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A SOLVE-IT-YOURSELF STÖRY
1956;
WHO LOCKED JOE DAVIS IN THE GARAGE?
By Harold Gluck
age.
THE CHALLENGE: Are you wide awake? Can people too! you? If someone told you o story with an error in is could you spot what was wrong? Paul Husted is your Match wits with him, Ho listened to a story, used his oyes and brain, and figured what was wrong with the story.
Soo if the do
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out
BLUE
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can
G. RED
70t! probably wouldn't see all You creatures in a 200. but each is a member of the animal kingdom. Colour the pletures ng marked, then see if you can mine the anhauls h our lite 200.
(Solutions on Page 201
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LATEST EFFORT
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HUSTED was not the type of mother to complain. She was Natisfied with her son Paul. Especially when within people would say listening distance, **There goes the mother of that He enn junior detective. solve almost any kind of a mystery.
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"Don't you dare say he locked that little boy in the guruge unless you can prove it in court," Jimmy's mother threatened.
AND GIRLS *
THE "ANCIENT PEOPLE" WHO
STILL LIVE IN
L
IN PUEBLOS
By IDA SMITH
ONG before the White [ndag
people came, there were cities in America built of stone and adobe. They were on the southwestern plateaus only, however, due to the sunny climates there; in parts of what are now Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and Colorado
AL first the prohistoric people of these cities built their homea singly. Then about 1100 A.D. they began to build community houses called pueblos. Sometimes I whole town was one Inrge pueblo having 100 or more rooms and housing thousand people. Pueblo is a Spanish word meaning village.
Taos Pueblo in northern New Mexico is occupied by descend- ante of anclent bullders. Round objects in front are ovens.
fabulous cities of Cibola.
Went to
and
Many of the curly pueblos are now in ruins, but in had But today Mrs Husted
Arizona and New Mexico
Sometime during the early some to have been the seven something on her tongue to say
there are about 28 which
pueblo period new people came and the words were addressed to
are still Inhabited by the in from somewhere imknown Mr Arthur Zorn, repertor
Today Centerville's one end only loud-
descendants of the people and mixed with them.
firat bullt
them. It is hard to tell the works of ing newspaper.
as far as he got for the who
one from the other. "Something has to be done saw a crowd of people on the was
fermer gave him a real tongue | Oraibi, one of the pueblo Selentlats have named ali He lawn of Mrs Windale's house, that Simpson boy
villages of the Hopi people these "Better stop the car," he pug- lashing. all the children in the
think I smell a I
"All you people are persecut-in Arizona, is
the oldest, Anasazi, neighbourhood. And when the Kestel,
ing my soT, Don't you dare parents talk to Mrs Simpson it story
say he locked that little boy in continuously inhabited town So the reparter followed hus is like tulking to a blank wall.
young friend's advice and they the garage unless you either in the United States. She thinks her boy Jome, is
Wera on the lawn A saw it could prove it in R little daring and won't hurt &
SDD YEARS BEFORE and giris were court of law." group of boys ny But one of these days we
around the door of
COLUMBUS trage yin guthored have going o
the garage Inside could be this community if she doesn't
beurd trantle shouts. renlise James needs a lesson
Arthur Zorn had a serious ex-
ITA en
face U pression
are
FUGOSLAVIA is a
comer in the field of listened to a connplaint he bad stverul other 13 theheard In stamps-for-export. philatelic market this parents. country is fast becoming a rival to Monaco and San Marino in a rice to see who can put the host status Anitions. The answer to each about any subject on to the counter in ordet to eätn, Ä fow quick pounds atid dol. Jars.
by Marshal
HERE'S a list of
20
volours.
HBelow this list are 28
definition rhymes with one the colours.
of
effort
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"Let me out of herel Help!"
That sounds like Joe Davis," said Paul to one of the men
"What happened?"
Mrs Windale is away for the afternoon,
was the reply, and "agree with you," be re-
as far as I can figure it out, they piled "Honding parents is a dimeyt
job.
The trouble s
say that James Simpson locked Davis in Mrs Windalc's that James does all his mischief Joe
We'll have a sinash not when
trage parents prosent
the door to break the bolt and And I know you will #grea with me he has the face pudjock."
