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IF you too
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INSPECTOR WHITE-
WILL ALL POLICE CARS IN AREAS
BIOROKEN GLASS
AND LOPK
up the
MIRSTACHE FUTWO
"Whizz White" of the Yard-was just closing the pienie hamper for family's Bank Holiday drive when the phone rang in the hall.
"Oh, NO," he sighed he picked it up.
",.E YES,"
crackled
the
"Listen I'm
Your at the allier ent.
White, this is the chief. mory, but
there's been
I raid on a factory-in your arce.
Bufe's disappeared,
hut we're
pretty sure we've got the three ingred who did it
Bow-
bold
YOUAN
Baudits raid factory --
Sair is stolen
Police ram est here -- three men detained
and bound
CROW
FGARD
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Artistry
THE stamps of France reflect her character and history in a way sur- passing those of any other land.
They started in a quiet way in 1849, depicting only the Goddess of the Growth of Food Plants named Ceres
(hence the word cereal).
From thon the French siampa
moved through "the Sower"
fumillar
"No...thai's another puzzle. Unless there was another man one the watchman didn't see what's manages to get away."
Solved!
| htm, took
we rammed their his keys to the office, and lifted they had already smuabed the safe-it's quite a small one.
anchow-in
"Anything wise taken? Wordhes
"No South Road after o
except the watchman de-se oft
carver the safe saw them
+1) bit of a chano.
with 11 we're got to find that
ghly in a big suck
"potatoes stencil on t They must have dumped
during the chame, it's a potato crisp factory. a "host quewhere between the factory says they took a brief case from 11hmber Hond and the cul-le- the office too."
"Can he describe them?" They would have so tune
und t'a packed with "Not very wall. They weren't reply. Ila je .L
"No blast!" said While
Gagged
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Party GAME
1. Players choose Z captains... Each captain takes turns choosing members for his team. (EACH TEAM MUST HAVE THE SANE NUMBER OF PLAYERS)
CAPTAINS HAVE
THE TEAMS FORM 2 LINES BACH CAPTAIN HOLDS A BAG OF CELLOPHANE WRAPPED CARAMELS AND A PAIR OF CANVAS GLOVES AND STANDS BY THE FIRST PLAYER...
all wore
He
on,
gure schoolboy collectora unfil, in tho 1920s.
they US Wete show-
ing
overy sport of
For instance
"No clues around the chase the national
life. I suppose,' sald White, glancing up at the bus maps hel
hundy
by the liked to keep hall phone.
many!" crackled And the chief detailed
ADE PARIS
15
the launch-
CORNER
Crossword
Cartoonist Cal helps you with this crossword puzzle by putting In CAROLINA:
ACROSS
1 Vulgar fellow
4 Cushion
7 Den
9 Demigod
10 Stair part
12 Bar by estoppel
14 Point
17 Exclamation of satisfaction
10 Binet
20 North Amorien (ab.)
21 Soak lax
ing of the liner Normandle; the 23 Seets international exhibition at Parts; the opening of an Alpine road; the stamps about stumps and issues to raise liberation and even
money for the postal museum in Parla.
the masked-mia type but they the clurs yunu seo in Julia
tribys
well Bodle's sketch. pulird downl All the watchmus van White looked hard at the map.
le that one of them Then he wasn't remember
called Whizz had one of those 'wizard' RAF- for nothung-he smiled into the
phone Lype proustaches.''
"Well? Didn't one of the
have mamed moustache?"
car
men
a
3. AT THE GO SIGNAL EACH CAPTAIN HANDS HIS FIRST PLAYER A PAIR OF GLOVES... PLAYER PUTS ON THE GLOVES,
TAKES A CARAMEL FROM THE BAG. PEELS OFF THEWRAPPER AND POPS THE CARAMEL INTO HIS MOUTH...
THEN HE
TURKS
AND
GIVES
GLOTES
70
THE
PLAYER
BEHIND HIM.
