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GAY MR FOX

He

Cay Mr. Fox had a fine new coat, of which he was very proud. brushed it and stroked it; and he "It would be a Baid to himself: great pity to spoil this fine coat. I tink I must find someone to do all

my work for me so that I can keep So he set off my fine cont clean." to find some sly to do all his work for him.

As he went over the hill he pass- ed Little Rafbit, and he said to him, "Little Rabbit, will you come and live in my nice house, and do my work for me, that I may keep my You shall feed on fine coat clean? everything good, and have a bright new penny."

But Little Rabbit sald, "I going on an errand for my mother, so I must hurry away."

THE CHINA MAÏLA

CHILDRENS CORNER

WHY THE WALL FELL DOWN

An Eastern king ordered a wall to be built by the side of his palace. but after the work was completed the wall fell down with a crash. The king was very angry, and sent for the builder declaring that he should be put in prison and beaten.

But when the man came into the royal presence he blamed the man who had sold him tho mortar, which was of inferior quality.

The motar-dealer was sent for and threatened with punishment but he blamed the labourer who had mixed It. When this man was summoned, he threw the blame on the potter, who had made the mix- ing vessels so wide, he said, that the water could not be properly re- gulated.

The potter was summoned, and he said that just as he was making the vessels a girl went by singing, and he looked up at her, with the result that the vessels were more or less marred. The course, sent for, and her excuse was that she had had to go to the jeweller's for her earrings, which were under repair.

woman

was.

of

And away he went. Gay Mr. Fox came to the Leafy Banks, and he saw the Puckle Gaomes at tea, at play, and minding their own busi- ness. He said to them, "Dear Puckle Gnoines, will you come and You shall do my work for me?

"If he had not failed in his pro- wear the finest of clothes and have a. bright new penny."

But the mise to send them home," said Puckle Gnomes said: "We have far she, "I should not have been pass- too much work of our own to do;ing the potter's shop." and in a minute we mean to hide away."

Then Gay Mr. Fox saw two Run along Mice, and he said to them: "Dear Run-along Mice, will you come and live in my snug house and do my work for me? I will give you this penny in my purse, and you shall cat crumbs and cheese."

But the Run-along Mice said: "We are out for a run, not work. but for fun, and it's time we were

And with that they ran done."

away.

So Gay Mr. Fox had to go home again.

He had to keep clean,

As well as he could.

For do all his work for him, Nobody would.

When the goldsmith was sent for he blamed his assistant, who had delayed repairing the earrings, The assistant, on his part, blamed the pearl merchant, who had failed to bring a pearl which was needed. The pearl merchant blamed the diver, and when the diver was call- ed he blamed the oyster, which had not produced the pearl when it was But the oyster sat required. the bottom of the sea, so in the end no one was punished.

THE WAY THE BABY CAME

O this is the way the baby came! Out of the night as comes the

dawn;

Out of the embers as the flame; Out of the bud the blossom on The apple-bough, that blooms the

same

As in glad summers dead and gone With a grace and beauty one

could name;

O this is the way the baby camel And this is the way the baby

woke:

As when in deepest drops of dow The shine and shadows sink and

svak,

The Aweet eyes glimmered

through and through; And eddyings and dimples broke About the lips and no ono knew Or could divine the words they

spoke:

And this is the way the baby

wake.

This is the way the baby slept: A mist of tresses backward

thrown

By quavering sighs where kisses

crept,

With yearnings she had never

known;

The little hands were closely kept About a lily newly blown;

And God was with her. And wa

wept:

And this is the way the baby

slept.

A WORD PUZZLE

In a piece of paper cut a hole the size of a shilling and then ask your PASS a two- chum if he can shilling piece straight through the hole. Probably he will think you very foolish to ask such a question, the florin being much the larger coin, but suppose you prove to him that you are not so very "green" after all. Fold the paper Just where the hole comes, and he will. doubtless be amazed just how easily piece passes Johnny: "Please teacher, the the two-shilling

through. Plumbers' Union "

A BAD BREAK

Teacher: "Now, boys. I'll give Whose em- you one more chance. blem is the leek?"

ROUND THE CAMP

LADY CLEMENTI AND GUIDES

A MIGHTY BIG JOB

Under the title "1930" the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, contri- bufes an outspoken comment on the responsibilities of the Boy Scout Movement.

