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SPORTS
STORIES
PUZZLES
THE - HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1949,--
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM A PLAN FOR PIPPIN ZOO'S WHO
ANIMAL RHYMES STUE Find-Outers were
- DIAMOND CLIMATE forms the centre of With the verslied clues, can
the sixth French for "summer.”
very pleased to be to- gether agnia. The oyr diamond. The recond word you correctly identify the pro-Easter holidays were not so is in Beverage, the third to per animals? mult, the fifth a proverb, and 1. My cars flap, my eyes are long as the summer ones, and almost a week had gone Scarce
of a mouen, nowby, before Pip and Bets had 2. 1 do tricks, sleep all winter. arrived home from their stay so there Want a hug? (I'm a hister.) with their aunt, 3. My tall is long, I'm quilo didn't seem to be much timo.
mild,
left.
I CLIMATE
E
CROSSWORD
A dilhouette magi of the
4.
Stato American
of Arkansas. torms the base of this puzzle:.
ACROSS
-1 Lags behind
False
Kod
0 Old English (ab.)
Unit of weight
18 Ave
Avenue
(ab.)
11 Transpor (ab.)
12 Individual
19 Rodents
14 Rub out
10 Social insecta
DOWN
Arkansas capital is-Rock
Smell
3 Electrified particle.
4 Time limit (ab.)
Roams
Observe
10 Poker stakes
12 Hops klin
13 Sped
16 Egyptian sun god
POSERS
1. In the bee business you
must mind your D's and Q's.
They stand for what?
2. Robin Hood lived in what
*force17
3. What have the following
In common: aye-aye, drill and
temur?
guess me,
I love the hearth and a child. Pin feathered and very wise, Sleep by day and have large
eyes.
I'm a lovely swimming bird,] I'm black or white, have you
heard?
H
RIDDLES
Who is it that always has
a number of movements on fool
for making money?
2. What is the principal part
of a horse?
"Not quite three weeks, groan- ed Larry" "1 do hope the weather's decent, Wo cali for some bike-rides and plenies then"
little Little
"And there's a good Glow on down at the Theatre," said Dalny. "It's a kind of skit on Dick Whittington awfully funny. I've seen it already bui we might all go again.
"Oh- that little company lll going? said Fatty with in- terest. "I remember weing some
3. Why are the tallest people of its plays in the Christmas
the laziest people?
4. Want is that which is yours but is used by everyone cise more than by you?
6. What remedy is there for A man who splits his ddes with laughter?
ANSWERS
DIAMOND:
ALE ELIDE
CLIMATE ADAGE ETE
E
CROSSWORD:
hols. Some of the acting was if pretty poor. I wondered they'd like to try me out in a tew parts. You know last ferm at school."
"Fatly Don't tell un you look the leading part In the school play apain, begged Larry. "Doesn't any one else ever take the leading part at your school but you?"
"Fatty's very, very good at acting-aren't you. Falty?" cald Dets, loyally. "Look how he can disguise himself and take even its inf"
"You'ro making me feel 1 must disgulce myself at once!" sald Fatty, with a grin, "What about playing a little joke on P.-c. Pippin? What a Jovely namel"
"Ye-and it suits him." cald Bets. "He's got a sort of apple- checked face-a nice round Hipe pippin."
Everyone roared. "You tell him that," said Pip. "Go up to him and say, 'Dear nice round ripe pippin. prised."
as Don't
RIDDLES: 1-An Instructor
4. What race of people has of dancing. 2-The mane (main)
6. Who
called WAG
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THE MYSTERY OF THE PANTOMIME CAT
Chapter Two of the new full-length story written exclusively by the children's favourite
story-Tellor
Grid BlyTow
* The Five Find-Outers, kome from school for the koildays, are inicious to use their brains to solve a rapatery. But one person ecofa at them: P.-c. Goon, the village policeman. He toarns P Pippin, who se taking over holiday duty, to look out for thetr Tricks.
P.-e. Pippia walked down to his front gate. He had rubbers on the sofas of his boots and he did not make much noise.
"We can't possibly expect a mystery
hola.,' every Larry.
said
noise. The boys could just ano
him as he turned up the street,
nway from them..
"Come on," whispered Fatty "He's beginning his best. We'll see exactly where he goes."