EACH PLAYER DOES THE SAME THING TEAM THROUGH FIRST, WINS!
ANIMAL KITES ARE
EASY TO MAKE
By Pansy McCarty
FOR something different
why not make animal kites ?
MAKE A KITE
Use very light strips of wood one-fourth of an no inch wide and one-eighth of an inch thick for the kite frame. Cut two pieces, one 36 inches long and long. another 82 inches
Cross them ten inches down on the long piece and bind firmly in place with string as shown in figure A.
R
STRINĖS
FIO
Fle
A
FIG. E
30" STRING
CUT
Flo.C
Notch the ends of the two sticks about one-fourth of an knife. Place string inch with
the kite, around
pulling i through the notch at the end of each slick as in figuro B. The securely with a square knot. Cover the kile with thin, brightly coloured paper. Lay the the
"Look for your safe, chief, in the river near Wharf Street. And forget
get the fourth man with the moustache. There
were only three.
now, if you don't mind ...I've got a plenie hamper to Lake bou very different river!"
• Whizz was right, But can YOU guess which was the bandila' which clues were false?
Pute-and
Solution on Page 20
It is sheer artistry which makes these stamps appeal so In much, because their value the catalogue is not high. Top price listed is £200 for the franc orange of 1840 (unused). But hundreds of other cast only a
a few pence.
Now France adds to her re- cord with this stamp issued to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the trade fair in Paris.
It is perforated 13, recess- printed and costs did in London. JJ.A.A
Knart and Hanid went to visit
An Extraordinary
Tailor
By MAX TRELL
" Uke you to meet a very good friend of mine," muld Ting-a-Ling to Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with the
turned-about names.
Kharf and Hand had come to visit Ting-a-Ling who lived at |the bottom of the Blue China Plate. There Aren't many people, of
course, who live at the bottom of any kind of plate. But Ting-a-Ling vention,
an Wha
What the Visitor Sees
ex-
Unless you've visited some- body who lives at the bottom of
| Blue Chim Plate, you can have no idea how pretty it is. There are trees that look as round and
as smooth as lollipops.
There
| 5-27
Sam was sitting cross-legged
on a cushion, sewing.
are tiny paths winding along they stopped in front of a little
Uny hills. There is river with shop.
A sign hung over
口 bridge over it. There are door reading:
birds flying in the air.
But the most wonderful thing
about the Blue China Plate
the village beyond the last of the hills.
Nobody looking down from the top of the Plate can see this village,
Sam the Tailor
I Mako
Clothes for
Everybody
the
As Knarf and Hanid and Ting-a-Ling walked inalde Sam'e the door. Sam, Tatlor
a boil rang over Shop, a
who was sitting on a cushion on the floor with his legs crossed under him, "You'll like my friend, Sam, a ed up with a smile. "Come in," sowing something-or-other, look-
It was to this village that Ting-a-Ling wished to take Knart and Hanid to meet very good friend of his,
great deal," Ting-a-Ling
said, he said. "What kind of clothes
can I make for you?"
as they walked along over the bridge toward the village, "Ha'a
a tailor"
"Thilor!" exclaimed
She
Sam the Tailor was a small, merry-faced man with a white, Hanid stubbly beard.
Founded a little dis-
appointed.
Ting-a-Ling now explained to
But Ting-a-Ling only smiled. Sam that he had brought Knart "Just wait till you meet Sam and Hanid around so that Sara might show them some of the sald.
"He's the most extra different kinds of clothes that ordinary tallor
the whole Sam made for his customers. world."
Sam was very obliging. Ho "Why, what does he tailor?" got up from the floor, opened Knart asked exeltedly.
the door, of a big closet in which
he
PG.D
tail will depend on the kile frame on the paper and cut weight of the kite. Fasten a the shape about one-half inch ball of kite string to the string larger than the frame. Trace a large picture of some animal on the front, about six inches
down from the top end. figure E.
with a crayon In the centre of the paper. Then colour it solid black. Soo figure C.
