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Is It True?
Some of these statements are right, some wrong.
know which?
Do
you
1. Napoleon was a very unsatisfactory pupil at school.
2. The mass of the earth is nearly six times greater than if I were made of water.
3. An anemometer is an Instrument used for measuring the dampress and temperature of the nir.
4. Radioactive Aub.. stances can be made arti- ficially,
5. Some birds migrato across the Pacific Ocean. G. "Nordic man" was
first invented and placed on a pedestal by a French-
тал.
Answers at foot of Column Five.
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NEW BORN
"When help arrived; among the
dead
Were cousin Mary, little" Fred."
The
AT crazy poem is
the only reason that
I can think of why Fred was the name given to Sally by her future
she father before born.
was
POPPA
by
Molly
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fall to pieces without her that she made us all a Hitte jittery. It seem
ed quite probable that nobody would remember to order the dinner and that it would rain before we got in the baby's, washing (the last few days die was with us we had an unusual rainy spell).
We were as surprised as she would have been to find that the sun shone, the dinner was in the lee box, the water bottles were sterilised, the maid was eating, alone in the kitchen.
Nurse
Robertson's Influence, though it is on the wane, still re- mains. The not-so-new-born poppå sl baths his daughter every Sun- day, remembering to lay the clean
allowed daughter that he was
to nian maid to wash the baby's diapers clothes out beforehand, to use the A good deal of carpet was bée was a small, angry flat-one of (scrub in best soap flakes and rinse little cotton-lipped orange sticks for worn out in the transition stage over a pink crib behind the germ-
score of others-waving hungrily in three clean watera).
She even broke her of the habit drying out her ears, for cleaning her between Fred and Sally. Two proot glass window of the hospital of wanting to lunch with us, a trick use. things bothered this almost-n- nursery.
before she's thought out that had reduced Was
all us to sneaking sandwiches out of the He's Efficient ́ poppa: one was the car, which Nurse Robertson brought us house and eating them behind the developed a jinx and got overy Nurse Robertson, was crisp and studio. Sally stopped crying at a thing wrong with it that a neat and sterilised, all-white from didn't even dare to begin.
Avord from Nurse Robertson and I middle-aged American chr her starched cap down through her
home.
But that
her
knows how to get. For nights face, uniform. stockings to She told us All
It was left out on a convenient hillside so that it would be sure to start.
extra
nil our
energy
white-soled shoes.
a.m..
r
HE still puts her nighty on
over her feet first, lays her in her orib face down. He will got up in the night, re-make her bed, and strong-mindedly wheel her into True, at night she appeared a
another room if she tukes it into her little different as she glided into our
been CHE had Once
to head that the 2 a.m. feed had not to bring the baby for her 2 room to
feed
Mexico, and she used to been such a bad idea at that, (a habit of eating from The other was the solemn warn which we broke Sally the night tell us about it at meals. We said. He can get her despised two ounces ing, given him by
more Nurse Robertson left). With her that we had been to Mexico, too, but of water into her in a space of time. in which the female members of the experienced friends, that the day grey dressing gown and her dull red she didn't let that bother her. I developed
family would still be locking to see However the conversation started, if she really had only one dimple. and hair dripping down her shoulders started in to spring-clean the she looked like the wraith of Lady it always came back to Mexico in the And he is an expert at patting her house, that would be the time to Macbeth.
end. We heard about this friend on the back to debubble her with get ready to leave.
of mine" (we never knew which exactly Nurse Robertson's technique. friend) and the man on the train who had been so kind, and what the find pyjamas flung to opposite ends And If it is not now unknown to Mexican in the store had said to her; It was all very, very exciting. and of the room, bath towels in heaps on the bathroom floor; if the dogs come BUT during the day, we ended by driving the newborn into the house again in the evenin W any, one
she was quite wide awake, ally energetic as I am it she was so very efficient that she poppa to town in a
and we find ourselves once more eat- In hard to notice any extra spurt, made us all feel a little helpless about his duties as a father. Nurse the mald, it is because we have an
But not before he had learned all ing lundieon out of doors to escape. But it is true that the house was She took over the management of Robertson neglected nothing, as other Influence who doesn't mind spring-cleared the day before I went the household with a quiet ruthless think I have indicated, and father about these things, to hospital. Unable to bear the
No Difference
WITH
♫s natur-
We felt Helpless
n swirl of dust.
suspense of walking for me to start mess which was disturbing nothink Araining was as important to her as The household has new ruler, and
had ever been so well managed be-
be any other branch of her job. In on it, the future father got out
all she asks (and sees that she gets The more people who knew about it) is that her crib should be smooth the Hoover, rolled up his streves, did fore, nothing ever would be again.