The shouts of the boy eon. if we of an ange).
strong boys tinued and two futher prove to his mother
buy their shoulders against the bit of that their son needs
garage door and started to push then I think the
it In. Soon they smashed the cortariton, problem will be solved."
lock open and look out little Joe Davis who was crying. By this time Mrs Simpson was on The scene
con ever
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"We would all like to bo
No опе ΚΠΟΝΗ where prehistoric people Some of their they
Pueblos."
Along the Rio Grande are the numerous River Pueblos, Among them are the Tewa group that in- cluded the Huno' who
ve with the Hopi. early pueble people
To the went the Acoma In the Navaho Laguna villages stand on lofty which
mesos. language means Ancient People,
Taos, in northern New Mexico, Today, among the 20 pueblo villages left that are occupied, is also occupied today by des- cendants of the ancient people, there are eight or nine on Hopi mesan in Arizona. Just and is one of the outstanding across the line in New Mexico is tourist attractions, For a small the Zuni pueblo. Once there fee, iis Indian mayor will show were seven of these, thought by visitors around.
the
Punch Tells A Tale
-It's About How He Lost His Pet Dragon-
By MAX TRELL
wild
Meanwhile Paul Husted walk. ed over to the smashed gara"""
He examined it carefully. these door. There
the something in
came from. story that James told that bothered him. Then suddenly legenda relate that a little state appeared on his came out of a lake. But He walked over to Mrs they remember that they face.
"wandered for a long time, Simpson. friends with your son if he only dressed in skins and bark would stop teasing the younger and eating wild seeds" says bay# If you will come with Ruth Underhill, in her me to the
Kurage door I will
"Workaday Life of theD
I ever tell you." show
the error in your you
Mr Punch to Knarf und son's story.“
Hanid, the shadow children There was something in the
turned-about names, Then by accident they with the
"about my
friend Snorter?" tone of voice used by Paul that
Mr Punch looked at Kuart, ⭑
made her go to the garage, She learned how Ilstened
1st to a brief explanation | grow corn. They no longer who shook his head. and then knew her son had been needed to roam,
Punch lonked al Then Mr had No sooner
he Anished
80 they speaking, han his young friend
lying. This time James wouldn't, bullt villages and tilled the Hanid who also shook her head.
"Well," said Mr Punch. Paul entered the living room.
soli. That was the begin- tell you about Sporter. "I'm ready." anpounced Paul,
"He ning of farming in the
was one of the most "and you promised to dri ine
United States, some 1500 interesting pets I ever kept. He over to Sands' Pulit to me the "No, I didn't," enapped back QUESTION: What was the
Al used to sleep in the cellar. "He's one litle Dar. I has editor of the weekly paper they James
error In the
told story
by | years ago,
least his head used to sleep in just established. No glue on watched him go into the garogo James? Paul must have seen
The rest of cellar
hlan bottom of my
When Columbus discover-the the
shoes, Bo and he neeldentally locked him-
something so convincing that it
went all through the house. His let's go.
self in. He just wants to get showed him and Mrs Simpsoned America, the pueblo tall stuck out of the chimney," The two ict the house and me into trouble. You bellove James locked Joe Davis in that people had lived here for
this time, Knart and By entered
Zor's Arthur
car, me, don't you, mother?"
500 or more years.
Wero looking at Mr They Hantd They had driven only two
Punch in wonderment.
**What blocks southward when Paul
were then raising cort kind of a pot was this Snorter, benne and squash. And anyway?" asked Knarf,
Late:1
Is this new Tito's post office issue to commemorate a stamp
held
Zagreb's buildings and one or two of those 1 had in years
gone by
Here is the best way to work: Write
the colors it a list. Run through the definitions until you are sure of one of them. Try to match that word with one of the colours so that they rhyme. The exhibition write the rhyme after the cor-present-day Easy ones to begin rect colour. with are F. M and R.
Check out each lefinitio::
it. That will make 14 you use it. Pasler for you to match the harder rhymes to the colours.
An average
for this Bert game in 10. A good score is 10. If you work hard enough, you may be able to get all 20 right. COLOURS
1. Pink
2. Brown
3. Green
1. Peach
6. Black
f. Golet
7. Red
U. Navy
9. Yellow
10 Grey
11. Rose 12. Wheat
13. Cerise
14. Rust
15. Blue 10. White 17. Tan
18. Corni
10. Bur 20. Creszn
DEFINITIONS
A. A number
B. Opposite of "fat"
C.
