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STORIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1950.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
GAMES
PUZZLES
FOR THE CHILDREN, ANOTHER INSTALMENT OF THE
Enid Blyton SERIAL.
Five Fall into Adventure
How Jo escaped
What has happened
Jultan, Dick and Anne went le stay with (Jeniging, their cousin. and her dog Timmy. Many strangu shises bappened.
napped by a nun entra
Intprisoned in a tower,
Res
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A raga main of a kiri caited da rescued
A her and took her place. Red n seul two men la gəl Gearre trom the foerr, list to their awtoris]= beat, when they open the door, they are not Gearge, but don and do is the daughter of one of
men who has uplocked the
CHAPTER 22
"Jo
OP" said Simmy. "Well, well of all the... JOP
Jake
recovered
first.
"What's all thin?" he said, Simmy was sent flying to the floor. Loughly, to Simmy. "What's
Jo doing here? How did ahe get here?
other ki, caught?"
Where's
the
the onu
we
HOBBIES
How I wrote
"RIDERS IN THE SKY"
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By Stan Jones
(Editor's Note: Stan Jones, Nevada Forest Ranger, Torked the TATRIC world with his ballad about the "bad cowboys" condemned to chase a thost herd of Vaughn eattle in the sky. Monroe's record version of the so sold more than 2,000,000 copies.)
MY legend starts down in
the Sonthwest part of the country after the Civil War, when the first cow. punchers drifted West, many
of them ex-Con- The three men inside federate soldiers, who took heard the key turn, and in up cowpunching for a living.
the Was A trice Juke "How do I know?" said door, pulling at the handle.
"She's locked us in he Simmy, still staring at Jo. "Look here, Ju--what are raged. "And shot the bolt,
too," you doing here?
Go
tell us. And where's the other kid?"
n
The Mexican charros who were already running stock had;
It had to do with omething of a Western ver-
legend. sion of the "ide of the Valky-T on, "Yell for Markhoff!"
In other words, it rics," shouted Red, trembling with
bad most of his life กระเ พร
wildemess And Markhoff, left) fury.
ini that
one day
Бес later, he would and see if you can find her down In the room at the sooner or
bottom of the stairs, sun apparition in the clouds, anid Jo.
The two bewildered men denly heard yells and shouts That, I suppose, is the basis of didn't know what to think, and tremendous hammer the legend.
ings at the door! He tore They had come
get George and had only found up at once, wondering what
"Hunt round the room
Jol
درا
But the out later
wen:
THE MUSIC'S GOOD, BUT THE ALGOBRA'S
\NOT GO GOOD
EARR
TEN YEARS AGO FIFTEEN
BOYS AND GIRLS IN GERMANTOWN, PA, DECIDED
TO START A YOUTH ORCHESTRA -
TODAY, 12ZE PLAYERS, SO ALTERNATES, AND ZE UISHERS MAKE UP THE CRCHESTRA-
TO QUALIFY FOR MEMBERSHIP THE BOYS AND GIRLG MUST MAINTAIN
PASSING
GRADES IN SCHOOL-
CRAFTS
ALL MEMBERS ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF NINE AND NINGTEEN, AND ARE OOOD ENOUGH TO PLAY IN FAMED PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY
OF MUSIC
orchestra began
Youth
in
a
IFTEEN youngsters were enjoying a hot-doggie roast. in a back-yard garden. "Let's start an orchestra,"
someone remarked.
back
for
yard
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JOKES
Fancy footwork is this boy's hobby
ARTI By PAULA RICHARDSON
FRED ASTAIRE and Gene Kelly had better be looking to their laurels, be- cause dancing has become an increasingly pastime for hundreds of talented youngsters all over the country.
cer. He's on
A
ardent Astalte fun, and indeed seems to be miniature replica of the dancer.
great
Scooter's extensive repertoire
Astaire's popular Includes
famous "Stepping Out With My Baby number, which he miniies per- fectly.
Typient of the many Juniors who can rival even the muvie stars with fancy footwork Is Roderick Grover Clark of Memphis, Tenn. As you might RUCS
that's too long a namo who
for a feel-footed would rather
dance than ent So everybody
most, that is-so Just calls him Scooter.
Scooter has always thought tap dancing lots of fun" and has been his hobby ever since he can remember.
Tit
This energetic amateur has appeared on a number of local shows, where he received acclaim from enthusiastla audiences.
For relaxation after those strenuous tap routines, Scooter plays
with lus Bordilsh and teaches his dogs, Spots and Quicksic, new tricks,
PRANCING
Aut nothing can keep him away from his dancing very He's long, and it's a rare occasion that you don't hear him pran- cing and turning about the house, white his mother plays a plano accompaniment.
so good at 11 that he even help- ed an instructor teach a begin- ners' clan in dancing two sum- mers ogo.