They followed cautiously be hind P.-c. Pippin. The police- 221an went
the down
11igh I'll disguise my Street, and was very conscien self as a rulan tious indeed about trying doors of some kind and
and looking to see if the and I'll land and
windows of the shops were Larry a disguise, fastened. The boys got rather too. We'll find bored with so much fumbling out what Pippin's and examining. Each time P.-c. beat is at night Pippin stopped they had to
--where he goes and what Umo
T
and Larry and will hile in the garden of some empty house till he comes by."
stop, too, and hide somewhere.
After about an hour P.-t. Ho poused to Pippin moved off again, having think, and then decided that no burglar could nodded his head possibly enter any shop in the "Yes-and, as High Street that night, anyway. soon as we hear He shut off his torch and turned Pippin coming into a side-street. The boys we'll begin to down the street
after him. whisper loudly
then went to garage lock-up
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us. Then we'll there. "Why doesn't he get on make a run for with his beat?" groaned Larry it as if we were softly. "All this stopping and
scared of him went on again. Ho
and didn't want to be seen."
where!
WESTERN TEXAS ONCE
HAD A PRAIRIEDOG TOWN 100 MILES WIDE AND 250 MILES LONG
OUNG WALRUSES, WHEN IN CAPTIVITY, ANILL'EAT ABOUT 100 POUNDS OF FISH EVERY DAY....
ATUNA FISH WEIGHING SEVERAL HUNDRED POUNDS
CAN JUMP OVER A SMALL
BOAT WITH EASE...
Simple Simon Was Mixed Up
-The Words He Learned in School Confused Him--
By MAX TRELL
WDS
turned-about
matter
from
NARF and Hand, the shadows appeared to have quite a sya-.
1 with the tematic method-going_up_one "But Wzore
ames, met their friend Simple doca all this lead side of the road and down the
simon. He
carrying a to?" said Larry. other, and then into the next "You walt a bit and son," said, road and so on. If he did this reat pile of books under his Fatly, enjoying himself. "Now, every night, it would be easy arm. The fact of the
wait for him some- is: he was just coming we'll escape all right and what to lie in
school. will Pippin do? Ho'll go into "Iva nine o'clock," said Fatly,
"Simon!" exclaimed Hanid "Let's make up one for PC the garden, of course, and shine in a low voice, as he heard the Pippin,' said Bels Buddenly.
so nice to me clock strike loudly. Joyfully. "It's "Just a teeny weeny one! With his torch round and he'll find a church
torn-up note!"
"And we're in Willow Road. you! How do you like school?" clues and He'll be 30 Bur-
get- things. He'd
"Oooh,
Bots, There's
house over an empty
Simon, who had sat himself awfully excited about it."
thrilled. "What's in the note?" thb other
Larry side.
We could hide in the garden there down on a fence at the edge of
the road, smiled and said: tomorrow night just before like school line. Only-" -nine:
"Then we could startle Pip- pin when he gels along there. Look-hen clifning his torch on the gate now. Yes, that's what do-hide in the garden there."
be silly," said Bets. If I would! I quite liked,
wish
wo
Domething would tum up whilst Goon is away," the largest population on earth? part. 3-Because they lie long cald Fatty, Wouldn't he be
the in bed. 4-Your name. 5-Ho "father of American literaturo?" should run until he gets a stitel wild to miss a mystery! And I
bot
could help Pippin beautifully. POŠERS: 1-Drones and
like our help, I expect. Nine vegetables are hidden in Queens. 2 Sherwood Forest 3 He doesn't look awfully clever
nyes or actually ho might not be co this square.
Discover them by All are pames. finding the right starting point, monkeys. The Mongolian good at snooping about as Goon, because Goon's had a lot of then reading each letter either race. 6-Washington Irving.
experience and ho's older.com up, down, backward, or forward
Pippin looks rather_young............. (but" never"diagonally);"
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VEGETABLE SQUARE: Corn, Beets, Carrot; Lettuce, Pea, Cabbage Tomato, Bean, Potato.
DO-IT By Dale Goss
Play atur
PHONE
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"I bet we could tackio a my- story better than he could. We've solved a lot now. Six in fact!"
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"I bet ho'll make a whole lot of notes, and be proud to show them to Goon," said Larry. "And I bet Goou will surell a rat and know it's us. What a swizz for them!"
yes,"
sold
contain the "The note will name of some place for a fur ther meeting," sald Fatty.
"We'll think of somewhere
"I
"Only, what?" asked Knart,
.
