/ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957.
FEATURES
YOUR PUZZLE CORNER
3 Dined
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
4. Male sheep
7 Transgression
UNight before
B Range
11 Frozen water
12 Frighten
·
14 American writer
15 Age
17 Too
10 Harden, a cemen
I While
DOWN
2 It is (poet.}
# Luned
4 Hespeels
5 Avenue (nb.)
8 Myselt
10 Wood sorr)
12 Mule child
13 Before
14 Father
10 Near
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EACH AN "ACE"
Eacit
of the following words
Con
ends with an ACE.
figure them out?
ACE (speedily)
ACE (infd of table)
ACE (mom)
-ACP (vestigo)
You
-ACE (king's homet
ACE (comfort)
BEHEADINGS
Behead "room" pnd have
גי
step": bchend this and have “a
high card."
TRIANGLE
FOR
BOYS
Short Story For Young Explorers
A Close Call
66TTGH. It's wet," mutter-
"UGH.
his stomach
el Jerry ná he The Puzzle is based his wriggled on word traingle on the word DO-through the black, rocky Ke could hear NATES. The second, word is tunnel.
"thus: Chin "a writing tool" scuffling and lithering--
arm, bene: Afth
skirts: John ahead of him.
fourth
"gomething in Бите
Mxth a legislative body." www complete the fringe?
DONATES
CHANGE A LETTER
Cro
In each of these sentences,
1 larple just one letter of:
Noser -
We usually use
1
in outdoor cookery.
Gingerly he Teached for ward in the darkness und This groping fingers touched the heal of John's boot. Ho tugged. "Wait $1 minute,
Let's rest!
If it gets smaller, we won't be able to go much farther," he added as his friend stopped.
"Scents to be widening
AND
GIRLS
The First "Leavened Loaf"
In The Second Cave Made In Ancient Egypt
Jerry still peered at his hole. "You simply can't get through tha" grinned John. "What did you expect to find? Treasure?"
the fast word you pick you will here." John's voice, dull and have the second word list cop-hollow in the narrow space.
letes the sentence:
“Look?” cried Terry, "Water is pouring into the cave!" Beauty salons make the came back to him. "But T can't see a thing," he con-
explore the Bounding For melodious musle, a continued,
rather candles, ready to
hole. Now, for 20 minutes they scared.
had been struggling up the "Want to go back?" asked "narrow slope on elbows, knees
and stomachu. Jerry.
Suddenly John discovered he
Care could get to his knees. fully he lit one of his candies.
After planting their supply of Turning, he grinned trium- Ighted candles about phanlly at Jerry, whose grimy the damp floor, the boys sat and face appeared through
the munched their sandwiches. opening behind trim.
"I laid heppily discussing their strug outf" he cried, gie up the mael. you it...watch
"E" WORDS
"Not after this struggle. How many things beginning It must lead somewhere!" with her put you find in Car-His companion's voice grew toonist C's drawing of a 200 determined. scene?
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"Ow" moaned Jerry, rubbing glow and Jerry knew that he head where it had struck the John had lit a match. "Yes. low celling. It opens out here. Come on!" cried, scrambling for- ward. Jerry followed."
he
The boys had discovered the cave at the beginning of the summer holidays. Often they returned and used it as a headquarters for their games.
sald John "Can't stand up." unnecessarily. "Light your can
moving cau- ciles," he added, tiously toward.
By the flicker of four flames about them, the boys looked
cave. Not very big." "Another commented Jerry. Carefully they crawled about, finding nothing but bare rock walls.
"Not very exclting," concoded
"No," cnswered his friend, sounding as if he had hoped for, just that.
The top of Jerry's boud
THE plain truth was that
formals was lazy.
scraped the root ned his chin
She had been set to the touched the water as the holo grow narrower. "Hurr
up," task of bread-making by commanded John from the her mother that long-ago
rear.
day in ancient Egypt. She Suddenly Jerry stopped. had measured the flour, "J-John," he whispered.
"What?" growled his friend irritably.
stone-ground from wheat raised in the fertile Nilo valley fields,
Then she had mixed in water and salt and pounded
THE BREAD F PUFFED UP!
"It...It's...the water,, Do you remember that bend that we bad RO much trouble getikag round, It was No narrow? I and prodded the stiff mass e-can't feel any air above the to make, smooth loaves ready water. It goes right up to the for the oven. It was hard roo!!!
work and Karmis moved more and more slowly.
Finally the dough was formed Into leaves more then en inch The dough grew emaller sgan thick.
When these loaves were and she shoved it out of sight. gotting higher all the Ume! Hold baked they would bo heavy, At noen hor mother found your breath....and try to get hard masses that took hearty the bowl. "Now what is this?" through."
"Cash!" his friend muttered. "Well, we can't stay here.
It's
Jerry was frankly terrified. Ahead lay a flowing, gurglba mass of water. How far would he have to plunge through the tunnol before he found air again?
chewing.
