The reference yesterday in W.'s "Bird Notes" to Rooka and Rubber has recalled the follows {ng anecdote to the mind of a reader. That well-known local golfer, Mr. J.C, Dyer was playing a round at Kiangwan with Sir Havilland do Sausmarez, then Judge of H. B. M. Supreme Court. The Judge got excellent drive right down the centre of the {airway and highly elated, the more so when Mr. Dyer pulled his shot well into the rough: the latter was approaching his ball in disgruntled mood, when a rook flew down, picked it'in his and flew away with it, ¢ The raised a shout which final ly so frightened the rook that it dropped the ball right on the green, 'The ball rolled to within a yard of the hole and was promptly put down by Mr, Dyer for two, The Judge playing perfect golf' did the hole in four, but not even the learned arguments he was able to adduce could disprove the fact that the rook was "a rub'o the green" and Mr. Dyer had won the hole, The Green Howards The een Howards were very much "in the news! in London in the first week in August. On one day the story of the despatch of a detachment of the 2nd Battalion from Shanghai to Hankow was "splashed" en the fron: pages of the evening papers in London, and two days Tater the Ist Battalion was vigorously snapshotted as it prov ceeded in khaki to replace the scarlet of the Grenadier Guards on sentry duty at Buckingham Palace for the holiday season. "At this time of the year the Guardsmen are invariably relieved by a line regiment of their London duties. The regiment selected highly appreciates the honour and dees its best to show Londoners that the "P-B.L." are pretty gocd at ceremonial, and no doubt those elegant young men at the Bank of England who have to forego the companionship of a pla teen of the Guards in favour of one of the Green Howards are made aware of the same important fact. Keeping guard at Hankow and look-entry cousins who cccme 9 see the King's house at the end of the Mall are duties widely set apart, but of course both Batt ions of the Green Siowards we equal to the demands made upon them,
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