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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1947.

JAN'S shepherd friend gives him a recipe too good to keep to himself

so here it is!

King Arthur's

Ambrosia

I decided to be idle methodically, travel of "night. Which cordtal Na vice of frost the farm and to put my slippers on as a pro- maketh the barren woman beget was fixed, giving it the per- nouncement to the world that noth- children qnd the bachelor take a manence of a photograph, ing would make me shift an, lush wife. and in every detail there is and my slippers.

The next thing, of course, was to After this preamble I rend:

Take 12 cops, whole, cover with fantastic kaleidoscopic design; My wife had given me a pair last lemon juice, leave a day, add comb the gate post has become a Christmas, but I had not seen them honey, pint brandy, pint cream. Scal statue, the plough appears as since then, for farmers have not and forget.

yet been given a 12-hour day, let

a white acahorse, and even the tone a six-day week, and generally I took the recipe literally, even to water-butt draped with a lace by the time I have milked the cows the point of forgetting that I had so complicated in pattern that I am too tired to change into any made the cordial. I remember, too, embroidery is bald beside it.

thing but pyjamos. I poked around my surprise when I had poured the for five minutes looking for the Jules of the lemona on to the uni This is proper weather for slippers, when something made me broken shell eggs, for the next the. Christmas season. Not only look in the old cupboard underneath morning there was no trace of them, even the shells were dissolved in tha because it is convenient to St. the stairs.

juice. Nicholas's bobsleigh, but more important; it suits my con- science. For now I could sit and fug over the fire, knowing that nothing else can be done any way; the hardent steel shear would bust if I tried to plough this weather.

Then I added a whole comb of COT a candle and peered into this honey, a plot of brandy and a jug womb of darkness. Something of cream. That was ten years ago, glittered in the corner, I dragged it may be more. I uncorked the jar it out. It was an old stone cider and took a spoonful; as

my mouth. It is not A jar, corked up and covered in sealing ravished wax: the whole draped in cobwebe, drink, it is a discovery, it is, the I stared at it for fully five minutes elixir, the begetter of life. before I remembered.

Now let the flame on the apple

nectar it

I suppose I could cart out.

It must have been ten years ago, 10 beckon. I can follow wherever some dung, but I reckon my perhaps more I had gone down in leads, even back to its primacyal horse needs a break as much as the moors to buy some sheep. The forest where lightning Arst made it

farmer who I do. It is best to sit by the to

was driving the flock in the wound of a tree.. meel me had been taken l fire and inhale the sweet fumes suddenly; the ewes had strayed on- of the apple log which I always night in the sulk of winter, with n to the moor. By then it was mid-; burn at Christmastime and cold rain lashing the bleak sullen watch its mysterious blue flume 'tors. Where the sheep would have beckoning me to sleep.

Thoughts At

This Season

By "CANDIDUS”

an

struyed to by morning I hesitated

to think, but the thought of chasing! over the moors a night oppalled

INC.

But it did not dismay a neigh- bouring shepherd who volunteered to help me round up the Bock. We shali perish of exposure, I warned him, or get lost in a bog. "Neither," he sald, with peculiar brevity for u Cornishman, and took an old leather bottle from behind a beam In his cottage and reached for a lanthorn.

We marched Into

the

EX years ago, the Japanese were he gave me a swig from his bottic. Before we went oul into the night overwhelming, by weight of Whatever was in it came slowly to numbers and equipment, the small the lips, flowing like eream, oher in surviving bands of weary defenders the mouth it dissolved into fragance; In the hills of Hongkong, One by it was like drinking the scent of jus- one, desperate and gallant little out- mine, but in the belly it stirred posts were overcome, the only, indi-like the breath of a dragon. cation In manny Instances belog grim Tugether silence as Ileadquarters tried

in vain rain, into the thick night, and no- to keep contact. As the hordes

thing could dismay or exhaust us. swept on, rape, murder and

For every hour the shepherd would were unrestrained-until on

give me a swig from his bottle and, Day the bloody orgy of though wet to the skin, I was not Weled savagery

that was

cold; and when ese warfare, ceased. Survivors were the sheep in the morning, not even we returned with deluded Into the

the belief that the the dog was tired. cessation of bombing and shellfire Peace; but although hos- antics buck censed, the torture, maiming and killing was to continue BEFORE I left with my valuable flock 1 persuaded the old man for nearly four years.

