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BOYS OF LONG AGO.
MORTIMER.
"When do we start?" asked Mortimer.
"Even the days of
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Animals Made From Pea-Nuts.
You can make an amusing furm-yard or Zoo with the help of a bag of pea-nuts, some picces of thin card-board (white post- cards will serve splendidly), and a few match-sticks.
The Camel.
sewn through the end of the nut: keep this slender and fluff it out slightly at the tip. Mark in the eyes with black ink,
The Rabbit.
the
Cut two long cars from card-board, and paste one on ench Choose a nut with a hump on side of the pea-nut which you it, something like the one in the have chosen as being most like a picture. From the white car- Bunny in shape, as shown in the board cut a head the shape of illustration. Cut another small illustration I in the top right-piece for his tail and stick this why his aunt could not ride on hand corner. Mark in eyes and on. Bend two short pleces of horseback as usual. Now they mouth with black ink, remem- match-stick to form the hind the week are no longer certain would have to dispatch mossen-bering to do this on both sides of legs and stick the upright part is Monday to be called Friday?" gers to find out the bad places on
the head; then, with a sharp of each into the nut so that the Mortimer was irritated. The the road; and no doubt the coach pen-knife cut a small slit in the fat portions rest on the table. journey from London to Salis would come to grief in the grips, nut and slide the head into it at Finally stick in two short sticks bury was always a dangerous or cuttings full of water, and he the point marked A in the din for the fore legs. affair, but to go by coach was would he obliged to assist in get-gram. To make the tail, sew most vexing. His aunt, whom he ting it out with poles.
through the end of the nut with was escorting, tapped Mortimer's Grumbling to himself, Morti-black darning-wool and fluff this hand with her fan
mer went to a certain toyshop to "The chocolate has got into buy a mask, and four little red out a little at the tip. Sharpen your head, Mortimer," she titter-silk bags of false money were ed. "It is not the names of the handed to him discreetly with the days which are to be changed, parcel. but the dates of the month. Our
"Mortimer lis musk."
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calendar; they say, has been wrong ever since Julius Caesar compiled it, and to put it right eleven days are to be omitted. So the third day of September. 1752, is to be the fourteenth of that month. As we start for Salisbury on the second of Sep- tember, there will be no confu- sion."
But Mortimer was only a little
During the first day's journey, all went well. But on the second day, as the coach approachett a turnpike gate, a great crowd of furious people rushed towards it. There was no way of escape, so Mortimer and his aunt put on their masks, and the two.coach- men prepared for a fight.
"Give us back nur eleven days!" howled the people.
Mortimer shouted that he had not taken their eleven days and they must go to Parliament about it, and suddenly his aunt flung a bag of money into the crowd. Then off went the coach before the people discovered that the money was false. After a while,
Mortimer saw a gentleman riding furiously with his young daugh- ter clinging behind him, followed by a stone-throwing mob armed with clubs.
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"Give us back days!" shouted the crowd.
Mortimer called a halt, and the gentleman, protected by the coach, tried to address the enrag- ed people. But Mortimer threw two little red bags out of the win- dow and begged the crowd to go and drink to the resurrection of their cleven days.
"Sir," he whispered to the gentleman, "that money is false tis a new trick of the road but 'twill not be a secret for long. Is there any place of safety here- abouts?"
"At my house," replied the gentleman. ""Tis not safe to travel till the new calendar is forgotten."
So Mortimer and his aunt
four match-sticks; stick three of
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The Spider.
Find a nut something like the shape in the lower middle illus- tration. Point both ends of eight match-sticks, bend ench one
You can make all these little "Zoo" fellows from pea-nuts, match-sticka,, and scraps of white cardboard.
these in position so that the animal will stand up, and bend the fourth to suggest that Mr. Camel is walking.
The Elephant.
Cut two pieces of card-board for his cars; two for his hind legs, two for his fore legs, and one for his trunk, Copy the shapes illustrated. in the top left- hand diagrams for these. Now choose a peu-nut as near as pos- sible to the shape of the elephant sketched; cut slits in this and insert the ears, legs and trunk in the positions shown in the pic- ture. The tusks are two pointed pieces of match-stick, and the tail is a piece of darning wool
FISHERMAN'S LUCK.
