of the day or night. In- lipstick. deed, he might be one of the relatives I have mentioned.

one

Rupert & the New Pal—48

George. the tortoise, so ca tranced by the sight of the sea and the ships that he doesn't. Want to leave the quay, but, at the end of half an hour, the friendly driver romes and lifts him and Rupert on to the front seat of his van. Then he drives slowly towards Nutwood, .but even so, la too et for George. "I'm not used to having

•hedges and things tushing past me at this cafe," fe saya," do wonder why you people are not content to (41 my · sénsible

speed 1"

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

*

NANCY

How Cruel!

if you have it.

Money, like everything else here has uncertain value. You can get anything from 1,200 to 1,000 lire to the £. (In 1939 the pficial exchange frate was 70).

There are no coins in circulation- just handfuls of notes,, some of them unrecognisably dirty,

Up to this point you were not mad

POPULAR GAMBLE with rage. But you were probably a bit disappointed. And probably

Dealing in foreign currency is a cald, too. You ought to come and popular gamble. The police made a stay with us sometime and see if surprise_round-up at a cafe in the you can stand it.

Your next move must have been into your Uncle Nat's room. And what a sight that would appear to a {shivering, angry burglar.

Plazza Colonna. At half-past-six in the evening when the place was crowded they picked up. 30 people carrying surprising amounts of loose cash-on Italian baroness with 200,- 000 lire. In her purse (she said she was out shopping); A clerk with 150,000 re; an actress with 1,700 Swiss francs,

DID you enjoy reading the old

Among the plates of cakes on the newspapers and the letters from counter they found a bag with £70 Mr. Bloodsucker, the income-tax col-sterling in gold.

lector?

This sort of thing tends to make Did you blow the dust off an old money seem like the chips in a casino. book and sit down for a quiet readTo see things in their true value you with the draughts whistling in your must remember that the salary of a clerk to-day is the sninry, he was

ears?

Did you take any of the vitamin paid in 1930, when a lira was worth

us about threepence. to keep up your

pills and tonica strength?

to

Seen that way, the plies of eggs in the shops (27 Bre ench), the rice (150 lire a b.), the chocolate (200 lire a quarter), the nylon stockings (1,800

It was notfred that you opened all live a pair), do seem too good, and the drawers of the little bureau and far too expensive, to be true. found nothing in any of them but A woman I met today who teaches fan old rusty key.

languages has not bought herself any You also opened the middle drawer new clothes for ten years; every

of the desk and found nothing there penny she makes goes on food. The but more unanswered correspondence rations are not enough to live on; from Mr B. and a broken penknife, everyone must add to them somehow.

Mimate Slopcorner

Mimsio THE proposal to crown

Slopcorner Laundry Queen was abandoned, It was felt that her

A friend of mine, when the cold grew unbearable this winter. In his one house, bought three stoves, built to turn wood, with pipes which had to have holes knocked for the through the outer walls,

Within 24 hours the three stoves part in the Strabismus Expedition were in, the holes knocked throught to the moon has not been forgotten the walls, the plastering and painting yet by the public. Mimsie's mother made good, and the fires llt.

"If the laundries need a

said:

The Italian people look a lot hou-queen. I'm sure I do say my Mimsic pler than they did in 1930, and they would do her best." Mr Slopcorner, the first time in 25 years they see a democracy, count my Mimsle in on are friendly and polite; perhaps for the proud father, sald "If this is

future worth working for.

It.

CROSSWORD

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