Name of a month
Small nail
To believe in
Opposite of "hot" Commenced
I, Stringed instrument
A
kind
of fur
3. Important protein food
K. Opposite of "loose"
L. Scowl
M.
End of a man's shirtsleeve Undulating
0. Opposite of "learn"
R. Used with a needle
P.
Your smeller
Q.
Shaft of sunlight
S.
Opposite of "war"
7.
A sour-tasting plant leat
ZOO'S
ACROCODILE!
I
Hardly very inspiring from
In colour and country as rich imaginatum as Yugoslavia
herself
to be in other praved arts-such as music and ballet.
Founded in 1093 by King Ladislas 1, Zagreb became a free city in 1242 and the royal
(1 capital
the province Croatia-Slavonia in 1867.
the In 1918, when Hungarian empire was breaking Croatian provincial
up, it
of
Austro-
gov-
ernment was set up in Zagreb.
"He locked me in the garage, be able to
Simpsons, wnited Joe trouble.
Mrs Davis
"Look here, Mrs Simpson,” began Arthur Zorn, but that
Farage.
talk himself out of
(Notation on Page 203
HOW THE LARLY BASEBALLERS PLAYED THE GAME
A Strike Was Considered As A Ball
It was occupied by the Germana AN World War 2 and by Tito's CAN forces In May. 1045. That was Ilheration.
כנס
Now the city makes
carpets, leather, iner and rail stocks. Its new stamps spur
the Inquiring mind. All stamps open up n new world for the student. The stamp is perforated 11, printed In photogravitre costs d in London.-J.A.A.
WHO
SHEDS TEARS WHEN EN EUROPE THE STORKS
IT ENGULFS A BIG" BUILD NESTO ON THE
VICTIM USTAS
ROMLEYES
ROOFS OF PEASANT
HOMES. PEOPLE PLACÉ
OLD CART: WHEEL"
WHEN WE THEIR ROOTS AS
and
SPIDERSPINS
HIS WEB TWICE"
BWITHA
you
Imagino
"Stan"
Musial toting his trusty ush and stepping up beside the plate all dolled up in long blue flannel trousers, tight Mring at the ankles, and wearing a blue mohair hat?
Back in 1848 In the days when the New York Knicker- bockers started out as the first famous baseball team in history that was the way the players were outfitted. On
June
The
day the Knickerbockers crossed bals with the New York Nine at Hoboken, they came home trail- Ing on the short end of a.23 to 1 score, but nobody ever forgot what a stunning spectacle they had made in their blue frousers and, hats,
UNIQUE CUSTOM
at
▸
VER OUT
1)
EARLY BASEBALL PLAYERS
WERE A SIGHT TO
BEHOLD-THEY WORE LONG TROUSERS AND, EVEN, NECKTIES-
AND THE BATTER TOLD THE PITCHER WHERE TO THROW
I'LL
TAKE
17
THERE
AN UMPIRE HAD
DIGNITY IN THOSE DAYS- HE WORE À TOP HAT. AND SATIN A
CHAIR-
At the very beginning pitchers · Umpires híd plenty of power Another unique custom of
In the time- were polite to the batter. "When in the old days the ploneer Babe Ruths was
up to the yellowed scorebooks of the bearing of flaming neckties, the latter stepped The colours of these fairly out. plate, he would hold out his Knickerbockers are plenty of hand-shoulder high. walat case, where a barginal note they
would make the win high, or kned high. He did this appears beide a Blayer nema;
to dicate what kind of a pitch "Fined by the Umpire,” sa In any crowd conspicuous
The lied. best, and it was up to, bad to plays never
the moundsman to salt, him. Speaking of money, though, It nbout about
ying a knot, for the ties were all put it he had neked for a low one was a long time before the fans
Put and it came in aromud the approved of professional base together beforehand, All isa did "zerolls, that was not a strike ball. About the first player to "was "sto pisos
against his
gò tráinst, thỏ prevailing notion should never be
collar; throw, the
four-in-hand the
Tong and but u bàlli-
around ble neck, and push the
Valgalty" was added to all In TROT and
* modo the Red Stocking the
con
small and through a hole. He the game by the bid-time wit gave a smart pull, writed bli umpire. He tamally wore neck, several times, hitched the frock coat and a top hat, and 10 most famous team In America. and to a pin, and there he was, make his resemblance 10 But the salaries his players re- all ready for 20 innings yo judgo of law all the plairiere ceived would hardly be
The shoes worn by the garly took his time about rendering widered pocket money beside the
familiar, décisions. But it was polioodpa that em, that he kept a site diffance Day of modern stars of the gume George Wright, his sing shortstop, drew only $1,400, connecting. phim, of his DIER,
ally, che svěĽATUE
t
to plant and
Strange Pet
"I'
"I used to spend hours with Snorter," said Mr. Punch.
