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BOYS OF LONG

GREGORY,

Gregory hesitated for a long time.

Why should he not go to see the procession of the Candle, instead of trudging up to the monastery for his lesson in read- ing and writing? True, he had

been forbidden to watch the pro-

"Scrambling on to the rough stone doorstep, Gre- vory stretched his neck cagerly."

cession because there were often riots on these occasions; but he was fourteen, and strong, and he could fight with the beat! Swift ly he turned away from the fields leading to the monastery, and ran to the little town on the borders of Wales where his father held the position of tax-farmer to King Edward the First. He was just in time!

Scrambling up on the rough stone doorstep, which acted as a little bridge to a wooden house and kept his feet out of the dirty water which ran along the road, Gregory stretched his neck eagerly.

THE ATHLETE.

Fair as a Grecian god, a figure Alive with the spirit of youth and

vigour.

AGO.

THE GHINA -MAIL.

The WENDY

HUT.

With modest step and banners flying, the Guild of Weavers marched slowly into view. First came the masters and the chap- lain of the Guild, and in their midst. placed on a platform covered with scarlet cloth, was Candle which they presented the magnificent and gigantic

every year to the Church. Be- hind the Candle walked the lesser members of the Guild, all dress- ed in their Sunday best.

Now across the border lived the wild Welsh, and for this very day, during the procession of the Candle, they had planned a raid on the town. While all the people were watching the procession, these wild men, garbed in sheep- skins and armed with clubs, burst upon them, snatched the very cloaks from their backs, plunder- ed their ale houses and their bake houses, and made off again with the rapidity of lightning, carry- ing with them as a proof of their bravery-Gregory.

WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS.

1

HOW THE PRINCESS BOILED.

THE EGGS.

Many years ago, a number of

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.

Making A Bathroom Seat.

This useful box-seat will be very useful in the bathroom, for

SATURDAY, MARCH 14,1931.

TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

Last week we drew the letters B and E, and

beneath ther

besides serving as a seat, it pro-and we asked if you would guess the ordinary English word they vides storage space for towels, represented. The word was, of course, "behalf," which was hidden

etc.

off

1. Exactress

7. To and

For the four legs, obtain a six-in the puzzle, full solution being:- foot length of one and a quarter inch square wood, and saw four pieces each exactly sixteen inches long. Plane away one corner of each piece for three- eighths of an inch as shown at A.j

The front, back and sides con- sist of pieces of four-ply wood eleven inches deep, the front and back being thirteen inches wide, and the sides nine and a quarter inches wide. These are fixed to the legs with countersunk brass

to find employment as kitchen picces must come flush with the beautiful Princesses were obliged screws, as shown in the first diagram. The tops of these maids. But this is the story of tops of the legs, and the side the Princess Floradora-who never became a cook.

edges should be planed at an angle as shown at D.

14.

Across.

(Accuracy).

(Fro).

8. Pronoun

(She).

9. Baby's "thank you"

(Ta),

10. Thoroughfare (abbreviated) 12. Preposition

(St.).

(At).

13. Hidden word

(Behnlf).

Because

(As).

15. Part of verb "to be"

(Am).

16. Measure of length (abbreviated) (Ft.).

18. Notion

(Idea).

20. Not so much 21. Bird

(Less).

(Owl).

22. Turns in a lock

(Key).

Down.

as

1. At the stern of a vessel

2. Shell-fish

3. Company (abbreviated)

(Co). (As).

5. Husks of grain ....

(Chaff).

6. Still

(Yet).

(Shade).

(Tames).

(Also).

(Tiny).

(H).

(Ask).

A Pretty Shopping Bag.

as a present for Wendy and it is Tink has made a shopping-bag such a success that Wendy thinks perhaps you little needle-women would like to copy it. Of course, if Mother does not need a shop- When almost starving, this ping-bag, it could be used as

To make the bottom of the box, Princess was engaged in the kit. work-bag to hold all your odds-chen of a young Prince, and the inch wood to the dimensions saw and plane a piece of half- and-onda of knitting, sewing cook taught her how to peel given in diagram B and cut away materials, and so on.

potatoes, Floradora peeled The bag measures twelve bushels of potatoes, and cart-

the four corners to a depth of one and A inches ncross, and twelve inches loads of carrots, and at last

quarter inches from the top to the central point begged to be allowed to do a little at the bottom, when finished; but cooking. you must allow about one inch extra on all the measurements

A

This is the pretty Shop- which ping Bag about Dressmaker tells you to. day. You can easily make one like it if you read her instructions.

of the shades used on the em- broidered front.

