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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1948.
FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
SPORTS . STORIES › PUZZLES • CRAFTS. GAMES, JOKES
BITTERSWEET..An Indian Legend
By LEE PRIESTLEY
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·ANAPUS, son of a great chief, ant by the dying fire and fixed his eyes soberly on the coals that glowed through the wreaths of ashes. lo shivered, drawing his lynx- akin robe closer. Outside the 'wigwam the wind shrieked and moaned like a living thing in Lorment,
The boy roused from his reverie to blow upon the fre, adding a frugal handful of wood from the pile in the corner, In the warmest place, lytu upon a pile of ships, Els mother stirred und held out a thin band to the wakened bluze and then with a sigh of weakness, Jet I fall back to her alde.
Famle stalked in the land of the Menomini, Hunger was at will
On the den guest in the villages,
ruirle, gray ghosts of wolves hunted The strongest shadowy buffalo. magic of the medleine men could not bring the deer withiti range or all the empty corn basis,
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wenk voler mutatruured. pus," the "You are a chief and son of a chief You must save the starving prople."
the snow and the rasp of the sleet. At the edge of the wood, the village lay still and silent.
As Manapus passed, the oak bent down and rustled a question. "Will you give your strength and vigour for your people, Mannpus?"
The wind tossed the drooping branches of the willow. "Will you for give your grace and goodness your people, Manapus?"
The maple shuddered in the colc and east down its Just glowing leaves like fears, "Wil! you give your te ¡Esselt
your people, Manapus?"
for
Lifting his eyes to the sky gain the boy stood tall and straight in the pathway and answered proudly, "I will give all, glolly, for my Then he listened to the people." whispering voices of the storm.
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DETURNING to The village, he
His toothe's hand touched his cheek Rust the people to council. "In
and fell back to her side.
"My son," rame a fatut whisper, MANAPUS The boy bent over the skin couch where his mother lay. "The voice
of the winri bida me hasten. Mana-
walked in the forest with Vall Fix furs wrapped blin. There was the s save the crunch of his footsteps *
Knarf Organises A Parade
By MAX TRELL
KNARF, the shadow-boy with the ΚΑ
turned-urnin
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Wha
He
sitting under a day, when all st ince he heard the sound of nuerh- Ing feet. He slened for a moment. It was marching fret all right. could
plainly...left hear them right, left, right, "It's a parade!" he exclaimed, Jumping up.
The next nie, marching past the blackberry harsh on their way to the pond, Knarf say a deck numeri Mrs Quack and her four duckings named Quack, Quunek, Quyck and Queck, Mrg unck marched trat and Quock. Hinock, Quyck Queek followed behind her in a
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"Can I join the parade?" asked Kaurf of Mrs Quick,
"Get
"Certainly!" Al Mrs Gauck, "Certainly!" repeated Quork, Quuock, Quyck and Cheek. right behind us. We're all going to the pond."
So Knart fell in behind them as they all marched towards the poun. A Big Drum
"It's a
Kart
wonderful parade." said "It's too bail we haven'
Every parade has
got a big drum.
a ble drum!"
n
Just then fat bull-frog, wearing
bright green
sult and
striped
trousers to match, came hopping but of the grass. In front of Him he carried a big drum. "Borg!" he went, "Bong-bo-nog
"Come join the parade!" cried Knart. "And beat your drum' We're a marching down to the pond!"
So the buil-frog hopped behind Knarf, and bent his big dlm they all marched on their way to the pond.
"Now if we only had a band!' sald Khart, "Every real parade hos a band!"
a
At that moment Knarf saw cricket, a whip-poor-will, a load and a grasshopper. Cricket played
bunjo. Whip-Poor-Will played a life. Toad played a nute. And Grasshopper played a snure-drum.
"Can I Jokes the #arade?"
Knarf asked Mrs. Quack,;"
"old the parade! We're all going down to the pond?" shouted Knurf,
So they ail joined the parade, making loud music as they marcheil. Then Kharf said: "There's only one thing more that we need to make this a regular parmle!"
"What de
all the we need?" others asked.
Need a Flag "We need somebody to march in front with a flag!"
And they got that, too! In fact, they got three lagst
One was blue and gold. One was yellow and red. And one was white
and blue.
They were three butterflies. They ing, at the hem of the parade, all marchel, with their wings Muller-
-the way down to the penel.
