THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1951.
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Trees Really Help Each Other FUN WITH
Christopher Cricket Found It Out In a Storm----
By MAX TRELL
"T SAW, a wonderful
thing
kappen last night," Christopher Cricket Raid to Knarf and Hanid, the shadows with the turned-about nameя "It happened during the wind and rain storm. It was really a wonderful thing and Fan glud I saw it.
Knarf and Handd promptly asked Christopher to tell them what this wonderful thing was that he had seen.
Christo-
"I saw," answered pher, "two old trees helping
thought young tree. I never
cach that trees ever helped ather at all. Trees don't seem to
for each other. care much At least, no one ever thinken they do. But folks ara mis- taken. Trees are ready to help get in trouble. I'm quite sure of that now,"
Then Christopher Cricket bo- gan his story.
Cluster of Troos
cluster "I went out to the of birch trees with my guitar," Christopher Cricket told the shadows
was Just starting to sing Long which went
The moon is bright No clouds in sight Everything's right
For a lovely night
WORDS
WORD TWINS
OMONYMS
HOM
Arc word
twina. They are pro- nounced alike, but are spell- ed differently antl -have dif ferent meanings, such as "to" and "two," "some" and "sum, "through" and "threw."
Here are the definitions The of some word twins. |first letter of each is given, in addition to the meaning. You'll notice that the first letter is not always
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1. In front of (F). A number (F).
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And then suddenly there was a ing (D). change," sald Christopher.
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They pre quite erowding up from Hoodness- 6. A tree (F), Covering of straight, and about an inch in birch trees.
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7. A measure of time (41). fallen log. I was mighty glad Belonging to us (0). I was able to find some pro-"out" (1). section from the storm.
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Khart at Honid agreed that this
WAN SO. They often wan-
9. A boy or man (M), Letters dered how the cluster
"But then I peered out. The birches managed to remain birch trees were bending back-and parcels (M). standing when the wind roared words and forwards, and tos 10. A grain of comm (K). ' A down from the top of the hill in their branches about wild-military officer (C)..
looked at and the rain beat down likely thought as thousands of wicked little ham- them
they seemed 11. To care mers.
frightened. And then I saw the foot (H). why. The youngest and
mallest birch was being bent 12. Opposite of "yes" (N). back and forth so roughly that To recognise (K). at any moment I was sure
13. A in was going elther to snap two or be pulled right out of pound (B). the ground.
"Now in this cluster of birches," Christopher went on, "here are some old ones. There 100, are some young ones, with slender trunks and branches that look to be no But stronger than long twigs. on the very edge of the clus- ter is the youngest birch of all. It is as pretty as a 1tle girl with long legs. Behind it stand two older trees,"
"Perhaps they are its mother and father," said Hanid.
"Perhaps," said Christopher "Or perhaps they are its
big brother and sister. You never can be altogether sure about
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(These vottels have retrigerated carro #ACO)
vegetable (B).' - Ta
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14. Feeble (W). A measure of time (W).
Wonderful Thing
"And then,"
15. A couple (P). To remove said Christo. wonderful pher, "this
thing the sich (P). happened. The two older trees) reached out their branches and 'held the little one. it was as Part of a tree (B)."
If their branches were arms; It was as if the tle one was D
child. They held it and hugged it. They protected it. The' wind would have to blow Shem
the little one down.
16. To bend in greeting (B).
❤
CUILLOTINE
TN this game we're going to be- head words. That means
Below are 12 definitions and you
these things with trees, Thu down first before it could blow to take away the first letter. 1 don't do much talking to each other. They never play or take walks together. All they do is to stand in one spot winter and summer, rain or shine.
Fast Asleep "Well, lost night after every-
the house was one in
fast asleep. I went out with
my guitar to sit somewhere and make music. The nicest spot was just under a fallen log not for from the cluster of blrches. The moon was shining, There was hardly a cloud in the sky.
