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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1951.
BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
FOR CONVENIENCE, BIRDS ARE OVIDED INTO FOUR CLASSES-
SOFT BILLED BIRDS,
HARD-BILLED BIRDS, MEAT GATERS,
FISH CATERS
MERON,
A FIAN BATER
FADES
PIGSON-
JAY
WGNET BILLED BIRD
HARD BILLED BIRD
BIRDS ARE UNLIKE
PEOPLE, IN THAT NO BIRD
IN A NORMAL CONDITION WILL OVEREAT -
EAGLE,
A MBIT BATER
BIRD-LIKE APPETITE
By Julia Wolte
other birds, such as owls, hawks But they like horse and prows
them in is given meat which of place of beef in these days of And because imagine hak-pired meat
TOU
what know Bnicky enter a canary is. and how you must feed him certain kinds food. So you can
the job of a keeper of wild the don't exercise much when birds at a zoo. But, for all kept
that. these keepers say. birds are easier to please that
beasts. four-legged Birds at the same kind of food day after day.
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eagles must fast
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rook Even so, the chief
must know what others 2007
birds
they won't eat at all. There are four kinds of bink: soft billed. hard-billed. eaters and fish eaters,
T
Soft-billed
nicat
VIRUSHES, juys and creos are among the soft-ludje kind wh. eat many kinds of Is! They sets, terbes feed on woPIHIS, and wild fruits. Sometimes in a 2 they'll eat ment, potatoes, poppy seed, boiled eggs and ant
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23rd Dec.
8th Jan.
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The
SUNS
parasites For "Sunday studies
the soft-billed
Auss metnes
herons. ISH caters
and pelicans, ducks, swans
The ish they eat are leted ami washed at the zoo
Strangely the burger birds, ex cepting lazzards ang vultures eho eat amost anything, are small ones. mere finicky than Soquetines they refuse to eat, Qui kropers pay little attention to these Hits of temperamen. unless the fast is prolonged Then
Sure- The bud is usually sick and he is sent to the bart hospital.
in mental Surs birds suffer ancients, just like people. Birds have endors and are sometimes Jugh strang. They can be affec- tionate, angry and sympathetic When one loses its male, he will and die. terefindes pine away
physical ills are moxe #stiv elated
get bed NE, sheed batene, veist hary
pand bits of bread
ward Cravel is placed in al vares, since this is necessary tog the digestive processe«,
Hard-billed
ANARIES, sparrows, Pigeons. parrots and other birds are of
the hard-billed type. They c a much less varied ont thall the soft-billed types. Their diet is largely seeds. Smalle, is a Fiven conacy seed, hong, millet seed and Indian thistle see.. Larger birds eat sunflower seed, cor and barley.
IN
Don't overeat
200
are like animals in that they don't overeat, with the exception: of new arrivals. Usunily when a bird arrives at the 200 he will eat too much but this because he was improperly fed as the trip to the zoo. Many aver land one long distances and sea. But the keepers know diet and this how to regulate fault is usually corrected.
Food also has an effect on the vi sume birds. The colour scarlet tanager, who is flaming in the northern woods, becomes lemon yellow as he does in winter, in the zoo. This is be- cause he doesn't have certain cagle is a insects in his diel. Zoo keepers
found meat-eater. He is given ineal haven't
out what is
Meat eaters
THE American
raw, cut into small pieces. missing. The toucan fades in Occasionally he'll eat fish. Bul colour rapidly in captivity. This eagles are hard to please. They is also probably due to a lack do not like mice as do some in his diet,
Hardly Anyone's Seen Santa
But Mr. Punch Knew Him Well-
By MAX TRELL
NOW as you all know." saki
Mi Punch to Knarf and Hanii, with: the the shadow-children turned-about names, "there is hardly
the world. anyone in
old, whe hasn't heard young or of Santa Claus. Sume call him ५। Nick ur Kris Kringle, Father Christmas, or just plain Santu
But the curious thing is
this: so many people have heard of hur but hardly anyone ha ever seen baro,
'איין
Mr Punch paused to light his Lo smile while he was at 10
For
Keepi 11 did highting it. funny to him that so well-knowa a personage should be unseen to #1! his mullions 05 friends. Sankenly just as Mr Punch's pipe was bt, Hanid said "Have you ever seen Santu Claus, Mr Purc
teas
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He
WAR
"Have you ever scen Santa?" Banid asked Punch.
right in and she wouldn't g would scold hmr for being late SMOKE RINGS
Sometimes, too, he would climb under fence and get his clothes "Certainly?" he replied. Then muddy, or shinny up a tree and
h:s uffed at his pipe and blew
stockings several sinoke rings into the an
exactly like every other little "You have cried Kharf and buy except of course, that he fas
I stud before?was quite chubby "Where Ha legether.
Why. Set: M: Punch. 1 He had rosy cheeks even then, We both just as he has now. But he hai hought I told you.