REPLICA
costumes,
Like all the rest of America's Young dancing
Seveter Gel,
dreams of the time he'll see his name in lights on a Broad- way marquee, If wishing will make it so, It's a cinch ho'll
From his glittering, requined the dancinu join. Furthermore,
complete players must always be evenly with tails, to his nimblenora dividext into three groups and assurance, Scooter looks advanced, intermediate, and the part of u professional dan- get that desire! elementary. That why, all
Muny e ket equal chance. an applicant gets turned down for the odd reason that he's tou #ood!
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By DAN MURDOCH
enough to play to capacity
famed Phila audiences in the dolph Academy of Music!
The dongle-roasters and their cowboys who come
Today, 10 years later, the purenta planned most of the weren't always little Germantown Youth Orches- policies that made ull thi
They
decided, in the world had happen-ngels. They told the story tra in Philadelphia, Pa.,
is possible.
kids them- and it
It the only one of its kind.
stance, that the little differently,
the selves should run
affair. But how-why--what had ed.
"Unlock the floor!**
something like this:
has 125 players, 50 alter- Aduits would help, naturally, happened? They didn'
ushers "That kid's!
called with raising
funds, arranging TEN Successful years have know what to do. Neither shouted Red.
If they unw in the clouds on rates, 25
contracts,
such. dark and stormy day "Grace Notes," and a wait- conductor should be
and
A top- of them wanted to go back one."
always in the ori "There's no key!" yelled an apparition of a herd of very ing list of hundreds-all professional, End there on! and tell Red. So they be-
the founders. spirit of or animals "She must wild-looking cows, bark Markhoff.
between 9 and 19 years old, would be real concerts before
Far too and kind or another,
many players applied Kan to search
It has an adult board of direc- An audience that paid for 10 for popular instruments like feverishly. Jooking into have taken it. I'll go after of one
behind this group of cattle ther
Club in saw a band of riders chasing tors, a large Mothers'
The orchestra would be open ments like the viola and butsoon.
the piano, too few for instru likely and unlikely places, her."
them, that they would actually charge of social and welfare
a "faculty" of five to all young people who wanted So the orchestra with Jo jeering at them all
decided to secn the Devil's lier, problems,
musicians
in 11. With neither lead violas the time.
und bassoons and
had been professional the boys that
salary, and a budget this year dues nor fees, nobody is kept condemned to chase that herd.
or $25,000.
And it is
good out just because he can't afford
the
room
AN angry voice came up
a very
Actually Jo had made her
the kitchen and have ta Way
She was found the larder.
wanted very hungry and something to eat.
a rushi She found hanging on a nail and
some food into sausage-rolls, some buns,
the stairway. "Jake! What are you doing up ped there? Bring that kid down."
Well, that was
If they did see it they would bag be condemned for all time with slip-that bunch of boys to catch the
Devil's Heril. it the legend and it was added t ruck-and
from taken away cheene and many years. Now, if only she
Home
"She's not here!" yelled bread. back Jake, suddenly losing could find the others, how
you done with her? Яonel"
for
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it HEARD
many times, and I suppose I
when 14
many,
tickets.
on
to phy
Chirpie Sparrow Had a Twin
-And a Very Smart Bird He Was, Toom
By MAX TRELL
INSTEAD of coming alone to
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the window-sill for his bread did, he usually crumbs Chirple Sparrow came with on- sparrow who looked
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his temper. "What have they would welcome her!
She's
Jo went cautiously into She could the front hull. Red came tearing up, two hear Markhoff upstaire, still steps at a time, his
eyes tearing about. She smiled the range one morning. The delightedly and slipped over hat rane uut to a windmill to enough like him to be his twin.
narrów
with anger.
first thing he saw in the to the door. room was Jo and, of
course, he thought she was George.
Red looked at Jake as if he had gone off his head.
Was another around
см and I were out youngster
We other
ית
wouldn't beat
Indeed, as Chirple exclaimed pull a pin to it
to Knart and itself to pieces in storm that immediately
with the blowing up. On the way hnnid, the Shadows
and turned-about names, the new back we took a shortcut curved
up a narrow ravine, sparrow was Chirple's twin
Smartic
my twin brother,"
IE other three, Julian, About halfway up we stopped raid. "We call him Smartic
caves.
Dick and George, were on the point. Looking out Then he looked at Jo. He still sitting in the
together with could see no difference be- crouched tween Jo and the absent Timmy in the centre,
Suddenly Thamy growled. George at all short hair, freckles, turned-up, nose-
But Jo had a word to say, it. A voice came to them.
Julian Dick! Where "Yes,
I'm Jo," she "I'm not Georgina. Your I've lost my way!"
You've come haven't you, Dad?"
