PUZZLES
STORIES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
CROSSWORD
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Altitude (ab.)
Persian fairy
1
Knock
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City in Nevnde
10
17
Royal Italian family name
Year between 12 and 20
12 Edit
14
18
Artificial Janguage
Overwhelm with wonder
19 Indian
28 Middny
Cleave
28
Gull-like bird
Borrowful
New Guinea port
DOWN
Capable
2 Sidelong look
3 Woody plant
PAUAD
3 Social insects
6 Americon writer
13
Dietated
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13 Bustie
15
Scope
10 Dispatch
17 Christmas song
18 Girl's name
19 Credits (ab.)
21
Compasa point
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LITERARY POSERS
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Who wrote "Treasure Is-
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1949.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
CHILDREN'S SERIAL: Mystery of the Pantomime Cat
More checking
& some snacks
AR GOON advanced on Fatty's table. "Every- where I go," boomed Mr Goon, "I see some of you kids. Now, what are you doing here?"
"Snacking" said Fatty, politely, "Did you come in for a ennek, too, Mr Goon1 Not much left unfortunate ly."
Mr Goon swelled up and his the Then face went purple. little girl came into the room, And he turned to her pompous. ly "Is your mother in? I want n word with her."
"No, she's not, sir," said the little girl. "I'm the only one here. Mother will be back soon, if you like to wait."
"I can't wait," said Mr Goon, annoyed. "Too much to do. I'll come tomorrow."
He was just going when he turned to look at Fatty. He had fot his suddenly remembered checks. They didn't seem near- ly so ful now.
**What you done to make your checks thin?" he said, sus- piciously.
"Well-I might have had all my back teeth out," said Fat ty. "Let me ree-did 1, Larry? Do you remember?"
"Gah!" said Mr Goen, and went The tle girl laughed uproariously.
that
"Oh, you are funny!" she said. "You really are. Isn't he horrid? Ile came and asked Mother and me ever so many questions about two men came here last Friday night."
"Oh yes," said Fatty, at once, I know the men--actors, aren't they? I've got their autographs in my autograph album, Were they here on Friday, then? bet they liked your snacks,”
"Yes, they came on Friday," said the little giri. "I know,
Mend it, in time, for eight o'clock then, because I want to hear a concert then","
"And was then?" asked Fatty.
mended by
"No. Not till twenty post eight," sald the little girl "Mother was very disappointed. But we got it going by then, quite all right-twenty prst eight, I mean and then Peter and William had to go. They called the
ferry and went
across the river."
The little girl gore a mawal, "Oh, Enerar counted your
· snocks,” she wald.
by
امسي
This was all very interesting. It certainly proved beyond D doubt that William Orr Peter Watting could not sibly have had anything to do down?"
with the robbery at the Little Theatre. That was certain. The little girl was quite obviously telling the truth.
Blyton
CRAFTS
James and find out if ho noticed the breaks in the pic- ture which he must have done if he was there we shall be able to check his alibi all right!"
"What about John James?"
and Fatty pricked up hils cars, pos "What do you mean-broke
"Well, you know what I sald mean, Master Frederick," Kitty. "The picture sort of There's shaps and stops and only the screen, and no pic- said Larry, "How are we going ture. I suppose the film breaks to tackle him? We don't even or something."
know where And him. He won't be at the theatre because "Did it do that a lot?" asked there's no show this afternoon." Fatty.
"I'll ring up Zoo when I get home and" see if she knows where we can get hold of him,” said Fatty. "We'd better
tako Bets, too. She'll be feeling left out if we don't,"
"Well, thanks for a jolly good meal," said Fatty. "How much do we owe you?”
"Yes--four times," said Kit- ty. "All the way through, The little girl gave a squeal.
semed. Just at the wrong bits "Oh, 1 never counted
your Do you snacks,
know how too-you know the real exciting half bits. Everyone was grumbling many you had? I shan't catch it from Mother if she about it." knows I didn't count,"
"Well, you ought to count." said Faity. “It's too much like hard work for us to coun! when we're eating. Larry, make it six snacks ench, the sandwiches and the coffee. Is that correct?"
It was, Fatty paid up, gave the little girl a shilling to buy herself something for the birth- day she had had on Friday, and went off with Larry, feeling de- cidedly full.
"We've just got time to go to the cinema to see if we can pick up anything about John James's visit" said Fatty. "Oh dear I wish I hadn't snacked quite so much. I don't feel very brainy at the moment.”
