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BOYS' AND GIRLS' CHRISTMAS

MOKEY AND THE

SNOW

M

A Story by BRUCE BLUNT

diced.

TOKEY woke up. The began to feel very lonely lu- room was dark. He was just beginning to think "How

strango!" about having a good cry, when he heard faint "tap-tap... tap he thought. "I must have tap." It seemed to come from woken up earlier than the bottom of the door. He usual." It was very strange, jumped out of bed, put his car to the door, and called, "Who because Mokey was a Inzy

is there?" little donkey, and nearly always woke up later than usual,

He lit the candle which stood by his bedside, and look- ed at his clock. The hands

pointed to eight o'clock. This was not sa strange, because they always did.

""Open the door," squeaked a volee. "It's me...Mouldy."

Mokey opened the door, and was instantly buried in a mound of snow. He had forgotten to be careful that time,

He had hardly got to his feet

Mouldly, who had gone on bhead, was waiting for hla_com- panlon at the mouth of the As he came out into tunnel. the daylight, Mokey took a deep breath, How lovely it was to be in the fresh air again!

He was trying to think of come way in which he could repay Mouldy for his kindness In rescuing him when he suddenly thought of Penelope's party.

when Mouldy the mole popped to Penelope's party," he began, "I say, Mouldy, are you going

"because if ...'

out of the snow-mound.

That's E

nice welcome to Mokey had found the clock

give anyone, I must Bay. on a rubbish heap, months ago, squeaked Mouldy. "But still, and he was very proud of it. It's the sort of welcome I get Not only the clocks but on whorever I go. Only not quite empty feeling Inside told so much of it, as a rule." Mokey that it was breakfast

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"Party!" said Mouldy. "No- body ever invites me to a party. That is what comes of living underground. One gets out of touch with things."

"Well, come along to Peno- lope's, then," said Mokey.

"I'll come," said Mouldy sad- ly, "but I shan't know what to do, or eat, or drink,

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say.

very queer indeed had hap- "I should hope not," an- I shall be very unhappy." |penod, The fir tree had gone in swered Mouldy. "I've been So the two set off across the mow for Badger's Wood, where From where he lay in bed I've made a tunnel big enough Penelope's cottage was. When

the night.

"Hear frost," said Mokey to himself. He pulled down the window in order to see out. A shower of snow fell on top of his head. For a moment he was too surprised to do any- thing. Then

closed the ho window with a bang.

for

you

gone

lantern.

some

my

"What party?" cried Penelope, "Oh that party! It's over. was the day before yesterday."

"Just

luck," sighed "When I am invited

was

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Mokoy wakes up later than usual

Mokey looked and saw with When he came within sight a shock that half of it was grey of his own house Makey found and the other half bright red. that the snow bad not gone at all. It had simply changed to a dark colour. In fact, it had changed into gingerbread,

"That is what comes of trying to dye my hair ginger," sald Penelope. "Only half the spell worked."

By this time the Ginger Baby had brought along a very small carrot "Ask Penelope to make it larger," said the kitten. Mokey immediately asked her to make it into the largest carrot ever known.

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When he came sadly to the edge of It he nibbling at a corner,

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"Good evening, Mouse," said Mokey. "How long will it take you to eat all this?"

"Years." said the mouse. "Then please

go and friends about ii,"

your

Mokey.

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So the mouse went off and fetched every mouse in Elfond, The gingerbread was gone in no time,

pieces;

the pieces.

and two inches

ends of the two four-I

Now cross the pieces, fift the slots into one mother you will have a compact box

shown in the sketch. Tape: four corners of the box sc But they had eaten so much, will stay in one piece dur and were so fat, that as soon the game.

the

last

as they had finished piece the mice just fell asleep where they were,

To play, use a two-inch There was rubber ball, or a tennis an enormous pile of them.

floo So, Place the box on the instead of being blocked by ground, stand about eight

Mokey's gingerbread, was blocked by mice,

Suddenly

houseoway, and bounce the balls:

will land in the box,

Mokey heard

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digging for you for two hours.

Mokey could always

to crawl along. There see the

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curtains, is only a huge great snowdrift they got there the door

The witch made some passes they tunnel Penelope

open, and

500 could Sometimes he would see it on round your house. My

Inside the room, and mumbled some words. The open by the moonlight nights,

carrot shrank, and turned into glittering comes into the

along. You looking very cross, with frost, but it was always field-path. Come

a knob of solid ginger. better bring your had the first thing which he looked you creatures are so clumsy in

"What are you doing here?"

Mokey could not eat ginger, for in the daylight. And now

slie screeched at them. the

and wished that he had been it had gone.

dark."

"Please, we've come to the content with the carrot, When they had

how Mokey jumped out of bed little distance, Mokey noticed in party," Mokey answered,

ever small it wos. He begun to and pulled the curtains wide the glimmer of his lantern វា

think that his only chance of apart. Everything

gone. turning which went to the right. had

It getting a good meal was from There was nothing to be seen What is that turning?" he

the store of food in his except the window-pones glit- asked,

garden-shed, "It's not a turning, really," tering in the candle-light.

