As we rambled through the That S. M. Here be appointed market place, explored the winaleader of the Rovers as chief. ing streets, dumbed the heights of Proposed by is. M. Jacobs and the village, we marvelled at the seconded by A. S. M. Wagstaff. thoroughness of reproduction That the name of the new troop which had even" twined vines over be the First Shanghai Rovers. the cottages and planted posites in. Proposed by S. M. Here and the little window axes. The seconded by P. L. urn.
That patrols be formed under scene represents the village at Rover Mates Shekury and Wag-early nightfall just before Christ-staff, mas, the only illumination comes from the open shops, shines through the windows. of houses, from the moon and stan's In addition to the replacement overhead and the illuminated of Mr. A. P. Blunt, c-m.c., at clock in the tower. To complete Weihaiwei by Mr. W. Russell the illusion lazy flakes of ''stage" Brown as Commissioner, Mu H. snow drift down on the happy Wyatt Smith has relieved Mr. throng which fills the pace Jowett as. senior district magis-Kiéber. A stork nests on the trate and Mr, H. Tuson is junior chimney, the fountain plays, and district magistrate. at, the Post Office one may buy 4 one's requests to St. Nicolas, to Santa Claus stamp: and' mail receive a reply the next day.
A real canal, with real golitfisn in the real water, and craft of every description, with a busy windmill, runs past the Village Store. wh every kind of toy lives, and just beyond is the Taverne, with its hospitable fire. gay garlands, stuffed sausages and all the accessories of its prototypes abroad, The electric railway which rans Yound and through a mountain and past little villages is astonishing in its Verigimilitude and should be visited. as should also the cinema where the films taken last Wednesday ave shown.
The, children and grown-ups are first seen in, the market place. typical scenes of the village Tite, with goats, sheep and dogs also starring. Then comes the last day of lessons before the holidays, Jater the children are seen as they sing their nursery chansons and play their game of "planting cabbages." Billy the Goat enters later and wrecks the garden. Then the excitement of the. last mail for Santa Claus is vividly portrayed on the screen and we see one of the tiniest of the Hoys boys dressed in daddy's clothes and smoking his pipe. Midnight strikes from the village church tower and Christmas is actually here,
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