The Archive · 1931

IN PARENTHESIS

All's Well That Ends Well Tue ethics of fox-hunting have been rather closely discussed. in recent times, but a recent story from Tung about the Hertfordshire Hounds that started to hunt a donkey, and pursued it with great vigour' round) most of the parish, suggests another and perhaps mors effective discouragement for that Particular form of feld sport. Th: case of Acton, slain by his own ack, comes. to mind—if hounds eneral begin tobe unable to disinguish between foxes and donkeys there may be s marked and appre: hensive failing of in hunt subscrpions. But perhaps the risk is slight—the trouble is probably eon: Ened to the one pack at Tung, and Will be put "down to. another' out break of that "hysteria in hounds. Many event, another version of the same incident reports that there was malice in the hounds' behaviour. Dogs and donkey were presently found resting together n'a copse 8 peacefully-as Titania and Bottem when the hounds found a real fox the donkey tried hard to kee up with them, taking his fences like 2 sportsman' and gentleman. The moral is obvious, boy-—and, dams, sir, don't you forget it! Play. the Came, Fido straight, don't have any. Ening tp o sith Baehewiam safe with the how bank God, sit, any. donkey" inds as he would his own billiard-room!

From Amateur to Affluence StateMexrs that Mr. R. T. Jones isto. receive about £50,000 for Broadcast talks on golf and that Br. W. T. Tilden fs to get smaller bat sti very large sums for talks fon lawn tennis should be useful fuaterlal for young' men Who wish {o convince their fathers that play" ing is better. than working of should one say?—that working at playing may be better than playing:

working. 'There used Story of @ famous Lancashire cricketer to' the effect. that, when tasked by his father what profession Intended to follow, he replied that with cricket in the summer and Rugoy football and hunting in th thought that his tim would be fully occupied.

The Inevitable Edgar A CORRESPONDENT. toa Home paper recalls an amusing experience Thich befell him last simmer the Cotogne-Ostend express. AS the {rain rumlied into Aachen a boy randled "up shouting, in. rather Scevarettes: "Edgerton Ware sraretics, Rdgac-rot Walle Inspired by this chary cal, the latest thriller. a respondent secured © copy of the

a rotund Teuton corner, "your criminal, is he not?"

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ERE diag Var, tee Sede Uae Sal Eloy ne son a Mh a secur Maney fetes fand. often che most Greener Goldfish piece of somewhat in. significant. information is difnificd with the inevitable adjective "sensational"—it is proclaimed that the Pasteur Institute has discovered that "goldfish can become seasick. And what of it? We never heard of the" weariest cross-Channel 1 he was a goldfish, probably his ideal and if those, too, should be proved able to "mal de mer," at Yeast they have the sense to avoid exposing themselves to that risk, Sale-Shock ScExE: Sale-time in crowded and fashionable shop. Flustered matron alights from "bus and enters shop.

Stately Shop-walker What can! we do. for you, madam:

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