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STORIES
RIDDLES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1949.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
Children's
serial
PUZZLES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
CRAZY COMPASS
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1.
Why is the River Thames
nt flood stage like tenrs?
2. Whini
most flower
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rembles a bull's mouth?
THE two girls were full
T
of horror--especially
at the mention of that unfortunate handker-
3. Why is the earth ice chief. Daisy went scarlet blackboard?
when she remembered how
corner,
she had sewn a Z on it in never never, thinking that there might be anyone called Zoe.
They both stared at poor Zoe, and Bets was amost in
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SECOND
4. Why k A baker
on in-
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consistent salesman?
A
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which
in
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often found where it is not?
FIND A
JUDUPN
PRIVERA
HOMONYM
Rotind alike.
Apelled differently.
gave the clam The professor
he would discuss the no-that
during the next hour,
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5 diutamak. The accamd word a mulai pu the third
Telet gem caved
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Although they
the missing words in this sen-cars. Daisy wanted to blurt
tence arr
Complete the rentence:
and slide".
out about the handkerchief and how she had put the 2 on it but she stopped her, She must ask self in time. Fatty's permission first.
"Mr Goon was most un- pleasant," said Mrs Thomas.
E MYSE
ANTOMIME CAT
LARRY
& PIP
ON THE JOB
by
ия, we've
"Let's snoop round a bit- because if anyone sees we can always say come to buy tickets, and we were looking for someone to ank," said Pip. So they left the front of the theatre and went round to the back, try-
"He cross-examined me ing various doors on the ruchten and have | about Zoe till I was tired! why. They were all locked.
He wanted to see all the navy couts in the house tue --goodness
Behrad
behead this
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COMPASS
bave 16 "KINE", and have
telend gam Haste al neta"
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BIRD, BEAST OR FISH?
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"'Oh yes. That constable what's his name-Goon—};a@ been practically llving her this week-end-interviewing · evezy
"Well, we actually came to buy tickets for this But the booking-office atformoon's show," saka Larry Je shut,"
orie.
Ho'a got poor Boysle zo scared that 1 don't think ho really
known
what he's say. itu now. He shouts at him 130 Boyste bucato in to tears."
THE BEES SHOWED THE INDIANS, WHERE TO GET WAX FOR ... bleye SEALING THE SEAMS OF CANOES..... THE RED MEN OBSERVED BEES. finished SEALING THEIR HVES WITH WAX FROM BÅLSAM POPLAR BUDS.
The whd now, and shone brightly. The manager ran it into a ched. "Well, that's done," he said. "Sorry I can't give you your tickets
BOW:
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them COB lly
enough
this THE WORLD'S LARGEST 100, KRUGER SCREECH OWLS
afternoon NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH AFRICA,COVERS AN There are never | AREA ABOUT THE SIZE OF BELGIUM....
The two girls knew quite
to the They came Goon had got that park at the back of the L Which of the following well.
Panther, bit of navy-blue cloth that theatre. A man was there,
you in your cup of jen-the one many people on Mondays," Elephant. Fatty had jabbed on a nail cleaning motor-bicycle. that was drustited." enid Larry,
56 for a false clue--and he was The boys had no idea who "Did he, mir?”
with a he was. # coat the mm, hyena looking for
hole in it to match the piece of cloth. Oh dear--this was worse and worse.
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ANSWERS
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"What are you doing here!” dan baki
"But
"Well. "He also wanted to know
we actually Come to what kind of cigarettes we buy tickets for this afternoon's like smuked," said Zoe. "And show," said Larry
he seemed awfully phrased bucking-office la shut" when we showed him a box- ful Egyptians?
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RIDDLE ANSWERS:
Daisy's heart sank further, and!
"Of course it is You can get the thekein when you cone along thus afternoon," said the inau, vigorously even rubbing
the
so did Bets's, shuning muviguards of the motor-
are you the manager, ******
v
Larry,
Di
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"He certainly brought me in The tea," Bald the manager, "I was very busy, and only Just Klanced up to take it but it was Boysle all right.
