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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1947.

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Sitting on the

FEXT month your Uncle Nat, will move from his

Nest in Surrey to a Sea Nest in Kent.

He has already informed Mr Bloodsucker. the income tax collector, of his new address.so that their fascinating corres- pondence. which has continued for so many years, may not be interrupted,

He has sold goodbye to the land- Jard

at tavern of the local low least a dozen times, and still has saving it many opportunities again.

of

dian

Fence

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS

Army by shooting a hole and every pea a penny." These through a sixpence with a 22 rife ngures were arrived at after count at 20 yards, then shooting a atone ing the cost of hired Inbour, the off a string at 25 yards, and finally number of potatoes frostbitten in the

caten. by the birus.

third shot."

So he keeps on walking steadily, bating all the doggies In all the world, while this particular doggie nibbles at his trousers until he is beyond the house.

It is at these times that ho. has. an intense sympathy for postmen and often wonders why they don't refuse to deliver letters to ousts where there aro large and unpleasant doggies. Or even small unpleasant

Goodbye to local

PART from saying goodbye øver and over again in Mr Frank has kept the local low tavern these

Adams, the one-armed ox-Ballar who

.-He has not yet sald goodbye to culling the string in half with her coal shed, and the number of peas 40 years or more, goodbye must also. Baldy Budgen, his old Home Guard chum. because he will have to go Into Iraining for that. It may last a week, like the young squire's 21st birthday party.

The Sweep, who is coming don

to Kent for bit of began saying goodbye last March and is

ll saying in The Man In A Pub began a monologue which may have started as a goodbye but became no involved as time went on that he might easily have been saying

hello.

tp

Apart from saying goodbye people, one must niso say goodbye to things one has known for a long

time

Every time The Awful Child went back to school she said goodbye to things. She loved everything at home so much that she would say "Goodbye chair, goodbye table, good- bye tea pot, goodbye plate." She could never say goodbye to the cake because it was always inside her. Therefore, one must say goodbye to the tennis lown, which was once used for tennis but, during the war,

If an isolated German had wan dered into our garden he would have been perforated like a colander,

Goodbye to garden

YOUR Uncle must also say good-

Goodbye to doggies

bye local doggies, part cularly a rather big doggle, who has

for many years.

to the pol to say good-

Waged private war on your Uncle

F

he kald to certain things in the local low tavern,

Goodbye, for instance, to the my-

knowledge have been on the top shelf of the bar dresser since 1920,

labels. Some say they are full of old

how battles which to your Uncle's

POCKET CARTOON

CORATING THEATRE

TAR

"You'd be surprised how it saves my laundry bill £7

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

WH

THERE is all this, whale- meat wd-were promised?

rend the old that nobody can Aha! Has no informer or paid

·

spy noticed enormous monsters bye to the big apple tree. It was under this tree that his This doggie, accustomed to be Scotch, some say brandy, some say being hauled in at the back hens, the Six Little Suckers, nobly called "Good doggie" and "Nice port. Mr Adams won't tell, though doors of the expensive hotels laid their eggs on a wartime diet doggie" by squealing matrope and your Uncle would like to have known after dusk? And do you think of potato peelings and plato scrap- patted on the head by tweedy, doggy before he deft.

ings.

to

men, hos always resented your And goodbye to the photograph it was really Faisan a la Sainte Uncie's indifference to a doggie's of the late Admiral Earl Jellicoe Alliance that, was

served It was here where Gloria, dark, charms. It also seems to be aware lookin ayal uniform: nod to the Baron-in his private room?

like le old Indy dressed haughty and full-bosomed ike an that he is nervous of big doggles. up Edwardian barmaid, took first place

at the food trough and bullied the

Therefore, when he is obliged to photograph of the bearded matelols others into submission; here where walk past this doggie's house, it grinning under the children's straw Starlight and Slime

hats worn in tropical parts by the go and to the here where Little Fenly am and waits for him in the middle of the Navy 30 years here where Emly, the half- road.

coloured

print of a loft ghung a MRS STAUNTON FARRAGOE! Lynette mouthed her new name sized hen, hald half-sized eggs and pined away for Steerforth, the hand- If your Uncle maves, over to the blacksmith on the Brighton Road, some cock that crowed a couple of left the

The point about this picture is that with distaste. The honeymoon was doggie moves over to the while ine blacksmith is hare-headed over, and she sat in the walting-room right. If he moves over to the right

and businesslike the toff still wears Sardens away,

it moves over to the left.

