The Archive · 1928

The Boy and the Old Watch

the fact thal he is neither ridiculing The writer wishes to emphasize nor criticizing the efforts the Dang Bu to reconstruct Chinese society but is endeavouring in the main to trans cribo their own statements of their aims, One in warm sympathy with them states; "Their entire efforts: for the present are to tear down the old. Until this is fully accomplished there can be no. new construction. The land is literally littered up the fragments of the old order; but we realize fully that the real task, will be that of reconstruction.

We are irresistibly reminded of] our earlier days when an old watch came into our possession. It was dirty, and kept. poor time and we had a lovely time taking it apart. This was easily accomplished with the aid of a jacknife and in a very short time the table was littered up with an amazing array of small screws and various-sized wheels. But when it came to reassembling, it was discovered that the'main spring. had been broken in getting it out and the hair spring warped into uselessness. Also several screws had rolled off to the floor and disappeared in the cracks of the same, But we had had a glorious half hour of experimentation.

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