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THE CHINA WAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1935-
THE LION TAMER
(Continued from Page: 7J
summer-like but full of spring clearness and he was glad of the
Through the dead leaves young walk.
From where the road dipped out spikes of garlic were pushing (their way, and once a white spray of sight over the hill brow there of wayfaring tree in early bloom came the sound of a "moter's e filled his nostrils with a sweet, gine. Freddie hopped from the sickening odour. On he moved. fence, excitedly. He was going to his feet crunching over the sell his fowers. He clutched the ground and his mind picturing basket tightly to him and held up Herculax cracking his whip and a bunch of primroses. The roar shouting at the crouching, war-increased and suddenly a car shot ing lions. He could see their over the rise and sped along the tensed fanks and straining paws road towards him. Freddie waved and the calm, unafraid look of his flowers and shouted:
"Primroses Penny a bunch.... Hercular poised like a god over
Primroses----” them.
:
His last words were drowned A jay discovered him and few from tree to tree, cursing, and in the noise of the car as it pass- warning everything in the wooded and disappeared. He was dis- of his presence. Presently be appointed, but his optimism busy- led him up. The driver was per-j came to a dip in the wood, a little haps in a hurry to fetch a doctor del sentinelled by dwarf may-
or do something else, otherwise bushes and thin ask poles that;
he must have stopped. “Others were just breaking bad. The floor
would not be in so much haste of the dell was covered with a
great pad of green and yellow and he would have his ninepence
and see Herculax. The yellow primroses.
flowers reminded him of the gold) Freddie stopped. For a moment bangles on the lion-tamer's wrists, the glory and wonder of the and, in the consequent reverie, flowers that were filling the air Freddie let a car slip by without with their slight, elusive scent giving him time to flourish his drose Hercalar from his mind towers He did not mind. There Then he was Freddie who wanted was plenty of time yet and the! ninepence again. Here, in this others would bus.
dell lay his niñepence; here,But the others did not buy. The cradled in this mass of green and day wore on and many cars pass- yellow freshness, was hidden the ed along the road but none stop-! key which would bring him closer ped. Either the occupants: did} to Hercular, which would addit not notice the tiny figure at the him into the circus tent to watch roadside or they did not want the springing lions, the snarling primroses.. Time and again leopards, and the magnificent lion- Freddie jumped from his fence and held aloft his flowers, but the Freddie set his basket down on only thing he received was a thin the edge of the patch of flowers coating of dust from the whirring and began to pick. His hair fell wheels. into his eyes and his small hands
tammer.
Our diagram shows the record heights, including the strato- sphere balloon altitude record and made by Capts. Stevens Anderson of the United States
record is 74,187 feet, slightly more than 14 mies.
The day, fulfilling the promise| were stained with the damp earth of the morning, grew hotter. The When he judged that he had dust settled on his clothes, streak- enough, he stopped, and sitting oned his perspiring face with mild the edge of the dell, drew from kis runnels of dirt; and the prim- pocket some lengths of his roses began to wilt and lose their Army Air Corps. Their unoficial father's raffis twine which he had freshness before the onslaught taken from the tool-shed of the of sun and dust. And then, when
|cottage
his spirits were lowest, a car did With the twine he bound the stop A thin-faced man, wearing primroses into generous bunches, spectacles, leaned out. twisting the raffia inexpertly “Trade. don't seem so good.. round the downy stems, and ap-sonny, does it?” he called, Freddie
three was too portiozing to each bunch
excited to reply home-i broad leaves to protect the yellow diately -Here was someone who blaze as he had seen the market wanted to buy. The vision of women do. Within half an hour Herculax, which had been grow The M. V. he had a dozen bunches lying ning faint, developed a new life This basket.
and colour.
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From MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, SALAMAWA, KABAWI, SANDAKAN & MANILA-
“NEPTUNA"
Consigares of Cargo are hereby in- He left the cell, climbed right! “How much a bunch?” the man formed that all Goods are being land-
wood scrambled went on. through the
through the rough bedge at the
Pen
[ed at their risk into theazardous Freddie hesitated, and/or extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong Kong and Kowloon Whan top and then, after breasting the He had intended to sell them at && Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or ridge, came down a narrow bridle penity, but he saw that he must from the wharves delivery may be path that served as the bed of a stream in winter to the main road. And it was here that he was go- ing to earn his ninepence.
(Continue on Page 11),
SEXTON DIES WHILE DIGGING GRAVE
obtained.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, audi all Goods remaining indelivered after the 23rd Dec. will be subjecs to rent
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ANNOUNCE 1936 SAILINGS
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Jan. 19 Jan. 21 Jan. 27 Feb. 1 E/Asin Jan. 29 Jan. 31 Feb. Feb. Feb. 6
Feb. 15 67Canada Feb. 11 Fab. 23
Feb. 16 Feb. 18 Feb, 25 Mar. I Mar. 3 Mar. 5
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Aug. 24 E/Japan Aug. 21 Ang. 23
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At a penny a bunch the prim-)
PERSEUS All claims against the steamer roses would bring him a shilling,
Lexana, Kansas: Walter Cote, must be presented to the Undersign- which would give him threepence for sweets as well as the cirens a sexton, was working furiously toed on or before the 6th Jan. 1936 or admission price. At a pincs be finish a grave which had to be they will not be recognized.
To comply with the General Bond- was prepared to forgo the sweets, ready for a burial service by aed Warehouse Regulations consignees but he did not anticipate that trade certain time. He threw out the must have a Revenue Officer in atten would be so had. Surely, anyone last shovelful of earth and drop-dance when damaged dafiable good from the City passing in a car ped dead by the graveside of heart are examined. would be glad to buy the flowers; disease-Berter
they were so pretty.
He died the flowers from the
GIFT TO WARSHIP
shaking that they had received"
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godawas, where they will be examined on the 21st Dec. at 10 am, by Messrs. "God- dard and Dongdas
when he negotiated the hedge, and Londonderry's gift of a silk ened then he sat on the road fence and sign and plaque for the new
No Fire Lasu-ance has been effect-
Bill of Lading will be
Sails 28 Dec. for Havre, Liverpool
and Bromborongia.
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GLAUCUS
Sails 5th Feb. for Boston, New York;
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not mind. It was a lovely day, the Admiralty.
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