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GIRLS

OF LONG AGO.

LETTICE.

"If I spend every gold, angel in my enfters, I will not be putcione by any man from Berwick to Earl of cried the London! Riehaven. "Tis not every day that the King of Scotland be-

"Hall, King of Scotland," said Lettice, bowing from - the enormous pie.

comes King of England, and, by Saint George, we will show him that we do not live on oatmeal."

Lettice, his daughter, laughed heartily. Aye, she would see this porridge enter, who was heir to the English crown now that the .old Queen Elizabeth was dead, for

he was on his Progress to Lon- don. There was feasting, and drinking, and dancing all along the road, and, at every house, at which the. King stopped for the night.

Esme, Lettice's brother, home from. the Spanish court and full of extravagant ideas, declared

THE PRINCESS WHO HAD THE

LAST WORD.

There was once a princess who always argued and always had the last word! She was very lovely, and had beautiful long black hair which she plaited and allowed to hang down to her feet

like shining ropes. A prince from

a foreign land saw her when he

THE CHINA MAIL.

The WENDY

HUT.

that, they must give the King dish that he would never forget one with a little spice in it, too! "We will have, dinner lasting ""Tis a two days," said Esme. German custom, and will be im- pressing, Dragon pie shall be the centre-piece. A grent pic stuffed with swans, peacocks, and black- birds, decorated with a dragon of And Lettice, jelly and cream. who is small and slender, shali stand on the top as Saint George, to show his Majesty that we have no room for his oatmeal patron!" Mes- Lettice was enchanted. sengers were dispatched to Lon- don to borrow a certain exquisite suit of Spanish armour, magni- ticently gilded, which had been made as a present for the boy King Edward 6th. When James arrived, he and his train of horses and coaches trampling through quantities of strewn flowers with the coutry folk singing and thane- ing in the road, his lordship and Esme welcomed him into the banqueting hall, and he seated himself at table immediately.

"Hall, King of Scotland," said Lettice, bowing to him from the enormous pie. Then, bending for ward, she tickled his beard with her sword.

| There was some giggling "from the company, and his lordship looked nervous, but King James laughed.

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.

HOW TO MAKE A FERN TUB.

This strong garden fern or shrub tub is made from wood half an inch thick.

For the sides, saw two pieces cach nine inches square, and two pieces each nine inches long by eight inches wide. Plane the edges and mark out the bottom of each as shown in Diagram A. Cut away these parts with your saw and chisel.

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sides of the tub in the positions indicated at C, C. The strips on two of the sides should be cut so that the ends overlap the strips on the other sides, as shown in the first diagram.

WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS

The Blouse For The Pinafore Frock.

› SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18,1930. EINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

Last week we drew a half on top of the word "go," but we You will need about one-and-a-crossed, the H-out of "half," and, if you thought about it carefully, half yards of white muslin to no doubt you came to the conclusion that the hidden name was

'half on so do you see?..Full solution: Imake the little underblouse for Alfonso

Across.

There are two ways of making the bottom of the tub. If it is to used for holding an ordinary formed of three slats cut from flower pot, the bottom can be

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The fern or shrub tub, and diagrams to help

you to make it.

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your pianofore dress. Fold the material widthways and, length- ways, and cut as shown in diagram A. When you have un- folded it, you will probably gásp because it looks so huge! But the neck and sleeves are prettily. gathered, and there has to be plenty of material to allow for this.

At a distance of one and a hulf; one and a half inch by three

ing screwed to the cross-pieces inches from the bottom of each of quarter-inch wood, the ends be the two wider picces, screw on a B.B., as shown in the diagrams supporting strip as shown at B. D.D. If the tub is to be filled These are eight inch lengths of with mould, the bottom should be one inch by five-eighths inch made from one piece of three quarter-inch wood, eight inches square; or two pieces eight inches long and four inches wide. A number of half-inch holes must And that is how Lettice be-lit between the wide ones to form be, made in the wood for drain

maid-of-honour came

to the Queen for the new King's wit was equal to all occasions.

"There is but one place for Saint George," he said. "That is at the court of the King of Eng-wood.

Screw the four sides together land. 'Tis beneath his dignity: to prance on a bird pie. He must be with one and a quarter inch screws, making the narrow sides taught manners."

