There was a lapse of three decades before Khoo Sui Hoe was able to complete this work to his satisfaction. It was during the 1960s that artists resorted to painting in oil on masonite board because it was relatively cheaper. But the taste and sensitivities betray a later time of improved coloration, a matured approach and more simplified figure types. It could be that Sui Hoe was dealing with small children again. A childlike humour exudes in the little children huddled together furtively among some shrubs waiting for some danger to pass over or in fear of some bugbear perhaps a ‘Boo Radley’, of To Kill A Mockingbird fame or a wild animal lurking within sight. There is a similar piece, Night Crossing (1999) from the same setting, but with the addition of two female figures. Khoo Sui Hoe is a hero of sorts, being the first to embrace art as a ‘professional’, something unheard of in the 1960s. After graduating from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore in 1961, he won first prize (Oil category) in the Malayan Art & Craft competition in 1965 and won Honorable Mention in the 1st Salon Malaysia in 1969. He received the John D. Rockefeller III Award to study at the Pratt Graphic Centre in New York in 1974.