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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1949.

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"WE SHOULD HAve brought ouR BACKBONES WITH US

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Sitting on the

T has happened at last, Mr Bloodsucker, the income tax Inspector,

has come clean.

For years your Uncle Nat has been arguing that he has been paying more than fils fair share of taxes. For years he has been writing angry, often childish,

letters to Mr B. Mr B. hos al ways replied firmly and cour- teously, Ignoring the childish remarks,

Now Mr B. has been obliged to admit that there has been an overcharge. It is a graceful admission, for which Mr B must have full marks. To his known vtrines of courtesy and integrity must now be added the virtue of big-mindedness.

Windfall X

YOUR Unele began spending the windfall, which shall be known as X, in a low tavern.

Mr Blandsucker was toasted several times. A number of people remembered with emo- tion, that he wasn't such a bad chap after all. They recalled instances of his kindness in

difficult times, his restraint in using powers conferred on him by law.

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His Uncle told again the story how, he met him one cold

RICHARD GREENFght in the Home Guard and haw Mr B, then Volunteer B, PATRICIA MEDINA offered Volunteer as

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THE

next morning your Uncie woke full of plans for spending the windfall, which shall now be known as X minus Y, Y representing the amount spent loasting Mr B.

Fence.... by

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

it: International sples were still

selling rugs and dirty' postcards. though!

As he didn't want to look nunt, a light grey flannel The front row at the Folles.would be spotted in a few days, Bergere was still occupied en-

and had no wish to please either tirely by English curates.

women ordegs, he seilled for the green Irish (weed.

not learned their lesson.

In Dublin, English visitors had

You could still bear them ask- ing Dublin policemen: "Could yez be afther telling me the toime, begorrah, bedad, be- Jabers?"

The puzzled Dublin police- man, too polite to point to the public clocks all over the place, would all reply in correct Engusht "The time is exactly half past three."

Not, half after three, or half afther tree. They were speak- Ing English to Englishmen

The next thing to consider apart from green? Red? Yel- low?

was what you wear with green

Blue was out. Blue and green harmonise *In nature. What

could be loveller than bluebells in a green wood?

SEARCH FOR NOAH'S ARK

By-

ARTHUR GAUNT

WHAT may prove to be Second thoughts told them

one of the most amaz- that the presence of such a crait, Ing quests of all time is more than 14,000ft above sea- being planned to start with- level and many miles from the in the next few weeks, Black Ses, was impossible, Nor There will be an American could it be a mirage, since it re- and a British expedition and mained visible no matter from one or the other is expected which angle it was viewed. to result in the finding of Noah's Ark-or what. re- and the object was found to be a The aircraft was flown nearer, mains of it after about 5,000 huge boat-like structure, with years!: (Incidentally, Rus. the stumps of masts stili pro- Hin is auspicious, assuming with ago, it iny half-buried In truding from its deck. Blackened Inevitably that the parties snow and Ice on the shores of an will be composed of sples,) uncharted lake.

Before you dismiss the attempt No suitable landing-place be.. as a foregone failure, here are ing available nearby, the airmen some facts--

could not board the boat, but For hundreds of years there toon as they reached their base they reported their discovery as has been a belief in the Black again. Sea area that Noah's "boat" still Hea near the summit of 10,00011. Mount Ararat.

That is the place where, ac- NEWS of the incident soon got cording to the Old Testament, it to Moscow, and the Emperor came to rest when the Flood was specially interested. He subsided. The legends and tradi- commanded that two companies tions about the Ark have per- of picked troops be sent to the sisted, despite the seeming im Mount Ararat region, and that ponsibility that it could have they were to try to reach the survived 50 centuries.

strange boat.

Exactly what this military ex-

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Its survival until today is not There was not enough to buy as unlikely as first thoughts sug- pedition found is now known a car. Cars are not for wage-gest. The Ark, we are told, was only by hearsay. Soon after the earners, who pay most of the made of gopher wood, which is troops returned to their base, the taxes because they can't dodge one of the hardest and most last Russian revolution broke out. Ir them. They are for business Ing woods known. men, who charge the cars up to other things made from it have the Mount Ararat quest were Doors and any records and photographs of expenses. A strange kind of remained in good condition for ever sent to Moscow, these Socialism, Crippsy boy.