of
so few of us. I live here with who they grew cotton and wove "How" asked Hanid, "could you. I've got a cousin
in the cellar lives in China. I don't see him It into clothing. They made his head sleep pottery and baskets.
while his tail stuck out of the from one end of the year to the They
other. One of these days I'll chimney had their own government
write him a letter, though." many and religion with
lots "I taught Shorter officials and ceremonies.
Mr Punch smiled. "You don't Interesting ways to amuse him- know Snorter," he said, "Snorter self," said Mr Punch. "I taught wasn't just an ordinary pet like him how to wind himself up on a spool of thread. taught him a cat or a dog or an alligator or an elephant. Shorter was really how to curl himself up like a
cat's ta a dragon,"
tall and roll all around the Here Khart and Hanid both garden. But the trick he liked gaspod: "A dragon!"
best was to stick his tall es far "And not A
the of
chimney as one out Mr Punch went on, possibly could and try to catch real, live, fire- the moon as it went solling by. poor I lost cating dragon. Smoke came And that's how A study of the relationship of out of his nostrila.
Do you Shorter," said Mr Punch. languages shows which groups seemed to descend from one know what he ate for break-
"You lost him?" said Knari, fast? He ate hot coals and original tongue. For instance the matchsticks and at the end of "What happened?"
The pueblo pèople spoke four distinct languages, with numer- ous dialects expressions peculiar to certain localitica The pottery baskets and slyle of clothing were different in each village. SPRINGS AT THE FOOT OF MESAS
Hopi language (Arizona) la res lated to that of the Utes Colorado, the Aztecs of Mexico, the Paiutes of the Great Basin, the Pima and Papago of Arizona and some of the "Mission" In dians of California.
+
stuffed
his no
he always carried
lantern."
"I never heard having a dragon sald Hanid.
D
he
"One right," said Mr Punch, "ls tall got hooked In
the
of anyone maon and he couldn't get it pet," loose again. Up the chimney
for a
ho went....way up into the "Neither did I." sald Mr sky. The last I saw of Shorter One reason the Hopi villages Punch. " used to be surprised ho was sailing over the horizon, the hot of are still in use is because of the at it myself. But for all that all curled up on numerous springs at the foot off he looked so fieres, Snorter was the moon, I'm glad to say that
If you their mesas, Mesh is Spanish really quito gentle. I used to Bhorter looked happy. word for table, meaning dat spend hours with him-with bak me, I think I can tell you topped, rocky heights. Once they his head, that is, down in the why." hod villages in, the surrounding cellar. Ho Used
to like me to flat Jands, but soon after Coron- keep him company. ado came, lo the 1840's thoy
The
trouble with Lis wore ordered to move back dragons, he would often say in from thêm.
his sad voler, in that there aro
Rupert and the Fishing-rod-13
Wondering what", lakh no akce his pal Rupert, noves back to
whalipers Bill
for hitt.
"Why?" asked Hahid
Off To China
"Because said. Mr Punchi "he was sailing in the direction of China. He knew he was going to nicet his cousin at Tast,"
Mr smiled.
Punch sat back and
Morton with L Sábrter, again,”“”, he
ho'd come back
That's why," no
Boo the moon.
without looking to
Bhorter. Ish't sitting on the horn.
of it but it ham't
yet,"
Kanrg and Hinid mid like to seo Enorter, too. nevéré, modra, dragon,!!! Horld,
Mout folks haver Mr. Punch. "INão, themonk
lucky
for
one
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