"And so," concluded Christo-are to behead each and get a pher,
"they were all saved. word fitting the second defini. When the storm ended and on. the moon came out again, all
wern
"Behead #
word
and
the birches were still standing.. Here is an example:
thele leaves Many of
word meaning gone, Many of their branches land, and have a word meaning
shope." The were circular were broken. But they
Is "ground," all there, big ones, and little incaning land ones, the whole family of thein, the word meaning circular shape I was so happy that 1 sang
"round." You've "beheaded" is another song
the word--Laken
G. away the Each word defined in the first definition contains four letters, so the word in the second half of each sentence has only three leilers,
You
can work the puzzle backwards (solve the second-definition first) if that's
One help ali
All help one, Trouble then
Will trouble none."
MAGIC WITH PRESTO BOXES
WITH nothing up your
W reeves and very little MAGIC BOX TRICK
in your head, and with ap- paratus consisting of some safety match boxes, some coloured paper and a paper bag (magic, of course), you can make your audience be- leve it is crazy or colour blind.
The match boxes should be Identical. The coloured paper must be two different colours, say red and green, Here's the proendure:
You show the audience two- safety match boxes avhich are empty. You place piece of red paper in one box and mark the end with
n red X. Then place a plece of green paper in the other, marking it on the end with a green X.
ap-
Drop the boxes, with propriate comments, into the magic bug, which you say nine from the Super-market 31 Baghdad.
You reach into the bag, pull out the box marked ked with a green X and your audience will expect it to cun- lain green paper; but of course It contains red paper, because thut's the way things happen in magic tricks. Now you take cut the box containing the rod
x
and the audience will expect
I to contain red paper (bo- calse
green one didn't):
the
But it will be EMPTY,
How's it done?
MARK three
。
boxes
batore
the performance, One ty marked with a green X,- two others with red X's. The box marked green will have a notch In the marked end so that you can distinguish it from the others by touch.
Hide one of the boxes marked with a red X in a secret pociret In the bag. This will permit you to told the bag
upside
GREEN PAPER
{ RED CROSS
AND
ฮม
IN
Here
Now place the red paper in; the box marked with a green)
easler,
Count one point for each cor- reet word. A perfect score is 24, and an average score is 16.
1. Behead the opposite of
X, and the green paper in the far and get part of your head. box marked with a red X. The 2. Behead "to sew up a hole" marking you do in front of the and get the opposite of "begin- audience is assumed to be the
ning," • only marks on the boxes.
x
GREEN CROSS HERE
W
PAPER
BAG
POCKET INGIDE
down to prove that it is empty. A flap can be pasted over the pocket to help keep the box in place.
When you show the remain- ing two boxes to the audience, show them partly open so that the ends already marked concealed. (See diagram.)
are
Ń
་
THEN you reach into the bag, the notch in the box containing red paper (the one
3. Behead " while grain” and have something very cold. ·
4. Decapitate part of a cat's, fout and get "a rule,"
5. Behead "chilly" and get
you previously marked with a the opposite of "new." green X identifies it to your 6. Guillotine "an outside gar angers. You show the audiencement" and you'll have an animal the green X--but conceal the
red mark that you made during belonging to the monkey family.
the performance,
to examine
the
head of
7. Chop off Next take the empty box "open" and have a tiny house.
8. Behead a large black bird' from the secret pocket and and you'll have an even line.
9. Take
of your trick is completed. No one
the opposite is permitted
the "sweet,"
behead it and havo (which still con-yours and mine." magle bag Lains the box in which you
10. Behead a kind of mant put the red paper) after the and have "to jump on one foot." show because the maple spell 1. Take away the head of that lingers after the trick is Old Glory and you'll have "to harmful. Well, it is harmful slow up.". because it would give way 12. Behead "a loud wail" and the trick.
Iyou'll have a wise old bird.”
Rupert and the Sorcerer-32
A Rupert watches the saucer solemn ligure waiting for him. appears once more, travelling 50," says the strange mun
think you must be slowly, and he sees it settle down gravely.
one named Rupert,; le it not you. beyond some trees. He cannot fire who have meddled with the his hands, but he pushes his way Sorcerer's magic? What have you through the bushes accompanied by, to my 2”...” Oh dear. Is it yoni flocks of inquisitive birds. On vaucer 2oo cries Rupert, not knowing. reaching the spot, he finds a tall,
what to do.
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