HOW THE CHINESE KNEW THE WORLD WAS ROUND

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 74, 28 March 1931, Page 18

HOW THE CHINESE KNEW THE WORLD WAS ROUND

(Part I.)

TaE Chinese knew that tho world his eyes said: "I can't, master." So was round long before we did, Ting was angry and beat See "Wo with and this was how they dis- a stick, but not very hard, because he coveted it." ' ' • loved him. See Wo was angry too, for There wag onco. a little Chinaman ho wasn't used to being hit, and he called So Ting. When ho went out kicked his master with one hoof, but into the world his father gave him. a not very hard, because he loved him. tiny but a Very nice donkey, , called The odd thing was that So Ting was See Wo., >,His.;mother cam© tottering hurt by the stick and See Wo by the out to say goodbye/ and she gave him kick, which was tho wrong way round, a good^rule: "Always go tho way your and they both began to cry ' and were pigtail points," So Ting's mother said, sorry and made it up. But even af-r----and tier, son. promised. that the donkey's tail pointed west See Wo's mother, tho grey donkey* an<* tno pig-tail pointed east. They came trotting out to say goodbye to would have gladly got rid of their tails her son. ..She gave him & good rule, altogether, ; but-that would have been also: "Always go, the way- your ono disloyal to their mothers, so they tail points you," said See Wo's mother, didn't even try. .They shook hands, and tho1 obedient ]ittle\thing promised.- wished each other good luck, and So they set out on tlieir travels, So went off in' opposite directions'. ' Ting riding on See Wo'fc back. Some- They soon know, that, lonely though times the pig-tail would point—stiff it was, they had done the right thing, out, it went, like a poker—'and that was because their tails looked after thorn, the way to go. ■ Or, -when See Wo had So' Ting quickly came to tho sea, and turned round three times, it was the sure enough, there was a little boat donkey's tail that pointed, and that waiting for him. When there was a was the way to go. So, of course, they desert, he found a camel willing to got on very well; and they loved each carry him, and, though of course he other very much. . , had a good many hardships to put up But ,at last a puzzling and dreadful with ono 'way and another, he generally day came. Tho' pig-tail pointed east, found some job to do by which ho could and the donkey's tail pointed west, earn a supper and a night's lodging. What were| they, going to do? "There And still tho pig-tail pointed cast, must be some mistake," said So Ting. So it was with See Wo. He went " Just turn round again1, old fellow, will west through somo strange, countries, you?" Sco Wo turned round .three walking and walking and walking. But times, and three times three, but it more often than not, somebody would wasn't a bit of good—his tail'pointed be glad to have a pack carried, or a west. Then So Ting tried to" turn little boy wanted a ride and potted round, but it didn't make any differ- him, and, though of courso he had a ence; the pig-tail firmly pointed to the good many adventures he, too, managed ! east. They both' remembered their to pick up a living. , good rules and their faithful promises. /rji 0 -] JC eoiiclutleci ) "Well," he said, ','you're my doni'key; you'll havo to eomo with mo." ■ "QUEEN O' THE MAY" (11). But Sec Wo looked at him dumbly and i, Porirua.