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SPORTS
STORIES
PUZZLES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
2 Piece of Land
4 Symbol for ruthenium
5 White
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1 Decline
10 Age
11 Soothsayers
13 Residence (ab.)
Negative reply
2 Timber
3 Graspers
DOWN
4 Burnishes
7 Hebrew Ieiter
6 Courtesy titles
8 North America Cab.)
12 Eye (Scot.)
HIDDEN BIRDS
A bird is hidden in each of the sentences below. See if you
And them,
RIDDLES
1. What sort of words should a parrot speak?
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2
What Is the difference between bankrupt and a fenther bed?
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1949.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
CRAFTS
ADVENTURE IN THE CIRCUS
DDY CANE, the lion tamer, backed out of Veldt's enge. "There you anid. "He's
are, kid," yours!
.he
Young Bill Summers looked at Veldt, the big African lion who was at that moment rour-
3. Why is a horse like the lettering contempt for everything in
4.
Why are tellous talkers like very old people"
Why is education ko n tailor?
ANSWERS
CROSSWORD
HIDDEN BIRDS:
-builderts wan), 2-bo(th rushing 3-(w
ren)ted.
TRIANGLE:
COSTUME
ORNATE
SERGE TAGS
USE
can
ME
E
1. The builders want to finish
the antise
SOLVE-A-RIDDLE
2. The boys were both rushing
1
3 4
to school as they fell.
L L L
E
A
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3. The old homestead is rented,
RE
F I R ST
'T
WORD TRIANGLE
Here's a word
triangle.
גונן
The
triangle hangs from COSTUME. The second word is "decorative;** the third "a type of cloth; the fourth "labels: the fifth to utilise and the sixth pronoun."
COSTUME
O
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M
SOLVE-A-RIDDLE
What is the difference between
gels
a prize light and a street fight At a prize flight the crowd there Do the puzzle and find the missing ward.
4 5
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Read down: ¡--Opposite of right, 2-A den. 3-To entice. 4-Missing. 5-Musical instrument.
ZLATY
RIDDLES
CADRA
One
Is
1 Poly-gyllables, 2 "hard-up" and the other soft down. 3--Beause gee(g) makes it go. 4- Because they dilatet die late. Because it forms our habits.
the circus, including Bill.
"Go on!" Eddy urged. "You want to be a lion tamer. don't you?"
Bill nodded. He had wanted 1o up to few minutes be- fore, probably he still did, but right now his feelings were numbed by Veldt's roar.
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Still there was a spark of ambition in Bill. He wanted to conquer the lion, to win up- plause under the big top. But he had also noticed that Eddy had a tough time with Veldt and Eddy had had lots of ex- perience. *.
Bill hadn't been confident till now. Now he was sure he was the boss.
GAMES
JOKES
Easily Made Tie Or Ribbon Rack
H
ERE'S A good-looking,
enaily made rack both boys and girls will find useful be-. cause it will keep either ties or hair ribbons from getting creased.
You
will need three large corks, the size of thermos bot le corks or larger, and two wooden ment skewers, plus 0 piece of lightweight board at least four inches longer than your skewers.
Cut your board any shape you wish. If there is a dis- carded brend board around the house that is large enough you might use that. With a fret- saw make a fancy design at the top to add an artistic touch.
Sundpaper your board Bill took the whip and pistol,
smooth and give it a cost of loaded with blanks, in one
quick-drying enamel. The hand. He clutched the chair, circus acrobats—that is, till he space. The whip caught in the growled, wrinkling his nose and colour ahould harmonise or con- held with legs outward, in the decided to be a lion tamer. lion's front leg and diverted baring his teeth. The atten- trast with the colour scheme other. Veldt looked languidly When Bill cracked the whip a him a second while he tore it dants left. The lion turned his of your room. Enamel your toward Bill as the cage door few inches from the lion's face, loose with his teeth and other thoughts to other things and closed with a click behind him. Veldt jumped back.
paw. Bill aprang for the door settled down in the cage for a Veldt, a magnificent bundle of
And it started to open.
nap. His tail fell out between long-maned independence and
two bars. calculating ferocity, leered his defiance with a yawn.
Eddy had told Bill what to do. Keep the lion on the defen- sive. Quickly Bill pressed his advantage. Another pistol-like Bill hoped the lion was tired, crack of the whip put the llon but he saw the beast's veiled at bay near the pedestal he was amber-glowing
Bill press were supposed to sit on. watching. The lion was sizing ed closer, feinting with the legs Bill up, his muscles quivering a of the chair and jerking it
CRACK!
eyes
**
*
+ *
"So you want to be a lion
THEN Veldt came again. An- Bill took hold of it with both other flash of the gun turn- hands and jerked downward as ed him just a bit, but his growls hard as he could. seemed to scorch Bill The There was 'an astonished, door swung wide and Bill dash- startled roar, the like of which ed through.
no lion had ever given in a cir- cus tent. They all came run-
manager of the circus, all the "I'm sorry, Eddy," Bill pant- trainers and a host of others.
