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BOYS OF LONG AGO.

REDWALD.

The disgrace of his father fell heavily upon Redwald. The boy would watch for hours from the ruined wall of the castle which

Was

now his, and neither his mother nor sisters could make him take an interest in anything. His father, a great Saxon, had been created a knight by the Norman king, William Rufus; then he had turned against the

"Redwald

started

on his great journey with a thankful heart."

The

One day, as he watched upon the wall for he knew not what, he espied a priest toiling towards the castle. The good man's face was aglow with joy, and, while he was yet some way off, he waved a parchment to the boy.

"Redwald," he cried, "I have been to the King on your behalf, and obtained permission from him for you to do seven years' penance for your father. You must set out immediately on a pilgrimmage to the Holy Land. Read, my son, and be thankful.”

Redwald could scarce believe his ears. Snatching the parch- ment from the priest, he read aloud:---

"When therefore Redwald, the pilgrim, presents himself before you, of your charity give him lodging, fire, bread and water, and allow him to repair at once to the Holy Places.”

Shouting with joy, Redwald rushed back to the castle, and soon the commotion was great. Redwald was to go to Jerusalem! A great, perilous, glorious pil- grimage! And, his penance done, he might be allowed to join the Crusading Army and win for himself a knighthood. Although his mother and sisters might weep at the parting, they were glad at heart, for Redwald would wipe away

shame from their house.

"Fetch me the smith!" cried Redwald, "That he may forge me a chain from my father's armour, and this I will wear about my neck to show his rank, and to remind me of my sins.” ...,

He was soon ready. Dressed in the brown robe of a monk, his

He

THE CHINA MAIL.

WENDY HUT.

WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS.

A Pretty "Country Girl" Fancy Dress,

A Wendy Lady has asked how

SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1931.

TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

The letter we drew beside last week's puzzle was W, and the

to make a Country Girl fancy object was a hat. It did not require much thought to decide that dress, so we'll see about it this the hidden word was "What," did it? Solution;-- week.

The dress, which may be made of any dainty sprigged cotton material, has a plain, tight-atting magyar bodice, joined to a full gathered skirt. The amall Dia- grams C and D show you, the

Across

1. Kind of nut

5. To live

6. Perform

7. Exclamation

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP

HOW TO MAKE A DOLL'S SWING,

Here is a fascinating toy which I am sure you would like to make for your small sister. Only a few short lengths of strip-wood and a few odd pieces of fretwood are required.

Cut the base (A) from a piece of three-sixteenths fratwood, and mark the positions of the two slots for the uprights. These and should be made with a small slots go right through the wood, chisel after boring two holes with two supporting strips (B.B.) to a three-sixteentha bit. Screw the ends of the base, driving in

the

Shipwood

at D, and glue and screw them in place. To support the uprights on the base, four more brackets will be required: two cut to the size given at E, and two to the shape and size at F. The first diagram clearly shows the pool- tion of these brackets, which must be glued and screwed to the uprights and also to the base.

Back

D

C

and

The pretty "Country Girl Fancy-dress, diagrams to help you to mako il

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bottom and two sides to the sizes To make the seat, cut the back, given in the middle diagrams, and side pieces as shown. Glue and this sort of dress before, so I round the corners of the back and shapes to cut-we have described nail the parts together, as indicat- don't think we need go into more

LA

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Carpenter tells you how to construct this doll's swing; and the diagrams will help to make every

thing clear,

screws

details. The little short sleeves are finished with crisp white frills, and a white fichu,-just a trian- gular piece of material, hemmed all round-must be tied round the neck to complete the costume. The pretty sun-bonnet is quite easily made, though you had better experiment in newspaper first, to get the size right. The [back piece is about twelve inches long and six inches across the widest part. You must cut also a strip of the material roughly soven inches wide and long enough to go right round the first piece, as shown in Diagram A. Join the two pieces together as indicated and hem all the edges neatly. Then gather the bonnet about five inches up from the

from underneath. ed in the first diagram, and make lower hem, as shown in Diagram These strips, which are six inches two small holes in each side for, and sew a tie-band over the long, are cut from three-quarter the ends of the thin cord by gathers, leaving ends long enough inch by one-quarter inch strip- which the seat is suspended. The to tie under your chin. The front wood....

top ends of the cords are attach-strip is folded back slightly under ed to small wire hooks which the ties. hang from little screw driven into the cross bar C. eyes prevent the doll from falling out of the swing, fix a thin strip of wood across the front of the seat with two fine wire brads.

