Evening star., 1935-12-08

lie lduy WOkS up I1eI eyes went from
side to side because they did not know what
they were looking at. Then they saw David,
and stayed with him. Her lips pressed to-
gether. She sat up, and with jerk put on her
white hat which had fallen off, She still looked
afraid. but in another way and she was
quicker and happy David watched all this
with interest
Little David" the lady said. She smiled,
and her face went crvy, all the lines moving
about. "This is where Goliath gets the sur
prise of his life. Come on, lamb" She took
Davids hand, and they went together down
to the canoe
I'm you CO." she said, lifting him. He sat
on the bottom of the canoe. 1t was nice there,
like being in hut with no roof The lady got
in and said, pelican, quick time"
Brown legs moved about The men pushed
the canoe away from the beach and sat down
and padded with their funny paddles The
canoe went out across the lagoon. David sat
looking up at the lady and she smiled at him,
though there were tears on her cheeks. Often
she turned to stare back over her shoulder in
frightened way, but she never saw what she
was afraid to see.
A bump startled David. He looked up, and
there was the Sailo rising above him like a
big hut. She was much. much bigger than she
had seemed from the beach His heart started
to jump about. The lady stood up and called,
BILLY! Billy" A brown man looked down
from the Sailo.
The lady picked up David Don't drop
him now, she said
The brown mans hands came under
Davids arms and lifted him up. He went into
the air like bird, and then he was inside the
Sailo. The Sailo was not curved inside like
canoe, but flat with fence built round. Two
palms grew from her with vines hanging down
from them. Little huts we're dotted about.
Brown people slept here and there, but not
people of Malu. 1t wasn't at all like Malu on
the Sailo.
The lady walked away from him. She went
down into hole. David got frightened. The
sharks would eat her if she went into that
deep water, for her skin was very white. He
ran after her as quickly as he could calling in
warning, MA! Ma! MAJ
But the lady had not fallen down into the
water She came up again out of the hole with
a round, bright stick in her hand. David
hardly knew her she looked so stern and hard. =
wake up there, Tom, Dick, Jacob" she
said in much bigger voice. The brown people
woke up. They looked surprised. She pointed
the bright stick at them. Captain - he stop
along Shore" she said in her much bigger
voice. 1--WE go damn quick one time Tie
little fellow boat astern. You Jacob, engine.
One fellow anchor up Suppose you no can do,
shoot plenty quick"
They were all scared of her and surprised.
She seemed new to them. too. She walked
about, pointing the stick David stood at the
bottom of one of the palms. Everyone seemed
to be running very fast. He grew bewildered
and his neck ached with jerking his head
from side to side He cried little, but felt
very excited and happy: 1t was much better
on the Sailo than just watching from the
beach,
The pig noise started so suddenly that he
jumped. The Sailo began to go along. No
one padded it. 1t simply went along grunting:.
David claDped his hands. The feeling of just
going along was like sitting on the back of
fish. A brown man turned a round thing down
at one end. Perhaps that was what made the
SaiIo CO. David's legs were very tired. He sat
down, but did not go to sleep because there
was so much to see.
The kind lady came along. She was laughing
oks