THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 26, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
ME TRYIN' TO HIDE
THE FACT THAT I'M JEFF AND WORKIN'
AS A MAID AT THE VANDERPANS AIN'T EASY!
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Üheare, Süpsenuj Con
·JANE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? YOU'LL DISTURB GRANDPA TWISTING THE BUTTONS
ON HIS, VEST!
I'M
NOT DISTURBIN
HIM,MA'AM!
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I'M JUST TRYIN' TO TUNE HIM IN ON ANOTHER STATION!
WANTS TO HEAR IN TIME FOR
CHILD LAUGHTER
(By A Special Correspondent)
HE IS EIGHT-FIVE. He is an artist and he lives alone in a lonely old house which once echoed with childish laughter. Now his children have grown up and have left the nest, and the house is grey and silent.
More than anything else he wants children in his house again. He wants to hear their ringing laughter, their chatter, and the patter of their feet. He wants to paint them, too.
So he has put an advertise ment in а newspaper offering i part of his home rent free, to a. mother and one or two children. The advertisement offers Iwo rooms and the usc of others "In return for hearing the
BREAKFAST
A wounded Nazi airınan crawled, bootless, up to the cottage home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hollick on the out-skirts of London recently, knocked on the door and asked for help. This is what happened.
Mt Holliek. aged fifty-seven Ed have shot him if he'd ben wun trouble") tung open the door Land pounded his shotgun at the
Nazi
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Pete the dog ("Best rafter the district ́) dashed out of doon and grabber the man's from ;
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Mr Hollek, aged Any five I had just started to light thei
Rebe
heard the knock")
kave hum breakfast.
The Naz1 was so pleased that he funk off his floating jacket and ANT to Mrs Hollick as a sou venir. "Take this and put it up- ads before the police come,” he
said.
"I don't want 'snobby' young. sters." he added. "I would much
come from prefer them to middle class family. All ash Is to hear their voices as they play in the house and gardens." Some of the walls of Mr Engle- children's voices."
field's hause are covered Avith The artist is Mr Arthur Engle- mctures he has pamited. For many fie'd. who live at Duckshall, years he exhibited at the Royall Northwoud, MikliesON. He wile Academy In one room there WWIIN is dead, and his four children have a cluld's portrait in oils Zelt to onto homes of their oWEL "I am always painting them.
He has a five-year-old grand-¦ Mr Englefield sand, "mostly from│ daughter Vanessa, but she is with memory If I get the right type it." she said to me. "But I didn't i her parents in India.
for child, bright and intelligent, Eye ame ne magistrate to say "Come
and one who looks like being an up and see me sometinfe!! ** artist. I will teach the youngster. For years I was an art teacher. Englefield has already "I cannot tell you how thrilled bought some toys in expectation I am at the prospect of having of early arrivals. "I hope they | children here agam. will like them,” he told me.
Mr
Bought Toys
ibong for that day
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But when the police took the Naz away later. Mrs. Hollick handed over the jacket as well.
"Hs Ma. West my son called
The Nazi, aged about twenty- two, had baled out from his plane. which crushed SIX miles away after it had been hit by a night fighter.
His parachute was found late. This is the story of the adven Ture as told by the cottagers and then to
Said Mrs. Hollick
I locked the coltage tour for the first time for weeks. the night before.
"After the knock I heard some I'm. one muttering, Let me in, freezing. I knew it was a foreig ner so I called my husband.
When the man canie in. could see he was wounded in the He was ex- neck, arm and leg.
cold-he hausted with the
bad
been wandering about for two or three hours-and he collapsed on acouch."
Said Mr. Hollick-
"After I had called off the dog we put him in front of the fire. His feet and the blood from his wounds were frozen.
"He told how his
companions
were still in the 'plane when he jumped.
"He was a fine big fellow and
was wearing the
Iron Cross.
ribbon of the
"My son, Driver Herbert Hol- lick. of the R.A.S.C., was home on
his French leave and tried him."
On
Said Herbert Hollick-
"I pointed out where our win- German "dow was broken by a
bomb several weeks ago.
"He didn't want to hear about that. He was more worried about his boots."
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