"The Prince wants a boiled egg for his tea," said the cook, “And, as I am going out, you shall cook it. He likes it well set, so give it exactly four minutes."

Floradora was delighted! But just before tea-time the Prince said he would like to eggs, and this flustered the Princess terri- bly. She counted on her fingers, and added up on paper, and came to the conclusion that four and four made eight! So she boiled the eggs for eight minutes, and the footman carried them to the Prince in golden egg cups. But he soon came running back, say- ing the eggs were so hard that the Prince couldn't eat them, and now he was so hungry that he must have three! Poor. Floradora thought that the clock must be playing tricks on her, so she got her own watch, went through "four-times" carefully till she found that three fours were twelve. Then she boiled the eggs shown. This part should fit in for twelve minutes.

B

You will find no difficulty in making a useful bath- TOOm seat like this, if you follow Carpenter's instruc- tions.

inch

At last the Prince came into position so that the under sur- face is flush with the bottom so given, for the turnings. Ordin- the kitchen, threw the eggs ON

ary crash will do nicely; if you the floor, and asked what he paid edges of the front and sides of line the bag, choose

the seat. It is fixed in place by coloured her wages for. casement cloth to tone with one Floradora stamped her foot, screws driven in through the

and replied that she knew four front, back, and sides, at a dis three's were twelve, and she had tance of a quarter of an been told to allow four minutes from the lower edges of the ply for each egg.

wood, "What a muddle," said theThe seat is made in two parts. Prince, holding his head." "Come front is hinged to the back

The back part is fixed, and the to my study and I will explain that it can be raised when neces matters."

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Soon the town was in an up- roar. Who would rescue the tax- farmer's son? The Guild of Weavers shook their heads; did the others. In despair, the tax-farmer went to the Guild of Palmars-men who wore રી branch of palm in token that they had visited the Holy Land and were pledged to help all their

Diagram A shows you the members who suffered loss from shape of the bag before it is thieves, fire, or shipwreck. But made up. Cut a strip of crash, the tax-farmer was not a mem- twenty-four

and her, and was obliged to promise twelve inches wide (plus the

inches long to become one before he obtained extra inch for turnings as I told help. It was several weeks be you). Measure three inches up Very soon he found that the sary. Use wood five-eighths of fore the Palmers rescued Gre- each side of the strip at top and beautiful kitchen maid was an inch thick for both parts, gory, and then his father whip-bottom: find the centre of each Princess, and he married her. which are fifteen inches long, the ped him in public to punish him end and rule lines from these two But he never allowed her to bail back being two and a half inches for the trouble he had caused. central points to the three-inch an egg, because she became all wide, and the other part eight Poor Gregory then made up marks at the sides. Cut away flustered at the very mention of and a half inches wide. Round his mind to be a soldier and con- the triangles thus formed it!

off the edges of the seat with a quer the wild Welsi! He never shown by the shaded parts of

plane, and finish with glasspaper. did that, of course, but when an Diagram A.

To fit the hinges properly, cut infant prince was declared first

shallow recesses to receive them Prince of Wales at Carnarvon Castle, Gregory was there, feel ing very thankful for pence last.

WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT IT?

Now work the embroidery, Draw a conventional tree on the front of the bag, making it about atrix inches high and nine inches

I see him, ready to run the race,

You have often met Tommy Crouching low at the starting-Knowall, the chap who heard

place,

that years ago."

Next time you meet him, ask how many threepenny bits will fit side by side on a half-crown, He will probably suggest three or four, and will doubt the fact that one is enough,

Powerfully moulded, pliant and

slim,

Deep of chest, and supple of limb. His muscles, a thrilling sight to

scan,

Ripple under the skin of tan, Showing the owner to be one Who loves the wind and the burn-

ing sun

All his energy gathers tense In the breathless straining of

suspense,

'Till the shot of the starting

pistol rings

Then from the crouching pose he

springs

Quick as a

fleet

frightened fawn, to

As though wings were lent to his

rapid feet.

Figure of youth! As I gaze on

you

My sleepy blood is awakened,

too,

"TU it quickens into a fiery tide,

And I feel I am racing by your

side.

