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STORIES
PUZZLES
HOBBIES
ANOTHER INSTALMENT OF THE CHILDREN'S
SERIAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1950.
Five Fall into Adventure ☆
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
POLICEMEN in
the HOUSE
Julian, Dick and Anne are staying at Kirin Cotton with their cousin, Georgina (George for short), and har dog, Timmy. George's mother and father hard gone away to Spain, and the children are on their own. Vorious things have happened. They have met a seculier rogo muffin of c girl called Jo: Anne has woken up one night and been frightened by a face fooking in her window; and now in the night someone has got in and rantocked the study. Timmy the dog muil have been drugged, because he slept all night. The police have just arrived
T
CHAPTER SEVEN
HE police were very very thorough.
The children got tired of them long before lunch-time. Joan didn't, She made them cups of coffee and put some of her home-made buns on a plate, and sent. Anne to pick 113
cipe plums. She fell proud
to think that it was
she
by
who had discovered
the
ransacked study,
There were two policemen.
One was a bergeant, rather
She stuck fast before she got even half way through
End Blyjów
solemn and very correct. The safe-and then to off without interviewed each of the children having an address.
and
asked them
same questions.
"Looking for finger-prints, suppose," said Anne. "Oh dear- when can we go and bathe?"
I
one's going to dope you again they'll have to do it under my! very nose."
HEY had a lovely time out In ild the zerrent. Tenslot. They went exnelly the
Kirrin Island and The other "Well-we'll go now-but we'll half-way to man went over the study bit by bring back a photographer with bathed from the bant, diving in after lunch to photograph the and having swimming races ill bit, very thoroughly indeed.
routh then your cook can tidy they were red out."
I know he's longing to."
The excillog happenings of "Coming back again!" raid the day hnd made them all tired Aune, when the two men had except Julian. "I'm off to bed." The thing that puzzled every-rolemnly walked down the path. raid Dick, about nine o'clock. Very solid-looking "Aune, why don't you go? You one, the police included, was mounted how did the thief or thieves get bleycles, and gone salting down look fagged out. in? Both poliermen went round the lane. "Good gracious! Have
and
dell we got to answer question all the house, slowly berutely trying every door and over again?" window still locked or fasteard. They stood and looked at the pantry window for some time.
"Got in there, I suppose," sakt One of them.
WELL, we'll go down to the beach and take a boat and
"Must have been as small as go yowing." said Julian, with a
1ry if you like." So the tried- but she stuck
"Yes, I will," said Anne. "Coming, George?"
"I'm going to take Timmy out for his last walk," said George. " shall never let him go out alone at night again. Come on. Timmy. If you want to no to bet I'll lock up the front door, Ju."
Right" said Julian. "I'll go
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
ZOO'S WHO Lightning Hunters
ELEPHANTS ONCE
ROAMED EN NORTH
AMERICA..
HELP
AMERICAN MOVIE MEN ÅRE USINGA 'HELICOPTER TO TAKE JUNGLE FILMS
IN EAST AFRICA...
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Puzzle Patch
TRIANGLE
PARENTS form a base for our triangle. The second word j in "n symbol for samarium," the third "a tourtesy Utle," fourth-2-unit of lengi," The- 10 "an alarm device," and the sixth is "noiseless."
PARENTS
REMOVAL
the
the letters appeared dial. What is the word?
MAZY MAZE
on ench
Here's a maze you should be
to Hemove the middle of a word able
work out
in two "agriculturista," and minutes. Can you go from A to E by visiting C, B and D7 Do you go right or left from A to possible get to E the shortest
ADD-A-LETTER
a monkey then," said the other, fush, "We'll be out of reach up in a minute. I don't fancy to Anne, who was then. I don't see that we can staying down here by myself He turned the smallest of the four children. give them any more help. I tonight. I' fasten everything "Could you squeeze through must say it's alt very peculiar and lock up, except the front meaning
I wish to goodners I knew how door. Don't forget to put up the have "wunderers." there Missy, do you think?"
chain, too George--though I'm "No." said Anne. "But I'm the thief got in."