"Ah, the sen is a poor place," thought the young fisherman. Nothing in it but fish, and it's hard to make a fortune out of fish. Now if only I lived in a
more irritated because he know spent cleven very pleasant days. all this perfectly well. For one and the gentleman's daughter year they had spoken of nothing confessed to Mortimer that she else. He was tired of this change had lost a birthday and didn't land where gold grew I could in the calendar, and wondered I know what to do about it!
A Shilling Catch.
Go up to a friend and say to him: "Divide one shilling among two people, so that one gets a penny more than the other." At first he will be sure to be wrong,
or hesitate in answering.
The easiest solution is:-Give one penny to A, who has to re- ceive a penny more than B, and
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divide the remainder (eleven pence) equally among A and B (fivepence-half-penny each).
How Are You?
"Corking!" said the bottle. "Fine!" said the magistrate. "Grand" said the piano. "Keen!" said the knife. "Ripping" said the scissors. "Well!" said the water.
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take a spade, dig it up, and be a rich man at once. And here's a storm coming, too! Now I shall go home without even fish."
It was an angry storm, and the fisherman's little boat was tossed by a huge wave a long way out of its course. Then the storm rushed Away home, and the fisherman found himself close to a high rock which jutted out of the sea. As he looked towards the shore, a timid little voice spoke to him.
slightly in the centre, and push these into the nut to suggest Mr. two black Spider's legs. Bend nins to make the "feclers" and stick them into the top end of the nut. The little diagram 1 shows the shape of the nut to choose; and 2 shows the pin bent for a "feeler."
The Chicken.
The nut for this should have
WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS
A Work Bag From An Old
Felt Hat.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1931.
TINK'S CROSS WORD
PUZZLE.
The letters beside last week's puzzle were arranged like this:
Don't throw away your old felt M on TH. And so, of course, you decided that the hidden word
was "Month"-and you were right! Full solution of puzzle:-
hats, Little Dressmakers! You can cut away the brim of one and use the crown as the basis of a really attractive work-bag. This would make a splendid present, or it would fetch a good price at a Bazaar.
Besides the crown, you'll need about half a yard of gay coloured casement cloth or sateen, and a few odds and ends of wools in bright mixed shades. Measure round the base of the crown- which will be used upside down --and cut a piece of the casement
B
A useful work-bag, made from the crown of an old felt hal, a piece of coloured casement cloth, and odd ments of bright wool. Dressmaker tells you all about it.
cloth about fourteen inches deep and long enough, to go round the crown, with an inch over for the join. Stitch the material to the crown, and sew up the side seam. Make a lining exactly the same size, and sew that to the inside of { the bag. Turn in a casing round the top, thread. drawstrings through this, and the bag itself is finished.
Decorate the felt part with little scattered embroidered wool flowers and green leaves, and sew a cluster of crochet flowers at one side. Diagram A shows the bag half-made; Diagram B shows an embroidered flower; and Dia- gram C shows a "close-up" of the wee crochet wool flowers which
are stitched on one side just! where the felt is joined to the material. To make each of these
flowers, work 3 chain, join into a ring, work 2 double crochet into the hole next the hook, then I d.c. into the next hole, 2.d.c. into the next, and so on all round, until the flower is the size you want it. One inch across is a good measurement. The leaves are worked with jade green wool: do 6 chain, then turn, work 1 single crochet into the
a part inclining upwards to sug-hole next the hook, 1 d.c. into gest the head. Cut the wings the next, and work treble crochet and the beak from card-board into the last remaining holes. and slide these into alits cut in Fasten off neatly, and sew the the nut. Stick in two short leaves amongst the flowers. Go pieces of match-stick for legs, over the join at the top of the bending them as shown, and felt with buttonhole stitching in mark in the eyes with black ink.
one of the colours of the flowers.
The wave has snatched me
away from my town, And lifted me up on this cruel
height, Where I weep, and tremble,
and quake with fright." Looking up, the fisherman saw
the top of the rock, and he a little green mermaid clinging to
thought it would be very danger- ous indeed to go up and fetch her. He was just going to shake his head when she spoke again.
