Ir was Thursday night in the barrack-room in Quetta and the "nap" school broke up quite early. Thomas Atkins gets reminiscent when in India; Said one:
"I remembers a dawn wot a pal of mine ad. Whenever we'd run a gambling school at the pub, that there dawn "ud sit outside, and if a ruddy copper came arahnd. 'e'd rush into the pub and bark is ead orf. Wisht I ad un like im ere, for the prove' sargo."
"Pal of mine ad a dawn like that," said another, "only cleverer, 'E'd wait inside the pub, and if anyone swiped the kitty" 'e'd old aht his paw. And if nobody gave im nothing, blimey! 'e'd go aht and fetch a ruddy copper!"
Reminiscences then ceased!
Nest in a Mess Tue nest is undergoing repairs and Uncle Nat has been driven from home by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Snow White is the foreman, elderly, solemn and silver-haired, He arrived early one morning with seven small assistants, Doc, Bashful, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Dopey.
Before Uncle Nat was up tte Dwarfs were all over the place, Doc, the assistant foreman, was in the kitchen enjoying a cup of tea. Happy was telling a funny story to Dopey in the hall.
Grumpy, in the dining-room, was already complaining to Sleepy that it would take weeks io strip and wash the walls before repapering. Sneezy, in the garden with a fearful cold, was telling Snow White, the foreman, that he thought he had influenza and that by rights he should be in bed.
And when Uncle Nat was cleaning up the torso in the bathroom, Bashful climbed up a ladder, peered through the window, blushed and scrambled down again.—From the "Sunday Express."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.