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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1936

DWARF

(Continued from Page 10)

After having walked for a quar-

But the wooer, without know-ter of an hour the sight of the him extremely ing why, let out a roar of laugh-town seemed to ter, and Mary immediately under-monotonous. stood that she had been taken in

Never had he felt ar lonely. The few the by his fine words.

passers-by were very She shed a tear, and be gave streets dull and badly lit, and, re- her a few pats on the back in membering the flashing lights of the way he had seen Mr. Barnum-¡the circus, he was sorry he had bill do when women had a great strayed from it. To kill time he grief. He noted in his mind that went into a bar and ordered a Mary was bucked up right away, beer, as he had already seen the When the show had begun Mr. Serpent Man do. The owner, who Barnumbil made a brief appear yawned, watching the clock, asked ame in the van, hurried as he him with a vacant voice:

"How is't you're not at the cir

Peter and thought that Old Mary cus?"

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"Well Doc. how do you find our ther?" patient?"

"No. I have to be here to keep

"I'm not the doctor," Peter re-the shop." plied. "I'm the patient. Tm the ¡dwarf.”

Mr. Barnumbill opened wide his eyes, but he was not a man to be astonished for long.

"In a way," said Peter, “you don't have a very gay life."

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"Me?" protested the "Why. I'm the happiest of men! I don't want to boast..."

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"Mary exaggerates a little," said Peter, blushing.

"Huh! Queer happenings. boy, and I don't see

what the

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van came upon Miss Germina sitting ticeship. But first he had to choose

this

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He explained what his occuHe explained the use of money, the "Fine, boy" he said. surprised that suit fits him tions consisted of. Peter

dare say what he thought, but it difficulty an honest man ha in

getting it 80, well."

For the love of Miss Germina "And if you knew how witty he seemed to him that happiness was

not have the luck of belonging to and because he understood that in a troupe of famous artists. Igner life, unless you are a dwarf or an ant of these matters he went out elephant, you must do something. without paying for his beer and Peter decided to be a great artist. Mr. Barnumbill, in consideration returned to the circus.

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He took time tist or acrobat had to be ruled out; Marseilles & London.

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"My name is Peter," he said to "Not well." answered Mr. Bar- the Bareback Rider. numbil. "The doctor came a while! ago and had him taken to hospital."

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"You'd never make a child smile. As I see it you're too reasonably "I think I saw you a while ago, minded and usual-acting to the sir. They told me you were a re- surprise your public-by anything

lation of Mr. Barnumbili's. You unexpected." "As good as gone," added Peter, find me quite dejected, for I've just learned that my friend the dwarf with jovial impatience.

alis in the hospital"

The Serpent Man wiped away

tear and. before going said:

Now is the time to visit, said to Peter: Clustralia & New Zealand

lands of Sunshine and Romance. "Down Under" you wild feel a new being and even if you are not inclined towards Suring, Fishing, Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you.-including 25/- for your pound

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"That doesn't matter.

to

Regretfully, Peter gave in Koko's reasoning and began his apprenticeship as a juggle with

I want the two Japanese. At the next

"He was quite the nicest pal to tell you that you're very lovely, little town they played he juggled ever knew. He was so tiny that Your fair hair, I think it's grand, fairly well with two wooden balls, there was no room in for and your black eyes, too; and the but. he felt he could never go much meanness. He was gentle, sir, and nose, and the mouth. I would be further; and anyway, he did not

Like the game. very happy to kiss you." SAILINGS confident"

Ho apprenticed himself to other He would

Miss Germina frowned and Fe- Peter was mored.

acts without much more success. have liked to tell the Serpent Manter was intimidated.

"I did't want to annoy you," said Peter was so discouraged by all that he was the dwarf and that

"And I won't kiss you until these failures that he did not dare Port Singapore,

Swettenham. he was almost unchanged, but at he

But you are to you ask me.

very watch the show any more, and the Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta.

the same time he was afraid

all belittle himself to acquiesce in his lovely. The face, the neck, the towns they passed through

seemed as dull as the one that he late limits. The Serpent Man shoulders, all are perfection."

alone. threw him a hostile glance and La His candour he held out his had first ventured out in went off sniffing, Mr. Barumbill two hands. Miss Germina, was In the evening he preferred to all angry. She told him that one other company that of Old Mary, "You had friends"

didn't act that way with a well-who still knew how to console him, "I'll have others.”

brought-up person; that she was a for all his deceptions. "That's not impossible, but that very poor artist, but proud He "Don't you worry" said she, jone there was a sure friend who could not find anything to say to "everything will come out all right. expected nothing from you." excuse himself. Riskily, be seized You' be a great artist like Mr.

Or else you'll: Together they entered the circus on a piece of clap-trap which he Yanido or Koko. and they had to explain several had heard a hundred times coming become a dwarf again; that would times that the dwarf, had just from Koko or the Yanido brothers. be a fine thing, although you are gone to the hospital and that he

"Love made me lose my mind." better looking the way you are.” It was almost a month since Pe would not be seen again the he sighed. "Alas, adorable Bare- troupe.

back Rider, why must my eyes be ter had grown when the Barnum- Yet nobody paid any attention troubled by your golden hair and bill Circus arrived at the Big City and pitched its tenta. From the to Peter, although Mr. Barnumbili your velvety glance?" introduced him as his cousin. It She found that he spoke well and very firat night a great crowd filled Peter all the benches, and Mr. Barnum- was as though he didn't exist, and listened to him willingly.

bill watched with a worried air he remained silent, a stranger, it continued: seemed, to this great grief of "But how can I make you un-the different acts on the program- which he was the cause. Surpris-derstand that I would lay before me. Peter stood behind the ring ed and shocked that no attention your soul a fortune worthy of your in the midst of the uniformed at-

tendants and the artists awaiting! was paid to him he was furious beauty?"

their entry. He had. lost all hope at the dwarf for still taking up The Bareback Blder gave

gracius smile, but Mr. Barnumbill of having a career as a circus ar- so much place.

In the ring the Serpent Man was entered at that moment and heard tist; his last try with Julio, the Hon-tamer, had failed like all the doing his act-twining himself what was said. about the mast, going through a "Don't listen to him." said he others. He was too well-balanced needle's eye, tying Els legs in "The lad hasn't a bent penny to to risk himself without damage in double knot. A little envious, Pe-his name. His speeches are even the wild beasts' rare.

Peter watched- Misz Germina ter listened to the murmurs of ad-more trying than those of Koko

Up- miration that rose from the bep-who, at least, has a fine clowning galloping round the ring.

standing on her horse, her arms ches. He, too, had known the talent" favour of the crowd, and he hoped, "I, also," retorted Peter, "I, thrown out to the crowd she smil moreover, to know it again. This also, have a fine tent. And the ed her acknowledgment to their youthfulness of body and mind, this public never skimped their ap-applause, and Peter thought that not one of her smiles was for him. perfection he felt inside himself. plause for 108.**

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the Bareback Rider.

Mr. Baraumbili hastily spoke of majority of his companions do something else and then pulled their act in the ring-Koko, the Tanide Brothers, Mas Primrose Bored with the show and tra-Peter outside." patient to discover the world, he "Let's talk a little of your the Tightrope Dancer, the Serpent took his way out, and into the talent," he said when they were Man, the Japanese. Each one of

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