Now the prince was a wise man, so he laughed and fetched a coach. The wheels stuck in the sand, and then the princess laughed too! After all, what did it matter

From Captivity,

age purposes.

Sew up the side seams, andi. make a hem round the bottom edge; you will thread an elastic

1. Springs of water. 9. Gaelic dialect- 10. Cense

(Fountains).

(Erse).

(Stop).

11 Part of verb "to be"

(Was).

12.

Health resort

(Spa).

15.

Put into one total

-(Add).'

17.

Hidden name

(Alfonso).

19.

Paint with weapon

(Aim)..

(Sob).

(Plot).

(Here),'

20. Weep.

22. Plan

24. In this place

25. Covered chair of 17th and 18th centuries (Sedan).

3. Pronoun

4. Fresh

The thing

5. Animal

How to make the muslin blouse to wear with the pinafore frock you made last week.

7. Negative

8. Hastened

13. Bucket

through this casing, so make it] about half an inch wide. Run a gathering thread round the neck, and pull up slightly. Take a piece of contrasting coloured ribbon, (one that will go with the pina- fore part of the dress), about eighteen inches long and one inch wide. Find the middle, 'both of the ribbon and the back of the neck, and crease the ribbon down' its length. Pin the muslin to the ribbon at the points found, then sandwich the kathers of muslin between the folds of the ribbon,Į as shown in Diagram B.

Find the centre-front of the neck, and bring one side of the ribbon here; turning the raw edge under neatly to make a tidy finish; then bring the other side of the ribbon round to meet it. day. This gives you a little cas- turning in the edge in the same in through which you will thread a piece of the same ribbon. on, you can pull up the long Then, when you put the blouse ribbon, and tie the ends in a pretty little bow.

Measure round your upper urin, and cut two pieces of ribbon to fit, over for with two inches or so turnings. Join each binding into tub nine inches square. The side strip are one and u The finished tub can now be

a ring, fold down the middle, and quarter inches wide by three-given two coatings of paint in-gather the sleeve edges into these eighths of an inch thick, and side and outside: these are nailed or screwed to the

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NIMBO THE LION.

The Hut Carpenter.

Sventing.

off in search of food. the fresh trail of a deer he set

bindings.

Wendy's Dressmaker.

My Very Own.

off in the direction in which the I slept by the side of my Nannic's scent led. Soon he saw a deep pit

in front of him and looking into up at him. it he saw a terrified deer looking

big bed

In a cot in the nursery;.

a room -

who had the last word? The Everything in the big African prince always let the princess forest became suddenly quiet. have it, and they lived happily.The chattering of the monkeys ever after.

But now I am big I've been given the screeching of the night birds

Not waiting to think how he and the calling of other wild birds and beasts ceased suddenly. would get out Nimbo jumped into The whole of it just for me! To the human eye nothing would the pit, and having killed the i have walls of my own, and a

carpet and door, have been visible, but the wild leer proceeded to satisfy his When his hunger animals instinctively knew that hunger.

had been satisfied he tried. A ceiling, a table, a chair; visited her father's country. He Outside, the cloudless, morning Nimbo, the enemy of all living to get out but all his efforts were A cupboard, a bookshelf, some things in this dense forest, was | fell in love, and asked her hand

out searching for, his food which futile and when morning came he in marriage.

he invariably obtained before was still raging round the walls But the best of things that are winds that sing by dewy leaving off his night's hunting. of his prison.

Soon he came bounding into in a net, and fighting and scratch- Is a little square window that's natural clearing and was revealing he was taken away to spend the rest of his days in some circus

framing the fields.

warn you," said the king. "She will argue the hind leg off a donkey, and is accustomed to having the last word."

sky

Is blue as summer seas;

On

flowera Is borne the chant of bees.

And autumn in the world'

Then came men who placed him

curtains, a hed

there

26. Stone fruit

(Date).

27. Shines at night

(Star),

Down.

1. Charges

(Fees).

2. Conjunction

(Or).

(Us).

((New).

(Ass).

(it).

(No).

(Sped).

(Pail).

(Almost).

(Aysent).

(Door).

(On).

(Aped).

(Bear).

(Tee).

(IIas).

14. Nearly 15. Sanction

16. Means of entering a room

18. Upon

19, Imitated

21. Animal

23. Small pile of sand on golf links 21. Possesses

Now try another. You see a big letter and some 'eyes.

