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Long Ago Stories

Gudrund; Son Of The Sea-Wolf

The ship grew" day by day. She was built of, oak planks and

shore.

The

When they had landed: the Norsemen took their arms and shields, and marched against covered with far. The figure the tower of stone. There were head was a sea hird carved in many boys of twelve amongst wond, and the striped sails them, and they all sang war-like swelled out when the wind blew.songs.

**

They did not take the tower, Gudrund used to count the 'fifty and Sea-Wolf was killed by an oars, and the fifty shields hang-arrow. So they stopped fighting, of the ship. and carried Sea-Wolf to the the time to beautiful ship, and put his arms They and jewels round him.

ing over the side

and he longed for

sait away.

also killed his two faithful hounds and his splendid falcon. and put them beside him with all the Norsemen who had fallen | in battle, so that he might not. travel to the other world alone.

THE CHINA MAILS

WENDY HUT

WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS

A Gingham Frock.

Here is a nice little frock you can make, with a separate blouse that can be changed if it gets grubby before the skirt.

.

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP:

Making A Spirit Level. Here is a little spirit level which you will find useful in your carpentry, work.,

HOLIDAYS!

"Come, my little shrimps," said-mother "come, come quick! Fack your little whatnots, dearies,--and father's stick, Off we go to secret places, deep way down, in the rocks that cluster. round the mermaids" town.”

Oh, the wiggling, oh the hurry- ing that went on! All their tails lashed up the water till it) shong. Every shrimp who had the means to take a holiday col- lected all his family from shore, and pool and bay.

Then the crabs began to scut- cle on the sand. Grandmammas and grandpapas looking very grand-called the baby crabs together, stood them in a row, told them very seriously the way they had to go.

"We must catch the turning Get a piece of hardwood, such tide," said very oldest crab. as mahogany, measuring seven "All those wearing showy coats inches long." one and a quarter get in before the drab; all the

drab ones walk behind and catch!

the following wave. Hurry up! A.I hear the lobsters creeping

from their cave!".

all

You'll need about two yards of checked gingham for the skirt and braces, and one, yard of inches wide, and one inch thick, white cotton-crepe for the blouse, as indicated in diagram You can get both these materials Plane the wood carefully on for sixpence or so the yard, sides, and "mark a centre line you see your new dress won't be

long the top surface. at all expensive. **

Make the blouse. first. Fold Next, obtain

a small glass the white crepe. width ways anti Lube; about two and a half inches length ways, and cut as shownong and three-eighths of an inch in diameter, and sealed at one end, as shown at B. tight-fitting cork will also be quired.

The gingham frock with Reparate white blouse. Dressmaker tells you ull about it.

Gudrund sang a song about his father's great deeds, and how warriors never died but went on Eto fight more battles. Then he in Diagram A: Sew up the side took a torch and set fire to the seams, make a hem along the ship. For hours the red flames hottom, and thread a piece of rose, while the Saxons watched elastic through to fit your waist. from the tower.

Turn, in the neck edges, and the ends of the sleeves.

to

Next morning Gudrund said: "My father and his ship have The skirt is very easily man gone, and we have no food. Let aged from two straight strips of go to the Saxons. Some of the gingham, long enough them

have a strange religion reach from your waist to your which makes them kind to their knees, and each about three- enemies."

quarters of a yard wide, with There seemed nothing else to sufficient over for the hem and Sew up the side with Gudrund walking turnings. do, so ahead they went to the stone seams, then turn up the hem. A Saxon priest came to Run a gathering-thread round meet them. and he carried at the top of the skirt, pull this up to fit a two-inch band, which Gudrund was the son of Sea-cross of wood which they

"With Gudrund ́ walking ahead, they went to the alone tower."

Wolf, the Viking. He was going 'to England to fight the Saxons. When he was twelve. his father -had-given him arms, and he

was all ready.

tower,

Out came lobsters, whiskers twirling left and right; all their laws were very ready for a bite. "Catch the tide before those crabs collect the nicest seats," said Mr. Superintendant Lobster who arranged the treats."