HOT DAY
Karmis looked at the kasi lump of dough. Glanding behind her to be sure her mother was not
"Get going," said John rough-looking, ly, guessing his friend's feelings, under
Jarry's Angers shook. The water had reached his mouth now. Abruptly he took a deep
eyes them on breath, closed his
plunged.
A half hour Inter Join roid, The "See, it's starting to drip. Per haps it's reining outside. sun was out when we started, though,” he added doubtfully.
*
"And look at my little hole!" cried Jerry. "Water pouring cut! 1 suppose we'd better go back. There's nothing here."
and
she shoved
she asked.
Karmis drew back in ofarm. "It is magic" she cried, "Do not touch it, mother! When I poked it earlier it hissed at me and Now sank back into the bowl. look! It has grown biz againi"-
The mother culled Katmis for her loziness in leaving the dough unbaked. But hor mind was not
ber on
giochiul punishing
Instead, she too
the mass the bench: end skipped out but the sunshine to play.
All that hot day the dough lay under the beach. By night daughter. fall the lump of dough had be punched and prodded the stronge gue to stir strangely. All during muss and watched it rizo ogain, the night the fermentation thai With great during she placed Little the strange bread in the oven. had begun went o Fighting, squirming, pushing bubbles of gas formed, aaised When It emerged it won light grabbing handfuls of water and
the Jump to twice its size Gud and puffy, covered with a rich
tho rock, he blindly groped his way
whole village by its delicious forward. His lungs screamed for lunged its weight, to a puffy brown crust that brought
lightness,
The next
morning Karmia smell. eyes and his body grew numb.
bread. remembered her
But The first yeast bread had been breath, lights flashed before hir
Called she peeped under the made.
"the leavened Suddenly, cool fresh air sur-when rounded him. A gasp escapes bench she could scarcely believe loa" it became the staff of life
her eyes. Hasilly she punched for the whole world. and prodded the mass to make it go back into the mixing bowl.
his lips as he breathed it in.
A final twist and he lay on the door of the first cave. Grey day- light surrounded him.
Afcald for John, he looked behind him. But through the As they pul out the candles rush of water his friend's armTUS one by one, the carie dampness and head appeared. closed about them. The flat He, too, lay and gasped. One day after a rainfall John, when their inspection had since was broken by the steady Weakly they looked at paca
drip, drip,. drip of water from
other, then at the world out- the Toot. a little ended.
Relentlessly, water had found they
side. seeped into the second cave. stream of water running úcross the cave's rocky
"Goth, I'm getting wel!" ex- floor, Tracing its couree to
claimed Jerry nervously. "Let's go. the back of the cave they discovered, half hidden by rocks and rubble, a roughly circular opening about three feet in diameter.
Nu
"But where did
the water come from?" asked his friend.
"Through the rock," John re- plied. "Foel. It's wet."
It's a
-LEE PRIESTLEY
Teddy Has A Big Idea
-He Wants the Tin Soldier to Be Something Else-
By MAX TRELL
KNAR HI Boot Thank
TENARF and Handd and Toddy.
"Look at that rai downpour!" and John foobly.selves down in front of General Complete blackness was thick The world oude was a grey Tin, the Tin Soldier. oround them.
As usual, General Tin stood "You first," said wall of water.
with his musket OYET His John, his volce shaking a little.
shuilder. He hardly ever took "} suppose," agreed Jerry, Jerry needed no second telling. ofter he had
it off his shoulder. It had been there so long that the musket looked almost as if it had grown on General Tin's shoulder,
the For several moments, three friends looked at General Tin. Finally Knart sald: “He looks very frod.""
"It's
"I guess it proves your theory searched every Thinkfully ha shoved his about the water coming through, cranny of the place. "No, look. shoulders down the narrow, wat though," admitted. Jerry. Eagerly they had felt Here's a hole," he indicated ani shuft.
Then he began to shake as he about in the hole. There was opening about six inches across.
back
a regular river" he thought of their narrow escape. to iL! Using There's a little water coming in
here."
gasped, kiriting and squirming Whew-were we lucky! I suces matches, they had peered
roally be Water this caving can slowly down. "The rock hereabouts is lime his way
Soulting as they were, they It rains outside, the water leaks holding head high, he
C. Splutterings as- went gratefully out into through and runs out here. That plunged
explained Joha. sured him that John was right rain.
-5, L. EATON behind. must be "Never mind; let's eat."
in, and before the feeble slone, full of holes. And when half covering his body, and dangerous stuff, after all,"
light had lost itself in inky blackness, they had glimpsed a gentle slope leading up. ward.
So this time they had arrived armed with food, matches and
HOW MAKE A BELT
TO PEN POCKET ICUT 2 PIECES OF SCRAP LEATHER FROM AN OLD BELT.
+ZIN.
A
A
--ZIN
2.PUNCH HOLES 1INCH APART ON BOTH SIDES AND BOTTOM
OF THE SMALLER
PIECE.
3.LAY PIECES TOGETHER'LIKE THIS (AND PUNCH HOLES
THROUGH LARGER PIECE. 4.
