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12.

BOYS OF LONG AGO.

HENRY.

THE CHINA MAIL.

The WENDY

HUT

The Duke had dismissed six on the top in which to carry of his running footmen when letters, small parcels, and some Henry applied for a post, and his times food. Grace's steward glanced criti- With the other runners, Henry enlly at the land's feet and pinch-lounged in the Duke's corridor the muscles of his legs waiting for orders. It was his ed severely much to Henry's in- duty to run beside his Grace's dignation.

coach when his Grace travelled; "His Grave 'crinnot „bide # to get the cumbersome vehicle statternly

the out of ruts with the help of his vartet," yawned steward.

pole; to speed ahead and warn "Did he favour them, I should | innkeepers of his master's urri- hot have entered his service," re-val, and also to run messages torted Henry.

when his Grace was in London.

"And his Grace's temper is so surprisingly quick that five

became a

Henry familiar sight and everyone recognised the Duke's swiftest running footboy. minutes appear to him us ten," yawned the steward.

"My legs shall keep place with his Grace's temper, and five minutes shall be to me two and a half," replied Henry.

"In that case" yawned the steward. And he waved Henry across the road to a certain tailor in Piccadilly.

From that select shop Henry emerged the perfect. running footboy. Strongly shod, his legs protected with leather guarda, his tunic fashionably short, his little bob wig of the smartest cut, and the feather in his cap of the jauntiest possible style, ho presented himself to the steward. Then the steward handed him a very tall stick with a screw knob

THE BURGLARS OF BIRDLAND.

You can go on feeding a sea- gull all day long and he'll find room for everything you give him. His appetite is terrific!

Apart from being a very hungry bird, the seagull is a thief, a highwayman, and a ban- dit!

- No eggs are dafe when he is about even those belonging to one of his own kind. He thinks nothing of eating a whole nest ful of eggs for one meal!

In spite of his crimes, however, this seabird is very brave.

He

in afraid of nothing on legs, wings or fine, and this fearless-

The first message Henry ran was to a coffee-house in Charing Cross, where a bracelet of braid- ed hair was handed to him in re- turn for the note he presented. Scarcely had he recovered his breath when he was sent to 11 jeweller for a silver camit box. But His Grace flew into a rage because the box was empty, and out darted Henry again for cara- way cachous and a salve for his Grace's lips.

Soon the elegant, flect young figure, speeding like the wind through the streets of London, became a familiar sight and everyone recognised the Duke's swiftest running footboy.

Then, on a morning before the Duke set out on a dangerous journey to York there was no milk for his bath! His silver tub was polished, his powders, poma- tums and perfumes were ready, but there was rp milk for his grand toilet. In his rage, the Duke threatened to dismiss his entire household, and Henry took to his heels. He sped through May Fair in Piccadilly, between

WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS

HO

A "Gretel" Nightdress Case.

The "Dutch Boy Hans" toy we made a few weeks ago has been popular that we think We ought to tell you how to make his sister, Gretel. But Gretel is not merely a toy she is a very useful young lady, for she takes care of your nightdress or pyja- mas while she sits all day on your pillow.

A circle of flesh-coloured material, six inches across, gathered round the edge, stuffed with Kapok, and pulled up into a ball, makes the head. Another

Dressmaker tells you how 10 make this quaint "Gretel" night-dress-cast.

piece of material, six inches wide: and five inches deep, made into a tube and stuffed, forms the body. Join the head to the body; make two smaller tubes for the arms, sew these on firmly at the should- ers," and then work in the fea- tures of the face with coloured silks or wools,

Dress the doll in a little white magyar blouse, with a black velvet over-bodice, like the one in the picture. Tie a string of red beads round the neck to conceal the join, cover the head with yellow wool for hair, and attach a wool plait each side. You can also fold an oblong of stiff white the booths, the elephants, the muslin over the head, to suggest caged tigers, to the little farm the winged cap Dutch girls wear. beyond. There, without so much

Now you are ready to make as "by your leave," he snatched the skirts, which form the bag, a bucket, milked one of Mistress for your nightdress. Diagram A Dolly's cows, and arrived back shows you how this bag, which breathlessly in his Grace's cham-should be about eighteen inches ber where the servants were standing in awe of their master's rage and doing nothing.

