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BOYS OF LONG AGO.

HUGUES.

The

Through the night he Hugues was seven years old; priest. when his mother kissed him watched alone in the Church be- goodbye, and placed him in the fore the altar, vowing to himself care of a famous baron who was that all his life he would do right. to train him in all chivalrous In the morning there was a great virtues.

ceremony. Two soldiers testified The boy was very homesick into Hugues courage, a sword was But consecrated, and the baron struck his master's bleak castle. even at that early age he knew he the kneeling youth upon was a noble, and if his lip trem-shoulders with his own sword. bled, and his eyes filled with

tears, he turned his head the other way that nobody might see his face.

At first he wus.page to the buron's lady wife. He rode at her side when she went hawking, and soon he became an expert horse- man, who loved the chuse. When Hughes was lifteen, the baron made him his squire. Then the lad went to his own home for a few weeks, and was very proud and gay.

It was now his duty to carve in the dining-hall for his lord and lady, and many a round of beef did Hugues serve on the wooden platters for his master's guests, and many a cup of sweet wine did he set before them.

gay, and his

his

"Meny a round of beef did Hugues serve for his master's questa.”

the

men

THE CHINA MAIL.

WENDY HUT

THE UNICORN AND THE TINKER'S DAUGHTER.

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.

A Shelf For China Omaments.

THE STORY OF THE LEATHER

APRON.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1930.

TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

If you held last week's puzzle up to a mirror, you noticed that Kaweh, the blacksmith, lived in the letters drawn beside it were RE. As the little word was turned Persia when Zohak reigned over round, you probably guessed that the hidden word was "returned”— the land of roses and nightingales,

And Zohak was a very evil king. returned! Full solution: There was not one good deed that could be counted for him, and the people began to murmur against him.

After a time, Zohak began to be afraid, and he caused a great document to be written, stating that he was a good king and set- ting forth all the beneficial things he had done for Persia. This magnificent testimonial was placed upon a table, and Zohak called a number of powerful nobles to sign it.

While this business was going Once upon

a time a terrible unicorn lived in a forest. No one' This useful little shelf, which on, Kaweh, the blacksmith, came dared approach it, and, when the is intended to hold small china to the palace, crying for mercy. asked him who had made from odd Zohak King required the forest for ornaments, is

wronged him. pasture land, he sent for his wise pieces of quarter-inch wood.

For the back part A, you will "Sixteen of my sons have and asked them how he could get rid of the unicorn. It require a piece eleven and a half heen taken to appease your ser- was no good promising the hand inches long and three inches pents, O Zohak!" cried the black- "Now the last one has of the princess to any young man wide. Plane this on both sides, smith. who destroyed the monster, for and mark out the shape with a been fetched!"

Kaweh's rage and grief were many had tried and failed. pencil. After marking one curved

The wise men were perplexed. side, transfer the shape to the so great that Zohak thought it After searching in many books, other end of the wood with a would be wiser to find some other they discovered that the unicorn piece of tracing paper. Cut round youth to appease the hunger of could only be destroyed by a good the outline with a fretsaw and his serpents. So he told Kaweh to him if he signed the document and kind maiden, in whose pre-smooth the edges with glass- that his son should be given back sence it would lose its fierceness. paper.

the

But when Kaweh knew the words of the document, he rush- ed out of the palace, tore off his leather apron, and made his way to the market place. There he placed his apron on a spear, and, using this as a standard, called

So all the girls of that land The shelf B is twelve inches round which the nobles were

called together to draw long and three inches wide, with standing. were

Now lots, and the lot fell upon the tinker's daughter. tinker's daughter was terrified, but she was determined not to show her fear. The princess presented her with a apear, and a great company of people conduct- ed her to the forest with much pomp.

"The unicorn will lie quietly at your feet and you can strike him "It is at will," said the King. quite easy."

The tinker's daughter entered the wood with her head high and her teeth chattering. As soon as she was out of sight of her friends, the unicorn rushed to- wards her The poor girl shut. her eyes and when she opened them again, the unicorn was lying She looked at his at her feet! beautiful white coat, his red head, his blue eyes, and the tears ran down her cheeks.

"I must do this for my coun- try," she murmured. And, shut- ting her eyes again, she lifted the spear and struck the unicorn.

Then someone touched her 'hand, and she opened her eyes and beheld a splendid prince standing beside her.

A

A shelf for the display Car- of china ornaments. penter tells you how to make

and it,"

these diagrams will help. rounded front

upon his countrymen to rally round it and deliver Persia from the tyrant.

That flag carried them to vic- tory! And for many "hundreds of years the standard of Persia was a leather apron decked with gold, precious stones, and em- brolderies of green and scarlet.

