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The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

CHILDREN'S SERIAL: Mystery of the Pantomime Cat

The Cinema Alibi

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Mr. Punch Tells a Story

-It Was About His Great Grand Uncle-

By MAX TRELL

R Punch--as Knarf and

Hanid often noticed Mant h good deal of his time sitting in

old rucking-chair. It wasn't n The very harulsome chair. Wood

nicked and One of the

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one of the

buck legs was

tied round and round with heavy cord for the leg was broken, and nothing but the tightly-wound cord kept the chair

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·12-3

Mr. Punch's Uncle Timothy.

ship. And the chair had sailed There were several w all the way all around the and

sturdy chuire in the World with him. It had been to China and India and to the with fine stout legs islands where the parrots and and strong arms and backs. the monkeys live. It had been Yet Mr Punch never sat in to Sweden and Norway and these new chairs but always it had gone

Bollanf. It had seen webergs, through storms, chose the old, broken one. when the waves were like great Knarf and black mountains towering over Yes, the chair and the tiny ship.

everything. For Uncle the 1

day W de not live

Timothy sat on it right out on Any furthy If t

They dreided wiye pansible.

him the deck, smoking; his pipe and to make 30 folds. The piper what his reason was for glancing now and then through. weta be over 4,000 unckness

picking the old chair.

his telescope as the chip sailed along.

is bad start the fun. 112 26

Every time you make a fodel pinch, von Can have fun

you double the previous thick alone You need a sporta ness of the paper The eighth tors really, although you feid gives you 254 layer of will miss a hundred and one pater, quie a good-sized book Buckner One more fokl, and and Du-ha's" if you havn 512 lavere That lebi you have ne pads with you, food, therefore, culls for 1024 Some of their stunts a users of paper and you samply be flories Some can't. You'll Find out a vont go along.

World you say for sustance, Joli James At least I would that you could park a panse of pumped out of the an" Well, teta

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and that i fell asleep neuLT BY all try t Have attune staid on ven can do, if vuU ART A Jia- ja chini and trop a sheet of be humble, jack be-quick er! Thas remark disappointed all | Writik pipart. The flattering 171 of your Jers backwardd the Find Cuters very much th short mont be emptured between until your wrist is parallel with red). If Jobs Jamies slept all your thunch and foreinger be The Hour Now place a pile of the time, Fo wolet,'t

have fore R hits the tow, if you can

forearth at sax coing on your noted the breaks in the plede 1, you have the agility of a close to your elbow as possible fure and so they would't be wild cal

The idea is to drop your arm to able to check his alibi.

Can you Het your

back, "Hope you didn't snore sa keep your eyes on a spot on the cotas

your sldr new! See how

miny catch

in your Fatty.

you can But 1 suprase people

ham os you do 11. Once you would wake you up if you did."eiling, and get up and in down

ngain without using your armus hold on le alt six, rotudy has or losing track of the spot? To right thereafter to call you a really text yourself, place an slow poke. empty ink boble on the centre The hypnolist's stunt is next. of your

forrhead before you Few people will beleve That start to get up. If it is there

you can prevent them from when you are horizontal agats

lifting their left foot from the you rate tops for steadincia.

floor providing you stay away Irom it. But you can

Order the challenger to stind real tantaliser. with his right check and Use Take a sheet of paper and side of his right foot touching

Rupert and a Mare's Nest-46

The hid bird das heard eli about Rupert's disappointment, and offer to guide him where he went) 10 go. Ip great excitement the little bear grabs his lather's hand and drags hun back into the wood to follow their email leader. AC length Mr. Bear stops and points.

Time for Action

THIL WILD MUSTANG LUMGES TO FINISH BRONCHO BILL, AND HIS RANGER BOYS

SPRING TO ACTION=

"That's (4'' (ie crica ~ That's the tree we saw last night, bol, look, there's no sign of any Mane's Next. We must have been dreaming aher

* Rupert area in bewilder ment, "It's gone!" he whispers. But the bird interrupts him. nearer the tree." ie chirrups,

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

WITH ONE OF HER PETO, MARY

JANE WITCHES IN HORROR

(GULF) WE CECITTA DO SOMETHIN', MINGTAIL

By Harry F. O'Neill

QUICK, FILLERS? „PORE (THAT HORS

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cut it into thirds but do not wall. Then give the mys quite complete the cuts, Leave ferlous command, "Algo blunto, about one inch or a bli more faseo hypoalled"—now Try to

Krisp

uncut. Now

k some pour vletim (this will be yourself, of course, if you are slaging a ne person stunt party) to the sheet by the corner of the end flaps and rip it into three separate pieces. This looks easy enough but it is just about im- possible

to distribute the pull so evenly that both flaps fear apart together.

