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Long Ago Stories

THE CHINA MAIL

The WENDY

HUT.

Blodwen and the Good Stones

THE TINKITES' TOYSHOP.

Making a Toy Pistol,

WHENCE CAME "WILD-

GOOSE CHASE"? You often use the expression: Here is a novel toy pistol "Wid-goose Chase", but I won hich is made chiefly from odd der if you know WHY a chase pieces of wood. As it only that leads nowhere should be so "fires" rubber bands, it is quite called? harmless.

Actually, it has its meaning in Fer the barrel,, cut a piece of he peculiar flight of wild geese Ave-eighths-inch dowel rod. five who follow one another as chil- and a half inches long. For adren do in "follow-my-leader”. distance of three inches from one Rat. WE use the expression be- 2nd, chisel a flat part, as shown eause, before the days of fox- at A. Mark the position of the hunting, horsemen used to elect slot B, and cut this out by first making two holes with a bradaw! Blowden was all alone, There matted and her old sheep-skin and then removing the wood be had been a battle between the flapping round her bare legs tween with a fret saw. Through Romans and the Welsh, and She was not afraid of wolves or the sides of the barrel, across the Blodwen's, people had been van Romans, but she did not like the slot, bore a hole to take a pivot quished and those who remained dangerous ledges on carried away as captives. Blodtain side where she thought the pin, C, which can be made from

wen had escaped to the moun- tains, and there she had lived all the Summer, eating the wild fruit. But when she felt the breath of winter in the air, she knew she must think out some plan for the future.

Blodwen

began to dance in that dangerously narrow place."

spirita lived.

the moun-

Well, she walked all day, and at dusk she came upon a narrow path clinging to the side of a cruel rock, with a terrible dip down into a ravine and great stones scattered everywhere.

"Some terrible spirit dwells here," thought Blodwen, "but I must pass. What shall I do to make it kind to me? I will dance to it."

So she put her weapons on the ground, and, venturing a little way along the ledge, she began to dance in that dangerously nar- row place.

"Kind spirits," she murmured as she danced, but she thought they were very cruel, "do not push me into the dark ravine below; do not throw a storm over me; see how badly 1 dance compared with you who have the grace of all the flames of fire, but I am only poor Blod. wen at your mercy.".

„RUBBER BAND

if you take a little trouble, and read Carpenter's in- structions carefully, you can make a toy pistol like this it only "rea" 'Rubber banda,

a

She danced for a long time, going as near to the edge of the path as she dared. And when she thought the spirit must be touched, she went to her skin smooth round nail with the bag and emptied out all the cut off. The foresight. D, is beautiful little round stones she had collected to use in her sling, simply a small screw with They were good stories, and she head cut off. loved them because they protect- ed her; but so did the spirits, therefore she made a gift of them „to that dangerous place.

"I will not go to the Romane," she thought. "I will walk across the mountains and see if the people are friendly on the other side."..

¿

Take my good stones," she murmured."

rough and terrible path.

leader and then simply follow him-like wild-geese-one behind the other, wherever he cared to lead them.

Later, these horsemen, in search of an interesting game that would give them plenty of

Jumping, conceived the idea of chasing a steeple--that is to say, going straight across country in! a bee-line towards some distant church steeple. From this game, | of course,

came our steeple chases.

The difference between the steeple-chase and the wild-goose

WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN.

The Red Indian Doli,

A Red Indian Doll will be a great attraction on the Bazaar Toy. Stall. Use a dark brown stocking to make the doll, which is stuffed and put together just ike the Chinese and Peasant lolls we told you about. Little' "aughing Water" should have! et-black wool hair, black shoe. Sutton eyes, and nose and lips worked in red wool."

Rides

Laughing Water wears trou- pers and tunic of light brown material. The trousers ore cut ike Diagram Byou have to and Inner leg seams are joined cut two pieces--and the together. Make a casing round the top, through which you cAR threat an elastic, and then cut up the ends of the trouser-legs. to fringe them in the true Red- skin fashion.

FOLD ALD

SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1992.

TINK'S GROSS – WORD PUZZLE.

Solution to last week's puzzle:---

You and I

Across.

{{We).

(Henth).

(Avail).

(He).

3. Open country space

7. Help

9.

Pronoun

10. Keep in mind

12. Cunning

13. Animal

16. Makes believe

19. Short for "account"

20. Praise highly 21. Subject

22. Compass point

Dawn.

1. Room in a hospital, etc.

(Remember) (Sly). (Ass). (Pretends). (Ac.). (Extol).

2. Lived in the Garden of Eden (Eve).

3. Hurry

4. Trees

6. Protioun

G. Another Pronoun

8. Entertain

11. Not sharp

13. Curved structure 14. Stalk 15. Island

16.

Tap..

17. River in Devon 18. Put on

This week's problem think you will manage

2

15

16

A

Another doll for the Bazaar

stall a Red Indian one this time, Dressmaker ex- plains how it is made.