The two uprights are ten inches long, and the lower enda are glued in the slots in the base. The top part C is a piece of three quarter inch by one-quarter inch wood, cut to a length of seven inches. Fix it to the uprights by two screws, as indicated in the diagram.

Cut the four corner brackets at the top of the swing from quar- ter-inch wood to the sizes given

To

Paint the finished swing with enamel in two or three different colours.

be

Wendy's Dressmaker.

THE FORTUNE HUNTER.

The Fortune Hunter was a very bad man. Ever since he had first broken his bottle and kicked his The Hut Carpenter, nurse, he had been bad.

BRAVE DICK.

the waves arose

OUR

(Peanut).

(Be).

(Do).

(Ha).

9. Looked at

(Regarded).

12. Blunder

(Err).

13.. Conjunction

(And).

14. Water pitcher

(Ewer).

17. Hidden word

(What).

18. Pronoun

(He),

20. Conjunction

(Or).

21. Because

(AB).

20. Before

(Era).

28. Animal

1. Peep

(Aus).

Downl

(Peer).

2. Girl's name

(Ada).

3. Follows neither

(Nor).

4.

At that time

(Then),

5. Take breath

(Breathe).

8. To speak to

(Address).

(Grew).

(Dart).

(Who).

(Ear).

19. Suffix ...

(ET).

(48).

10. Increased

11. Move swiftly

15. Which person

16. Spike of corn

21. Same as 21 across

Now see what you can make of this week's picture and puzzle. You see two letters and a sign. If you put on your thinking-caps you will soon discover the ordinary Eng- lish word these represent. The word is hidden in the puzzle.

E

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What English word does this suggest to you?.

Clues:

1. Hurried.

5. Animal,

6. Froneun

9. "Help.

Acroes.

11. Hidden word.

15. Have the courage,

17. Beholdi

10. Pronoun, 20. Pronoun.

21. 'Girl's name. 21. A colour..

24. Pulls to pieces.

SWEET-MAKING CORNER.

Butter Toffee.

DOWEL

Possesses.

2. Preposition.

3: Prefix meaning "formerly,"

4. Transacted.

7 Pronoun

9. Termination.

9. Grow old.

10. Preposition.

13. Boy's name (abbreviated).

15. Anger,

14.. Pleased.

16. Used for writing.

18. Poem.

20. Cat and dried grass. 22. Because.

23. Same as 2 down

The older he became, the bad- der he became, until at last he hair cut, a heavy chain about his bing a curtsey. "Please, your

was the fattest and baddest man neck, a shell for a drinking cup ladyship, I never burn rose-leaves.

on all the earth, for he ate every-

Bring slowly to boiling point, hanging from his girdle, a staff I had as soon shut a skylark up in When little Dick, little Dick, went didn't find anything, he stole thing he found, and when he sovereign he had sworn to serve, in his hand, Redwald joined a a cage as throw the sweet things to sea

and, cook the mixture till a lttle and had fallen in a petty fight.

tried in cold water sets at once, band of pilgrims and started on into the dustbin. I gather them Oh, he was as brave as a boy could nine stone, thirteen pounds, something till he weighed ninety- The protection of law or justice his great journey with a thankful up in the rooms and in the garden

To this delicious toffee nuts of was denied Redwald. His cattle heart.

Put one tablespoonful of water any kind may be added; also and save them in a big basket. When the fierce winds came and ference was six feet, and his of brown sugar, and stir gently ginger,

fifteen ounces, till his circum-into a saucepan with one pound raisins, small pieces of preserved were stolen, his sisters had no He arrived at Jerusalem two Then I dry them with sweet herbs wool to spin, and he, at fifteen, years later, a weary beggar. and make them into pot-pourri."

cubical contents

or coconut was powerless, with only two old returned to his castle ten years return with a basket heaped with The storm came up with a bang handkerchief, and a knife which worked to a cream with a wooden of the saucepan on to a buttered

How brave he was then, oh, no-cubic feet.

twenty-seven over low heat till the sugar has "extras" should be stirred in These She darted from the room, to aerfa to serve his household. later still-a valiant knight.

body knows.