#It's Jo!" crjed
Dick
and
nother.
remarked
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The
the
brought a few changes iz
to
plano ployers, and teach the new Instru- them to play ment free of charge. For these "scholarships" the orchestra bought its own instruments and engaged Ta own teaching staff.
savo
Three years
ago, to taxes and to put the argouls- tion on the best business foot- Ing. the orchestra became a non-profit corporation register. ed with the state's Department of Welfare. Adults still handle fund-raising and business problems. Musical
social and oclivities are entirely in charge of the players themselves,
Leman, the "Pap
only
guided by
conkluctor, and his four assist-
outs.
Players meet monthly
with no adults present, discuss their problems in their own way, and send ideas, to the
to
gripes, and requests,
board of directors.
bc
on he the valley floor and the teeth because he's so smart."
Arual auditions are beld for sure an old cow- the fale wan
orchestra members who want to ked at Knart puncher who find been graduat-Smarlie as he
be lolsts, vocal or Instru end Hanid across
window. ed to a range rider.
inental. Three winners
cach sill, "There aren't many birds
year perform on the Academy He was no longer able to ride as smart as I am. I don't like "This is my twin brother,"
of Musle stage their first step a Yes, he actually growled,
Chilepia said.
toward fame and fortune in a hadn't done at all no with the rest of the boys and to boast but that's the truth." thing he
Look care of springs and
Hanid thought to herself that these things or not. They simply musical career. he couldn't believe that she far. George put a warning hand
and one thing and Smartie didn't sound very waited for Smartie to go on. At first, players and mane was Simmy's daughter. on him. They all sal up, listen-windmills
to modest. When we got up
She thought
that it
"Now the way I did it was both came from the Ger- are the old fellow, he punched nie would have been better if this. Instead of trying to fly intown neighbourhood.
But in the sitle and said:
until someone else bad waited too.
from Cullfornis to Florida to in the last five years youngsters said.
Son, them are the kind of had complimented him on hit Connecticut with my own wings have been applying from every sces the riders smartness rather than talk about (which would have taken me section of the city and from She's gone, I'm just Jo, switched on his torch at once clouds a man
The next morning 1 was it himself.
wecks and weeks) I just told towns in three nearby states. and Simmy'o my Dad. "Here we are, Jo! How did you in."
But Smartle Sparrow didn't myself that the smart thing to So for the first time this year #etting ready to go to school 1 to save me, escape? What's happened?"
and came found out that the old man seem bothered by this at all
do was to And some bigger and nibscriptions and contributioná "Heups," said Jo,
be will
from nil accepted dend that night. "My, it
stronger wings that could carry gladly over to them.
had dropped
Without Flying that is the
The board of me. So I just sat in a tree neighbourhoods. Red completely lost his was dark up in those passages So far as I know,
directors will I
be doubled, and without a torch. Somehow legend and that is how I came
"Shall I tell them how I get and waited. temper.
parents committers will way. That's by the son?.
from one place to another with-
"Well," continued Smartic, "formed in all neighbourhoods. He went suddenly over went the wrong
Gut fying. Chirple? It's
Wasn't silting very long before to Simmy and struck him why I yelled. But I hadn't gone far wrong. live a saUBALO
wonderful story, and it shows I heard a loud humn in the air. It how smart I am." hard, his eyes blazing, roll?" "Have you double-crossed "What?" cried three hungry
Chirple urged his twin brother soon turned into I
to tell Knarf and Alanid the when I looked up I saw-high. voices, and even Tinmy lifted my birthday last year me?" ho shouted.
his head and began to sniff at
was lounging around
sailing acrosa
It was Lago, la too "old" ***Well?' strumming on my guitar, sert place to another without flying, thing
saiti Smartle
who wasn't a bird at all. the of browsing back through the Jo laughed and opened
23 now, married, and studying his story, basket. She handed out all the years, and I happened to think wasn't in the least need of any bigger than a whole flock of her fute in the orchestra.pl
urging to tell
"the day cagles. It was an aeroplane,"
Oh!" exclaimed Hanid.
medicine at Temple University. food and the three of them fell of the
"Did you hitel on it?" asked filda Pollack is a professional be a very dark before yesterday
California. Yesterday ont like wolves. "Jo, you're happened to
I was in Karte
musician, while Jane Dewees the eighth wonder of the world," and cloudy day in Death Val-
Florida. And here 1
1 am, this
Sparrow chirped operates her own drug store in raid Dick. "I there anythingley. And, well-ull of a sud~ [5.4
on a window-zil merrily. "Certainly, I flew to Deven, Fa. very minute, left in the basket?"
den it was almost over.
in Connecticut. I suppose you're
1
Other "grads" are in big sym "Yes," said Jo, and took out
I think about 25 minuses saying to yourselves," he said, the field where a lot of acro-
studying JO looked at the three the enormous key. This, look
looking at Knart and Hanlu, planes were standing, and I flew phony orchestras, or
anlu, right in. I made myself comfort. in colleges and conservatories. inter the words and music wire Jnke shouting I locked Red and
di that litle sparrow struggling,
Of course finished.