And when they reached the pond the flags flew off, nnd the banjo scumpered away, funci the Afe scurried into the meadow, and the flute hopped off with the drum, and Kharf went back to sit under his daisy.
snare-
And the only ones who went Info the pond were the big drum and Mrs Quack, and Quock, and Quuvek and Quyck and Queek.
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
1 Perform
ACROSS
4 Fixed look
G Pilier
ANSWERS
CODED MESSAGE: Caesar's adopted son, Octavius, was the first Roman emperor.
MIX-UPS: Founded monarchy at Rome; Assassinated; Goveined Goul.
CAESAR REDUS: Cleopatra, Brutus; July; Brilliant soldier,
WORD DIAMOND:
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Inserts
Short-napped fabric
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DOWN
Roman emperor
3 Snares
4 Compass point
5 Measures of cloth
CODED MESSAGE
A simple code has been substitul-
ed for the letters in our sentence. Find the rode and you'll have sentence about Julius Caesur.
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PNRFNE'F NQBCGRQ EPGNIVHF, SNF GUR SVEFG EBZNA RZCREBE.
MIX-UPS
Rearrange the letters In the strange lines following to have three inets regarding our subject:
DOT AD FUN MORE MONEY ARCH
IS A NEST AS 'SAD
LOG DUG RAVEN E
Look Here Last
CROSSWORD ANSWER:
ACIT.
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GABGAR
two days go to the forest, walking my footsteps, and you shall find ferni. Take it eat, thanking II. the merciful Spint who gives Let no one follow me, and mourn
me not,"
he forest At the edge of the raised hus arm in a gesture of fare- well, then turning, was lost to sight The hungry among the grny trees, people returned to their tires and waited faithfully, At the end of the second day, the strongest among them entered the forest in obedience to Manapus' command.
Tecading in his footsteps, they came upon a beautiful trailing vine, In great unknown to buy of them, strength and vigour, it clambered high in the branches of the unks, the maples and the willows, cover- ing them with bright clusters of fruit, the bull split into three sec- tions and folled back to reveal the ripe berry. Thankfully then they took the berries and vines to the squnws who bollen the inner bark. to feed the tribe until spring brought the moon of plenty.
Thus, says the Indian legend, from the body of Manapus, from Jus strength, his goodness and his beauty was born the Bittersweet that decks the forests with its bright winter fruit.
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Feeling very excited to think he
on the right track. Ruperi through the wood. Quite suddently the strange noise stops, but he keeps en his way, and after going worse distance he reaches a clearing nd sees a stream and a very odd little house. "Hallo, that's the home of Pang-Ping, the Peke," he thinks. He knows all sorts of quees things. 't ask him if he can explain that sound." And soon he is on the parh leading in Pong-Ping's Iront door.
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HERE is another set of those curious little pictures that don't seem to mean anything, but do. Try a few your. self, or suggest the idea as a party game. After you've made your figure in as few lines as possible, write a little verse to tell what it is. Send in your best ones to the Boys" and Girls' Page, care of this newspaper.
Moon? No sole Fingercol
Circumspect V-neck,
CCCCC
I know, Mama! Fujiyama
Look at these High C's!
Exclamatios out of joint. See the point?
Morth Going south.
YOUNG IDEAS... BY JOYCE HUNTER
at A collection valued Ohio. has US$75. His most valuable spect. men is gold lined and came from Germany.
TF, Ecography's a tough subject, to far as you're concerned, nul you feel like a dummy when people talk about far-off places, there a way Dul of the problem that's actually fun. Adopt a new spare- time hobby of putting together the cut-out puzzles of different coun- tries that can be purchased at mos steres. We found the Unlled Stavourite is Great Britain, South Amerien nnd Australla, all in colourful pleces contained in large flat boxer with map covers that look an pretty as any pleture when set up on shelf or bureau. After you've done the puzzle several times you'll begin to see the states or countries, or parts of countries, in your mind's eye.
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Selentists have learned that rhu- barb, the pink plant that "comes bự the yard," is good for the teeth and helps keep them healthy and white, This reminds us somehow of the very young bride who complained that she couldn't make a rhubarb ple Leeruse she didn't have a long enough pan. For beautiful
iceth, "ent your rhubarb.”
For girls, collecting lopel gadgets might be more fun. They come in Dak sinpes nowadays. Our a cuckoo clocks of carved wood, fully equipped with (No, the bird and dangling chaing. ruckoo doesn't come out and per- form, alas!) And there's a little fat gold pig under an umbrella, couple on a "bicycle built for two," and ofher eye-catching pieces. When
of them, you get enough
mount card- em on pieces of colourful board and set them up on a "gadget shelf" for your friends to admire. Best of all, you can always choose one "specimen from your shelf to wear on your own lapel.
