"you see those two sisters in the back row," says Miss Henderson, "Their parents were blown to pieces before their eyes by a bomb in Chapei. That girl, and that, and that, bad the same experience. Those three in the corner are all that is left of a large and prosperous Pootung family and they have nothing except what we can give them." the poorest lodging, they were forced to beg on the streets.
One afternoon, as they were pas: ing a crowded alleyway, a small figure struggling along with a heavy pot, suddenly abandoned it and dashed towards them, "Daddie Mummie! Scarcely able to believe his eyes the poor father was clasping his hysterically happy baby to him, when the people who had bought her as slave came out of a nearby house. Shouting that beggars were steeling heir maidservant, they fell on ti ailing father and beat him so severely that he dropped unconscious to the ground.
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