When all the rest of us were looking after Sally, the more chance and dry, that she should be wheeled it himself.
sleeping exhaustedly in the hot she had of not being hopelessly mis- out in her pram at 2.30 every after- Fred had seemed a nice little afternoons she would be cooking up treated when the time came for noon, and that her dinner should be fellow, and for a few days after he elegant little dishes for dinner. She Nurse to
and leave.
served on time-she knows the ume left us Safly seemed a pretty poor followed me around presenting me
E up The first time Nurse Robertson and tells us and that there should exchange.
with glasses of hot egg nog and ice- for about 10 cold beer; she folded by pyls and allowed him to hold Sally, the poppa be plenty of it.
surprised and a little pleased. The hospital had led him to suppose that, scrub he might (and Nurse Robertson insisted on that, too), he Avould never be quite clean enough to handle such an aseptic morsel as his baby,
There was a time days when being Fi father didn't bath towels and put away shirts: she seem as if it was going to amount made the dogs sleep out in the dog to very much: when all of his house; she trained our raw Califor-
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After a few days of this Sally had made quite a conquest, and he was willing to hear all about Mexico for the tenth, or it
been 'may have twentieth time if he was really going to be allowed to perform the morning bathing ceremony.
When she Left
THE day Nurse Robertson left she was so quietly
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affair.
8 Makes a start with a letter.
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11 A repeat performance.
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13 Increased in bulk.
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10 A
A number of counters
that
make short work of stockings,
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18 Dry and rather rogulsh,.
20 There's always something rather fishy about such money affairs.
14 Titis is a gem.
15 It appears as named in another
part of this puzzle
10 The artist finds it useful to put down fruit beside the river (hyphen).
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19 Hampers.
20 It was Goldsmith who said that the wise bustle and laugh ne they walk in the pageant, but these bustle, and are important. 21 A dining-room with this would be a trifle awkward though, admittedly, noteworthy,
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nothing in jealousy,
24. Though it comes from the West
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28 This will make one howL 29 Trip frequently taken in
hurry,
30 Makes smooth.
31 Pigs's chap?
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1 What is it that goes to the front
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2 Most schoolboys have been, and
cast off in the end..
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Byxorms of PRECENO 'Chapters Domini Enfilden, beautiful and wealthy tourist visiting Algoria, sa rescued from a riot in an Al gerian vafo by a mysterious stranger. She rides with him later into the dosert, When some druk giria ual; the stranger, who calls himself Borka Androvaky, for the crucify that hanga around his neck, ho amatches it off and flings if towards them,
tween
Chaptor Throo
-
There was a strange contrast be- the two men, Domini thought, the one so ill at onse and awkward, the other so friendly and engaging.
"Some day. I must make a pil- grimage into the desert as you do."
sbe sold,
Freduced by
DAVID O› BLUZNICK:
↑ ko lapsed into Arablo, and Antoni
translated,'
"I 800 carnyan) — ORILA walling by a church." Ha continued [in _Arublé.
· “He says that in this church you?, life begins,” Antsoni translatodi
"Your real life. As cha demcribes - - it, "It is
fully born,
"Let me advise you to walt, Ma- dame, Walt till the call is so strong that it can't be ignored," Anteonia her attention was distracted by
then that you are The Band Diviner continued his prophonies' In disjointed images. It inomed that from that church Doi mini, accompanied by another per-. san, was to start into the dosert.
t day, but not like other days. The wind is rising. It drowns out the musio of the church. Tho' desert la angry,"
"Where is the caravan going? Cas he tell me?"
"It on the road to Bambora,“ Anteon! replied.
I planned for my pilgrimage."
"Bambara? But that's the route
The Band Diviner continued. "A. tont-far in the desert clone by ruined tower." Bullenly some great emotion seemed to poosona
a group of four Arah girls taking their washing to the stream. The sight of the foreignors seemed to intrigue and to amuse them. At Domini's request," Antoont Invited them over to where they stood. One of the girls, bolder than the rest went up to Boris, attracted by of the alog." gleam at his throat. Playfully, she "Is it joy? It must be joy ***...
What does he any?". Domini asked.