Larry suddenly had a brain- wave. "I say I know! We can
"Come on, Larry," said Fat- ty, and he pulled him out of Kitty's kitchen. "We've learn- ed something there," Now, It we can only get hold of John
"Right," said Larry. "Sec you this afternoon sometime."
MORE NEXT WEEK
-London Express Service}
Christopher's New Year's Eve
-He Told Everyone When It Was Midnight—
By MAX TRELL
Twas the last
night of the year and Christopher Cricket, who was spending the winter between two loose bricks in the Areplace, crept softly down to the hearth. The Are was out and no one was in the room.
Christopher made his way to
because it was my birthday, and ask Klity, Pip's cook. She goes the other side of the room. Then
Peter Watting brought me book, I'd just been listening to Radio Fun ul half-past when they came in."
stx,
"Half-past six," sald Fatty "Well, what did they do then? Eat all your snacks?"
"No! They only have coffee and sandwiches," said the We
to the pictures every single Friday. She told Bets so one he climbed up to the windowsill day and I heard her. She said and peared outside. she'd never missed for ninc
years.
"
All was
darkness, Then he elimbed down to the floor again and walked softly but quickly They arrived at Pip's, and out through the door, glanced went into the kitchen. Kitty for beamed at them, especially Fatty, whom she thought very clever Indeed.
moment up and down the
at hallway, and finally went up the stairs and into the playroom
The playroom was dark, too. But Christopher went directly to one of the corners
and in
"Did you go to the pictures last week?" said Larry. "You hushed volee said: "Wake up always do, don't you?"
Kirl. "They gave me the book--- "Never missed
for nine
It's a beauty, I'll show you — years," sald Kitty proudly. and then we itstened to Radio "Yes, I went on Friday, me Theatre at seven o'clock. And as usual. Oooh, it was a lovely then something went wrong picture,"
with the wireless and it slop- ped."
"Oh," said Fatty, disappoint- ed, because he had been count- ing on the wireless for check ing up on the lime. "What happened then?"
It's nearly time!"
a
12:31
Christopher peered outside,
what he had caught, they were astonished to me that it wasn'
a baby at all. It was a very old.
old man.
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GAMES
JOKES
ZOO'S WHO
THE SUNFISH KELPS TO RID THE WORLD OF HORDES OF INSECTS WHICH OTHERWISE, WOULD OVER-RUN IT. WORST ENEMIES OF THIS FRIEND OF MAN ARE THE PICKEREL AND THE LARGE MOUTH BLACK, BASSI
MATILDA, THE BRISTOL, ENGLAND, ZOOS OSTRICH, LAYS EGGS WEIGHING THREE
POUNDS...
1
A BRITISH RAILROAD BRAKEMAN WHO SHOOED SOME HENS FROM A GRAIN CAR RECENTLY FOUND. THEY HAD LAID FOUR EGGS-THUS SETTLING
FOR THE GRAIN THEY ATEM
Make This Handsome
IF
Gift From Leather
your hobby is leather-
already with the materials needed to make a hand- tooled bookmark.
To make the bookmark, obtain a scrap of leather known; s "tooling calf," which measures nino inches long and three inches wide.
Una'n very sharp knife
and a steel-edged ruler for cut- ting it in the right shape along straight lines. Use enough pres- sure to go through the leather in a single cut. Retracing the cut will leave a ragged edge.
After the leather, is cut you are ready to transfer the design. First, transfer the pattern
to
tracing poper
heavy paper,
Picto
the
appearance of leather when it is wet does not injure it in any way. It soon returns to an even colour tigain.
or
Trace the outline of the design Place over the leather with with a tool called a "modeller.
a 45-degree the design in place and fasten Hold the tool at down with thumb tacks. Use an angle and make a slow, steady old nut-pick and with a firm but stroke. The Une should be con steady pressure retrace the de- tinuous rather than bumpy
Should the leather sign as it appears on the paper. Irregular,
begin to feel hard, turn it over and wet agala. Always wot the entire, piece, The "modeller" may be bought at a hobby shop; for a few cents.
Opened Their Eyos
"Please," said
the old men.. I'm not the one Bear down sufficiently hard to Knarf and Hanid, the shadow- "Let me go. children with the turned-about whom you want."
transfer the design on to the sur- names, opened their eyes and
"Who are you?" Knari asked. face of the leather. The impres- slon should be deep enough to sat up.
