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I

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1954.

WHAT, MAS "HAPPENED

SO FAR.

In hospital at Uxbridge, the_leglass · Badaris longing for the day when his artificial logs will be ready and he can discard hit pag-leg and crutches. The first fittings of the metal legs are over, Dessoutter, wo made them, is ammed i Bader's progress in walking. "P'll never, never walk with a stick,” Badar hød sald,

T was a glorious spring morning when Bader drove back to Roshampton to take delivery, and his spirits were soaring at the prospect. He thought it must be the way a woman felt on her way to pick up a new fur coat,

Dessoutter had a set of three shallow wooden steps with banisters in a corner of the room, and when he had put the legs on and tried a couple of circuits round the room, he made his first attempt at the steps.

With the banister to support him, it turned out to be relatively simple-hand on the rail to steady him, left foot on the first step, bring up the right foot to the same step, and then lift the left foot again. Thank God he still had one knee left to raise himself with or it would have been impossible.

same

Coming down was the thing. He called it the "dot- and-curry" system and has never used any other for stairs.

That morning he learned how to get up out of a chair without help too lean forward, a good shove on the seat of the chair with both hands and the left knee took the strain and lifted him.

"Well, there you are,” Dessout-

"They're ler said.

all yours.

Pravi ✪

Bader fell

20 times

HAMOURY

Beder took a step-and pliched forward. A man came running up to help. "Co

away." snapped Beder. "I'll do this,”

It's a bit coon to let you have them really, but I suppose you'll only start complaining If you don't take them." He grinned. "Shall I wrap them for you?"

"Not 011 your life," Bader grinned back. "I'm walking out on 'em. Here, catch this ...." looked at himself in the mirror. "Good luck!" through the glass Bader," and turned back to the sure this time

car moved

-but still he

he would not give up

#

the It was and He threw him the peg-leg and He looked quite normal. nearly fell over in the process, a terrife moment, Heart-welt- relaxed, satisfied, on the discovered 疽 seat and slick," "Now what about

He was standing up-catch. He could not cross his ing Dessoutter suggested persun- ing

dressed like an ordinary chap- legs. sively

And suddenly "Never!" he answered crisply tooking like one.

just "I'm going to start the way I feeling like one again. Perhaps before lunch in front the ruddy undercarriage back."

off. He other doctor.

soft

new

In the dining-roam the greet

was hearteningly different welcome There were roars of and ribald remarks. Streatfelld "Long John's got his bawled:

of

He trembled

H15 the first

mean to go on."

atrops.

Standing up! ANTALOUDENGIDEONSTICHORSELLITEETNE(SİTET

FOR the first time

he began pul-

When the car pulled up

doors he looked a bit shorter than Uxbridge hospital

4. በ before, about five feet nine and orderly helped him out and the who had once commander a half now so that the trousers we him off for being late at

lunch

crinkled slightly at the ankles.

ting the rest of his clothes on over the car

by the door standing to another doctor. Bader

talking away the orderly who

As they handled him into the

elbow "Don't was fuming at his Dessoutter said:

his

and

he

to

that the legs hands back towards the toe, and stood up within reach.

come uncaslly, but without too Very tired he was drifting much difficulty, to his feet again. off to sleep when he began to Then be took another step and feel thirsty.

fell again. The more he tried to forget it the more he wanted a drink and That morning he fell at least the

times but became. No 20

managed angrier

Aleep. drink --- no

that was stumble up and down the grass obvious. But t WOA damned again and again. arms dailing to if he was going to strap that

keep his balance like

Device flickering harnces

on ice skaics, but on again. on

persisting Tossing the blankets back, he until his legs were aching and with exhaustion 19 ward was on lowered his rump on to the floor trembling

stump and

sort iri the bedside was

spots obviously chaling.