A delightful afternoon was spent at Government House last week says the Malay Mall when the Girl Guide Officers, the Rangers, the Guides and Brownies of Kuala Lum-

num- The Chief Scout says:- pur, Klang, and Seremban, bering 155, were entertained to tea i "Our Coming-of-Age is over, the Clementi. A Guard of adolescent stage of our Movement by Lady Honour was provided and was in has passed; we are now grown up, spected by His Excellency the High and find ourselves sound in wind Commisioner and Lady Clementi. and lifab, in heart and head, ready His Excellency then left.

to go forward as a great team of brothers to de man's work in the world.

Ten was served on the lawn with the State Band in attendance. After tea, the Guldes were in horse-shoe formation, enclosing the Brownles in their Fairy Ring. Brownles who move. had passed their recruit test were

The Jamboree has given us our mount for making & big forward

And we have a mighty big job

duly admitted into the Sisterhood before us if we like to tackle it.

of Brownies by the Chief Commis-St. George with his old dragon sioner, Mrs. Cavendish.

Clementi.

FIRE

DO WE THINK IN WORDS?

We can

miay

think very simple thoughts without the use of words, and to that extent animals think, and sometimes. But this is almost nothing. Practically all our thinking is done in words. What we must try to remember is that words are good servants, but Too many people mad masters. allow words to lead them astray. Instead of words being instruments for their minds to think with, they are chains in which ther minds are bound. Every word has a meaning

that is to say, it stands for some- thing; and words are not worth anything, in themselves, except, perhaps, that some make beautiful

sounds.

have something good to put in its place. In our case we want to subhas

come.

Second isn't

in it. Our Dragon about a general practice of good- Class Brownies Badges and Service Is Self, with its teeth and claws of will in the world demands a for Stars were presented by Lady envy, suspicion, fear, and, all un-wider expansion of our Movement

charitableness..

and its training. And this step is The time and opportunity for it To achieve success means the wholehearted team work of every individual Scouter among us, each in his own particular sphere each contributing his atom that goes to make the pile.

More Troops and new Packs have to be opened out on every

Then followed the enrolment of To eradicate an evli you must within our power. Guides by the Chief Commissioner, Cook's Badges, Minstrel Badges and Service Stars were presented by Lady Clementi. A very important presentation was made when one of the Rangers was given the Guide All Round Cords. The recipient of this honour must be congratulat- ed as there are not yet even afx possessors of these cords in, the whole of Malaya.

O BEAUTIFUL MY COUNTRY

Beautiful my country! Be thine a nobler care Than all thy wealth of comtimerce, Thy harvests waving fair:

Be it thy pride to cherish

The anhood of the poor;

Be thou to the oppressed..

Fair reedom's open door.

Pore our fathers Buffered; Forthge they tolled and prayed; Upon thy holy altar Thejling Ilves the fald.

h

Thou has no common birthright, Grand memories on thee shte The blood of pligrim Commingled flows in thine,

my cou

love we draw

GOOD ADVICE FOR SCOUTS

This "thought" on tidiness Issued by the Association from headquarters should be taken to heart by all Scouts:

"Resemble not the slimy

snails,

land.

THIS WEEK'S. QUERY

1

How many parts are there in a' pin-point?

Аз тану ав there are 30parate molecules in the point. The dia meter of a molecule of iron has never been indisputably measured. But it is certainly a little larger than the millioneth of a millimetre.

A million molecules could, there- fore, easily sit on a pin's point.

For a Poor Man

Small Boy: Father, can I have a penny for a poor man?

Father:

bdy Certainly, my Where is he?

Small Boy: At the end of the þ road; selling ice cream.

A NEW

MAZE GAME

[A][B

Here is a way to solve the maze as an exciting game for two people, Let one be A and the other B, and toss for the first move. Suppose A wins. He moves his pencil from the square marked A through the alloys to the first branching place. This would be about half an inch up on the left- hand edge, where he has a choice of going up or to the right.

A stops there and B begina, starting at the square marked B and proceeding to the first branching place. They continue in this way, finish- ing each move at a branching place, until they conclude the game.