"I will give you the purest
gold
I will bring you riches un-
told;
Fisherman, Fisherman, you
are so brave,
Rescue me, rescue me, from
the great Wave!" Now the fisherman felt sure there was no gold in the sea, and "Fisherman, Fisherman, carry that the little mermaid could give
me down.
nothing but sand. But he had
GEE WHIZ! I'VE GOT TO FEIGN ILLNESS FOR ANOTHER WEEK UNTIL THAT SHIP SAILS FOR CHINA - THEN THE BOSS WILL SEND SOME ONE IN MY PLACE~
OH- ARCHIE DEAR! I'M.. WORRIED-1. THOUGHT YOU'D BE JP AND OUT
BY TO-DAY- I'M SO UN- HAPPY-
TO-NIGHT IS OUR. COLLEGE DANCE
AND I HAVE
TO GO
WHO IS
GOING TO TAKE YOU?
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Wendy's Dressmaker.
a kind heart, so he clambered up the rock and carried her down to the sea. Then she begged him to wait while she fetched the gold. He smiled, but presently she came to the side of the bost
Again she dived and brought up with her hands full of gold coins.
more gold, while the fisherman stared in amazement at such wealth. Then the little mermaid whispered:-
These are the paving stones
from my bower; The tiles from the roof of my
watching tower.
We find them in ships that
sleep in the deep, But now they are yours for
ever to keep. Fisherman, Fisherman, thank
you again,
A Kind Act is always first
cousin to Gain !"
12,
Across.
1. Brag
5. Part of verb "to be"
(Boast). (Is).
7.
Insect
(Ant).
8.
Pronoun
(He).
10.
Hiden word
(Month).
11. Haughty
(Proud).
Snatch
(Grab).
13. French for "he"
(n).
14. Large quantity
(Lot).
15.
Used on washing-day
(Soda).
17.
Another insect
(Spider).
19.
Perform
(Do)..
20. Regions
(Areas).
Down.
1. Wicked
(Bad).
2. Upon
(On).
3. Preposition
(At).
4. Pronoun
(Thou).
6. School-children
(Scholars).
9. Conclusion
(End).
10. Unruly crowd
(Mob).
11. For
(Pro).
12. Pleased
(Glad).
13. Notion
(Idea).
15. Títle
(Sir).
16. Poem
(Ode).
18. Father
(Pa).
Now you see a kind of box with two letters printed on
it. I wonder if this suggests to you the name of a well-
known English city? It is hidden in the puzzle.
ER
Clues:-
Across.
1. Fascinate.
9. Region. 10. Old.
DE
15
EO
10
What English city doet this represent?
11. Mark left by a wound, 12. Number.
13. lidden name. 18. Excluation. 19. Follows neither. 20. Preposition. 22. Jeer.
24. Belonging to you. 26. Large bird. 28. Devoured. 29. Gave up hope.
THE TINKER
1. Box.
Down.
2. Part of a circle.
3. Fruit
4. Jack A
5. Large vehicle.
G. Nimble.
7.
Number.
8. Garden of the Bible.
13. Sound of hells.
14. Compass point.
15. Therefore,
16. Endeavour.
17.
Road to be travelled.
18. Samo as 10 across.
21. Boy's name (abbreviated).
23. Public vehicle,
25. Used for rowing a boat, 27. British Dominion
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BELL CLUB.
I want to become a member of the "Tinker Bell Club,"
and I promise to do one kind action every day. Please send
me a "Tinker Bell" enrolment card.
Name
Address
Age
Date of Birthday.
Cut this out, and send it to Tinker Bell, c/o The Editor,
China Mail.
HUH! I WONDER IF THAT'S THE BOSS ON THE’PHONE? I'LL
HAVE TO ANSWER IT- IT MIGHT BE
ROSIE-
IT'S A SHAME THAT I HAVE TO DECEIVE ROSIE AS WELL: BUT IFI WENT OUT-DOORS
THE BOSS WOULD FIND IT OUT-
SUFFERING CATS”-
MY HATED RIVAL IS GOING TO BE ROSIE'S ESCORT WHILE I SITU HERE FORCED TO SHAM ILLNESS
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