BOYS OF LONG AGO.
CEDRIC.
Cedric was the son of a serf. As he sat on the floor cleaning his father's steel cap, he rubbed his back from time to time, for he had been thrashed for using the language of the Normans. But the Normans had been kings of England for a hundred years; and Cedric was often employed at the Manor House of the over- lord, so he had got into the habit of calling the ox 'beef, and the swine pork, and his speech was so very mixed that his father thrashed him.
"Cedric ... sat on the floor cleaning his father's steel cap."
"The Normans have improved our country in many ways," said his father, "But let us keep the language of our own people. No son of mine shall speak French."
Having polished the helmet, Credric cleaned the long knife; then he hung his father's weapons upon the rough wall near the fire, with his bow, arrows, and leather jerkin.
"If I were a free tenant, I could wear a sword and carry a Jance," he thought. "Norman weapons, but very good! And we seem to be bound to these Normans for all time."
He looked round the one large room which comprised his father's house.. Upon the walls
OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER,
Old-Fashioned Hardbake.“
For this you will require one pound of brown sugar, half a pound of black treacle, a tea- spoonful of carbonate of soda. and a teacupful of shelled, and peeled almonds or other nuts.
Put the sugar and treacle in a thick saucepan with three tablespoonsful of cold water, and set the pan over gentle heat. When the sugar has dissolved,
4 Thának PASTILLE:
The
hung most of the clothing of the family and the farm implementa; in wooden cheats his mother stored her linen and her Sunday gown, and these chests were the only seats; at the further side of the room were wooden bunks reached by a ladder, and there the family slept.
Cedric, and through the open "A very good house," thought door he looked upon the fourteen acres of land which his father held in vassalage from the over- lord. "Good land, too!. Yet my father cannot sell a horse, nor consent to my sister's wedding, nor cut down an oak, without permission of the over-lord. No.-I will never speak French! I will keep England for the Saxon, though I will learn what the Norman has to teach."
He jumped up, filled his poc- kets with bread and hunches of cold roast sheep which was be ginning to be called 'mutton,' and crept out of the house. But his sister Hilda met him.
"Where are you going so Blyly?" she whispered, f :
"To the King's army," he re- plied. "If I remain here, a serf to be called upon in time of stress, a serf I shall always be. If I go to the King and offer my self freely, perchance I shall rise to be a captain."
"Each'
You cannot go without the over-lord's consent! cried Hilda. He will put a heavy fine upon our father!"
for man
himself. sister," said Cedric. "The King asks no questions of those who fight for him, and you must sell a few cows to pay the fine. The only way to keep England for the Saxon is for the Saxon to rise to fame and share with the Nor- man. Good-bye!"
When Cedric was a captain, he thrashed his sons for speaking Norman-French. And it is to such men that we owe the pre-
servation of the English lan guage, mixed, as it is, with many Norman words.
stir well; then boil the mixture slowly for twenty minutes with out stirring, but be careful that the heat is low, because all toffee made without butter may burn.
Melt the carbonate of soda in
WENDY HUT.
WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS.
A Waist-Belt And Hat-Band Set.
NIGEL AND THE OGRE.
Once upon a time, there was a land in which nobody could live because it was inhabited by an ogre who drank up all the water It is a good idea to make a new and so turned the place into a waistbelt and
A hat-band to desert. Nobody ever saw that match, to wear with last year's dress and 'hat and so freshen up
ogre, though many who were the outfit. Or, supposing you obliged to cross the desert heard have made a plain new frock, you him. He lived underground, and can make two or three different sometimes his deep, rumbling belts to wear alternately, thus voice frightened people so much giving the one dress various trimmings,
that they ran quickly on..
waistbelts. Get braid about two Furnishing braid makes lovely inches wide for the belt and one- and-quarter inches wide for the hat-band. The belt shown on
Three pretty waist-belt and hat-band sets, which ...you can copy if you read
Dressmaker's instructions.".
Nigel wandered into the desert. One day, a poor boy called He was a gardener, but had nothing left in the world except his spade. He had heard that famous trees bearing golden apples always grew in deserts, and he had come to seek them. He walked many, many miles, but found no golden apples. Then, one evening, he heard the voice of the ogre underground, and a strange thought came to him.
"Suppose I let him out," he murmured. "Perhaps he drinks up all the water and makes a de. sert of this place because he's tired of being down there in the dark. And perhaps he's not an ogre at all."
Then Nigel started to dig, and he dug till he was tired cut. Next morning he began to alg again. For a long time, he heard no sound, but, just as he was go- ing to give up his attempt to free the ogre, he heard a little laugh. Then, suddenly, a sweet voice After that, he worked furiously.
back friend! I am coining out!" cried from the ground:"Stand
shot out of the earth and fell Then a tall jet of silver water upon that poor dry desert like a shower of diamonds!
THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.
How
o Make A Garden
Chair,
To make this strong garden chair, you will require some two- inch-by-two-inch quartering, a few pieces of two-inch-by-one- inch batten, and eight lengths of battens for the scat slats and back.
Make the back upright first. Saw off two lengths of quarter- ing, each two feet six inches long, and, with a try-square and pen- 'cil, mark out the positions of the halved-joints A. B. and C. from the dimensions given in diagrams D. and E. Two of these joints are two inches wide and three-quar- ters of an inch deep; the middle one B. is the same depth but only one, and a half inches wide. Care-
to
Carpenter tells you how
construct this strong
farden chair; and the dia- grams will help to make everything clear.
fully saw down the lines to the required depth, and then remove the wood between with a chisel.
