PUZZLES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1919.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
GAMES
JOKES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM Pippin On The Trail ZOO'S WHO
CROSSWORD
· This puzzle is built on wilhouette map of Brazil:
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Flook
ACROSS
SLANG POSERS
Whether good grammar or
not, siang is widely used.
How
many of theso can you answer?
1. What is a "potato"?
2. Ia a "pow-wow" the bark
of a small dog or a
whone talk prevails?
meeting
3. A "marde nes!?" isn't a
hores stall when you're speaking
in slang. What is 117
4. Is a "pick-me-up”” a ¡dnd
of car, hay rako, or a stimuls.
ting beverage?
RIDDLES
1. Why is a beaster Like an
India-rubber ball?
2. What requires philosophy than taking things DA they comer
3. Why does a baby boy South American country always receive a hearty welcome
Trick
10 Right (ab)
14 Northeast (ab.)
10 Dood
10. East pide (Rh)
DOWN
I Lincolns nickname
2 Rob Roy (ab.)
3. Blemich
Colour
5 Remoteneza
6. Malt bovengo
D. While
12 Toward
13 Permits
CODED MESSAGE
A simple code has been sub- stituted for the letters of, our message. -Can you declpher it? (Hint: Brazil is mentioned.) ·
Qhned. Imdbyn br Brohack no Aqeydk.
ANSWERS
wgd
SLANG POSERS: 1-Ą per- non. 2-á meeting. S--A hoax. 4---Beverage.
NIBLES: 1-Because he is
2
empty and
and full of bounce. Parting with things as they go 3-Because he never comes mis 4 The base (baso), 6– Because it digs into the earth.
VILENCE
RIVER REBUS:
Marne, Beine, Rhone, Garonne.
CODED MESSAGE; Rio do
· Janeiro to the capital of Brazil.
DIAMOND:
C
MOA
MOUSE
COUNTRY
ASTER KRI
MISSING LETTERS: Crumbled. Z-Rifċa. Saddled. Falled.
CHOSSWORD:
Rupert's Queer. Path--54
Rupert starts to tell Timerly of the queer things thai häve" hap- pened since she made the new path igio a real cray paving, but-he docan't get far before her father strives and sternly bids her to get up. Then the conjurer lifts she wanti and takes the little girl to ashore distance from the others. They hear him talking gravely in Chinese, and they ace Tigerlily hanging her head sorrowfully. **Oh, dear, I hope be won't punish her too much." mut. murs Rupert. She didn't mean to be bad
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in a family?
4. If a rogue were engaged to sing a chorus, what part would be the most suitable to
to alma?... assign
5. Why is geology con- sidered a dorp selenoo? ·
FRENCH RIVER REBUS
Uto the words and pictures to decipher the names of the four French rivers hidden here:
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RAZOR
IF THAT
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DIAMOND
COUNTRY is the word on which today's 'diamond ceplies: The second word is "in extinct bird," the third “a rodent," the fifth “a, dower," and the sixth "lo make a mistake.”
COUNTRY-
2
MISSING LETTERS
Here are four words, all of which end. Ja, the same three Jotters Can you All in the blanks and complete the words?
10—— II noted 2. Tiled 28-d-lea
DO-IT By Dale Goss
MYSTERY
NTOMIME G
Chapter Five of the new serial for children appearing every Saturday. It is written by-
-End BlyTow
The Five Find-Outors trick P-c Pippin, the young village constable, into believing ho is on the scont of a mystory. They moot at the Little Theatre to plant some false clues.
faco. ot Then, Fatty 1009 window.....
A
VERY large, furry animal was inaldo the window, looking mourn- fully up at him-or so it seemed. The eyes were big and glassy, and gave Fatty the creeps.
They went back to the girls. "There's something queer up
"Horrible it was noy quito dark, and there," and Fatty, big animal, looking out of the the church clock struck even window
I could just o'clock as they went to fetch at me.
reflection their bicycles from the stands. 900. It in the faint cast by that strbet-lamp out- side the car-park"
squeal
Bein gavo "Don't! I'm frightened!”
