The Archive · 1937

HEAT RECORDS

Clerical Modesty

TTo the Editor of the "Norri-Cuina Darcy News"

Sm—It is 31 years since I came here, and I thought I knew some-hing about Shanghai weather and especially Shanghai summers, but when after a gruelling day like yesterday, I looked at my morning paper and read "Maximum 89" I had ^o rub my eyes.

I can only conclude that the thermometer at the Cathedral has also been here over 30 years, and, like self, is getting a bit tired.

fouldn't it be better to pension him ff and leave the job to his younger other at Siccawei who -still ap-Y has enough energy io cope "From the outside nothing can be seen of the mummy, "The strange thing about this business is that the ancient Egyptians believed that the sou! of a dead man returned from time to time in the form of a hawk-like bird to revisit the body in the tomb.

"Some people have suggested that the crow is really the soul of the mummified High Priest.

"I am prepared to look for a less eerie solution if anyone can offer a suggestion

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