Then the mussels, and the Awinkles, and the smallest fish, all re-began to hurry, you could hear he water swish! "The sun is warm, the good time's coming,” Mark out in the wood the re- cried the periwinkle. "Listen, cess in which the tube has to be can't you hear it now?-that fitted, and "carefully chisel this funny little tinkle!"

out so that the tube, with its i Said little shrimp to large cork, fits well. It is important brown father," "Are we going to get the tube exactly parallel too?" "No," he said, "We can't with the bottom surface of the afford it, I have work to do. wood block. With a "chisel, You must learn to hide in carefully round off the ends of curners, and to swim away, when the block, as shown in diagram you hear those frightful children 6. and finish with a rough file trooping down to play!" and glass-paper.

Lots of little crabs were cry- The tube can now be nearlying because they couldn't go. illed with methylated spirit, so "Don't be silly," said the hat when the cork is pushed mothers. you must fight the tightly a small air bubble is foc. When those dreadful chil- eft. The cork should be cover-dren come to take their holiday, d. entirely with sealing wax to they must find you here to stop prevent leakage.

GLASS TUBE GORM

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C

RECESS FOR TUBE

You will find a spirit level very useful in your car- *pentry work.. And to-day Carpenter tells you how to make 'one.

them getting their own way. They'll come with nets, and fish in rows, and you must go and bite their toes.'

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27 1992.

TINK'S

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

Solution_to_last week's puzzle:-

1--Plentiful

8. A tiresome person

28. Declared"

Across.

(Abundant).

(Bore).

9. Meadow,

(Lea).'

10

Narrow street

(Lane)

11. Used in geography lessons

(Map)

12. A duster is used for removing this. (Dust).

14. Finest

(Best).

17. Kind of cake.

(Bun)

18. Pronoun

(Thee).

21. Put into, one total

(Add).

22. "Deserve

(Earn).

(Asserted).

Down,

(Able).

(Boa).

(Urn).

(Needs),

(Alms).

(Neat).

7. Rap

(Tap).

13. Absolute"

(Utter).

14. They grow into flowers

(Buds).

15. Finishes.

(Ends),

16. Repair

(Mend).

17. Bleat of a sheep

(Baa).

(Hat).

(Ere).

1. Gifted 2. Serpent 3. Vase 4. Requires -5. Charity

6. Tidy

19. Head covering 20. Before

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THE SYBARITES.

who lived in Sybaris, in the The Sybarites were a people

South of Italy, a long time ago. They were indolent, selfish, and so fond of comfort that they be- (Continued from previous Colunm) came utterly pleasure loving. centre set out the slot E. At is used, when speaking of poople Even to-day the word Sybarite points F. F. make deep. dents who are so fond of luxury and with a centre-punch, or a sharp pleasure that they forget every- nointed nail, and then, with a Dair of compasses, mark the thing else. Here are two stories. curved ends. Roughly shape the about the Sybarites which have

never been forgotten.

ends, cut out the slot with a

When Seneca, the great small cold chisel and hammer, and finish, smooth with a file. Roman, visited Sybaris, he met Drill holes at points F. F. and a young man who looked miser- countersink them to take small able, although he seemed to have brass screws.

everything in the world to make him happy. Seneca asked him kindly why he did not enjoy his

Seneca.

1. Games,

7. Pronoun

Across

8. Roman numeral

10. Elevated. - 12. One who u866. 14. Hotel

15. Dog's foot.

10. Prefix, meaning "before. 17. Conclusion

18. Short for 'right.'

· 19: Fresh. 21. Torn

2. Because. 8. Astute.

Down.

4. You shed it when you

5. Important occurrence me

6. Boy's name,

9. Another boy's name. 11. One who sings, Pat

Claus.

13.

