By Denis Bray
The tale is instructed as an autobiography, from becoming up in China to the occasional short career of the Governor's seat. within the early days, 'administration' was once fairly a grand notice to explain the day-by-day grappling with novel difficulties by no means earlier than encountered.
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A gun is fired four minutes before the start and another one with sixty seconds to go. The scene on the river during the few seconds before start of a bumping race is breathtaking. Sixteen boats are pushed out from the bank in dead silence, broken only by the coaches counting down the seconds. The boatmen using their long poles, and years of fine judgement, ease the boats out to the extreme length of the chain in the cox's hands. Then the gun goes and 140 men instantly dig in their oars and race.
They had a frightful time negotiating the bend in the creek outside our house, a feat which was only accomplished with tremendous shouting that added to the cacophony already supplied by the percussion. As the fifth month approached, we were on the lookout for the dragon boats which we could hear long before we could see them. W i t h the first sounds of the drums and gongs, we would drop everything GROWING UP IN CHINA | 7 and rush down to the gap in the bamboo hedge from which we had a grandstand view.
The spacious verandahs round the playground of the Boys' School kept the hall and common rooms cool in the summer. In the GROWING UP IN CHINA | 1 1 winter, wooden frames with glass were put up in the arches of the verandahs giving an extra layer of insulation while the central heating was going full blast. There was always some excitement with each change of season. Watching the removal of the glass frames on the verandahs heralded the abandonment of our plus-fours. The production of khaki shirts and shorts meant swimming and rowing was not far off.