"By Saint George, you have a grain of sense, my Mercury!" stormed the Duke. "How have you developed so marvellous a brain?"

"By turning my feet to your Grace's temper," replied Henry, and from that day he was his master's companion and friend!

wide and fourteen inches deep, is

joined to the body. Use gay

checked material for the bag, make it with an opening down the front, and bind the edges as shown in the Diagrani. Make a casing round the top, thread a tape through this, place the doll's body in position, and stitch It firmly to the back of the bag, Now pull up the tape, and the the bag round Gretel's "waist."

A little muslin apron aewn on ness is proved by the fact that the front of the dress will con- he will take food out of a human ceal the opening of the bag. hand like a pigeon.

Then, with two wee feet stitched The seagull has other accom-in position beneath the hem of the skirt, your new doll will be lishments as well. He is an ex- pert fisherman, and a very clever quite ready for her job of work! being magnificent. "out-field," some of his catches

Again, the sengull is clever when it comes to using his wings. We humans, who are trying hard to become masters of the air, might do well to take lessons from this expert. -

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

Wendy's Dressmaker.

By the way, talking of bird "fishermen," I once saw

a rook heat a hungry seagull at his own game!

The rook it was who snatched the five-inch roach and left the seagull to fish again!

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LAMENT OF VERONICA ANNI

I really don't want my Baby

Brother! What I really want is a Teddy

Bear.

I asked Nannic-"Couldn't we

change him?" Nannie said: "No! 'cause it

wouldn't be fair!"

I really don't want my Baby

Brother!

In the Park, when we're out

for a walk,

Even if I whisper to Nannie- "Hush! he's asleep," she says,

Don't talk!".

I really don't want my Baby

Brother!

Mummy's friends, when they

come to tea,

All of them say about Baby

Brother

The very same things that they

said about me!

"Isn't he sweet, the precious

darling?

"Look at his little pink toes

and his curls!

"I always say about baby

boys- "They're far, far sweeter than

baby girls!"

F'd really like to explain to

Baby That when grown-up ladies

come to call

They only talk to please the

Mummies-

They don't can what they say

at all!

Long ago, when I was the

Baby,

All of them brought me rattles

and toys.

"Isn't she sweet, the precious

darling?

Girls

.... are so much sweeter than boys!"

PRIM'S FORTUNE.

"I have a hard life," thought Prim the parrot. "Morning, noon, and night I'm on the wing looking for food, and as soon as I've finished one good meal I'm worrying about the next. Oh, if only I could

come into a for. tune!"

"Well, all the jungle folk hunt ed for food, but after a good meal they would collect and chat to gether. One evening Prim ar- rived looking so proud that they all gaped at her. She strutted, she turned up her eyes, she flat- tered her wings, and she looked down her beak at them.

"I have come into a fortune," she said.

That was all she would tell them. Peep and pry as they would, they could not see Priin's fortune, but only the effect it was having on her. Every even- ing she arrived a little later at the chatting party and gave her self a few more airs.

"It must be a very large for- tune," sighed Mike the monkey. "Look how fat she's getting; soon she won't be able to walk here."

"She never has to go hunting,” sighed Pepper the porcupine, "She just eats and eats her for- tune and grows like a full moon, while we're working hard for a

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.

A Small Plant Stand.

Here is a useful fern or plant stand which you can make from three-eighths-inch wood taken from a packing case,

For the top of the stand you will require a piece of wood at lenst seven and a quarter inches square. Plane it on both sides, and with your compasses mark on one side of the wood a circle. having a radius of three-and-five- eighths inches as shown by the dotted lines in diagram A. Now, keeping the same radius, mark the six points round the circle, and join the points with straight lines to form a hexagon. Gut this out with your tenon-saw,

finish the edges with a plane, and bevel the top edge all round. The part B can be marked out and finished in the same way, ex- cept that the radius of the circle in this case should only be three- and-a-half inches.

