12
Long Ago Stories
THE CHINA MAIL.
The WENDY
HUT
Ethelwulf's Fifteenth Birthday
Ethelwulf's
When the year
fifteenth Ethelwulf lived in A:D. 590, but he did not know birthday dawned, his father'{ that some day that year would enemies marched upon him. Al he so numbered, because Chris-the sound of their horns tianity had not yet come to echoing through the woods, Saxon Englund..
Ethelwulf stood on the threshold
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It seemed, to Ethelwulf that of his father's house; clad in a he never would reach his fif-clean garment, and his heart teenth birthday, when he would heat so hard that he thought it be considered a freeman, able to would burst.. fight all day, and feast all night,
D.B
"That night ·Ethelwulf ( drank ale. from the skull.
There was no time for cere- nony. In the pale light, his father gave him the mail coat, the sword, and, the helmet: The family helped the boy to put them on, because his hands were trembling, and everyone, begged Woden, the great god, to protect | Ethelwulf. Then his father's men came running from the huts! which surrounded the stone house, and, with Ethelwulf in their midat, they went to meet the enemy.
THE BILLY BOYS" WORKSHOP.
Making A Pigeon Cote.
THE KING'S JEWELS..
WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN.
An Embroidered Pochette.
You will want a pretty pochet- te to go with your new frocks, and we think you will be pleased with the one we are describing this week. It is made from blue! or green linen, gaily trimmed with bright wool flowers red, light blue, yellow, orange, and any other colours you like. If you see a variety of shades, the pochette will blend with a dress of almost any coloura
You need a piece of blue linen, nine inches wide and twenty-one inches long, for the outside of the pochette. The linen must be di- vided into three equal portions: All the jewels in the King the lower part turns up and Crown were very proud crek forms the bag, and the upper This pigeon cote, which will tures. They simply refused to part folds over to form the flap. house two pairs of birds com-admit that any other jewels on This flap is to be embroidered. fortably, is intended to hang on Earth were half so fine as they and the diagram shows how it is a brick or wood wall at a conven- "I" said a lordly Ruby, "arm ient height from the ground. thousands of years old - why." I For the sides A. A. use pack-have been known to man for ing-case wood at least five-nearly three thousand years. eighths of an inch thick. Make Three thousand years! Is not each side from two seven-inch that a terrific length of time? boards nailed together with bat-Yet Ruby was only stating the tens B.B. which also serve to truth. All those hundreds and
Yonke to make." a pigeon-cote. I'm sure, and
·Carpenter tells you how to copy the une, sketched here.
hundreds of years ago. Ruby had been in the wonderful crown of a ruler in India. Then it became In jewel in another King's crown; 1-and yet in another's until, after a score of generations and count- Bess adventures, it was at last at rest in the Crown of a King whose country was not always in terror of war and conquest and Iplunder.
Here is the pretty em- broidered pochette about which Dressmaker"tells you to-day. The diagrams will help you to make one like
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1932,
TINK'S CROSS-WORD PUZZI 18.
Solution-to-last week's puzzle
1. Girl's name
3. Not many
5 Den of a wild beast
14. This may be a flower, or a vege
... table in a' pod
Across
(Ada). (Few) (Lair).
8. Little yellow flower
11. Old-fashioned way of saying "you 12: Not young
(Primrose) (Ye). (Old).
(Pea).
16. Pretty blue flower
(Bluebell).
17: What you see with 18. Every one
(Eye).
(AU).
...19. ́ ́ A journey from place to place
Down.
(Tour).
2.
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1. What you breathe"
Baba
ན་་་
(Air),
(All).
(Fro).
(Wee).
(Amy).
(Ire).
Bring together again
(Rally).
10. Found on the sea-shore
(Shell).
12. To be obedient
(Obey).
13. Composition for two performer
(Duet).
14. Fruit
(Pear).
