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THE CHINA MAIL,
How Pierrot Heard
The Midnight Mass
(Continued from Page 7.)
tive. tone. She seemed to say
to
SHANGHAI CREW GOES ON STRIKE,
Charged In London Police Court.
The Chinese crew of the Glas- He stumbled and fell over gow motor vessel Springbank (5,115 stone, and lost one of his clogs. tons) chartered by the Furncas He searched a long time for it, on Withy Line from the Bank Line his knees in the snow, his hands went on strike in Liverpool and bonumbed with cold,
consequently, there being 51 of And he no longer saw the infant them, they overflowed from the dock Jesus, nor the Virgin, nor the at the Liverpool court, where they kings from the East, nor the angels queued up, charged with impeding the navigation of that vessel when carrying stars. 28th December."
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"Stay with us where it is warm. What are you going to do, so amall as you are, in all that snow?”
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By the feeble light of a window at the top, which was covered with spiders' webs' he was able, by He was afraid of the silence, pool. standing on the tips of his toes, to afraid of the trees veiled in white The captain of the vessel at the draw the inner bolt of the stable, which burst out here and there time addressed them, but they re- Suddenly he found himself out-from the immense carpet of snow, fused to recede from their demands. side, in the deep and frozen white- and which no longer looked like The police fearing trouble, went on
trees, but like phantoms.
board. "His heart contracted with The house of Plerrot's parents gulsh. He wept and cried lay by itself, nearly half a mile through his tears: distant from the church. You went at Brat along a road border- ed by orchards, then you turned to the right and you had the steeple of the village church in front of
you,
"Mamma! Mamma!" The snow ceased to fall. Pierrot locked around him saw the pointed steeple and windows of the church, shone in the night.
an- Mr. R. Cafferata prosecuting, sald out the defendants aigned on at Shang-
hai Inst April or two years na mem- bers of the crew. They refused to jobey the orders of the master and and the chief officer, and the vessel was the unable to sail at her appointed time. which The situation was very serious and warrants for the arrest of the men THE SPECTACLE OF PARADISE wore issued. A police officer went His vision came back to him, and on board and arrested them. An- strength and courage. There it other crow was obtained, and the Everything พลง white with was, the wonder he had longed for, ship was now on her way to Avon- snow, the road, the bushes,. and the splendid spectacle of Paradise mouth. Evidence of arrest WAS! the trees in the fields. And the He did not wait to reach the given. by Detective Inspector Wallace snow whirled about in the air like bend of the road, but walked and the men
wers remanded in
VISION OF JOURNEY'S END.
Pierrot started off without] hesitation.
a light ball tossed by a weather-straight towards the illuminated (custody.
vane.
church.
Pierrot sank in the snow up to He rolled into a ditch, struck Ing: his ankles; his little clogs grew against a stump of a tree, and left, heavy with anow; the snow.cover-thare his other Tlog.
"In the plain below I hear
Angels who from Heaven have come....
TOWARDS THE GLORY.. Little Pierrot wont stumbling on.)
ed his hair and his shoulders like Across the fields, limpingly and white dust. But he felt nothing, baltingly, the child dragged him- for he saw, at the and of his self, his eyes fixed upon the light. journey, in a great golden light, And as he kept going more slowly, with all the strength that was left the Infant Jesus, and the Virgin, the row of little footsteps which in his tired little body, toward this and the kings from the East, and he left behind him grew closer and glory and towards these canticles. the angela who have stars in their closer to one another in the white Suddenly he fell at the foot of a hands.
box-tree hooded with snow; he fell
immensity.
He went on and on as if drawn The church grew larger as he with his eyes closed, suddenly,' 28- by the vision. But already he drew near. Voices reached leep, and smiling at the angels' walked less quickly. The snow Pierrot: was blinding him. It was filling
"Came, divine Messiah...
the entire sky with a padding of His hands stretched out before cotton-wool. He did not recognise him, his eyes dilated in ecstasy,
song,
The voices continued:
"Christ is born in Bethlehem."
At the same moment the soft and
27th Dec. anything, he no longer knew where sustained only by the beauty of silent descent of the white flakes
he was.
his dream, which now drew closer began again. The snow revered
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Now his little feet weighed like to him, he went into the graveyard the little body with its muslin lay-
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