To the Editor of the "Nomri-Cuina Dat News."
Sm—Stiolling along the footpath in the Great Western Road the other evening, eyes on ground, pondering, I looked up suddenly and found myself within an ace of Doing kissed by-a camel.
T walked round it examingly and! noted that it had two humps which is quite excusable this weather. The absence of a number plate at either end points to its being a pedestrian; Dat in view of its terrifying bulk coupled with the fact that it aproaches you with the self-possessed silent invinelblity of the London policeman, it might be in order for the Commissioner of Revenue to have it classed as slow traffic and relegate it to the roads, inside the ricshas. This new departure in household pets makes me think of sending for an elephant, if T can hire another garage, and the two! little tots can toddle out together.
Tam, ete, Shanghai, Joly 22, 1929,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.