10.
Is It True?
Some of these statements are right, some wrong, Do you
know which?
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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 mensuring the dampness and temperature of the air.
4. Iadioactive
sub- stances can be made arti- fictally.
G. Some birds migrate Across the Pacific Ocean.
6. "Nordic man" was first Invented and placed on a pedestal by a French-
man.
Answers at foot of Column Five.
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NEW-BORN POPPA
"When help arrived, among the
dead.
Were cousin Mary, little Freil."-
T
HAT crazy poem is the only reason that
I can think of why Fred was the name given to Sally by her future. father before she was born.
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fall to pieces without her that she made us all a little 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 dayn she was with us we had on unusual rainy spell).
We were as surprised as she would have been to find that the sun shone, the dinner was in the ice 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 poppa stin baths his daughter avery Sud daughter that he was allowed to nian maid to wash the baby's diapers day, remembering to lay the clean clothes out beforehand, to use the A good deal of carpet was see was a small, angry fist-one of (scrub in best soap flakes and rinse
little cotton-tipped orange sticks for a score of others-waving hungrily in three clean waters). worn out in the transition stage over a pink crib behind the germ- She, even broke her of the habit drying out her ears, for cleaning her between Fred and Sally. Two proof glass window of the hospital of wanting to lunch with us, a trick things bothered this almost-n- nursery.
that Was before she's thought out that had reduced Nurse Robertson brought tis all us to sneaking sandwiches out of the He's Efficient poppa: one was the car, which
home
house and eating them belrind the developed a jinx and got every-
and studio. Sally stopped crying at thing wrong with it that a
from word from Nurse Robertson and I middle aged American
her didn't evan dare to begin. knows how to get. For nights
She told us All it was left out on a convenient hillside so that it would be sure to start.
car
But
Nurse Robertson was crisp neat and sterilised, ail-white her starched cap down through face, uniform, stockings to her white-soled shoes.
once been
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rose.
HE still puts her nighty on
over her feet first, lava her in her orib face down. He will get up in the night, re-make her bed, True, at night she appeared a
and strong-mindedly wheel her into little different as she glided into our
another room if she takes it into her room to bring the baby for her 2
to head that the 2 am. feed had not SHE had feed .in. The other was the solemn warn which we broke Sally, the
Mexico, and she used to been such a bad idea at that. habit of caling from
night tell us about it at meals. We zaid He can get her despised two ounces ing, given him by all our more Nurse Robertson lett). With her that we had been to Mexico, too, but of water into her in a space of time experienced friends, that the day grey dressing gown and her dull red she didn't let that bother her. in which the female members of the 1 developed extra energy and hair dripping down her shoulders However the conversation started. If she really had only one dimple. family would still be looking to see 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 Lime to Macbeth.
and. We heard about "this friend
get ready to leave,
No Difference
WITH
Its
We felt Helpless
BUT natur-
A
of mine" (we never knew which on the back to debubble her with friend) and the man on the train exactly Nurse Robertson's technique. And if it is not now unknown 10 avho had been so kind, and what the Mexican in the store had said to her find pyjamas flung to opposite ends It was all very, ver
of the room, bath towels in heaps on and exciting,
the bathroom floor; If the dogs corne ended by driving the new-born into the house again in the evenings poppa to town in a swirl of dust,
and we find ourselves once more eat-
very
UT during 'the day, when WITH any one
she was quite wide awake, ally energetic as I am it she was so very elicient that she is hard to notice any extra spurt. made us all feel
But not before he had learned all ing Juncheon out of doors to escape little helpless, But it is true that the house was She took over the manugement of about his duties as a father. Nurse the mald, it is because we have an- spring-cleaned the day before I went the household with a quiet ruthless think I have indicated, and father about these things,
Robertson neglected nothing, as I other Influence who doesn't mind CORONATION to hospital. Unable to bear the
Mispense of waiting for me to start which was disturbing nothing training was as important to her as
had ever so
The household has a new ruler, and all she asks (and sees that she gets for nothing ever would be again.
