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SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1952.

BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

Pixie O'Scowl Has No Times AMAR 4Sincan

-He's Too Busy Giving Flashlights to Fireflies-

By MAX TRELL

"PIXIE O'scow," said Hanid,

the shadow-girl with the turned-about name, when she of met the Pixie coming out O'Cheer Hull, "I wonder you'd

woy

even

"No time, no time," said Pixie O'Scowl, waving her out of his "I've got too many things on my mind."

"But Pixie O'Scow!!" and

didn't exclaimed, "You hear what I was going to say," "Whatever it is, I've no time said Pixie O'Scowl. for it." And he dashed under a goose- berry bush and disappeared.

Good Manners

Hanid sat down on a stone. "It's awful," said Pixie O'scow, "Now you'd think,” she said to "all the things I have to do,” herself indignantly, "that he'd

have the good manners at teost seized Hanid to listen to me. Lots of people and danced

busy, but they have time to with her. sten."

aro

AMIONAR 4SHD one

1.Cut off top and bottom of a 5 inch CAN...cut 3wedges in the bottom edge.

2.Punch 4 holes evenly apart in

2 PIETINS so they fit inside the rim of the can.

SAT TINS TOGETHER

TO MATCH UP HOLES

3.Cut 2: pieces of thin soft WIRE

35 inches long.

by both hands,

Put them through

round and round

He quite forgot how busy he

To Hanld's astonishment, she was! heard, Pixle O'Scowl's voice say- ing from somewhere under the stone on which she was sitting: "Don't push! Stand In line! Stop pushing!

instantly Hot off the stone and looted under . Pixie O' cowl was slanding in a sart

of hollow with a whole crowd

of curkus-locking insects stand-

g

ing around Jim and now and;

holes in one tin.

over, the wires with the wedges down..

5.Fill the canwith ROLLED OATS and slip the wires through the Second PIE TIN.

+19

6.Bend the wires at the top to make a hook... and hang on a TREE!

FOREST GUARDIAN

By IDA SMITH

then pushing, Each of the CEVERAL million years

insects was holding a flashlight, before man came to But none of the Washlights was what is now the Grand Can-

it.

"Get in line! One at a time yon forest in America, four- --one at a time!" Pixie O'Scowl footed creatures had their said again, "Take it easy! Don't homes there. They first ap push!***

peared during the Cenozoic for Tertiary era, called the

Age of Mammals.

Hanid wondered what Was going on.

Nothing Better To Do All of a sudden she discover-

the inserts A.D. that ed. One by cue.

tarted going

lo Pixic his

1511

It was not until about 300 man first made appearance there as Osowl with their fashlights near as we can tell from You fireflies make me tired, present records. Scientists

O'S GAL sold. You'd

call those early people Link_1_had_nothing better

The first to keep giving Basketmakers.

Pixie

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ew batteries."

to

white man to discover the Grand Canyon Was Garcia on Lopez de Cardenas re-time about 1800.

"But these are all wern out! several of the freies tried.

hey don't flash off and

re! What good are #shlights it Hicy

don't

some-

In 1919 Gaverment mase ta national park where all wild life, plants and trees era protested by law, and named it Grand Canyon National Park. The great pine and juniper forest that borders the Canyon is called the Kaibab National Forest.

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Chi off and on?"

"You're not taking care of them. You're using 14:em too uch," Pixie O'Scowl grumbled. We just use them all night." Pixic

O'Seowl finally sold: "All right, all right, But try ring item less." Then he gave

of the Arelles

visited the a new THE last dime wa

T sald: and they battery

Canyon we'rented a cabin near Thanks, Pixie O'Scol" and the lodge. The first day we spent watching the play of beautiful "So," roid Hand 10 Pixie colours in the deep gorges us O'Scowl as he started climbing the changing sunlight fell upon up out of the hollow, "so that's them. The second day we walk- want you were so busy. about-ed through the forest and made giving batterics to fireflies for our acquaintance, with the wild the flashiights!"

life.

thew off,

alt

Something Else

The friendly young buck deer stood still long enough to have his picture taken. When we walked over to touch him our friendship ended as he galloped away stopping to watch us.

Riddles

Early the second morning we It Pixie O'Scowl beran saying: heard a thump in our yard.

The park rangers do not want In the forest Mother Nature “No time, no time! But then was a big buck deer poking in people to feed the deer and it is gives him dark fur that blends he sat down on a twig. "It's our garbage can for a choice bit against the park rules. One with the forest, while on the awful," he said, "all the things of potato

light-coloured a cabbage reason is because someone might desert he grows tato peeling or i have to do. Every day in the leat. He nosed through our can get hurt, and another is because fur to match the desert sond,

That is naturo's way of pro- week it's something else, Mon- and then visited all the others many kinds of our food are not

cabins.