Cut the three supports for the stand to the sizes given in dia- gram C, and cut out the oval

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Squares

The small plant stand; and diagrams to show you how to make it.

piercing with a pad-saw. To get the shape of this piercing, mark out the half-inch squares as in- dicated and then carefully draw in the oval and centre piece. After this has been cut out and sand-papered, use it as a pattern for marking out the piercing on the other two supports.

Before fitting the parts to- gether, glue a triangular fillet plece along the top of each sup- port flush with the top edges. After the glue has set, drive a couple of screws through cach piece into the upright, as shown at D. Fix the part B in the position indicated at E, by two screws through each support.

Glue the stand top the tops of the supports and fillet pieces, and finally fix it by two screws through each fillet piece in the manner shown in diagram, D and F.

be

The finished stand can treated with varnish-stain or coated with glossy paint in any desired colour.

The Hut Carpenter.

dinner and looking about as fat as a rat's tail."

As the days passed, Prim be- gan to look like a green moon with a beak and a couple of claws! One night she simply waddled up to the company, and then who should burst in upon them but old Bruin the bear?

"No need to ask who's been tucking into my winter store;" he raged furiously. And, without more ado, he pounced upon Prim.

She was so fat that she could neither run nor fly, and if Mike had not pulled her by the neck and carried her up a tree there's to knowing what might have happened.

"Thank goodness, I haven't come into a fortune," said Mike. "Better hunt for a dinner than be a dinner."

I shall have to take a thinning cure," thought poor draggled Prim. "Fortunes are no good- make you too fat to run from your enemies."

WHAT'S THIS? A BOOK

ON "HOW TO BE A DETECTIVE.”

SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931.

TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

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The picture beside Inst week's puzzle showed the letter G and a man rowing. You must have decided that it represented the word "growing" which was hidden in the puzzle. Full solution:-

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2. Brag

6. Playing-card

8. Possess

Across.

(Beast).

(Ace),

(Own).

10. Moved through the air on wings (Flew).

24. Spoil

26.

Notion

28. In this place 29. Induced

12. Hard work

(Toil).

13. Preposition

(To).

14. Pronoun

(her).

16.

17,

Great American city (abbreviated) (N.Y.). Hidden word

(Growing).

22,

A stick

(Rod).

(Mar),

(Iden).

(Here),

(Persuaded).

Down,

1. Rough kind of boat

(Raft).

2.

Insect

(Bee).

3.

Part of verb "to be"

(Am).

4.

As well

(Too).

D

Merely

(Unly).

7.

Wooden-soled shoe

(Clog).

9.

A bird files with this

(Wing).

11.

Which person?

(Who)

12. refix meaning "three"

(Tri).

15. Water pitcher

(Ewer).

18.

One who rides

(Rider).

19.

Gave a name to

(Named).

20. Stumble

(Trip).

21. Boy's name (abbreviated)

(Fred).

23. Poem

(Ode).

25.

Part of verb "to be"

(Are).

27.

Because

(A8).

28. Exclamation

(Ha).

Here's, a puzzle which even the Tinies will be able to

do because it is so simple. There is a letter and there is

a man in the picture. You have to make up your minds what the man is, add the word to the letter F, and you will make the word that is hidden in the puzzle.

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

What English wosh does

this represent ?.

Clues:-

Across.

2. Wealthy.

6. Girl's name.

6. Frozen water.

7.

Payment for work done.

10. Musical note.

12. Concerning,

13.

14,

word.

17. Small pony.

18. Deep hole in earth,

20. Part of verb 'to be' 21. Monkey,

22. Tuy

Down.

1. Not to succeed.

2. Uncooked.

3. Murry.

4. Brave man.

8. Part of a circle.

B. Obtain.

11. At a distance.

13.

Grasp firmly.

15. Oki,

16. Precious stono. 17. Short sleep. 19, Number.

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Name

Address

Age

Date of Birthday...

Cut this out, and send it to Tinker Bell, c/o The Editor,

China Mail.

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