He was still in his cat-skin se 1 cmukin' mistake binɛ. Too lazy to take it off That's Boysie I've even known him all over go to bed in it.
The boys went off, delighted a nil they had learnt. To get the whole story from the mann- ger himself war simply marvel- loun Now they knew ng much as Goon did!
де
"Come 13's
In quarter 10 i cive Let's
Antd get back, Larry, who was bursting to tell e news "I wonder how the They Jud an girls have got im
And so hád my job really.
"Ilut he's queer in the head, Fatty just got to pump Pippin
and that's all." He Like child. you know
is uidn't have done the job by "I like this detecting business, himself. though he must have don't you?" said Larry, as they Fund something to do with leveled up the road "Of enyrse. mure dieul for us that for he's an easily jel."
MATE FOR LIFE....
Someone Was Painting Leaves
-And It Must Have Been Jack Frost-
5)
man
By MAX TRELL
THERE'S
outside painting." said
Chirple Sparrow when he came to the window-sill for hlo crumbs. "He's quite an odd-looking man, all dressed in white. And you'd never guess what he's painting." Knart and Hanid didn't even try le guess, They didn't know that anyone was outside paint. The didn't know anybody dressed all in white. Ing.
It was Egyptian cigarettes begele whose ends Patty had meal-
the foged over
verandah. any
"Then somebody might have Goen or Pippin-all they've got Whoever would have thought clues that their silly false
Yes, I am The Aan de the come back that night--been let to do is to n to muyone they
by Boysie--your tea might like and nak questions, knowing|
For answer that the people would have fitted so well News' The man who was doped
have been drugged-and taken the pulled-and casandals, and tobbed last Friday!" said
by Boysie to you as unur), 50 into this
1 I would nuty 11 werungen fitted poor Zoe so well!
1/50
that you wouldn't suspect any- one who Ret 25 Juzade on
thing." said Larry, tel that Job"
Larry and Pip came along about ten to twelve. They looked pleased with them selves.
"Hallo, girls! How did you get on?" said Pip. "We did very well!"
1:
"Have you nty idea who did * asked Pip
"Aid,
they can
like and Into any house they moop rʊund--but we can't."
AN YOU were
asleep, the one that Haysie let
13t on the
"Who is he?" Hanld naked, "And what's he painting, Chir- ple?" asked Knarf,
The Hitle man was painting leavea.
Chirple helped himself to a few more crumbs. Finally he raid: "I don't know who he is. in must have crept up to your 'No, we can't.
But I can tell rou what he's $5. taken down the mirror other hand, we can perhaps plek "None at all, sad the man-
bila of news that painting. I can tell you because I little- got the key from wherever you up don't really believe it
watched him. Ile's painting the they're green. But when nutumn)
As corner and winter comes He'd wer was that adrol of a Boysit.
krep it, and opened the safe people might not tell Goun,"
"Look out-there's teaves on the maple tree." 1'Ap
nearer the leaves are painted and get away before you wake nd never have been able to do ail
When they heard this Knart different colours. Yes, it happens that
So there exclaimed: like this every year. Rank both
must be n renson for painting "Painting leaves!
them and someone must palat thet."
"Anyway, he's too scared of
me to try on tricks of that sort-
So they had. They had but he might have helped some- biked down to the
Ite
Little Theatre, and had gone to to bouk the booking-office
Was
Blow!
• 15% 9gh thigh) water the seals for the afternoon's
3-Be
show. But the lice A Towslip trow's lip).
children of men
closed, multiply sport the face of t 4- Because he sells who he needs rkreacing himself. 5-Fault
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HOMONYM: Sign, sine.
REHEADINGS:
Scare.
cate,
FISII: OR BIRI), BEAST
Camel, buffalo, zebra. 2- Hyena 3-Crested mynah. Blue shark, S-Male ostrich.