W no whiskers. and his bury lived on the same dock. both played together in the same wasn't nearly as round as it is
We unth went to the same school. Then teok up my kind of work, and I moved
Knarf suddenly thought here, and he moved up to his something. But Mr Punch, if workshop at the North Pole. So Santa Claus was just a boy when from the un we didn't see each
you first knew him, who brought us we used to the toys to all the children on liter as often
Christmas when we were younger
M: said Knarf, who seemeri
1." said just That's Punen. "No we did. And that's quite surprised to hem; all this
But we still meet once a year
why, when Santa grew older be Chistmas Eve, to be exact." said On
lu me une day 'Punch. Band was silent for a few something
İs missing from musends She peered at Mr Christmas. Toys! No one brings
today."
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the children any loys. Why not
I don't know, I said Santa Then Sants smiled and said 'Punch, why don't you and I do something about this? Why don't we bring the children toys
Punch closely "Are you sure yone telling us
the truth, M Functi
"My den: said Mr Punch, looking hurt, always tell the Buth
Wher cut you and Santa both live the same
M: Punch looked at Knarf and blo k Knard wanted to know. Hand and sighed. "You know." M. Punch looked around cau- he said, "I had a chance then to trously, then lowered his voice go to partnership with Santa the same black Claus. He said he was going to We lived on
where there
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He '1'
Eight here in this very town. But a far-away place
it only Santa was plenty of room to build a big noue knows Class and I
www.kshop to make toys in
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this town! Right here?" begged the to go with him. Huis.d sair in astonishment. make the toys, he said. 'and you "Santo was just a chubby little can deliver them, Punch. But 1
He seni 164. Day when 1 first knew him.
I sand was going ocked like every other chubby stay here, and not go to the North attle boy. He liked to race, and Pole But should have gone. in dark Because then, perhaps, children here (but not would have said-Look mother would comes Punch with Santu's toys! dinner and he Merry Christmas!"
hide
lay
THg, and
Sometimes Corners very often his call him in for
ZOO'S WHO
IN BRAZIL THE BEARD AZTEC ANT BUILDS SWINGING NESTS RESEMBLING THE BEARD OF A GIANT...
Starpo
the OSPREY
HAS A WINGSPREAD OF SIX FEET AND A BODY WEIGHING LESS THAN
THREE! POUNDS...
GIANT SNAKE FANGS AS LONG AS TIGER. C LAWS, FROM AN EXTINCT REPTILE,WERE FOUND IN SOUTH AMERICA..SCIENTISTS CLAIM THE POISONOUS SERPENT MUST HAVE BEEN SIXTY FEET LONG,
FACTS ABOUT CHRISTMAS
FATHER CHRISTMAS ing that had been hung up to in England
F
isn't a Laplander at all, and never saw a reindeer in his life! He was actually
a Greek Bishop, Nicholas
be ts generally December 25 was the birthday
dry from the mantelplece. That known as "Father Christmas" of the unconquered sun in the is how the hanging of a Christ- His gown of scarlet trimmed religion of Mithras, which mas stocking began, Whenever with white fur is a Swiss idea. flourished in the Roman Empire. unexpected gifts came from unknown
sources, they were attributed to St Nicholas.
in
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。
The first certain reference to of Myra, who lived in the
December 25 as Christmas Day His vogue was spread fourth century. Generous
America by German and Scan- is dated A.D. 354. and shy, he hated to be dinavian settlers, and introduced thanked for the presents from there to England at the Some early patriarchs, includ- he was continually making end of the eighteenth century, ing Origen
His name, St. Nicholas, be Alexandria, thought it singular to those in need.
come "Santa Claus," although to celebrate Christmas.
Because of this, he climbed a pool top to drop a purse of gold down the chimney, so that no one would Rec. The money, instead of falling in the re- place, dodged in a child's stock-
COLD
WORDS
Each of these five words end in ICE and each has six letters. Fill-In the missing letters. from' the deftillons!
-ICE (public protective
force)
'
ness)
ICE (aple)
ICD (interweave) ICE (place of busi-
- ICE (puldance)
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and Clement
Rupert and the Lion Rock-16
The show of the two friends pot attract attention. The Uttle doors ata, opened, some Uundier-men dragged out and next milnyca Rupert
Is facing in tougla, scowling man,
sipwaways, are you 2 ? shoute the mats. Come on out. You' find you've chosen the wrong bost for that game; and we're not Eueniig back for you.” And grabbing them
*** Pleats can you put› un-ashare,” -bojih in drags them away and up'ta
systolio," "Hub; - so', you're the men at the wheth
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The Venerable Bede of Jarrow (A.D. 673-735) wrote: "The an- elent peoples of the Angli begun the year on December 25...ánd the very night that is now so of holy they called in their langu- age "Modranecht', which means Mother's Night'.
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