SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1932.
Long Ago Stories
Edric And The Comet
THE CHINA MAIL.
The WENDY
HUT.
Edric was four years old when their King Harold was killed, and! the Normans came to England. He William of Normandy took his place.. saw their Bng ships filled with men in chain armour bringing with them horses, wine, material to build houses?:wonderful cooking stovee,
In a few years the Normans were masters of England, and by the time Edrie was fourteen the life of the country had changed.
in fact everything necessary for Now under the Saxons Edrie was their comfort. Duke William "of a freeman, and the forests and Normandy led them, and as Edric rivers were free to him, also the stood on the cliff watching them great tracts of moor and pusture. and his father pointed to the, sky But when William became King of with a trembling hand.
England he said that the very earth belong to him, and he could give it to whom he pleased. He gave the! wide park where Edric lived to one) of his nubles, and this noble called): the people together and said they must obey him. He commanded them to work for him, ordered them to pay for the right of living on his! land, and forbude. them to kill a dear, shoot a bird, or even marry! without his permission. ..
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'THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.
A Useful Plant Stand.
Oak is the most suitable wood to use for this plant stand, but a anfter wood, such as deal, may bef used if the finished work is stain- bed and varnished.
THE HORN FAIRIES.
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WENDY'S LITTLE
NEEDLEWOMEN.
Marigold Decorations.
"Here are ways' of trimming three different things-a chair-back, a cushion-cover, and a night dress- cuse all with a Marigold design. The actual working is very simple, for the shapes are cut out of sp propriately-coloured linen and are then stitched in place on the back- ground material with matching Woola.
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We'll do the cushion-cover first. To make this, you'll need two
The happenings in this story were all put down to the carelessness of squares of crash, teach square
But it was
"wenty-two, inches wide) a scrap the Royal Messenger. the Wind's fault in the beginning. of orange linen, a scrap of green,
it was like this:
and skeins of black, orange, and The Fairy Queen was giving green wool. Each marigold flower, christening party for the youngest is represented by a circles of For the legs, four lengths of baby Princess.. The Royal Messen-orange linen, two-and-a-half inches one-in-square wood, three feet ger had delivered all the invitations across. Cut three of these and long, will he required, and these it two-the one for the Dawn should be well rubbed with glass-Fairies and the one for the Sunset peper on all sides.
Fairies. He was just taking them
Cu the four shaped parts, Around before settling down to rest.: from pieces of half-inch wood For he was very tired; he'd travell- measuring six inches by five-and-a-fed miles and milee with those in- quarter inches. Make the arch at vitations. the bottom of each with a key-hole
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The plant-stand-and din granes to show you how to make one like it.
As he was passing through the forest, he met the Wind.
the Wind. "Halloa," whistled "Where are you off to?"
"The Land of the Sunset Fairies," reptied the Royal Messenger. * "I am taking an invitation to the Royal Christening Party. Then I must "go to the Land of the Dawn Fairies
to deliver theirs."
"Don't be in, such a hurry," rambled the Wind.. "Stay und nave a, romp with me."
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A clair-back, a cushion- cover, and a nightdress- case-all decorated with a pliqued marigolds cut from orange-coloured linen,
TINK'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
Solution to last week's puzzle:
12
20
1. Kind of shoe 6. Witnessed
Across,
8. Part of verb "to be" 10. Squander 12. Boy
14. Spoil
(Slipper). (Seen). (18).
(Waste).
(Lad)..
(Ruin), '.
(Oven).
(End).
15: Used for cooking 18 Termination
19. Renovate
(Renew),
21.
Therefore
22. What fishes do' 24. 'Sofas
(So). (Swim), (Settees).
Down."
1. Seamen
(Sailors):
2. Same as 8 across
(Is).
3. Seat in a church
(Pew).
4. Fruit..
(Pear).
5. To follow in course of time. (Ensue).
7. Those who sell
(Vendors).
9. Rescue
(Save)..
11. Cans made of tin
(Tins).
(Dense).
17. Water lizard:
(Newt).
(Wit).
(Me).
13. Thick
20. Intelligence
28. Pronoun
And here are clues for this week's problem:-
2
10
Acrous.
1. A month of the year.
3. Belonging to him.
5. As well,
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Down.
1. Spoil.
2. Puppy's bark.
8. Not cold.
4. Sorrowful.
"I'd love to," cried the Messonger. "But you know, I musti't, because I'm on coyal business. Wait till come back; then, when I've had a rest, we'll have have a race."
But the Wind was in a teasing mood. He blew the Messenger. about so roughly that he just HAD turn in the raw edges with tacking- to lly here, there and everywhere.
stitches. Tack in position on one And suddenly us the Wind disrash square-the sketch shows appeared round the corner, the the arrangement quite clearly. Sew messenger found that he had blown the circles down with orange wool away the Sunset Fairies invitation. back-stitching all round: A black "The earth belongs to nobody!"
"He couldn't find it anywhere, so, satin-stitch spol makes the dark cried Edric fiercely, "You cannot saw, and glue and pin, on a woodened the one he had left; and
feeling terribly nervous, he deliver- centre of each flower. own a man-we are not slaves!"
button ornament as indicated in back to report what had happened. of satin-stitch, and should be made The stems are just straight lines The contet told us to take this the diagram. Two dowels, R.B. are Meantime, there was great excite about four inches long. land and we have taken it," replied Jised on each side of the parts, A. ntent down among the Thorn Fair them in green wool.