Goodbye also to the tool shed. where the dustbin is kept and where

If he keeps straight ahead it goen Sally the Cat entertained her friends right on sitting in the middle of the

the British Ginger Cat. Manhattan road. Mouser, Americon tough cat, Mon- sieur O'Lala, the French Realstance When your Uncle is within ten yards of the doggie it rises, grow-

WAB used as a miniature rifle range. cat, Herr von Past, the German 9 ling and hairs bristling. This is the about the local low tavern. It is she asked. "I have a little surprise for Here the family was trained In cat, Mr Pussytein, the black market musketry, both by your Uncle and cat, and Peter Pusskin from Russia. crack shots of the Canadian Army.

It was the Plucky Little Woman, your Uncle's life partner, who first expressed a desire to shoot. When asked "What?" she said "Germans." When informed of the normal fate of franes-tireurs she said, "If I ever see a field-grey uniform in my gor- den I shall shoot at it.".

Nobody will ever know if Hitler cot to hear about this, but recently revealed history shows that the In- vasion of England was cancelled about that time.

After a few lessons the P.LW, learned so quickly that bulls and inners were a commonplace; and the Other Awful Child learned so quickly that she startled the Cana-

And goodbye to the little patch of ground near the artificial pool where Sally the Cat lies buried.

I would have been easier to BBY goodbye to the Nest itself in the winter with the snow piled round it, the pipes frozen, and the draughts from the leaky windows blowing lighted matches out.

But it is not so easy when the rose trees are budding and the garden is yellow with wild primroses and the pink and white crab apple trees are in bloom.

The vegetable Farden won't be missed. It has been estimated that each potato has cost threepence

me to say "Good doggie" and "vice doggie," but your Unclo, re- fuses to compromise with doggie.

his dopper while his footman holds at Victoria Station, Staunton had gone his cloak and the frightened Indles to make a telephone call. He had told her on this, the last day of the cling to each other in the coach.

honeymoon, that lie had lost all thin money and that Nimblesby was up Thère Is nothing very special for sale. "Where are we to live?” not olde worlde and has none of yo you," said he. When he returned from phonie olde nake beames. But it is telephoning he sprang his surprise. "wondrous neat and clean" like the miner's cottage.

"I've just been on to dear old Ma No drunkenness is allowed there, Wielter," he said. "Our rooms are and if anybody uses bad language ready-and

mother's old a lady he is room Olten, in n panic, he has thought in the presence of

in there when she wants Lynette Waz too. angry of turning in his tracks, even run thrown out by the Borce glance and doggies take advantage of all weak- himself. ning nway, but he knows that sharp command of Mr Frank Adams."

and unhappy to speak. Bacic again At one time, for a shilling or two, to that den of cabbage! Oh, Paul ness and would soon have his pants off. So he keeps on walking, look- you could ent the best meal in Eng-Treason, Paul Treason!.... At that

land Ing anywhere but at the doggie.

there (that is if you like plain moment Treason was standing as cooking) and the best omelette out-

your

The supreme test of his courage side France, Portions of bread and though turned to cement at the door comes when the doggie sniffs at his cheese were lavish and the pickled of the Wicker establishment. He had trousers. Although he is longing to shallots the talk. of Surrey. And just learned that he was too late! he many a hungry tramp has eaten there "Give my regards to Mrs Forragoe," increase his pace, he knows mustn't because he knows that won- for nothing.

he blurted through set teeth, derful doggie brain would tell itself

Frank Adams is a Devonshire-burn "Hat He is frightened. I will bite his

who speaks his mind and Bottleneck sailor ankles."

stands no nonsense. He nalther crawis to the rich nor pátronises the poor

Labour Is Emulating The Wise Virgins

union

NE thing Labour's con- does not include the trade

ference clearly demon-block votes, strated was that the rank who was rebuffed by the conference Incidentally, Mr Aneurin Bevan, and file are not hankering after on the tled cottage issue, had the new leaders.

satisfaction of heading this popula-, rity poll.

but if anybody in the village A RATHER big business executive is down on his luck the little one- said yesterday: Fourway multiple armed ex-staman, who bears a strong registration might as well be called resemblance to Captain Kettle, is no-way registration. We have made the first to offer help.

