on board P.& O. liner “Chitral” 1933

We had a race meeting the other evening; it was quite exciting. The race card is

enclosed. The dogs are toys on wheels & drawn by a string which is wound up round a

drum by the Jockey who sits with her back towards the course so that she cannot see how

the race is going… My dog won the second race & I won 20/- but had to give the Jockey

10/- for her efforts.

RACE 2. – THE SPINSTERS’ SCURRY

won by Buckle’s Clutching Hand by Reach out of Boarding House
                                                                                                              Oct. 20th nearing Colombo

                                                                                                              Arthur Buckle, age 27
ex- out of London

recently articled, fished

from a CA firm for

K B & Co., Penang
Surrey dad

badly gassed

in WWI
so Flora-raised, sensibly
“economical” & musical

named for a king

open to ex-
what’s left

                            (behind
experiri, try, try
…to stand in the bows at night-time
to make it, fit in
watch the sparkling lights

in the sea as it gets churned up

by the ship…
                            (with a joke not a

                            joke, experience

                            just cliché
…they say that on some nights at Penang

it is so pronounced

that the movement of fish is sufficient

to stir it up
those colonial echelons

hard-boiled, & you
bound for the new

a try so
sure / unsure
                            the whole sea looks

                            illuminated

seeing & being

in it