When
The more people who knew about it) is that her crib should be smooth all the rest of us were looking after Sally, the more chance and dry, that she should be wheeled sleeping exhaustedly In the hot she had of not being hopelessly mls out in her pram at 2.30 very after- Fred had seemed nice little afternoons she would be cooking up treated when the time fellow, and for a few days after be elegant little dishes for dinner. She Nurse to pack up and leave,
came for noon, and that her dinner should be left us Sally seemed a pretty poor followed me around presenting me
served on time-she knows the time exchange.
The first time Nurse with glasses of hot egg nog
and ice-
Robertson and tells us-and that there should There was a time for about 10 cold beer; she folded up priamas and days when being father didn't bath wwels and put away shirts; she seem as if it was going to amount made the dogs aleep out in the dog-
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The hospital had led him to suppose +|||||||| that, scrub as he might (and Nurse would never be quite clean enough to handle such na asentie morsel as his baby.
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 may have been twentieth, time if he was really going to be allowed to perform the morning bathing ceremony.
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5 Moves a foot at a time; a joint
affair.
9 Makes a start with a letter,
10-Good times for backers,
11
A repeat performance.
12 Due to be changed: it's knocked
out!
13 Increased in bulk.
16 A number of counters that
maka short work of stockings,
17 Amend by alteration.
18 Dry and rather rogulsh,
20 There's always something rather fishy about such money affairs. The
longing of a half-wit chim- panzee.
22
23 A minor diplomat who takes
nothing in jealousy.
24
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28 This will make one howl. 29 Trip
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2 Most schoolboys have been, and
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4 Made with cludeca, Soo!
* Man; this is a ruler, yo ken.
6 Relations of a sort-coloured,
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Re-whistle. (anag.).
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(See Column 1.).
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20 It was Goldsmith who said that the wise busilo and laugh as they walk la the pageant, but these bustle and are important.
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STHOMMA OF PRECEDING startenz Domini Enfuiden, beautiful and wealthy tourist víatting Algeria, le recoued from a violin an Al- perian cafe by a mysterious atranger. Bho rides soith him later into the desert. When some Arab girls ask the stranger, who calls himself Boris Androvsky, for the orucifiz that, hangi around his neck, he amatodes it off and finge ič towards them.
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he lapsed into Arablo, and Anteoni translated.
"I cos a caravan - camels i waiting by a church." He continued in Arable.
"He says that in this church your He begins" Anteoni translated,
"My lo
"Your real life. As ho describus It, It is only then that you are fully born."
The Band Diviner continued his prophesies in disjointed image. It beemned that from that church Do- mini, accompanied by another per son, was to start into the desert.
"it is day, but not like akher days. The wind is rising. It drowns out the muzlo of the churoi, The desert is angry."
"Where is the caravan going? Can be toll mo?".
There was a strango contrust bo- twoan tho two m103, Domini thought, the one so l at oase and awkward, the other so friendly and engaging.
"Bome day I must make a pl-Anteoni replied.
grimage into the desort as you do,"
pho said.
"Let me advise you to wall, Ma- dame. Wait till the call is so strong | that it-can't be ignored,” Antooni repiled.
"It is on the road to Dambara," "Bambara? But that's the route I planned for my pilgrimage."
The Band Divinor continued. "A tent ---- for in tho đonert -- alone by a ruined tower." Budifenly some great emotion seemed to possess him.
Their attenton was distracted by a group of four Arab girls taking "What does he say?" Domini their washing to the stream. The asked. aight of the foreigners spemed to
"There is something glorious in Intrigue and to amuse them. At store for you. It is an if all the Domini's requent, Anteoni invited fross of the desert boar fruit and them over to where they stood, Ona the sand la oavored with millions of the girls, bolder than the rest, of golden flowers-Vig as the flower went up to Boris, attracted by of the nloo,"
gleam at his throat. Playfully, sho), "Is it joy? It must be joy 7"
*** stopped suddenly and uttered a cry. “It ta a scarning?" he said,
withdrow a crucifix from about his "Yan. Groat Joy," neck.
Then, as the Band Diviner made "Givo? Give
another pattern in the sand, ho sud- The strange look that passed over denly stopped and uttered a cry. Boris face made Domial and An-He stared down at the sand with a tooni stara at him. In confusion, he look on his face as if the cry had tore the crons from his neck.
been frozen there.
