Breaking Down Chinese Walls: From a Doctor's Viewpoint
Breaking Down Chinese Walls: From a Doctor's Viewpoint
Elliott Irving Osgood
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So he found himself, a twelve-year-old boy, out in the world alone. No door was open to him, no work was to be found. No mother, no father, no brother, no sister, no anybody — ^just one lone boy. If he starved, if he died, no one would care, no one would miss him. So he began his wanderings. Every refugee goes south. It is warmer there and does not require so many clothes. Then there is a gen- eral impression that food and clothing can be ob- 156 BREAKING DOWN CHINESE WALLS tained in the southe...rn provinces if one is willing to work. Anjrwhere is better than in a famine district. People were dying there and no one likes to die, especially if he has no friends. So south he went, all alone, through three hundred miles of mountains and plains. He was a year covering that distance. Why should he hurry ? All he was looking for was food and work and shelter. Some days he found no food. Then he curled himself up in the comer of some abandoned house and " ate bitterness." In the cold weather he would gather some sticks and grass and creeping into such an abode, would build a bonfire in the cor- ner to keep himself from freezing.
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