A Griffin's Experience the Baitor of the "Nomni-Cuma Dany News"
Sim—I have only been in Shanghai about four months but I wish to place on record that T still find it amusing. It is a funny place indeed!
Arriving here, stilt warm from the arms of coddling Mother Burope, 'sUll very raw and hide-bound from the traditions and the "Thou Shalt Met's" of that rather severe-visaged lover-prude parent, I was cheered to earn from the community that had Preceded me, that I was about to fenter on the' threshold of life, that here in Shanghala larger freedom was the reward for all those who had had the pluck to escape from the anxious guardianship of the prim old dame under whose schooling those whom T had left behind me still writhed, What a big man I felt myself to bbe the: Arst few months In Shanghai, T drank my whisky. and soda, Whereas before brown beer had been my usual evening refreshment, and broke out with cigars, and. taxi-fears home after an entertainment, whereas in the little town I came from T-never smoked a cigar in my life and always walked home when the trams had stopped running.
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