When the picture is finished, lay the kite frame on the back side of the paper and glue the half inch of extra paper the string all around. See Agure
D.
over
Tie a 30-inch piece of string scross the back to the ends of the horizontal stick, bowing the alick slightly to make the tto. This holds the silek in a curve, giving balance in flying..
Tio another 30-inch string on the front of the kite, five inches from the top and nine inches from the bottom end of the vertical atlak as in figure E. Make small halos with a pin through the paper on each side of the stick for the siring to bass through. The firmly to the slick.
tie about four yards of tail made from narrow sirine "of coloured sloth; to: the; bottom palat of the kite. The lingth of
"Now it is ready to fly.
See
In
All Ting-a-Ling would say all kinds of clothes were hang- wes: "Just you wait and sec.,"
Sam's Shop
NEMY
on hangers.
goodness!" cried Hand In astonishment. They don't They Finally, they reached the Blue look like clothes at all!
look like birds and Insects and China Plato Village and there, in a little street, just around the
flowers."
corner from the Main Street, icicles
Rupert and the Spring Chicken-31
When Rupert has finished his Rupeet again. One point in
your story cuts the to ponder tele the courtiers gather atmond their king to decide what shall be he "You shall walk with Some Klona" and "$_ will decide.
whether my, Spring Chicken-therd,
done with the little bear.
think he should be punished for
WILI -
his impudence, othama, want - gola non liệu him in the whole
- werd hẩm-straight home, but, the
world-hil sommémpany you badk
CALL RIGHTS RISKAVAD
king is, allent... Than, he sends for to your "g
"And sunsets and clouds and and rain," said Knart, sounding equally astonished. Clothes for Everybody "Those are. the clothes I make," said Sam,"clothes for everybody in the world and the clothes for the whole world' itself.
Hore," he said, holding
up a dark, misty floating sort of thing which hardly stayed on
its hanger, "what do you think
of
at is it?" asked Knarf.
Khart
Пn April shower". zaid "I'm making a dozen of They'll all be used In
Hanid and
were wonder-struck at the magnifi cent little costumes that Sam sowed for the robins, the butter flow, the dragonflies and even for the anta. “You should se the evening clothes I'm making zor Onig sald Sam ***Sam was certainly
wonder
25 Fragrant oloresin 27 Spoiled child
20 Wine InDASURES 32 Dawn goddess 33 Body of water
DOWN
1 Coast line (ab.) 2 Rough lava
9 Filth
4 Saucy
5 Measure of area
0 Accomplish
B Tumult
▸ Pronoun
11 Sugar and------
12 Organ of hearing
13 Her
15 Hostelry
10 Dance step
10 Boy's name
22 Beverages
24 Ventilates
26 Lieutenant (ab.)
27 Exist
20 Universal language
30 Compass point
31 Each tab.)
Mix-ups
To solve theso mix-ups, you
the letters in must rearrange oach row to form a fact about Teoland. There are three hidde
hero;
ROAN SOD LIAR FEAT LUG MRS CIVIL GAIN NO COR
Iranian mix-ups
In the strange linca following, we have hidden threo facis per- nining to Iran. You can find them by rearranging "the letters In each line correctly:
EXTEND SUIT YR LIT AREA ALP UNIT ANI
LATE WIN MI HALE
Word chain
Change EAST to WEST in three moves, changing only one letter at time and making sure you have a good word each Litre, There are three different ways to do it. une?
Can you find
Word chain 2
Change DEAD to LIVE, making only five moves of one letter at time und being certain you form a good word ench time,
Vogetarian rebus
You'll
find four vegetables hidden in this rebus if you use the words and pictures to best advantage:
COD
SPANISH
I'M GETTING
IN A RUTI
(Solutions un Page 28)
B
IT'S
YOUR
I'M YEAR
TURN
CHINESE
CREEDS
and
CUSTOMS
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