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Tuesday,

The car that made

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famous.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 26, 1939.

Their Day Yesterday

MISTLETOE is a mystic plant, connected with many ancient

rites, whence custom of kissing under it.

Prized by old herbalists as "good for the grief of the sinew, itch, sores and toothache, the biting of mad dogs and venomous beasts," but grown to-day mainly by enterprising farmers with a view to the Christmas market.

Is a parasite, growing chiefly on apple and poplar trees, but not despite pictures of Druids with golden sickles in the history books-on oaks in this country.

Gives its name to the Missel-Thrush or Stormcock, which often feeds on its berries, and wipes the glutinous seeds off its bill on to the bark of trees, where they take root.

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Tuesday, December 26, 1939.

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TURKEY

connection with Turkey in Asia, though so-named from

idea had, are really

of America, where they were first domesticated by the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru.

Introduced into Europe about 1530 by the Spaniards, domesticated turkeys were taken to North America by European settlers, though native wild birds were already there-an carly example of carrying coals to Newcastle. Since the War of Independence reast turkey has been the borne bouche of National Thanksgiving Day-the last Thursday in November... in the United States; and in England, of course, no Christmas dinner-table is complete without it.

White turkeys, for some obscure reason, are called Aus- trian Whites in Europe and White Hollands in America.

Sunstroke

WOKE up sweating, with pit

in my teeth. The hot, ugly

wind had blown from the desert

THC pols "Sureld to the Telegraph all night, sifting the sand over

Ja vrted by the "Honghong Telegraply" to ladteate kurweswhiled is strictly negovalght santer the pony Plaits of the Talerontansilí –

my half-naked bundy,

Pulling on any rocks and elastic-

to the task for a wash. The wester was worn but refreshing as I prute!

Bucketful over my heart.

est eary Orduaren 1915. Such news as i sided riding hosts, I changed notant bestreiterate "C" is zereived 119 Thefing on the date et publiralon by The Tuktad Press Assoelation, who res SPIND all Pehls and forbid repablication. eliver-whelfuur in part williont preyktetɔ-- artemi

Crippled Wings

The story that one of the RA.F. machines flew back from Germany to England with no wing and half the fabric gone from the starboard wing must strike even the layman as re- markable.

down to my best, but did at carve because 1 knew it would zoen city DIL

I went back to the hut amet, an

noyed liceause Christmas Day cama

and persistently.

On

MISTLETOE

Wood engravings by Agnes Müller Parker

Christmas Day

By Moore Raymond-

Hor dit people in other parts of the world spend Christmaz. Day?.

It is midsummer in Australia nr, and Christmas Daj among the sellers on the orid central pleinu was a day of scorching heat,

In this article Aloure Rugmond describes a Christmas he rpent come gara agu'on a lonely sheep station many huvtreds of miles from the coast,

30, poured out the tea,

begged in the mud every day. We had to rescue them.

We pulled six sheep out of the first hole, set them on their feel, and cent em suttliet homewards. Then on to the next--and the next-sweatinit, cursing, caked with mnd-pushing on towards the boundary hills.

Harry's now hat made his head ache. It was very choyish, quile unlike our battered felts, and it was too small for him. So he took it off. We warned him, but he said he did not mind the run as he was usert to going, without a hat.

It was nearly 11 o'clock when the boss called for smoke-oh.

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to my week for getting the homes, owner of the 2003 arres and the mas pudeling. And some unis and a shouted "Merry Christmas?" Yourity 10,000 sheep. His wife, aged about battle of whisky."

The plain turkey, a big, grey bird. The others stirred in their burles, She was the only woman within was hanging out in the safe, and we grumbling and cursing Somebody 40 miles of the homestead, and she licked our lips at the thought of this the sheep. It took longer then we threw a bout.

hated the loneliness and heat and luxury. Ten minutes later I was jingling hardship. the kite in my hand as I walked down to the night paddock.

by the dami.

.

Half an hour's rest-then back to

expected, and it was getting on for Before we went out to saddle up, three by the thee we got them all I looked at the thermometer. It re- clear.

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and

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gistered 96, and I knew it would When we reached the homestead, A Rock of long grey brolgahs New

we found the boss's wife in tents. There was John, a jackeroo like touch 105 before the day was out.

The four of us rode out on to the She had cooked everything ready for over. making noises like cicaky

His father had sent him up hanges. White cockatoos sercammed myself.

our faces. Yet it is certain that some-

to learn the sheep plain with the sun in from a nearby coolabah trec, and from Sydney

At least, that is what she said. already the scavenging eros were business so that he could take over Somewhere, miles ahead, were mud, one o'clock, and now all was spoiled. thing of the sort happened, that squabbling over a dead slicer down a station of isis-own-some-day trapped sheep to be rescued

Tom, the middle-aged station land, thousands of others to be brought But-the-fivo hungry-men proved how wrong she was, and soon had her the damage occufred over Ger-

was hunched over his plate at the to the safety of the water troughs.

smiling again. bottom of the table.

When evening came, and the sheep many, and that the machine

The fifth was Harry, younger We had A tight girth--down with the slip-

seen no rain for nine beran to drift in to the troughs in succeeded in getting back to rails-and I rode aut into the horse brother of the boss's wife. He had months and the country was sick little mobs, Harry started to shiver,

Of course, he had sunstroke. England.

paddock with the bridle loose while come from Brisbane to spend Christ with drought.