Simple Simon, on his way honis from school,
"Only I'm not learning much. I'm all mixed up. It's about words," he added. "I understand it's made of wood and It's quite what they mean, but they don't mean. Yes, I'm all mixed up
"What mystery shall we makë up?" said Bols, pleased that her Idea was so popular with the good. And when our nice round good" mid Larry, with ro- seem to mean what I think the big. Your mother uses a rolling- others "Let's think of a really ripe Pippin arrives at the next let, "I'm just about tired of Cood one--that Fatly can use meeting place he and poma dodging round like this, and disguises,
the wind's Jolly cold too. Come for I love it when lovely Clues!"
on---let'o go home. Meet to- Fatty disguises himself."
"Which we'll have put there!" morrow morning at Pip's to tell There was silence for a few said Plp, grinning. "Oh yes, the others what we've decided, “minutes.**
Fatty that's fine. We'll lead and make-our-plans.”— Pippin properly' up the garden path."
Fatty.
"Well-any one thought of anything?” asked "Dalry?"
--
about it all-hell know it's us Here comes Pippin scives/morning. But when you put that jumps?"
pla to roll out dough when sho's a plc. She rolls the making Jough out fat by rolling the Wanted to Know ---
It, back and rolling-pin over Knart and Hanld now, wanted forth, back and forth"
Simon said: "It's all very to know what the words were
Bro. lotg that were mixing Simon all up. strange. And there "I'm auro we can help you," more There's mare, which is sald Hanid "At Ichat," she put a lady horse; night which is what tomes after day, But In quickly, "wo can try."
what's nightmare?” "The clues will lead some-
"Well," Bid Simon, "there's where cise," said Fatty, beam-
"Nightmare to a bad dream," "Right," said Fatty, who was the word 'stick I know what
that means. It means a pleco of said Hanid. "I have thought of something Ing. "In fact it will be a nieo
for said wild-goose-chase but it's a bit feeble,'
Pippin, also very glad that the shadow-
"And jumping-rope," Dalsy. "What about sending He'll love . And won't Coon's ing of P.-c. Pippin was at an wood. And I know what the word walking means, too. It'a - Pippin # mysterious letter face be a picture when he hears end. "See you tomorrow, Ssssst! what I do to get to school every Simon. "Does that mean a roya through the post?"
"No good," said Fatty. "He'd suspect us at once. Larry, have "When can we do it? you thought of anything?"
Falty, let's begin it soon," beg "Well, what about mysterious ged Bets. "Can't you and Larry noises in Pippin's back-garden begin tonight?" at night?" said Larry Very feeble, I know,"
all right."
Oh,
They
squeezed
on-I'm
sald
walking and stick together,
"It means," said Knarf, "the into the hedge_and were re-
you get walking-stick. And I lleved when the policeman's
all Sticks don't walk, do they jump." footsteps passed them. "Gosh don't know what that means at rope that girls use when they "And ice-wagon," said Simon. 1 nearly sneezed then," whis-
Larry, "Come pered
Hanid sold: "A walking-stick " that a wagon raado of ice?". Is a cane, Simon. It's what a went "No. We have to find out what
quietly homo, man uses when he walks." Fippin's beat is first," said Larry to tell Dairy, his sister, "It is
they had found a good a bit," said Fatty. Fatty. "And we've got to spot an that
"And there's the word 'pin," Ice," said Hanid.
"And swimming-pool? Pools "Doc't lead to anything. We empty house on his beat. We'd place to hide the next night, Simon went on. "Of course 1 want to do something that will better stalk him tonight, Larry, and Fatty to plan their dis-know what pin means. And then don't swim," said Simon.
the word 'rolling.' A really get Pippin worked up. and And out where ho goes. Euises. He pulled out some old there's make him think he's on to some Goon always used to
set off clothes and looked at them. ball rolls. But when does a pin thing big."
"It's a wagon
that 'carries"
around pointed ends of
the nails.
"I
night till Pippin comes by and
"You know-hiding in a garden at
can only think of something about half-past seven. Can you manage to come to my house by feeble, too, sald Pip..
that time?"
"Yes, I think so," said Larry.
MORE NEXT WEEK
-(London Express Service)
"A swimming-pool is a pool
a nice Aha, P.-c. Pippin, he thought, roll? And what does it mean for swimming," said Knott,
ittle surprise wheri people say a "rolling-pin'?"