16. Girl's name. 20. You and I,

thought very strange, The shoud go comfortably round you priest smiled at the little boy waist. Cut the waistband twice

Screw down the cover plate, as with the long golden hair, and the width required, fold it along

shown in the first diagram, finish

Then it was the Sybarites who, said that the Norsemen should the centre, and sandwich the

the edges of the metal and wood life, and the young Sybarite re- taught horses to dance to the have food, if they behaved them-gathered top of the skirt between

flush all round with a file and plied that he had not slept the sound of the pipes. All their selves and promised to obey the the two edges, regulating the

fullness evenly as you go."

class-paper. At right angles tonight before but had been very horses danced beautifully, like Saxon chief.

Cut the shoulder straps four

the slot, and at an equal dia- restless.

those we see in displays to-day, In the spring the lovely ship "We are lucky not to be made inches wide and long enough to

tance from either end, file a "There

was perhaps some but this trick proved to be the sailed to England. The Saxons slaves," remarked Gudrund, as go over your shoulders, straight

mark across, as shown in the reason "for that," suggested downfall of Sybaris, When the saw the Norsemen coming, so they walked into the tower where down in front, and crossed at the

diagram.

Crotoniats marched against the the people waited to see them

back,

in the little they collected their wives, chil- march

To test the spirit level, place The young man replied that, Sybarites, they played on the as shown "H. we to the Chief.

it on a surface which is known of course, there was a rose- pipes, and all the Sybarite horses dren, and cattle, and fled to a have to stay here always, sketch. Fold each along the centre, as you did the waistbelt,

to be truly level. If the bubble leaf doubled under him had began to dance. Then there huge stone tower which they think we shall, like this strange to make it two inches wide, sew For the cover plate, D, a strip registers with the cross-line, your hurt him!

was such confusion in the army To-day when we talk about a that the Crotoniats won an easy had built for protection against

the long sides together, turn of sheet brass, one and a quar-home-made instrument is ac- Indeed, he and many other

mean victory right side out, and press flat. ter inches wide, and the same curate. If the bubble comes to crumpled "rose leaf, we the Vikings and Danes.

Norsemen liked it so much that work a buttonhole at each end length as the wood block, will be rest on either side of the line, some small, stupid thing that Horses like dancing. If they "See how they run!" cried they never went back to Nor- of each strap, to fasten on to required. Mark a centre line on remove the cover plate and pack has annoyed us. How surprised have been trained, they will Gudrund. This looks "to

They stayed and with buttons at back and front if the one side of the plate, and in the up one end of the spitit tube till that Sybarite would be H he often dance to a familiar tune. the Saxons, became our ances waistband. So d

the bubble registers properly knew that the world had laugh- Hoping that this would happen, warm, pleasant land."

tors!

The Hut Carpentered at him for hundreds of years! the Crotoniats made their planr

me

Then the Viking ordered the ship to be dragged on to the

HONG KONG HEIGHTS

For the information of visitors the following" list of some of the highest points on the Island and

Mainland is published:

land."

way..

Rosies BEAU GELM-MANUS

Wendy's Dressmaker.

(Continued in Next Column.)

DONT WORRY- I'LL GET YOUR SUIT OUT OF MOCK- SOMEHOW LEAVE IT TO ME I GOT YOU IN THIS:/ MESS AND I'LL GET YOU- OUT YOU CAN KEEP YOUR DATE WITH ROSIE TOʻNIGHT

DO SOMETHING, AND STOP

TELLING ME

YOULL GET ME

OUT OF IT

OHHELLO

DAVE-

SAY DO ME A PAVOR

LET ME CHANGE MY

CLOTHES HERE ·

IVE GOT TO GO TO A BANQUET,

TO-NIGHT"

THIS WILL SAVE

ME THE COST. OP HIRING A

HOTEL ROOM:

Island

Fest

Victoria Peak “

1,829

Signal Station

1,774

Mt. Parker

1,784

Mountain Lodge

1,725

The Eyrie

1,725

Peak Hotel

1,305

Taikou Sanatorium

$1,000

Bowen

Kowlers Peak:

NOW IF YOU DONT MIND-ILL

LEAVE MY CLOTHES HERE:

I'LL BE BACK AF

MIDN

ALL RIGH

WELL THIS IS A PIECE

OF LUCK.