He
was made an Ollyoola with all the native rites, dancing and shrieking
and so on, and he wore the correct Ollyoola dress (a few shells and
his hair trained on sticks to stand straight up).
And _now_ comes the point of this storyette: Only a few weeks after
Somebody's Cousin had become a full-blooded Ollyoola (I think
that's the proper phrase), the Ollyoolas suddenly fell out with the
Patti-Tattis (on the next island) and went to war, for _absolutely the
first time_, with a _ferocity_, my Daphne, that seems to have been
saving up through all their centuries of peacefulness!
Nothing's been heard since of Somebody's Cousin!
Ever thine,
BLANCHE.
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"AIRMEN'S ORDEAL IN THE NORTH SEA.
FIVE DAYS ON A PIECE OF CHOCOLATE."
_Continental Daily Mail_.
Rather a precarious perch.
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"'GIB.' SHELLS FALL IN MOROCCO.
MADRID.--Near Algeciras 20 shells fell from the batteries of
Gibraltar. There were no victims, and no damage was caused.
The authorities at Gibraltar have given satisfactory
explanations.
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