But Bill was gone.
No one ed. Eddy knew what Bill meant. And he knew that Bill hadn't could solve the mystery and been a softie. Hnd Bill weaken- Veldt couldn't taik. ed one instant in that cage,
little too tensely to suit Bill away, out of reach of those tamer!" Eddy said without ning the chief animal mun, the Slowly the boy raised his whip. great front paws. Bill pulled smiling.
the trigger of the gun. The He had surprised Veldt. Billion blinked in fear and jumped
to the pedestal.
"Atta boy!" cheered Eddy, he was quick. For a time he from safety on the other side of had been training with the the bars.
was no mean bundle of muscle
himself." He had strength and
About that time Bill Was
TIE OR HAIR RIBBON RACK
the lad wouldn't have been here back in the dressing tent, fully corks in a colour to make them determined to remain a trapeze stand out against the board. If For a long time, Bill stood in performer,
the
cage. Veldt
**
*
now.
BILL'S ego was back again,
of been confident front
He hadn't
Punch's Favourite Kind of Pie when he entered the cage, but
-It Was Round and Had Lots of Slices--
By MAX TRELL
JUDY, who was Mr Punch's wife.
whispered to Knarf and Honid,
the shadow-children with the turned- about names, that she wanted to speak to them alone-alue, where Mr Punch couldn't hear her.
"I isa't a secret or anything." the explained, when Knur! and Tanid had followed her into her kitchen. "It's just that I'd like to bake Mr Punch a nice pie for din- ner tonight and I'd like to surprise him by baking just the kind of plo The most wants to have. Now if I ask him what ple he'd most like to have for dinner, it wouldn't be a
Now read across the third row of surprise any more." letters for the missing word.
Rupert's Elfin Bell-21
To
The track keeps pertectiy straight. and Rupert finds that he can make the little car go fast or alow by pull ing the handle in front of him. the relief of the two pals the log gets Lighter and then thins right out. 40 that they can are clearly. "I wish that elf hadn't bustled, us off quickly," saya Bill. "He didn't tell us where Ellin Castle is. Suppose "we can't find it ""He pushed us this way, so we must keep on and see what happens," says Rupert, **but, my goodness, isn't it a long track?
*ALL RIGHTA MESIRVED
}
"Do you want us to speak to him?" | Hand asked Jurly,
Judy nodded. "That's just what I'd like you to do except that you must be very clever about it, and not Jet him guess why you're asking him,"
Smoking His Pipe
Hand presently So Knarf and went to Mr Punch whom they found smoking a pipe us he sat in his rocking chair by the window.
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Punch tried to think of kly favourite plc.
"Well," said Mr Punch, after thinking for a moment or two, "I'd most want to have apple pie, except that I like lemon meringue just as much."
"Oh!" said Knarf. "You can't have
That's the trouble," said
"But I don't really mind.
both."
Punch.
Mr
now he felt that he was the boss. He raised his whip! again, driving the lion to a higher perch. But Veldt had an ego, too. Deliberately Veldt stood while the whip cracked almost on his nose.
His eyes looked at Bill, taking stock of the young man and his de-
fences.
-JOE BEASLEY.
THE INDUSTRIOUS
By SADIE O'BRIEN
ANT
you have 11 bright-coloured board, make your corks white or black. For a pastel shade bourd, use silver or gold bronze, or a soft cream or green enamel on the corks. Whittle the flat end of each of the skewers to a point, then enamel them in shiny black.
When the enamei is dry, make a hole in the side of one among Nature's or decayed log. Some workers ex-cork near the large end and most industrious creatures, cavate rooms and hallways
ANTS
arc
while
In a flash the animal lurched. They live in communities and others carry the loose dirt out and push one end of a skewer into drop it close to the door in a tiny it. Put another cork on tho With all his dexterity and are thrifty and intelligent. The round pile known as an anthill. other end. Now push the
females have small
second skewer into the other quick thinking, Bill dodged and males and
wings
Ants have an but the
пецте sense of side of this cork and put tho at the same time he lashed his transparent
smell centered in their antennae and whip across the lion's great workers are wingless. head. It was a close call.
As Veldt landed he turned, facing Bill again, for a second charge and another, as many as it would take. There was no bravado left in Bill now. It was a no-quarter fight as far as the lion was concerned.
