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Where Do The Snowmen Live?
-In Freezeland, Of Course, With King Jack Frost-
By MAX TRELL
"I GUESS," said Christopher' Cricket to Hanld, the shadow- girl with the turned-about name, this could only happen cricket. But It happened to a all right and I'm not too sure it won't happen again.
Because there 15 such a place as Freeze- land-and I know because I was therei"
All this was very puzzling to Hanid, and she begged Christo- pher to explain exactly what he was talking about. "And please start from the beginning," she sald.
"Well,"
began Christopher after seating himself comfortably an the edge of an emply match. box and crossing his legs, "about de- twelve o'clock last night I
2-19
Christopher Bay long teletes harging in the cave.
most beautiful ley things
elded to go outside-and see how the weather, was doing. As I the don't have to tell you (but I that looked like castles and
I
will just the same), it's been palaces and ellies. And then snowing for so many
days now
came to another cave even big- WHOY that I began thinking that maybe ger than the first one.
It was the
with lights. The leleles: weather had just packed up filled and gone to some other place. themselves that hung from the At any rate, I buttoned up my top reemed to be sparkling with coat, queezed under the back. Are. duor and a second or two later found myself in the strangest place you can imagine?"
On Back Porch
"My
exclaimed goodness!" Hanid. "If you squeezed out under the back door you should have found yourself on the back porch. Didn't you?".
"And there, sitting in a won- derful throne made of ice sat thei
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WATER'S POWER
Winter King himself, King Jack By Julia W. Wolfe
And all around him Frost! were Snowmen!
sled stopped right in WHEN You
go
swim-
My front of Jack Frost's throne. He V ming in the ocean and greeted me with smile--and not a cold smile either, but as slap the water forcibly with warm a smile ne.you can. hope your hands, or take a back No-and that was what was to get from anybody. And the dive from a pier and "land strangel Inslead of coming Snowmen turned and smiled, squarely on your back, you out on the back porch, I looked too, and helped me to my feet. begin to realise that the around and saw I was inside
unstable liquid offers not a looked like an something that
little resistance. It is sur- enormous cave. As far as
aldprising to see what water could see, everything was cover-
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Warm Mittens
""Christopher Cricket,
ed with lee. The walls were Jack Frost, you are now in will do under certain
con-
ditions.
Á stream from fire-
man down. The jet from. ย man's hose will knock a
a
HE'S LEARNING "ABOU? THE POWER OF WATER, THE HARD
Freezeland! I hope you are notį covered
with smooth, shining bung
чуда cold! But he saw that ice. Great long icicles down from the top of the cave, shivering, so instantly he signal-
and the Sewmen And the floor of the cave, of led
they catirse, was just one slippery gave me warm mittens, a warm sheet of pure fee as blue as our mufler and a fur-lined cont,"
"Freezeland?" said Hanld to sky-on-a-summer's day.
HIS that where "The cave of loe," Christopher Christopher, continued, "seemed to go on and Jack Frost and all the Snowmen on, for I fancled I saw little live?"
"It's exactly where they live. lights flashing on the walls and
where they stay on the tips of the icicles far, far It's
in the oft
summertime. It's where they start- And (belleve me ог • not) I heard voices coming though!
from when they came to But I stand In the gardens and rond- from a great distance. couldn't understand what the sides. valces were saying. Then even stranger thing happened."
Christopher paused to catch. until they his breath, then he went on again,
Started Toward Them
out
an Show don't come back 33)
No, they come run- ning
back as trickies of water. reach Freezeland and Jack Frost freezes them again. And they don't start out Snowmen, either.
"I asked Jack Frost to
as
show
"I was so curious to know me the way buck home and he where the voices were coming sald two of the Snowmen were from and what they were saying going up and they would show that I started toward them, for me. Su I walked with them, they seemed to be coming from back through all the corridors. somewhere at the other end of And at lost we reached a little the cave. For : few steps I
opening. I knew was all right. Then all at once one of the big leictes come the big Snowmen could, But crashing
They said good-bye
could crawl
WAY!
through but I didn't see how nozzle used in placor-mining
in gold or silver mines eats
me, own, right in front of they did
to slip. I grab- to me and-pout! they turned away a large piece of land
It. And away I into puffs of snow and out they in one day; ft toys with
bed hold of went, whizzing downhill on the went!
huge boulders as if they were tiny pebbles, and will
icicle just as though it were a "I found myself back in the wonderful sied made of ice! kitchen. But the Snowmen
"You can't imagine how fast I went flying across the Belds shoot a man off his feet as went! Down, down, down....in like snow blown from the and out of corridors filled with branches of a pine tree!"
though he were a projectile, from a cannon.
