FEATURES
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1957.
FOR
BOYS
AND
GIRLS
YOUR PUZZLE Short Story Based On A True Incident—
CORNER
CROSSWORD
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1 Race course circuit
4 Regret
7 Make a mistake
8 Compass point
Boal
11 Pewter coin of Malaya
12 Appearing
18 Unit of weight
17 Educational group (ab. Į
18 Also
19 Pigpen
DOWN
1 Boy's nickname
2 Craft
3 Shem
4' Stars
3 Employ
0 Always (poet)
10 Upper limb
12 Station (ab.)
13 Eternity
14 Used by Ashermen
15 Jolly
BODY PARTS
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your
body bat Puzzle Pete forgot to put in the vowels.
figure them out?
TRIANGLE
SINCERE is the word from which Puzzleman has hung his word triangle. The second word
OUTDOOR LIFE
HENRY MAKES A DISCOVERY No Razor, But This
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T had been three days Ainee a few of the mon from the Mayflower had set foot on dry land. But this was the day when
Is "patterns of perfection all the passengers were to third 'approaches" fourth
go ashore,
"solicitude dfth "old measures of cloth and sixth an ab-
*breviation for "right side." Finish the triangle:
SINCERE
PICTURE WORD SQUARE
for
Substitute a four-letter word each of the pictures (or wording) and you'll find your answer reads the same down na ACTOSE
WHAT IS
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Henry was so exclted he run out on deck in order to be among the first to take But the the trip shore. deck
alippery and Henry skidded. Before he could regain his balance.. he ran smack into Captain Jones.
WAS
The captain glared at him. *Look where you go, YOU....
manneries
17m you
wall!" captain shouted
But Henry was accustomed to He got so much of it scalding. from everyone. That is, every- onc buk Constanta Though she was but 15, Constanta took the pinch of a woman with the work.
So Henty fought a place next lo Constanta Hopkins in the longbont. He could see that some of the men were getting ready for a scouting party.
"I wish I could go along!" Henry
confided to Constanta. She sighed and gave him weak to smile. Henry. won- drzed if even she thought him to be a nuisance.
But he didn't dweli long on Constanta's opinion of him, for they were soon at the shore and Henry hunted clams in the sand with the other boys while the women got ready to do a two- months' washing.
Henry was so happy to have his feet on dry land that he ran
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They dng until they found a wondrously woven basket filled with cars of corn.
"I promise!" gasped Henry eagerly.
all over the place. Not caring you promise not to make your. much where he went, he didn't self a nuisance." look where he was going untli he fell over something. It was Mistress Eaton's Treslily washed clothes!
"Upstart!" the
good
isy screamed at him, and she would have slapped him had he not ducked at exactly the right mo- ment.
Henry could see that Captain Standish did not think well of taking him uioart, but Edward Tilley spoke privately to the captain ul he nodded in agree-
ment.
"Nuisanco?" he heard one of the men grumble.
But when the sun was high
There
Bird Shaves
NE of the proudest birds
ONE
in the world in
the
in the sky the scouting party came to a pretty valley. whe fresh watert Henry "drank deep, for water never lasted so beautiful motmot of tropical. good.
¡Central and South American The pen, too, felt better and countries. It is began to explore
some planks. discussed how
the beabl,
evon
They found an iran kettle maler prouder than the puncock. While the men Tho pencock merely struts theso things about, showing off his fine could have come to the wilder-feathers, but the motmot ness, Henry strolled down the tries to improve its beauty bench,
by shaving.
Then ble eyes sighted some. thing very unmal. It WILL =
That is, these birds remová
mound of sand with the prints the shafts from their two long, of hands on top. "Someone has central, tall feathers with their been here recently." Henry said sharp, notched bill. 11 Is hard aloud as he began to diz.
work, for they must bend their tall forward and their heads
As he dug, some of the men rame up. "Digging in the sand down. like a le child." one of the men scoffed,
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"Little child, big nuisance," someone else added,
"But Tve found something," Henry protested,
They all began to dig, dug until they found a
tvoven basket drously with ears of corn!
"This
They
won Alled
will be seed for spring planting!" Willam Brad- ford exclaimed.