Rupert and a Mare's Nest-11
Rupert oours qui
his story, and at him solemnly. iht Owl gates "You wish to know what Mare's
Nest 117" he says. **Little beat. there are some things that we know bui must not tell that as one of Rupert them, especially today."
"Why especially today?"
starra.
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he asks in disappointment. "I can say no more." replies the wise old bird. Now you must run home And try to forget all about it." Sudly Rupert climbs down the tree. "Surely there must be some way of Ending the secret," he murmurs, jun then the sound of running feet makes him turn,
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GETTING "UP TIME ALWAYD 15 HARD AY RANGER HEADQUARTERS
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ASLEEP
DO-IT
By Dale Goss
ene ets for cher 1,
in that night, theatre was empty("
Someone he when the
The boys were thrilled to hear it is rst-hand information, "It said in the paper that Boycle --the Pantoming Cat-brought
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
SCUTTLE BIG
1.Cut off a section of
PENCIL 2 inches long... Split open remove lead.
2. Tie a STRING
to each end of a
RUBBER BAND...
Put band between pencil halves →→→→→】 '11"
3.Slippencil through a SPOOL
(it must fit tightly).
4. Tie THREAD around spool, wind. 30 times cut off leaving 12 inches.
Overconfident Sheriff
5. With point of SCISSORS, bore `a hole in top and sides of a PLASTIC BOWL about 3 inches across.
...FUT BIDE HOLES A LITTLE AMLAY **OF CENTER...
6. Slip thread through top put strings through sides.
பெ
% Tie end of thread to a BUTTON
tis strings to pieces of PIPE CLEANER.
8. Draw eyes with BLACK CRAYON ...Fasten on RUBBER BAND
feelers with
SCOTCH TAPE.
PLACE ON FLOOR Pull and slacken string and SCUNIEBUG. will CRAWL!
THIS MORNING THE OLD SHERIFF AND HIS CROCKED DEPUTY WATCH THE LOADING OF A COVERED WAGONBUBSTITUTE FOR-
THE DEMOLISHED STAGECOACH
HO USE SENON' RANGER BOYS ALONG TO GUARD THIS CARGO HIGHWAYMEN WILL
NEVER GUIES ANNA) in 2003,
·THING WORTHYMILE
1S ABOARD
WHAT YOU
THINK
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P
as came
MCAT.
One by One
"Painting icoves," repeated
Guon!"
It," said the 50 11
frowning and and ༢༧་ཛོ་ {[ "That's about
his - manager, sliding up to puliah majestle Goun, riding
Im- "And the handlebars
what's cycle. and looking very more. It must have been one of portaal. He called out in them the rast, because no one knows en much about things as they da why, whoever the thief was keep even knew that I didn't the safe-key on my key-zing I always keep it in a secret poe ket of my wail.
"Where's that fat boy? You fell him if 1 ave him again this morning I'll go and complete Where to his parents. Poking his nere where he's not wanted! is he?"
"I don't know," said Plp and together, and grinned. Lurry What could Fatty have been
"And only the east knew that fut once Jan a why hadn't put Into the tnkings Thursday's
me Bank, because they saw coming back in a teaper with doing now? 1, where I found the Bank wea
used!"
"Who do you suppose it is?" Chirpie. "He's painting them ung Hanid asked again.
And such beautiful by
"All I can do is take a guess,” colour Well, these are very nice replied Chirpie. "My guess is that crumbs the children left for me, it's the same person who paints win- the re-piclures on the I'm certainly enjoying them--"
dows." "Chirpie!" cried Hanid. "Don't
go talking about something else! What is this painter painting leaves for?"
"Oh, that's Jack Frost! But," she added the next moment, He's "there is no such person.
make-
"How should i know?" said just a make-believe person."
Looked Roal "You don't know! Gati! 1 bet Chirile. "He probably feels like Why do some
"Maybe he you know where he's hiding, painting Diem.
