Fage 3
THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 9, 1937.
THE WORLD GOES BY
other
I was Whence comest Thou?
And the moral of it is: Why
ful daily column without reward?
Then Badjoss answered and said, worry? Doeth be thus for no reward? I is easy to be cheerful when all goes
A bandy-legged woman combing
her hair.
He swore mildly and went on Then Badjoss answered and said, writing. had an attack of malaria the hearing Kowloon Just
Then came other things, that were other day. I was transported getting cramped for arm space, I in my delirium to a strange land. came out at this end of the tunnel, From going to and fro on the earth,
Hong, but he went yachting and an enormously and took some chicken soup and and from walking up and down in worse to bear than the boils of The entrance was
And Fate said unto Badjoss, Hast did keep cheerful, long corridor, whirling with wild some dry toast. I was dog tired, it.
Then Badjoss threw in his hand, echoes. Something like standing so I knew I had come a long way, under a bridge while trains are and I let myself drop off to sleep thou considered my servant Ulysses, passing over it. It had to be tra- right there where I was, with all that there is none like him in Hong and ran down a steep place, and passengers standing Kong and he the writer of a cheer became as a stranger in that land. versed on foot, and the roof seem the ed to get lower and lower, so that I around.
And now you know what happens bumped my head. All the time Things (of which the less said the in delirium. better) were trying to get by, from
I have been asked to contradict well. Then hast given him pleasant Things I behind, and there was only just
It had terrifically the rumour that the committee of times, and the work of his type- Don't Admire room for me.
and But put forth thy hand now, cold draughts, like the Underground the Hong Kong Society for the Pre- writer has not been wasted. in London, and in between these vention of Cruelty to Animais has
to request local Sunday tease him, and he will be otherwise. And Fate said to Badjoss, Behold, shivering experiences it was stuffy, decided
Once I emerged, however, there Schools to omit the story of Daniel was a feeling of expansion, and my in the lions den on the ground that he is in thy power, but do
an uneatable slay him. head swelled up like a Zeppelin. teasing lions with
And there was a day when Ulysses did fall and hurt himself exceeding- The people were as queer as those prophet was cruelty. in Alice's Wonderland, but as I was
There was a man in Hong Kong ly, but yet did he continue to make queer myself, they seemed natural.
Ulysses. and that man bad jokes and be foolishly facetious- under named.
Then came unto him a cruel cough, They made me up a bed
which kept him busy, and between some tall trees, sweeping together was an example of cheerfulness hedgehogs and horse chestnuts for (sometimes).
was only so-so, coughs he indulged in laughter.
Then Badjoss did cover him with me to lie on, and the tall trees bent
the same of Hong, the boils nearly double to make a canopy. I and he complained not of it, but begged them not to trouble-it hurt was content.
Now there was a day when the coming upon his arms, his legs, and me to see their backs in that fear- fully constrained position-but they harbingers of Fate came to present the back of his neck, and upon his and themselves before their Lord, and body, even at last in such place that
to sit save on the corner said it was the usual thing
Badjoss came also among them, couldn't be changed.
And Fate said unto Badjoss, chair, was painful
I played cards with the King of the country. At least I started to but could not continue because they gave me neither fork nor spoon to pick up the cards with. You can- not imagine how that hurt me, and
-BY- "ULYSSES"
I could not make them understand that to pick up cards with the nak- ed fingers is a form of cheating. The more I gesticulated the more kept cards they dealt. The King
head. dealing on the top of my until my neck creaked beneath the weight..
Then, mercifully, the cards top- pled and crashed, and I fell into a warm bath from which I was un- able to get out. I began to worry because, you see, if none helped me out, I would miss the ferry and be late for the office, and the big story I had written about the card party would be too late and the newspaper sellers would boo me all the way up Wyndham Street.
The King had a face like a war memorial, bristling with bayonets and drooping flags, and he pretend- ed I was a fish and that he was an angler. When I would not take the bait, which was made of castor oil and medicines of the kind that have to be shaken, he bent down and tried to put the hook in my mouth. Horror! My neck was rigid. could not dodge. Under the ton- gue. Under the tongue," he roared. Then he took out the hook, and look- ed at it, and shook his head, and frowned. 1032.
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"We must get that down," he said
Then he surged back into the horizon and disappeared, leaving a hole in the sky, through which came presently the head and should- ers of a woman I didn't know. swam on my back away from her, away and away.
I could not see where I was go ing but presently I knew I was in the tunnel again, because of the
passing overhead-
covered in soot, so I knew I
Was
His substance
of
not
A Macassar fish on a pink plate. The other newspapers.
A lee shore on a dark and squal-
ly night.
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An empty bar. The Chaplin-moustache. Boils.
Church congregations singing. The colour of some of the beer
imported
The humming and hawing of a man about to request a loan. Refugees.complaining.
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