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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1949.
PETRIFACTION
URRASHELLISH, "my
Aunt Una's house, iny about half a mile back from the great sickle benchi of Killanachan Bay, just on the edge of the willow.
A hanging stocking and peculiar draught
the Christmas holiday experience of childhood that remained
vividly in the momory .
like that."
fringed stretch of marshland was my constant companion must have come out of a well from which it took its name. when I was at Curvashellish (Currashellish means "the many years later she almost bo- marsh of the willows.") It cams my wife, but that is an is many years since I was inst there in the flesh to see
other story.
We passed on upstairs.. *What ап extraordinary thing!". my mother remarked,
A strange expression crossed my mother's face. "Tell me, Una”. sho sold, "does Mi something McGeoch know about, this this draught?"
we had him up the
Yes, On the day before Christmas and that was all she said about it, but I can remember overy VG of 1012, my mother and I it at the time. I'myself was other day to see if he could And arrived from Glasgow at experiencing a curious sort of detall of the picture that illanuchan station, and were fear, not so much because of the case of it."
"Well?" queer look of the white ob- suddenly formed itself as met as usual by Mr McGeoch ject hanging from a nail in the you turned off the machair and his waggonette. He was a wall as because 1 must have road into the long. stony drive.
I could draw it now on this picco of paper:
the crazy silhouette of the house, which was of the Scots Baronial style but built fairly late in the 19th. century with a wealth of ex- travagant ornamentation;
tho scraggy fr-trees, affording some shelter to the garden but none to the house Itself, which would often quiver under the lash of Atlante gales; and looming bo- hind, away beyond the silver- green march and the dark peat- bogs, the humped and ragged
silent man, not given to small
talk of any sort, and it was usual for him on such journeys to say nothing whatsoover after the normal courtesies had been exchanged. But on this occa aton, when we were about half- way along the drive, he turned
the
that Rory and Elizabeth were realised with a child's intuition keeping something from us.
Always on the day of arrival at Currashellish I was allowed to stay up rather tale.
That evening we
were all in the
karmu---------
By ALASDAIR IAN CAMPBELL
My aunt hesitated. "Go on, mother said Rory. But still she hesitated.
"You've all noticed it thes?" my mother asked. They nodded, when did it begin, then? I don't remember noticing it be- fure."
This
sounds silly."" Aunt Una said at last, "but the first time we noticed It was the very day Inn brought that old stock- ing-you've seen 117--over from Killanachan."
My mother aald: "Mr McGeoch asked me on the way if I bo loved in" She stopped short, with a glance at me.
No more was sald on the sub-
bulk of the Scouran mountains his whiskery face to my mother dining room, sitting round the This, too, I recall clearly; the and said gruffly: "Would you Are, the grown-ups talking and melancholy warbling of the be a believer in ghosta and Elizabeth and I trying to build Ject that evening, or not until curlows which inhabited the things of that suri, now, Mrs n house of playing-cards. A I was upstairs and in bed, any- wet wastelands between the Campbell?"
coal tell out of the fire on to the how, I lay and shivered, the house and the hills. Above the Mother Jaughed. "Good hearth-stone, and my mother, sheets pulled over my head, rattling of the old waggonette beaveral
"I in putting it back with the until I heard mother come up lungs, got some spot on her then I ran through and jumped hands. Sho went upstairs to into her bed. wash, and in a minute or two was back, shivering; she went straight to the fire,
which would fetch us from the West Highland time station at Killanachan, theso mouraful cries seemed to contain the very essence of a dead world. 1 felt that, even as a child, although, of course, I would be incapable of expressing my feeling-ex- cept, perhaps, by snuggling up more closely to my mother.
mother.
she exclaimed, should hope not.”
"Aye, just so," Mr McGeach grunted, and furned his head BWDY.
"But why did you ask me that?" my mother inquired.
Who
"Ach. he said, "it nothing but a thought passing through my head," And that whs that.
Aunt Una and Hory and Elizabeth were at the doop to meet us. Their welcome was
"Brt. There are some queer draughts in this house now, Una," she said in a moment.
My aunt looked up from her knitting, Elizabeth gavo her silly Hitle giggle again.
Rs Warm as over, but there "For goodness' sake, shut up!” seemed to be something curious sald Rory irritably to Elizabeth. In the air; perhaps it was be- cause I was so young could sense it, for adults be densely insensive
1
SPENT many holidays at Currashellish when I was
that
"Do be qulat, you two my small child. Una Maconochic
aunt said to them, and then, was not really my aunt, but a
to the turning to my mother, she ask distant cousin of my She was a widow and had a more delicate shades of atmos- ed her quietly: "What do you
me mean, Meg?" family of two boys and a girl: phere. It was a sense of some- lain, Rory, and Elizabeth. Join thing
withheld: being
nothing I hardly ever saw, for he was much, perhaps, but something. grown-up and had a medical Anyhow, we all had tea to- practice in Edinburgh.