"There is something glorious In store for you. It is as if all the trees of the desert bear fruit and the sand is covered with milliona
of golden flowers Big as the fowar
utopped suddenly and uttered a cry, “re in
a warning!" he said.
withdrow a crucifix from about kia | "Yos. Great joy." neck.
Then, as the Band Diviner made "Give? Give?"
another pattern in the sand, ho sud- The strange look that passed over | denly stopped and uttered a ory. Boris' face made Domini and An- | He stared-down at the gand with a Caoni stars at him. In confusion, he look on his face as if the cry and tore the cross from his neck.
been frozen there.
"You want it? Here, take it It's yours" He flung It Into the stream, and the giris scrambled after it Bomewhat guilty, Boris looked at Domini, who was watching him with amazement. Then he spake brusquely I'll go see about the horror," and walked away,
Anteont looked inquiringly Domini.
"A curious man, Mr.
Who is he7"
"A fellow-traveler."
"And a friendT
I don't quite know"
I won't hear any more," sald Derain! auddenly,
"It is a warning."
"I don't care. If this great joy comes to me, I don't care what comes after. Please lot na go" And she led Anteon! out into the street. They did not talk about what had at happened.
During the mixt few weeks Do- Androvsky,mini and Boris, who were almost the only travelers in Boni-Mora, wore together constantly. A warm affection and a certain degreo of intimney road between them, but “A man who fears to acknow,odge sho never felt that she was really his God is unwies to set foot in ponotrating into his real self. Only the desert."
on one occasion, when they rode to. Domini looked at him, question- gother to a Black Pool in tile de- ingly. "The Arabs have a saying, seri, did Domini gather the cour ask him about himmelt. Madame. The desort is the Garden ago to of Allah,"
Wien Boris remained silent, aho In Ben-Hora, Count Anteoni asked ita forgiveness for her In- -owned a unique garden which fur-trusion.
alabed his principal pleasure in life.
"Please don't be impatient with
He was a charming hont and know me Domini!" he implored with more the desert and its people intimately warmth than she had over heara Domini enjoyed hla company, and in his voice. "Your friendship to all one evening nho accepted him 10- I have. I've tried to imaging what vitation to show her the bazaar I'd do alobe hero. I couldn't Just outside the gates of the elty, have faced at. Thon I thought of Wandering through the streets, our daya together the day ni Bidh- past the various stalls where the Zerbour- the time we rodo to the atives exhibited their goods, they tomb on the desert-- our walk passed a tent in which was a tall, on the dunes that night under the Ehin, mysterious looking man bonistars. Something's happened to me. over a plio of sand which he ranjI can breathe again. I can feel sun through his fingers, Tho man no and wind again. For the first time costed them.
"Madame the life of Madame is in the sand tonight I show you."
Domini shrank back Instinctively But Anteoni assured bar there was nothing to foar. This man, ha ex plained, was a Band, Diviner, a de sert man who made his living by telling people's forturies by the pat- torns in the sand graina.
"as he ever looked in the sand for you?" Domini dakod.
"Once. Along time ago." "Were the things he found there true?"
"He found nothing for the years that were past.”
"And for the years that were stil to come?"
I can bear to live in the world. You've done that for mo, Domini," Deeply moved, Domini said, "Thank you, Boris. Tm glad:"
"Plonne, Domini, don't question me. There, are things in a man's life it's best to forget. There are dark places that should be left dark."
Ford was so much omellos in his voice that Domist half expected, half hoped although she would not admit it to herself, that he wna go- ing to declare his love for her, but ho seemed unable to any more, und the spell was broken.
A few days afterwards, Father Houblor summoned Domini to, talic with him in the church. There was evidently something weighing booy ily on his mind.
"It's about your fellow-traveler, What is the matter with that man? "It might have been chance What is her What can be be?" but yes, he found what was still to come. Would you like to hear Jim 17!
"Ho's a man traveling as other man travel,” said Domial, defensiva- ty, She did not want to continue, the discuzalon.
Domini docidod that she would, and they went in. The Sand Diviner But Father Roubler Inalafed. "Do began to work his hands"rapidly, mini," he said firmly, "Mother Jo- He broke up the patterns in the nephine put you in my care. My sand with he fingers, making them first duty is to protect you, And form spirals, ofroles and anükelike I warn you most solemnly not to Lines, Bo swiftly did he move that to make friends with this man. It seemed as if the sand was aud- denly endowed with lifa. Then be began to speak, in stacolo fashion in English, When he grew excited, i
(To be continued)
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