Curco ROUN TOPETER WITH
his
FOSSIL SPRINGS WATER
the
PART
OF THE DESERT LAND
NE thinks of Arizona as
Ortland, but it in
only part desert. In central Arizona there is a beautiful, wooded canyon at the foot of the Mogollon (Mug-e-yawa) Mountains.
Along its side are "drap- erles" of maidenhair fern and yellow columbine. From umong these, dozens of great springs have been gushing out of the moun- tainside for centuries.
They were discovered in the curly 1870's by a cuttle- man. He named them Fossil Springs, because of a traver- tine
which deposit
the watera leave on plante, making them
look liko fossils.
CIT
comes 25UTS
This metal flume, like half-funnet, has sisited root.
flood waters will not the fluma,
Stands All Day
"That's what I think," sald Hardid, "And no wonder. He does nothing but stand on his feet. day and night.” Teddy said: Tin doesn't like being Generui Tin. I mean,"
2-6
"You could be a dog,” Teddy told General Tin.
"Thank you, zie, I ́ don't care
" het General to be a dog.”
"IF you meowed, you could be Toddy added a ent," added Teddy
"No, sir."
quickly, ferling that he wasn't Taking himself understood, the doesn't like being a tin soldier."
"He is a tin soldier," Henid.
know,” said Teddy. "He's nothing
"If you mooed, you could be a cow. You could stand to a field and eat grass," said Teddy in a very: sweet volce.
said
"I
but
p
tin
soldier," said Knaaf.
"Sir, I don't want to be .cow. I don't want to eat grass,"
1
"I know that, too,"
said said General Tin.
Teddy
Hand leaned over and whis-
"And," continued Hani, pered to Tehly.
Conce a tin soldier is a <in "You'd better think of some-
soldier, there's nothing else he thing else for him to be, can be. It's too late for him to doesn' change."
"I don't know about that,” mid Teddy, "I bet he cum bo Comething else, if only he tries hard enough."
General Tin,
At this point, who hadn't been paying much attention to what was being sald, suddenly asked: "Who can be something else, sk?" (Gen- oral Tin always said "sl" when he spoke to anyone.)
-things."
1ke any
He
of those
Live In A Clock
"Do you think he'd like to be a cuckoo and live in a clock?" Teddy asked his two friends.
Kart and Hand shook their heads.
"I doubt it very much. Try something else. Something fun
ke Knart leaned and whispered.
over
Teddy's face it up.... "General Tin, I have just the right thing for you to be!” said
"Hurrumpl
A Dog "You can be," said Teddy. Teddy. "For instance, I you take off
Want sir? your hat and put down your Haven't you already mentioned musicct and walk on your hands enough things that I don't want damage waters that pour from Fossil and knoce and bark-you can be to be?" wald General Tin. "But
a dog." Spring, thousands of scree
what is it" General Tin looked surprised Each day the gate-peoper finland may revert back
for an instant. walks the Bume to checks to the desert. loake and to clear out brush
No one knows where the that collegis. Once a dour fell water comes from. Sonis think into the flume and the gate- from a subteranene keeper had to help him out. | river; others believo It Is seep- Today a large pipeline tv 40-
age of rains and snows in the placing most of the fine. mountains.
After the water goes through But for as long as anyone can the hydroplants it empties into remember, the springs have the Verip Hiver, The Verda
IN
LARGER
• PIECE.
EACH
THE
WIDTH
water pay serand, winter SLUNITYOT.
OF
YOUR BELT
poured forth 43 cubic feet
of River is one of several im
and portant rivers that furnish
About 1800 e dam was built pear the springs and the water wan diverted into a dume. The powe operates two hydro-
water for the state.
Once these rivers were large plants (water power plants) for Thousands of pores of deser generating dectricity.
and wore ciatīvased and put For many years thees, plants into winter pegetables for men, unished electrical power to lots over the United States all the towns and mining she- They sword irrigated from theum | | triots of central Arizona. They rivage by means of dams and still provide power for much of caring.
the plato
Most the springs llyes e gato, Poder, due to logrossed furry- keeper who tends the auto at ing and popsilation, the rivier the dam. When heavy rains are dwlodiins" and the farmeri cans, the waig sloped zo list pER, WRITIN
of
to
:
Rupert and the Rolling Ball-9
A Real Man
"You could be a man, A real man," maid Toddy, “You could walk around). You could tulis.
You could eat. You could sit in the big chair and repd.
You
|could swing the children on your knpe. How would you like To be a man?"
But General Tin didn't answer. Instead, hp looked away. He know he couldn't over be a réal man. Teddy, was borty he mentioned it.
Knart unt Hand fell very- bad for they were sure they hack burt General Tin's teellogi But Bddenly and amted" #But General Tin” she said, “ycle Otta never be a real man but neither can real mans bo- "wonderful fir maidler like yout
Me Craond To Lon Lumiles He nava spiled but he did mVIS-
mulo a very low voice:
'Thank you, my deep walCEN SJA „XODEL, Liui. Joy him for no one had ever heard hira, mAT