15. A friend
(Ally),
Clues for this week:-
O
8. To and 4. Tiny 6. Girl's name
7. Anger
20
Clues:-
1. Rested.
3. Deep cut.
Across
19
17
6. What the town-erler used to
call.
the
E. Entertain.
10. Sweet-valced bird; 13. Clear.
14. Something that is not true.. 15. Water animal with valuable.
fur.
16. Course of a planet or comet. 18. Pronoun.
19. English cathedral city, 20. Exchange for money. 21. Belonging to him.
Down.
A
"And we," the majestic Dia- monds, haughtily answered, "hare historics quite as brilliant ak yours." Ruby! We are just as fold just as valuable. But, you' sec. since we are the most won- derful jewels on earth we do not need to boast as you do! Men marked out for the embroidery. know, without or saying, how Full out two threads along the troly beautiful and rare we are." line marked A-A in the Diagrany. edan insolent and very old Measure two inches up, and pull "And Emerald almost sneer-out two more B-B. Measure ed an insolvent and very old three inches up again, and pull creature WAN
Emerald"two more C-C. Now measure think you make some mistake, two inches away from the left- Diamond. So far as mere cost hand side, and pull two vertical is concerned, I am worth half as threads. Measure five inches much again as any Diamond of from these, and pull two more. That night Ethelwulf drank ale support the floors of the two com my size! Strangely enough, a this gives you the foundation for from the skull, and rejoiced be- partments. With a pad-saw, cut pure Emerald is far more costly the trimming. Darn two threads cause so many of his father's away the lower ends of the than such common things as of orange wool through
drawn-thread lines, going over men had gone with the enemy to sides, as shown in the diagrams. Diamonds and Rubles
The floors are made from Of course there was a tre- three strands and under one. Valhalla
But he did not know that boards eight inches wide, cut to mendous hub-bub about that! Then work a big posy of flowers something beautiful and new was a length of eighteen inches. Nail Oh, what a quarrel! Ruby, Dia- in the centre panel. The Dia travelling that day to England, the ends of the boards to the mond and Emerald flashed with gram shows a close-up of this
also to the battenslanger
one at the other and posy, and also the different Something which was to show sides and
the Istitches you will use for him that the men he fought B.B...
glittered bitterly in their rage.
deep-eyed flowers. Make them of the gay gentle, were his brothers, and teach him
Cut the upper and lower front Saphire
troubled be mixed wools, and keep the lazy- and enjoy himself till he went in that kindness was better than parts of the cote from wood half Sapphire was glory to Valhalla.
Sometimes hate.
an inch thick. The bottom one cause of this. It tried to quieten daisy leaves bright green. he would go and look at the coat
fits. between the floors, while the the bolder gems. But no! They smaller posy goes in each small
glint-corner panel. of ringed mail, the knife, and the In a Roman slave market. tip one is sawn to the angle of would not heed. Opal - sword which his father had pre-Christian had seen some beauti- the roof.
patiently smil Cut a piece of contrasting mat The entrance holes jing sunlit opal pared for him, and he was deful fair Saxon boys, who had should be six inches by foured and waited for the storm tolerial exactly the same size as the lighted when one day his little been captured and carried a long inches, the bottom of each open. calm
blue linen, and sew the two to- ... Pearl calmed it. sister Bertha gave him a pre-way to be sold as slaves. Hearing being one inch from the floor. "See!" Diamond laughed, "Look gether like a bag. Turn right thing! We Ruby, side out, and stitch the remain- ing of their savage ways, he de-| To support the back of the at that "It is not yet your birthday," termined to send somebody to roof, a rafter frame C, made from Emerald and I were made by ing sides, together. Then button- smiled Bertha, "But I heard of a that distant island to teach such two inch by one inch wood, is all the terrible fires of the earth hole round the edges of the flap place where the enemies of our beautiful boys to be Christians. nailed to the sides and to the top when the mountains were made with orange wool, fold the bot- people fought long ago, and I
door. In making this frame, use We, who have been known to tom up to form the pochette, and went there, shivering a little with fear, and hunted for a long low the lower roof boards to fit in the top front part as a guide so Man for thousands of years, are sew the sides neatly.
that the roof angle will be exact in reality millions of years of If you like, you can make a wec time till I found a good skull for place.
lage Why should we bicker purse in the same way, to go in- Cut the back of the cote frum ly the same in each case.
