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BENE LIE YRAUUNIT JAK AXIS SIT

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 11

GOES BY

THE WORLD GOES

SEE that the tenants of a London

I building estate have organised

Dull things became exciting.

themselves into delegation, and pro- ♫ The ordinary pose to approach the Ministry of traordinary. Health to complain, about the bad state of their houses.

One of their biggest points is that the plaster ceilings keep falling down.

became the

ex-

It

vas Niagara,

It was the Somme.

It was the father of all avalan-

During the war, when everyone. ches, grew vegetables in their gardens, he would leap out of bed at three o'clock on a frosty winter's morn- ing crying:

This reminds me of the night the "The crops! They must, he saved." ceiling fell on Father.

He would then light a lantern,. To appreciate this story, you rush down to the garden and hurl must understand that Father (my Father) was a man with a keen eye to the dramatic,

Anything connected with himself had to be dramatised.

Not that he exaggerated in the ordinary sense of the word, but his powerful imagination improved any ordinary situation until it was pul- sating with interest.

It stepped up the speed of his life. It accelerated the tempo of

-events.

-BY

"ULYSSES"

great bales of straw on to the plot where the potatoes were planted to protect them from the frost.

But.back to the ceiling.

It was the End of the World.

With the roar of its impact still ringing in my ears. I rushed to his room.

I switched on the light.

It was as if the room was full of steam,

A white dust swirled around.

You could hardly breathe.

lazily

There, buried in the middle of it all lay Father. His bed was piled mountains high with great slabs of plaster that looked

as large tombstones.

as

It seemed as if a bomb had gone

It was long time ago, and. we had off in a cement works.

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| All very trim and neat. There were one or two small cracks in the bedroom ceiling-but nothing really noticeable nothing to worry about.

The ceiling (all of it) decided to come adrift from its moorings at about half-past four one morning.

It sailed down in a great sheet. Father all unsuspecting, dreamed his dramatic dreams below.

I heard it land.

I rushed over to him.

. One eye peered out from the wreckage.

the

with "deep sepulchral satisfaction, came the succinct reply:

"Yes," DANGEROUSLY !

But I knew the old card too well, and I came back at him quick-

"Well, snap out of it and get this place cleaned up!"

let's

that situation

Father, quite unhurt, saw the tense drama of the was irrevocably "broken.

seven-

He sighed, removed pound slab of-plaster from his head and staggered to his feet.

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