Isn't a
ready
to pick Pippin's brains painters paint pictures? Why do Does he think he's on some painters paint houses, or believe person at all," said Chir- flo ngain.
Well, he's not, fences, or signs? He's the kind of pie, "After all, I saw him. this cuoc, too?
a painter who paints leaves. Now looked real enough to me, I think I'm in charge of this. You tell
I know as 1 was saying, these bread-
where he is. Let's go and him that"
crumbs"
see him." "11'a important to paint
Kharf and Hanid went out housest" Khart broke in. "It's with Clilrpie. There he is. Just Important to paint signs and look at him! He's way up in the fences.
But I don't know why top of the tree!" anyone should want to paint the leaves on the maple tree."
And with that Mr Goon sailed
The boys drank att this in. Soine of it they already knew,
much but it sounded
more oft, leaving Larry and Ply full exciting and real to bear it from of curiosity to know what in the been doing the lips of the manager himself, world Fatty had
"I suppose the police are on the job all right," said Pip, taking a duster and beginning to rub up the spokes of the wheels.
You Can
now!
MORE NEXT WEEK
-(London Express Service)
Coloured
"Yet," said Chirpte, "they're painted every year. In the spring
Have Fun With
Tops
TOU can have interest- alde a bright red. Reverse the
the of the top and same colours appear but in the
ing and profitable fun direction indoors experimenting opposite order.
with home-made coloured tops.
AG./
FIG. 2:
It was no use, No matter how ard Knarf and Hand tried to look, they couldn't see anybody up in the top of the tree.
Perhaps Chirple really saw him.
most
Perhaps Chirpie didn't. Perhaps (and this was likely) you needed eyes as sharp as a bird's to be able to see this mysterious painter of leaves.
At any rate somebody must have painted them. For the next morning, when Knart and Hanid went out and looked at the maple again, overy leaf was painted- splashed with colours-from gold to purple.
"The most wonderful painter in the world," Chirple kept way-. ing. "And it's Jack Frost all | right. I asked him.”
FIG. 3
FIG. 4
A
PENCILS ARE PUZZLING
LEAD pencil is a strange thing if you think about it because there Isn't any lead
The
ancient Egyplang had
For the second experiment you will require a cover sector From a sheet of white the shape of figure 3. This is cardboard cut two circular painted black and is made to or lightly over the peg to cover By Harry F. O'Neill discs about four inches in one of the seven sectors of the diameter. Pegs may bo colour circle on the second disc made from meat skewers (Figure 2). pointed at one end or from It is important that the hole pencils about two and one in the top of the cover sector be
Now start experimenting with in it half inches long. Those are made slightly smaller than the
First, cover pushed through a hole in size of the peg of the colour top
so that there is no chance of your cover sector,
up the red sector and spin aguia. pencils made of real lead-but- the centre of the discs. slipping.
is green. the pencils you use_today are What you
Graphifo is For the first experiment, The seven equal sectors of Cover up the green and you see made of graphite.
Cover blue, and the spin-a mineral. also known as black divido one of the discs into disc 2 must be painted with the red two equal portions. Paint colours of the rainbow. These, ning top appears to be yellow.. lead-only there isn't any lead in it at all; It's really a kind nre: red, orange, half the disc jet black and in order,
You will see that what you get of carbon,
Brat The In each case is the complemen- on the other half mark the yellow, green, blue, purple, and
violet,
tary colour of that which you even made for writing. They 12 arcs shown in figuro 1.
'with the black were part of an artist's equip Spin the top and when it Spin your rainbow dise and blacked out
ment-really very Ama brushes. moves from left to right the out what do you see? A sort of unl. cover socter.
You will get the best results And certain paint brushes are side lines. will appear green form grey. This shows that all Blue, the intermediafe, lines the colours of the rainbow odded when you spin your magic tops today called penells. yellow and green, and those in together give us a greyed white. under a strong artistolai light Puzzling, isn't it?"
2
Ece now
"poncila"
were
not
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