He bought a ship, dissolved. Now add a quarter of quickly when the toffee is ready and bought himself a pistol, a red a pound of butter which has been and Just before it is poured out rose-leaves, red, pink and yellow. "Put in your hand, miss," she did not speak at once! It may said to Margaret, "and see if by have been thrown in the fire, or any chance your ring has got in put in

the dustbin and carried among the petals." Margaret, had told the bees in away in the corporation cart.

Margaret dipped deep in, the the glowing flower-beds of the The only thing we can do is to call scented pile; her groping fingers great manor house; she had put Hazel Sprigg and ask her if she felt something hard, and she drew up a prayer to St. Anthony, remembers ever having seen it." out from its hiding-place her lost

When Hazel arrived, flushed opall

THE LOST OPAL.

finder of lost things. But in

A Kissing Catch..

vain; her ring was not to be and excited, Lady Blayn began: found, the precious black opal "Miss Elliot has lost a favourite given to her by her sisters on her ring. She thinks she put it down 21st birthday. She had always on the dress-table in her room a Your chum will be amused by longed for an opal ring, though week ago and that it got covered this little catch. Say to him: "If. told by her friends that it was by fallen rose-leaves and swept I had a donkey called 'Nobody" unlucky. Well, it was lost now. away. There is very little chance would you kiss him "

What made it worse was that of finding it, I fear; the petals He is sure to reply: "No, I she was a guest in the house only, will have been thrown into the and she did not like to tell anyone dustbin long ago-unless you for fear of casting doubt upon anw the ring elsewhere.

wouldn't."

Then who would you kiss?". As likely not, he will reply: Nobody which is the name of Sprigg, who attended to her room, nowhere else," said Hazel, bob your donkey. Ha! Ha!

the nice little country girl, Hazel

But as the day of her departure

arrived Margaret felt she simply

"Only on Miss Elliot's hand,

could not face her sisters with. 00000000-0000 60000

out the ring, and confided in her hostess. Lady Blayn listened at tentively,

"Now cant back your mind,' she said at last. Try to re member exactly what you did on the day you first missed it. Think where and when you last saw your ring."

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Margaret pondered; at last she said: "I remember taking off my wrist-watch and ring while 1 washed my hands after playing tennis. I can see in my mind's eye my watch lying near a blue, bowl of roses on my dressing- table. I remember thinking how pretty thefallent rose petals Looked on the shining glass top of the table.

Fallen petalalt repeated Lady Blaya, thoughtfully, “Margaret I fear they must have hosped thems

on your ring, and hidden it. And the hou duster must have whiske

leaves. What a vite

and a shock,

And the boat went splinter set out on an expedition with the And Dick was thrown out in a find, to the Spanish Main.

against a rock,

"cut-throatiest" crew he could ** raging sea,

he sharpened every Tuesday, and spoon,

Still he was brave and as calm as

could be,

And Dick Just swam till he got

to the shore.

He sighted land quickly-nursery

floor,

And no wonder he didn't really

care,

shoulder of ham, six dozen dog. Every morning he had a

puddings, 20 red herrings, and 20 biscuits, two of the largest plum- pints of beer for breakfast, and every morning he captured a ship, and after taking all the cargoes, made all the people walk the plank, and then set fire to the

For the boat was simply a nursery chip, for he wasn't scared of no

chair!

Do You Know Thi?

ghosts, as he said. (You must know he always used bad gram- mary for as he was a very bad boy, he didn't learn any grammar).

Soon he had a pile of doubloons, elephant 100 years; an ox 25 crowns, castor oil (he didn't want A camel lives 40 years; an jewels, candlesticks, jewelled yeara a lion 40 years; a pelican it, so he gave each of his men six 50 years.

tablespoons before and after meals to use it), and also he had a green and scarlet and yellow. parrot which swore in a perfectly awful voice whenever it felt like Now, one day this perfectly awful parrot woke his perfectly awful master with a perfectly awful swear, and then they both awore in such a perfectly awful} way that Old Nick came and carried them off with a perfectly awful thunderclap because he ad- mired them so much.

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