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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1952.
BOYS and GIRLS PAGE Willy Toad Decides to Study
`—But You Don't Learn to Read in a School of Fish--
By MAX TRELL
"DID you hear the news?"
Binky Mole asked Knari and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned-about
латев,
when they stopped by the door of his underground house on the <ther side of the garden wall.
The shadows hadn't heard the Kewa at all.
"What is it?" Humid asked.
High Time
"Willy Tond has decided to go to school and learn how to read and write. It's high time, too. Everyone should know how to read and write."
The sandow-children were "The school is in the pond," surprised to learn this. They Willy Toad told the shadow- inquired what school Willy
wns going to.
chlidren,
"Because you see, Willy, a gdical of fish isn't a real school answered. at all. It's just a lot of fish all
HELP!
OO'S WHO
SNAKES
THAT RAID CHICKEN COOPS OFTEN KILL · THEMSELVES BY SWALLOW- ING CHINA EGGS,..
darbo...
Blinky hook hin old head. "Don't know,” he "He didn't say. He just told me swimuning together, like a fock ANY KINDS OF LICE ATTACH he was going to school. He left of birds, or a bord of cows. They Just a minute or two before you don't learn anything in their THEMSELVES ONLY TO ONE SPECIES
He went hopping schools at all!" got tiere,
OF BIRDS AND IGNORE ALLOTHERS.. down the road,"
hurried
Knarf andi Hanid down the road. However, 06 there wasn't any school down the road, they wondered why Willy Toad went that way. The road just led to the pond. By- and-by they met Blackie the Beetle, who was digging around
old stump.
on
"Did you happen Lo Sec Willy Toad?" Knarf asked him.
Hopped Toward Pond
"Sure enough," answered
A TORTOISE
LIVES ON LAND OR IN FRESH WATER; AGURELE LIVES.
IN SALT
WATER...
If You Like Growing Things
Start Now Or Next Spring
By IDA SMITH
Binckie, leaning on his shovel. MANY girls and boys plant "He's on his way to school. Just seeds and grow things saw him hopping off toward the
as a hobby. Some plants
easily
whlie grown are others have to be pamper- ed.
poad. Don't know what kind of school goes on in the pond, but there's where he went."
And Blackle returned to his digging.
Клат! A few minutes later, and Hanid reached the edge of the pond. And there was Willy sitting on a rock just over the
water,
"Hello Hand: Hello Knart" he greeted them. "Did you hear the news? I'm going to school. It's in the pond!
Put plants should have a good soil mixture to begin with. For most plants, one half top soll and one half sand is good. After the plants are up and well rool- ed they should be given plant food. This can be purchased in numerous stores with directions for using on the package.
Pots should have an opening in the bottom for drainage, to prevent the soil from souring.
One of the most attractive in-
"In the pond! There's no school in the pond, Willy!"
"You'ro mistaken," sald Willy. "There's a very good school in door gardens is a cactus dish All the little fish go garden. Cacti will grow in any The pond. to it. Frog told me about it. pretty dish. Small holes can be You just wait till they' pas, bored in the bottom. Prepare then
you jump In and join the soil as above. Mixed seeds them. Here they come now!" can be purchased from most ties. Mixed collec. plants are sold in many stores. Before Knarf'or Hanid could
Cactus plants need little stop him, he sprang in. But the water after they come up (once little Ashes scattered, and all a week or so depending upon that Willy Toad learned from trying to join their school was the size of the dish) and they are desert plants and they store water. They
hey should have a sun bath once a week.
Fish Scattered
that when you jump in the pond, you're certain to get wet "I'd still like learn how to read and write. But where can toad go to school? Who'll
teach me?"
him
Hanid said she'd teach and this made Willy Toad feel
good deal better.
When I learn how to write,"
ho said, as they sat down under
geed compartiall Hons of the
niso
Cactus blossoms are lovely and of many different colours. Those of the little Pencil Cholla (Chaw'-yuh) look. like dainty green stars.