Look at that side the pochette. you to drink ale from at your}
When nailing the front parts and quarrel? plywood a quarter of an inch
made by a birthday feast."
Wendy's Dressmaker. "You are a good little girl," thick, and screw it in place so in place, note that they are set miserable thing laughed Ethelwulf. "I long to that it can easily be removed at back two inches from the front simple shellfish". drink from the skull of my any time for cleaning purposes. edges of the sides. Diagram D... almost, it seems, the day
After giving the cote. two shows the parts assembled and before yesterday! Yes, we low- (Continued from previous Column) enemy."
er our imperial dignity when we Just then the King came and He thought of nothing but coats of paint, cover the roof ready for the roof..
For the roof, use half-inch grow cross and heated about our saw his Crown. He did not look the fighting, because he believed with roofing felt to make it rain-
boards, five inches wide and worth in the presence of such a at the mighty jewels that if he did not die in battle proof
g for was the Pearl he would never get to Valhalla, To support the cote, screw two seventeen inches long. Nall cheap and dowdy creature as Imperial jewels. All he cared the glorious place where he ima stout screw-eyes into the back them on flush with the back of Pearl!
Ruby, Emerald and Diamond Wonderful wonderful thing gined warriors lived-for ever. of the upper floor to go on hooks the frame C. The top edges of And he was ashamed even to driven into the wall. The back of the sides A.A must be planed to all became very still and proud in of Peace and Beauty he mur- Shy and mured, and touched it lovingly. think of that other place, called the lower shelf should rest on a the same angle as the roof, to al their contempt
gentle Pearl never answered. It Simplest of all the world's
jewelled treasures, yet- Niflheim, where all people who strong nail driven into the wall.
had no word to say.
yond all price!"
sent...
did not fall in battle were sup- posed to live a sad life of re-
gret,
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The Hut Carpenter.
(Continued at foot of preceding Column).
Good for
your Cold
Posies
BEAU
GENNEMANUS
YES-ARCHIE DARLING-
WE'LL STAY IN AS I HAVE TOʻ‘CARE”: FOR ONE OF THE CHILDREN 1949:
DOOR
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an oyster
L'OF COURSE, I WANTED
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be-
1. Graceful birds.
2. As far as.
3. Pracious stone.
4. Blue of the sky.
5. Careless..
Tibetan ox
.9, Indo-Chinese Kingdom, 1. Atmosphere.
12. One who resists authority.
15. Pen for piga.
17. Not well.
5.
OUR SWEET MAKING CORNER.
Old-Fashioned Coconut Toffee.
Put a little water in a sauce- pan, and add one pound of lump sugar. Let the saucepan stand at the side of the stove till the sugar has dissolved, then put it over low heat, bring the syrup slowly to boiling point and cook for about twenty minutes, stir- ring gently all the time.
Now add six flat tablespoons-> ful of coconut to the toffee, stir well, and pour the whole into a When cool shallow greased tin. mark into squares."
Please don't say horrid things about me if you find this puzzle rather difficult. I did it to please several boys and girls who ask- ed for "something hard." Anyway, it will be good for all of you try to solve it.
THE TINKER
BELL CLUB.
I want to become a member of the "Tinker Bell Club," and. I promise to do one kind setion every day. Please send me a Tinker Bell" enrolment card. Name
Address... Age
Date of Birthday
Cut this out, and send it to Tinker Bell, c/o The Editor, China Mail.
GEE! I'M IN LUCK-ARG HAD TO TAKE ROSIE TO THE MOVIES 1 WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO EAT FOR THE REST THE WEEY