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SATURDAY,

NOVEMBER 19, 1932.

Long Ago Stroies

Alan, The Pirate

Alan had been brought up to bet a pirate, and the first time he went to sea was a great day for him. He lived in the reign of Richard the Lion-hearted, when rich harvests could be reaped from the sea. There were ships of all nations, carrying crusaders, richly-dressed nobles,

gold, provisions, jewels, and arms to

the Holy Land, and it was difficult

to tell a pirate vessel from Aby other,

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With his father, some young nobles, and a brave crew, Alan sail.d

away quite openly to seek adventure

for the glory of England-thut is what they called it! They went to the 1sland of Sicily, where English- men on their way to Palestine often stopped and built themselves castles. it was sold that the Churches there full of gold. King Richard himself had stopped in Sicily for

were

The

"The first time he went to

sca was a great day for Alan."

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some months, and had given a off in high glee, and arrived safely magnificent crown of gold to one of home. the Churches. Alan and his father

THE CHINA MAIL.

WENDY HUT.

THE STRANGE MAIDEN.

They found her in a forest. She was sitting under a tree, with her jeyes wide open and her hands clasp-: jed together. There was something

WENDY'S LITTLE MILLINERS

A Crochet Cap to Match Your Waistcoat

As promised last week, I am going

so strange about her that the king, to show you how to make a pretty

little who was hunting with his court.

with your now cap to go asked her who she was.

crochet waistcoat. You will need one ounce of four-ply wool in one

"My name is Summier," she re- plied, "I have no home, and I beg colour, and half an ounce in a con- your Majesty to give mo work in trasting shade. Of course the wool the palace."

must match that used for the waist-

Starting with the main colour,

THE BILLY BOYS' ' WORKSHOP

How to Make a Wooden Candlestick

This week, by special request, I am going to-tell-you-how-to-make-a- useful candlestick from a few odd pieces of wood.

The upright pillar, A, is made from four strips of three-eighths (inch-wood, six inches long, glued jand nailed together as shown in 'dla- gram B. Two of the plesos should Įbe one and a half inches wide and the other two should be three.

THIEN,

TINK'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE,

Solution to last week's puzzle:—

Across.

1. Sometimes the sky looks this colour-(Grey). 4. Fruit rather like a lemon... (Lime).

7. What people did at the election (Voted). 8... Old

(Aged):

10. Exclamation of sorrow

(Alas),

12. Finished:

(Done).

18. Dispatched

(Sent).

14. Permit

(Let).

16. This is sometimes colour 1 aeross (Sky).'

18. A rocky peak

(Tor).

20. Pronoun

(Her).

22. Voice

(Allo).

24. Aid

(Abet).

27. Cease

(Stop).

28. Cruel Roman emperor

(Nero).

Down.

1 Open spaces in a wood

(Glades).

2 Level

(Even).

S. Musical cry of Swiss mountaineers (Yodel).

4. Smallest

(Least).

5. Lazy

(Idle)..

6.

9.

First school-term after Christmas (Easter). Depart

(Go).

11. One

(An).

15. Evening before some special occasion (Eve).

17. Highland garment

(Kilt).

10. Above

(Over).

WOOD FLÜSS

20, Skip

(Hop)

21. What the horse did.

(Ran).

22. Because

(As).

28. Preposition.

(To).

25. To live

(Be);

26. Same as 28 down

(To).

THICK

By special request, Carpen- ter is telling you to-day how to make a woooden candlestick like the ons sketched.

