THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1956.
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Can You Name
Them On The Wing?
FOR
BOYS
A SHORT STORY
AND
THE COVERED BRIDGE MYSTERY
SAY, Bob, this isn't
the road
to Grand- father's. is it?" Jerry asked, the unfamiliar gazing at landscape.
"Sure it is." his cousin replied, "but it's the long way around." He gave Jerry a mage and a warning look toward old Andy who was piloting their grandfather's station
along the dunty road.
WIŁŁOD
This was a very spreial Trip for Jerry. It week- end visit to his cousin Bon 2! Grandfather Benson's farm in New Hampshire, On the train from Boston," he'd tonkru forward to a ride in the old-fashioned buckboard with Ress, the white mare. Instead, it was LMOST everyone claims Andly, the hired man, who love birds, Good, him, Grandfather. But te love, Arst said, was in Manchester for But in order
the day. you must know the object
"Now,
Win S serves shut. Ara why did we gas un
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you to love. Pally know birds?
The you
ITS HAUNTED.. THERE'S A GHOST
IN THERE!
think something dreadful's down the inne toward going to happen."
Man Road.
11
toas Anu
"But surely you don't believe that, Bob."
Let's see if you can name some of our best known Robin Honals barn to gel
friends feathered
Score here?" Jerry wanted
11.4 yours if ten points for ench | knuss
|correct answer.
A score of
eighty or better proves you really do love birds.
What bird, the slo
Fil
the shy on summer's day, is a
vinded of happiness?
2. Which bird has a tall as Fully on his body and thrashes at around when he gets exelted? 11547 Pilguns called him the Prater Hit venuse he seerned in his song: "Hurry up, Tarty op phogh up, plough
Port
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163 Boon
changed into a pair of jeans and an old sweater.
The moon cast weird us they trudged along. frog croaked harshly booted.
Minute
GIRLS
Right over my head. It's inside now. I'm scaped."
the
Vulcan Is A Useful
Citizen
THE
world's tallest fron
man has at last become I'm rented, too, Perry thought, a useful, respected citizen of but he didn't say it aloud.
Birmingham, Ala. Mighty Bob's face kroked white in Vulcan, portraying the god
glare of the flashlight.
stands on hand of rock of metals, now Betty grabbed of the boys. "I'm going with top of Red Mountain there. you. 1-I'm not going to stay | He is visited by more than out here alvos.
250,000, people every year.
his high perch.
back into
From
Three abreast, Chey started the dark cavern of the covered bridge. Now the Vulcan watches over the boys heard R, Toxu! Two pin-city as a traffic cop. The points of light!
six-foot torch he holds glows "That's 1367 ghost!" Jerry | bright green until there is a eried, letting yout a great sigh traffic accident. Then the of relket. I' some anbul. It's alive." light up.
He swung his Bash-light changes to red for 24
"It's a monkey) Holy smoke, A pet monkey with a rollar and chain."
hours.
Made of Hirmingham"pig iron, Vulcan was shipped to the World's Fair in St. Lotis in 1904 to show
people the great mineral
They all irled to conx the wealth of the Birmingham Bite fellow down, but it incre-
area. When he returned, ly chattered away and swung
to an Awiftly from one rafter other.
"I suppose it stays out in the
Bob day times,"
said, shadows wodzi
A bull "rusting something to eat. Nuts whatever ma- An owl and neuMk-os
keys ent
Approached
at the
CD-
"Of course not. Grand- father says
it's some tom-
Cautiously, they that somebody the bridge. To foolery
it spread It startvit and
*}} the country. Still, over
some Jerry, there may be
Honest. Truck thing to it. Farmers who take their stuff to market before daylight say they've heard things, too, and you know how that old bridge echoes."
Leaving Betty
Bob and Jerry walked trance, gingerly into the darkness. All was quiet. Not a sound evuld they hear but the foins gurgling
"Reptember that envenend bridge half a mile down on Minute Man Road? Well, Andy won't go near it, even in broad daylight,"
"I know it's Hori of rickety, hat it can't be that dangerous."*
SAY, that
interesting I've got an idea Let's investi.
Mystery of the Covered Rale Bridge How about 11. Rob?"
of water below them
They threw the beams of the fashlights around.
"Grandfather Was right, There's nothing here," Bob sald in a harse whisper that echoed back, magnifled many times.
he was rolled off the freight cars and left to rust in the weeds.
IN THE MOONLIGHT...
Set up at Fair Park later, the powerfuł dwar? was loughed at
"Look, Bub. Give me a boost, Į because his right arm had beely will you" 1 think I can climb on backwards. up the side here and reach him."
Jerry kok an apple from his pocket and cut off a plece with his scout knife.
"Here, lille fellow. Come on down We won't hurt you," he kept saying AN he climber. "Come, get this apple.
