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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 24, 1987.

THE

WORLD

GOES BY

THIS

HIS is a fairy story that might have been written if Hans Andersen and the Brothers Grimm had met after going to too many pantomimes.

Little Red Riding Hood was set ting out to see her grandmother, Her two Ugly Sisters stopped her and said, “You can't do that--it's our job to take Grandmother's eggs, because she always gives each a dollar tip.”

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ANZAC DAY

TO BE OBSEN KO

TO-MORROW

Elaborate Ceremony

at The Cenotaph

The local observance of Anzac marked by a Cenotaph ceremony Day to-morrow at 10 a.m., will be

more elaborate than in previous years.

Buglers from the Seaforth High- landers will sound the "Last Post" the same regiment will encircle the and "Reveille," and Pipers from monument playing the "Flowers of the Forest" after the Two Minutes' Silence has been observed.

Several wreaths, in memory of those who died at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915, will be placed at So Red Riding Hood, who was the foot of the Cenotaph. Those used to this sort of thing, put down wishing to lay private wreaths will her basket and replied, “All right, be permitted to do so following the have your own way, only don't laying of the official wreaths. grumble if I come out best in the

end."

The Ugly Sisters did not get very

far on their way through the wood FEARS FOR

to their grandmother because Red MAN WITH

Riding Hood, although she looked

innocent, knew all the local ma- PHARAOH CURSE

gicians and arranged with one who

was out of work to turn the sisters

into a couple of fawns.

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BARONET'S WIFE

WORRIED

By that time Riding Hood's fairy Godmother (not to be confused with Rather than endure the curse ber bed-ridden Grandmother) had the Pharaohs for another day, Lady arrived with the usual pumpkin Seton, wife of Sir Alexander Seton, conjuring outfit. "Don't make it a member of a distinguished Edin- carriage this time," Riding Hood burgh family, has lent to an "un- pleaded, "they look so hopelessly believer" the human bone that she old-fashioned-why not motor-took from the tomb of an Egyptian

princess.

cycle?"

The Godmother sighed, muttered

She will not disclose his name. something under her breath about

So certain is she that something "these modern children,” complain-she has stipulated that he must not dreadful will happen to him that ed that pumpkins were very ineon- venient for turning into motor than a week.

keep the relic of the tomb for more bicycles, but at last did as she was asked.

"By that time I am certain he will have had enough of it," she Riding Hood drove off at a steady said, "if nothing worse happens to 45 miles an hour, slowed down in him than awful nightmares and the woods to collect the eggs from headaches.” her sisters and call out to them, "You look funnier still as fawns," had the bone

In the year during which she has in the house, Lady and increased her speed after pass-Seton has been ill twice; her hus- ing them. She was pulled up for band has been ill twice; there have speeding soon after leaving the been two fires in the house, and wood by a policeman. “Built

up the place has been haunted by a area, you know," he said. "Haven't ghostly robed figure. you noticed all these witches" sugar castlea?"

of

at

"It isn't just an ordinary bone,”. Lady Seton said. "It is part of the Riding Hood cried and explained spine of an Egyptian princess that she had to hurry because if one of the oldest dynasties she didn't get back by the stroke of least 5,000 B.C. And Egyptians midnight her motor-bicycle would believe their famous ancestors live fold up under her and she would on in their spines after death. be left with

"I am determined to see that the a. pumpkin and you've no idea what a fool I should bone is put back in the tomb.

look trying to ride a pumpkin." is my responsibility.

It

Asked how the bone's new owner While the policeman was scratch-was bearing up, she said, "Well," ing his head and wondering how to he has had it four days and he as- spell “pumpkin” in his note-book, sures me that so far absolutely no- Goldilocks ran out from a thicket, thing has happened. But I can closely followed by the Three Angry hardly believe he will escape. Bears. That settled the policeman

who hurriedly rode off on his bicy-

de.

Goldilocks"jumped on to the pil-

"DAY-AND-NIGHT" HUSBANDS

lion seat of Riding Hood's motor- Twenty-two-year-old Mrs. Helen bicycle and, except for stopping to Watts Russell, of Chicago, lived eat about two-and-a-half pounds happily with two husbanda-one-by

from the front door and bay win-day, the other by night. dow of the sugar house of a witch By day she lived with her legal who had gone to a sale of broom-husband, Grant Russell, but every sticks, the pair did not stop they got to Grandmother's,

evening kissed him goodbye, saying

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