'The story of "Old Soldier," the! former British Army horse ' which' was recently rescued. in a pathetic plight. by the Shanghai Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is still going the rounds and arousing] much' sympathy. Sometimes the sympathy, among the younger generation at least, is misplaced. Yester~ day 2 Shanghai mother was greeted by her offspring on, return from school with a request for five dollars, The mother's natural question was? "Why do you want it?" "And she heard a story to the effect that there!
an old British soldier, who was poor and had nothing to eat or to wear, riding about Shangh streets on a horse. One tittle mother "had given her five dollars which the little girl had passed on to the old soldier." All the little girls the scheat were therefore on. the Jock out for an old British soldier on a horse, and they had. promised that, when they saw him, they would aive him some money. "This is the Version of the story which about among those bet ight years of age in that particular school. And it does much credit to the sensibilities of the children concerned. The lady who heard it yesterday' tried to explain, to her sym pathetic offspring that "Old Soldier was an old war horse, and that, she had got the story a little muddled. But the young mind refused to sidetracked and. stuck to the. old soldier version she had been told school. "How can you give a horse five dollars when you see it in the streets?" she asked,
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