I wonder if these will suggest to you an ordinary English word which means a tax or duty. The word is spelt differ-

ently, but it is pronounced the same.

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What English word dres

this suggest?

Clues:→→ Across

1. Deliverers. G. Upon.

6. High hill (abbreviated),

8. "Preposition.

0. You and 1

10. Hidden word.

11. One.

12. I'ronoun.

13. Part of verb to be.

15. Fossessive pronoun 17. To and

18. Notion.

21. More powerful.

THE SLEEPY-PEDLAR.

Down.

1. Outer edge.

2. Vehicle.

3. Untesten.

-1. Observe.

7. Portable shelter.

9. To be dressed - in.

11. Helga.

11. Open land on which heather

Ktows.

16 Title.

17. Toll wentily.

13. Perform

20. Prefix.

The Sleepy-Pedlar wends his way.

Wide skies above, green tured by the pale light of the moon

below.

as a very powerful lion. He halt- cage dreaming of the freedom And the early white clouds on "I've Dreams to sell! Sweet His Dreams are in aaack behind. ed and roared forth a challenge to which had once been his. any other animal in the forest

The prince said he did not mind, so they were married, and very soon afterwards they set out for the prince's country. On the The way, they were obliged to cross a desert on foot and then the

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long, brown roads are edged with gold, *The silver fields, dow-pearled.

clear,

princess began to argue. She said And, falut at first, but swelling she ought to have a coach, but the prince said the wheels wouldFrom field and mountain-way, A murmur bids me leave my toil only sink in the sand.

For ever and a day-- princess said they wouldn't, and, to pacify her, the prince said he would get a camel. The princess! declared that nothing would. in- duce her to get on a camel's back, and so the argument went on. The princess talked so much that she failed to notice the only well in the desert! She walked straight up to it, and fell in Fortunately, there was very little water in it, and she said she would stay there till the prince brought her a coach The prince retorted, that would be never, and went away and left her.

He returned next day thinking to find a weeping princessbut A there she was, gaily drawing water with the ropes of her hair for a passing carayan,

I get on very well," she said. draw water for travellers, and In return they give me food,

"Your hair will come out, re- VZ. marted the prince

Cullore will grow returned the priticess.

murmur dear, yet

sad,***

That lingers in my heart,

| An alien, for in my life

It has no place, nor part..

For" night and day I walk in

chains,

And bend beneath their land; The while I hear, but must not

heed

The voice of sky and road

who dared defy him.

There was no answering roai

and satisfied that he would not have to fight to-night he trotted

'the bluc..

That night the animals and And the trees, and the birds that

fly over the hills,. :.

birds in the forest did not cease 'their chattering for they knew

that the once dreaded Nimbo And you see it's my very own would no longer terrify them;

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Dreams to sell!".

The Sleepy-Pedlar rings his bell, As tip-a-down, the Milky Way He travels at the close of day. Hushi! Listen! Can't you hear

the song..

He's singing as he goes along?. "Dreams of joy and gladness

Caught from butterflies: Dreams of rainbow brightness, Full of sweet surprise! Dreams to make you happy, Dreams to make you well; Come! Oh, come! A sleepy.

mile

His eyes are very soft and kind, Hush! Listen! Can't you hear

the.air He's crooning, as he flies up

there?

"Dreams of magic moonbeams Baby Stars have spun, Dreams of golden sunlight 'Herè for everyone.

Dreamis for all the Children, And Grown-ups as well, No one else in all the world Has such Dreams to sell. .Dreams! Sweet Dreams to

Sell!"

OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER.

Chocolate Goodies.

Put into a basin one cupful- of ' ground almonds, half a cupful of castor sugar, and a quarter of a cupful of unsweetened cocon. Stir all together. Beat the white of one egg till stiff; add this to the mixture, and beat it to a stiff paste. If the mixture is too dry, add a little Jernon juice; if too soft, put in more ground almonds. Roll the paste-on-a-board, cut It into small squares and rounds, place these on a baking, tin, and. press a glace cherry into the

Cook in a slow oven for about a quarter of an hour.

Buys the Dreams I sell Dreams! Sweet Dreams to middle of each

Bell,"

In flowing robes of misty grey