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... fTTHiTcOLONEL GOES HOME?]] By DONALD COLLENETTE. IT was warm and quiet in the little caravan and the sickly-sweet fumes of the oil-stove, merged with tobacco-smoke, had smeared the windows with a film of condensation. Outside, the rain fell vertically into the ridges of mud and into the channels between. The caravan stood in the garden of a bleak, crumbling villa, con nected to it, and to two ...

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Scratch As Scratch Can. The result is in the ballot-boxes, and, at this moment of writing, nobody knows what it is. As it will be known, however, very soon after these lines appear in print, it seems prudent to refrain from prophecy. Nor am I taking any bets, as I have not the faintest idea of the new political alignment, and I have not met anybody who has-- though, ...

... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- So you really are coming home at last! I can hardly believe it. Shall we have to meet under the clock at Waterloo, each wearing a pink carnation for fear we don't recognise each other? I hope not; carnations are dreadfully expensive just now. I may as well tell you at once that my hair is streaked with grey, and there is a middle-a£e sag under my chin which I ...

... . THE Ballet returned to Sadler's Wells yesterday, and on Monday Theyre Lee- Elliott opened his Exhibition of ballet paintings and drawings at the same theatre. We repro duce here some of the delicate sketches he is showing among larger and more ambitious paintings. This is the fifth exhibition Lee-Elliott has held at Sadler's Wells notable collectors of his work include Lady Louis Mountbatten ...

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Line Upon Line. So now everything is all right. San Francisco has produced, among other boons, a charter of world-government. The world's great age begins anew. I hope so. But I wish I had more faith in scraps of paper. There have been, it is true, some successful scraps of paper in the world's history. The Declaration of Independence was one of them, though it ...

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... Twelfth Day Eve An old Devon shire custom still kept up in some parts is the toasting of the apple trees. The farmer, attended by his workpeople and accompanied by an enormous pitcher of cider, goes to the orchard and encircling one of the trees recites Here's to thee, old apple tree Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow t And whence thou mayst bear apples enow t Hats full! Caps ...

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