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SPORTS
STORIES
PUZZLES
THE HONGKONG/TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1949.
The BOYS and
GIRLS PAGE
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM Plenty Of Red-Heads ZOO'S WHO
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1 Part of a circle
A:12
4- Noah's boat (Iib.)
7 Peruso
19
9 On the sheltered side
10 Small candles
12 Rough inva
13 Type of fuel
14 Measure of area
15 Rayal Navy (ab.)
10 Doctor (ab.)
17 Pronoun
18 Conceal
20 Any
DOWN
21 Guides
23 Mud
25 Cut off auddenly
20 Consumed
27 Beverage
1 Skil
2 Harvest
4 Boy's nickname
5 Erect
'8 College official
3 Antica
New Zealand parrot
9 While
11 Right (ab.)
14 Zealous
16 Expires
17 Distinct par!
10 Height (.)
19 Grent Lake
20 Eucharistic wine vessel
21 Southeast (ab.)
22 Mineral spring
24 Musical note
1.
RIDDLES
What increases the more
It is shared with others?
2. Where does the eloquence
of lawyers come from?
3. Why are the glories of
ancient Greece like the
metal
tron?
4 What is good for a
bald
hend7
5.
When is a thump like
д
hat?
WORD SQUARE
After rearranging the lettera
In each row to form a word, re-
arrange the rows of words
form a word square.
A JA MIOR
·EMORIS
ALSS Y
A CLOR
EORS IV
ADD-A-LETTER
to
SCRAMBLER
Scramble "a god of love" and have "a painful apol:" scramble again and have "n flower" ogaln and liavo "mineral rocks."
EDIBLE RHYMES
From the vorsided clues and things to cat:
1. My shell's hard, my meal is
white,
My drink is a puro delight.
• The Five Find-Outers play a frick on the new village constable, P-e Pip- pin. Fatty and Larry dis- guise themselves as'ruffiana and lead him on a wild. goose chase. They plan to lure Pippin to the Little Theatre.
THE Ave
children
chuckled over the trick they had played on the unsuspecting Pippin. Larry had met him the morning after and stopped to have a few words with #row in him.
2. I live in a grey sea shell,
And form a stone when not
well.
3. Yellow, and
bunches,
Mr Pippin, remembering
Best mellow, when one Mr Goon's words of warn-
munches
4. First I'm bright green, then
I'm red,
But black when to you I'm
fed.
5. Oval leaves, fragrant flower,
My fruit is sweet or sour,
ANSWERS
ATE
ARK
MAR
ing about the five children. looked at him rather doubt- fully.
"Good morning," Mr Pippin," said Larry, politely. "Er-got on to any mystery yel?"
"Shouldn't tell you if I had," sald Me Pippin, grinning at
had a Larry. "give
warning about you, see?"
"Yes. We though! you
probably would have," ald Larry. "By the way, our cook had a fright last night Sold che saw two ruffans outside our back door."
Mr Pinnla prieked up his ears at once. "Did she?" What were they like?""
"Well--the said one of them had red hair," said Larry. "But you'd better ask her if you want any particulars. Why?" you seen them?"
Have
"Perhaps I have and pertinps I haven't" said Mr Pippin, on-
TIME CA
Chapter Four of the new serial
for children appearing every
Saturday. It is written by this to make
Guid
Blytow
"Ow!" said Me, Twit, and most overbalanced from Lis tricycle. "Constable Whot does this mean ?”
Bcross P-e Tippin also came KIDDLES: 1-Huppiness 2-noyingly.
the vicar's brother, a kind and Their mouths. 3-Because they What were they up to? Ha harmless irleyclist who liked to
of (ore). 4-Plenty ure o'er
decided to interview Larry's ride three times round the vil tir. 5-When it is felt.
cool: andi ltd 30. lic came lage each morning for exercise. When Larry related to the Ad, ndo, away with' a very lurid necount
ADD-A-LETTER:
Jado,
SCRAMBLER: Eros, rose, ores.
nore,
WORD SQUARE:
CAROL
AROMA
ROVES
OMERS
LASSY
It so
"We must also leave some-
Pippin
go on
+
with the chase somewhere elso,"
said Larry,
"Yes. What about underlin- ing
pago and
train In a time-table throwing it down?" hap said Plp. "If we underline K
-train-say
Sunday
pened that the certain
One next mot WBD
he train-old Pippin will turn up the for that too!"