Hory gether in Aunt Una's sitting was usually home from Glasgow room downstairs and then University during my visits, but mother and I went upstairs to he was
was normally deep Ahim our rooms, Rory and Elizabeth studles; in any case, he
would helping to
carry our cases. have little to say to a boy of Half-way up the dimly-lit six or seven years. Elizabeth, staircase, my mother started. who is four years older than 1, "Goodness,"
sho exclaimed, "what on earth is that?"
I looked up. Hanging on the wall above the stairs, attle way above the landing where the bathroom was, there was what appeared to be a human leg, stiff and chalk-white.
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“LIZABETH gave an uneasy
sort of giggle.
"A stupid thing," said Rory
the following day, Chris-
Oth, I was decided that something would certainly have to be done to get rid of this peculiar draught: It was getting worse steadily hour by hour.
"I know it's stupid," my aunt sald during the morning, "but I do think we shall have to try taking that ridiculous stocking back to wherever it came from." Rory cald he knew the ruin, just outsido Killanuchan, and prom- Ised to take the stocking there later in the day.
FIVE MINUTES
EACH WEEKEND
WITH THE WORLD'S
WISEST MEN
PICTURED here is Confucius, lamed for 2,500 years as a philosopher fand, to the breverant, not least for the catch-phrase. "Confucius - he Top"
·IYELL, what DID hr sáp ↑ BUT Grat who was he p HE 'was born in a town now part
Both of modern Shantung. parents poor. First job was in à granary where he was noted for fair measure. He became a great teacher. During his 72 years he taught 3,000 students, IF you had to sum up his phlio- sophy in a single sentence, it would be you can't have poll. tical order without moral order frat.
HIE loved eating, drinking, hunting, and music. His wife ran away because he was so fastidious about food.
After luncheon, mother was with Aunt Una in the sitting ""TE queerest thing," mother room downstairs. Elizabeth and said uneasily. "When I I went with Rory to watch him was up in the bathroom
Ha stocking down. Just get the
And the stepladder and now, both the door and the win- mounted dow were shut. And then Bud- started to lift the stocking from donly there was a gust of ley the nail; but it slipped from his Among his comments on üle- wind on my head, It almost fingers, fell to the stairs, and froze me."
snapped in two. Just then thero way a weird cry from the "Was that all?"
Aunt Una sitting room. We ran down and
opened the door,
asked.
at
Der
Mother looked curiously, "As a matter of fact, It wasn't all", she replied.
"I know what it was, I know,
I know," Elizabeth suddenly began to chant.
"Tell me, then," said my mother, but it was Aunt Una who replied: "When you came
in his dour fashion. "It's an over from the wash-basin--ani-
old stocking Iain found
ruin over by Killanachan when again and seemed to jostle post wha opened the door, that gust came he was home last week. He you on to the landing. Was stuck up there, tho Lord that it?" knows why."
"You must have dozed off," my mother was saying to Aunt
Una.
"'I.
"It's all
.
TO RECOGNISE what things you know, and what things you
do not know-this is wisdom,
have the gentleman.
A SUPERIOR man hates those who are sure of them- selves and narrow-minded.
EDUCATION BEGINS with poetry, is strengthened through self-discipline, is consummated, “ through music.
READING WITHOUT think- ing gives one a disorderly mind.
IN
understand ORDER. 10 one's true self, it is necessary to obtain a wide and extensive
of knowledge
what has been said and done in the world.
IT MATTERS not what you learn, but once you learn a thing you must never give it up until you have mastered it.
-
AMONG THE means for the regeneration of mankind those mado with noise and show are of the least importance.
BENSITIVENESS
TO shamo
is akin to courage.
I WON'T teach a man who is THAT TYPE of solarship anxious to learn...It which is bent on remembering
order in not
to answer. jexplain one-fourth and the man things
does not questions doesn't go back and reflect and people's
teacher, implications in qualify one to be think out the the remaining three-fourths for himself, I won't bother to teach him again.
Rory. right," said
W said Aunt Una, interrupt- X/HAT a vivid dream I had,
HI
BY LOOKING at a man's
faults you know the man's
character.
1 PREFER vulgar people to
FEEL KINDLY towards everyone, but be Intimate only with the virtuous,
LEARNING WITHOUT thought 19 useless; thought without learning is dangerous.