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training for the - Olympics.
No. 3 in a sporting adventure series by the fastest man aliva E. McDONALD BAILEY
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There is a true story of a smithy who made a bet that he could knock a hole through the jet of one of these nozzles with a sledge-hammer. He lifted his orms, swung the sledge, and came down on ten-inch stream of water with a force that would an anvit. But the have denied an jet, never penetrated, whisked fat, nev the massive, hammer from the smithy's hands, and tossed several hundred feet away into the debris of gold-bearing gravel beneath a crumbling cliff. After that the smithy, left out iron when he spoke of hard sub- stances. He had learned some- thing of the power of water.
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AND there is a power plant in New England, America, where 1
goldler one day
thought
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had an
easy
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two inch cutting a
He with his sword, made a valiant attack, and the result was that his sword was shivered in two and his wrist was broken.
A little thin let of water de- scending 1,000 feet to a. manufac- turer's mill and travelling at the moderate rate of one hundred yards a second, will fracture the
blades of steel ever made. Of course many will not be- lleve such things without having Been proot of the power of water. For example, who would believe that an inch-thick sheet of water, given a high velocity, will ward off a bomb. shell as well as steel plate, but it will.
Just watch a brakeman put a
end of a Pullman ear and lift 20 small hydraulic, jack under one tons or BO by a few leisurely strokes of the pump handle; and the experience of riding every day in a hydraulic elevator terda to remove doubts of the magic power possessed by water hitch- ed to a machine,
constructed mainly of wood, present Beautiful picture. when scen in the glittering sunshine of a tropical day.
The famous Kaitleur Falls are one of the many attractions for tourists.
Another. Important industry in British Guiana is the pro- duction of bauxite.
My first visit to the country
1940.
was invited to N. WE GO. If you are was in
there race
by the British journeying with me on the Guiana Cricket Club who, at trip round the world you will know that time, held the biggest that ho far we have travelled from athletle meeting in the land. my birthplace in Trinidad and then
on
Well-kept turk
to lovely St Vincent in the I have made several
Windward Islands,
visits
to that ground and it is, per- Today, let me Introduce you to haps, the fastest grusa track on Britain's only possession on the South which I have ever run. American continent, Erilish Guiana. It The turf is well kept and as is almost twice the size of England and level as a billiards table, I has a population of only 311,000. Most have done 0.8 seconds for the of them live along the coastal strip. 100 yards on several occasions,
Glittering dunshine
and it was there that I estab The hot climato and heavy rainfall hed a record of 21.2 seconds encourage the growth of crops such as for the 220 yards. rice, sugar, maize, and wheat, which, together with rubber form the bulk of like nothing better use fand "the country's exports. Al
The Gutanese are the most heapll- able people of the West Indies. They
parties for valding aportamen, Most of the produce from British have many happy memories of them. What I liked best about British Gulana comes to the British Isles.
Gulana was to paik ojonug the long The coastal capital is Georgetown. stretch of sea wall, built up over the Its fascinating buildings and houses, running the city.
4ges to prevent the sea. from over
Rupert and the Toy Scout-
Đội). Leaving his other friends Rupirt; has «, clump of trees oh ́top!
dnds that Willis has followed the Rupert gazes around? There'. tyre trikke quite distance, nothing here," he murmure, and anyway, "we, may bé, going the Where they cross the thick grass wrong ways. The thing, whatever It is hard to traen them, but here it was, may have gone in the other and there they are quite dear on directing. Then there la fulden patches of soft, aanh. Before longi ahbuz (from Wille, whi,” koal they lead up a little, Ill whiefy what I've found in the brackant * 15 BIOHTE RESERVEN
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