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"Thumb-bells"
By Leo Priestley
JOHN LOFTING,
a Lon-
don metal worker of the Seventeenth century
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Sourabaya
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he bent to pick up the metal He clapped a hand to his trousers.
castings.
The heavy cloth had torn. Now he must hurry home so hla
vire, poor thing, could mend the tear. Her thumbs were sore trom the needle pricks of the family sewing already.
The sewing machine
dreamed even those days. Heavy cloth, coarse thread, stabbing needles pricked and tore at women's hands.
not
of
Was inn
Tohn Lotting still thought of thai
as, trousers mended, he hurried to the river alde to de- liver some fron ships' gear. If
Carpenter Bee's House
By Evva Brinker
LITTLE Jenny Carpenter
Bee is warm and snug this winter inside the elder bush stalk. And not only Mrs Jenny, but all her large family in little rooms down stairs.
Remember those tiny, rather long bees you see around the goldenrod or near the sumse in
Those ure summertime?
car- their They get name because they build their own houses. With people, it is usually the men who are cur- penters,
penter
bees.
But with this family, it's Mrs Carpenter Bee.
If you have ever broken-an- elder stalk and seen the dry, pithy wood inside, you know
CUT AWAY GECTION OF ELDER BUGH STALK SHOWING! A CARPENTER BEEG APARTMENTS-
Las POLLEN CAKE
Whale Likes It In The Ocean
-He's Decided to Stay There, So King Nep Says
By MAX TRELL
KING Nop (who was once upon a time known as King Nep- fune, the
Seven Ruler of the Seas) was speaking over his rea-shell telophone when Knarf
and. Hanid, the zhadow- chikiren. with turned-about names came along. Klag Nep livert in a cave formed of some mossy rocks near the edge of the brook. Knarf and Hanid sat slown quietly while King Nep spoke over the telephone.
"Fine." he
was saying, "so you've decided to stay, elt? I'm very glad to hear i I'm sure you'll like it. Let me know if I' can be of any help to you. Good- bye."
Spoaking to Whalo
After hanging up the tele- phone King Nep turned to Knarf
Whale dives deep down, but always comes up for air.
and Hand. He greeted them all drink milk just like almost pleasantly, then he said: "I was every other land animal, and not just speaking to Whale. He's like the fishes at all. decided to stay in the
Ocean"
Might Return
Knart and Hanid looked at ** "I've often thought," said King | King Nep in astonishment. Nep, to Knarf and Hanid, "that "Whale has decided to stay in even though he got to Uving In the ockan!" exclaimed Henid. the sea, Whale might one of these "Hasn't he always been in the day's decide to return to dry land.
So today called him accun?"
up on the telephone to find out whether he liked living in my ocean or not. And I was glad to hear dld.
At any rate, he isn't plan- ning to return to the land today
King Nep shook his head. me, no! Whale isn't a
"Dear
fish."
At this, Knart cried. "Whole til sn't a ish! What is he?"
isn't
he
or tomorrow, or the day after.
"Oh," said King Nep, "Whale What he may do a hundred or a
is an animal. He's an animal like thousand or a million years from
n horse is an animal.or a cow or now is anyone's guess,"
An elephant."
"But he hop fins and a tall," Bald Honld.
King Nep paused a moment, smiled and then sold: "Whole isn't the only one who used to King Nep chuckled.
"Those live on the land and went to the are things he's just
grown sea. There's also Seal. There's Whale didn't used to have
also Walrus. There's also Pen- them. He used to have logs in. And Duck and Goose and
like a something
lizard. Yes," F he went on, Whale used to live Swan and Seagull are starting to on the land and be porfecily go back and so is Hippopotamus and Crocodile, and Alligator, But happy. He
nlways quite Jarge. He used to spend most of We'll see, we'll see," his time roaming around the. Knart and Hanid had never core of the sea near core of the thought about this before. They great marsh123 that used to be kept wondering whether people found around there quite a while
WHE
Fond
why Mrs C. chooses the elder bush or some other soft woody bush for her house. She starts off by biting her way through the side, Then she digs down through the pith for maybe a
foot or more.
he could think of some way to make sewing less laborious.
At the quayside, he hailed a sailor on the deck of the ship at anchor in the Thames. "Ahoy, would bring aboard therei these belaying pins and pulleys,' .The sallor rose, from the deck beside a great expense of canvas sail, rl give you a hand. Up the ladder, mate."
