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Some Puzzles About Man's Best Friend
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contraction "ever."
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2. An old-time moving ple- ture reminda one of what bird?
3. Or what bird might the Bald Eagle be envious?
4. What is the more familiar name for the Skunk Blackbird?
B. Besides the White-Crown- other ed Sparrow what two birds have
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By Dale Goss
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1. Why is a clock the most humble thing in existence?
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
✩ The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat ✩
At the show
"HE children'sat down
in Pip's big playroom, a bag of chocolater between them, supplied by Larry.
"Well-it looks as # we've all got something to report," said Fatty. "Girls first. How did you get on, Daisy and Bets?"
Taking it in turns to sup- Bots and
2. Why is a person bathingly the news,
the river at Poris like a Dalsy told their
in 'Junalic"
3. Why should a boy never tell his secrets in a cornfleld?
4. Why is giving away coal the best of 1 charities?
5. Why is a joke less durablo than a church-bell?-
DOG MIX-UPS
4
"But isn't it awful about the hanky with Z on?" said
Bets.
"And oh, Fatty she smokes the same kind of cigarettes as our cigarette relends were made of."
Three breeds of dog are con- cealed in theso mixed-up lines. Bring them to light by
each Arranging the letters in row:
ROC BIND PAN HENS ME LOUD OH BOND KEEP SINGE
ANSWERS
DOG REBUS: Great Dane; Shepherd; Whippet; Boxer.
DIAMOND:
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Children's
Serial
by Gud Blyton
like Boysio
the
wero
Thero two plays and a skit on Dick Whitlington's Pantomime. In first two Boyslo plays, did not appear, but he came in at the last one, and the chil- dron shouted with delight as he shumed In on all fours, dressed in the
big furry skin that the boys had through window
Soon
on
1949.
CRAFTS
He was very fanny, He wered to the children and coddled up to Zoe Markbam.
tho
Friday night. Ho was very funny.
good as the mother-neat and
atory. thing a mutt "Wasn't it lucky to see Zoe would forget." herself?" said Daisy. "She's
"Well-we shall see him this sweet, sho really is. Sho afternoon," said Daley. "I for- couldn't possibly have done got to tell you, Fatty, that we arranged with Zoe to meet all the job, Fatty."
the members of the show after
e nimble, using an amusing high it had finished this afternoon, waved to the children fust as volce, and even singing two or for autographs. So we shall he und waved to the three threo songs in a woman's" volca
boys when they had peered in very cleverly indeed ee Boyle as well." afternoon, watch everyone act-
"We'll all go to the show this to see him on the Friday night. "Could we have your auto- ing, and then
He capered about, cuddled up graph, please?" said Fatty, FO- go round and to Zoo Markham (who was ing up to him. "I say, I did collect autographs, speak to all Dick Whittington and looked like your performance., I could "Well, Goon will probably the members of the show, and very fine indeed), and was al- have sworn you were a womant
Even your voicel" find that most of the others take particular hotles of Boy together quite a success.
sle," said Larry.
"Zoc Jooks lovely," sald "Yes-Alec Wha In great: smoke them, too, so
Larry. top," said Fatty. "Any-but why do the Prin- said Zoc. "Got his high notes form with his singing today," needn't worry so much about tomorrow we go after the rest that," Baid Fatty. I'm of the albis. Larry and Daley cipal Boys' parts always have beautifully!
by girls," said You should see him imitate to see Mary Adams, to to about
hanky W ко ROITY
and Lucy-takes us off business, though. Why did And out if Lucy White's alibi is Daisy, in the interval of a me
sound and Plp and I will see change of scenery. "Do you really well, so that you'd hardly We tell remember, put Z
in Aladdin, it was know it wasn't us! on that silly if we can test Peter Watting's hanky ?"
n girl who took Aladdin's part him he's lost in this little com- and William Orr's.
and in Cinderella a girl took pany He ought to be on in "Don't you think we ought
the West Endl the part of the Prince."