WHEN YOU BOO a man of worth, think of how you may you sco DO NOT worry about peoplo emulate him. When not knowing your ability, but one who is
ing him in dazed voice. thought I saw Iain falling all the snobs. his length down the Waverley "Yes," my mother said slow Steps in Edinburgh and smash-
yes, just My mother moved forward a ly,
like that. Is ing his leg." littlo and stopped again. "A there a crack in the wall or stocking? But il's-but it's something?" And then sho And so she had, as a tele-rather worry that you have not amine your own character.
full of something!"
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mean?"
common
man
unworthy, CX-
added, before Aunt Una could gram from Edinburgh Inform-go! it.
A YOUNG person should be anything: "It's strange, ed us that evening. say stirred Rory
litte.
the utmost re A GENTLEMAN blames him- treated with though impatient, and Elizabeth though, for it's really quite mild.
should the Meanwhile, the two pieces of
spect. How do you know that he will not, some day, be fully giggled again. "It's potrifled," outside why
draught be 60 icy cok, I the stocking had been taken by self while a Rory said,
what you are now? equal of Rory across to Killanachan and blames others. deposited carefully in the ruin
POLISHED SPEECH often It is the man who has reached "Petrined?"
40 or 50 without "But it's not a draught, Aunt where Iain had found it. And, confuses our notion of what is the age of
tho mysterious good and bad.
ever having done anything to Rory condescended to ex- Meg!" Elizabeth
as sure enough, cried
distinguish himself who is not plain: "Yes; you know there though on the point of blowing draught had gone with it.
worthy of respect, are, wells in some places with up. -What was the secret she. water in them that will turn was keeping corked with such things into stono, limestone. It great difficulty?
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IT IS man that makes truth Inin recovered from his ac-great and not truth that makes
bad extremely cident (an
man great, fracture) in a couple of months******* and came to Currashellish to ronvalesce. Mother and I were WE DON'T know yet about.
at life, how can wo know. about there for a long week-end
:
TO GO too far is as bad as to fall short.
IF, WHEN you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to SIMPLICITY OF character worry about, what. is there to:
manhood and car?
the time, and I can recall Iain's death? description of how he had shot down from the top. of the Waverley Steps as though he is near to true had been shoved violently, alloyally is near to sincerity of though there was no one near heart. him at the time.
A MAN
who has committed That was the last holiday a mistake and doesn't correct spent at Currashellish. That it is committing another mis summer Aunt Una sold the take. houso and moved to Park Crescent in Glasgow.
A MAN who loves truth (or learning) is better than the
wish
DO NOT
for quick results, nor look for small ad- vantages. If you seek quick- results you will not attain the. ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages you will never accomplish great things.
man who knows it, and the IF A man does not constantly: himself: "What is the man who finds happiness in it ask
I really la better than the man who right thing to do?"
don't know what is to be done Mnineteen MANY years later, when I was loves it.
about him, or twenty, Hory' and I were talking about the THE BUTERIOR
LANGUAGE SHOULD curious business of the stock-derstands what 18 right, the such as fully to convey one's ing.
Inferior man understands what meaning, but no more.
man un
"What a shock it must have will pallet been for Aunt Una!" I remark❤A SCHOLAR who intends.to.. THE ESSENTIALS of good
ed.
"Yes, and a bigger one
me," said Rory, with a grin.
"What do you mean?".
follow the truth and is asham government are: plenty of ed of his poor dress and poor food, a strong army, and the for food is not worth talking to... confidence of the governed.. "WAV
"On the way over, to Kil lanachan I stopped and had n good look at the Sections of The thing where it had soap- ped."
"It was a sipcking, all right" Rory said, but there was leg inside it,"
What!"
TEL. 58478,"A leg. Petrined like
stocking round it. I could the bone quite clear
A GENTLEMAN is ashameddig min mana
IF WE could all be courteous that his words ard better than
for even, a single day the This deeds
hatrods of humanity would turn to: loveny
a
A YOUNG man, loves women,lapsen
middle-aged
THE DUTY of young peopin man loves. struggle, an old man loves is to work hard and have the wine and cakes to their, elders. ruoney.
IFA man's natural qualities YOU CAN" cheat an honest. exceed his training he is - man, but you cammot fool cultivated; it his training etc.- him, zakaj App
peeds his natural quailites he TO KNOW what is
little more than an educati
Sedlackey. It is only when straight anal honeet thid to the the natural qualities and then and not to do it, is see femining harmoniously com cowardice.
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