PUZZLES
THE CHILDREN'S
STORIES
HOBBIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1950.
SERIAL Five Fall Into Adventure
Captured!
What has happened so for
Julian, Dick and Anne have come to stay with, their cousin Georgina and her dog Timmy. Strange things hore happened. There has been a burglary of the hosis and importent scientific papers have been stolen from George's father. Then George and Timmy were kidnapped and spirited away. Julian and the others met a rogamuffin of a girl who seemed to be mixed up in everything, and the promised to help them. She has taken them to a curious building an a clift, where, she says, a mon called Red lives, who has got George and Timmy there. They have arrived in a boot and have climbed the clif! to a cove.
led them into a narrow
Jecky tunnel, and then
out into a wider cave, whose walls dripped with damp. Julian was thankful for his torch. It Was ceric und chilly uncl musty. He shivered.
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Suddenly the boys had tremendous shock. A voice boomed Into their cave, a laud and angry voice that made their hearts beat pain- fully.
"801 YOU DARE TO COME HERE!
Jo slipped behind a rock immediately like an animal going to cover. The boys stood where they were,. rooted to the spot. Where did the voice come from?
There was a astonished silence. Then two lega appeared out of a hole in the low ceiling. and someone leapt lightly down beside them. The boys started hack in surprise. They hadn't expected that the voice cimo from the root of the cave!
Jullan flashed his torch on the man. He was a giant-like fellow with flaming red hair. His eye-brows were red, too, and he had a red beard that partly Mid a cruel mouth. Julian took one look into the man's eyes nud then no more. "Who are you?" he askert, "What do you want?" "We want our cousin back." said Juliari,
ED was looking closely
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CHAPTER 18
behind was too sully to stand He followed im- any Bonetize. mustiafely.
There had been no sign of Jo,
She had kept herself well hid- den, seared sir.
Red led the way through on-
other cave into a passage with
such a low roof that he bad to walk bent almost double.
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behind
THE man
had Now switched on a very power- full torch and it was easier to sce. The passage sloped up- words and was obviously lead- ing to the buliding on the cliff. At one part it was so steep that a band-rail had been put for the dimber to help hànself
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Then cam a night of steps hewn out of the ruck itself, rough, badly-shaped steps, so steep that it was quite un effort to elimb from one to the next.
At the top of the step 1203 O stout door set on a broad ledge. Red mashed it
and day- open Hght flooded in. Julian blinked. He was Jooking out on ant enormous yard paved with great flat stones with weeds growing In all the crevices and cricks.
In the middle stood a hell. copter. It looked very strange and out-of-place in that old yard.
"It's almoz Uke a small fort," thought Julian, in astonishment. Then he felt himself seized and two boys. "So you taken to a shed near by, His think I have your cousin," he
arm.. were forced behind himn told you such a
end his winst:
tightly Bert. Then the rope was run through an iron loop and tied
tel. Who stupd tale?"
"There's a lot to know about Red Tower," said you, Mr Julian. "Who sent men to steal my uncle's papers? Who sent a note to ask for another lot? Who kidnapped our cousin, 50
were
that she could be held the Puzzle Answers
papers were sent? Who brought
her here fron Simmny's Caravan? Who..."
"Anaaaah!" said Red,
there was panic
uld
anch
in his volee. "How do you know all this? Isn't
frue! But the polier
heard this fantasile
have they tale, too?"
"What do you suppose?" said Julian, wishing with all p heart that the police did know, and that he was mid mee.ly blufing. Red pulled at his beard. His green eyes gleamed as he thought quickly and urgenity.
He suddenly called! loudly. turning his head up to the hole in the ceiling. "Markoff! Come
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Two legs were swung down | before you leap. through the hole and a short burly man leapt down beside the two lurtled boys.
"Go down the cliff. You will find a boat in the cove some- where the boat we saw these boys
Red coming in," said sharply. "Smash it to pieces. Then come back here and take the boys to the yard. Tie them up. We must leave quickly, and take the girl with us.”
The man stood listening. his face sullen. "How can we go?" he said. "You know the hell- copter is not ready. You know thaw."
"Make It ready then," step- red Red. "We leave tonight."
The sullen man game back at tast, "It's smashed," he said.
said Red. " go
Right,"
first. Then the boys. Then you. And boat them if they nake any trouble."