SHANGHAI SCOUTS' ACTIVITIES PROBABLY THE FIRST SCOUT

In the old days, when Rome was so often at war with her neigh- hours, a shepherd lad was watch- ing his 'flocks out on the plains beyond the city. His sheep were feeding round him, and he was beguiling the time by playing on his pipes. Presently he saw, away in the distance, a moving mass.

During the past week the atten- tion of troops has been centred on their displays for the Jamboree, and it is quite evident that Scouts realize that the Jamboree is not many weeks off. Easter Monday, April 21, has been fixed for the event this year, which brings the date of the competition one month carlier than on previous occasions. It was an army of Rome's Empire Day has been the Scouts' enemies marching to surprise the Jamboree Day in past years, but city, not yet properly awake. The there have been so many rainy boy leaped to his feet and sped to- Empire Days that is was thoughtward the distant towers, just being advisable to fix an earller date. lighted up by the rays of the morn- Another reason for changing the ing sun. As he ran a thern went date was that the Scout Movement here has become so international in character that it was felt better to select a day that was not alte- gether confined to the interests of one nation.

The

"Old Scout's"

Column.

*B. P." and writing in ""The

New Year

into his foot, causing him exquisite pain; but the boy remembered the threatened city where his friends live, and without stopping to ex- until ha tract the thorn he ran passed through the gate, only just opened for the day, and gave warn- Ing to the city. Then he sat down, and, almost exhausted with his his exertions, and the pain of

his wound, took the thorn from foot.

There is a

beautiful bronze statue of the boy, 1,600 years old,

in Rome. Nobody knows who the

The Chief Scout sculptor was. When Napoleon in- vaded Italy he took this statue and Scouter," the off-placed it in the Louvre, but after Resolution cla! organ of the the fall of Napoleon it was return-

ed to Rome.. Boy Scout move- mant, reviews, in a short para- will and sense of service into the graph, the year 1929. After say boy. It we let that drop out of ing how the recent coming-of-age the prograiame our training would But I don't world jamboree had transcended lose half its value. everything expected, and brought myself see any sign of it happen- together the mon of the Boy Scout Ing. On the contrary, the reports movement, and brought their which came to me last year, from different strings into coherent outside as well, as from scouters, nodus, tells how, urged by the describing the good turns done at stimulus of the Jamboree, the Christmas, were almost overwhelin. Scout movement goes forward in ing, and 1 sincerely hope that in Among our Scopts we need to the new year with increased power the coming Christmas they will be emphasize the good turn as the behind it. "Many of us are apt. quite overwhelming. I look for first step in the practice of love; at the end of the year," says the ward to hearing a lot about them." and among the Rovers let us em- Chief Scout, "to review the past 12 phasize the joy of service, and months, and to make good resolu- show means for its expression. tions for the coming year, which Throughout our Brotherhood at generally lapse into the limbo of home and abroad let us foster and forgotten things as the weeks slide develop that happy germ of mutual by All the same, I think the sive ceremonies marked the corner. comradeship between the boys of principle is a good one, and I would stone laying of Philadelphia's all nations which was hatched out commend it to scouters to look Temple of Youth, dedicated to at the Jamboree, and which is pro-back over their attempts and their the Boy Scouts of the city on the atitute for self a spirit of good motable by Interchange of visits achievements of the past year and site of the $200,000 structure to will and co-operation, with our and correspondence, and honestly to note their failures or be erected at Twenty-second Street fellow-men., We have made a pro-Reifable authorities have told their shortcomings, and lay their near the Parkway, and which will mising start in inspiring a sense us that what we have done to date plans for avoiding these in the be one of the gems of architectural beauty of the new civic centra, A of love and service into some of in this direction has been the most coming season. the oncoming generation. And this effective aten Yet accomplished for

tation of Scouts repre the 10,000 members of the to a large extent has been done bringing ponce into the world, since.

An Philadelphis, and through such personal example as permanent peace can only come

rstood in "é Scouters themselves have been able from the spirit and will within the to give. But at present we are only people's and notarom Les and touching the fringe of the young Treatier

ether, in our own or in wit

other

Who, with their filth, re-

cord their trails;; Let it be said where you

have been

You leave the face of

nature clean.".

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hemore but

A rumour that the Boy Scouts bula

News received from A Temple Philadelphia last of Youth week was to the

effect that impres

artes

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