And then liberation. The pent-up hopes and to write out his recipe. And he took ambitions were fired anew--but hope much persuading. For he called his eternal began to flicker and die as drink King Arthur's Ambrosia, and nations

lost the God-sent oppor-wore it was the magic of Cornwall. tunity of fostering love and good-serap of paper, though this operation

Anyhow, he wrote it down will. Distrust and discord dimmed, took him close on an hour. the bright dawning of Peace. ·

When I got home to my farm I looked at his scrawl and read the

heralded Ulitics

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TODAY, we stand by helplessly and following:

follow with anddened concern the bickerings of the Great Powers. Nations which should form a world-

wide fraternity of nations, are them selves torn apart by selfish politics and creeds.

Here in Hongkong, we have done much to set our house in order, and the success is undoubtedly beenuse we are non-political. We-encourage all creeds and religions, and this fortunate state of affairs is to be seen in the getting together of all religions and institutions in the locally universal desire to alleviate distress and unhappiness.

We

in

T the momen-at this special A moment we think of unhappy China. The people of this Colony have so much in common with the great and which dwarfs us almost into insignificance, and we hope in vain that our example will have some influence on those who guide the destiny of the homeland of so many thousands residing here. hope the day will dawn when sincerity and assurance we can wish China

Bright and Happy New Year.

China herself knows that at this sad crs in her history, П cloud At overshadows the coming year, least she can ninko a New Year resolution that she will grasp the hand of friendship held out to her, and by the free Interchange of ideas and aspirations and the fostering of co-operation and goodwill, end her own suffering and turmoil.

A

on a

KING ARTHUR'S AMBROSIA

and thieves and others who must For shepherds, mariners, poets

CHRISTMAS QUOTES

Christians

awake, salute happy morn

the

Whercon the Saviour of the

world was born.

(John Byrom, 1692-1763)

At Christmas play and make good

cheer,

For Christmns comes but once a

year.

(Thomas Tusser, 1524-1550)

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A child that's born on Christmas

Day,

Is fair and wise, and good and

Kay. (Halliwell's "Popular Rhymes and Nursery_Tales")"

Glorious time of great Too-Much,

(Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859)

Life still hath one romance that

nought can bury--

Not time himself, who coffins

Life's romances-

For still will Christmas glid the

year's mischances,

If Childhood comes, no hero, to

make him mCity.

(Theodore Waits-Dunton, 1832-1914)`

Heap on more wood! The wind is

chill; But let it whistle as I will, We'll keep our Christmas

merry

sti. (Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832)

Yule's come and Yule's gane, And we hae feasted weel; So Jock maun to his fiail again,

And Jenny to her wheel..

(Fifeshire Rhyme)

THIS BELL WILL TOLL

1947 STROKES

Aamint Chrihe Parish Church to of

quaint English Christmas custom is the tolling of the

shire town of Dewsbury. Every Christmas Eve for 700 years this ceremony has been performed-only broken by World War II when, for security reasons, the church bells of Britain were silent. The tenor bell of Dewsbury is tolled once for each year since the birth of Christ, and this year the 1947 strokes will take about an hour the final stroke being timed exactly to fall at the midnight hour.

A legend connected with the custom tells how a local baron named Thomas de Soothill, back in the 13th century, killed one of his servants, and to expiate his crime presented the tenor bell to the church with the request that it should be tolled annually. It is cald the Inhabitants of Dewsbury of those days believed that the tolling of the bell would keep the devil away from the parish for another year.

Another Christmas Eve custom, dating back to 078 A.D., in that of Burning the Ashen Faggot at Dunster, in Somerset, Eng- land. It begun during the Wessex battles when the West Saxon warriors, searching for fuel for their campires, discovered that ash was the only local wood which would burn when green. To commemorate that historie occasion the burning of the ashen fag- got continues at Dunster to the present day. It is followed by a dance.

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