Your uncle thought of buying himself a small sailing yacht, but self in it. He thought of backing knew he would only drown him- bornes, but he knew he would only lose his money.

centuries.

appear to have been destroyed during the early days of the is that Revolution.

Another consideration Ararat are snowbound and ice. the highest parts of Mount

months of the year. It is a region reach the boat embedded in the

But from various other sources.” covered during nine or 10 it is believed that the soldiers did of glaciers and snowdrifts, and ice and snow, and that their

He didn't want a radio when these would preserve a wooden examination proved beyond all he can hire a car for half a structure almost Indefinitely. doubt that it was Noah's Ark. crown a week. He didn't want

television set.

He once saw a Test match on

The vessel was found to have scores THE very nature of the terrain were fitted with cages. The boat of compartments of various shapes and sizes. Bomo also lenda support to the itself was evidently built to rumours that have circulated for weather any big waves that so long. It inaccessibility has might wash over it for It had a turing there for hundreds of enclosed. That was why it had dissuaded explorers from ven curved deck and everything was yours. The tribes of me at first been identified as an ex- have always dreaded this moun

a television set. The snow was falling so heavily at the Oval that it looked more like Scott's expedition to the Pole.

As he had no hope of going to Naples, he thought of a day trip Paris, Copenhagen, Dublin, or to Calais, treating himself to en himself blue lies in the hosiers were dis-

As it was no use thinking of He even thought of a slow boat peopled it with evil spirits.

omelette and a bottle of wine.tain, ancient traditions having ceptionally big submarine, as a green wood, the to Margate.

Turkey also took an interest in Some of the legends state that this alleged relle of the Flood. As carded. So were the rod tes. And, as a last resort, he was the Ark itself is the home or far back as the 1880's a party of Again, red and green look well just thinking of buying his Life hobgoblins and other frightful scientists attempted to reach it. uncles. Not even rich uncles, enough in nature but not on Partner, the Plucky Little Wo- to question why Noah's boat, if

beings. So there is small reason. man, a present when the letter it does exist, has not already quakes and evalanches night This early expedition. was from Mr Bloodsucker arrived.

prompted by reports that earth- been located and identified.

But the parties who hope to ed to lie near the top of Mount have dislodged the Ark rumour- set out shortly in search of it are Ararat. But the records of this not impelled solely by numours expedition are seanty, and it is and legends. The Ark is sald said that the party were unable actually to have been found on at least three earlier occasions! to get right into the vessel or to But in one of these instances the much of it still being covered by records of the discovery

measurements,

lost; and in the other cases the proof brought back was not re- carded as conclusive.

During World War I, when the

he told the hosler ho would call Yellow made him feel bilious.

In Copenhagen you could still get an enormous meal lald on a again. square of toast, which they call- ed a sandwich. A little glass of. aqua vitæ still gave you an ap, they petite for another enormous and meal on another square of toast. Ing, friendly, hospitable. The The people were still charm- taxi-drivers still handed you the

In Venice the visitors still thought the gondoliers sang so beautifully as their gondolas drifted under the bridges. But they still had a radio hidden in the prow and were still, in fact, chewing garlic sausage.

In the low tavern that night; we toasted Mrs Bloodsucker.

X-YZ

Before breakfast he had been

JF X-equalled the windfall and to Paris, Dublin, Copenhagen, toasting Mr and

YZ equalled the cost of Venice, and had got halfway to sucker, the formula X minus Mrs Blood New York before he turned YZ represented the amount left back, remembering the difcul- for spending purposes. Hes about dollars.

Mr

ZY plus-X

+

In the low tavern that night still wanted to toast didn't care which..

Mrs

Bloodmicker. They THE letter suld briefly that the amount overcharged would bo set against other amounts owed.

X-YZ plus

So there was no cheque. There was no toasting of

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C.V.R. Thompson reports the U.S. scene the reports: elrendy made

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brook

grossed

exact change out of a little bag, after scrupulously deducting allowed as a legal tip by the A Bloodsuckers, the money Relish was sent to the cleaners. making a fest fight over Mount corporation. their 15 percent (and no more).-AFTER so many--loastings-of-Bloodsuckers-that-night Moth's crew-of-a-Russian aircraft were

LATER investigation was left was hard to explain ja alge- Even the slow boat to Margate which, to their astonishment, Churchman, Dr Nourf, at one Ararat, they spotted an object organised by a prominent down as X-YZ plus, braical terms. So it was noted was called off.

they at first identified as a sub- time Archdeacon of Jerusalem: marine.

