The Archive · 1928

Wong and the Squirrel

If it were not for the perspicacity of Wong, we should get ourself into all sorts of trouble. To commence with he knows everybody—knows just how much of the glass he has to fill up with water—and those he does not know, to de guilty of an Irishism, he very soon gets to know about. Sometimes he may not entirely understand us, but that is simply because our English is a little on the "rocky" side. Consequently what Wong does not know about things in general could put into the eye of a mosquito and still leave plenty of room for [that insect to weep. What he lacks, though -he would never confess it is ability thoroughly to express hi self, and when-he fails in this direction he very rapidly points out that the original mistake was ovrs.

Music Hath Charms Quite recently we adopted a squirrel, one of those delightful little people of the woods, with long, bushy tail and a most wonder-

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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