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BOYS

OF LONG

AGO.

FLAVIOUS.

Flavious was twisting laurel

THE CHINA MAIL.

The WENDY

HUT.

Like a boy in # dream, bathed with the

leaves into garlands with which Flavious

to adorn the spears of the Roman soldiers. Then the old slave soldiers on the morrow. He was rubbed him with musk, fastened fourteen, und he had been born aa beautiful leopard skin round glave, but he had never beheld his master, the great Roman general, whose Triumph was to be, held the next day.

"Look behind. Remember that you are but a muz."

The boy's arms ached from holding the golden crown above the victor's head."

Attius, another young slave, was repeating these words over and over again, and Flavious mused upon them.

"I am a slave," he murmured. 'Not a man."

him, and gave him a crown of golden laurel leaves to hold.

m

A great din rose from the streets as Flavious walked to- chariot magnificent wards drawn by four white horses, and. as he stepped in, he looked down upon the procession which was about to march through Rome in honour of the victorious hero. He saw the Senators of Rome; the soldiers; the spoils heaped upon waggons; gold and silver flashing between statues and spears; tattered standards and jewels; white oxen with gold-tip- ped horns; elephants and giraffes from the conquered land; priests fend-lictors-Then the conqueror. stepped into the chariot, and, amid wild cheering, the Triumph started.

Flavious looked at his master. who was arrayed in a purple toga embroidered with gold; he carri- ed a branch of laurel, and his face was flushed with victory.

"Look behind. Remember you are but a man."

THE BILLY BOYS' WOKSHOP

MAKING TOY ANIMALS.

This week I want to tell you how to make little toy animals for the Noah's Ark you did last week. Odd pieces of fretwood, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, are required for the elephant and the horse; and pieces one-eighth of an inch thick for the duck and

fowls.

Slot

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Squares

Squares

B

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PEPPER'S BAD TEMPER.

And Mike's Lesson.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1930.

TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

"Laze" was the word hidden in last week's puzzle, as no doubt you guessed when you looked at the picture beside it. The letter L was followed by three letters A and a final E-Lase. I told One day Mike the monkey had you the hidden word was not spelt. quite the same, but was pro-

a dispute with Pepper the pornounced in this way, Full solution: cupine. Having a very hot temper, Pepper finally pushed Mike down a well, and chuckled when he heard the poor monkey

go splash into the water.

"Your courage will be cooled by the time you get out," he laughed as he went off.

When the jungle friends col- lected as usual at sunset, Mike did not appear, and Pepper began to feel uneasy. Next day there was still no sign of Mike, so in the evening Pepper hastened to the well and looked anxiously down. But he could see nothing. "Mike, are you there?" he call- ed. "I thought you'd get out at Outline the duck, cockerel and once. Give me a paw, old fellow, hen on pieces of one-eighth inch and I'll pull."

"I'm too far down," whisper. wood, marked out in quarter-led a faint voice. "Get a trail of inch squares, as indicated in the very strong vine-maybe I have diagrams. After cutting out the just enough strength to hold on." birds with a fretsaw, round the

Pepper was horrified. His eyes parts C with a file, so that they were clouded with anxiety as he can be glued in the holes made tore at the vine, and his lega in the bases. Cut these bases were trembling. Mike must be

Squares

Squares

You will find it fascinating to make toy animals for

the Noah's Ark. Carpenter explains about these to-day

and you'll be able to think out ways of making others.

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very bad indeed to speak in voice like that! At last Pepper flung a great twist of vine înto the well, and taking the end in his mouth, he told Mike to climb up,

"I'm too feeble," whispered the voice. Turn your back to the well, and pull hard."

Pepper pulled, but he pulled such a terrible weight that the quilis shot off his back one after another. As the last one went, he landed his burden. Then, when he breathlessly turned round, he beheld Canibite the crocodile!

Pepper had just enough strength left. to escape, but Canibite's voice was heard all over the jungle.

"I fell into the well after Mike had climbed out, and I might ave stayed there for ever if you had not pulled me up," laughed Canibito...

"See where bad temper leads you," giggled Mike, who had been watching all the time. "You do look a fright!"

