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Long Ago Stories

THE

The WENDY

HUT

Editha, The Glee-Man's Daughter

Editha was very tired. The bundles of clothes on their backs,

bear's heavy chain dragged on and

the gleenian also carried

the ground, and when he stopped arms and his harp. to poke his noso among the sweet-smelling forest flowers, sighed Editha. Editha had not the heart to prod aching!". him with her iron tipped stick.

"Editha!" called the melodious voice of her father, the Saxon glee-man. And she hurried on.

Editha, who was twelve years old, was walking from the north

"If we could but see a castle," "My feet are

"Editha was very tired. bear's heavy chain dragged on the ground."

The

To encourage her, the glee- man began to sing. He sang of the old wild Saxons and their battles, of the kings, the cap- tured princesses and the princes That was who accused them. how history was learnt by the people, for every few could go to study at the monasteries where the priests taught.

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CHINA

The Billy Boys' Workshop

A Toy Speed Boat.

to the sizes giyen in diagram D. This fine model racing boat, Fix the sides in place with glue which is quite easy to make, is and fine nails, brushing the glue driven by rubber strands similar in between the plywood and the to those used for model aero-edges of the deck and floor planes. To make the boat light little at a time as the work pro- cecds.. When the glue has set, and hollow, the hull is built up

as shown in diagram A. the well rub all round the edges with sides being afterwards nailed to glasspaper.

the

the edges of the floor and deck. To make the propeller, take a The shape and sizes of these flat piece of strong tin, mark on parts. are given in diagram B.it a circle one and, a half inches and they can be cut out from in diameter, and get out quarter-inch fretwood. The deck share of the three blades, as will have the opening, C, cut in shown at E. With a pair of old it to form the cockpit.

scissors, cut away the metal not

STERN BLOCK

RUBBER STRANDS

Carpenter explains to-day how you can make a jolly toy speed- boat like this.

WENDY'S LITTLE MILLINERS.

A Crochet Beret.

A Wendy girl would like to make a crochet beret, so this week we're going to tell you how to make the prettiest little cap you can imagine!

Our model is made of white four-ply wool, with stripes of red, blue and green round the erige, to give it a cheery look You'll need under one ounce of white wool, and about half an ounce each of the coloured wools. You can always use up and left- over wool for embroidery, you! know.

SATURDAY,

AUGUST 13, 1932.

TINK'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

A cross.

Solution to last week's puzzle.

1. Rested

8. Deep cut

(Sat). (Gash)

6.

What the town-crier used to call (Oyez)..

8. Entertain

10. Sweet-voiced bird

13. Clear

(Amuse). (Lark). (Rid).

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14. Something that is not true... (Lie) 15. Water animal with valuable fur (Seal).

Course of a planet or comet (Orbit). 18. " "Pronoun 19 English cathedral city 2. 20. Exchange for money 21. Belonging to him

1. Graceful birds

2. As far as

3. Precious stone

(Me).

(Ely).

(Sell).

(His).

Down.

(Swallows).

(To).

·(Gem).

(Azure).

5. Careless

(Heedless).

7. Tibetan ox

(Yak).

9. Indo-Chinese Kingdom

(Siam).

11. Atmosphere

(Air).

12. One who resists authority

(Rebel).

15. Pen for pigs.

(Sty).

17. Not well

(I).

4. Blue of the sky

By special request we are telling you to-day how to make crochet beret like the one sketched.

$1.

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WENDY'S LITTLE COOKS.

Milk Biscuits.

Begin with the white wool, and work three chain. Join into a ring, and than work six treble crochet into the stitch next the hook. By the way, do you re- member how to work treble cro- chet? Wool over the hook, into the stitch, pull through, wool over the hook and pull through two loops, rool over the hook once more, and pull through the fast two loops on the hook, ready for the next stitch. ΤΟ go on with the cap, work a tre-. ble crochet into the next stitch, Then, without warning, a band For holding the deck and required, then, with a sharp nail after the six trebles into the one of robbers set upon the glee floor together, two shaped blocks and hammer, punch, the two stitch, and work two trebles into singers, stole all their belongings of wood are used, as shown in small holes, Now obtain a piece the next. Continue thus, one except the bear, knocked the man diagram A, the bow piece being of stiff wire about three inches treble, and two into the next, about badly, and vanished.

a quarter inches deep long, and bend one end as at Fjuntil you come back to the begin- "You are too hurt to walk, and three-quarters of an inch Push the ends of the wire ning of the first row. Run a father," sobbed Editha.

wide and the stern block one inch through the holes in the propel-coloured cotton in here, so that But he pushed on, afraid to re deep and two and a quarter inches ler and, with a pair of pliers, you know where to begin the main in the forest. Fortunately wide. Glue and nail these blocks clench over the short end of the succeeding rows.... they came to a castie, and the in place, using fine brass nails. wire. Twist the blades at an "The third row you do as fol- soldiers at the gate allowed the Cut the two sides of the hull angle of about forty-five degrees. lows: three trebles, then