Being kind-hearted, the king em-coat, if you are going to wear "cap ployed her to scrub the marble and waistcoat together. stairs. In a very short time, the stairs were like snow, and they gleamed the diamonds. The other and using a number ten bone crochet | servants began to whisper. The hook, work five chain and join into stairs had been yellow with age, andļa ring. Work Afteen trebles Into (it had been hard work to wash tham, this ring, and fusten a coloured yet Summer had found it no trouble. thread there, to mark the beginning Three maids had hitherto been kept of the rows. The fifteen treblos will busy from morning till night clean- form the first row. For the second Ing those stairs, but Summer finish row, work sixteen trebles. Third ed them all by twelve o'clock and row, increand by working two quarters of an inch wide, so that, was free for the rest of the day. trebles in every alternate stitch. when fitted together, they form a She went down to the village and For the fourth row, work two tre hollow pillar, one and a half inches bought ribbons for her hair, and bles in overy third stitch.

square, as shown in diagram C. pretty arasses, and a pair of green every fourth atitch. For shoes, and little presents for the sixth row, werk two trebles in every lafter the nails are driven in, glue the Sink the holes for the nails, and, other maids. But where did she get fifth stitch. Seventh row, work two in little wood plugs, and level the the money from? The king's house-trebles in every sixth atitch tops with a chisel. After you have keeper only paid her a few pennies Eighth row, work two

trables in done this, bevel the four corners of a day!

every seventh stitch. And so on, the pillar with a chisel or small Soon these stories reached the. king's ear, and he sent for Summer. "You must leave my service," he Raid, "I hear that you are a witch, and I cannot shelter witches."

For

plane.

Cut the top of the candlestick| from a piece of three-cighths-inch wood, to the sizes given at D. Make the one-inch hole in the centre with: a.centre-bit. or a fret-saw, and saw off the four corners, as shown, Well) rub the wood on both sides and round the edges with Ane glass- paper, then glue and nall it on top of the pillar, as shown in the first diagram.****ja (mean zege T

"Oh, I am so happy here," wept Summer. "I have a secret, but if I tell it I shall lose my power. Yet I will, because you have been kind to me....When I was little, the strange folk, the pixies, stole me, as they will steal children some- But when Alan remembered the times, and I lived under the earth thought it a great pity that so many beautiful Church he had robbed, he with them for fifty years,

was sorry for his crime. Yours "They always keep you for fifty jewels should be doing nothing in Sicily, when they would be useful later, he went to Sicily as a pilgrim, years, and when you return you

begging his food and shelter. The only look twenty years old. for building castles at home!

Bishop forgave him, and he became world seems strange then, but the a monk, and tended the bees in the pixies help you with your work, and garden of the Church he had robbed bring you a little gold at night. But if you tell anybody, they never when he was a boy.

come near you again. There are lots of clever, strange people in the world who have lived fifty years until you are working two trebles in quite amart if you give it a cost of with the pixies and nobody ever every tenth stitch, which will be the brightly-coloured enamel. knows."

eleventh row.

When the pirate ship reached Siefly, Alan received doubtfully, and they saw at once that it would be difficult to get much plunder.

and his father were

"Somebody has been here before) us," grumbled Alan. "They will not) allow us to go into the Churches alone, so we shall have to land our men and fight."

THE WORLD'S SMALLEST REPUBLIC.

The

Here is the crochet cap which you will be able to copy if you read Milliner's instructions.

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The king allowed Summer to stay in the palace, but the stairs soon Stop the increasing now, and became yellow again, though she work as follows: One treble, one crubbed them from morning till chain, miss the next stitch, and work a treble in the next. Work one night.

Andorra, a tiny state on the Franco-Spanish border, is the "Listen to the madness of a boy smallest Republic in the world. The

means "the place, of fourteen!" laughed his father. name actually

But to-day it is "I have another plan, and you must thick with trees."

comparatively bare, because all the have the courage to carry it out."

But the king watched the chain, miss the next stitch, work a Next day, Alan's father went trees have been chopped down for ashore and said that one of his fuel and the natives haven't always strange, beautiful maiden, and he treble in the next. Work one chain, saw that she was good as well as miss the next stitch, work a treble. young nobles had died. According bothered to plant young saplings.

