15C and sunny.
Visited Alan's place one more time then Steve and Jen drove me to Prince George and flew to Vancouver then Sky train, bus and ferry home, arrived at Swartz Bay at 6:45. Glad to see the nice weather only had a brief break.
 Well probably everyone wants another story so here comes the other half of the book that my story about Uncle Roy was in. I've left out the title page and started with the introduction.
The title of the book itself is "Look Back To See The Way Ahead"

INTRODUCTION

This is the story of an Anglican medical missionary family; the parents and their two sets of twins. I only knew the parents as Doctor and Mrs. Pearce; the children were Margaret and Mary; John and Jean. From 1943 to 1945 John was my best friend.

The story actually had its start sometime before 1937 but my skeletal knowledge of events does not extend back before 1941. What I can remember is as true as the sixty four years of elapsed time from 1945 will allow; what I cannot remember or was not privy to is what I believe could have happened.

Hostilities between Japan and China had been ongoing since 1937, I have no information as to when the family first took up their missionary post but true to their English tenacity they stayed on until about 1940 and then only left as the hospital was destroyed by aerial attack.

 John Little

CHAPTER 1

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he  two youngest children, Margaret and Mary were playing in the garden under the watchful eye of Lim Siu the Chinese maid and nanny. John and Jean were just finishing their morning English history lesson.  Today it had been a short test on what they had covered the past few weeks.

  The weather was hot and sticky and the open windows did nothing to lessen the August heat wave. The sounds of the two four year olds only served to further the reluctance of seven year old John to sit quietly and write answers about some place he barely knew existed. As he squirmed and sighed loudly his mother looked up from her bible and said, “John! Sit still and do your work.”

  John ever rebellious replied, “But it’s hot and I can’t ---.”

  “Nonsense, you can and you will, look at your sister, she has been working hard and will be going out to play with your other sisters shortly! And if you don’t hurry, I will mark your test even if it is unfinished, in twenty more minutes I must be at the hospital.”

  John knew that his mother would do exactly as she said. He turned his attention back to the pages in front of him. The work wasn’t hard but it was hot and in his mind was unfair that he had to have lessons twelve months a year while his two little sisters got to play. Momentarily he remembered that his twin also had to be schooled for the same twelve months, but then ‘she was just a girl and she liked the stuff’.

  Jean finished her papers and handing them to her mother said in a slightly raised voice, “All finished Mama, please may I go help Lim Siu?”