Ho claimed that, after explor Ing in Babylonis, he and his party found themselves not far from Mount Ararat, They there. fore-decided to attempt to 'con- about the existence of the Ark, NEW YORK. - -..

and they are said to have reach- RS Mary Agnes Hamil-025,000 in the US. In und PC ATRISTS can now be ed the spot after much-priva- MRS

ton, boss of the British year ending June 1, says an Larry Trimble prevailed upon

had for dogs Mind doctortion. Foreign Office American In- estimate by Variety. Nearly half the Los Angeles police to delay that he had no doubt that the Dr. Nouri stated afterwards formation Department, now of that is from one picture the visiting the U.S., asked "Hamlet" Columnist Drew stone Great Dane, who turned mains of Noah's Ark, still in a execution of Congo, a 12-object he Inspected was the re- show.overy American house suit agains Hollywood:

wife cooking in a stream-

"Please don't Pearson filed a £62,600 libel upon his B-s.one mistress, until remarkable state of preservation.

Columnist West- ho had examined him, His Pegler because Pegler diagnosis: "Congo just did. It lined kitchen full of gad- Forrestal's suicide on Pearson's

biamos ex-Dolence Secretary because ho does not feel secure.” He will never forget the kind- now suit of clothes.

It was still enough to buy a gets." Things like that, she personal atiscks. ness of the-captain of the ship, why the next morning found says, cause misunderstand-

"You want to

AN ETIQUETTE BOOKLET THE now expeditions may take AN go back to your. Unele lying in bed looking ings between British and E Southampton, Mr Gubbins? Any at patterns and angering the American women... New

for air travellers today tire data, including photographs three months, to get the en- thing to oblige,

keeps proclaimed that it is all right to and actual samples of the wood. J'm sure. ninterial as if he know

Washington's Zoo reported tuck one's napkin under one's The latter will help to preve Swing the helm round, quarter- thing about it. A rich man must drink of the moment is the written to ask for some 'mon- weniber,

soine York's most fashionable to Congress today that he has chin while eating in bumpy the age of the vessel which is In Paris the taxi-drivers wero

thought to be the Ark p keys. Romanoff cocktail - vodka as rude as they always were. faithful old Moth's Relish, his

This would mean the end of and blackberry syrup.

tlanti -Frank But It was nice to see them ancient

Gopher wood is now very Mulkora complained WESTOVER, fashionable again, if it was only to hear Elephant's Legs, his wrinkled O

Bearce. It is said that there is in that Congress cut his budget enough to be tweed Jacket, and

called a rufficient. In the whole world to their Insults, which

because of economies have nu grey fannel trousers,

made young Indies" finishing school,' effect at all on your Uncle o

economic necessary by the $10,000 million has announced ́ ́ ita sensational So, if the vassel on Mount Aramat build a boat as large as the Ark, his French la limited to "Cafe an

is made of such wood, it was Would he look better in a neat Wall Street Journal, "Ferhaps tain, and other European coun "cafe au rhum." and dark grey, a light grey flannel, a not a collapse with a bang, but

WO profess democracy "weesky-Boda."

Headmistress Louis Dillingham, prostory sho The women in the market- brown Harris? He bad

green grey. tweed, or a thick a slow leak can definto a tyre..

we should praelisa. It places were still standing, arms told, many years ago, that the Street expert B. C. Forbes, one tropical colonies to make up title, The Voice of America

beon as well as a puncture,"

Brooklynito plans to sue the Wall

And he wants countries with US, Government for using the akimbo, yelling at each other emell of Harris weed can be put of the few to predict the 1029 for his loss by sending him for radio propagande. He claims about centimes: restaurants, ad- in for four pence a yard, "but a crash, almost to the day, de- wild animals, free of charge. he copyrighted it. Now vertising "Engllet is spoken" anell greatly appreciated, a clares those saying the US is Sald he: "For that $10,000 gadget: A two-mirror devies en were sull charging twice as men's magazine once said, "by on the brink of a similar disas million I think we should at abling a mo.orist to see round much as those not mentioning women and dogs.".- .

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