"Idiot. Fatty! It must be the cat-skin of Dick Whittington's cat," cald Larry after #mo- Fiment.
Then the Ave' cycled slowly home,
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"Masow," said the cot, loudly. twalag - tenards the window, cað waving a paw.
But
"I wonder when Pippin will along." sald Fatty as he dismounted at his gate. "He'll
perhaps the meeting be mure to get there long be- would be in the car-park. fore ten, so that he can hide
In that coco_would_it_bo... before the meeting —takes place and there won't be a much good him climbing up on meeting after alli Only the verandah roof? He plenty of chics for him to wouldn't hear a thing. fnd.”
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*Well-I suppose it was," said Fatty feeling very foollah. "I never thought of that. The thing looked so lifelike, though I don't think it wan Just ព "See you tomorrow Fatty!" "He skin. I think the actor who called Plp and Bets
verandah still bye, Larry and Daisy. plays the cat must have been insido it”
Have to hurry or we'll go And he mw the clues! into a row,"
"Gracious! Does ho live in it, then?" sald Dalay.
The throo baya stepped quietly up the verandah steps and looked in at the window. The cat was no longer "there, but as they stood watching
it come in at
the they caw door of the roam and scross on all fours to the fre. place.
An electric aro
Pippin debated with
him cautiously switched "Good- on his torch and ached it floor
Wo'll round
sav
tho
Pippin stiffened and listened. It sounded to him very like a groan.' But where could it be coming from?
The room behind him was in black darkness. There wa nobody
of
near him out doors as far na ho, kriew-and If it was the cat before the firo making à nolso, how could he possibly, hear that? Не couldn't!
The noise came again, · and Pippis felt most peculiar. Thore he was, sitting on a Tarrow window-cillin dhe dirk, - waiting for. rogues' to meet down below-and groans sounding all round himi He didn't like it at all.
Hen, listened, - holding · his breath; The groan, caine again: It was behind him! Pippin muddenly felt sure of that. Well then, it must be in the room behind him! Pippin felt round the window meaning to. open it. But It was shut and fastened from inside.
his
Pippin remembered torclu He took it from hi beit and switched it out, so that the light thong into the room behind. Its beam swung niowly round the root-and then came to rest on some thing very quatr.
hin
A man was sitting at a desk. He had fallen forward. face, on his out-stretched arms. Beside him wad a cup, over- turned in ita saucer, the spoon near by on the table. -Pippin sigred in horror..
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KEEP WATCH OVER THEIR HAREM OF WIVES FROM APRIL TO JULY, WITH LITTLE. HOOD OR REST.
BARN OWLS EAT MORE THAN THEIR
· WEIGHT IN FOOD - EVERY NIGHT...
Plant The Seed
Of Friendship
TIVERYONE wants friends, tend your hand to now folks But no sugar-coated for wherever you and thom,in mula for acquiring them exists school, in your club, on the
George Washington, in a letter playground, in church.
Now written in 1783, sald: "True friends need you and you'll and friendship is a plant of you need them, growth." That is sound
Friendship cannot be selfish.
Then the beam picked out something else. A big wall- mirror was standing on the floor, reflecting the light of the torch. A large bole showed in the wall near by the place from which the mirror had been re-ship could start with the new moved. A salo had been built boy who moves into your you can give in conversation, in behind, the mirror-but it Palekburhond.. You don't know do you talle of your own in- was now empty, and the safe- door was swinging open.
The seed of lifetime. It is not how much you can get
drova his P.-C.
They all rode away. Fatty went Indoors, thinking of tho
"Thieves A His eyes brightened
robbery!" said aa ho way the eat had looked at him
P.-C. Pippin and rose to the the cigarette-ends, the the window. through
Thal
He doubled matches and the pencil chav occasion at once, really had given him a jolt!
ings. Somebody had been here his hand in folds of his big:
bandkerchief and r'a dreat bedoro-quite often, too, jude fist through the windowl "If I Were Bots
he thought, ing by the cigaretic-ends. about that!"
Pippin was on the job! wonder if Pippin's going to on the verandah hide himself
If he nomewhere.
reta glimpse of that cat he'll the fright of his life."