Bill backed up, the hair tingling at the nape of his neck, the whip and gun still held, but awkwardly now, in his right
Attendants were excitedly
the bars, but these might as thrusting iron prods through well have been bean stalks.
"You look hungry, Mr Punch" said License, as you see. I like penet hand, and the chair in his left. i
Kuarf.
"Do 1?" said Mr Punch, smiling. "Yes, come to think of it, I on hun gry. But Judy will
be making good dinner tonight. I'm quite sure of "
nui pie, mince
e raisin pie, pumpkin ple, cocoa- cherry pie, chocolate cream pic, and pie, blueberry pie, blackberry pie every bit as well." Lady Was Distressed
Poor Judy? When Knarf and Honid
The lion charged again. Bill thrust the chair legs in his face. The lion shattered them with a swinging blow that numbed Bill's arm.
ANTS ARE AMONG THE BUSIEST OF NATURE'S
CREATURES
THEY UKE TO LIVE IN SOFT SOIL NEAR OLD STUMPS
"I bet you'd like some pie," said flanid.
came back to tell her that instead "Pic?" sald Mr Punch. "That of just likng one kind of ple. Mr would be wonderful! I love pie!" Punch liked all kinds of pies, Judy
"What kind of pie do you love at first didn't know what to do.
The workers do all the labour. best?" asked Karf.
"I can't bake all of them," she "All kinds," replied Mr Punch sighed. "And if I bake one of them.
has its own Bill sidestepped and fired the Each
special promptly. "But especially-" Mr Punch will surely be thinking gun squarely at the lion's nose. assignment. Some build the "Especially what?" Knarf and of all the others that he likes just That was all that saved Bill home; some act as soldiers to Hand boil asked with great eager as well."
So Judy inked a chocolate layer then, but safety was only a protect it; some provide, food, especially big round pies with cake with chocolate butler Icing matter of seconds. Again Veldt and some are nurses who tend lots of slices in it,"
Mr Punch loved that, too. And it turned and swept, his paw. The the babies. Ants are tidy and Knarf and land were both dis- was a real surprise. He appointed. "But what kind would thought a chocolate cake could be so
never whip was torn from Bill's hand, assign "maids" to keep the halls you most want to have?" Hanid big and round and high and have co
Then there was a patiso-just and floors and yards clean. asked again.
many slices in it.
enough to give Bill a breathing
11255.
BRONCHO BİLL
VOU WEREN'T
AKID.
AND IP YOU VERENT AN OLD MRNED LET THAT HECKTIE PARTY GET
YOU, MUSTER
IT'S A
Party for Manning.
LIB/I DIDN'T
MAYBE YOUMIS LIKÉS
TRADE RIFLES) TO EXPLAIN
WITH
INAUNS
ALL THESE BUFFALO |BRINTS AN
I'M GOIN NOW
THE SHERIFF
AND-
By Harry F. O'Neill
--AND RUN PLUMB" INTO A MOOSE, PHYAR THEY COMMER, HOW M
All day these little Insects rush through their work. They arc constantly foraging and bringing in anything that is cutable. Боте times carrying objects larger than themselves.
Their favourite homes are in the soft dirt under the ground or in soft wood rot near an old stump
Taking It To Heart
A young university student was smoking on the bus. The conductor naked: "Don't you see the sign that saya NO SMOKING?"
"Of course," replied the bright young man, "but how can you expect me to observe all your signs? There's another that says WEAR BLANK CORSETS,”
home.
Ants
especially like the sweet liquid that oozes from the body of the plant louse. They "milk these Insects like "ulary cows" and follow them up and down the stems and leaves to get the sugary syrup.
if they are lost they use it to and third cork on the other end of ant trails and paths that lead them the skewer. Glue the corks to the centre of the board to form the holder, or nail them in place. The centre cork will keep the things from sliding together and make it easier to see what you have on the rack.
Add a picture cord, or Although ants are generally harm-couple of screw-eyes to hang it less, one species, the white ant, can up by and you will have a use- cause great domage to house by eating away the timber used in ful and attractive rack you will
be proud to say you made.
buliding.
ZOO'S WHO
BEAVERS DO NOT CUT DOWN TREES.THEY GHAW TILL ONLY A NARROW CORE IS LEFT,AND LET THE WIND BLOW THEM DOWN,
-the HOUSE WREN HAS BEEN KNOWN] TO BUILD THREE KESTS IN ONE SUMMER, AND REAR A BROOD IN EACH," AND STILL SERENADE THE WORLD WITH ENDLESS SONG
GAZELLES OF SOUTH AFRICA SOMETIMES HAVE GOLDPLATED TEETH BELIEVED TOBE FROM SILICATES ABSORBED ›FROM WATER. AND SHRUBS OF THE DISTRICT. 13
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