Ited swung himself up into the hole in the roof. Jution and Dick followed, not seeing any
in resisting. The point
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Julian Hashed his torch on a giant. like fellow with floming hair.
Julian glared at the burly fellow now doles the to Dick.
samic
Red had gone across the yard and hnd disappeared through a stone archway. The sullen man now followed him. Julian and Dick were left by themselves.
"We've mridled thinga again," sud Julian with I graan. "Now these fellows will be off and
And away,
take George with them-they've been nicely warned!"
Dick sl
nothing. He felt very miserable, and his bound
wrists hurt him, too. Both boys stud there,
what wondering would happen to them.
"Psssssst" What was that? Julian turned round sharply and looked in the direction of the door that led from underground into the yard
Jo stood there, half-hidden by
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
Who was Mother Goose? Who Said Cowboys
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LITTLE JACK HORNER
SIMPLE SIMON
HUMPTY DUMPTY
LITTLE
BO-PEEP
OLD MOTHER
HUBBARD
JUST WHO MOTHER 3ODGE WAS 1S NOT KNOWN- WE KNOW ONLY THAT CHILDREN FOR CENTURIES HAVE LOVED THE STORIES AND RHYMES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS KINDLY OLD LADY
WHAT would the world have done without Mother Goose? And if there was ever such a per- 80, where did she live?
In spite of the many at- tempts to find out who she was, Mother Goose seems to The many persons, but
personality-the giver of the earliest folk-lore that we know.
one
About 80 years ago a man have of Boston chimed to the archway
door. I made
that "Psssst! Iti come nud untle you
over
Is the coast clear?"
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NEXT WEEK: Jo is very surprising.
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the discovery she was Mrs Goose, or Ver- goose, who lived in that city between 1712 and 1723. This effort lu make her local woman was accepted with great joy by people who sceni to expect concrete existence of all storybook characters,
This Boston story stated that the nursery rhyine laureate was the mother-in-Inw of Thomas Fleet, a well-known, carly-day printer, who lived in Boston. She lived In Boston with ils family. Even her home, over Fleet's print shop
By Julia W. Wolfe
in Pudding Lone, now Devon- shire Sheet, WON identified. Here, it was said, she repeated original rhymes and songs to entertain Fleet's children, anti these stanzas and music became to popular in Pudding, Lame that Fleet, thinking to tum an honest peniny, published them in 1719 under he now famous title,
Mother Goose's Melodies,"
It
Were Silent Men?
West, says Mr Adams, - "known
THERE - wasn't no love boy has many special I light in that cows come good mall one and, but t eyes as she makes for me, that he has always been “Just a I fogs it across the corral plain, everyday bow-legged hu- like I'm goin' to a dance and man, carefree and courageous, she's scratchin' the grease fun-loving and loyal. off my pants at ever jump roundup is cookie, according to Seein' I can't make the fence Mr Adams. He had to be both In time, Brazos Gowdy jumpa versatile and resourceful, and to- down and throws his hat in the day's range cook follows this tra. old gnl's fare. Seein' a cowboy conie apart in pieces like "that
The uncrowned king of the
dition.
"He has many duties to per malces her hesitule I climbs form. He is stakeholder when the fence without losin anything
more'n some confidence, a lot oʻƒCOME ANDR
wind, and a little dignity. Yu{ "GITIT!!!
can take it from me that a cow
with a fresh-branded enlf might
be a mother, but she shore ain't
uo lady."
That, boys and girls, is cow bets are made, arbiter to settle
boy talk, sirnight from Jim Houston. Cowboys aren't "great man and beast, concocting somu *** quarrels, and doctor for both silent men," as some folks be- lieve. They talk long and
but not in the presence of ch, sort of dosage from his as5011-
of "sage-
brushers" or tourists, And they
use a jungunge of their own.
ment of bottles."
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ND the most important part
The fact that they have their A of a cowboy's gear is his hat.
own way of speaking is proved Cowmen can tell what stale a by Ramon F. Adams, who has man is from by the alze and. ciety at Worcester, Mass. But compiled an entire dictionary of chape of his hat. Brond-brim- later searchers falled to dis- cowboy terms, "Western Words" med hals are for the sun coun- Cover It.
try. In the brush country, the Mother Goose's grave was
broad brims are in the way. A also
the older, an once it cowboy, anya pointext out in
Mr Adams, "may cow.thief, but once it meant throw his hat on the floor and Granary burial ground in Bos-
hard-working cowboy. Even ton, and is still visited by tour-
•he ists. But
knows a good hạt can be tromp- today, Texans prefer to call a bank his spurs on u mnil, for
On the ed on without hurling it, while
with the rave is marked name, "Mother Coose, wife to Isane Goose," who died "October ye 19th, 1890." This divided the honours of Mother Goo:hood →→→ Goo
wife Mary.
of Trase is clearly not Elizabeth, mother-in-law to Flect, whose fictitious singing of nursery jingles in Pudding Lane dates 25 years after Maty's funeral.