The difficulty of walk- on anything but the

floor by taking his weight with hands again. Worse, the right and after lunch he on the bed

swinging himself tottered out to the table, then

stairs. They looked along on his hands and bottom ing

smoothest floor WDS worrying

ལ

him. That was the worst part

iCgN and harness, worry if you have a bad time lurched with tense concentration

appallingly high and he got to the bathroom. done about six paces to the door. while. You've Д over the for the shirt

steep but he drog-

#tool Muttering, he pulled

to of all. There would be more belt and shoulder amazingly well so far, but don't

fast

The wing commander briefly ged himself up and was swent across, holsted his rump on да expect it to go on as

said curtly: ing at the top. In the ward het with a hand on the edge of rough paths than smooth paths head, Everyone feels desperate turned He put on his tie and jacket, that,

in life, and the airy condence have a stick, tried to give a demonstration of the bath, took a drink from a to ought shouted "You while." They round, for 肛

on he had had was raitied. stood up and teetering

walking, lurching a precarious

"walked" tooth-glass and way from bed to bed, grabbing hands and rump back to his bed each bed-rail as he reached I, where, with Jast strenuous

cheerful and encouraged by barracking from patients

Nathaniel Gubbins

"T

HE Woman Who Bonga, Might Have Been

a Queen-If She Had Met a King" is the intriguing title of a fascinating new book

soon

to be serialised in these columns.

The woman is Lady Gub- bina, and the author is her husband Lord Gubbins, re- cently revealed to be Lord de Gobion, whose ancestors came over with William the Conqueror.

In the

beds. But after few minutes he was so tired he could hardly stand and the right stump was the trembling and

with for weakness.

the or

Those

and of her old homa Sultana

on the Zanzibar, or even the Empress vecupants

hours on end. of Abyminja?

There close touch with the

will also be the in-

kept

jump

for

aching

He tried again an hour later,

REACH FOR

THE

recover.

SKY

At dinner time he was able to struggle downstairs, but when

impetuous Lady de G. have credible story of her first wild but after one circuit sweat was and the always been aware of her broad- party given in a garrot when soaking him all over mindest attitude towards mired she was a teenager. The polise right stump was threatening to that neigh collapse under him, the muscles was so appalling marriages and of her fervant

When shrunken, weak and flabby after for admiration

Lion of bours sent for the police. the

in plain clothes so long without use. He was Judah

a they arrived ever since she saw

beginning to realise that it was copper-nab of him holding on the irrepressible photograph umbrella over his bowler hat. mistaking them

guests, not going to be so easy and for cracked she recently

talked cra

over them

the hood the rest of the day he relaxed only dreaintly of spending her holl with a long French loaf as they to give the stumps a chance to

Ababa on the came up the stairs. days in Addis transparent

But such was the magnetic of "seving pretext

fascinating, in- the

there" pler

pr "lasting charm of this food." Abyssinian

triguing, impotuous, unconven- Now for the first time all the tional girl that the police took he went to climb back he just for obstruction, but could not do it; the strength was an exaggeration. Who can say highly changed personal drama were soon full of fish and chips drained out of him and he was that Lady de Gobkn would not of the century will be told. You and inger beer, dancing merrily about a little red with the fascinating, Intriguing, have married a king if she had will rend

unconventional guests. met one before she had the haired girl, later to be Lady

Intriguing, fascinating, uncon- door bells Em- de Goblon, ringing marry the misfortune to

unusual-these poverished Lord de Gobion! Who mid running away, of how she ventional,

the but a few of the adjectives one back, and lowered him on to his and bed, he hoisted

bed. Lied she

might have

a roet of cotton knows that

Lying there, Douglas been

of the house opposite can use to describe this book. the

of Bonga- knocker Queen

The title of the book is not facts

As when

faced women

concerning

CRICKET

:

the

bo

most no action

GUIDE

Bry

aching all over.

By PAUL

A burly orderly carried him BRICKHILL

up with Bader's arms round his neck, body dangling over

After lunch he got the orderly to carry him

the upstairs to ward where he practised from bad-rail to bed-rail again. Soon ho мая In agony from the chafed right slump and had to struggle to his bed. Unstrapping all the harness and taking off the stump sock, he found that the skin round the groin was rubbed raw In couple of places.

Taped it up GENERISAUTEENIJAN BREVKusomsoftdru

HE called

an

orderly to bring him some sticking plaster and taped it over the raw

parts, put his legs on and tried again.