WENDY'S LITTLE COOKS,

Orange Dessert.

Cat round an orange without breaking the inner akin; place the Jorange near the stove till it is quite warm, and then the skin will be quite easily removed with the handle of a spoon.

1.

Across.

1. Entices!

7. Vehicle

8.

A great deal

9.

Comfort

12. Region

13.

Hidden word

14. Pronoun

17. Hanging down

(Attracts). (Car).

(Lot).

(Ease).

(Area),

(Returned).

(Me).

(Drooping).

Down.

1. Agreed

3. Special pleasure

(Accorded). ("Ta). (Treat).

4.

Not dirty

(Clean).

(To).

6. Not sitting

(Standing).

10. Kind of lily

(Arum).

11. To burn

(Sere).

15. Negative

(No).

16. Roman numeral for six

(VI).

2. Baby's "thank you"

5. Preposition

This week we have a letter and a card. See if you can think of the quite common English word represented.

F

M

165

17

10

Zo

ECI

24

12

IG

UP

23

O

What Eighth word does

• This enggest to you?

Clues:-

Number,

Across.

3. Little fish.

6.

Hidden word.

8. To help.

117 Britlah Dominion

viated)..

12. Roman numeral.

13.

Pronoun.

14.

Give up.

18. Dispose of for money.

20.

High mountain,

22.

Devour.

24. Amounts paid.

Take away all pith and pipsi from the fruit, and make an orange pulp, sweetened with

THE OCEAN.

-(abbre-

corners. After castor sugar. Whip some cream Ye waves of ocean that are never

still, planing both sides, fix it to the till it is quite stiff, mix it with the back with four screws at the pulp, and fill the two halves of But charge and dash yourselves points indicated.

the orange skin with this.

to milky spray, Cut the two supporting Roll some icing sugar till it ie brackets from a piece of wood smooth, and mix it to a thick To then recoll in whirlpools,

gurgling gay three and a half inches long and cream with the juice of a lenon.

Down.

1.

Small casks.

2.

Not on.

3. Famous Scottish river.

4. Resting places.

6. Get up.

Pälitä

9. Organ of hearing.

10. Woman in a convent.

15. Catch sight of.

16. Vailey.

17. Head covering.

19. Possessive pronoun.

21. Old-fashioned exclamation. 23. Preposition.

Are many coloured as the rain-

bow's ray,

As they both swim and dive in

waters still. -

But foul and greedy ocean deep

and wide!

Hugues was tongue full of wit. But, although the baron loved his young squire! and allowed him certain liberties, his hand wit often heavy, for he "Rise, Sir Hugues!" he cried, demanded absolute obedience. "Swear that this sword shall be

Hugues

carried noy

used only in defence of the weak

"Sweet maiden,' he said, master's lance, ccompanied him and oppressed." everywhere, waited upon him With his lips trembling a little, "Your courage has broken the hand and foot, an strove to do Hugues awore. Then the baron spell and set me free."

Even when she was a princess, some valorous deed for him or kissed him, girt on his sword, his lady which ould earn and, with shining eyes and fast the maiden never told anyone knighthood.

At last the great lady arrived ed from the Church, ready to de- She always said that, no matter two and a half inches wide. With a teaspoon place a ring of Into some rocky pool which fain Thy monsters eat the corpses of

beating heart, Sir Hugues march-how. frightened she had been. when Hugues was twenty-one. fend his king, his country, or any how dreadful a task appeared, it That morning he fose early, bath- one in distress who should call proved quite easy when attacked

dressed in white linen, went to upon him as a knight of Christen- with courage. the Church, and confessed to the dom for help.

FIRE.

THE LEGEND OF INDIAN CORN.

THE SHREWD ELEPHANT.

swampy lowlands,

His trunk is one of the most

Long ago, the legend tells us, The elephant is probably the a poor redskin lived alone on the shrewdest and most adaptable of edge of the cold heart of the icy living animals, and has no north, and he was very lonely. enemies

except man. He eats During the Summer months, when anything that is green, and seems ⚫ the sun was hot and flowers equally at home on the plains or burst forth from the earth, he in the forests and jungles on the caught salmon and dried it for high mountain slopes, or down in the winter. But even then the days seemed long and lonely.

One morning, when he was on his way to the river, he saw maiden standing in his path, and he was amazed at her loveliness. She was very fair, dressed in a pale green gown, and her,golden hair fell to her feet. Fearing she would vanish, the Indian tried to catch her, but she slipped just out of his reach. "

"If you will obey me, I will stay with you always," she smiled, "And you shall never be lonely again.