Georg had been very quiet pretly certain we don't need to fast before she and sulaited all the morning. expect any more burglaries!"
faces at the window," "OF got even half-way through, and She had worried about Thany.
hast been said Anne, at once. Julian had to pull hard to get fearing that he
and
increly potomed,
Julian. "No." sail
"There and drugged, as Julian had said. But
more of those lette Timmy was new quite recovered, won't" be ny except that be seenied bit either. Good night, Anne-sleep sleepy still, and not inclined to well! gambol round in his Usual
her down again.
not
TAVE you any idea what has ridiculous way. He looked ex alian finished the paper he was!
geant asted Julian, who seemed
extraordinarily
morning.
grown-up that
of
"No. sergeant-none has,' satel Jahan. "Not
even
Aune and Dick went upstairs.
reading, and then got up to go If only he'd been awake!" rount the house and lock up
would Joan "He
was alrendy upstairs, proned Georite.
policemen eating wise down- dreaming of have heard any 125 airs at once-and he'd have her chocolate cakes.
borked and waked us all, and downstairs himself to Guorne here, who knows her flown father's work better than any of attack whoever was there! Why, only thing we know oh why didn't I take him it The
to ingret last night as I umally that my ne
uncle America to lecture a short time do?" ngo-nil he brought back two notebooks, full of valuable dia. Krams and notes. He that other countries
Uy. Is
Wom
did ray might be
George went out with Timmy. He ran eagerly to the rate and
with usual night walk then set off down the lane for his George. At a state in the lane he suddenly stood still and growled | Joan packed them a good ten as if he saw something unusual. after they had had their lunch and they all set off before the
"Silly, Timmy!" said George, very glad to get hold of those. I pulite came back. Timmy was coming up. "It's only somebody expect they were in that safe, much less sleepy now and dig a camping in a caravan! Haven't
little caper round them as they you walked to the beach. George brightened up at once.
"Well-they'l certainly be Kone then, said the sergeant, shutting his own fat notebook
"lle's getting better," she said. with a snap. "Pity when people "immy I simply shan't let you leave such things in an ordinary out of my sight now! If any-
Rupert and the Caravan
Rupert's words interea Sam, and
he listens intently. shakes his head,
he
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take charge of their horse. With out it the caravan cannot work?" Leaving Rupert in the shelter of the bushes, he walks alealthily away and untethers the horse. Before lang he is back again. "Here's our first bit of luck. he miles. Near the horse 1 found a good strong bridle." ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Then "I still can' imagine who the second man is." fre says. "but I've thought of a plan. Those two must be searche ing for something in my shack, and il they find it they want to get So I'm going to *way quickly.
BRONCHO BILL
FERD RANGER
| BOYS BUSY.
ELSEWHERE, BRONCHO BILL ES RIDING THE WEDSON RANGE, SOUTH OF MOUT BALDY, IN A BAD THUNDERSTORM
catayon seen a
before!
Stop growling!"
And
THEY went on, Timmy sniffing Into every Fat-hole rabbit-hold, enjoying himself thoroughly. George was enjoy- too. She didn't ing the walk, hurry-Julian could always go up to bed if he didn't want to wait.
Julian did go up to bed. He left the front door ajar, and went yawning upstairs, suddenly feeling sleepy. He got into bed quietly and quickly, seeing that Dick
was already asleep. He lay nwake Ilstening for George. When he was half asleep he heard the front door shut.
"There she is," he thought, and turned over to go to sleep.
way?
CROSSWORD
another third
15
+
Add a letter to "elther" and have "inineral rock":
have "painful and have "shop."
WORD SQUARE
After rearranging the letters In each row to form a food word, ure the words to form a word square:
NEEAT
TEEAR
SETA M
SEMA IN
RA
I AT
SAFE LOCK PUZZLE
M
1 Poem
ACROSS
4 Be sealed
7 Harvest
Interpret
10 Otherwise
11 Famous English school
12 Everlasting
14 Narrow Inlet
15 Pruned
40 Observed
20 God of love
23 Eat
24 Skill
22 Chinese dynasty
^^
D
25 Ever (contraction)
DOWN
F
1 Native metal
2 Remove
Here
is a safe for you
10
But it wasn't George. Her open. bed was empty all that night, knew, not even and nobody Aune. George and Timmy didn't come back!
NEXT WEEK-Where George Bet
-London Express Service
The owner of a store had a opened by setting safe which
letters. three dials at certain But one day he forgot the com- Can bination. Ho remembered, however, that the combination was a 3-letter word and two of
Too Late Now
"ROUGH NIGHT, BLACKIE, R FELLER CAN HARDLY HEAR MIMSELF THINK,
MÉAN- WHILE YOUNG JOHNNY TRAUDEL TRILO VAINLY TO STOP HIS FATHERS GREEDY
SCHEME,
YVESBOND WATER ANT WORTH IT,
PAW!
By Harry F. O'Neill
THIS LANDSLIDE BURE QUGHTER, CHANGE "THE COURSE COMBADOLE RIVERTM
Har
PON THE TREACHEROUS SUPPETOLD TRAUBEL LIGHTS A FURH **.
PIIONE rings late nt night in a New York hotel room. "Newark Airport Weather Bureau calling! Storm approaching, from southeast. Wind about 60 miles an hour."