The MOTMOT
banks overlooking river and Most of the birds leave a streams,
The Emall, fan-shaped bunch of the
motmota are not 221)
old of the
nduge end of each of these quila, exemplo Oders, however, prefer more "Beauty is as beauty docs," Tire and leave small hot tropical climate makes them individuality tufts here and there along the Endotent and lazy. They eat otherwise bare shafts,
mleg, rats, lizards, insects or al- most anything they can pick up with tue effort.
Even if these birds did not try to improve their appear~ our unce, they should be very proud of themselves. They have gleaming green-blue feathers They
untidy house- on their bucks, bright blue keepers.. Just as their egg sald "So that's what it la,"
wings and talls, pinkish-brown hatch, father and mother the men, who had never seen breasts and ore extremely oumet spend a few busy hours
"And il com like this before.
streamlined In appearance,
to All the nest with dead comes in the hour of our great--
They wear a black beauty mice, frogs, dish and Emilar They all marched single Ale est need."
the duinties, Of course, in that hot along the beach. After a little
"The best thing we ever did patch upon each check,
patch being accented with olmate, these coon boedmo a while they heard barking dogs was bring the boy along," said tright purple band. They have mass of maggots, witch is the and saw Blx Indions, who dis- Cousin Tiley, proudly placing a crest similar to that of our food of the young birds unul
his arm Around Henry's
own North American bluejay they are able to forage for them- The company took after them shoulders.
apon their saucy heads. In fact, selves. ...deeper and deeper into the
agreed William they resemble the bluejay The motmot's genatal un- woods they went. By dark they Broadford. "Let no one speak greatly but are larger.
cleanliness saves its life, for Loving sunshine, these beauti- the native rullons do not use Just then who should come had not caught up with the red- of him in ill terms again."
Henry to him but Cousin Tuley hita- skins and so camp was made,
Aniled broadly and ful birds live on the edge of them for foalt nor disturb then. self! Henry," he sold sternis. The next day the walking thought how happy his friend the dense tropical forests. They Consequently, they have be
would be dig their nests into the high cume very bold and noisy. "perhaps I have not supervised was harder. Henry tot scratch- Constanta Hopkins you I should, Now we are cù by briars. His body schel. when he told her about his going on a scouting party. It He was thirsty. He stumbled amazing discovery and the new will be rough and dangerous, and Tell. balting the whole treatment he could expect from
this day on but you may come with me it party.
Henry ambled off by himself, Wai! Upstart!" He repeated the names he had been called this day. They made him sad, He wondered if all orphans were treated so unkindly. His only relative was Cousin Tiller. And he paid little or no heed to him at all.
Then LONG AGO
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appeared into the woods,
"Indeed,"
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World. It lies in a dense jungle in the Feter region - in northern Guatemala.
Tikal is the name of this Mayan city, With a population of over 500,000, it was one of the very largest cities in ancient America.
Tikal dates back to at least the beginning of the Christian era. About 000 or 700 yenra later the Maya migrated north- ward and left their elty to the Jungle. The Spaniards marked il on their maps, but in the 400 years since then Tikal was ali but forgotten.
In 1040 it was rediscovered
DETAIL
OF
STONE CARVING
ON TEMPLE FACADE
ALTAR AND
CARVED
ONE OF THE FIVE TEMPLES.
STONE
COLUMN
LOST CITY OF
GUATEMALA
pro-
to
from the air. But because of The centre of the city, the Although considerable the dense jungle it was impos. "business district," covers about press has already been made, it alble to land. A freund party one square mile, Smaller and will be years before He is hud to be sent to construct a less important buildings extend York" of ancient America is Te- landing strip.
from two
to its former glory. outward
to three stored Ever since, work has been miles on each sido,
Every care is being taken under way to restore the 00- One of the most Interesting have everything look as much cient buildings. The Museum sights to be seen in Tikal are as possible as it did then. of the University of Pennsyl- the pyramid temples. There are shops will be stocked with mer-
chandise. vania is in charge of the project, five of these, The tallest is 230 but because of the rain they are fat high and the lowest is 145 able to work only five months feet. Malty of the maile a year.
buildings are six stortes high,
ZOO'S WHO
"THE KIWI, NEW ZEALANDS FLIGHTLESS BIRDS WAGING A LOSING FIGHT
FOR SURVIVAL AGAINST DEP-
"REDATIONS OF BUSH FIRES,
FERRETS, HOUSE CATS, PLATS AND STOATS...
