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MOIST THE MISCHIEVOUS.
"Friends, fellow raindrops and brothers-in-arms, I am addressing you to-day as your leader in the great anti-rain movement." Moist stood on the edge of a cloud and addressed hla. followers in a very loud voice.
"I have decided that during next summer, we shall have plenty of nice long resta, that we fall to earth during the night when we MUST fall, and that on no secount are we to spoil people's clothes."
"Hear, hear!" cried all the other raindropa.
"Very well, then, since you all seem to be in agreement with me," went on Moist. " shall visit the Sun this afternoon and tell him what I have decided for you."
"Good old. Moist, that's the style!" cried all the others, and they cheered like mad as Moist went off to interview the Sun.
Some time later he returned, miserable, mournful and moister than ever.
"Whatever IS the matter?" cried half a dozen raindrops.
"The Sun says that he will not be dictated to by us; he says that he will decide how much water he will bring from the sea and the rivers, and that we are to do what we are told," answered the miser- able, mournful Moist.
"Oh!" wailed all the raindrops; "What an absolute wash-out!"
"Silence!" yelled Moist. "How many more times am 1 to tell you not to use that word 'wash-out'?"
The others made no reply, mere- ly gazing dismally at their leader, as he went back to his seat on the edge of a cloud and proceeded to think the matter out.
At laat he sprang to his feet, and announced that he had solved the problem..
"When the Sun sends word that we are to fall to earth, we must defy him," he cried, and a deter- mined expression appeared upon his face.
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"How?" enquired his followers. "By remaining where you are, of course," answered Moist. "But supposing..." began one or two of the stili doubtful raindrops.
"Oh, stop supposing for the love of umbrellas,” cried Moist peevish- ly.
For the next hour or so, the raindrops waited in a state of sup- pressed excitement for the Sun's summons for them to fall to earth.
At last the messenger from that fiery gentleman appeared with the usual message, which ran: "All raindrops in this cloud are to pro- ceed to earth immediately."
Not a raindrop moved.
"I say, you heard the mesango, I take it?" asked the messenger.
"Yes, you take it quite correct- lý, we heard!" sald Moist, but still not a raindrop moved, although they had great difficulty in keeping their seats, for other raindrops from the rivers, streams, and the sea, were continually appearing,
Then one of the newcomers shouted: "HI! Get off that seat, you're due on earth and I want a rest," and he pushed a raindrop right off his seat.
Others did likewise and soon the great Anti-Rain Movement of the raindrops had utterly failed. The Sun had won. It rained on earth as usual,
However, when the Clerk of the Weather heard of the brave at- tempt, which the raindrops had made to prevent the people on earth from getting wet, he promis- ed to see what he could do during the summer to leasen the rainfall.
Therefore, children, don't be at all surprised if we have quite a nice Summer, this year.
Have a Try.
Willie: Dad, you might help me out with this sum, will you?
Dad: No, my lad, it wouldn't be right.
Well you could 'try," anyhow! -
The "Piggiest" Pig.
THE
Twelve little pigs Ilved in a sty,
Well furnished with clean straw. They ate and drank from one
long trough,
And "share alike" was law. But one got more than all the rest,
Each day he grew so big;
Of all that family of twelve,
He was the pigglest plgl. One day a farmer came to buy;'
He poked them to and fro, Twelve worried pigs ran squealing
round-
The fat one had to go. He wept and wailed as off he went,
And scuttled down the hill, Had he not been a piggy pig,
He might have been there still!
Safety in Numbers.
Maisie is a charming little 'girl, with whom it is a delight to talk. Her uncle was on a ́visit.
"Have you a sweetheart, Maisie?" he asked.
"Yeth," she said softly.
"Well," continued her uncle, "I'll give you a penny If you tell me who he is."
"Tommy," she answered, in a confidential whisper.
Her uncle gave her the promised coin. A few minutes afterwards she said, suddenly:-
"Now if you'll give me another who my other penny, I'll tell you sweetheart is!"
A Fairy.
anw a lovely fairy, once, Beneath a mushroom tall; Her wings were of a gossamer
thread,
Her height was very small; Her gown was made of thistle-
down.