The man holding the re- ceiver becomes wide awake. He throws on his clothes, hurries to the street,
By DAN MURDOCH
pced and length of every finsh, partments, for the sallitary ser No matter how long the storm vices and government business, Insta-hours, maybe this man the "break" can be a matter of stays routed at his post,
life and death.
They
many men
This man is a lightning hunter, We cannot prevent thunder one of many scientists who study storms, but we can keep light- lightning. Others are at similar ning from striking wires, or from observation posts throughout the cutting off the current when it But to do United States. Still others are does strike them. in laboratories making artificial that, we have to know all about lightning strike miniature houses lightning-what causes it, how and factorles. Experts collect it behaves, how to control it. and study all reports, photo-
That la why so graphs and recordings. "Empire State Buliding" he tell the "hunters" what to look work at the job of "hunting" and tells the cab-driver. And soon for next time, and tell the en- "trapping" il. They design "In-
"arrestern,"
and try then 102nd floor. Two more flights to irical equipment. They advise walk up, and a lock to fumble people on how to avoid danger out. They try to lead lightning
сам the ground, before it with. Inside the room, he dashes to their lives and property from away from wires, directly into about pulling witches on weird lightning bolts.
harm. These tricles and devices machinery, setting dials, checking
Why all this to-do about light work-sometimes. The question to see that everything is work-
Ono reason is that big is: why do they sometimes fall? ning?
are How chu they be perfected so clecirle power companies fighting a war against a power- they will fall less often? ful, dangerous enemy,
he is rising in the lift to the rincers how to design new elec- rulators wires
up.
Lock the door, dash down the steps, lift to the ground, and unother Leight blocks away to
A bullding on Fifth Avenue, 50-storey ride. another door to unlock, more machinery, Es- pecially a huge comera at ong window, focussed directly on the Empire State Building,
The man waits. Nothing bup- pens. The form has stopped,
and
do
MAKE THIS
Within the last 30 years wo have learned many of the an- swers, but not all. And so the Job
silil of lightning-hunting IGHTNING, as you probably toes on, every day, every hour know, is a great electric cur- of the day. rent flashing through the air. The electricity in the earth flashes The bolt upward to meet it. tears through anything in the or veered away from the city. way, but usually it goes through conducts electricity the whatever he turns off all
and machinery, machinery, locks the door, best-metal, leaves, goes back to the Empire electric wires, especially high- State Building's 104th floor again, power transmission lines which current across country disconnects everything. Then bring
nod dynamos back to his hotel room to finish from dams his sleep or until the next storm towns and cifles. Warning.
Later
COMETIMES
When these wires are struck,
the
PAIR OF
BOOK-ENDS
current in them may get PICTURE a pair of hand-
Fo strong it burns out machines stations. in clectric power
the storm gets lightning
in n
made
monogrammed
book-ends-on-your-desk.
Select a wood which is both economical and with.
You
asy to work will need, two measuring four wide, one and one-half
Sometimes the current joins the Get busy and you can make flash to thea pair. They are excellent there. Thunder booms, ground, leaving the wires entire gifts, too. lightning filckers over the tower ly. Whatever happens means of the Empire State Bullding. Berimis, costly damage to the Eight blocks away, high up in company's equipment, and cuts the other building, the man of electric current for a while. stares steadily. His hands work
Stores. hames, factories the camera, photographing every flash. He talks out loud, de- dark. Movies, radio, telephone scribing what he sees, into a re- service stop operating, together cording apparatus hung around with trains. Many frons, stoves, Trains wait, often he heaters go dead. Every so his neck. glances at other devices, to make and business comes to a stand- sure they are on the job of men- still. For sick people in hos-
police and the suring current, distance, pitals, for
rach pleces, goinches
MONOGRAMED BOOK ENDS
Bre de-
VINE
The Owl Thought It Strange
He Could Hardly Name the Relatives a Tree ffad--- By MAX TRELL
7NARF and Hanid found Owl
Kann and Hund found to we
the hemlock. He was looking and of him, straight ahead
to notice Kuzri didn't appear and Hand standing in front of hun.
"Well, this is certainly extra- ordinary," they heard him mur- "The to himself. muring: stran,est thing I ever thought of. I'd better tell it to some-
body.
I wonder if I can find Knarf and Hand..."
inches
high,
and five inches Two more pieces, cach
long. measuring four Inches wide, one inch high, and six inches long, also are required.
Taper the blocks at one end and smooth with sandpaper.
The
form the larger pieces bases and the smaller are book- resis.
Fit
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a base piece book-rest together
and the and secure.
"We're right
here!" Knarl and Hand both exclaimed.