Even And so on, round and round. This

.:

For the base, saw a piece of wood three and a half Inches square. After carefully smoothing the edges! with glasspaper, fix it to the bottom of the pillar with two brass counter sunk screws, as indicated in diagram E. In fixing the parts together, see that the pillar, top part and base jara arranged" square with each fother, as shown in the first diagram. The Snished candlestick will look

The Hut Carpenter.

OUR SWEET MAKING CORNER

American-Egg Candy

to custom, he asked if the body: It is a country with only one clever, so he married her. might be brought to the Church. road, and only one town of any im- when she became queen, nobody gives the cap a pretty open-work into a saucepan with a quarter of

the

but the king knew that she had appearance,

spent fifty years under the ground

with the strange folk!

Put one pound of brown sugar When it is deep a pound of golden syrup and a Consent was given, and that even-portance Andorra Vielle, ing a rough wooden box was brought capital, On approaching this town,

enough on your head, work a round tablespoonful of vinegar. Dissolve of ordinary trable. Then join on the augar slowly, then holl the to the Church where it remained all motorists have to reverse and other-

the contrasting colour and work mixture till a little tried. in cold night. Early next morning, Alan's wise juggle with their cars, to get

three or four rows of double water hardens at once. Have ready father arrived again. He said he round some of the sharp bends in impassable by dancers old and crochet, to make the band along the in a basin one well-whisked egg- had changed his mind and would the road...

young A Feast Day is a gay time edge,

It should be quite foamy. Remove The entrance to the Parliament | take the body back to England im

in this pleasant, prosperous and The funny little bow on top of the the saucepan from the fire, stand mediately, otherwise the young House in Andorra Vielle looks like a

peaceful little country.

cap is made out of a strip of the it on the side of the stove, and man's father might suspect foul dungeon door with six locks! The

Andorra has a total area of only contrasting wool... Work thirty pour the egg slowly into the toffee, play. He made a terrible fuas, and keye of these locks are held by the 176 square miles, and a population chain, one to turn, and then work atirring all the time. Stir in. a before dawn the box was carried six leading councillors of Andorra.

6,000. The principal in- four rows of double-crochet. Fasten cupful of washed and dried seed- back to the ship.:

On Feast days, no one dreams of dustries are merely domestic ones, off, stitch into loops, and sew to the less raisins. Mix well, pour the Now that box contained Alan! working and the streets are made such as spinning, as in the middle top of the cap. Also a number of jewels which the] (Continued at foot of next Column) ages, boy had stolen from the Church during the night. The pirates made

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Rosies BEAU

GEO.MEMAMUS

{GEE, ROSIE WONT SPEAK TOME- SHE THINKS: I'M THE MYSTERIOUS MAN WHO KISSED THAT MOVIE ACTRESS AT THE PIER WHEN SHE SAILED TO EUROPE

Wendy's Milliners

candy on to a buttered tin, and mark it into squares,

AND I DONT EVEN KNOW HER WHAT A FOOLI WAS TO TELL ROSIE I KNEW

HER SO AS TO MAKE HER - JEALOUS

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This week's clue:-.

Across.

3. Boy's name (abbreviated).

6. One side of a leaf of a book. 7. Before

8. French for "and"

9. down should be this.

10. Between the shoulders and the

bend.

12. Footwear.

14. European country.

16. Because.

17. A great deal.

18. They contain kernels.

18. Call for help.

THE

TINKER

Down.

1. You should never be this for

school.

2. You sit at this in school,

8. What the schoolmaster does.

4. Blunder.

6. Make low-spirited.

6. You write with these at school.

11. Garments.

12. Auld lang

13. Oatmeal is made of them.

15. Also.

RELL

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 Editos,

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THE

DON'T

LK TO

SHE

I HOPE THEY FIND OUT WHO THE MYSTERIOUST

MANIS AND PUT IT). IN THE PAPER-MAY- BE THEY HAVE I'LL LOOK IN THE PAPER AND SEE-

LONGER

NOW I'M MAD- SO SHE THINKS

OFM

EVANS