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RAILWAY station crowded with people waiting for a train from a branch line. A slight stir at one end of the platform, and then a barefooted boy of 10 or 12 tearing past us in panic for the gateway. As he reaches it the gate closes, and at the same moment a lump of coal weighing at least half-a-pound crashes against the boards near his head. Hard on the coal comes a boy half as big again, with rage on his face and another lump in his hand, and at once there is a circle of spectators. But no one does anything. The big boy seems about.to commit murder, the small boy is cornered and helpless, and then the sensation comes. Pulling himself. suddenly together the little one looks straight into the eyes of the big one for about ten seconds, and the big one crumples. He not only drops the coal. He gropes his way tearfully through a side door, then races madly up a lane, Everybody but the small boy laughs. o
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 353, 29 March 1946, Page 7
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