The Archive · 1926

WAYLOO BURGLED HONGKONG Hongkong, Dee. 27

During the Christmas holidays burglars entered the premises of Messrs, Whiteaway, Laidlaw Ca and carried off goods valued at between $6,000 and $7,000, They effected their entrance by making a hole in the wall at the rear of the building.—Reuter. pointed the rocks and" crags their home; to another the trees the field; and to a third the shelter of the waving corn. But when the eagle became king he promulgated his own laws, and among them was tone, namely, that each individual in the bird kingdom should bring a tenth of his income. If a certain bird lived on worms it should bring Jone in every ten.

If it fed on me sects, tone in every ten was de-1d. If it lived on cereals, one grain in every ten had to be delivered to the king. 'The bat said, Tam a beast, look at my teeth. 'Oh, then you' don't belong to us, they cried. Yes I do said the bat, Took at my wings, And so the wily Jcreature, sitting on the beast-bird fence escaped paying taxes to the bird king.

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