"Sh!" said Bets. ""The cur-
thinks that himself, to tell Goon that--I mean,
laln is goliss up again. Oh, don't you, Alec," about us putting the hanky
there's the Catl And oh, look James, in a slightly down for A false clue ?"
his skin in splitting down by volce. his tall" said Daley, anxiously. can't bear Goon going after poor Zoe with a false clue like that--it's awful
Wo
BIRD POSERS: 1 Sparrow. 2-Flicker. 3-The Hairy Wood-her." pecker.. 4-Bobolink. 5-Belted Kingfisher and Kingbird.
CROSSWORD:
DADDAR ORION NAMES
you,
that
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will
up
"We shall have to find out now to check John James too he went to the cinema all the evening-or so he said."
"Yes-and Alec Grant's" sald Balsy. "He went to Sheep ridge and gave a show there on his own."
"Silly to check that, really,"
Pip.
many people
for
Bald
odl Fatty
**50
be taken
So it was.
✰
hls
sald John
mocking
manager
the "But doem't agree with him."
GAMES
JOKES
ZOO'S WHO
WEW ZEALAND HAS NO NATIVE [MAMMALS EXCEPT BATS
DOG BREEDERS SAY THE NAME BLOODHOUNG
ANIMALTO FOLLOW THE TRAIL OF A WOUNDED"-- DEER THEN THAT OF A MAN WITH DEERS, BLOOD, BMEAKED ON HIS SHOEB, AND FINALLY THE
"DAY FOOT" OF MAJI KIMSELF...
2/ MOOSE GREW OUT OF THE METHOD OF TEACHING THE! 15 THE LARGEST DEER THAT EVER
TROP THIS EARTH...
General Tin Travelled Far
--He Went to Placer No One Had Heard Of--
"A".
By MAX TRELL
able to
#
the
bell "Well," answered General
ot the land
for instance.
I can't seem to find that in any
the of geography books that the
said
7-28
Don't talk to me about him,”
HI, yes," General Tin wai sald Alec. "We all detest the
are many saying, "there The Cat weemed fellow. Here you are, kido heard and saw him. Anyway, the hole with
to realise this and kept feeling catch! And I hope you can strange lands that no one has.
and in ever been it will be jolly easy to
front paw, read my signature!"
"meeow!" There's
dinner-bell," "Mecow," he said,
He threw them their books.cography book. And J-really the
They used "It can't prove anything,"
his and saw a don't know why. opened and Almost as if he was a real Fatty "I must Ko said Fatty, thinking hard, sald Pip.
scrawl that he to be in my geography book." at the splitting most illegible wash. What time do we meet cat, dismayed
and Knart
Hanid, make out to be Just could "If it had been hers she this afternoon? And where? of his coat!
"Alec Grant"-but only just. shadows with the turned-about might have dropped it any Down at the theatre?"
"I hope he doesn't split it Zoe laughed. "He always | names, sald together: "What all the way down," said Bota old time, not just that even-
Nobody can lands, General Tin?" "I bet he'd met into a row with writes like that. Ing. I don't see that Goon
read his writing. I that awful manager if he did. ever
In "there's ho might Just as well Tin can make it really prove
Oh, isn't he funny! Ho's him
or Tep Chickie-Chicklo, write
'Hot Potatoes anything."
"Yes," said Fatty. "Be there pretending to go after a mouse.
Creams and nobody at a
permint quarter to three. "I must say you two girls show starts at three.
it a mouse7** Tho So long!" "Only a clockwork one," said would know the difference. I
can ever children use nowadays." did very
well," said Fatty.
They were all very hungry Daisy. "Well, Boysio may be wonder your mother
"Chickie Chickle?" "You got a lot of most in- indeed for their meal. Detect queer in his head and all that read your letters, Alce."
"She can't," said Alec. "She Hanid in a puzzled volce.
Even polar bears were cold. In teresting information. What ing was hungry work, it seem but I think he's jolly clever waits till I got home and then "Where's that?"
Icecold fand
about
Larry
spent a good time in his acting. I do really.' and
read them to after his meal writing out all Fatty thought to too. He she gets me to
"It's quite far away, my dear.
Hanid interrupted to ask: Pip ?"
the things he knew about the was wondering if anyone quite her. And I can't!"
Everyone laughed. "Well, You sali to the middle of the Then Larry and Pip told mystery.
so good at acting could be as
of a sudden, General?"
