health to the Sportsman of every grade I's a tie that nothing can sever.
May the lover of Sport be prosperous made, In riches increasing for ever.
Lift your glass high, Sport 1" is our cry, Confusion to him who the toast will deny."
Shanghai, with all thy faults I love theo still. It is now nearly a year since I signed my name to a sporting article, still I trust that Lam not quite forgotten, for I see many of the old familiar faces which at meeting have greeted me with a pleasant smile. Amongst the many, the ever-genial "Chairman," also the "tier," but, alas, the "Count" is absent; then again my old friends "Puddle," "The Master," and the Yarman Broker, Mr. "Icks, Sweet William and the Busy Bee (M'na)—all have shaken me by the hand; Boonqui also and tivo of the owners of the flying Stndrd, just up from Hongkong with honours thick upon them. But I miss the third partner in. the Hongkong Derby winner, the is only temporary, for real good'uns are a Ragpicker however, I hope his absence searce. The General Manager for the East is another that I have been glad to meet, but I am sorry to see that my old friends The Banker, Cousin Willie, and Barley Chaff are in distant climes. I have also had to recognise that a few of my old chums have gone to the great beyond" Well, well, we know this must come to all of us, and though I speak with all due reverence, we continually have to remember
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.