19

R3

The tunic is cut Magyar-shape-

chase was that, the former had a like Diagram A, with little goal-the church-steeple-and straight sleeves added each side.

he latter had no goal at all! The Join these on to the arm-holes, wild-goose game stopped as soon then join the side seams, and as the leader or his horse got run a draw-thread round the tired..

neck. Fringe the ends of skirt Why not try a running steeple- and sleeves to match the trou- chase instead of a paper-chase, sers, put the garment on the

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(Theme).

(NE).

(Ward).

(Hie).

(Elms).

(They).

(Her).

(Amuse).

(Blunt).

(Arch).

(Stem)..

(tale).

(Pat).

(Exe).

(Don).

is a little more difficult, but I if you try.

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or, better still, a wild-goose chase doll, and pull the draw-thread up (Continued from provious Column)

ehind some chosen leader? It to fit the neck closely. Then, hould be great fun!

Fully mark the outlines of the

9

Clues:-

Acrova

1. Found out.

8. Beam of light.

with some strings if gay beads, And sometimes in the evening,10 Blunder and a coloured band round her

head, with a bright feather stuck

in at the back, Laughing Water Through all the tired meadow is nearly dressed.

Her tiny moccasins supply

two parts, and cut them out with a fret-saw after, boring the two holes for the pivot pins.

the finishing touch. If you

toes The trigger and catchplate wedge her stumpy

into have to engage with each other them, and secure them with a

Negative, land with messages of sleep, 17. Serpent.

9. Go on horse-back.

when the twilight shadows 11. creep

Monkeys

12. Tree, 14.

15. Short for doctor.

Hark!--Lovely 25 а

dream, and faint sighs,

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elfin 21

21. Girl'a name.

23.

3.

happy 19. Frult.

as shown in the diagram, and few stitches, they will keep on You'll hear the Fairy Piper-Man they must be an easy fit in slot quite well. To make each shoe, play fairy lullabies!

tune the Fairy Piper playe is old, yet ever-new,

Blackbird learns his song

end

F.

the

the sides of each on glasspaper. felt, and then stitch a strip of If they fit too tightly, rub cut a sole, like Diagram C. from Make sure that the holes in these one-inch wide coloured braid all The parts arc an easy fit for the pins, round, like Diagram D. Join up and then fix them in position so the two little short edges at the that the nose of the trigger just back, and run a gathering-thread of half-inch wood, to the sizes catches the little notch on the round the top. When you pull given in the diagram.

The

And,

Children

Cut the butt, E. from a piece

from him, and Robin Red- breast too.

when you're feeling sad, just wipe your tears away,

and they will make you gay

With a catchplate H. The trigger guard this up, like Diagram E, you'll chisel and glass paper round off M. is made from a thin strip of find you have a pretty little shoe Then listen for the magic pipes, tin bent to shape and sertwed to complete Laughing Water's all the corners with the ex- in place as shown in the top costume: diagram.

Wendy's Dressmaker.

THE FAIRY PIPER MAN.

sometimes in the dawning,

when the World is very still, You can hear the softest music -**** steal across the far-off Hill So sweet and low, yet crystal-

Then she walked along that)

Inception of the two top edges the morning she reached the where the wood fits against the To "load" the pistol, stretch a valley where Welsh people greet-barrel. Now cut out the slot F small rubber band (about one ed her kindly. But they seemed to the same width as the one in and a half inches long and one. puzzled, and asked her how she the barrel; screw the two parts eighth-inch wide) over the fore-on,

as indicated, and sight D, and the nose of the had dared to pass the abode of together, the mountain spirits.

smooth the insides of the slots catchplate, as shown in the top with a thin file.

diagram. The pull of the rub To make the trigger, G, and her will keep the trigger set til the catch-plate, H, obtain a small it is pressed with the finger. piece of oak, three-sixteenths of This releases the catchplate and an inch thick and about one-causes the rubber band to be and-a-half inches square, and shot forward with a catapult mark it out in one-eighth-inch action. squares, as in diagram K. Care

She was only fourteen years old. but she was very brave. She had made herself a bow and some arrows, and she carried o

"I danced to them, and gave sling and a bag of small round them my good stones," she re stones. Blodwen did not think it plied. "They let me pass safe strange for a girl to fight in bat-y."

And even to-day there are tic. She was wild as the winter mountain people who give stones winds, with her black hair all

to the spirits when they pass by dangerous places.

Rosie's BEAU

GED MCMANUS

The Hut Carpenter.

[LEE! I THOUGHT YOU

COULD AT LEAST. LEND ME A DIME

"TILL TO-MORROW.

clear, it floats into the air, And you know the Fairy Piper- man is playing somewhere there! (Continued is next Column.)

PSHAW-1 WALKED ALL

| THE WAY HOME FROM

THE OFFICE TO

BORROW A

QUARTER

FROM YOU

Employs.

24. Encountered.

25. Refreshing "drink

1. Terrible.

Blow

2. Spike of corn.

3. Part of a wheel

4. Stuffs.

5. Point.

6. Garden of the Bible.

7. Forsaken

13. Rope for catching cattle. 16. Ascend.

18. Sometimes called the "Ameri-

can lion."

20. Jewel

ez: Boy's name abbreviated).

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