Work the noble. "You are mine."
by boring holes with a quarter-inchies, for the precious invitation bad ahould be two inches long and. The leaves Edric believed him, and with to a depth of half an inch, and fallen right in the midst of them!
about an inch wide at the widest proud step he went with the others sticking in one-inch lengths of Now, the Thorn Fairies were part. Cut them from the green to build a stone castle for the con- dowl-rod, Corresponding holes banned from all Royal gatherings, linen, turn in the edges, and tack queror.
Juave to be drilled in the upper for they were so prickly, and rude in place each side of the stems. parts of two sides of each leg to that they offended everyone. Since Then sew down with green wool Hundreds of years later there lake the dowels.
the day of their banishment, they back-stitching, just like, the mari lived a boy who loved stars, and his
The legs and side pieces can now had been worse than ever in playing goids. The Diagram shows the name was Halley. The star that be assembled and firmly glued to every unkind trick they could think finished flower and leaves. Press interested him most was a marvel-gether. The legs must be careful-of, and they vowed that, until they the work, sew the embroidered and lous comet which he never saw, but sawit off at an angle at both received another Royal command, the plain squares together on three which the ancients had seen, and ends, so that the top will rest flat they would be as naughty as they aides, and slip the cushion-pad It was evening, and in the sky which Edric had seen in 1066, and and the legs will stand firmly on possibly could!. was a strange and marvellous comet. others had seen in 1682.
Halley the floor.
When the invitation, bidding The chair-back is a strip of It had appeared suddenly huge felt sure, from the descriptions he
The shelf C. is half-an-inch every Fairy of Her Majesty's loyal crash fifteen inches wide and Haming star with a golden tail read in old books, that it was the thick the four corners being cut band. welcome" Hattered to their eighteen inches long. Make a hem spreading across the sky like golden same
as shown in the diagram. feet, they felt travelling through way
rather sorry they all round, and applique three mari- Both Saxons and Normans space and appearing at certain fixed Turn the stand upside down. place had been 'unkind, and made up their gulds along the lower hem, as you were afraid of it. They said it times. So he made calculations and the shelf in position, and make a minds to behave properly in future, see in the sketch. The central was a sign of terrible misfortune. predicted that it would come again mark on each leg where the lower But William of Normandy declared 1758.
They freshened up their frocks flower has a slightly longer stem. side of the shelf comes. Remove and trotted demurely to the palace. Sure enough, it suddenly ap
The night dress-case is a strip that it was a sign that a great coun-peared in the sky that year. Halley, the shelf, and insert a screw-eye Of course, the Queen was fright-of Ifhen fuurtech inches wide and try needed a great king, and he ains!, died the year before, but it in the corner of each leg, on the fully cross at first, for she didn't thirty-six inches long. would be that king.
has been called Halley's comet ever mark. Replace the shelf so that it
know how they dared to come after three, so that it measures fourteen
The "pulling" can be done by Edric looked at the comet, but since.
rests on the screw-eyes, and fix it being banished. She was just gouches wide and twelve inches
hanging the slab of sweet stuf he did not know that little Chinese
in place by means of screws, drivening to send them away, when the deep. Then work the marigolds on aid Egyptian boys had looked at it
through the eyes into the under wind came puffing up and
You will require one pound and over a long nail and pulling. It con- the top flip, as shown in the ple-
down, or you may do it with your thousands of years before, and that in the under surface, spaced as side of the shelf,
fessed what he had done,
ture. The outside flowers have a quarter of sugar and half a pint fingers. When it is quite white, other boys would look at it thou- shown at E to take the ends of A piece of three-quarter-inch | So, seeing that the naughty little stems five inches long the inside of cold water. Dissolve the sugar cut the strip into small pieces with three-eighths-inch dowels projecting, twelve inches square, will be Thorn Fairies really DID mean to ones are three inches tall. Seam in the cold water; then boil the a pair of scissors and form these Why has it come into our sky, from the top of each leg. Glue the uired for the top of the stand behave, the Queen forgave them, up the sides of the pocket (made syrup gently for half an hour, or into shapes. As the sweet hardens and why does it stay there so still?" dowels into the top, and strengthen the top edges of which should be and actually let the Head Thorn by turning up the dinner flap) and
rather quickly, it is better for one the stand, if necessary, with small natly bevelled. Drill four holes hold the baby Princess while the bind all round the embroidered flap until a little tried in cold water person to pull and another to shape "Misfortune for somebody the brass angle-brackets.
Continued at foot of preceding Christening Ceremony was perform with orange bins-binding. Sh becomes brittle at once. Pour it into sweets as it is ready. Normans 1 hope,” replied bis father.
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"It had appeared suddenly
-a huge flaming star with
golden tail."
sunds of years later.
naked Edric.
"I must go and fight them.”
The Saxons fought bravely, but
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1. Part of verb 'to be.
12. Pronoun..
14.. Vehicle.":
16. Cumfort.
10. An Arab prince
20. We all look forward to these.
6. Meadow.
7. Boy's name (abbreviated).
9. An anima).
10. Girl's name.
12. Kind of stew...
13. What cotton is wound on.
14. Girl's name,
15. Pinches.
17. French for "Kriend.''*'
18 Boy's name (abbreviated)..
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