For the front legs, saw off two foot six and a half inches long, pfeces of quartering, each one
with your chisel. Make the and carefully square the ends
two-inch-by-one-and-a-half arm-rests F next from pieces of batten. Cut these to a length of inch
fourteen and three quarter ing itself, "I have been hori of
"Oh," cried the fountain shak- inches, and, at a distance soned for years, and nobody would listen to me when I begged desert into a lovely land, and you to be let out! I will change this shall be king, Nigel."
the figure in the sketch is em- flowers, worked like Diagram C. broidered with coloured wool They are just buttonhole-stitch- ed rings with black centres and emerald green lazy-daisy leaves. Cut the braid long enough to go comfortably round your waist, with about two inches over hem the ends, work the embroidery, and sew on press-studs, or hooks and eyea, for fastening. the band for the hat in the same Make way stitching press-studs on the ends, so that it can easily be put on and taken off.
Diagram A shows you another belt and hat-band set, made of wide ribbon, buckles for trimming. The belt coloured buckle, which is cut from card- board, measures about two and quarter inches long and one and three-quarter inches deep; cut it like a little frame, with sides half an inch wide, and bind the frame with wool in a shade to go with the frock Slip one end of the ribbon through the buckle, stitch it neatly, and then sew press-studs to the other end of the belt and behind the buckle, to fasten the band round your waist. Make the hat-band in ex- actly the same way, only use narrower ribbon and a smaller Cout:
buckle.
with:
So Nigel became king of the land of the Speaking Fountain, and golden apples grew in his palace yard. Sometimes his sub that they might have had his jects whispered to one another good fortune if they had dug the fountain out instead of believing silly stories.
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EASILY ANSWERED.
poplare?" said the teacher to the "Do you see that row of nature class. "Perhaps one of you with sharp eyes can tell me which trees are the farthest apart?"
while the students stared at the There was a moment's silence trees. Then Billy Jones piped
I can teacher. The first and
A Good Reason.
Jimmie:
The third set sketched, Dia-the last!" gram A, is designed for more a very little hot water, add it to made of ribbon, and it has a bow "dressy" occasions. This also is the contents of the saucepan, and sewn to the end, with press-atuds boil again till a little of the hard-behind for fastening: wee bake dropped in cold water be- comes hard at once.
coloured wool flowers embroider ed on the ends and round the centre of the bow make a dainty trimming.
Remove the saucepan from the fire, stir in the nuts, pour the toffee on to a well buttered tin, and leave to set.
Rosie's BEAU
GED. M-MANUS
Wendy's Dressmaker.
go
Uncle, will you down on your hands and knees for a few moments?
Stout Uncle: Good gracious, what for?
Jimmie: Well, I want to draw a hippopotamusi
front
one inch from the a slot two inches wide and half end of each, eut
of the front legs, as shown at G. an inch deep to rake the top ends Round off the top front, corners as shown. Fix each arm in its slot in the back upright by two) nails, two and a half inches long. driven in at an angle from un- H. And fix the front part of derneath, as shown in diagram each arm by a stout nail driven into the top of the leg. To sup port the seat slats, nail two crosspieces K.K.. cut from two- inch-by-one-inch batten, across each pair of side uprights, as shown in diagram D. and E.
each twenty inches long, to the Now nail two more battens, uprights in the slot A and C. Nail another crosspiece, also twenty Inches long, across the below the battens K.K. All the front legs on the insides, just slats for the seat and back must be cut to a length of sixteen inches. It will be seen from the diagrams, that five slats are used for the seat and three for the back, placed at equal distances apart. Use one-and-a-half-inch nails for fixing the slats in place. The chair can now be given. two coats of white or green paint, and, when quite dry, it will be ready for use in the garden,
The Hut Carpenter.
SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1981. TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
Last week we drew three letters-HER-and a ring, and asked you to guess the name of the fish this sketch represented. The name was, of course, “Herring," which was hidden in the puzzle. Full solution:
12. Boy's name (abbreviated)
1. A fete
Across.
- 1. Flowers
5. Girl
(Geraniums)
(Loss).
8. Resembling 11. Serpent
(Like).
(Asp).
(Ned).
19. Hidden name
(Herring).
18.
Entrances to rooms
(Doors),
20. Part of verb "to be".
(Am).
22. Fuss
(Ado).
28. You and I
(We).
24. Company of musicians 26. Tidy
(Band).
(Neat).
28. Withstands
(Resists).
Down.
(Gala).
2. Animal
(Ass).
3. Not well
(II).
4. Kind of hut
(Shed).
6. Remains of a fire
(Ash).
7. Hastened.
(Sped).
9. Hotels
*(Inns),
10. Small barrel
(Keg).
14. Highways
(Roads).
16. Stick
(Rod).
16. Used hot for smoothing clothes (Irona).
17. Vehicle
(Cab).
19. Encountered
(Met).
21. Spoil
(Mar).
28. Part of verb "to be".
(Was).
25. Compass point
(NE).
27. French for "and"
Now let's see what you can do about this week's ture and puzzle. You see a picture of the Sup; think of the Sun's other name. Then you see a card; and finally. you see a letter. These three things represent a word which means "comforts" or "consoles," and the word is hidden in the puzzle.
S
19
What English work does ~this sugget to you?_
Clues:-
Acrons.
Hidden, word. G. As far as.
7. Smallast particle. B. Solitary.
0. Whether, 11. Pronoun. 12.. Devoured, 13. Animal..
15: Another animal. 17. On 19. Beloved..
21. Pronoun. 22. Assent.
1. Fish.
2. Narrow roads.
2. Same as 12 across.
4. Company (abbreviated).
5. Give aut.
6. Leas wild.
A
13. End of a prayer
10. Plants.
14. Certain.
16. Fuss..
18. Not in
20. Because,
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