Weihaiwei, Sept. 22—Just as the constellation Scorpio is the main feature of our August skies, so the month of August is the usual time for the living Scorpions to invade our houses; they do not come in large numbers but are liable to be found either singly or in pairs in damp rams and more particularly in bathrooms they come during the dry season in search of water....a quite natural craving in a creature which came out of the sea untold years ago in the form of an embryo lobster. They sometimes breed in and around our houses (instead of among the rocks where they belong) and I am beginning to wonder if this is Fiction "Dw you read much fiction while you were away?"
"Yes. My husband wrote me a letter practically every day."
Without Gas Anas was showing Donald a second-hand car he had bought, "Man, i'll be costing ye a bit in petrol," said Donald.
"Not so much," said Angus, "It's downhill to town, and I can get a tow home most days." cee Prescription A Town Councillor lost the notes of his speech and eventually the slip of paper was discovered at a chemist's, where it had been left by mistake.
In the meantime the Chemist had made it up as an eyewash.
Battle of Snacks 'TURNING aside for a moment from the international Confusion of Moustaches, it is heartening to hear of the Battle of Snacks at a high brow cocktail party thrown by Miss Violet Raye, the well-known Bloomsbury pest.
Guests pelted each other with olives, shellfish and sausagettes—an idea of the hostess to jerk everybody out of their sullenness. "After all, one must do something Different, mustn't one?" she cooed, ducking a pickled onion, bowled overarm by a scrofulous novelist.
Knock-out tournaments were soon organized. In the Open Singles final: e film actor, Willy Nilly, beat Viscount Chickens 6—1, 8—6, 6—2.
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