He had never been

He was much better in a couple I rolled a cigarette. The smoke bit nas with us.

Though there was plenty of water harshly into my lungs, mitigating my west before, and he thought it was for the sheep in the homestead the of hours, and he sat with us on the

just a lot of fun.

troughs were fed by the dam, most verandah and loined in the choruses, "Don't

by including "While Shepherds Watched be late for Christings of the mob preferred to stay away, and I brought the mob into dinner, said the boss's wife. "There's the big waterholes where grass was. Their Flocks."

Then sleep-with the wind from the plain turkey Jolm shot yesterday, more plentiful. Six of us sat down to breakfast at and some Christmas pudding-out But now those holes were drying the desert still sifting the dust over sunrise. There was the boss, the of a tin, I admit, but it's still Christ- up, and many weak animals were my face.

It was not very far above the waves when it reached home, and we may presume that the crew threw overboard every- thing possible to lessen the load, doubtless kept the rubber dinghy as their most precious possession. We may presume, too, that the ailerons remained more or less intact.

It is hoped that a photograph of the machine will be available" before long and then experts

stand that an uncovered frame-

hun, the horses were not far.

the yard at a gallop.

IF

YOU SAW A GHOST

S the centuries pass we

Highland people are notoriously superstitious, and even to-day inost descends of them believe in ghosts. Low- landers are more sceptical.

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In stories of this kind the Bgures seen generally have the form they have in real life. We don't usually read of sheeted ghosts appearing be-

accept these figures as ghosts, but it does have to admit that there is such a thing as telepathy. I am convinced was no speculation, he that in should become more All types of literature have toldjeyes there

dreams, for both of the will be able to pronounce on

narrators seen to be vague as to how what happened.

enlightened, but tar-jus what the customary reactions asks how they

In stories in magazines

"can behold such sights they actually felt when they saw the When pressed they describ- Even the layman can under-pering with the unknown are.

still holds its fascination. the same way.

the characters generally act in And keep the natural ruby of your figures. cheeks.

ed the fear that they had when they A sudden binst

When mine are blanched with lay awake afterwards, but the dream work of a wing will not supportPeople still have their for- of cold air, suggestive I supposer."

-the result of telepathy-really wakened them, I think. an aeroplane in the air; it is the tunes read, still have their of the cold of the tomb, rouses covering which does that. More-horoscopes cast, still try to the sleeper from his dreams and over, the greater part of the convince each other of the nondescribable awe

upon him. His flesh prickles, his "lift" is derived from the flow fore-knowledge of death, har rises on his scalp, paralysed of the air over the upper sur- and still pathetically try to ho gazes at the apparition, and

Here are two stories I have been fore death. face of the wing, and nowadays commune with those who then with a wild scream he flies told by my own relatives, High-

for their But what would you do If, in the designers do not provide ajare dead.

from the room, or collapses on landers, and they vouch

truit.

middle of the night or even in your the floor in a fit.

armchair, you suddenly saw enter greater wing area than is

What would their reaction be

My father was. in the South of the room the figure of a person you England necessary to support the weight if they did netually see a ghost?

on bulness. My mother knew to be dead, and clad in the of the machine and its loud. Un-You meet people who know

woke up suddenly one night, and orthodox sheet?r allitude of Shakespeare's she saw him standing as if in a blaze

The most horrible ghost story. I necessarily large wings reduce somebody who did see a ghost, characters to his posts has always of light with his hands thrown above

been one to amaze me. In "Hamlet, his head. His face was contorted have ever read was one called "The. the speed, and modern practice but you seldom mest a person although the watchers on the parapet with fright, and she heard him shout Upper Berth." In it the porthole of is to load the wings very much who himself or herself has seen see stalking there the figure of the

they her name. She told us next morning the cabin would suddenly open, and to be dead, more heavily than was thought one. Even when you do meet king they know

that he hoped that nothing had the smell of something long since to it, and Handel happened actually speak

to him. That night woldend saturated with sea water would wise a few years ago.

such a person, the mind still re-himser, although his fear is evident heard that he had been nearly killed enter.

words, "Angels and when he fell down a servants' stair The aeroplanes of Henry Far-fuses to accept the whole truth in his frat

of the story. I am certain that ministers of grace defend un," goes the door of which had been acciden

that he

of n-shapeless letror like this? Would follows tally left unlocked. and the other pioneers the average person will not be further than would probably have flown with lieve either in ghosts that appear

you or could you speak or fight, Or Would you do that?

The other my aunt swear to. She would you do what I am sure I would a good deal of their wings shot before death or in ghosts that Brutus, too, when he sees in the had been in the habit of visiting and do, probably die.of sheer terror? nway. But for modern appear after death until they deep of midnight the ghost of the attending to an old paralysed man. Caeser he helped to murder, holds One night she woke up to find him,

I think the last is more probable, machine to do so seems some-sce one with their own eyes.

conversation with the apparition. as she says, bending over her. The and in my opinion, that is why you thing rather like a miracle-one

The terror And what do you think they blood-stained ghost of Banquo usurp that night.

of Macbeth, when the next day she heard that he had led never meet a person who has seen the ghost of the dead-he would not of the many technical surprises would do then? Have you ever his reat, is more convincing. Amazed

survive to tell the tale. that war brings.

asked yourself this question? that others could see that, in whosel The Lowland part of me refuses to

man

The

What would you do in the presence

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