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DO'S and DONT'S Columbus
OFKEEPING GOLDFISH
LUSE A BOWL BIG ENOUGH SO THERE WILL BE 20 SQUARE INCHES OF WATER SURFACE FOR EVERY INCH' EACH FISH IS LONG.
LIKE THIS:
YOU HAVE Z FISH INCH
LONG.BINCHES
Noon 28th Jun,
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OF ASH
ALTOGETHER.
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Sails
SO YOU NEED GO INCHES OF SURFACE OR AN AREA ABOUT 10X6m
Loads
Genoa,
Rotterdam,
"ANTYANAX"
Amsterdam, London &
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2.AT A PET STORE
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24th Jan, 5th Feb,
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13th Feb.
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28th Feb.
3rd Feb.
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7th Feb.
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"
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LARGE BOWL
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Beats Envious Man
By HAROLD GLUCK
HEN Wo aro LT-
When he arrived back in
of were crow da vlous of a person it Spain there
Money that people to cheer for him. simply means
was raised for new voyages and with something is wrong
he made three mare trips across We are jealous that the Atlantic Ocean. the other person has some- thing we haven't. And we instead! wish we had it This is a true story about a
man, great
Christopher how he Columbus, and handled an envious man.
Christopher Columbus WOS given an invitation to attend a
his dinner in great
honour. Many nobles
famous men and came to pay him their respects. But present at the dinner wero who crviedt also several
man him. And one of theso men spoke his thoughts out aloud to the guests at the table.
"Hum! What is all this noise
EVERYONE FAILS
Columbia proved to the group that anything is easy to do when semicono che shows you
man.
aloud
how.
To the
man who had
you "See if
CAT do it," challenged the great explorer.
The man fumbled and finally bad to admit that he didn't think it was possible to make the egg stand upright on the table.
do."
"It
In Christopher Columbus' day it was thought that about? Why are we honouring spoken those jealous wards out the great explorer had this man Christopher Columbus? What did he really do? Anyone found a new
the way to
a crow could Indies.
He was honoured with ships and
have salled west. And they As you would have thus come
to the greatly in Spain. know from studying Indies."
born it history, he was
is very simple to Italy. However, it was the Queen who pawned her CHRISTOPHER Columbus sakti Christopher Columbus as ho tap on heard those words. He didn't gave the ekg a gentle jewels to help Christopher
get angry at 11. He merely the table. He tapped the egg on Columbus get ships and stretched out his hand and took the bottom and the shell cracked Then the egg wos supplies. Queen Isabella on ceg from a plate. He held it inwardly.
standing upright and everyone of Spain even convinced her up for all to see.
"This is * egg," he began. laughed. husband, King Ferdinand,
stood "We all know that the from Italy that the mun
chicken gives us an egg. And might have something in
beenuse we cat eggs
like his idea that India could be reached by sailing west.
W
ONE IS JEALOUS
we
them. Now here is a challenge.
1 dare any person here, regard- less of his rank, to make this egg stand upright."
The man
the left of Christopher Columbus took the egg and tried to balance it. But the egg just rollel over on
"The in
smiled Its
side. sheepishly.
ΠΟΥ
"It certainly was simple to do." admitted the envious man. "Anyone can do it now."
"Carrect," replied Christopher
"Anyone can Columbus. make an egg stand upright on a And why? Because I table, showed them how to do it. 1 VIT his three ships and a
is very simple to do something crew that was gathered partly
when someona shows you how, from prisons, he set sail acro-s
But often difficult or impossible the Atlantic Ocean in the sum71-
to do if you do not have some- mer of 1492. He came within
Now It le one to show you. "I couldn't do it!" sight of land.
Atlantic of the
the crosa Then the great explorer hand- simple to Bahamas Islands, on Oct. 12. He
Why? Because I show- ed the egg to another man who Ocean. the neigh- cruised around in
ed the others how to do it." failed. He bouring walers and visited tried and
All eyes were on the envious Islands. He was under the Im- marked,
his face turned red. pression that ho had actually
The great explorer had laught reached the Astutle wakers and
on envious man a lesson.
one
"I couldn't do it" Then Christopher
I was within easy reach of China handed the egg to und Japan.
also re
Columbus
the envious
man and
General Tin's Narrow Escape PUZZLES ABOUT
-It Happened While He Was Lion-Hunting-
By MAX TRELL
course," General Tin was
saying to Kurt and Honie, the shadow-children with the turned-nhout names, "I'm one of the greatest hunters in the world but that doesn't mean it's any easier for me to go hunting than It is for anyone else. I've had many narrow e capes."
say: "I
Knarf interrupled to beg your pardon, General Tin, But what is a narrow escape? is is just the opposite of a wide escape? What's narrow about it?