"I won't hear any more," said, Domini suddenly,
"It is a warning."
"I don't caro. If this great--joy comes to me, I don't care what
"You want it? Here, take it. It's your" He flung It into the stream, and the girls scrambled after it. Somewhat gulltity, Horis looked at Domini, who was watching him with amazement. Then he spoke comes after. Please let us go” And
raquely "I'll go soo about the horson," and walked away.
Anteoni looked inquiringly Domini.
at
"A curious man, Mr. Androvaky, Who is he?"
"A fellow-traveler.”
“And a friend ?**
"I don't quito know."
"A man who fears to acknowledge
she led Anteoal out into the street They did not talk about what had happened.
During the next few wooks De- mini and Boris, who were almost the only travelers in Ben-Mora, were together constantly. A warm affection and a certain degree of Intimacy, rose between them, but she never felt that she was really
his God unwise to not foot in penetrating into his rooi solt.' Only the desert."
on one occasion, when they rode to- Domint looked at him question gether to a Black Pool in the de ingly. The Arabs have a saying, sert, did Domini gather the cour Madame, "Tho desert is the Garden aga to_nak him about himself, of Allah'
Whon Doria romalaed allont, sho asked his forgiveness for her in- trusion,
In Beni-Morn, Count Anteoni owned a unique garden which fur nished his principal plansuro in life. "Please don't be impatient with He was a charming host and know me Domin!!" he implored with more the desert and its people intimately. warmth than she had over hoard Domini enjoyed his company, and in his voice, "Your friendship is all one evening she accepted his in- I have. I've tried to imagine what vitation to show her" the bazaar I'd do — alone hara. I couldn't just outside the gutes of the city, have faced that. Then I thought of Wandering through the strenta, our days together the day at Bidi- past the various stalls where the Zorbour — the time we rode to the natives exhibited their goods, they tomb' on the desert m our walk passed' a tent in which was a tall, on the dunes that night under the thin, mysterious looking man bent stars. Something's happened to me, over a pile of sand which he ran I can breathe again. I can foot sun through his fingers, The man no- and wind again. For the first time costed them.
-- I can boar to live in the world. You've done that for ma, Domini.“ Deeply moved, Domini said, “Thank you, Borie, I'm glad?" : Domini shrank back Instinctively
"Please, Domini, don't question but Anteoni assured her there was me. There are tirings in a man's life nothing to fear. This man, he ex-it's best to forget. There are dark plained, was a Sand Diviner, a de- places that should be bort dari
There was so much amotion in geht man who made his lying by:
"Madame — the life of Madame Is in the sand tonight - I show you all."
- terna in the sand grains.
telling people's fortunes by the pat- his voice that Domint half arpected, half hoped although she would not sanding to declare his love for her, but admit it to herself, that he was go-
he seamed unable to say moro, and the spell was broken.
"Tas he ever looked in the for you?" Domini asked.
"Once. A long time ago." "Were the things he found there true?"
"He found nothing for the years that were past,"
"And for the yours that were still to come?"
fow days afterwards, Father Roubler summoned Domini to, talk
with him in the church. There was evidently something weighing heay- lly on his mind.
It's about your fellow traveler. What is the matter with that man? "It might have been chance — What is he? Want can. he be?". but ---- yes, be found what was still to come. Would you like to hear mon travol," said Domini, defensive-
kim
....
"Flo's a man traveling as other
ly. She did not want tą continua Domini decided that she would, the discussion.....
and they wont in. The Band Diviner But Father Roubler inalted, "Dôm began to work his hands rapidiy, mini,"chs said firmly, "Mather Jo- He broke up the patterns in the sophina put you in my caro, My rand with his fingers, making them first duty is to protect you. And form spirals, circles and snakelike I warn you most salemnly not to linas, Bo swiftly did he move that to make friends with this man." it meensed as if the sand was aud- donly andowed with ilfo, Thon ha begun to speak, in staccato fashion in English. When he grew excited,
(To be continued)
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