Finally he reached the chaln and pulled the little fellow into his arms.
By the time Bob and Belty and Jerry
form- reached the house with the monkey tucked inside Bob's jacket, Grand- father Benson had come home anki the family was Bitling around the fireplace. Belly screamed.
"Let's wait a while It's early yet," Jerry said.
haunted. Jerry, Folks say they hear chains Fattle, see queer lights, and ghostly noises inside, know
Sherlock," "Well, all right, Bob's reply was not too enthu
34 it
gets suastic. "An soon
· ·
You
Fow stiperstitious They prople like Andy are.
Shortly after cuppar. arted
0221 necenti with Bashlights panied by Bob's younger sister Betty, who insisted on sharing "I heard it. the adventure, the boys started rattling.
Just then, Both boys ran out to her, "What's the matter. Sis? What happen- ol, Brity?"
The chains
he set the just like Andy sald,
NOW TREES CAN BE DYED!
ITOW wouki you like - a
H
A pretty pink house that was not painted? Or a niec blue one?
Or one in soft yellow? And all made from lumber that
in the when
Was wonted
What bright bir has black beard and is one of our rulour most brillantly coloured birds you went to the lumbervnal (like tyetiek)? 1 is one of the to choose it. friendliest birds we know.
4 Which hird is most often Right now it would b thought of as the EARLY bird?
expensive to bus pretty Which bird is a stunt flyer what hy backwards, hang enough of the new colouredt house. the air or fly lumber to build straight up? It is so finy that his But since scientists have ize is only three and found a way of dyeing living བྷཱ ཎ ཡམྦྷ ཙྩ བྷཱཝཾ ཝ three-fourths loches in length.
6. What bird nests in strange trees any shade they wish. and such lumber may soon be
Suspehalt 1
Prantly?
in
IN Kay,
tires
The male
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this within the reach of every
species arrives first to look for pocketbook.
place and his male's
nesting name is "Jenny."
Hc 7. What bird cats ants? has a long sticky tongue and woodpecker belongs to the family
e
Which merry little bird
How do you dye troes?
It sounds simple enough. The
a largo gal has a black cap and can hang free dyers hang
psule down from a twig? Every van-ed bucket about halfway day he can ent thousands of moth up the trunk of the tree. The which he finds tucked in bucket is filled with a special dye mnatie by a scent formula, What bird is the world's for recipe. best architect? Its babies are
From the bucket → rubber rocked to sleep in a nest that
ga-jet! hangs from a branch in the top tube runs down to a
| the bark of lead,
3.
of the tree.
10. What bird clears the air of insects, is a member of the swallow family and one of the most powerful fliers?
(Afswers on Faye 20)
valve that has been sluck into a hole in the free trunk,
Around the base of the trea are four holes, each with a cork stopper. These are to hold the elea after it has travelled
I'M A WHITE OAK NOW BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT COLOR IM GOING TO BE!
one tree colour.
In 1937, the huge zlatue was
Vulcan holding
on top of Red
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torch Mountain,
Some people cinim that in
moved up the mountainside ong its 120-foot pedestal. Vulcan the moonlight Vulcan wolks ort weighs 120,000 potvis. Ils of bis iron armour. On the
heat alone weighs 6 tons; his feet are seven feel forg neel He is 179 welgh 5 tons ench. tret tall
slope of Hoeky Mountain is B har footprint where they sov Vilean gol stuck deep in solid imestone one night.
Simon Had Three Choices
-And He Chose A Beautiful Thing That Couldn't Last-
By MAX
NARY
TRELL
and Hanid, the
Kdows with the turned-
about nanes, found their good Simple Simon
"Here's your
the friend #not l covered bridge,
Bob under a tree, Andy,"
ittle for a whale in grinntil as nionkey on the table, where wooden pali, blinked its eyes in the sudden didn't light and hit its head in It usually did.
paws.
different In overal
**What? Thai vee thing?" Andy cried, And the chain- it's no bigger than the one on my grandpop's watch,"
"So you were the ghost that folks
talking wero
about?" Scientists at the University Grandfather Benson said, pick
ing
the up
little monkey of Maine ore dyving grey beech trees lavender and yellow birch
"Where did you come from? No free blus.
one around here has a pet mon- Too bad key that I recollect,
Ed Stone, boys, and tim about this little fellow. He may know something about hun."
with a They experimented flowering peach tree which had white blo soms and changed then all to vivid blue. They surprised when all the leaves fell off the tree, about a week after it was dyod.
were
Bul six weeks later they were more surprised when the tree put out a new crop of leave and they wem blue.
Pink trees grow next to pur- And there are even ple ones.
лети coal-black ones, that the dye buckels are being used.
comes
a
tree and Through tho back down.
