Fiction: Group 6
Up the Peak
Korean International Springboard Programme, Leung, Nicholas - 15, Fiction: Group 6
he year was 1888 and I was living in Hong Kong. I was working as a builder on the new tram that
went from Murray Barracks to the top of the peak. It had not been easy to build the train tracks and
some people had died. The day had arrived for the opening of the tram. So I went to the station
with my family. There were lots of people in and around the tram station. Everybody had come to see the
new tram. People were waving flags and cheering. Then came Sir William Des Voeux who gave a speech
and everyone cheered again. Finally the tram set off slowly up the mountain. I wished I could be on the
tram. It was made of wood. It was run by coal. I felt sad when it was going up. I looked in the distance as it
got smaller and smaller. It was carrying thirty people, why couldn’t it take me? I looked at the sedan chairs
waiting outside the station. The sedan chair could only take one person at a time. We don't need the sedan
chairs to go up anymore. I felt sorry for the sedan chair workers and wondered how they felt about the
tram.
I witnessed a new page in Hong Kong.
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