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Show Anocdotos ol Cecil llhodcj. Among; the limns lulere sling unec-eloteB unec-eloteB of lhe late Cecil Itbudes iliirnr-Ins iliirnr-Ins In the Ungllsh iress. the feillowlns; fiom the si James lludget me spec lully quntnblei. We aro told bete tint those who remember Itlmdes when In Ids teens ngiee lliat be was hot a blight bos'. Home thing of u. mm nap nature, unsociable nnd iinbosllke, he wns fond nf rnmbllng walks bs himself, mid ho did not inre milch fur gnmes llnck-ward llnck-ward nt school and hizs Willi his lessons, les-sons, he showed tn tin- full Hmt intntal Inertness which eomeii of phsslrnl lassitude las-situde rillicr tlinn fiom Idiom ss or stu-phlltS'. stu-phlltS'. Hut despite all this be had lionu but frlendi nmnng his father's parishioners, parish-ioners, for with his quiet, shy wuss was toui led a bentleness or In art which showed Itself on tunny oecnslons. He was alwuss fond of iwts-ponies, dogs, Oulnea pigs, rabbits, birds, anything ........... 1. ..,,.,. , ,,,,,,,,,, itintii in- nan nluajii iclnlniil Mr. Hirney llirnnto once orfered to buy for his Him fiom Mr Ithodes all the diamonds Ihen on snle bs the Do Heirs tompans Mi lllio.l. s ngrenl, making only one nllpulnlbui-lhat tho whole lot some J20 000 caials, should be put In a bucket 'Ihls was clone-, mid the snlo oomph led nnd they gased nt a sight nlilih no one had ever looked nt be fore-a bucketful of (.listening gems A phulnginpli nas taken, mid the dltt-mnnds dltt-mnnds baiidid user. 'I lieu It nns that Mr Ithodes seoml triumphantly. Hurting Hurt-ing and clusslfslng diamonds takes time, and In this lot Ibete ncie ISO mi-rhtlis. mi-rhtlis. tin sorting of which took the purchiserK six necks Dining that lima tho diamonds nno nut or Hin inaikct. which Mr. llhndei had nil lei himself, nnd he tcored gieatly user tho Iransac-II Iransac-II in In ISOI Mr Ithodes paid n lslt In thu Sultan of Tin key, and much pc iilallnn muse as In what Hie consultation was about. Some time iirternnnl It trans-plied trans-plied that the trip had bee 11 mnde In Ciinstniitlnupln redely and simply In tho Inli rest of Angola goats. As Is well knnsin, the best Augorii blood In tin-world tin-world Is to he round In Asia Minor, and initio of the nntmnls ran bo capture el without the special permission of tho Sultan. Mr llbiules, howeser. In return re-turn for such lucie, securiil for tho Cape from the unspeakable 'lurk some hundreds of these boats. Losllu's Weekly. |