Ret
The verandah knust certainly be the meeting-place. Per- hape the cat was in the plot 100. That was certainly ideal Pippin did not 59 to the
Carefully Pippin picked up about half the verandah until
cigarette-enda, burn- past eight.
the mat- He meant to be ches, and even the pencil shav inig, and the boys could dis- there in good time tinctly set the cat pretending meeting, whatever it was. Ho
rings. He put them to wash its face, rubbing its had been very thrilled indeed envelopes. 17 ears with its paws, in exactly to and the message about the
Ho then found the torn the same way as a cat does. meeting at 10 p.m. behind timetable page
the Little Theatre when he had the aide of the verandah, and blown against "Mecow" said the cat placed together the torn bits was extremely interested in
was
loudly, turning towards. window ang waving a paw.
ald Plp. "I don't know why. But I just don't. I know It's only comebody inside, the skin, but it looks a jolly sight -too-real-for-me-- bet's go!
for the
would be pleared with
all into
the underlined Sunday train.
MORE NEXT WEEK
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FRIENDS
from a person "but how much
hlo name. You terests or those of the other
don't need to. fellow?
Introduc al praizo?
yourvolt. The
stranger will
Are you generous in
Half the people you meet are ba grateful lonely, discouraged and afraid. Your word of praise inay change
and ho bound to re- the entire day for one of this 50 member the percent. Say the tactful thing, first boy or being careful never to hurt the girl who feelings of anyone..
Keep ellent if it means korp- Continue to ex-ing a confidence. Help some-
one on a knotty problem.
spoke to him in an un- Zamiliar city,
What General Tin Told Knarf lous faiths.
---All Animals Have Different Kinds of Talle—”
By: MAX TRELL
NOW take tails," Mr. Punch
"I somehow don't ko it him if he could unearth some He looked round and found
was saying to Kart and mystery or plot, he was sure, the handkerchief with Z 011 Pippin meant to do his best. it, and wondered if it could Hand, the shadow-children
with the turned-about names. bo the letter Neldewayni Pippin" could not for the life Kaart and Hanid looked at: of him think of any name Me Punch with puzzled onc "beginning with Z, not even the pressions. "Tails?" said Knart.
ones the children had thought What kind of tails?" off¦°
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Be had his torch with him, but did not put it on until he had made sure that there was
All kinds, my boy, all kinds nobody about anywhere......
Then he spotted the "bit of of tails. I don't suppose you've -navy-blue cloth caught on, a
aver thought about how many There was a glow in the nail. Ahat Ohöf That was different kinds there' are. For room behind
verandah, the most valuable clue of all. Instance there's the cat's tail, Pippin looked into the room. Find somebody with a hola in which is long and curly. And He saw that the glow came a navy-blua coat and
there's the pig's tell, which is from an electric Bre: front of it, lying us Pippin took another chuitoushort and curly. And there's
rabbit's tail, which asleep, was what looked like a look into the window of the nothing but slump. The lion has a funny sort of tall most enormous cat Pippin room at the back of the Jumped violently when ho raw verandah.
much
abla creature.
in were getting, somewhert V YOU { TERA
Ho couldn't believe his eyes. Pippin was just about to give a loud exclamation when ho stopped himself in time.
there's the squirrel's tall, which
•
is furry, and the turtle's tall, They're used" for flying. Except which is spiky. And there's the for the peacock," be added. earthworm, whose tail begins "Peacocktails are. something
very-very special” » - «¿ where his head ends."
"Why?" asked Hanid, **Peacock" tails are just for
ordinary way, They're just
Knarf and Hanld instantly exclaimed that they hadn't ever
The-great cat was stult' lying in front of the electric dro Very strangerspecially if you considered that the cat war't really-a-cat-but a human being realised there were. so many show. They aren't useful in the.