Her clank was edged with pearls, She had the clearest, sweetest
voice that ever I'have heard.
THE CAMP FIRE
ROUND
BRONZE CROSS AWARD,
The Lord Lieutenant of Durham County, the Marquis of London- derry, took the salute of 3,000 boy Scouts at Durham recently, and presented a bronze cross to J. T Baker, aged 17, a member of the Tanfeld Troop, for bravery at an explosion in Garesfield Colliery last May.
Three men were killed and six left in the workings. Baker, with three other men, succeeded in rescuing them, and for their brave act received the Albert Medal from the King. The bronze cross with which Baker was decorated is the highest award in the Scout move- ment, and it is the first time it has been awarded in Durham County..:
THE DAY'S MARCH.
"Up you get, my heartles; All up! Pull Snowy out there, and get him on the breakfast! Come on, outside, the rest of you"
And so the Cyclist Patrol begins ita first day in camp. S.-
Out they come, one by `one,, shivering with the cold, and inclin ed to be just the least bit frritable -and who can blame them, for. It is a hard, hard thing to forsake the warm comfort of the blankets on such a morning as this A few vigorous exercises, however, fol- lowed by a plunge in the river, a brisk rub down, and then overy- body is cheerful, and glowing with exhilarating joy of perfect health. I led the thrilling stampede back to camp, dive on my "bussif," get out the old toothbrush, and then look around for the pante. We certainly made a rack for its but, of course, it is never used:
However, at last I see the tube, and proceed to squeeze nenerous portion on the brush, at the same time delivering a critic opinion Anowy of the mander In Jones is manceuvring the sausagen, Proce ling with the job in hand, fab brush,
brush vigorously, horrors
What have struck T
am poisoned for corte
·THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
"Said the Robin to the Spar-
Tow,
'I should really like to know Why thean anxious human
beinga
Rush about and worry so.' Said the Sparrow to the Robin, Friend, I think that it must
be
That they have no Heavenly,
Father
.Such as cares for you and
me.'"
These resourceful, Boy Scouta
Steel City are using the tower.on's downtown Arscraper as an excellent en, from the back of the point of vantage from which to y
(Tenderfoot Smith's wag their signals to their comrades. were perched Weapons similar tower on another Pitts
burgh building and there was some
re "Has anybody seen. Another band Fat Scouts
the tyre, solutio
Blue Certificate, Acgeus (11) Irely signalling back and forth in Macquarie Street Merewether, reparation for the annual Boy Scout oposition which is now being planned.
IN.S.W
CHINA
Birthday Hopes.
Mary will be six next week, I'll be
six then, too. Mary wants a party frock-funny
thing, all blue... Mary wants a French doll that
shuts its eyes and speaks, And I want a mousle, a wee brown
one that squeaks!.
Mary wants her doll to have tiny,
kid shoes;
I want a pussy, a wee, grey one.
that mewal
Mary wants a Teddy, with two, black
button eyes,
I'd like a lot of mud se's I could
make mud-pies!
I'd like some little birites, same na
I've seen in the parka,
Or a roly-poly puppy, a little one,"
that barks.
י.
I'd like a lot of other things, perhaps
a yacht to sall,
But I'd just love a litle piggy,
with a curly tall!
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Not Serious.
In the street the young boys were greatly enjoying their impromptu football match.
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"Tommy, Tammy," came a wo nian's voice,, but, no
one troubled. Then after an interval, "Tom, Tom. Come at once."
"Your mother's calling you, Tom," sald his friend. "Hadn't you better got She seems to be getting mad."
"It's all right yet." explained Tom. "I don't need to bother until she starts calling "Thomas.""
A Simple Sum.
"Now Charles," said the teacher, "if your father can do a plece of work in one hour, and your mother can do it in one hour, how long would it take both of them to đổi it?"
"Three hours,"
answered Charles, ""counting the time they would waste in arguing."
OUR GARDEN PUZZLE.
Do you know what this is? This flower is one of the beauties of an English garden and the pride of every flower stall. To. And out what the puzzle really represents, connect the first num! bered dot to the second numbered dot and so on until you reach the 74th numbered dot.
