SCOTS PIPER'S FIST.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 219, 20 October 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

SCOTS PIPER'S FIST.

An officer of a Scottish battalion writes (says the "Manchester Guardian") to a friend:— J)o you remembct seing in the papers a paragraph about a pipe-major of some Scots regiment who played his battalion across? Weil. it was Pipe-Major , of the *. Ho played us over and then the . He was wounded, and a big Hun rushed at him. He dropped his pipes, and hit him under the jaw and Jaid him out. was about 6ft. 3in. He was wounded and miasing, now believed to lie killed, iiie pipes lie had when 'ln Scotland were the pipes which accompanied the Scotia Expedition through the Antarctic. It these are the ones he had in I'ranee they will be a great curio, as tli y have been recovered full of bullet holes. \\ hen the official accounts corno out people will see that the earned undying fame.

WHERE EVE IS BI'RIED. Jeddah, with which Egypt has jusl resumed comerixal relations, is a most important town lor the entire human, race, apart from being the principal landing-place for pilgrims to the Jioly cit'.es. Close beside the city is buriaj no less a personage than Eve The reputed mother of mankind, like a good -MosVmi, lies with her feet towards Mecca. Her grave has gradually grown, and is now of huge dimensions.

"Tins," said a teacher to her class of arithmeticians, "js a uitit"; sho held up a pencil. ''This book is a un-t, too," said she. "And these ar<s units" ; and she showed them a ruler, a ouvr, and an apple. Then she peeled the apple and, holding up the peel, said: "Now, children, what is this?" Silence. "Come, you know what it is," urged. Littic Bills hand went up slowly. '• Well, William ?" said thoteacher. "Please, ma'am, the skin of the unit." Tho worthy couple sat *ido by siJ** o*i tho broad doorstep, looking as miserable as two lost geese in a hard hailstorm. We a=ked why they were sad, in view of the fact that- tho sutj shone brighl'y and the birds sway id on tho adjacent boughs. "Alas!" they answered. "We hart gardoning. Roth of us are sonicwhat absent-minded, and after thinlr,ing it over we fear that SarnueJla h;o planted tho 1 ver-pdls and Horace ha* taken the i-.wot peas. However, we are rot absolutely sure about it, and it is the uncertainty that hurts." The Bishop of North China was speakng to a lady at home about the ■ hipe] at the British Legation at Peking. "Does tho Emperor of China come to your services?" she asked "No," replied the bisKop. "he liasrot be.n yet." "Rut," murmured tire- lady, in i hushed voice, "is the Emperor a Nonconforinist ?"