It was a little better, but then the whole stump was so SILE and

that GOTC

it was hard to tell which part hurt most. That evening a nurse put porno cold cream an the raw patches and it was very soothing.

his effort, hands on bedside table In the morning a

car drove himself him back to Rochampton. back on to the sheet.

"I thought

back you'd be Temper cooling off

43 he about this time." Dessoutter and with enormous relief drifted tiredly into sleep he said. "Let's have A look at his harness and realised that going to bed would those stumps." He, Tulitt and leaned the Carefully

Legs have to be an organised ritual Walloer spent about two hours where they before removing the legs. adjusting the sockets of the bat in any other would", the wall

be nicely within reach. He thought it was smart of him

lega, to remember

could hardly position, difference to the Beld.

11

Q. The field?

also makes

A. Well, dear, the fieldsmen, They have to change over for left-handed batsman,

Q: You said just now it was S this is the time of the year

embarrassed, red- the batsman's beg

A. Well, dear, it is in a way, reluctantly take to cricket matches and as his legs, when awaiting the are obliged to answer imbecile ball, should both be on the leg questions hurled at them in side of the wicket, while his bat Un- that

covers the middle stump. voices

penetrate every

he is a left of COLTIC, Less, corner of the pavilion, here the first instalment of the Un handed bataman. Intelligent Woman's Guide to

Over? Q: What happens then? Cricket which

can be cut out md and kept for future reference. becomes the off side and the Question: What is the dif- oft side became the log alde.

a leg break ference between

and an off break?

A: Well, dear,

Why?

the leg aide

: Because the batsman is Answer: Well, dear, leg facing the other way round.

. ນ

Turning his back to the broak pitches in the leg side

While

I break towards leg.

Q: Whose log?

A. Well, dear, the batsman's

und

Q: How do you mean change

A. Well, doar, to give a few examples, deep mid-on becomes deep mid-off, silly mid-on be- or comes silly mid-off, second slip become fiño leg. And gully....

Q.: Gully?

A. Yes, dear, Gully. Q: What in

the goodness is gully 7

you

first

Dame

30

un

After breakfast he tectered

that, but the out into the garden, where he Bader went back to Uxbridge thought was interrupted by a got another shock as he stepped to try again, but they seemed

minor clatter as the legs

over

fell on

patch

of

and griks

ing, curtly refusing any help and getting up unaided to lurch

no better. For two days he felt as dismayingly stumbled about, continually fall- over on to the floor, looking instantly obscene and disembodied with insecure as the first time he had

Too tired stood on the legs. shoes and socks on. to pick them up, he swore and

He took a step, the right too and fall again. Mostly he fell crawled between the sheets.

forward, sometimes backwards, Shortly another thought stir Immediately his clump of grass

firsk falls Ho

hock ch sametimes on hard fois, arten red. Damat He hadn't cleaned and he plicht for ard his two or three umesideways,

go 1111

his hands. N It part was Ail on the grass. his teeth. Oh, let it morning for once.

right but now he had to get up

WORLD COPYRIE REsenvid down again, Sinking

1. while for he agal He wanted to blow his nose and thin ing japo ma came

for the Sky by Raul found he did not have a hand- rumling be wympathically:

published by kerchief. That

straw.

H

the Last Hang on to war, old boy. "Saon

In that mood there was not

have you up &

and the spin of the ball makes bowler?

A. Not exactly, dear. it break towards

off, the whereas an off break pitches on a right-handed batsman has his

going to be any sleep and at o away the mapped. "15 the off side and the spin makes left leg forward and his left

A.: Oh, thank, heaven there's fast he testly stretched out for do this towards the shoulder pointing

not reach his legs but could

Feftook his weight on loft-handed bats the tea bell. bowler, the

still hungry them on the floor. He rang for hangs and wered the rear Q: Are man has his right leg forward

his right shoulder pointing after that enormous lunch?

Little A.: Just a

peckish, towards the bowler.

Q: What difference does that dear.

Q: When you have satisfied A.: Well,

makes your unnatural appetite you will It to the left tell me all about gully? difference

he batsman because handed

A. Yes, dear.

leg, of course.

Q. Which log?

A: Well, dear, it might be. elther leg as "leg" is an expres- make? sion to describe the log side of the wicket as distinct from the some of side.

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