FISH IN A FARM POND
WILL KEEP IT RELATIVELY FREE FROM MOSQUITORE.
FARMERS SOMETIMES BÉRATE THE BEAVER SINCE
·ITIDAMS ANJARISATION: ENTCH AS QUICKLYASASIRIAM AND IS FULLY CAPABLE OF CHOPPING DOWN HALF A DOZ
EN FRUIT TREES IN A SINGLE NIGHT.
The
There will be hotels for visitors with all modern con- ventences. What other Inhabit ed city in the Americas will be able to boast that it is 2,000 years old?
-By R, S. Craggs
Some Magic Tricks
***Mr. Merlin Takes Animals Out Of A Book By MAX TRELL
TOW some magicians," said
Mr Merlin, the Magni- fcent Magician, "take rabbits
of hats."
Oh, I've seen them do that?" sold Hanld, the Shadow Girl with the Tuned-About Name, "But I can do better," said Mr Merlin.
Hanid and her brother, Knarf, and Teddy, the Stuffed Boar
General Tin,
Tin
the
und
the Soldier, and Mary Jane, Rag Doll, all looked at Mr Mer- lin admiringly,
Presently Kharf said: "What (ean you do better than taking
a rabbit out of a hat?"
Tapped The Covers
Mr Merlin turned around and took a book off the bookshek, He tapped the covers, It was the Mother Goose Book.
He held the book up.
1 can take animals out this book" he said.
"It's Mary's lamb,
Merlin told them,
After that, Mr Merlin pulled out Mother Hubbard's Dog, the Cat Who Played the Fiddle and the Cow Who Jumped Over the
of Moon. He also pulled out she Frog who Wont A-Wooing, the Who Climbed Up the Mousc Clock and a Block Sheep.
"Let's see you do it" suici Teddy, the Stuffed Bear.
Just watch it," Raid Mr Merlin.
General Tin said: "You're a magnificent magician, Mr Mer- in. But I can do some tricks,
Saying this, Mr Merlin stuck his hand inside the book. There too,"
was a squealing noise, Ho With that, General Tin reach- pulled out five pigsl
cd for another book on the "You recognise them?" he bookshelf. It was a Fairy Tale said. "One is the pig who went Book. to market. The Bocond is the
"Better be careful," said Mr one who stayed home..
The Mertin. third is the one who had meat
That's
right," sald
to eat. The fourth is the one General Tin. "I know what I'm who had none.
And the fifth
Is the one who went wee-wee- wee all the way home?"
·Pulled Out A Lamb
Mr Merlin dropped the five pigs back into the book. Then he dipped his hand in again and pulled out a lamb.
"Do you know who this lamb belongs to?" he said.
Nobody could guess. "It's Mary's Jamb," he bald. "It's the one who went to school
with her."
Then he dropped the lamb back into the book.
Rupert and the Thinking Cap-11
Tigadily seus the xwo pala, sa
doing.
With that, General Tin stuck ht hand in the book. Ho let out a yell. He pulled out, his hand as fast as he could. A wolf was biting it! It was the Red Riding Hood Wolf!
General Tie hurriedly put the book back on the shelt
Mr Merlin laughed. "Being a magician im't as easy as you
"But now I' think," he said. really show you trick!"
This time, Mr Merlin took tha Natural History Book down from the bookshelf. He turned It upside down,
Out came a whole troop of Ilons, Ugers, elephants, giraffes, monkeys scals, pendap-and mato and make and more; - The foot was so Alled with littl animals all roaring and squeal- ing and mining as they sprant and dashed around that
and Manil and Teddy and Mary Jane and General Tin all jump- od up on the chalks to get out of the way.
Putt Of Smoke
Buddenly, there was a puft of smoke: There was a sound of a bodic shutting," "The next moment all the animals were gonet
Even Mr Merlin bað dias appeared)
The only thing that remained van a "little picture of 'a Takbit fying Very rodetry 'on the DATÞÉR at the foot of the hulkaZIALE.