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TINK'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
Solution to lust, week's puzzle:
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1932.
The WENDY
HUT
Long Ago Stories
Lionel And The Greyhound
دت
“Limel tored Mathe, the
greyhound," Mathe was
with those soft, clear eyes? The dog went straight to the tent of Henry Bolingbroke, and the King's cousin came out and looked at the beautiful beast.
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"Wilt thou stay with me, Mathe?" asked Bolingbroke. "Art thou come to bring me thy master's crown?"
"No! No!" cried Lionel, "Malhe --come back!"
But Mathe went into Baling-- broke's tent. licked his hand, and never left him again.
Then Lionel flung himself on thei ground, begged Mathe to return to bitterly that the King, and wept
at lust Bolingbroke spoke to him.
"Get out of my sight," he said. "or stay and serve a new master as Mathe is doing."
Lionel sprang up, and
looked
wildly round. How could he go the King's dis- back and witness
THE TINKITES' TOYSHOP.
ONE TRICK TOO MANY!
How to Make Parlour Quoits.wren? He never flies much higher Do you know the little brown
than the hedges, and when the leaves A jolly game to play indoora is fall you will see him darting about! Parlour Quoits, and the necessary among the bare twigs, calling!
board and pegs can easily be made from a few pieces of wood and a curtain rod..
"prep, peep, peep."
Across,
1. A day of the week
(Tuesday).
6. Serpent
(Boa).
B. Wound
(Boa).
11.
365 of No, 4 down
(Year).
14. Boy's name (abbreviated)
(Sami).
16. Where Noah lived
(Ark).
17. Baby's cloak
(Pelisse).
21. Opposite of No. 4 down
(Night).
28. Pronoun
(Us)..
25.
Number
(One).
26. Indefinite article.
(An).
27. Mid-day
(Noon).
•DRES
28, Where No. 20 down sets
(West).
Down
2. Flow back (tide).
-(Ebb).
3. Therefore
(So).
4. Twenty-four hours
(Day).
5.
Animal
(Ass).
7. Same as 16 across
(Ark).
9. You, turn it to get water
(Tap).
10. End of a prayer
(Amen..
12. Where No. 20 down rises
(East).
13. Part of verb "to be"
(Arc).
15. Symbol
(Sign).
18 Wild animal
(Lion).
19. Another way of spelling Show"
(Shew).
20.
The earth revolves around it
(Sun).
22.
Insect
(Ant).
24. Same as 'No, 8 down
(So).
26.
Because
(As).
"Winging here, bringing there, bundles, of dreaming."
Swiftly by, see them fly, through
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Well, he has a story. It is said that once he was a naughty boy, Plane up two places of half-inch always up, to mischief. When he wood five inches wide, and another was little, he used to put butter in piece four inches wide, and saw all people's boots, and pins in their to a length of fourteen inches. gloves, and sont in his sister's bust Glue the long edges together, with white stockings. He was punished, the four-inch piece in the middle, but it didn't make any difference. then screw on the two battens A.B. When he got older, he used to sing Winging here, These battens are fourteen inches all day and he never did a bit of long, and must be planed to a width work. His father groaned, but his of one-and-a-half inches and a mother said he would grow out of thickness of half an inch.
Ross QUDIT
ALBBEN
RING
If you study these sketches and read Carpenter's in structions, you'll easily. be able to
make
a jolly parlour-quotle yame.
a greyhound belong-tress? Yet how could he stay and ing to King Richard the second, and serve the usurper? Mathe's eyes Lionel was one of the pages whose were on his face, and they said ns duty it was
To set out the positions of the to groom the dog. (plainly as speech; "The King is Lionel loved Mathe, but thought he doomed. Here is our new master." peg holes, mark the two centre lines And Lionel stayed. Like. Mathe, C.D. and on each side of them the had strange eyes-they were soft and clear, and seemed to be watch-he was a deserter, preferring safety parallel lines at a distance of four ing for something. Richard also to the risk of serving a King who inches apart. Where the lines cros", Mathe is perhaps the make holes with a brace and bit. inved Mathe, and the dog seldom left was ruined. the side of the King, who was kind only dog mentioned in history, as Now glue into the holes pieces of wable, handsome, and always beauti-having deliberately deserted his wooden curtain rod about five- master, and his name has come down eighths of an inch in diameter and four and a. half inches Now It happened that King to us as that of a traitor.
long,
and round the tops of the pegs with glasspaper. Paint the numbers on the board in front of the pegs for scoring pur- poses.
fully dressed.
Richard quarrelled with his cousin.
Henry Bolingbroke, and there was
war in the land.
inust love him and will follow him to death if needs be."
