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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1934

THE DWARF

(Continued from

Page 10)

EXPLORING BRAZIL BY ZEPPELIN

Dr. Eckener In Command Of New Ship

THREE-STAGE EXPEDITION

Plans for the exploration of the

aru

In the ring the Serpent Man was all are perfection." doing his act-twining himself In his candour he held out his about the mast, going through, ajtwo hands. Miss Germina Was needle's eye, trying his legs in alangry. She told him that one didn't double knot.. A little envious, Peter act that way with a well-brought- listened to the murmurs of admira-up person; that she was a poor tion that rose from the benches.jartist, but proud. He could not find He, too, had known the favour of anything to say to excuse himself. primeval forests of Brazil with the the crowd, and he hoped, moreover, Riskily he seized on a piece of clap-new Zeppelin L. 129, which is to be to know it again. This youthful-trap which he had heard à hundred completed next February, ness of body and mind this perfec-times coming from Koko or the taking definite shape, Dr. Eckener, tion he felt inside himself, why Yanido brothers,

the Zeppelin commander. stated should not the public admire them?) "Love made me lose my mind," he that the owners of the airship Bored with the show and im-sighed. "Alas, adorable bareback were "in principle" prepared to palient to discover the world, ha rider, why must my eyes be troubled place the airship at the diaposal of took his way out and into the streets by your golden hair and your vel-the expedition. and that, he of the town. Happy to be rid of vety glance?"

willing to act as commander. the dwarf, proud of his strength and She found that he spoke well and] The expedition is being or- freedom, he strode along the streets listened to him willingly. Peter ganised by Professor Vageler, - a with exultation. But his intoxica-continued:

well-known explorer, with the co- tion was brief. The passers-by "But how can I make you under-operation of the Brazilian ethnolu pald no more attention to him than stand that I would lay before your gist, General Rondon. The project| to anyone of themselves.

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"I've grown," he sighed, "and beauty?" nothing happens to me at all. The bareback rider gave A "The carrying through of a-Zep- What's the use of being a good gracious, smile, but Mr. Barnumbill pelín expedition in the Brazilian looking man if it's not noticed? entered at that moment and heard forests 18 dependent on certain con. One might way that the world is what was said,

ditions," said · Dr. Eckener. only made for dwarfs."

"Don't listen to him," said he, need a base in. Rio de Janeiro, and After having walked for a quar-"that lad hasn't a bent penny to this means that we shall have to ter of an hour the sight of the his name. His speeches are evenwalt until the new hangar there is) town acemed to him extremely more lying than those of Koko,completed, which will not be until monotonous.

who at least has a Ane clowning next August. Never had he felt so lonely. The talent."

"If the expedition is to take pluce passers-by very few, the «"I, also,” restored Peter, "I, also, next year as Professor Vageler in- streets dull and badly lit, and, re-have a fine talent. And the public tenda, August would be the latest membering the flashing lights of never skimped their applause for possible time to start for climatic the clreus, he was sorry he had me".

reasona, as the mainy season begins strayed from it. To kill time hel "And what do you do?" asked the then. When I was last in Brazil, went into a bar and ordered a beer, bareback rider.

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"Let's talk a little of your talent,"

"How is't you're not at the he said, when they were alone. Koko's reasoning and began hia circus?"

"You can flatter yourself for having apprenticeship as a juggler with the You made a fine mess, Go right on two Japanese. At the next little

"I didn't have time. neither?"

"No. I have to be here to the shop."

now in the ring and we'll see if town they played he juggled fairly) keep the public still applaud you. Really, well with two wooden balls, but he it's just like you to be going about felt he could never go much further: "In a way," said Peter, "you courting the girls when you don't and anyway, he did not like the don't have a very gay life."

know how you're going to earn your game. He felt he was doing tric- "Me?" protested the barman. living. Have you even thought five kery with the natural laws that had "Why, I'm the happiest of men! Iminutes about that?"

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"Earn my living?" asked Peter. He apprenticed himself to other He explained what his occupa-

Seeing his Innocence and that he acts without much more success. tions consisted of. Peter didn't suspected nothing of the necessities (In everything he showed himself to Condare say what he thought, but it of life, Mr. Barnumbill took it upon be handy enough, but not anything of the seemed to him that happiness was himself to instruct him. He ex-out of the ordinary. When he tried

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seat. But that was not sufficient; out paying for his beer and return-OR the love of Miss Germinalother merits were necessary to the ed to the circus.

and because he understood i pretence of being an artist. that in life, unless you are a dwarf Peter was so discouraged by all Prowling about the stables Peter or an elephant, you must do same- these failures that he did not dare came upon Miss Germina sitting on thing, Peter decided to be a great watch the show any more; and the her stool, while an ostler harnessed artist. Mr. Barnumbill, in her horse. He took time to watch sideration for past services, took ed as dull as the one that he had her without being seen.

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The was too well balanced to risk diately forgot his sadness. All himself without damage in the wild about him he heard them speak of beasts' cage.

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and Peter thought that not one of "How she smiles to us!" he mur». her smiles were for him. He felt mured with the public's voice. weary and ashamed of his loneli- When the grand finale of the ness. He had just seen the majori-show came he let himself be borne ty, of his companions do their act towards the exlt by a sea of specta in the ring-Koko, the Yanido tors. He no longer thought of an Brothers, Miss Primrose the Tight-artistic career and no longer folt rope, Dancer, the Serpent Man, the the need of being admired.. He Japanese. Each one of these acts was, on the contrary, happy to be recalled a fallure to him:

long to the great flock and be no This is the end, he sighed, longer quite responsible

for his per- I'll never again go on in the ring son. Mr. Barnumbill, who had seen There's no longer any place for me him sit down on the bench; watched in the troupeof Barnumbill' him for a long time until he became Circus."

in the crowd a point like the other": points, then turning to the Ring- master who stood by him, he said:

"By the way Ringmaster, I didn't tell you

The Dwarf is dead.", (The End).

owd.add

Fie cast a fiance at the noticed at some distance fspace" unoccupied: because.

tapolled the view.che

down there, and almost „inime.