THE MARIGOLD.

I passed along a sunlit lane, A shadowed pattern on the

ground, per

And in the spreading meadows

I heard a happy sound,

As if some god was laughing,

And his laugh was good to hear;

And so I hunted eagerly,

To see if he were neat;

I only found a little thing,

T think if truth were told,

s

You would agree it was his

Glaugh

A sunny marigold...

When he has failed to prove you to be wrong, get him to tell you how many pennies piled one on the other it takes to equal the height of a penny standing on its edge. He will be careful not to over-estimate this time, so he will probably guess eight or ninc. Then you tell him that 19 are re- quired.

LIVING PORTRAITS.

a

•

4. Same as 14 across

10. Cover for a lamp

11. Makes less wild

14. As well

17. Very small

18, Not well

19. Invite

(Aft), (Crabs).

This week you see some more lettera beside the puzzle.

said the word we have hidden in the puzzle.

If you say to yourselves: "They are

Y

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What

Clues:

Across.

1. An example.

7. Negative.

8. Upon,

"you will have

nglish work does this Suggest to you?

9.

Part of verb "to be."

10.

Number,

12.

Flow back (tide),

18.

Hidden word.

14.

Moved quickly.

18.

10. Kindled.

French for "and."

19. You and I.

Thoroughfare (abbreviated).

22,

Dislike intensely.

24.

A wooden plate.

This is a jolly game to play on the seat. Screw the hinges to the as shown at C, in both parts of wet days. First of all one person back part first; fix this in posi- is selected to act as "wardrobe tion by two screws driven into the across at the widest part. Work manageress." the stem in brown or black wool picked to play first portrait. The screw the hinges to the front 21.

Then another is tops of the back legs, and then Batin-stitch, the branches in remaining players then face the

part. stem-stitch, and the little fruit wall. The chosen two leave the circles in orange satin-stitch, add-room and the one who is to be small wooden ornament, about To give a finish to the seat, a ing two fade-green lazy-daisy- first portrait is dressed up to re- three inches long and two inches stitches at the base of each fruit. present some one of past ages, wide, can be fixed in the middle Diagram B gives you a "close for instance. "Joan of Arc," of the front part with small up" of the finished fruit and "Robin Hood," &c. On entering brads, after which the whole can leaves. Work three rows of the room the manageress says be given a coating of white or darning stitches in blue or orange "Ready" and the other players pale blue cellulose paint. wool beneath the trec, making turn and face the living portrait. the rows about seven inches long Whoever guesses who their mate and placing them a quarter of an is representing has next turn as inch apart. When you've pressed portrait. The person who is the embroidery, you're ready to portrait must not laugh make up the bag.

cry but look just like Д portrait hanging in the hall would look otherwise the game is spoilt.

Sew up the side seams, and join the pointed edges. Then make the lining exactly the same size, slip it inside the bag, and sew the two together along the top. Make two handles of doubled strips of crash, about an inch wide and fourteen inches long, and stitch them firmly to the top of the bag.

or

Make a big tassel from a penny skein of orange wool, and stitch this to the bottom point.

Wendy's Dressmaker.

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A GUESSING GAME.

Ohly two players must know this game. One of them is blind- folded, and is led to the others, who are all sitting down.

"Now," says the player, "my. tell me who, I am pointing at, blindfolded partner is going to although he cannot see."

Then he points to one of the others and cries. "Who am I pointing at?" Instantly the blindfolded player answers, "Winnie!" which proves to be correct.

You see, the first letter of the first word spoken by his partner Is W and this is the initial of the person pointed at. The leader, of course, varies his sentences. “At whom am I pointing?" would answer for "Alice of Alf.” “Tell. us whom I'm pointing at" for "Tom or Theresa."

WEARY WAY.

passed a man upon the weary

way;

(Blind was he).

Asked what beauteous flower

he'd seen that day,

"None," said he

"Only a clump of yellow mari-

golds

Have I scen."

Onlya elurap of yellow mari-

golds-

No beauty 7

Blind was he.

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Down

1. Payment for use of borrowed.

money.

2. At once.

3. Preposition.

4. One.

5.

Vehicle.

6. To make bitter.

11. Posness,

12. Fish.

15. Preposition.

17. Part of verb "to be."

19. Pale and worn.

20. And so on.

22. Pronoun.

23. Exclamation of enquiry.

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