Vicar's brother
on his tricycle
ngein, hurrying
Everyone giggled "And Fatty could dress up in some slip a message
along to catch disguise, and
to suggest
the post at the into Pippin's hand post office. Mr the next place to go to," said Pippin stopped Dalsy. "We could
the half over the country at this out into
road in front of ratel"
The vicar's
send hlm
Soon all the clues wetu
even ready,
to the penell- ranc shavings. which
him.
brother
Vo-
Ichin
but Mr
envelope.
his bell
were in an
THE ROMANS STARTED THE CUSTOM OF FEEDING GEESE TO ENLARGE THE LIVER...A GOOSE THAT 18 FED BY FORCE EVERY FEW HOURS SOON DEVELOPED A LIVER.
didn't The next day, about ten to QF SEVERAL POUNDS WEIGHT.
get out of the x. the Ave zet of, with
way. So the Buster 113 Itsual in Fatty's
rider
ก
put on bicycle basket. They eycled
stand.
from
tho
sur-
#carbo
HUMMING BIRDS | ARE HELPLESS ON THE | GROUND... THEIR FEET
AREMADE
FOR PERCHING...
SEA LIONS REQUIRE
ABOUT THIRTY POUNDS OF FISH DAILY TO KEEP THEM IN GOOD HEALTH...
-Each Thought He Was More Important-
By MAX TRELL
his brakes sud- round to $12 back of the denly, and To
Little Theatre and came to the Sun and Moon. Had a Quarrel to such a car park there. A good many sudden stop children were there alady, that he almost getting bicycles fell off. "What Is it constable?" sald
"Hallo!" said Fnity. astonislied,
"Ilan there been a prised, the vicar's brother
down." "I nearly ran you
NE day," said Ting-a-Ling "What's your name and ad- show here this afternoon?"
a boy near by.to Knarf and Hanid, the "Yes," sald asked Mr Pip-
"Just a show for us children dress, please? pin, taking out his notebook.
Homes. They shadow-children; "the sun and "My name is Theodore Twit, from Farleigh
It was the moon had a quarrel." of two enormous villains, six others that he had met Pippin,
"Oh. what did they quarrel feet high at least, growling and and told him about the red- and my adress is the Vicarage, let us in for nothing.
much jolly good, I liked the cat the Mr cook, sald
Twit, with
best.
about?" asked Hanid. groaning, squinting and pulling haired man seen by the
Oh. Dick Whit- und when Fatty heard from dignity.
"The cat? faces.
"Ho yes,”
Mr Pipp'n. said
"About which of them ww. think! tington's cat, you mean," said Janet the cook that the police-
don't that the the more important. I mon had actualy been to in "The Vicarage," I don't
that Fatty, remembering can't put me off
show that week was supposed know how it was that the quar- terview her about him, he You
way!"
if the to be a skit on the Dick Whit- re started, but I think it was Twit Mr
wondered
tington pantomime. "It's not a very cloudy day and neither policeman was mad.
He looked at him anxiously. real cat, is it?"
Pippin
mistook his an- He sud- xlous look for fright.
Twit's ol Mr denly clutched abundant red hair.
"OW!" vaid Mr Twit, and
*
"One of them certainly had chuckled: red hair. Mr Pippin began to "I think a spot of disguising look out for people with red is indicated," he said to the tinie. When he met Mr Kerry others. "A few red-haired fel-
our flaming lows might interest the cobbler, who had
nice Mr round ripe Pippin.",
red- So at twelve o'clock a haired telegraph boy appeared on a bicycle, whistling plercing-
EDIBLE RHYMES: I-Coco-red hair, he eyed him with such nut. 2-Oyster. 3-Banana, 4-uspiclon that Mr Kerry felt Blackberry, 5-Orange.
really alarmed,
Test
Yourself For Judgment
CLOONER or later, everyono is
S
asked to tell how many people were out at the picnic, or how many new houses ap- peared to be going up in a cer-, lain district, or how many birdo flew overbend
It is important to train your- self to estimate numbers and quantities with a fale degree of accuracy. Then people will Add a letter to "a paid news-
1 terms 10 and
rely on your good havo notice" paper
judgment. "bustle" ndd another letter and have "part of a pedestal."
ORANGES TODAY!
"Court ol!" sold the boy.
ly. When he saw Mr Pippin he almost overbalanced from his Daley, who had already seen "It's a man in a cat's skin. stopped and asked him to direct tricycle. "Constable! What does the show, explained to Faity.
Musi be rather a small him to an address he didn't, th's mean?
Mr Pippin had been absolute- idiot ly certain that
know.
and
of them had anything else to do. At any rate the sun insisted that he was more important, and the moon said that she way more important.
"Then, last of all, the North
'0 spoko,
Sun ond
O'Moon,'
about the
said, I blew world asking
none
of them
up their
red-haired man that day he Mr Pippin saw a large and that Dick visits-only In the highest mountain and told the child who was playing in his would really go to the oculist
very determined-looking and see if there was something coming towards him. wrong with his eyes!