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discovered
Tustier a
"cow thier."
fromping on a spur does neither he tromper or the spur Any good."
One of the most Interesting anecdotes told by Mr Adams is the origin of the peewee-the short-topped boots of the West. other hand, "waddy," originally ins to take part in some cow- Some cowboys went to Argen- may have meant a cow thier, or boy games down there. They ex- a cowboy who couldn't to do his celled in most events. In calf- share of work properly and who roping the legs of the
calves only found a job at roundup ume, very often got into the high
THE story remained unesutra
dicted for years, but at last The critics exploded it to bits. all seems how to have originated in a clever hoax by NDREY LANG a afe Ellot, great-grandson of A in Loret's "La Muse is Today it is applied to any cow cowboy boots, tearing them and Mr Fleet, the printer,
who torique." published in Paris in desired to embellish his family 1030, some stanzas, lines of Mother tree with an interesting story, which read: "Like
ever saw the first Canse story, made-up" Clearly edition of the "melodies."
then Mother Goose was known printed by Fleet, and all the
to the French more than 300 evidence brought forward was years ago as the typical teller of Mr Ellot's own word that an-
wonderful and fanciful tales, other gentleman named Crowin The earliest date
on which chick - then decensed - bad Mother Goozu
No one
mentioned having once encoun- nuthor of childcars as th
tered copy in the library of the Americna Antiquarian So-
Does Anyone See the Wind?
-Knarf and Hanid Wanted to Know-
By MAX TRELL
"NOW take the wind." Merlin
the Magician was saying to Knarf and Hanid, the shadow- children with the turned-about names; "bas anyone ever seen the wind? Has the weather-vanc
the ever seen it? Have leaves
that are blown off the true and go dancing over the lawn ever seen it? Has the
that
the water in se pond. ripples when the wind goes ever seen It?"
Raid Hanid.
Merlin, who was sitting on the edge
of the bookcase in the children's rooin, smiled. "Would you," he said in n soft voice. Innking first at Hanid and then at Kaurf, "like to see the wind?" Great Excitement
you
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"Would you Bkn to see the wind?" Merlin asked the
shadows,
Oh
stories is
1007 when Charles Perrault, a French literary distinguished
Paris
a little critte, published book of tales which he had written for French magazine, The book bears a frontispiece in which an old woman is
pic tured telling a story to a group of children by the Breside, and In the background, in French, we read: Tales by Mother Goose," Severa! American Jibraries have copies of this Look.
The earliest mention of an de- English version of these lightful old verses tuoms to be n advertisement In a London Paper of 1720. It is thus clear that
Goose Mother
was of French extraction, and of at least respectable antiquity.
When slie reached American shores no one knows,
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"Would we?" cried Knurl and West Wind Is too blowy. Hand together in great exclle- Merliny Hanid exclamed sud- ment.
denly; "can be a breeze-a All right. Ull arrange it. It little summer breeze?"" just takes a bit of magic. Now," "Certainty," said Merlin. Bald Merlin, "before I change And the next instant fanid
both into winds-"
felt herself melting away.
She "Change us into winds!" Hand felt as light as a feather. She cald in surprise. "I didn't know sprang off the floor and began
numbers form three would have to change us noatlig showly through the air. Hines, one horizontal and two into winds."
She wondered what made her Merlin nodded, "Only the float. She glanced behind her diagonal, of four numbers each. Also, each of these lines total winds can see each other. Now and saw-to her astonishment 34. you can be the North Wind, the and delight that she had a pair South Wind, the East Wind or of large wings, as thin as the the West Wind."
you
"I'll be the North Wind,"
The
What numbers must be placed thinnest glass; “like dragon-fly In the blank spaces to make Knart answered quickly. "wings" she whispered to herself. the three sides of the trimale Up near the ceiling, whirling (live numbers each) total 347 the strongest of all."