Of course! It must be Dick insido a cat-skin--or a Whittington's cat- the one "skin, of some port. that defed in the skit In the
pantomime.
different kinds of talls. furry
"The lion has a funny sort of beautiful But the peacock is more proud of his fall then he is of anything else. He struts It's around, showing it offylike a fan
As he watched, Pippin cawal," said Hanid, the cat move a little get more "Indeed it has, my dear,
He hadn't soen it himself, comfortablo and apparently like, & whip with a, pompom nt. io all the lady-peacock, or per- but he had heard about it, settle itself to sleep again. |the end of it" Funny the cat keeping its skin.
on like that--because it was really somebody inside it
You'd think he'll
"Funny creature," thought
Pippin, still puzzled but very
much rolleyed to pee the ent
Long Brush
The
horse's tail is like a long - want to move.. art of feel if a brush," said Knarf, Med
"Exactly. And the horse uses
an soon mouse ran -across the room,
hehs, So does the turkey, and so does the rooster."
"Mr Punch," said Knarf; "are there any flies underwater?" į
"No," said Mr Punch.
take the hot skin, off as he could
the cat would be after this tall like a bruh, too. He Then what docs o Osh use Pippin wondered if the though I know it's not a real swishes-off illos with How his toll for?" treefing whatever it was, cat! would take place if there was a decided that it was quite have hands. Wo can slap a fly. otherwise could he get a dy off his back? We're lucky, Wo
Flips His Toil that cat in the room near by,
time he climbed up through But the horse and most of the tail-sud away he goes, The "For swimining. Ho flips his the hole in the verandah roof, other animals have only their while has an enormous all. and sat on the window-sillo feet and a tail"
By Harry F. O'Neill
the room
The men
The rabbit,"
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St Francis of Assisi hnd
I still prayer-that
widely quoted, in magazines of all rell-
A portion of it reads: "Grant that I may not so much beek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved, as to Tovo; for it is in giving that wo receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."
How Tactful Are You?
STUDY this picture and try to decide what you would do
In this rather annoying altuation, The tactful answer is below,
The situation: You have
waited a long time at a busy shop counter. Then an elderly
IT WAS HOKE FIRST·
AND SHE'S PUSHING "AHEAD OF ME-
above.
When he flips it, he can lift a lady pushes ahead of you when
· might” coment any monent
boat out of the water or smash leis your turn to be waited ald Hanid, to splinters And the little now-one of them might be off his back sea-horse, which early-you..., never), knew!
with his stump of a OPECKS/wouldn't do for him to
GO TO
EXCEL
hlo
tall."
scrva you
Jarger than a mouse, has a long. 1. What will you do? (a) Look ald Mr Panch, twing fall, which he uses to curi inquiringly at the clerk, hoping with, all his clues safely in the backs of, rabbits. "don't have time to
on around seaweed like a monkey the (or he will: light on
Rabbits s
uses his tall to hold on to a ahead of (the discourteous customer? (b) Tell the lady you monkey's tail, Mr Punch co mement.
were there first? (c) Call out
: pocket, Pippin heaved
branch,"
himself 'up through the hole move too fást: And there's the "Oh,” exclaimed Hanid at this our order to the clerk and push
in the roof. He felt his way tinued. There's a tail that
to the window sill and
down on it?
It was hard and cold, and branches like a kind of live: It's a kite!!
"I know something
Isn't used for shooing off ales, that lan's a bird, or a fish, or annlitad of the elderly Indy... (d) It's used for holding on to animal. And still it has a tail. Say to the clerk, "Just a moment now. I was here abead of this | much - too' ? narrow to bescom, Įrope;"
"And I know. something" said woman? MANA fortablo. Pippin, resigned. him- (23)
Inarf, that has a tall and it Knart said: "Robins and spar- Isn't bird, a feh, an animal or [self in a long and
The solution. The best and... wait
rows and other birds all have a kite. It's penny?”
roost: tasfħul way to handle the talla. But they're not like animal Mr Puschkiniled, come situation is to follow solution A, fails. They're all feathern-books are full of tales, too. But look at the clirk ́and hops the #Birds" talis "aseplied air that's a diferent alors And clerk noted that you were first Punch, “are very w special, they all laughed.
tinensy
He had not been there more than" o "fow/mementi) when "ho heard a very
sound.
in fine;"