As John passed up the metal pieces, he said idly, "What do you with the great canvas sali, sallor?"
and "Sow and mend! Sew phews again, afia Imend the sailor grumbled. "If outside and makes a small cake they
Know hindret Love be spent with needle of pollen mixed with nectar would which she gets from the golden- and thumb-bell, I warrant not rod or some other nearby flower, so many lads would run away
to sea!" Back down the stalk she goes, and puts the pollen cake at the bottom.
On top of the pollen cake, she lays one egg. That finishes the first floor of her
house,
What is the pollen cake fort That's for the baby bee to cat when it hatches out of the egg. Isn't she a wise mother?
✡
John had not thought about It before, but the canvas salls were bound to need much at- such tention. What a thumb pricking task it must be to sew
Then he re- heavy material, membered what the sallor had said.
**Thumb-ball?" he repeated curiously. "What is that?" What It have to do with sew-
MRS CARPENTER BEE makes the saller opened his hand to the celling for this room by show a clumsy leather sheath biting bits of soft wood from that covered his thumb and the inside of the stalls. She part of the palm, "Awkward it the packs it down with her capable is, mate, but it do save
from feet and on top she puts an- thumb
many
needlo other cake of pollen, and lays pricits another eggl
Climbing over the rail, John examined
The
thumb-boll. Finally he bought the clumsy device for a few coppers. When he returnend to his shop he made of the thumb-bell In сору a c thin steel. Hero was the Jenny Carpenter is kappy swer to the problem of pricked now for she knows everything thumbs.
Over and over she does this aeciling, a cake, an egg-till all the way up to the doorway there are tiny rooms.. In the very top chamber, she sits down herself
40-
Is ready for the winter. And John Lotting's wife was she knows that when each baby grateful that she told all her bee comes out of its egg, it friends about the metal thumb- will find itself resting on a fine big breakfast.
ת
Not only a breakfast, but the honey cake contains enough to kcep
the baby in food a long time: After while, when warmer weather comes again, each little bee will dig its way out of the elder stalk.
Д
"Good-by, old home," they will say as they fly away. And perhaps they will say, "Good-
too, by, good mother,"
They
should.
like
bell. They clamoured for one it, but soon decided that the thumb-bell was better worn on the index finger,
the
John was swamped with ar ders. Soon his metal shop made By nothing but thumb-bells,
time the word had been Blurred into "thimble," the metal worker who had sympathised with his wife's sore, thumbs had made a fortune. And the thimble revolutionised the "sew-" ing tasks of the age,
ZOO'S WHO
ELUGUST
BY COUNTING THE CHIRPS OF A BLACK FIELD CRICKET FOR
SECONDS, AND THEN ADDING 40 YOU HAVE A TEM- PERATURE READING MORE EXACT THAN A THERMOMETER
DEE KEEPERS AVOID DISTURB-
would ever give up living on the COWS ARE TAKEN TO AN ING BELS DURING COOL WEA-
and live in the ocean. “Well," said King Nep, "there | ALTITUDE OF 14,000 FEET OR": "THER OR RIGHT AFTER A RAIN, used to be Mermaids and Mer- MORE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE "Now and then Whale used to mon-but no one has seen them wade into the water a bit, up to for a long, long time. Maybe pec- FOR THEM TO GIVE MILK CAN BE DISMANTLED WITHOUT his knees; perhaps like a hippople to live in the sea right now!" potamus, and eat some of the sen
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and small fishes that he
could find in the water. I often | used to see him. “Why don't you fo in deeper I'd tell him, And litle by little he did.
"But," sald King,
Nop,
"ho never could quite make up his mind whether he liked it out in deep water. Finally, though, ho grew so fond of eating Bitte fishes that he waded out deeper and deeper until at lost ured
to
ceo him quite far from Innd, "And one fine day, he left the land altogether, and didn't come back. He found he didn't need hia legs and his land-tail any more so he
Ans and a sea- he grew tail instead.
"But he never could get used to breathing under water like a
regular fish. He'd dive deep
down under the water but ho always came up to the top for bis air, Just like any ordinary land animal. And baby whales
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Alter thanking Bingo, Rupert
ay it le time they hurried home,
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