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The patient who had allowed one of his own sound toth to be pulled to prove his point was 1} Horace
Wells.
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Buttercup's Curious Appetite
--She Was a Bear. But Acted More Like a Pig!-
By MAX TRELL 6R PUNCH,"
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the shadow-girl with the turned-about name, as she and her brother Knarf came up
the
10
chair in which Mr Punch was sitting, "didn't you once have a pot bear!"
"Named Buttercup?" Knart.
said
Mr Punch, who had his spec- tacles pusher up over bis - head, his hands folded over his stomach and his eyes closed, suddenly sat up and smiled.
"Why, yes," he said, " cer- tainly did have a pet bear and It's her name was Buttercup. been many, many years since I last saw her. I do hope she's well. But," he added with 21 sigh, "she ate so many curious things that I don't see how she can be well.
"What curious things?" asked Kaart
Plate of Soup
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The first day at school, Butter- cup ate several spelling books.
all
all, he said. "The first day she went to school, she ate several and nibbled spelling books
blackboard. quite a bit of the "Well,"
Punch 10 She also ate all the chalk, said Mr Knarf. "if you
were hungry the pencils, all the paper and and asked for a plate of soup, drank a gallon of ink." you'd eat the soup, wouldn't your"
"Yes," said Knarf.
"Now, if little Buttercup asz- ed for plate of soup," said Mr Punch, she'd really mean exactly what she said. She'd
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"My, she certainly naughty!" said Harrid.
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what little Butter- "That's cup's leader thought," said Mr In Punch. "The second day school she ate several desks, all and she finished the whole plate of soup the pictures, the soup and the plate. She nibbling the blackboard. might also eal the spenn,
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Although many of -
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"Only between meals," said Mr Punch.
hier "I ance saw eating a picket fence. And
very cold day in winter, I saw her lung all the snow off the top of a hill. Naturally, she caught a cold. I had to put her to bed at once und call doctor."
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hungry the house for a long time after that, just moping around. She almost lost her whole appetite, wg. In a whole month, I don't think she ate any more than a thin geography book and one of iny overcoats. Finally, when came down one morning, found that she had gone away. ****
Mr Punch looked very sad "In spite of everything," he said after a few minutes of silence,
wus sorry to lose little But tercup. It's true she almost ate me out of house and home but there never was such a friend- ty, lovable bear. She ate lots of things.
I
"My goodness," said Hamid, "was she sick for long?"
Big Jar of Pills
Mr Punch stock bis head. "Not for very long. I called the
big
ONE
doctor and he gave her a jar of pills to be taken every hour. She swallowed them all at once, jar and all She almost ate the doctor. Then she ate the bed. From then on she felt well again
"How could she eat so much?” asked Knard,
Mr Punch replied: "I don't
"But," said Mr Punch,
and he smiled, "she never ate me!"
CROSSWORD
To help you with this cross- word puzzle. Our artist has lettered the name of Czecho
know. I aften wondered myself | slovakia's capital;
I decided to send her to school.
I thought if she went to school, she would learn to have some manners and, although she was a bear, learn not to act like such a pig." Mr Punch sighed. **R I did no good."
Knurf and Hanid wanted to know what happened after little Buttercup went to school. "She didn't behave herself at
Treasure Of
Of Sultans
JOT long ago members of the
N
Turkish Kovernment in-
spected a real treasure,
more
minus and breath-taking than
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Nights and Al Hab the mas
collection
By JAY HOLDING
stolen
from the ruling Sultan by one of his wives.
In 1674 a beggar found it in a heap of trash, and took it to a merchant who gave him three wooden Spoone in exchange,
called "Kaonikoji,” which, if you can pronounce it, is
is Turkish for "spoon." The merchant
carats, Ca
precious well-known “Spoon" diamond- Since then the diamond has been jewellery which formerly belong- beautiful stone of 84 eet to the Sultans of the old Tur kish Empire.
Following the Turkish revolu- en during the First World War. the Sultan was deposed by Mus- fa Kemal Pasha--who is look- ed upon as Turkey's George Washington and most of the minense properties were taken ver by the new government.
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Turkish law requires that the leasure be inspected from time time, to make certain that none of it is missing. It is kept under constant guard in the strong-rooms of the Ministry of Finance, in the capital city of Ankara.
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STRANGE as it may seem, the recent inspection was delay.
el for some time becouse one of the most important keys had
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1 Seater 7 Ran
Across
9 Indian weight
10 Compass point
Symbol for tantalum
12 English princess 14 Circlet
resold the gem for 10 cents to a
it Reprint (ab.) jeweller, who later yielded it to 18 Conducted the Sultan's Grand Vizier. That 19 Shoshonean Indian worthy probably had
been 20 Railroad bridges
23 Seasoned
searching high and low for it
for a long time!
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PRO
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WILS
the famous ring of the Sul-
Abdul Aziz, which flched from him by his assassin when he was killed.
Down
1 Lancers
2 Through
4 Each (ab.)
5 Solar disk
6 Abandoned
3 Railroad (ab.)
Also revealed were two large, solid gold candlesticks, each en-
8 kiln erusted with 1,264 precious 12
12 Picle stones one for each verse in the Koran, the bible of the Moham-13 No good (ab.)
15 Notion medan religion and extimated 15 to be a give-away at a cool mil-17 Footlike part
18 Lieutenant ab.) lion US dollars apiece.
19 Rubber tree Apparently, the only really re-21 Suo loco (ab.) markable object lacking from 22 Size of shot
(Solution an Page 10)
heen mistrid. However, all was well, for
the key was soon which has a curlous history. the collection was the lamp of found, and the treasure was Several centuries ago it was Aladdin. opened to view - ang what a trenfuret
The most impressive single jewel was a famous emerald, an unbelieveably нег
precious weighing seven pounds.
gem
How
or when it was obtained by the Sultan is not known-nor is known from where the mon strous stone was mined.
It ha hön zertißed on a true emerald by expert Jewellers and, in the opinion of the Turkish govern- ment, it is a bargain at 125 million US dollars.
Also in the collection are two other encralds, which are no much smaller in comparison that It seems hardly worthwhile mentioning them, as one weighs ONLY two and a half pounds, and the other being an absurd
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