A Sharp Look
General Tin looked at Knorf
dived into the le
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a little hole in the ice. Without
the of thinking
danger, dived in right after it."
"Wasn't the water cold, Gen- eral Tin?" Knarf asked.
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DIL BUN
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SELL KEAM DIE
Irish Rebus
Find the four facts about Ire-
"It was colder than cold,” General Tin answered.
"It was
narrow?"
sharply for Boment or two. A soal General Tin was hunting just to make sure that Knarf wasn't making ton of him. For Un soldiers don't like to be made fun of; no one does!
But there was no smile on Knarf's face. He wasn't fooling. So General Tin said: "There is no such thing as o vide escape. There is only such a thing as a narrow escape."
"Why is
1911 called
freezing cold. But that wasn't land that are concealed in this asked Knarf.
the worst of it. I swam in the rebus. The words and pictures "Because
use there kn't much of water under the lee after that will help you: it," said General Tin. "It's like seal for Д while but it swam tiny space when a door is faster than I did. And finally It open just a little bit, just enough got away. That being the case, como out from for you to squeeze through and I decided to no more. A narrow escape is under the ice and get back in
through that the air squeezing
where it To my dismay, was unable to Khart and Hanid, now wanted find the hole in the lee again. to know what narrow escape For miles and miles, I could sco General Tin, the Tia Soldier, nothing but a root of tolld ice. had had on his hunting adven There I was under the water, tures.
with nothing but ice covering How did the top of the water. I ever get out?"
That's what we were Just going to ask you!" Knarf and Hanid said. "How did you ever escape?"
like door."
A Hungry Lion
"Once," said General Tin, "I was being chased by a hungry llon. He was right behind me, roaring at the top of his volco and clashing his teeth together in the most fearful woy. Ho was no more than a yard behind
me when I came to
I came to the edge of
oject.
was warmer,
RE
PUBLIC +LECTURE TONIGHT
THERE
LAND
OFF THE
PORT Bow!
A Box of Matches
"Well," said General Tin, "I
GET ON WITH YOUR BLAD
a river. I was going to jump happened to have a box of into the river when, to may alarm, matches with me and a coudle. I saw
an enormous crocodile I had quite a job getting the weiling in the water with his candle lit under water but I mouth open, ready to pounce on finally managed it. Then I held me when I jumped in.”
the lighted candle to the ice and "Oh! What did you do" Hanid
melled a hole up to the top. But I was almost out of breath by said General Tin. "I this time. Ono more second and simply stepped aside as the lion would have
surely been spring at me. He landed right drowned. It certainly was In the open mouth of the croco narrow escape." dilo. That was the end of the "It deriainly was," Knart and lion, while the crocodile had so Hanid again agreed. much to cut it no longer "Of course," General Tin went
יימדיי
bothered with me. But that
was certainly a narrow escape."
а
on, "I had many other narrow ascapes which I could tell you Knarf and Hanid roadily about only there isn't enough agreed that General Tin's time."
adventure with the hungry lian
narrow escape.
and the hungry crocodile, was And Hanid, with just the without doubt an extremely slightest smile on her face, sald:
"That's a narrow escape fór us, "And another time," General But she really didn't mean to
Went
Sho "I was up near the make fun of General Tin. North Pole, hunting sools. For and Heart really liked him
vory Tilas Bround
was much even though the stories covered with loo.
spled he told of his Hunting adventures
On
a soa and started
mot always sounded-
ocrom the lod. All it ong, juất, though they couldn't really,
I bioost had de 16 diyöd into happen.
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5 Genus of maples D Phiol
10 Greater quantity
11 Make a mistake
12 Sicilian volcano
13 Seal anew
10 Editor (ab.)
D
17 Fourth Arabian caliph
18 Butterfly
20 Spots
24 Let it stand
20 Negative word
27 Musical quality
28 Within (comb, form)
29 Soothayer
30 Bewildered
DOWN
1 Assoverato
Weary
·
3 Rowing implements
4 Mall (ob.)
5 Girl's name
0 Folding bed
? Sea cagle
8 Peruse
14 Church festival
18 Altitude (ab.)
18 Devotees
19. Indian
21 Hostelries
22 Knot
23 Greek portico- 25 Compass point" 28 Each (ab.)
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