New Year celebrations were sadly marred this year by the absence of haggis from the menu, and what we are going to do on Burns Night if the lambs do not return to the slaughter, not think. The butchers assure there are none around just now which explains why our "lamb chops"
in the other day were so tough I had had my suspicions when I read that 700 goats had been imported into ity. Buttercup spoke darkly to Captain Corcoran regarding jackdaws strutting in peacocks' feathers, and high-lows passing as patent leathers, but methinks she might have added to her parables the story of the goat which so often appears at table, mint ow our Hongkew friends are permitted to go back to their homes, but, when one considers the conditions under which they are invited to return, one would think that they would be as likely to go knocking on the doors of one of the Municipal Jails for admittance as to their one-time Hongkew homes. When there are pleasanter spots well away from military mentors and masters, why worry about digging in the former war area?
Schools re-open on January 3, but those in the Northern area are not yet functioning, so the children are
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.