34 applications for units of registra- tion, back and forth, up and down, in

•

Goodbye will be said at a dinner sets of two, but the only result has. to the Golf Club which, for a time, been the return to us of our original was your Uncle's Home Guard head-papers with instructions to send thein quarters when we were known as in by August 3. No licence or permit The Golf Club Grenadiers.

has arrived, but every day we get a There he will say goodbye to the printed form saying: Your applica-- hail floor where we slept when we

tion for "Tegistration has been duly were not looking for German para-

Time was when the party went into claction fights with the kneet troops; to the bullet hole in the cell received and its contents noted. You made by a trigger happy Grena-will, in due course, receive your ap- infirior to that of Its opponents. ledge that its electoral machine was dier showing a recruit how to unload plication, together with the necessary his rifle; and to the strong point

Those days are one.

Indeed, I think the position is Some of the assembled delegates

now reversed, and that already, In the and on said critical things, issue of equal pay for women there WERE there any spots cn.the Mar- technical emelency, the Labour or

ganisation is more than a match for- was an emphatic rejection of

its opponents. advice of the leadership.

Nevertheless.

the

Kale

I¿w.

their general atti- tude was one of enthusinstic' coni- dence, in the Government.

The Prime Minister enjoyed what must have been a gratifying per- sonal triumph.

Acclaimed with great vigour be

after fore he spoke, he sat down,

At 2.30, 5.20, a speech exactly fitted to the mood do a veritable of the conference,

sun? Yes, there were

By ERNEST THURTLE,

M. P.

i

With the new plans party head quarters are putting into operation,

ing

where he first mat Mr Bloodsucker, papers." An official of Suel's Depart ment said: "There, is a bottleneck.” the Income-tax collector, in person,

and shared his Jukewarm cocoa and Coincidence?

of shoot- paste sandwiches instead of

him while he had the chance. There will still be two weeks left before the departure to Kent. Ono

ing

MAN who can play the piano with his knuckles fell down a nt Claxted-St.-Olaf. Ho

week will be spent in strict training manhole and the other in suying goodbye to climbed out again, and the first por. Baldy Budgen, as before stated.

that superiority is likely to become Note: It is no use writing in for son he met was a niece he had not

more pronounced.

So, whenever the next General Election comes, defeat la not likely to come to Labour because of technical inferiority.

But, of course, the well-oiled machine is not everything. Against a new issue which comes Uke a

7.30, & 9.30 p.m.ovation.

Mr Dalton was grim in speaking thief in the night, or a heavy swing Other leading Ministers, too, had of what would happen if we failed of the pendulum, the most expert BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT....BUT DANGEROUS TO LOVE!

to close the gap between exports electioneering Bings itself in vain. MURDER, LOVE AND GREAT ADVENTURE! "THE WALLS CAME

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no reason to complain of their re- ception.

and imports. Morrison was In particular, Mr

Nor was Mr Morrison exactly greeted with great warmth and

reassuring when he told the con- enthusiasm, although he had some ference it was a cholee of "work or enbaring words to say.

Bust,"

the

*

FIREAT was the triumph of the Foreign Secretary at Margate. In spite of all the bitter attacks of Izvestia and Pravdp, and their the little band of servile disciples over In here, Ernest Bevin has been shown the to, enjoy the confidence of all but a

- Equally serious, from.

Government standpoint, was DUT more significant than any disclosure of the lack of unity Bthing else was the way the de- the trade union movement on legates voted for the constituency vital matter of manpower priorities fragment of the Labour movement, representatives on the National and privileges.

Executive.

Here is a nettle charged with Offered a clear choice, they stood many sings which the Government Armly by the Ministers, and spurned, will have to grasp before, long. the thrustful, aspiring critics.

Voung in this particular caso essentially a reflection of popular

1s

There is.. Indeed, something re- bulk of British people, of all shades assuring In the fact that the great

of opinion,

reject the advice BO freely offered them from abroad, and recognise In this notablò opinion within the party, because it I virgins. Its trimming

ABOUT Is emulating the wise. Foreign Secretary a true exponent is confined to the representatives

its of their best hopes and aspirationa of the

for a peaceful world.

constituency parties,

and lamps.

NANCY On Second Thought, He Looks Harmless

INT

THADDEUS NORMAN. TWERP ATTORNEY

vacant possession of The Nest: That ccn for two years. has all been arranged.

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