Pepper went for a holiday- til his quills grew again.

SLIPPER-BAGS FOR PRESENTS.

Pretty

slipper-bags

13.

15. GIfts

18. Conjunction 19. Gives up hope

Across

1. Condemned to exile

(Banished).

6. Preposition

(To)..

7. Pronoun

(She).

9. Used in geography lessons

(Map).

10a. Hidden word

(Laze).

11. Possessive pronoun

((Its).

Animal

(Aas).

(Presents).

(Or). (Despairs).

“Down.

(Anh),

(It).

(So).

(Eva).

(Ship).

(Else).

(Mean).

(Pass).

(True),

(Stir).

(Sop).

(Era):

2. Remains of a fire

9. The thing

4. Therefore

6. Girl's name

7. Sea-going vessel

8. Besides

9. Stingy

10. Go by

12.

Not falso

14.

Disturb

16.

Soft food

17. Historical period

This week you'll have to hold up the puzzle to a mirror to discover the meaning of the little picture at the side.. when you have done this, you should have no difficulty in finding the word we have hidden in the puzzle: ---

gr

1. Entices.

P 10

12

What English word does this suggest to You?

Clues:-

Across

2. Baby's "thank you."

Down

1. Agreed.

7. Vehicle.

3.

Special pleasure.

8. A great deal,

4.

Not dirty.

5. Preposition.

0. Not sitting.

9. Comfort.

12. Region.

13. Hidden word.

14. Pronoun.

form

17. Hanging down.

charming presents, and are quite simple to make. You can have

one with a drawstring round the OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER. top, and another, with a fold-over

For the elephant, take a piece from one-eighth-inch wood to flap and an outer pocket to take

a polishing cloth. of fretwood four inches by three the sizes given at D.

delicious

10. Rind of ly.

11. To bara.

16. Negative.

16. Roman numeral for six.

use a gas-

Fór several hours Flavious con- tinued to whisper the words into the ear of the hero lest the latter should become mad with pride.

all together. Bring the mixture the boy's arms ached from hold-

slowly, to boiling point, stirring ing the golden crown above the

Milk Caramels.

all the time. It easily burns, so see that the heat is not too great; victor's head, and suddenly his own head reeled.

The pull-up bag is made of a Το make these

it is a good thing to put an 85- "Remember you are a man and inches. Mark out one side of As the animals are intended give me my freedom!" he cried. this in half inch squares and then for a Noah's Ark, you should, of strip of linen, eleven inches wide sweets, you will require a piece bestos mat between the flame and

and

the saucepan if you twenty-five inches long, of butter the size of a large egg, Till night he worked at the He expected to be dragged out, carefully outline the animals course, have two of each, and Fold it in half, and decorate the one tablespoonful each of golden stove. garlands; then he fell asleep of the chariot and thrashed by with a pencil. The squares will you can use the cut-out one of front before sewing up the sides. ayrup and castor sugar, and a When the mixture is a thick upon the stones in the barrack the lictors. But the hero's head help you to get it right. Now cut each pair before it is glued to its The trimming consists of a large tin of sweetened condens-cream and golden in colour, try yard. Early in the morning he was reeling, too! Lifting his out round the pencil line with a base for marking out the other

a little in cold water; if it sets, was used by an old glave, and hand to obtain silence, he gave fretsaw, and smooth over the one. Now, with your paints and slipper, cut from linen of aed milk,

different colour to the size and Melt the butter slowly in athe caramel is ready. Four it then he saw that the court was the slave his freedom, and toss rough edges with fine glasspaper, brush you can colour the

shape shown in the wee diagram; thick saucepan, add the golden into a buttered tin, and cut it in- full of soldiers decking them-ed him the crown of golden Make the base from a piece of animals.

tack it in place, and sew it on syrup and sugar, gradually pour to cubes when quite set but be- selves for the Triumph.

laurel.

wood three inches long and one Although only a few creatures with buttonhole stitching. A in the condensed milk, and stir fore it is cold. "Attius is sick," said the old Then the Triumph continued, inch wide, and cut a slot one of the Ark are shown, many more circle drawn behind the slipper, slave. "You are

young and but Flavions stood in the cheer sixteenth-inch deep across the can be copied from picture books, as shown in the sketch, is work- beautiful, so you must take his ing crowd clasping the crown to middle of one side to fit the bot the outlines being enlarged ored with back-stitching in thread place in the chariot."

his heart-free!

tom of the shaded part A, which reduced on to the fretwood by

to match. can now be glued in place. - means of the squares, as shown.

in the diagrams.