I never. MISSING VOWELS: Even of their meeting with the It made
"That's something interesting silly as people said. Well-be so long," said Alec, winding ocean and then you follow the "How do they get the milk hot,
would see if he could talk to a yellow scarf round his neck. Equator until pil
And there it is! It's an island. you tomorrow. mongreln satisfy youthful de-
manager, and related in reading indeed,
he "Sce Boysie afterwards then
tastes afterwards, over sirca for pets..
water except on the top. ts, piping hot, and it by great detail all he had said-
could make up his own mind mind none of you knock the course, surrounded completely found out about. But there it puzzled.
manager on the head tonight!"
If's Inhabited by chickens." scrumboollous, at least to 1-It to them.
So many Suspecta, no many Fatty listened RIDDLE ANSWERS:
And don't think The show came to an end.
"Chickens exclaimed Kharf, polar bear.
odd that there's many was splen- motives, so holds its hands before its face eagerly. This
MORE NEXT WEEK.
anything so Clean And Neat - came down, went The curtain in the world would they ever up once, and came down again.
about a itself and continually
place called Icccold- rusa
did!
"Yes, hundreds down. 2-Because he's In
Scino
land, either. Everybody knows sands and millions of chickens that there's a place called Ico was fine," "I say that 3--Because so many (Insane), ears are there and they will be he said when the two boys 4-Because it makes had finished. "I feel there's shocked. the receivers grate full (grate-
5-Because after it has absolutely no doubt nt all a few times now that it was Boysie who been told (toll'd)
took in the doped tea.
"Well if he did do the Pinscher; Bloodhound; Peking job-or helped somebody to do it he certainly made it quite clear that he was in it, by taking the tea to the manager 1.
(ul).
It is worn out.
esc.
DOG MIX-UPS:
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KID, ARE YOU STILL HANGIN "FOUND, WITH YER RANGER ORATE
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LACE IN YOUR WINDOW TO KEEP THE HALLOWEEN
GOBLINS away
very
Fatty read it -felt- and
alibls how
about him
unravel them all?
At
t
and
down. Everyone stayed 1 quarter to three all Find-Outers
were down clapped and then got up to go. the
five It the Little.
was past A home. Thentre. boy was in die o'clock,
Jet's rush round to "Now booking-office, and
Rave them grubby little
tho
said, Fatty. stage-door," their tickets.
They passed into the threatre "Come on!"
found. their seats. They
It
~(London Express Service)
Be A Right
all living in
and thou-
chicken-hou9.3.
So, autograph-books in hand Number On outside, scratching in the
the chickens
to anxious singe-door, as they could, 50
to be able thu had taken them as far forward the dive of them tore round to
the actors and ac to observe the actors very catch all
trosses before they left, closely,
They were in the middle of
the second row-very good
was
for
the
on
her
pretty
The
Phone
All
which they keep very clean and land, and another place called
Chilly, I mean, Chile." neat by never going Inside ex-
Knari and
Hanid quickly holidays.
Chilo cept on Sundays and holl The
of the time they stay greed that lecand and
were in grasa
every geography book sill felt puzzled though they about Icecold-land.
said General "And finally" Tin, "there's the most beautiful land of all; Rainbow Land,"
Filled With Rainbows "Ont" cried Hond
rest
worms. wake up promptly at daybreak because all the roosters all crow at the same time. It's very *** noisy and galoopious."
"What's galoopious meang
don't know."
Chickie-Chickle.
think Chick the fact that the fields
YOUR telephone is rint askod Knarf
Walt a minute,
"
DON'T make
श
in
replied
Bled with rainbows?"
"Is it
"Not exactly," General Tin
And sai.d It gets its name from
yellow,
and
green,
places Indeed. Someone wOB
They waited for five min- playing the piano softly. There utes. Then Zoo come to the before you answer-are you General Tin, "except that's how was no band, of course,
still with some of the going to be wrong or a right it is.
and the show
mustn't you was only a small door,
grease-paint one. The stage-curtain shook
face.
But she had changed in number?