Owl was sitting on a branch,
putty.
with small casing nails. the nail heads
with
Set
and i hola
Sandpaper
"Oh! Didn't see
"Good evening, Hanid.
You
And
astonishing
and
sizes
Different Kinds
use a reliable
are cut
from
3 Direction
Caterpillar halr
5 False god
6 Number
8 Prying
9 Titled anew
13 Edge of eye fluid
15 Drop
10 Lease
17 Great Lako
18 Completed.
10 Station (ab.)
21 Weight of India
Puzzle Answers
MILE
SIREN
SILENT
PARENTS
REMOVALY Far (m) era.
AUD-A-LETTER: Or, One, Soro,
are the wolf and all
The letters
you at all, think the dog had. The dog'a smooth, then paint or varnish. 'pon my word!" Owl declared. relatives "Can't see a thing without my the hundreds of different kinds wood with a coping saw.
shapes
and may find it Klusses." With that he put on and his eye-glasses and took a good colours of dogs. But you'd be letters look at them. Good-evening." wrong--absolutely wrong" he now said.
Amazing Thing
"The Tree?" exclaimed Knarf
You best to draw the and get the on wood
with an of a carpenter help
tho After electric lg saw, "We didn't бау anything. letters are cut out, vamish and wood Mlue to Owl," cald Owl," Knart pointed out.
them In place on the hold Qwi paid no attention to this. "Good evening. Owl," said "Now the correct answer for book ends. Knarf.
the one who has the most, and Glue a felt base to the bot- the most unusual, relatives istom of the book ends to pro-
tect tables against scratches. the Tree."
When you Sow something with plastic material, don't work with pins and do not baste the cloth together before These methods leave sewing.
Paper that will tear. clips and Scotch tape do a good isn't only Owl nodded. "It
job, here. I don't have to bother." that the Tree's relatives are the fabric. As he said this, Owl smiled, hundreds and hundreds of took his glasses off and started kinds and shapes and sizes and
He again. putting them away
te colours of other trees." was just about to look off into the distance when Knart and Hald shouted: "Owl! Owl!" Ho hastily put his classes on once more.
"I was just thinking of the and Hamid. most extraordinary, amazing, remarkable
thing." Owl said. "I was just about to look for you to tell But since you'ro about it.
holes
don't damage the
STAR PARTY
of heavy paper. violin.
tho
"No?" Kald Kearf and Hani.
Give a Movie Star party if "Now," said Owl. "The Tree
photos of fun. Mount small also has such relatives as the you want a new way to have chair, the table, the house, the
actors and actresses on squares "Very absent-minded of me.
Write the in- For a minute I thought I meant flagpole, the desk, the penell,
vitations below. Each guest I didn't have to bother telling the telephone pole, the
should dress up to represent his the biggest you when I really meant I didn't the plane, the saw-dust,
the picture. Imagine malch-stick, the tooth-pick, have to bother looking for you. mallet, the barrel, the barn, the boy in your group "disguised" Well, this is what I thought of
wooden to resemble Margaret O'Brien. that LA 50 extraordinary, radio, book-shelf,
shoe, the handle
of the hammer, Decorate the house with plenty amazing"
the handle of the ax, the handle of stars cut from gold and silver 10 intro- Owl, please tell us right away. of the shovel, the splinter, the paper. Don't forget for the shortest route. It's almost dinner-time," Inter- bun-fire, the wagon, the fence, duce a. como called Staleway to the curtain-rod the shingle, the the Stars. It's an obstacle race
Store,
WORD SQUARE;
STEAM
TIAHA
EATEN
MAN
SAFE LOCK PUZZLE: BI
MAZY MAZE? You can, if you
CRUSSWORD:
t
rupted Hanid.
Then he said: "Who has
the most unusual, most, and relatives In the world?"
my breath, dozen
"the
starting "I contestants behind a without pausing, Owl coughed once or twice, door and the flour, "And," said that is played by lining up the the didn't have to stop and catch line, and giving each one two I could name large silver stars, cut out of cardboard. Ilo places But heavy or two more.. it is, as you'll have to admit, the them on the floor at his feet. At Knarf and Hand didn't know most extraordinary, amazing re-a signal from you, he picks up how to answer this question, so markable and astonishing thing one star, advances it, places his
continued: "You might. I've ever thought of" Owl think that The cat bad. The
cat's relatives are the lion, the And then Owl stopped to ger, the leopard and the puma, catch his breath, and Knart and to mention Just a few of the Hand both had to smile and ad Imost important ones. You might mit that he was certainly right.
fpot on it, and repeats the pro- cess with the other star. Tho
the Anist player who reaches. fine first is rewarded, of course, with a long-term movie con- tracti
TRIANGLE:
BA
SIR