LUNG FOO AND THE SUNSET GOLD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 318, 31 March 1928, Page 27

LUNG FOO AND THE SUNSET GOLD

Once there was a great Prince of China called Lung Foo. He was rich and handsome, and had everything he could possibly want, and nobody in the whole of China ever thought of contm - dieting him, or suggesting that he should do any thing he didn’t wish to. Like so many people who hav*everything. Prince Lung Foo wanted a little more, and one night when h*looked out at the setting sun. he said to his Chancellor: “See. the wonderful molten gold! 1 will take it for myself.” The Chancellor said: "But. Your Kxcellenc3*. the poor will then have ,k. golden sunset to gladden the evening hour after a long day of hard toil. It is their due, almost the only one they have.” The Prince was so astonished ai anyone daring to suggest that he wa* not absolutely in the right, whatever ho wanted, that he quite forgot to punish the brave Chancellor for speaking his mind. ■Fool!” said he. I want the gold, and that is sufficient reason for me to have it.” So he got into a boat and sailed out into the West to steal the sunset gold which belonged to everybody. There were six men to row, but they could not make the boat move quickly enough to please this greedy Prince. “I should get there more quickly if I swam,” he said. So he did. The last the rowers saw of him wete his white arms wet and shining in the pink glow of sunset. After that, l»was never seen again. Whether the molten gold scorched him, or whether the gods took him to some other place, to punish him for being so greedy, nobody knows.