Speakling af pencils-what about starting a collection of the new shapes In small pencil-sharpeners— the kind you carry in your pocket! There's a barrel-shaped
one,
a puppy with sharp-cutting "innards," ele,
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Most adults ride hobbyhorses and love to talk about them. Why not old a hobby-hunt among your elders, which quietly, until you find out anes know the most about the most interesting spare-tine occupations? Dog
og training may be snc, operating movie cameras, gardening or button When you've caught your hobby-rider unawares, Invite him politely to speak for your club or school group.
Try a intelligence test on your best friend when he's in a mellow mood. Give him a 400-word Item to read aloud, and time him on Then asic to explain it so you'll
him know he understood what he's just read reikt. Don't
ton collecting pick anything technical. If he reads it th one minute, and understands it rather well. tell him that he and F could pal up happily. Or, if n she's Mary "The Brain" Jones. If he falls under that murk, don't tell him he's dumb. Just say it takes at least a dozen tests to prove any- thing, and then forget to give him the other 11.
Have you ever thought of collect. Tag penells-different kinds, uli- usual ones, perhaps representing different nationalities? Pencils with point or paint-appeal? Milton Grendzinski, a student East Technical High School, Cleveland,
nt
The strangest hobby we've heard of to date is collecting wishbones. What the collector does with them is a mystery to us. Maybe ชาน pints them and mounts them
ins or tapel gadgets. It just goes to show where a hobly will lead- even to the Insides of a chicken or turkey!
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Tandem swimming is a real water feat. See how long you can make the chain and who can hang on the longest.
Experience Means Learning The Hard Way
BY FRANK THE car passed and the boys cautiously cune from behind the ware-
T
house.
"Got
HAMMOND
uncombed, but his dark skin had a ruddy glow. For an, instant a far- away look showed in his dark eyes. "I'm starved. too," said George. "One thing about being at the store, could eat something when I wanted
to keep from being seen." said Jack. He glancet--and that was often." up and down the moonlit road, then led on with long strides.
The road twisted and turned like a huge snake under large trees that fringed the river.
"Bet my people will be sur- prised when they call me for chores," said Jack, "Dad can do them a while."
"There's town phrud. Let's get
some." said Jack. "Might as well get enough in last a week, then we won't have to stop at towns."
go steady, sight and day. Wesan "Ginod idea," agreed. George. Let's
fake turns sleeping and paddling. Maybe we'll make the sca in a couple of weeks,"
won't be anything in the papers about us running away, yet." sald Jack, "but we beller keep pretty
There
"Yeah," agreed George, “and searce Hill it blows over." my Old Man can get somebody to wait at the store, too. I've
sold groceries since I was 10. THEY dragged the
Five years and I've got 30 bucks in my pocket!"
cance under
some bushes, hanted for a store,
and soon headed down stream again, with a big box' of food in the middle of the canoe,
The river widened throughout the
"I haven't got that much. Done a man's work on the farm day. Jack looked at George, whe mornings, nights, Saturdays paddled owkwardly, then glanced at and summers," rumbled Juck's the
setting sut. It frowned, with deep voice. "But mostly I'm reddening free, when a blue-gray cloud rolled to hide its view. Dark glad to skip the finals. No more curtains swirled across the sky and school for me."
the angry rumble of thunder grew close. Night closed in with a rout. Suddenly the wind whipped to u gale. It fore the river's surface to ribbons. The canoe bounced and whirled like a cork. George, In- experienced at the paddle, struggled helplessly.
Today's 'Subject:
then JULIUS CAESAR
CAESAR REBUS
to
to
Use the words and pictures decipher four facts pertaining Jullus Caesar, whose birthday is July 12.
CALL HIM LEO - 100 YOU WANT
TO FAT HIM
YOU BEUTE THEY'LL NEVER INVITE U AGAIN A
T'S CERTAINLY
BRILLIANT DIAMOND
WONE-FR
“HAVE OVE OF THE
THIS MONTH IG NAMED AFTER OUR
WORD DIAMOND
on
HERO
is
Our diamond centres
EM- PEROR. The second word is "a Hindu toddess," the third "superior," the fifth "an eagle's nest," and the sixth "Ash eggs;"
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"Let me back there." yelled Jack. He moved toward the stern. George rose to step forward. A gust of wind unbalanced him. The canoe flipped bottom up.
