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a vast smile he was in Paradise. He decided that his wisest course But in the evenings, when he was to go to. Stockholm and sell went aboard the pilot-cutter, he the wax himself. His holiday was lay sobbing and thinking of his due in June. He had not been in 90-year-old mother who had not Stockholm since, as a boy of at-yet got the silver-handled cape and He tried to teen, he had served on the schooner the genuine shawl. Blixten and had several times dur- do business with his wax, but al ing the proud ship's stay at the ways considered the offers too low. tried to cheat capital, been sent, ashore to buy His friends
Не provisions. And had failed. And him, but he saw through it. got a thrashing from the cook and went to druggists and to chemical the mato and the captain."
works, but they all offered, too little, and the pilot-cutter was soon Then he would have to leaving. But
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a salary and fourteen days leave. heard, that all hotels were crawling "Silver Jubiled Fair" is not
Accordingly he was going to travel with lice and bugs.
They would not suit him, for he mere catch-phrase.. There are two and do a bit of business and, for
was clean an nice and had a uni- reasons why no other words could once in his life, enjoy himself. so adequately describe "BIF 1936". Hie wax was of fine quality, form which was much stiffer and The first is that the King will, it He managed to buy it at the Cus- more significant than any other. pretty high It was that of the Pilot Service, is hoped, visit the Fair, and so per-toma auction at a form what might be called his price. It was Russian wax, for an and he must het sully it. first Silver function. Although the exciseman was able to read the could one imagine sailors without cask.lighthouses and without the folk! Queen and other members of the lettering that decked the Royal Family have paid many visits The Russians produce a lot of wax who watched and were responsible to recent Fairs, the King has not candles in their churches, and this for them?
No, Stockholm did not suit him. been able to do ao for several years, was church wax, that the excise-
It was an accursed town. But the The second reason is that most man swore to. of the 1,550 exhibitors at Olympi The cask was worth a fortune wax? To hell with the wax. He and the White City have set them and Osterlund had got it too cheap. would take it home with him again selves to make this a Silver Jubilee But he mustn't be foolish when he and make Christmas tree candles Fair not in name only, but also in got to the city. He must hold on for his mother of it. And no old colour and in invention.
to the wax as long as possible and woman in all the world should For have such an illumination as his Pride of place in the Textile gor-not let himself he cheated. tion at the White City will be Stockholm was full of rogues and mother. given to linen shirting made from villains who would take advantage The pilot-cutter waited. He did x grown on the King's estate at of the ignorance of a man who had not need to live at a lousy hotel. |Sandringham—the first time, it is never seen anything but Trutkob- When he became aware or that ciaimed, that "quality shirting" has ben, although he had reached the fact he thanked God and went out been made from British grown fax. ripe age of 55.
and bought the shawl and the Manufacturers of ties, shirts.
Osterlund's worst trial' was brooch for his old mother. collars, pyjamas, dressing-gowns,
Finally came the last day of During and bunting have devised every parting from his mother.. But. he possible combination of the Silver made the other lighthouse keepers painting Stockholm red. Jubilee colour-silver and blue, promise that she should receive his holiday he had learnt some silver and red, silver and royal daily attention-coffee" parties thing about the city, but he never purple.
every day and visits several times ceased to be the naive 55-year-old Jubilee Pottery
daily. He was going to buy pre-jboy, who had nothing in the whole for, the old woman. A wide world to rely upon but his Pottery makers are piling up sents stocks of nursery tea sets with genuine shawl she should have, old mother of 90. Without her, he portraits of the King and Queen, and a hat as fine as and finer than was rootless and helpless. He had crockery edged with silver, and em the one the pilot eaptain's wife made many acquaintances in the blazoned Silver Jubilee mugs, had had when she came to Trut- city, for he, was cheerful and brisk
and childlike. The Silver Jubilee Fair will be kobben last summer.
And now he was asked to remarkable for the ingenuity of its And then she should have a cane party on the first floor at Kallaren exhibits. Here are some of them with a silver handle in place of Freden. There was boisterous A comers for instantaneous the hazel stick she went about merriment, and funny tales were colour photography.
leaning on. And a brooch and a told. It was a haunt of skippera new psalm-book, For Osterlund and mates and pilots and the folk had laid by little money in the of the akerries. course of the years. True he had
And Osterlund gave a drunk a little, but grog makes no (light supper). He was going to "Non-skid" desk pad,'
public servant poor, for it is cheap take leave of the city and never Automatic pencil containing
For the matter of that the old come back, for he was returning to leads to last three years.
woman had had charge of the keg, duty and would never have another "Non-spill powder box. Hair brush that can be refilled and had in fact only served out holiday. He got frightfully drunk. the regulation. morning dram that When he was out next morning with spare bristles.
Shaving brush with a rubber de-a fellow needs. And he was to be meandering about the town, he
I mean if she has attitude of the director of the away but fourteen days.. came to Kungstrad-garden where Osterlund. BL. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for vice for massaging.
Oaterlund went with the pilot he discovered the Panopticon, subscribed, considerable sums to Panopticon. Without heart. with- Synthetic bath milk. 1st and 2nd class passengerB.
out understanding. Piano which can be played (by cutter which came to Trutkobben, which was then quite new. I think charitable objects....."