WHEN AUNT ELIZA COMES TO TEA:

When Aunt Eliza comes to tea I feel as GLOOMY as can be! And when I hear her firm rat-tat, And heavy footstep on the mat, My heart sinks sadly to my

shoes.

Yea! All the fun of life I lose! Wait now, and hear my dread-

ful news,

For Auntie, though she thinks

she's kind,

And though I try hard not to

mind, Does all the things that most un-

доу

An ordinary jolly boy.

She calls me "Precious Little

Dear,"

ONE REASON.

A piece of wood two-and-a- half-inches square will be requir- ed for the horse, which you must The Rector had invited the draw in pencil and cut out in the village boys to the Rectory for a same way. The sizes for the strawberry tea. After they hadbase are given in diagram B. finished, he, seeking to point the which shows the slot into which moral, said:"

the bottom of the model is glued.

"Now, boys, wasn't that nicer than breaking into my garden. and helping yourselves?"

MAGNETIC SCORING.

"Oh, yes," chorused the boys. "And why was it nicer?" he

Fold a 1 inch square of paper asked a chubby-faced boy.

into four, and cut out a cross "Because, sir," was the reply, from it with one arm pointed. "we shouldn't have. bad any Insert a needle into a cork, sugar and cream with them."

balance the cross on the tip of the needle, and around the cork place, face downwards, four pieces of paper of the same size, on each of which is a different number.

** Spine.".

Effort at examination after a lesson on "Spine":

Another way is to cut pictures of animals from newspapers, paste them on to pieces of fret wood, and, when quite dry, cut| them out with a fretaaw in the usual way.

The Hut Carpenter.

with silk, and placing the rubbed end close to the cross. This will cause it to revolve on the needle as the vulcanite is moved round. The latter must not touch the: paper cross,

When the vulcanite is removed and the cross has come to rest, the paper under the pointer is turned up and the number on it represents the score. If it rests between two numbers no score is counted. The positions of the fore each player's turn, and he on one end and I sit on the other." fountain pen, or a piece of glass, is not allowed to see them.

.

"The spine is a bunch of bones Any number may play the

And pats my head, and pulls mythat runs up my back and keeps game, which consists of rubbing number papers are changed be

ear. Says: "Why, you haven't grown

at all,"

·

Although I'm really VERY fall—

Oh my I wish she wouldn't call!

When next she comes, I've made

ya plan.

I leave as quickly as I can, ¦- Then right away from home I'll

And Aunt Eliza WILL NOT

KNOWEST

She'll wonder what's become of 1: me

How spiffing never more to see My Aunt Eliza come to tea!

READING THE DATE.

Fill a saucer with soapy water, then place a penny in it, with the date upwards, but it will be in- visible. Now show it to a friend and ask him if he can read the date without taking the penny "out of pouring off the water. © He will give it up, so you must. how him how to do it. Preis the bottom of a glasa number into the water over the

will then be able to read the date quite easty.

my ribs together. The skull sits a piece of vulcanite, such as a

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bag, and turn in an inch-wide hem along the top to form a casing for the cords which will pull it up. A bag of this shape is nice to put slippers in when you're going to a party

The second bag is also made of linen. You need a piece ten inches wide and twenty-four inches long; and another plece six inches by four Inches, for the pocket. Fold-the material as shown in the amall diagram, and bind the inalde top edge with bles binding. Then bind the two sides and the top flap, making a long flat envelope, Sew press-studa on the flap and the inside of the bag. Turn in the edges of the pocket, bind the top and sew it in place on thế. bag. You can embroider initials on it before stitching it on If you have time.Tuck & polishing cloth into the pocket, and the

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