And at half-past five,
man
is it, Theodora?"
side
door
J
of
they
the
"Finally said Ting-n-Ling. Sun and Moon were having, a
10 let ngreed the people all people
they both
lived on the earth - who' which of them was the more can be seen dearly at night the red hair man-or maybe it's a boy! He knew them both, to decide plenty of light; while the Moon the when there is scarcely any light important. They Esked At half-past two yet another would come off in his hand. was very funny, I thought."
"Look-there go the actors,"
go about the at all. tour Winds to red-haired fellow knocked at When it didn't. he was hor
little girl, and she earth and
ask everyone they P.-c. Pippin's door and deliver- rifled. He stared at Mr Twit, sald
met-Which is more important, Wind ed a newspaper which he
going a deep. pointed to a side-door. said his pink face
"See, that's Dick Whittingthe Sun or the Moon. must have been left at the red.
ton.
that pretty girl. Why do
have a girl for Four Winds Blow house. Pippin thought it wrong
"Do you feel ali right, con- they always bad, was one that Goon
everyone I mat. I asked the 13 Dick's that's Margot, thanked him. He stared at him, bing-his-lead-where Mr Fip- the boy in a pantomime? And
"50 for four times four days Lion, the Tiger and the Eagle. All this red
And the four winds blew about, here asked the Hills, the Moun---- sweetheart in the play. ingly pin had snatched at his hair. we
the
Rivers
and the Fatty stared back unwinkingly. I don't understand you. Oh there's Dick's master-and his and there and everyhere, asking tainas,
here is my Feeling uncomfortable, though
Д look-she's thank goodness,
man, everyone they met to tell them Brooks. But my mother,
minds he didn't know why. P.-. Pip
Muriel, do come here really, as you can see.
what they thought of the Sun could make door and went sister. pin shut the
constable who I
"And there's the captain of und the Moon. And at the end which of you two is the mort and tell this Back into the
He front room.
seem to be Dick's ship-isn't he fine? And of that time the four Winds important. And then, just as I He doesn't am. felt that if he, saw one
islands came together there's the chief of the
on top of the way coming here, I met'n little more lieve me.
child sald- of Sun and the Moon what they garden. And the lady play he's black man,
a "What
bad found out.
If there were no sun there course."
would be no sunbeams. And if Bald the COL
at gazed The five children
"The East Wind spoke Arst, there were ΠΟ moon thero when indy, in a deep, barking kind the actors as
left the Oh Sun, it said, I spoke to all would be no moonbeams. And
Little
the trees in the forest and all it there were no zunbeams and he was getting out to go to the of voice. Mr Pippin took one
They all looked re- the flowers in the fields. All no moonbeams I would be very post, what did he see but an look at Muriel, muttered a elderly-looking
of them agreed that if not for unhappy. So I hope they both shuffling few words of shamed apology, Theatre.
cat?" He left behind him markably ordinary.
asked nlong with a slick-and
"Where's the with and fled.
them would be keep shining for:ver and ever, yeu, none of bright-red hair sticking out two very, puzzled people.
Bets.
able to grow. They from under his cap!
"He doesn't scem
to have are the more important. Guid the them," gone with
"Then," sald Ting-a-Ling. little girl
"Anyway what he was the West Wind spoke. O Moon, "Mad" kald Muriel, in her wouldn't know barking volee. "Gioon was mad like, because he wore his cat-it said, 'I asked all the Cats and
"And that" said Ting-a-Ling, knows but skin all the time. Ho was all the Mice and all the Owls and oranges
enough, goodness
all the Frogs. They all agreed that "was what the four Winds told is very happy. He is yelping
really when It comes to the awfully good. I loved him." To your score, add up all
A with Joy and wagging his tall.
teacher at your hair,
called loudly, you were more important than the Sun and the Moon. It didn't Then a memory struck him. man snatching If your total is
convince the Sun and the Moon wase do you see?. (Add yelps within 25 of the correct total Goon told me? to warned me coming to an end!" ilow many yelps and how many your answers.
you keeping us waiting for? when they go about at night.
"Then the South Wind spoke, that it was foolish trying to find and wags and write the total). you
exceptionally good
fellows against red heeded
The five children had had a Come along at once." From 20 to 40 away dashing about nil judgment.
1 asked many wise old men,' out which of the two was the over the meeting that day, which was
it said, and the wisest among more important. So they be- 2. The remnan Is using a from the correct total
What did he Thursday to decide what clues
them said. O'Moon, that you came friends again and spent for Pippla hore. How many drops of water average. From 40 to 80 is pass-place, didn't he? this red they would spread
The car park emptied. Fatty were the more important. And all their time cending their sun- ing, but below a means you mean? What's all
haired business? Oh yes—Mr at the back of the 3. This mirror fell and the are weak in guessing quantities, Goon said it would be Fatty Theatre. There was a kind of locked round. "Now," he said, the reason they gave was this beams and moonbeams down to cover, "come ont The coast is clear. The Sun can only be seen in all their friends on Earth, and broke into quite a few Pay attention to sizes and num- ginea
disguising himself! But that verandah there, under
Is especially to the children." EO and look at these the daytime plecen. How many ploces are bers and you can correct your boy couldn't bo na clever na where all kinds of clues might We'll there?
judgment.
posters here, and talk to one when wo of course, another and then The correct answers are: 1- 4. The moon is full of craters seven yelps, seven wags: total all the
began to review "Cigarette-ends,
one is watching think other are sure no red-haired people ho to make Pippin' (big holes), How many holes 14. 2-3 drops of water. 3-had seen that day. He thought meetings
have taken place us, I'll si'p up to the verandah
and drop the clues. does the plcture show?