Wildly they scrambled in the water.
way through the woods. Branches "Yep. E ran off. But it Was and brlars tore their clothes. Their worse'n jumpin' out of nettles into bleeding. hands and faces were scratched and nbriar patch. Pa's old form sure looked good, to me when I got back." Jack glanced at George. He was looking at his plate. Jack's, eyes flicked toward the farmer, the farmer's wife, the cookie jár, and then to his plate,
"Look," gasped George, "there's a light."
"Me also," declared George. "We've already had more schooling than Tom Edison."
"We can see the world for a while,
Eagerly they stumbled toward it. get a job. I'm not going to
They knocked and the farmhouse write my people till I make good, it
door opened, throwing a stream of It's dozen years." Jack's voice,
light upon them. An elderly woman "But what I couldn't understand newly grown deep, was emphatic.
measured them with a glance. then," continued the farmer, "was "Hey! What's that black thing
"Land sakes, boys, come in out how much harder it was on my drifting down the river?" asked
of that storm."
people than on me. I'll never forget George, pointing across the rippling,
She pulled the door to, and looked my mother's happy face when moon-splashed surface.
Wildly they scrambled in the at the pools of water forming on her went back." "Hmmin. Louks
like un empty water. Hands reached for the over- floor at the boy's feet.
The former uncrossed his legs. canoc. Jack patised, then Suid- turned canoe. Its bottom was slip-
"My people let me quit school, but A middle-aged man came, I've wished ever since I hadn't.” can use that." His
cut the weighted them down. Wind, waves looked
with
He yawned mouth,
and looked at his crawl and he drug and water in
fought against them. witt
watch. "Guess you boys are tired et similed.. Frantically the ged the emoe ashore.
struggling boys This is made to order," he said caught the edge of the cance and Get them some dry clothes
upstairs, Ma. You boys sleep in the "Take them to your room, and want to get to bed, Come on as he scrumbled out and dressed, righted it. It was too full of water get something hot to eat."
bedroom down here." to hold them. Darkness became al- "They may search the roads for us, but nobody would think about look- most complete. ing on the river."
"Hang Jack.
Pauting they reached the shore. FEW words They pulled the canoe out, found high ground and fell in limp heops.
denly jerked off his clothes. We pery. Their shoes and clothes here she called. "Sam,
arms
and
JACK took first shift astern
held midriver except when cut tg to shorten bends. The rising found them 20 miles down-
Mun
-stream, kearching empty pockets Bungrily.
"Wish there'd been more cookies in Mum's cookie Jar," grined Jack "I could ent a stewed crow; but I
certainly love home-made cookies." lis straight black hair looked very
RED
RYDER
BY GOLLY, YOU'RE RIGHT, RED: SOMEBODY IS IN GOWER BEND AND
THEY'RE ABOUT THE
SIZE OF THE STAGE
RODDERS/
rain
on
and swim," shouted
open
come
then
while Sam,
They started up the stairs, then the farmer said over his shoulder: "There's a phone, boys. If you want to make a long-distance call, tell the operator to charge it to Sam Tucker."
were maken is the boys changed. In the dining room they ate ravenously. Then inn and wonian naked no questions. She set- Silently the boys looked at each a cookie jar near Jack. His thront other. Then Jack reached for the tightened when he noticed how much paper the woinen had laid down. CHADUALLY the thunder ceased, like his mother's it was. The lady He studied it moment, handed it
The wind steadied. The rain became absorbed in
to George, and pointed to their became a cold drizzle.
a newspaper. Seeing you boys," said the farmer. pletures. Then he got up and walk- "Can't Ile here," sald Jack. "Got "brings back when I was about ed towards the phone. to keep moving or we'll cutch cold. your age. My Pa made me work Let's look for shelter."
pretty hard on the farm and I got With difcully they picked their the notion of running away.
Playing Safe
YOU'RE PLENTY CAUTIOUS,
JESS! YOU HID THAT
| GOLD IN THE OLD MINE
LIKE YOU EXPECTED TO
BE SEARCHED!
I HAD MY REASONS.
WADE? WE MIGHT HAVE VISITORS HERE LATER/
"The fariner's right, George. I'm going to call Dad. And I'm going back to school."
BY FRED HARMAN PEOPLE AIN'T AS SUSPICIOUS OF GOLD THAT COMES OUT OF A MINE AS THEY ARE
CF GOLD THAT COMES OUT OF PANTS POCKETS?
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UPPER
EMPEROR
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