Every Jack and Jill should Chickie is such a curious name, meadows and forests and moun "T suppose he didn't n
in the draughts little
that in each time the door
to a suit now, and looked quite know the DON'TS of telephone Felther. After all, there's a weil- taing are all the colour of the
known country called Turkey." rainbow-red, different. realise that the remains of came
The opened.
children
Knart and. Hanid, rather sur purple, pinit "Como along in and meet cliquette.
too. It's show the the
ten would
gazed at it, admiring the mar-
Inside," she said. others
phone call prised, agreed that this was so. the inbetween col and hul "And then," General Tin the loveliest land in the world. traces of the sleeping vellous sunset depicted on the. They won't be out for a few after 10 unless it is an emer- draught.. "It's the sort of great sheet
minutes and it's cold standing gency. Remember that many went on; "there's Icecold-land. It's like living in a bouquet of So It's way up near the North flowers, or like having pieces of at that door."
do school chil Pole. It's so cold there that no the rainbow mattered all over, And dren. So do
one can live there but the point as far as
General Tin, a babies. And bears, and they have to wear once," said families are sweaters and overcouls and piece of Rainbow Land broke off
It and and floated away. happened mulliers made up
and of galoshen
and to be a green old
con piece car-muffs and and and young gloves
exelnimed tolka.
"My woollen stockings and big fur
became of 17 down to their
"What DON'T start hals that come
snowing
everybody knows what the Tuess- eyes. It
It's in September arid doesn't stop became of it. who-this-is
It be routine. Tele- until the end of August. The geography book now.
bears HVO on Icicles came Greenland" And General phone guess-polär
in Knarf and Hanid's Inces,
Rupert and a Mare's Nest-23
So, feeling a little nervous, elderly people retire carly. the five children trooped in at
and followed
actors were
the stage-door
Zoe to a big room, where one
or
two of the
gulping down cups of tea.
Peter Waiting and Willam
there, one elderly
Orr were
rather sour-looking, one
and rather miserable-
and
young
looking They didn't look
nearly so fing as they had done
starts
hele Hankd.
in
Why
you can see,
piece."
every
HERE'S SOMETHING NEW...For Tired, Imitated Eyes!
on the stage, when Peter had ing games went out with the flavoured with chocolate syrup Tin smiled at the astonishment been Dick's master and Wil-horseless carriage
era and we and hot milk." liam had been a very dashing doubt, if they amused anyone captain, singing aloud, jolly even then. song of the sea, the blue, blue DON'T, if the call is for your neighbour, open a window and They nodded at the childbellow into the wild blue you Out on the terrace Rupert only to us birds. He talks
ren. "Hallo, kidal Autograph der, all the while you hold the cagerly tells of his search for a about in silence for a while;
Well, we're flattered;
telephone, Ear drums aren't mare's nest, and at Arst the then he makes up his mind hunting?
I'm
sure! Hand over your minde of cast iron and you can king looks rather serious, "You and calls his men in atten-
"Go find the books" are a strange little bear," he dants to him.
scribbled in imagine what the party at the The two men
other end of the line thinks. says, "and you are the only court chamberlain and bid him
Then "I each book.
Zoo in- person I have met who be- come to me," he orders.
Talk naturally and pleasantly. troduced them to Lucy White Start by sayings "Dan Doran lleves that
a think the matter can be there is such thing.
a secret known ranged as Rupert wishes."
speaking" The Mister" and Whittington's les is in mothballs. If you.
It is
The Bangle Owner
By Harry F. O'Neill
a tall, gentle-looking girl who had been Dick
sweetheart in the play.
She signed the books too. are making the call and it is a date you want, name the night, Then!
came in, John James burly, dour, and heavy-footed, the time and what is going on. "Are you doing anything tö big man just right, for the "Ar
black king in the play. Hallo!" morrow night scares a girl he said.
You don't mean to because she doesn't know what say that somebody wants our slib la going to get stuck with.
Well, well! Here's answer on nutographat
re's When you get Yes, I'm busy" that one, you asked
fame for your
He signed
Fatty: began
too.
the book for it now!
make
are a girl,
phone.con
without hedging
to get into con- Learn, versation. with William and to. Peter. Larry tried to talk to vereation John James Pip looked round around for an Surely there should be rome- plctures of the coming body else to ask to
invitation, to the ootball
breathed Boredom, bonsling,
Waurn to sign their game.
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He had been very, dlùirik
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