'round and 'round, was Knart. You can tise a number only Hanid could
see him clearly. once in the triangle, so the though he looked more like
missing numbers are 1, 2, 3. puff of steam than like himself. 10, 12, and 14. But where will He had, she saw at once, two you put them? pairs of wings, ench twice large as her own.
Instantly Knart vanished. But the window-shades begin to shake, the papers flew off the desk and the room began to feel "Knart has become ley cold. 6. TIE
the North Wind," Merlin ស្វា- RIBBONS nounced to Hanid. "He's in the room. But you won't be able to TO TREE BRANCHES.ee him until you become one of the winds yourself. Which one?" he asked again.
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"I don't know." said Hanld. "The South Wind is too warm. The East Wind is too rainy, The
By Harry F. O'Neill
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Flying Down
sה
True or False?
Decide whether the following
statements are true or false:
1. SOS means
He came flying down toward er. Hanid felt a cold chill, and sha darted behind the curtain, which immediately began shiver and shake,
to Ship."
"Save Our
2. Manila is the capital of Knarf blew up and down be the Philippines. fore the curtain. "How do you
3. A barrel of dimes is more
like me, Hanid? Ilow do I than a barrel of quarters. look?"
4. Numismatics
"Y-you look -f-ine," replies | selence of numbers. Hanid as her treth chaltered.
"But don't come so close to
You're cold as ice."
me.
"I don't feel cold," said Knart.
the
Posers
1. What is the name of a
boy. Confusing, isn't it?
making them look shabby, If you go
to a dude ranch, Being victors, they couldn't you'll meet an S.A. Cowboy or come home ragged, so they cut
show-about cowboy," But he's off the torn
tops and laced the a real part of the West. And so edges. "Where'd you
git such. are all the other kinds of cow- funny boots?" the cowboys were boys, bog riders, brone peelers, asited.
The adventurers reared heel squatters, saddle slickers, back indignantly and replied: ara hands and so forth. A cow- Them's the stylo!"
Rupert and Miranda-4
Rastus, the country mouse, does nor do what the others ask. Instead he points towards the hellow, "1. can't think about games," he saya. "I've just heard something very sad. When I came past the cottage in the dell Jennifer, the widow's daughter who lives there, told me that Santa Claus had forgotten her.
so she has had no Chemmas print at all." The other three look very disturbed. Oh, poor Jennifer," says Rupert.
What awful bad fuck I wonder what has happened. Santa Claus doesn't usually forget like that." They go into a huddle and decide what they will do about it.
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Variety of poses to test your wits
Dad has an odd piece of Hnoleum which he wants to cult
fit the landing of the up to cellor stairs. The goleum is large enough, If none is wasted, that he blew with all his might, two-wheeled vehicle pulled by but the landing 15 square. How and a sound like a great deep one or two men and commonly can he cut it to make a perfect whistle blowing soundied all over
"Just listen to me whistle." With
used in the Far East?
square? 2. What is the name of au Get a pencil and draw the optical toy which
produces fine to show where Dad should
the room. "Now watch mo co blowing around-wheee-eet"
went Knarf. Hanid a variety of beautiful images and cut it. If you can't work it
forms? him sweep low over the table.
Away
Down went the l
glosses and the 3. What is the name of flower-pot. Then he blew over yellowish fossil resin found on the desk; and the papers went the shores of the Baltic Sea? fluttering up to the ceiling and 4. Is ammonia lighter down again!. It was a good thing heavier, than air? that Merlin' changed Knart back to himself again. He might have blown the whole house down, sald Honid
5. What old-time college football star became a national character when he accepted a position on a professional' tedra?
out, full on Dad.
Crossword
ACROSS
I High card
4 Frozen water
7 Writing Implementa
Famous English school
10 Icelandic myths
11 Permits
12 Respects
14 Male sheep
15 Those who look fixedly 10 Pace
20 Midday
22 Go by
23 Weight allowance 24 Skill
26 Rot by exposure
DOWN
1 Mimie
Surrender
3 Concludes
4 Entry in n todgea
B Folding beds
Abstract being
8 Persian
governors
• Substance
13 Organ of hearing
18 Heavenly body
10. Trial
17 Bellow
18 Painful
19 Mineral spring
21 Selne
Reverse and Scramble
Reverse the "goddess of dis- -cord" and have "a forefather; scramble and have "in sat up."
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