"Nay, she's not done that, sir. He walked vacantly down the street towards the Old Theatre. EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, invalids) in bed, with a projecting every month with paraffin oll and it was opened in 1889.
Osterlund immediately went into for she's never had any money." keyboard and pedals worked by the mail and food and other neces-
"Or if she has distinguished But suddenly he stopped, and his Barics. His wax-cask stood, well the Panopticon and, because of his player's (or patient's) knees.
face was Illuminated by an in- A nail which locks itself into the lashed down, on the forecastle and morning after condition, was im herself in other ways.... wood and prevents pilfering from he himself sat upon it anxious at mensely impressed by its magnifi."Aye, she's been decent all her ward light...
He had got an idea, and believed Manfin, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & packing cases.
heart about his mother, but, full of
The whole idea and pur-life and tolled drudged..........” cence.
"Yes, but you must understand. himself to understand the Panopti Melbourne, and Hobart.
Clocks without figures for joy and curiosity at the thought of pose of it was something quite, new strokes).
the glories of the capital and the to him, new and suggestive. When Mr. Osterlund, that we only admiit con and its director, and all the Damp-proof bath-room mirrors, great business he was to do. he had convinced himself that its likeness of people who, in one way difficulties with which a frashly Bed sheets guaranteed to prevent In a newly sewn-on pocket inside inhabitants were not alive, but or another, have particularly dis-launched business has to contend. the "goose-flesh feeling."
his waistcoat was his well-furnish-were only modelled in wax and tinguished themselves from others He went back, knocked, and was
per-by their lives and actions. For again admitted to the director, Three new varieties of cheese ed pocket book. He was dressed stuffed-which he presently
He had remembered the still un- made in Canada,
in uniform and looked a thorough ceived after several attempts to cxample, kings, generals, diplomats Tennis rackets which require no going salt with his great red beard make friendly advances he got an-and-even great criminals, mur-sold wax, and said: "Excuse me,
derers, thieves...."
sir, for again taking up your valu press, cut seventeen at a time "like and his sea-blue eyes. His mother idea and a brilliant one.
"Sir, my mother has, never able time, but I've thought of some- bread" from one large racket-shap- had made him mittens with blue. His old mother was always, the
thing. Maybe you gentlemen are ed plywoad model.
and red borders. In her youth centre of his being. He under-stolen !" these had been proper for Sunday Mood that he must, perpetuate here "Ah, yes, but what is there re-short of wax. If that's so I have use. They did not go very well the memory of his mother, the markable about her? Unless she plenty, if only I can get my mother with the uniform. But his mother most notable woman he had ever has practised great benevolence in. But I want to say, sir, she has had made them, so he kept them met. After a good deal of search with staggering sums, or has been not stolen
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he came upon a female attendant a great criminal, I fail to under That evening, the pilot-cutter. Osterlund arrived In Stockholm, of whom he inquired the way to stand why she should be entitled sailed, with Osterlund the wax, got his wax-cask brought ashore, the director of the establishment. to have her likeness exhibited the shawl, the brooch and several and carried to a warehouse at the was shown into a room where here,"
1
Rosengik. He himself was allow a grave and corpulent man Was "Well, look you, she's so fright- A young undergratudate of Buda-ed to live for the present aboard sitting at a writing table. After fully old!'!
"How old is she?" pest, Mile. Rosi Riborka, claims to the cutter, and now set out into the manner of Swedish officials he have invented a new method of the crowded city. Stockholm was looked discouraging and lacking in "She's ninety. Will that do?"
new to him. He was an old bache- cordiality.
"Ninety is no age for the Swe- television.
It she was 'A lor and had, so to speak, hitherto
"Excuse me," said Osterlund, dish Panopticon. She hit upon the idea while Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. working on her thesis, "A Fracti- only hung on to his mother's petti-"would it be possible to get a per- hundred and fifteen or a hundred Mton into this here Panopticon and twenty she might possibly be cal Solution of Television," with coats ANTÓN Bhal, Kobe, Yokohama.
which she hopes to get her doctor's Now the great city came with all that's to say not a live 'un but a ripe for it."
its dangers and temptations and likeness and how much would it "Yes, but she has been so fright fully poor and lived alone in a cot degree. te
Her invention, which is patented, seized him like a thousand-armed cost?"
"Who are you?" asked the tage on Trutkobben so frightfully can be manufactured at a cost of cuttlefish. He did not long have
to walk alone. On Skeppsbron, at gloomy official.
many years and brought up three approximately 25. No specia transmitting apparatus is neces- Sjoberg's place and Djurgarden he "My name is Osterlund, light- children without a penny and sary, as her appliance can be link-met acquaintances, who had visited house keeper, at the Trutkobben worked harder than any woman in
Trutkobben and had been his light in the Baltic Wouldn't it be Sweden." ed with the ordinary broadcasting guests. He met old shipmates, possible to get my mother in "That does not help, Mr. Oster system.
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dangficial stared at Osterlund
tons of experience, hack to Trut- kobben lighthouse, Osterlund had had enough of Stockholm. (Translated by E. Sprigge and C. Napier), m
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