"And looking-glass, and bean- thera's
and being planned for you!
candle-stick, Kaarf laughed and explained polo, and what a rolling-pin was "It dancing-shoes, and eye-glasses, Isn't the ordinary kind of pln and flower-pot, and alarm-clock, the kind you stick in something, and under-wear, and break-fast
*
The queer-shaped binda chord, closer and closer, but just as the two little pala get really worried they all seem to take fright Thea they scuttle away together: at - cop speed. "Whatever can have made them do that?" breathes: Bill in / relief." Look." crjes Rupel, ** up there above your head!" Turning sharply, Bill aées for the Gitm time the crazy frog, who has silent: re -turned and is perched on top,of, a So you got out."-tebaka rock, the frog," And do you feel happier now ?*
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then letting him hear us whisper "We have supper at seven. I can and then rushing off in the gobble it down and be with you dark so that he suspects we've all right."
boen up to mischief.”
"Now.
So it was decided that Larry and Fatty should stalk P.-c. Pippin that night and see ex- actly what his beat was, so that the next night they could pre-
there's something in pare their, little surprise” for that," said Fatty thinking over him, it. "That really could lead on
to something else. Let's see now, an I'll work it out," -
Bets was thrilled, She loved Ika this It adventure hadn't got the frightened ex- 19. respectfully Everyone WILD-
citement of a real mystery, it silent. They looked at Fatty as
was under their control, and he, pursed up his mouth and hathing horrid could come out frowned. The Great Brains of it except perhaps a scolding were worklari
from Goon. "I think I've · got it,” . - zaid
Larry was down at Fatty's Fatty at last. "We'll do this house at twenty-five past seven that night. It was almost dark. They were not disguised,
time to dress there was no
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By Harry F. O'Neill Larry up
GEN, MEN I LOOK
AFRYEMIN), IN P
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Have
Fun With
A Watermelon!
and... oh, I'll never got them all straight. I'm just mixed #up."*
By and By
Knort and Hanid, chocred Simon up. "You'll understand them all by and by, Simon,” Hanid said. "There are lots of - words put together. to mears
WATERMELON parties, Eutting the real watermelon, other words. You'll soon learn
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school,
a hot night, should be de. Since this is an outdoor
Simon got off the fence. He lightfully informal.
party, have a little spart with those nilco slippery seeds was smiling. "So long," he said. Then suddenly he stopped and tiddlywinks "Hi, gang. I have an iced, Snapping them Watermelon. Let's cut it in fashion into a paper cup target he looked all mixed up again. my backyard after supper" is a skiddy test of marksman "So-long? What's long? And
why, tot!! This is the invitation by ship. telephone.
All those who score a seed in the cup are entitled to a second Watch how quickly your helping of watermelon, guests accept it. If you have a The two boys slipped out of portable gramophone, set it up
Lay out the remaining rinds Fatty's house, and made their way to the street in which Me under the trees and start it upon the ground in an effort at making freestyin #picture. Goon's houss wax P.-c. Pippin
Any picture will do. The head had it now, of course, i
Then ataköy your littig of a girl. Or a flower. Event
So long a time until we meet again," said Hanid. "But I do hope, Simon, it won't really be "too" long." _And Simon, "still shaking his head, walked off,
The boys could hear the brother's football which you a jungle animal. Trinket Idea telephone trilli in Pippia's have basted" "In a green, cotton
treat room, and they could hear cover, no your guests The most artistic rind picture.com
4
him answering it than the re-two rows for the Watermelon merits. the Ulle of King or you want to draw, attention celyer vay put down, and the Tois. Tossing from one player Queen Watermelonna the16 now bracelet or wrist Ight in the room went out, to another must be fast and winner in given u Breen watch attach a tiny calendar coming whipers furious, more sending board-crown to want with a suitable ribbon or Ebush2RSEMAN MED. In:6 the the watermelon: ; when"!! the".
End your watermelon part) chaííí (1) Anutie salopped-c
1-drops, but of
Pippin Walked down to the game, which is conflued with dancing-of-ju, game for Fingethan way, you'll have his frontgate He-had-ubuntu-only-one p
"player-
erromains.chamdes para
"time":^ And you'll un
bern on the soles of his boots The winner, of Watermelon 'All this party should cost is doubtedly have double admira- and he did not make much Toss is given the honour of the price of one watermelon- tion