Mix the flour, sugar, and salt glee-man to bathe his wounds in from one-sixteenth-inch plywood

Bend the propeller bracket to trebles into the third stitch, three together in a basin, and put the chape from a strip of thin sheet more trobles, then two trebles milk and butter in a saucepan the moat, while Editha and the

brass, three-eighths of an inch into the third stitch, and so on to warm: When the butter has bear went to the hall where the

wide and four and a half inches round.

melted, pour the hot liquid lang. Drill holes, as shown in For the fourth row, work four gradually into the flour, and diagram G, for the propeller trebles, then two trebles into the make a stiff paste. Roll this out

fourth stitch, and so on round. shaft and fixing screws.

on a board till it is as thin as For the fifth row, increase by possible, and cut it into rounds After fixing the bracket in place, slip a couple of glass beads two trebles at every fifth treble with the top of a tumbler. Cook the shaft, pass the end and continue thus until you are the biscuits on grease-proof

twelfth

one and

lord was dining with his house- OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER. hold.

American Peanut Candy.

This is a delicious American

in

two

For these you will require half pound of self-raising flour, two tablespoonsful of sugar, a piece

of butter the size of a small egg, a good pinch of salt, and about half a cupful of milk.

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This week's 'clues;-

ACROSS.

1. Edge of a garment,

4. Conjunction.

7. Short sleeps, -

9. Reliable.

11. A long distance. 13. Something for dinner. 14. Loiter. 16. Unhappy Bird.

18.

20. Make better. 21. Sorrow." 22. Girl's name.

DOWN.

2. Way in.

8. Spoil.

4. Helped.

B. Twenty-four hours. 6...Away.

8. Young dog,

10. Light afternoon meal.

Baba

.12.

15. South African antelope.

17. Parched."

18. Not high.

19. Historical period.

She walked straight in, but, before seating himself at the low table reserved for poor travellers, she asked if she might sing and make the bear dance. She was sweet. If you make it in the so tired that she could scarcely real American way you will re- through the holes in the bracket increasing in every stand, but she knew her work. quire a quart of peanuts, but it and with a pair of round-nose stitch, which will be the twelfth paper for about twenty minutes

in a moderate oven... "Who are you, little grass- is quite nice when made with pliers, bend it to form a huck, as row. When you get here, don't If milk biscuits are made cheese. In this case, they should shown in diagram H. Near the increase any more, just go on without sugar, and the milk is be cut into squares and made a hopper shouted the lord from only one pint of nuts. of England to the South, with the top of the table.

Shell and skin the nuts, chop bow of the boat, underneath, working round and round when used cold, they are delicious with little bit thicker. her father and the dancing bear. "Editha, the gleeman's daugh-them as finely as possible, and screw, in a small hook to take you'll begin to see the cap taking

the rubber shape. It was a dangerous journey, for ter," she replied. "We were at- sprinkle then with a good pinch the fruit ends of

strands; the other ends engage At the eighteenth row, break there were hardly any roads.tacked by robbers in my lord's of salt...

Put one pound of lump sugar with the hook on the propeller off the white wool, and join on forest, and my father is too The glee singers were saving wounded to sing to-night, but into a saucepan, and stir gently shaft.

the. blue. Work a round of blue, can be then another of white, then one money, so they could not will entertain you with song and with a wooden spoon until it be. The spray hood, K,

comes a syrup. As there is no made from a piece of thin ply-of red, one of white, one of green, go to the inns, but had to rely dance."

"You shall have a good dinner butter with the sugar, it is lia- wood or tin, bent to shape and and another of white. You can and sleep in the stables for your ble to burn, so take care not to sprung between the raised sides either end the cap here, or go on with another colour, just as you. pains!" cried the lord. "Clear a splash it against the sides of the of the boat. space for the little grasshopper saucepan, and keep the heat very To make the hull quite water-think will suit you. and her bear!"

low.

tight, give it first a coating of Next week we'll tell you how. Editha liked the lord's face. As soon as the sugar has be-red lead paint, then two coats of to crochet a little sleeveless jump- And she knew that if they could come a syrup, remove the sauce-ordinary paint, allowing each er to wear with your new cro amuse him they might stay in pan from the fire, stir in the coat to dry thoroughly before chet cap: so be sure to look out

for it! his castle for months, and grow nuts, and pour the whole, into a applying the next.

The Hut Carpent fat, and strong, and maybe rich. slightly buttered tin ta set.

their

on the kindness of the lords of the manors, or the priests who kept the monasteries. England

was a. Christian country now, and the Church was good to tra- vellers.

Now, Editha and her father were not beggars. They were proud of their calling, and did not mix with the vagabonds of the country. They both carried

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