Grow Carrots In Pote ONCE knew a boy who grew- carrots, radishes and lettuce these watered pats. He more often,
them sun gave baths several times
a week, and kept them.
his among thero wasn't any use getting dower pots. angry at the fish.
a mushroom, "I'm going to write those fish a letter. I'm certainly mad at them!"
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But Knarf and 'Hanid
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Petunia seeds planted in the autumn will be ready to bloom In the spring. They should be planted in pots with good soll and tended carefully during the winter. Mixed seeds of white, red, blue, crimson can be purchased.
PLANT FOOD
Pot plants should have a good soll mixture to begin with and an opening in the bottom of the planter for drainage,
Oranges and other irées
сап
be grown in poli or cani from reed. Some Hower planted now can be transplanted in the spring.
of by planting seeds outdoors dwarf zinnlos, marigolds and calendulas. These will grow. and blossom profusely in Just ulso a tiny garden. Phlox is lovely
to grow. and easy Loosen the soll well and enrich it before planting the seeds.
A good way of starting your garden is to get the little gar den book on sale at the South China Morning Post. It costs $3 and contains six packets of seeds. With coloured pictures .and simple Instructions, you will learn how to sow and cara Theso for the young plants.
tested in serds have all been Hongkong fool
Oranges
trees
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other in should
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many and can be grown here pots from seed. They
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CS-
In transplanting them out- doors, cut the can down two slues with tin shears and remove ull the soll along with the trees so as not to disturb the roots. Then after resetting, keep them
unul thoroughly moist tablished in their new location The holes should be dug deep nough so that basins can be for the trees formed around watering. These trees are call- ed seedlings.
six
One autumn I planted wild plum seeds in six pots. After watering them faithfully for months
them
gave
and waiting
to come up, 1
them up as dead.
one April morning;
for Snally But
there were the six little plum trees all, up!
There's a right way YOUR
STAMP
and pink to mount your finds CORNER
S your stamp collection grows, you will need an album As conect show it to advantage. There are several types of album, but the best has title pages for the various countries and works on the loose-leaf principle,
Theso can be transplanted i the spring to an outdoor bed or a window box. A window box should have good drainage and be filled, with enriched florists potting soil or its equivalent. For petunias or lobelia the box should be on the south side of the house where the sun canto add extra pages to reach it. When transplanting, the section for any be careful to keep plenty of country as soon as
the moist earth around the roofs so
original they will not be injured or dis-are full.
turbed.
This enables you
the stamps,
or
pages
A word on putting in "Trailing lobelias, have sap- phire blue flowers and aro mounting them, to the technical lovely outdoors or in a window use box. They should be grown name. Don't use rum, and transplanted the same as Buy a packet of petunias.
stamp, hingestiny
"You moister
Always look out for uncom- pieces of paper. Protect Tandor Plants -
one end and stick it on: tholbjek mon stamps, such as this trian- TENDER plants should bo of the stamp, then bend the gular fourpenny grog-blue Soun
kept in a warm room day hinge and fix the other end In African It came out in 1926 and night during freezing [your album:-
and is sold to be the only one,
by weather. and where
without perforations issued South Africa as an independent Price today, unused, auntry. 18. 9d1—J. A‚ ̈ ̄\"
the sun
can strike them during the day. A good album costs between In the spring a quick and $15 and $20; a packet of hinges beautiful garden car be grown 50c. or $1 will last a long time.
· Rupert and the Windwhistle-17
the and
jack Frost spravis, top of the bundle, Rupert pulls hum uphill away from the lake. On the highe; groujiz they find the air binerly 'cold. by the time the dociage, fa teached Jack is shivering so much that bit
cannot walk, and Rupert has to carry him to where King. Dear is manding in the coilgo doorway. When she hears the story this bustlen away to make a hot drink “lot. Jack, and she tells Rupen to wrap him warmly in" # "Blanker and for put him on sira couch,
Don't
forget
your
Rupert
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