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T was hardly light when the corporal came for them. As they were led

Felipe stared straight Whend

Felipe pressed himself harder

of him. The plain rolled away against the ground, his eyes before his eyes, rocky and bar shut, sweat running down his ren, for miles. In the distance, checks. Close beside him there in the foothills, he could see the was a scrabble of loose stones. white twin towers of a church. as a few men staggered to their The world seemed wide and feet. They turned toward the safe, being at war suddenly officer, calling feebly, and Felipe nothing.

heard him laugh. The gun.

bone.

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by Robert Westerby

"This one?" the officer's voice suld, and Felipe's stomach con tracted a chill as of water on his spine.

**Sweet Jesus! Let it bes quick!" he prayed. He stared dully at the officer's boots. They were old, aplit and starved for polish. Through a crack in the leather he could see gray stack-

That the inauguration of India's now Constitution should be marred by the calling of a foolish, strike is a circumstance which reflects no credit on those

"Hall! Five paces, I said."-roared out again bitterly. who appear to have set their

appears on this page to-day. The line of men wavered and "Oh, the poor fools!" Felipe "Oh, sweet Christ, let me lie' minds, from the very outset, to

whispered "It was a trick, and still.lie still"-Felipe-stared. But, although fiction it de- stopped. render the new plan of govern-

Standing still, with hunched I knew I knew! And now they at a stone lying just by his right It must be scribes events that are tra- shoulders, Felipe felt death wait- are dead."

eye. Two feet, heavily booted, ment unworkable.

stopped in front of him; almost obvious to the meanest intel-gically true, happening at ing behind him as the officer's fingers went to the trigger of

filling his small world. ligence that full self-government this moment less than 1,000 the gun.

Cautiously he opened his eyes. His heart was beat- cannot possibly be granted over-

ing loudly and quickly as if it la could only see with one.

The other seemed night to a country such as India,

would burst, and for five long was funny,

not to be there, but there was seconds he waited, swearing. with its conflicting racial groups.

no pain, That way. disaster would lie.

Then, shatteringly, the gun

Blood was trickling slowly The lenst that Congress leaders

spoke.

across his face, and where be could therefore do, in the in-outside the prison was silent,

fore he had seen the plain, the terests of their own people, as if it, too, were waiting The hail of bullets swept along mountains, the little church, nis would be to accept the new

the line of prisoners, spat up world was now small. for death.

Three or four stones, a scratch ing. Constitution as the first instal-

Felipe raised his eyes and dust and stones, tore through

and flesh

Writhing in the earth where a bullet had The third boot, that of tha ment of larger reforms to come, stared dully around him. The

grotesquely in their pain, the passed; his own right hand, and mun shot down next to him, lay to co-operate in making it n

stiffly pleated mountains looked

men fell to the ground in a wave. a foot which scraped feebly in still. The ant craweld around success, and to gain thereby ex-blue in the distance, with small The earth was damply cold to the dust, as if in agony, as if it in his wound, torturing him, but perience-in-government.-AII. clusters-of-trees-lying-at-their-Felipe's body, the stones hard were_a_live_thing. For a few he clenched his teeth.__frozen along the line, the Pandit Nehru. feet, Hungrily Felipe looked at and sharp against his face. He seconds it would remain still, with fear, and remained motion-

less. President of the Congress Party, them. Behind them was his lay flat, his chest pressing the then it would twitch again.

ground, and over him the. An ant crawled laboriously "You're right," the officer has made desperate efforts to

home.

shrieking bullets tore through acrose the stones toward him. said. "He's no more dead than secure the opposition of the rank

An officer came from the pri- the air.

He felt it as it climbed over his I am." and file of the party to accept-

insect's Abruptly the roar of the gun forehead. The little

There was a whistle as a stick... son, buttoning up his tunic. He ance of ministerial office under was small and sallow, but with ceased, and Felipe heard the feet were like needles, and ran swung sharply through the air, thud. The third boot the new Constitution. In these wrecking tactics, he has been sort of swaggering smartness-scrape of the officer's boots across his face until they reach- and

twitched violently, turned over about him; his cap was set at a against the stones. A few yards ed the open wound over his eye. the Congress

away a man was screaming, hisi Footsteps crunched towards and writhed sideways in the Socialists. Other sections. of rakish angle.

voice impossibly shrill-tnen him and there were voices. dust, just missing Felipe's face. "How many are there?" the the officer's voice, raised in a "There's one!" "Where?" The Then there was a shot, & the party have not, however,

"All right! Get up! officer sounded excited, like a second's pause, and the boot. displayed the same intransigient officer said, shouting, as if to shout:

Get up! All those still alive will small boy who is hunting for kicked upward and dropped back, stand. It was hoped, further-keep up his courage.

