'The kindly gentleman who in the days long "forgotten gave to Shanghai an area of swamp. and cats' burial ground—not meaning anything against the widow to whose memory there was erected a monument—was in much the same. pos ion "as he who, in London, gave field he did not want for the benefit of @ foundling institution, In' both cases something that seemed useless then has come to be worth a fortune, Shanghai's Recreation round. was given for the general recing" of the foreign community, without any stipulation as to the manner in which they should. "re In these days, much of it is given up to the parking of motor cars, quite a large slice has been railed of a pele vote bowling elub—and even wey may not take their dogs in—an acre or two was behind barbed. wire and now is behind a. sti bamboo fence as experimental gr plots, and all by "tennis, cricket, and baseball clubs, as to. whose occupancy there {sno objection. Nott for the moment, of the obvio\ dozens who have © hired within the matsheds, who mission for a No. '1 boy.
bout the top of the ich about sixty chickens, and another to run thirty or so above the Femaing of the virtuous widow? chickens, why not sheep, oats, and cattle, and how about Nav 1 at. Polo Club making a start. with the oftesuggested scheme of opening a Pony-breeding establishment Shanghai? Rent-free, this ranching right to pay. But when Breeks the bull-terrier, Beauty the Airedale Cracker the wire-haired terrier, Bally the Chow, Handsome, the DUll-deg, and Bang ihe Scottie. give vent to their natural inclinations, ¢vho stands the cost of the chickens?
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