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“...accompanied by rippling
music.
After consuming “mountains of ice-cream”, as the Con-
sul put it, and no less than a thousand rolls, we were glad
for a holiday the next day; and we are all very grateful to
Mr. Ogden, the Consul, for proposing this day of relaxation.
III. THE FOREIGNERS’ FIREWORKS.
(As from a rickshaw coolie)
One evening in May found me, a poor rickshaw coolie,
and about a thousand of my fellow-countrymen rushing
through the streets of Yentai to the old Preparatory School
of the China Inland Mission. I scarcely knew why I was go-
ing, but I was swept on with the tearing crowd. I had stuck
my elbow into the brown ribs of the chap beside me three
times without receiving any response. As a last effort, I be-
stowed a sharp dig in the same regions and shouted in his
ear, “What are we going to do there?” “Bonfire and fire-
works!” he said impressively. “But who is making them
and why?” “Well”, he said with an air of great import-
ance, “these foreigners have had a kind of Emperor to rule...”
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CHEFOO SCHOOL ENDS YEAR
Preparatory School Gives Display of Work
aT HE China Inland Mission Schools in Chefoo held their
closing exercises, prize distributions and exhibitions
of work, this week.
On Monday the Preparatory School had their day. In
a very good programme the best items were undoubtedly
the later recitations and the combined songs of the Uppei
School. The smaller children were not undeserving of praise
in theirs but it was the Upper School who displayed a .eally
remarkable clearness in nearly all their songs, so that very
few words were missed.
The older generation were reminded of their own
childhood by the happy little scene from Struwelpeter. A
particularly chubby Augustus, John Stephen, commenced the
tale; a much leaner number two took on the narrative, and
a suitably cold and blunt youngster, Peter North, told with
heartless brevity of the sad end to the hunger strike. Mr. A.
A. Milne is, of course, absolutely indispensable in a children’s
programme, just as Lewis...”
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