"Please, Penelope, can you answered Mouldy, "It's one Mouldy. of Rabbit's old burrows. My to a party, it would be an old make the snow disappear from tunnel just happened to

He vanished into the round my house?" he asked. cut one." across it."

ground.

"Oh, that is quite easy," sald the witch. She picked up a handful of snow, made it into a ball, and melted it in

To score a point, the cauldron. "The snow round Miaou...miaou," behind him. must stay in one of the

the mice. They have your house has gone already," So did

were partments. Each player she said.

awake and gone in no time. Li three turns and you can was Ugly's Ginger Baby.

your own limits on the num 0

"Panclope hos

turned me of points that make old, half aloud,

out," said the kitten in a very

a game. Mokey started to turn round hurt tone of voice,

It is a good idea, however, "I think I can And you u

make a decision before starti very small carrot," said a voice

Then come and live with the game us to whether the b from somewhere inside the

mo,"

," said Mokey, "so long as must land in the box after t And the next moment you go?" the witch asked him nothing is likely to turn into first or second bounce.

As he was very cold Mokey ginger in my house." was glad to

But accept it.

course not," answered when it was poured out he the kitten. took one rulp of it and ran, It ... had turned into ginger beer. milk, and fetched a basketful of

Before he got out of the carrots from his store.

DET turtles stay healthy if n wood be heard frightful yells When he had eaten them all overfed. Once a day is t and shrieks behind him. He he went to bed; and the Ginger maximum. Offer him bits turned round to see Penelope Baby curled up by the fire-raw fish, beef and liver, chopp and the Ginger Baby dancing place.

as finely as possible. "Eart about in what seemed to be a "I suppose it was because I worm meat" may be included yellow lake. The house had was only a kitten that the well. M- with a drop; gone. Penelope had made an- spelts only

half right. cod liver oll occasionally other slight mistake, She had She ought to have thought of strengthen his shell and t turned her house into ginger that." mused the Ginger Baby, only as much food za hơ”” marmalade,

When Mokey came to the turning, a most beautiful smell He put came to his nostrils.

As for Mokey, he down his lantern and sniffed.

ho It was the smell

could dried grass. hungry that This was too much for a donkey cried, who had had no breakfast.

"Oh, I am Mokey thrust his head into the door and peeped through. the turning, and his mouth closed keyhole. He could

He took the key from

the

SCC no-

on a bunch of grass. But not

thing. Very gently he turned the handle and opened the door for long. Just a tiny bit. He was not

going to be caught again. Molsey shut the door quickly. He had seen enough the crack. There

over,"

In another second, he shot through back in the tunnel, and his cries was Snow echoed along it. "Ooh... ow! right up to the top of the door. ooh...ow!" he yelled. "Some The very, very worst had hap- thing has pricked my nose all pened. He was snowed in.

Mokey

back to bed went and began to think of all the awful things which were going to happen to him. He was go ing to be hungry. He was going to be lonely. He was going to miss Penelope's party. Since Penelope was a witch, her par tles were most exciting. Mokey

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"It serves you tight," came "for trying to eat my bed." a cross voice from the turning,

It was Hod, the Hedgehog, in the middle of his winter's sleep.

"Fancy trying to eat a per- con's bed," he went on. "Not only that, but you've woken me up six weeks too soon. Please g away, and take that light

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so hungry," he

a kiten came through the door- way.

It was Ugly's Ginger Baby. here," asked Mokey.

"Hello! What are you doing

"I'm living here now," said the Ginger Baby. "Ever since the black cat left her because he could not put up with her singing, I've been Penelope's cat,"

"And my magic has gone to pieces ever since you come," snapped Penelope.

"What magic?" asked Mokey, "Ginger magic, of course, yelled the witch. "Always do the magic which matches the with you. It is keeping mo cat. Black cat-black magic. White cat-white magic. I'd even have a try at tabby magle, it I had a tabby cat. But ginger mogle is difficult enough. The books say very little about it. I cannot seem to get it right. Look at my hair."

awake."

Mokey picked up his lantern and went on. He had not gone far before ho heard the most tremendous snoring. Hod was settling down to sleep again. Mokey's nose still smarted."

PUZZLE

CROSWORD

ACROSS

1 Winter vehicle

B Plant part

# Peel

10 Rant

11 Operatic solo

12 Legal point

13 Road (ab.)

14 Speedsters

17 Ago

18 Ensnare

21 Parent 23 Drone bea

24 Wicked

20.Notion

20 Get up 29 Golf mounda

30 Satinto

Box

* Grease

9 Silkworm

PATCH

21 Light fog

22 On the sheltered side

25 By way of

27 While

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2. How would you express in one word having encountered a doctor of medicino?

3. Why is D person who nover lays a wager as bad as a regular gambler?

4. What bridge creates the most anxiety?

5. Why is the fight of an eagle a most unpleasant sight to witness?

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After rearranging the letters in each row of the diagram to form a good word, renITango the rows of words so they will read the same across and down:

AEEMR

AEHRS

EEERV

ITO

DOWN

EEDRİR

More expensive, Senior (ab.)

Waste allowance

7 At all times

8 Disorder

16 Constellation

113 Antics

18 Prepare for publication

is Complication

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