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Scout," Beachcomber wrote in they would have the assistance of recent edition of The Daily Ex-fall schoolmasters in helping to press
A fire broke out in a house at Luton, in which were a cat and a dog.
take up the Scout movement and thereby promote social service.
Lord Baden-Powell made a fur-
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The dog was afterwards made an honorary member of the Luton Boy Scout Brigade. "That was the true Spartan stuff," said Scout EXTRACTS FROM WEEKLY NEWS complain. Bilence in adversity master Jackett. "One should never BULLETIN.
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The following are,, taken from the "Weekly News Bulletin," published by Imperial Headquar-
ters:-
The Duke's Belief, The Duke of Connaught, who la the President of the Boy Scouts Association, has written a letter of congratulation to Lord. Baden- Powell, the Chief Scout, on the work of the past year.
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Lord Baden-Powell, The Chief the Chief Beout,
and, the
made some interest In his letter His Royal Highness O.T.C. Ing observations. on says: "I conalder all the statistics
the O.T.C. when he most satisfactory, especially as to visited the Sixth Schoolmasters the number of, Boy Scout Officers Scout Training Course at Welling who have been through courses of ton College, Berkshire. NAM training this last year and that the
They had heard, he said, a great Increase in efficiency has been deal of discussion about the cadet keeping pace with the increase in corps being disbanded. Much had numbers. I think. It is splendid been said on both sides, but there that the number of Scouta In the United Kingdom, In the Empire Training Corps.
was no question of the Officers and in the world have so increased. They all agreed it was a valu in numbers."
able be
Replying to a letter sent by the able nattution, and could not be
Chief Scout in which Lord Baden--it was preparing for war. It might Powell expresses his anxiety to ex- be a defensive war, but it was pre- tend the Scout Movement to "a fair paration in that direction. Every- proportion of the future popula-body recognised that the cmer tion," the Duke of Connaught says gency might arise, in hla_reply "I pray that you may
succeed in this great object and I believe you will”
In his letter the Duke tella how he was talking to some French Scouts outside his villa at St. Jean (Cap Ferrat) AM. He adds."The Scoutmaster told me that his Troop were increasing In numbers. They sected to me awfully keen and quick always make a point
of talking to Scouts when I see them."
A Tribute Indeed.
Whan war came it was perfectly eday to get men to come forward, but it was not easy to find the aur ply of trained officers to handle them. It was the leadership which was wanted all the time.
-Social Service Instinct
Nor must we lose sight of the fact. that we had one
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The Chief Scout, in discussing the many advantages of the Scout movement, said, "I was surprised to find recently that there are so many thousands of golf caddies in this country. I. had never realised the number was so great before. Here are these boys, getting any amount of pay, and every day they have any amount of slack time on their hands.b
saving, and many of them spend "Many of them have no idea of ]
their money on gambling. Incid entally, they hear gentlemen speak- ing in a way in which gentlemen should not speak So they (the caddies) do not pick up much that Is good on the golf links."
He had been asked if the Scouts could do anything for these boys.
They were trying and had met with
considerable encouragement from and were starting a troop among club committees and secretaries, į
were Scoutmasters to train these the caddies. What was. lacking
get them from the men who were boys. But they might very well doing their best to spoil them. They had to turn away hundreds of boys a week because they had not men enough to handle them.
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the time, and that was the war The remarkable value of the against slums and poverty and I Boy Scout Movement in Atting crime and drink All these things boys for employment was clearly In an article entitled "You may had to be fought against If we shown by Commander H. Sanders, work the Semaphore by Crowers to make our nation into one R.N.V R., when he spoke at Bir Jack in the Nautical Magazine for of happy, prosperous, contented Dingham recently
Scouting February, 1980, the author paya to people. That was what they want, az a help towarda the Sea Scout Branch of Lorded schoolmasters to get their boya Commander Sanders Baden-Powell's Boy Scout Move to understand that it was their village schoolboy, ment higa tribute. He says:. For business when they left school to apprenticed to an outåtter found nplicity, speedcaad ac, engage in social service and, he his real vocation through: faining
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