The Indian promised he would do anything she demanded. So she told him to take two sticks and rub them together till they made a spark, and then to burn the grass on which she stood. The Indian did this; and then,

Fire, man's dreaded, hated enemy, Man's pitiless, terrible foe, Leaves behind it vast destruc-

tion-

A path of poverty and woe. Many an innocent being has

Been cast from the prime

life,

of

'Neath a cloud of grief and

sorrow,

To a world of toil and strike.

How many lives hast thy great

maw consumed, How many treasures doat thy

water hide?

Mark the outline of one bracket this on top of the cream in the (C), and, after cutting it out and orange skin "baskets," push aThe fish ye have that live by fin Then slumber, waiting for the finishing the edges with glass- little orange peel handle into each, paper, place it on the other piece arrange on separate little dishes,

would fill

untombed,

and gill.

beautiful than tongue can say,

next mad tide, mortal Whose waves in fury some poor ship has doomed.

OVERLAND MAIL.

of wood and mark out the shape and serve as a "surprise" for More of the second bracket. Cut this supper. out and finish it in the same way. Make sure that the top and back edges of the brackets are at right angles to each other. Each A very good group of selections bracket is fixed to the back with from Kipling's books is contained A few three screws, and to the shelf in the "Kipling Reader." with one screw, as indicated in of his best poems are also printed the two centre diagrams.

in this book, To complete the shelf, glue and His best poem is the Overland nail on an oblong wooden orna- Mail. It has a swinging rhythm inent, about two and three quar-to it, which delights. The poem ter inches long and one and a opens with the following lines:- quarter inches wide,

Give the whole two coats of

extraordinary organs of nature. But not always an enemy is fire,enamel or varnish stain, and it is In unexpected corners to lurk, ready to be presented to Mother. Ridder of disease, germe und

plague,

It containa the finest smelling apparatus on earth, and when the proximity of man is suspected the trunk is raised in the air and carefully turned in all directions, feeling" for the man smell in the wind

Saver of labour, toil and work,

And so this mysterious power,

This red-tongued destructive Repays us a thousand-fold

fire,

The Hut Carpenter..

WHAT HE WOULD DO.

"In the name of the Empress of

India, make way,

O lords of the jungle, wherever

you roam,

The woods are astir at the close

of the day

We exiles are waiting for let.

ters from home.

A master at a certain school Let the robber retreat-let the thought he might employ one of

tiger turn tail-

his junior forms in the construc- In the name of the Empress, the tion of couplets. He gave the

For its furious outbursts of ire. boys the first line, and waited to see what they could do. The line-

Overland Mail Pr

Once an elephant gets that emell he does one of two things. He either retreats quietly and rapidly or charges. Years of ex-

One can picture the mail car- perience in matching his wiles

rier fighting his way through the with those of man and his high- that would be made by a mouse, "If I had twopence to call my Indian jungle. Tramping wearily over the hilla; battling over flood- powered rifle has taught the ele- and the growth in these forests own... phant that it is safer to remain is frequently so impenetrable the An insignificant and meek ed rivers on he goes by day, in the dense forests.

hunter can make progress only by eleven-year old added:

perhaps taking a rest 'neath the

An elephant can move through following the winding elephant "I'd insult the Head o'er the shade of a tree, when the merci these forests with no more noise trail.

telophone."?

less sun beats down too hard upon him--on he must go!

when he had cleared the ground, 0000000000000 000000000000000..............00000000 "From aloe to rose-oak, from

the maiden told him to take her

by the hair and drag her over the burnt patch...

the

This request horrified young man, but, as the maiden was turning sadly away, he took her gently by this hair and pulled her over the ground. When he looked back over his shoulder, the maiden had vanished.

For months the Indian grieved for the golden maiden. But Spring arrived, and strange plants sprang up in the burnt patch; the planta ripened and be came maize, or Indian corn, and then the redskin knew that the malden would always be with him

gain; Yor

• He was never lonely.

the news spread.

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bio maize. To this day,

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You can see the maiden's

hair

Hanging between the fender corn

Co

the soft greeni lès

Birthday

rose-oak to fir,

From level to upland, from

upland to creat, From rice field to rock ridge,

from rock ridge to spur, Flies the soft sandalled feet, strains the brawny brown cheat,

From rail to ravine to the peak

from the vale

Up, up, through the night, goes

the Overland Mall."

Then, as the sun rises on a new

"A speck on the hillside, a dot on

the road

A jingle of balls on the foot

path below

There's & scuffe above in the

monkeys abode,"

The world is awake, and the |* clouds are aglow,

For the sun himself must attend

Sto the hall;

In the name of the Empress, the

Overland Mail

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