A "strong man" stunt is to place both hands on top of your head with the finger tips touch- Ing and elbows straight out. Ask someone

to grusp one of your wrista and try to pull

your hand off your head. You'll feel very proud of yourself be- all attempts to budge

cause

your hand will fall.

H

your left foot.

I can't be donet

more

And this made Hani wonder more, until finally one

to nek

"It isn't because it's more comfortable thun the others. I'm quite sure of that. Mr Punch." said Hanid.

Most Comfortable Chair

isn't

ק

"Then one night, as the ship was sulling through around the Horn at the tip of South Amerl- t* ¡ . a furlous storm arose and the ship went down. But there. In

the

water,

Uncle พกล Timothy, sitting or rather holding onto the chair which, "No," agres Mr Punch being made of wood from top with a smile.

"It certainly to bottom, refused to sink. And whap, later. Uncle Timothy was isn't the most comfortable picked out of the water by chair.

that On the contrary, it another ship, he insisted comfortable at all. The chair be saved, too. And so And it creaks, and squeaky, It too was picked out of the water. It was then that one of and crackles every time I

its legs was found broken. But rock in it.."

Uncle Timothy bound it up un- At length, after lighting his fit was almost as good pipe and puffing away in silence new. And so he finally brought" for awhile. Mr Punch told the it home to our house and sat in story about the old chair ly it, off and on, in good weather "it was a long time ago-long and bad, smoking his pipe and before either of you were saying very little. But the day bora," said Mr Punch, "that before he died Uncle Timothy this chair first came into, our said to me: "Take good care of house.

My great-grand uncle this old chair, Punch, for one Timothy gave it to us. Uncle day it may save your life as it Timothy was a captain of

saved mine"."

Are You Treated

Like A Baby?

05

once

"And did 17" Knorf Wonld both asked.

and

Not a Sailor

"Well," continued Mr Punch;

“I didn't rightly see how it ever

OES your family still thing to compliment honestly, could, seeing that I was not a Dtrent Your Hero Burl you can and

never sailed

If they do, it's a fair bet enough. Do your shore at pro-aboard a ship, and never would. Still I treasured the old chair that you have been acting subjects. Good dinner subjects just for old Unclo Timothy's

viding interesting

meal-time

to be done and then how to swim. Nothing cise was

I

like 0110 in disposition, make for good digestion.

Bako, And then one day it started to rain. It rained and spending and responsibility. Household jobs should bo rained. The river rose higher

Complaints will get you no- shared and

Of and higher. And there was a not ignored. where. Neither wilt tantrums course sometimes Sis would flood! The water was ụp to my:

Make nor sulky silence,,

an rather wash dishes It you terub window-sill. Maybe you become expert at

I hardly knew the delicate game of card toss-parents and your brothers and Work out a fair dispensation of around me, and I didn't know honest effort to understand your the rumpus room, Talk it over, what to do. The water was ell Ing. Throw a whole deck of sisters. The success or failure of what is cards on the floor. one at a your life will depend on your live up to your agreement; time, so that they land at least five feet away from your chair and each must touch at least one other card. This is one of the most provoking stunts you can find. It will keep you

Uncla husler longer than you think. The cards all seem to want to

How are yours? You may off, is fun and friendly under-old chair was saved with, mo." Ko off by themselves. Many look neat but how do you leave standing, will eventually drop on top of your bedroom mornings? The [others but, Just to annoy you, bath?. And the kitchen, part- When differences arise, sec

And now Knarf and Hand two or three will umally insist cularly after parties and mid- how near you can come to know why Mr Punch loved the [on_leaving a gap.

right snacka?.

understanding without raising old rocking-chair with the The next stunt in quite Teasing and wisecracia lead your voice or losing your broken "leg and would never alt

you are to arguments. Look for some- tempor Impossible, although

in another.

now.

ability to get

In the room but the old "chair. on with other people. Start your

Show a little enthusiasm for 150 I sat in it to awall the end. training

the subjects that interest Dad too. It floated out of the win- But the old chair; saved me, and Mother, the small fry or dow with, me; Courtesy rates arst, Knocking those big brothers and sisters more to sink. And so at last I refusing once on a door before you barge in. It may take persistent effort on was saved, just are important your part but you'll find it pays Timothy had been. Table manners

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