3 FEBRUARY 1950, Page 5

The children were told to draw a picture of "The

Flight into Egypt." Most of them depicted, on conventional lines, the Holy Family, a donkey with Joseph walking beside it, and so on. One, however, struck a new note. His picture showed an aeroplane containing four figures, three with haloes and one without. The teacher, adopting a tactful gambit, asked who the one without the halo was. "Oh," said the juvenile artist, ardent in explanation, "that's Pontius, the pilate."