"Nearly time? ** Hanid said,
"I'm Old Year 1940. You make the design easy to follow not quite fully awake.
don't want me at all. No one after the paper is removed. If "Yes-nearly time. It's almost wants me. I'm going away." you wish to use the pattern know. midnight. He should
be here And the old man walked slowly shown here, use the squares for any moment now. Get up, both out of the door and into the dark easy enlargement.
night It wasn't unul later that
"What was it?" asked Fatty.
"Well, I went in at six and the news was on," sald Kitty. "Then a cartoon, you Made me laugh like anything. Then at half-past six till the of you!" end of the programme there At that Knar! and Hand Knart and Hanid, and Christo- "Well, Peter Watting's
Remove the paper and turn was He Loved Her So. Cooh, shook all the sleep out of their pher found New Year 1950. Do the leather over, Besh side up, good with wirelesses," said the it was lovely. Made me
cry eyes and stood up.
you know where he was? He little girl, "So he said he'd try ever so. It was a pity it broke
"Where should and mend i. Mother
cald, down."
very
6. Push THUMB TACKS into flat side for foot.
Rupert and a Mare's Nest-
-40
Rupert undresses very slowly,, him start. Next minule he is qut and while he bas his bath and pre- of the room and searching for his pares for bed he thinks about his father, Daddy, daddy," he calls adventure. **I wonder how daddy "1 told you we should be fetched will be fetched to see the Mare's tonight, and now somebody is up. Neat?" he mused. Will the Flyping at my window," "Good ing Mare come herself for him? gracious, why aren't you, asleep just as he is getting between the hours ago?" grumbles Mr. Bezi. sheets a sharp."little" solse makes **I suppose "l'd better come.”
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Possession
BRAVELY MOUNTING AN UNBROK: EN HOREL, THE RANGER BOY
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By Harry F. O'Neill
((BULP) NOT NOW HOLD THAT CAYUER
WANT HIM
"
To fill in the background of the design, uso an ordinary nail mallet. punch and a wooden This is a series of sharp, quick taps with the mallet on the end of the nail punch, which is held lightly but firmly above the area to receive the background work.
we wait for was hiding inside the Cuckoo on a plece of window pane. Wet Continue going over the back- ground aren until a "pebbled" the leather thoroughly with him to come in?" Knart asked Clock, laughing and clapping his small cloth until it is pliable. effect is attained. Be careful to Christopher,
hands, and as happy as can be!
Dry the surface of the design follow lines of the design, but with a dry clothi The spotted do not cross these lines,
"That's Just what I was going
to ask you, too," added Hanld.
"I've Christopher answered: thought it.all out. He'll come in through the front door, or. the or down back door, chimney. Let each one of us wait in one of those places. Then we'll be sure to see him
Hurry now! when he comes.
the
It's nearly time}"
So Knart went to stand be
A TRICK
PICTURE
pull off on your pals. Copy
hind the front door, and Hanids a new kind of trick to went to stand behind the back the drawing of the grumpy old door and Christopher Cricket
fellow or cut out his picture and went back to the fireplace where paste it on
a piece of card- the chimney was. But before board. they separated Knart asked:
The trick consists in asking a "What will he look like, Chris-friend to name the best title for topher?"
the
picture. You need suggest "Well" said Christopher, "I'm only two or three to choose not exactly sure, but I think from, such as: Old Grumpy, or look like a baby. His Top Hat Man, or The Missing ho'll
Link name is New Year 1930."
So they all went and stood at their different pinces. And sud- denly all the clocks in the house, started striking twelve o'clock. And outside all the bells started ringing. And whistles started blowing, and horns were sound- ing, and from near and far people were shouting: "Happy New Yeart Happy New Year" Knart felt somebody slipping past him at the front door. It was too dark for him to see who It was, but he sprang at it, and threw his arms around it. Then he: shouted!. "I've caught him! Hanidi Christopher! Come quickt I've caught him!"
- Enger To Seo
Hanid and Christopher ran with all their might to Kuart For they were all eager to see the baby New Year 1050. Koarf
NAME PLEASE?
Whatever answer you get, it is
still kept his armé tightly closed. bound to be miles out, becauso Finally he got his captive over, you simply turn the picture to the window where a bit of upside down' (trit) and an- moonlight was coming through, nounce that your think the best
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