COME TO LENINGRAD.
"We are faithful to our kind
Many people still call this city St.; master, the King, Mathe," said
has had yet Lionel as he brushed the dog. "We Petersburg. And it
For the quoits, rubber rings about another name, Petrograd, so you four inches in diameter can be used. might easily imagine that there
Or you can make them from pieces Then a most amazing thing hap-Petrograd and Leningrad. It was able size and bound with fine string. were three cities-St. Petersburg, of rope formed into ringe of sult- pened. Mathe walked out of the called by its new name after Lenin, At least four quoits will be re- a leader of the Russian Revolution. lathe!" cried Lionel. running
Leningrad is the capital of the after the dog.
M: the seemed not to hear. Lionel Province of the same name, the sent of Government having been moved could not get hold of the gold collar that was round the neck of the to Moscow on March 9, 1918.
K's presence.
Kreyhound, so all he could do was
This city, now but shadow of its former self,
quired.
If the board is placed at a dis-: tance of about twelve feet from the players, great fun is caused by wach trying to be first to reach a score of fifty or one hundred. Each player
to follow. To his horror, Math since the Czar and his court pitches the four quoits in turn. went straight to the camp of Henry
Before painting on the numbers, ino longer exist and the huge i Bolingbroke.
"The King's greyhound!" cried Government buildings are deserted, you can, if you like, give the board the soldiers. "An omen! Behold is the only Baltic harbour left to and pega a coat of dark oak varnish Russia. Nevertheless, the new Rus-stain. When this is quite dry, put the King's dog has come to us!".
in the numbers, with white paint. "Mathe, thou art mad criedlan Government claims that the
The Hut Carpenter. Lionel. "This is the camp of thy harbour facilities have been com- pletely re-established and that there muster's enemy!".
Then Mathe looked at the boy, and were 21,000 feet of quays. It is also closed by ice. For this reason alone, stated that there are the largest perhaps Leningrad is built, is Lionel trembled. What did Mathe Icebreakers in the world for keeping frozen over for an average of 150 know? What was Mathe saying the channel open when the port is days in the year.
GOOD TO YOUR Rosies
THROAT
BEAU
GEDJ-MANUS
it and begged her husband to be So patient.
"
One day this naughty boy saw an old woman stepping along with a heavy suck on her back, and she asked him the way to the town.
"I'll show you a short cut!" he Inughed. "Follow me, and you'll be there in the fick of an eyelid!?
He led her to a stream over which was thrown a narrow plank, The old woman
the moon's beaming,
lullaby, magic and Singing
sweet;
bringing there, bundles of dreaming,
To leave by the bea of each babe
in the street, ・・
when light fades tonight, and
stars come, peeping,
See on the pillow they're waiting
for you. Children all, big and small, while
Hou are sleeping Gobling will play with you the
long night, throng?
(Continued from previous column.} hanging down her back,
asked it it were "What are you laughing at, my safe, and he nodded wickedly, but kind fellow?" sobbed the old woman. when she was in the middle het "Oh. a little bird in the hedge made the plank rock-and over she going poop, peep, peep'," he went into the water.
giggled.
"Don't you worry--I'll get you Then the old woman clapped her out!" he cried.
hunds--that boy turned into a wren,
He had great fun getting her out, and he says, "peep peep, peep" to and all the time he laughed to him- this day. He played a trick once self because she looked such a sight too often-and he never knew who -soaking wet, with her grey hair the old woman was.
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OH! I'M SO HAPPY TO KNOW THAT. ARCHIE WASN'T THE MAN WHO WAS AT THE DEPOT: WITH THAT
MOVIE ACTRESS-WHY DOESNT HE CALLME UP SO I CAN
FORGIVE HIM FOR
MAKING ME JEALOUS?
YOU SURE IS
A FUNNY CHILD-
Now here's one which will make you look at your Atlas.
a bit. Perhaps the Tinies will not be able to solve it, but
the older boys and girls will enjoy doing it.
9
16
18
20
1. Cry
15
Across.
3. Boy's name (abbreviated)
G. And so on (Abbreviated)
8. Therefore
9. Atmosphere
10. A frie
friend
De Janeiro
12. e.
18. A bone
16. No. 13 across is one
17. Gathers honey
18. 'Port of verb 'to bel 19. Also
20. Sein
21. Boy's name (abbreviated)
12
H
Down.
5
1. Ite capital is Bangkok
2. Capital of Germany
4. Capital of Norway -
6. Lad
7. Vehicle
11. Capital of Portugal
13. Famous Italian city
14. Wager:
15. Sea that sounds lifeless of Biscay
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