one Some are being financed by all
In a le scholarships obtained through men, and shrugged her Simmy into that tower room, happiest time about the whole manage to get to so many far- able in a corner where no
What do shoulders. Let them fight! and here's the key.
song was when I heard Vaughn away places co fast and without bothered me. And you think of that?"
boun out with his even flying! I
Bevan P. Y. Jordan, Nancy's Monroe all
the air, faster than any sparrow forgotten They had
NEXT WEEK - Markho
I fell father and the first chairman of about her, and that suited Goes Hunting)
had ever flown before.
advisory board, sleep, And when I woke up. the orchestra's
Is still very active as present -(London Express Service)
of the board of directors. Accord= Inst to him, the kids practi-
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TANCY JORDAN, in whose garden it all began 10 years
Simmy was aent flying to the rush basket that Je carri-house on my day off and I was story of how he got from one high up in the sky-an enormotta
the floor.
Jake came up ed.
immediately
to help him. He tripped up Red, leapt on him,
and
her very well,
· BRONCHO BILL
FTHESE RASCALS DO NOT KNOW THEIR GUNS
|HARME WEEN VROADED, AND NEITHER DOES BILL
REACH FOR THE SKY, SHERE? ?
YOU WON'T
GET POWAY
WITH THIS
and
old fellow because
it
the
how
In
one
thunder and put into it what I using my own wear, without while I was being down through their work in the orcheste
always thought and hoped would be put into it.
In Person
OH, NOP
SUDDENLY, HIS LITTLE GAS SPEAKING 100 STEPS DIT GEEMINGLY PINOM
MARCH YER THE JAILHOUSE, YUH LOW-DOWNED KI-OTEES.
Karf and Hanid didn't say whether they were supposing
By Harry F. O'Neill EQUOLY, THOUGH ONLY WITH BLANKS, A NOWHERE,
ST (GULP) L DANGEROUS DAN N
THE END.
there I was in Florida!"
In A Plane
Is that where you wanted to go?" Chirple inquired.
"Well-h'm....no, it wasn't. I really wanted to go to Canada.
cally forecd their parents into
the project,
when many "ex- perts" predicted it would soon fall like most other Buch en- But you can't tell an aeroplane terprises, He's quite proud of where to go, even though you're the 10-year recort Musically,
ja "tops," even very smart sorrow. It just the orchestra aes where it feels like going though "Pup" Leman can have So I got in another acroplane, and advanced performers in only that flew me across the ocean one-third of the chairs. Educa Then I got in o third aeroplane,
Monally and culturally, the or- and that flow me back again chestra has done an even greater And finally
got in an aeroplane job hat got me here. And I'm still on my way to Canada. 1' get there, though even if I have to be down all around the world first
The orchestra has strict rules Players can be dropped for ab- sence without excuse, and for falling behind in their regular school work. All players, and Knart and Hanid were quite especially thono who get certain now that Smartle Spar-"echolarshilpa" to learn new in- "OW WAS anything but smart, struments," must promiso noi But they did't tell him. They to stop taking privato lessons i just walled."
from their present teachers.
Rupert and Miranda-28
After sliding back the panel, the toy clown leads the way into the dark cavity beyond. and Rupert finds they are behind a very thick
curtain.
They listen cautiously, end then advance into the roots.
Miranda wants to belong to princess."
whispers
"Well, the little princess who lives in this palace will come in here before long, and she'll sit in that chair, so let's prepare for her. Rupert arates, "There's something How queer about this," he says.
do you know that all that is going to happen?" But the clown doesn' trouble to answer.
the clown.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
ZOO'S WHO
BABOONS SEEM TO BE THE ONLY ANIMALS WITH AN UNDERSTANDING
OF WEAPONS... THEY THROW STOKES
AT THEIR ENEMIES
WITH TELLING
EFFECT
DENGUINS FIGHT WITH SWORDS AND CLUBS...THEIR BEAKS ARE USED AS SWORDS AND THEIR FLIPPERS AS CLUBS...
禁
ELEPHANTS PROPERLY HARNESSED CAN DRAG A LOAD OF FOUR TONS OVER ROUGH GROUND...
DO-IT By Dale Goss
IN THE
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
FLIEU CAGE
В раск
1. Mark off 2inch squares on CARDBOARD.
Draw on front.
and back of
Lion and cut
out.
FRONT
12.Color
WLERATIONS and GLUE
to an
empty
3. Cut bars in the top and bottom of the outside part of a largo MATCH BOX...... Cut a decoration
from cardboard,
color and glean
4. Cut out the bottom of the inside part of the box......
SET LION
IN PLACE.
-Close the box.
SPOOL.
fut LEO