CTION FOR
HONGKON
THE DOORKNOCKER AND 1-
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EVERY now and then, a mysterious parcel from the Congo arrives at our house, addressed to my aunt, who lives in the country. One arrived the other day and I was elected by the rest of the family to take it down to her.
I was in a good mood and started out happily enough in the morning. Unfortunately, due to missing the right landmarks and taking the wrong turns etc, it was late afternoon when I finally spotted the driveway.
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quaint. I thought, just like the old soul to insist on having an
hidden
I made my way to the door old-fashioned knocker instead and found myself face to face of an electric buzzer. with
doorknocker. How But after I had wiped the dust and perspiration from my spectacles, I 63W that the- knocker wasn't quaint at all: it was, in fact, one of those African shrunken heads, and
this one looked like the real McCoy too; I could see the preserved wrinkles and the hair roots on the scalp.
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S. ROMER, 20, student of 7 Lau Sin-street, Causeway Boy, 3rd floor, Hongkong.
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DAVID CHO1, 18, student of 17 Loon Kong-road, 1st floor, Kowloon.
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GINGERLY
Now my family says I have 3 one-track mind.
I've never bothered to find out if it was true, but at this particular moment, it never occurred to me to rap on
the door with my knuckles. There was a door knocker, so I used it. And very
MARTINA LEUNG, 17, ingerly too. 11d Belcher Gardens, Hong- kong.
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I lifted the skull and let it fall. To my relief, nothing hap- pened (I had half-expected the skull to emit protesting sounds), JOSEPH WONG, 18, and as nobody answered the student, 6 Sai Bin Wai, Un-door, I decided to knock again
loudly. And so I did. Never- Long, New Territories. theless, I received a mild heart
THE
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QUEEN'S ENGLISH?
The Editor, 17-21 Club,
China Mail,
Hongkong.
Dear Mr Editor, sir,
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Apt. A6
12th floor
Mirador, Mansion
Nathan-rd.
Kowloon.
1st July, 1961.
with a
Cor, you could 'ave knocked me over feather, old boy, with that jolly good vocabulary which you substituted for my flippin' Americanisms! I promise never to use 'em again, guv. Jolly rum go, but I'll stick by the rules. But tell, me one thing, mote, aw can I 'elp it if I never wuz brought up to learn the ruddy language nice and proper? After all I wasn't born in this joint.
School dance, evening jacket, coffee shop! Chee before you can say Jack Robinson, I'm willin to wager that we'll soon be going to the flicks, smoking fags and drinking cuppos at elevenses! Blimey!
I remain,
Yours most sincerely,
ANTOINETTE ROZARIO.
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attack when crumbled up in my hand at the second knock.
the knocker just knocker, the remnants of which
still lay in my hand.
At this moment, my aunt opened the door.
and remarked: "I'm afraid your I greeted her a trifle shakily
doos knocker has been knocked around once too often."
By.
S. ROMER
"Nobody," my pulling me into "nobody should there
aunt said, house, out
the stand
"Is it a real skull?” "Why of course, my dear. Could you imagine your Aurt the genuine article?" Millie settling for anything but
I
you
I had to admit I couldn't. had another
try. Rather fragile, though, don't think?"
She sighed, with the air of a proud mother talking about the escapades of a muzhiy child. "Yes, but they're so cute. And original. They're the skulls of real African warriors, shrunken by the tribal medicine man.”
That didn't make me feel any
in this sun. You'll better, but to avoid further catch your death of sun stroke" dosing I tried to appear as bright I assured her that I wasn't and intelligent as I like to think feeling hot at all.
I look ordinarily. cpposite, as a matter of fact.
Quite the
"Tch, tch, you've a touch of fiu, poor dear. You're shivering. Came into the kitchen. I've got a blazing fire oh...."
I don't know what she was doing with a blazing fire in the heat of summer, but I do know that she practically forced a few varieties of her special home
made
tonics
your parcel Everybody sends their
I. er, brought down. love.
the old soul asked.
"Oh, it's arrived, has just in time too."
"Ard
I handed her the parcel, and she fell to opening it with the eagerness of a child on Christ
mas Day, talking all the while. "I really love these. The
trouble, of course, is that they drive-away-flu down
guaranteed-to- can't speed up the process, what my wih all the police officials throat. Absolutely incompar- around.' able as a flu-prevention medicine
it was too, though it did not And from the parcel, she prevent indigestion.
lovingly extracted - another
I asked her about her dcor- shrunken head.
"MY GIRL JOSEPHINE”
FALLGAN
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