Show iff THE 1 life in the malay peninsula has plenty of variety and the correspondent of the straits times of S writes sinca all our dogs have been chained up muzzled or shot pussy has had it all her own way what I 1 object to very strongly is the vagabond cat that lives nowhere and looks it my compound is overrun with them at present and they are of all sizes breeds and colors and only agree in one particular which happens to be the unpleasantness of their voices they ve eaten my canary and are now levying toll upon the cook s chickens I 1 wish ou could tell me if there is any great demand for in S I 1 am also writing for full particulars of the rabbit canning in austry for I 1 fancy that might be added to the fur dealing business with profit most of the mill sold in is shocking stuff the indian milk men are the biggest rogues in crea tion the other day I 1 found the milk particularly weak I 1 called up the cook and expostulated mildly but firmly about it he told me next da that the milkman was very sorry he d given me milk out of the wrong tin further investigation showed that the man bad two tins one of which contained sahib s and the other I 1 was rather relieved to hear that I 1 was a real sahib but I 1 explained to the milkman when I 1 paid his bill that in the future 1 should have a sanitary inspector or of the sort hidden behind the door to take samples of his wares no and again since then my milk has been overpoweringly strong the men sent it b the kedah authorities to hunt down the satui gang of robbers or pirates have sue cee led in killing the ringleader like many other malay bad characters he was popularly supposed to be insul lerable and I 1 am gravely told by a malav friend that the p cipe dit on found him absolutely in able to bullet or spear bullets sim ply bounded off bis body like peas off a drumhead while when he was thrust at with spears they either snapped or had their points blunter directly they touched his skin he would not hae been killed at all it one of his pursuers wiser than the rest of the party and versed in witch craft had not thought of the elpe adient of a spear made from the spike of a sting ray s tall he was ct eventually with this and so killed |