The corporal saluted. "Thirty, be freed,"

birds' eggs or butterflies. more, the Gandhi, with his fond-

Somewhere above him Felipe heard the officer laugh. ness for compromise, would be senor capitan,” he said. able to evolve a formula which "I'll use the now

gun," the would enable Congress to accept officer said, and called loudly office, but the decision eventual-over his shoulder. ly reached, which required ad- vance guarantees from

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HUMOUR OF THE CHILD

A CHILD creates more laughter then it intends. It is the adult who perceives and enjoys the humour wrapped up in many of the sayings The officer flushed angrily. of children. And this is natural. It

ernors concerning the use of The corporal looked puzzled. their special powers, was obvi-"The new gun, senor capitan?" ously one which could not be he said.. accepted. Clearly, no Governor

Two

of her

which is a more

to

"It is a good gun," his voice | said. "Not many, were missed,

even the first time, and there: are many to come."

The feet crunched away, and Felipe was alone.

ants

himself

sun

But her retort was swift and un- answerable, "Oh, if it's so nice to be here with God, you stay here with God and let me go to mammy."

The doctor's little child watched

The sun came up and more · her father

swarmed into his open who wants to see the new Con-"Yes, the new gun," he said. Is the unperceived, the Instinctive, the using the stethoscope upon young brother.

tried to startle stitution working properly would 'll use it myself. It will kill the unexpected, that lies at the root At length she interposed with. "Get wound. He

ting any new stations, daddy?" misuse those powers, which

them, but he could not. He the whole 80 of them in a of what we call the humor of a

An inspecto of religious know- Are designed to cope with

child.

ledge was questioning some bairns. seemed to have stopped being A little brother and sister were Among other questions he asked, "If emergencies and which, given second or two. You will see."

any longer. The mutual

men came out of the! would co-operation, Tseldom if ever need to be evoked. i prison, carrying the new gun.chatting together when the boy said, all the good people were white, and was hot, burning, shrivelling

"I wonder what we are in this world the bad people were black, what The tactics now being indulged In silence they set it up on its for" "Oh," said the sister, "we are colour would you be? Some uns hot. Time went by slowly.

Everything that had happen- and some in by Congress can only bring short tripod opposite the fine here to help others, you know."

Then what are the others here for?" "black" The inspector turned the day before seemed to fresh

of prisoners. disaster to India, if

It seemed to stare at them, was the lod's reply, and there was quiet child and Inquired, "What have been a year ago...the.

philosophy as well as latent humour colour would you be?" "Please, sir," carried to the point of actual op-

she replied, "I would be streaky" fighting in the streets; the of the wounded; his position to the Constitution, and, the dully shining new gun, and in the query.

true and honest screams An English Bishop entered a vil- so far from helping the country the man next to Felipe no, not

confession than many adults would father's white face...the Moors closing in...but he'd get away towards eventual self-govern man, he was not yet 20-began lage and stepped from his car,

now...first the prison...then ment, must yield the opposite to pray out loud, crossing him- surprising the children who gathered be ready to make.

round with a vision of gaiters, apron, effect. The last campaign of self, muttering. The sweat was shovel-hat, and long cloak. They A conjurer who was drawing eggs the gun...then the officer. civil disobedience left India in a running down his face like were not very familiar with Bishops from a hat sald to a boy in the then the ants...

down there, and boy tried to front of the audience, "Your mother

Bei caga without hens, can His eye rolled feebly round to stress. Just now, prosperity is sponge.

"He looked something like a Scottish she?" returning to the Indian people,

The officer walked over to the soldier, and then he joyfully burst cant How?" "Oh, we keep ducks!" dust. and a sincere effort to co-operate machine gun. His face was out with, "I know, he'll be a High Willie's mother one morning sald

to him. "Just run over and see how left in his fingers, movements There seemed to be no power would aid that process. From serious now, businesslike, and lander in mourning."

old Mrs. Thompson is " WES every standpoint, the attempt to he crouched behind the gun, ad-

soon back with the message, "She were hard, hard and painful, wreck the Constitution before it justing the bolt of cartridges getting to sleep one night and cried "But, Willie, whatever did you say gradually closed his hand- A small girl found difficulty in says it's none of your business." yet, setting his teeth, Felipe has been given a fair trial is to Then he looked up.

to be taken downstairs. The father to her?" "Just what you told me to. be deplored. Let us hope that; "About turn!" he shouted, went upstairs and used all his argu- I said you wanted to know how old closed it until the small clenched even at this eleventh hour, the and the line of men turned mente he told her she was naughty; she was this morning."

flat lay outstretched on the that father and mother, were fired Some children were playing at stones. realities of the situation, may round raggedly and slowly. x

and should be allowed to rest; that housekeeping. One said, "You can For four weeks he had fought paces forward!" the she would soon drop off to sleep; and, be the mother and I will be the officer jerked out and terrified, In any case, did she not remember father Another retorted, "No, we for what he belloved in, for four- as if in a trance, the 80 men with her in the dark, and therefore and we won't need any father

that she was not alone, for God was are going to bave plenty of money, weeks he had been a man, lurched over the rough ground.. the need not be afraid.

He was 16 years old.

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