"tecting him. good for deer,

But no matter dys-batteries for the fireflies. along our row of Tuesdays new spools of thread

where he lives he can never Presently some children gath-. fer the spiders,

Wednesdays

cred and walked along with him, The buck in the photograph is change the size of his big ears, heels shoes with rubber eels for the They were all having a delight- a young fellow. He stood still ashoppers. Thursdays now ful time and the deer seemed to while we walked close enough to mey-jars and flower-baskela enjoy it too. But whenever the take his picture, but when we

to touch him he Fridays tooth children took hold of his horns tried

would ste and toothbrushes for the he would gently push them away. gallop off to a little distance and

Younger bucks are not always stand and watch us. mice and squirrels. Saturdays— haircuts for the caterpillars. to gentle because they are sus Sundays...er, let me see now,"picious of people. Sometimes if Pixie O'Scowl said, hesitating, they think we might hurt them

What do I have to do on Sun- they can be very dangerous. days?"

I did not take the older wil Hanid waited for O'Scowl to tell her.

safe in their Grand Canyon "Sundays,

Sundays I know

home, and as they learn that certain people are their friends there's something I do on Sun-most of them respond quickly to dayMaybe," said Hanid, "you kindness.

the bees.

1.

Pixlelife lang to learn that they were quite a while and discovered that side of bacon off a hooks to be

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just stay in bed and steep on; Sundays."

NE day we saw two does with Pixie

broke into

smile, their fauns eating crackers "That's it! That's what I do! I from the hands of several chil-

2

Why can watchmaker A mother deer

never make a foriume? Joy in the

while her the body

2. What is both food for

and

for food

the shade of the pines half-grown faun nibbled gross nearby. We sat beside

hes for mind?

3. Why is a man ting she liked to have her scratched behind her ears.

fauns scumpered together. They About sundown several little

chased each, other Around In circles. They were having their before bedtime frolic.

neck

pitled?

4. Why is a lucky gambler an agreeable fellow?

a

does &

5. Why is a dressmaker most deceptive woman?

0. What nation criminal most dread?

77 7. What is the difference between an

sleep! I almost forgot, Sunday dren. The animals had come N his book "Meeting the Mam-son with an organist and a per-

is my day of rest, jany work at all"

I don't do close to their car,

a bad cold? mals," Victor H. Cahalune 0. When may two people be The children's parents were pays that the Grand Canyon deer said to be half-witted? And the tired Pixie O'Scowl watching carefully to see

is called the mule deer because D. What le the queen of the that was so delighted to remember they did not get hurt and near- of his big cars. His relentific

roses, Drd why? that he didn't have anything to by stood the

father deer, his name is Odosolleus hemionus.

10. What cannot be called a do on Sundays excopt stay in head held high. He, 100,

disinterested not of hospitality? bed and sleep, that he jumped watching to

His specie ranges from Alberta, see that no harm Canada, to central Mexico

11. Why are duels very short and whistled a song, Up and

affairs? and came to his family,

from the west central part of

12. What is the difference be-

Did You Know?

ふ

Was

Naturalists have observed that North America to the Pacific tween a blind men and a sailor.

some buck deer are not much in- coast, He is a hardy animal and in prison? terested in their familica and can live in the high mountains leave all responsibility to the

of the hot desert.

13. Why

does an aching tooth Impose silence on

The

A Chinese, Lee Yim, introduc- does. But naturalists agree that In the mountains he drinks sufferer? ed commercial, shrimp thing in individdel animals differ. This from cold streams, while some- 14. Why are crockery dealers: the Gulf of Mexico, during the fellow seemed to take his job, times on the desert he has to unlike all other shopkeeperst

teriously. American Civil War.

get, his drink from caotus plants.

The wood tush and the scarlet tanager, can "throw" their colls ke q ventriloquist...

When cars travel over. 40 miles an hour, more power is required to overcome, air resis- tance than road resistunCO.

A bird's heart, boats. twice as fast as that of a human doing,

Approximately 3,000,000, troca are cut annusily the United. States to be used

for telegraph telephone polos,

and

A nivaber of blide, such amall hawks, shrikes and several large cuekoos, eat, lizards; and snakes great quantity.

Greenland almost entirely covered by an lee cup, which is

aomotimes •a mille and a half

thick.

The average bird, takez a a wook to build a nest, virtu

Charcoal is obtained from wood, and coks from coal by the Telephone 84165. rame type of process.

H: Allerton

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Rupert and the Pine Ogre-34

The Autumn B, becomes more

**Well, what • queer aftale 19 and more brisk. You people had gapi. Piuline, 'Deryl and Javér will never, believe it when I tell besser keep well away from hero'st

them."." Yes, it has, beeb an odd', -sysser" he declares, "Furlous! adventure," agrees Roper, can things may be happening and it hardly believe it myself. So they won't be sle"" Then he turna, sepatite (and he goes to. find hig and in a moment has disappeared. | sack of lir cones.

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