22 broken pleces. 4-11 craters, with
especial suspicion of there," said Fatty.
had seen
It was most annoying. how. enid three 5-12 strings (not a regulation the man ho
Yes-and matches," of course). -210 times on a tricycle.
"And Larry
what about a ever, because on oranges (18 dozen, but you are "Ah! Wait till I meet the hanky with an Initial on It people kept coming 5. The grocer's oranges ar to give the number of orangos, next red-head." said Mr Pip- always very helpful that when park, and for some reason or rived so he made a sign with not the number of dozens). pin darkly to himself. If you want clues!", dots to let the customers know Grand total of yelps, wogs, there's, tricks played on me, I how many oranges he had to drops of water, broken glass, can play a few, too. I'll give
next red-head 2 sell. It each dat represents one craters, tennis racket strings the
Fright!" orange, how many orangea did and oranges-300.
Here is a quantity guessin
Just by zame for you to try, looking at the pictures (no to you are write down your guess on the correct answer to each ques the :len below,
Rupert's Queer Path--48 counting allowed)
Creeping forwards. Rupert and Bill reach the end of the tunnel. "The kitten told us we could find Tigerlily here,” says Rupert, wonder what he meant. This avera to be as tat 45 we can go and whe isn't here." It's as bright in here as it was in the first cave," says Bill. "Where does the light come from 7** Glancing upwards he gives a shout. "Look, there's a trap-door," he cries. and it says Private keep away. What can it mean?" Rupect
puzzled suppose it means something crazy," he says. everything else in this place.”
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
BRONCHO BILL
grocer havet (Tip-the comes out In even
answer
1. The little dog, ne you see, dozens but you, give the total
do you see?
5. How many strings in the tennis player's racket?
racket
have
Rolling Stones.
**HATTLETS
INTO THE RUSTLER ~ HIS SHOT
GEWILD
"I'm seeing things," thought poor Mr Pippin to himself. "I've got red hair on the brain."
*
say you for I think they are both the
most important.”
Friends Again
well What Was it that Mr Theodore, the world must be "Irene) Donald! What are the Sun; for you shine for them decide the quarrel, but it did
all that!"
Mr Pippin
be put.
Littlo
or two to the car
other walked across it. Fatty "Oh, yca," said Daisy. I've finally discovered that it was a cigaratto shop tom hanky and short cut to a got an old Real Pl work an initial on it. What in the next street.
"Blow" he said. "We'll havej shall I put?"
about to hang
til it shuts. "Z" said Fatty promptly. It's sure to shut soon."
well elva him "Might as
It was boring having to wait puzzlo
his so long,
and
talk endlessly thing to
about the posters. But at last the shop apparently dľa shut "What else do people drop and nobody else took the short by accident?" wonderod Daley cut across the car-parle "Oh, I know what we could was now getting dark. Fatty do. I there's a nail or any slipped up tho. three stops to thing there, wo could take the verandah. - along a bit of cloth and jab it on the nali!
SOTTE
By Harry F. O'Neill brains over."
when thero
DO-IT
By Dalo Goss
Paddle whe
Boat
Things to Make With Materials at Hand'
4.Nailcabin to boat....
1. Cut out base from APPLE BOXwood
* 2.Cut 2 wood blocks;
for cabin... nail
together.
It
He throw down the clues-- Then It would cigaretic-ends. and matches look as it whoever had been torn hanky with: Z on-pencil- there for a meading had caught shavings page torn from: a his coat on the nail.
time-table with one Bunday train underlined and a bit of "That would be
Very navy blue cloth which he jab- valuable clue, if it was a real bed hard on a nail.
ozet"
He turned to go but be
It would," Agreed foro he went ho took a look Fatty. And we'll take a pen in at the window near by. And ell and sharpen it there leave what a shock Fatty, gotf
bite of pencil-shavings
over the place. Gosh, what'n
wonderful lot of clues!"
5.
Cut out piddle
from appla bax
wood...natchi
6.Wapa RUBBER BAND twice
around.notch
Fasten withe
JURE STAPLE.
Wired Paddle
7.
Cut 3inch length BROOM HANDLE:
band
and book over small.
nail to cal
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