As soon as the dye enters the free, the sup begins to carry it
through the tree.
If the bres is large, it takes about four daya to dye it in this
A manner. small one can be dyed in two days.
You can dye tree any colour you choose. You may even dye
you can't talk. I'll just call up
look as
sitting He wus fishing hk mother's
But somehow hu
happy as he
He greeted the
two shadows
and invited them to sit down.
"I've got a few things to usk you," he said. "They've been bothering me a lot. You know," he added, "I'm not very clever. So lots of things bother which I'm sure don't anyone else."
mu
bother
"What things?" asked Knarf. Hanid was also curious ไป know about what was bothering Simple Simon
Wooden Pall
So he Rtted the hook out The boys listened while their the wooden pal and laid grandfather told Ed Stone, the fishing rod carefully on cditor of the town paper, about grass and said: the pet monkey, Mr Stone said it was a good story, for every-
for one
miles around had heard about the "ghost" of the covered bridge.
It was Sunday morning when the rest of the mystery solved.
was
ago
л
#.20
Simple Simon was fishing in a wooden pall
"The second gift is strange, too. It is also not very large though it is tall. And it often goes out. Yet, the more it goes You out, the longer it lasts,
of can't see it in the daytime, but his at night it helps you the very well."
to
Все
gift,
the
"I don't want that "A little while
man either,' I said to the old man, came along with a pack on his What is the third gift?' back. He was an old man and He he was tired and thirsty,
"The third and last gift," the. asked me for a drink of water old man said, is not useful at
Simon. which I gave him. Then, after an,
But it is quite he had drunk it, he said: "Young beautiful, it is round like a ball. man, you've been very good to It has all the colours of me. In return I'm goink to give rainbow in its sides.
It is po little gut."
light that it floats in the air. It "What is the gift, please?' I is more graceful than any bird news commentator had asked him as he opened the and it has often been said that at the pack and put in his hand to it is the only thing in the world waste picked up the story
that can catch and hold a sun- of the dyed trees is "ghost of the covered bridge take something out
he answered, "Well,
'I'm beam." made into lumber. And lum- from Ed Stone's paper and used bermen think some less expen-it to top off his late Saturday going to let you pick one
three gifts. I'll tell you what they are. sive way of dyeing them may evening broadcast. bo found soon. And when that
A man who said he was Mr "The_first_gift is small and happens we will all live
Wilson of Boston, called Mr round. It's big at the top and houses as gay on rainbows.
Stone to say that he had bought small at the bottom. But the
There Is when one
almost ne
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fixed you have yet seen the stump for a Thursday. Then, horror,
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To come to closer grips. This is the sump of the Raini
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"That's the gift I want!'. I. erled to the old man."
Simon paused.
"And what was it, Simon?”
Rainbow Colours
"A soap bubble," he answered sadly. "It was really beautiful. Just as the old man said and it did have the colours of the rainbow in its sides and it did: catch the sunbeams. But the moment I touched it, it burst. So I had nothing at all."
the little monkey for a pet for strangest thing about it is that the two shadows asked. hly crippled 12-year-old son. no matter how much you pour Somewhere on his trip home, in at the top end, just the same the monkey escaped; from the car amount flows out at the bottom and he had not been able to find end. Folks are always pouring It. If Jerry would take the little things into it and nothing ever Below with him when he wont stays in it. Yet it is very useful. home, Mr Wilson said he would pick up the monkey at the rail- road station Mr Stone added.
"And there's a "I don't think I want that reward,
gift, I cald to the old man; Jimmy Cricket What do doem't seem very useful to me, you think of that, Bob?" Jerry | it everything you put in it runs cried, "We not only solya the out of A What is the second gifts?" mystory; wą get paid fox štyn.
gift?
Not Vary Useful
Rupert and the Fire Bird-3
| Rupeři: looks more closely what i moku', 10 believe I'my - the: their, new linda
wonder, only persons in Natwood to know: fully amoochi, im't
‚“khouserida:
about lea: I must Burry homir, and my old books and papart.” citement, he furne and
Hi, just a mitiuțe.”
"And what were the other two
That's just what I don't know. Can you tell me?"
And Knarf thought and thought, trying to guess what the first of the old man's "gifts" was the one that you poured thiig in and they run right.... out again.
"Oh I know! It's a funnel!” he exclaimed.
Hafild had almost na much troublé guessing what the second gift whethe thing that was al- ways going out and that lastoa k longer the more it went out "A Candlef That's what it ble enid, quite, heppify","
Simon picked up the fahing the-woodet: rod, field 1 ove pail: ngnts - There, you: sed,” he said. "Badly, IKORONESTUDOS" Thy- thing, Oli me, oh myma'r good, for nothing. 1. can't even betáh a whole in my mother's pall
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