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Mr. Punch's Jumping Teacher.

He Didn't Have to Go to Australia to Find Him!-

By MAX TRELL.

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when I was a Itile said to Knart hoy," Mr Punch and Honid, the shadow-children with the turned-about names, was little, but little! When I stretched myself and stood on my over my tip-toes and reached head as much as I could, I stood just about as high as a match- stick."

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any bigger than n matchstick, Mr Punch?"

"Certainly not!" replied Mr don't think I'd Punch.

tell you that wasn't true, do you?"

Hanid sald: "Well........now and then you have, Mr. Punch."

Mr Punch frowned..

Good Story "You just told it to make up a good story," said Knarf.

"Nonsense," said Mr Punch. "I always tell the truth. Your may not believe what I tell you, but'I do. And as I said before (and I say again), when I was little, I was little. Now let's get on."

Knarf and Hanid both urged

Mr Punch asked the Kangaroo Land upthrough

to teach him how to jump.

said:

out of his

And Mr Punch dear," and jumped chair and went into the kitchen. And Knarf and Hanid smiled.

Stringing Water Pearls

num-

By JAY HOLDING

desirable.

Each competitor is allowed 40

broad

Mr Punch to continue telling his TF you have evor stood on

smoothly, and with a story. Although they Balda river bank or lake

sweep of the arming the nothing, they both thought to shore, picked up a pebble spend a great deal of time grind ward the open om......

stone on its sunlit journey, ta- themselves that even If Mr Punch's story wasn't altogather and scaled it across the sur- ing and smoothing them down

You will note that, according the shape they and most to the above statement, the true, still it was fun listening to. face of the water, making to

"What happened when you the pebble "skip"" a

skippers" are inclined to be- come ber of times, you will be stones for ten throws, and the They refer to the splashicis me poolie about their hobby. interested to learn that this ones which fail to skip are not made by the skipping stone as pastime is one of man's counted. Last year,

re a "string

of pearls-and cord for most ancient and universal

21 become

particularly mournful, 39 after they have made a specta- sports and that this only slips for three casis, and 16 in cutar on stand format

"neck- over country in which it is fully six with very little trouble. when I tried to do it, I tumbled recognised and organised is head over heels and landed in- Denmark. zide the barrel, which made everyone else laugh.

They al shouted together:

were so little?" Knarf asked.

"Well, being so

so little made it harder for me to do the things For that other children example, jumping. Now Charlie Trendi, sould jump over a barrel

"And

dld.

But

Mr

Punch is little Punch is small Funch can't jump

at all! At

said naturally" Punch, "I didn't like that. So I made up my mind I was going to learn how to jump even if I broke every bone in my body.

I looked around for a jumping- teacher."

"Oh!" said Hanid, "Are there teachers who teach jumping?"

Surprised Voico

Called "alaa-smut" which can be translated as "smooth throwing it is a game which the Danes seriously engage in. During the months of July and August

practise siduously, perfecting their skill

they

skips. Other marks were a single cast was.

Experts in the sport have advised that the secret of suc- cess lies in assuming the proper style and stance when throwing the

The angle of the throw, its height, and the allow ance made for centrifugal force are equally important.

the stone.

ince on the water" at the loss of the stone used. Carved ex- actly right for throwing, it is inevitably lost forever when. It sinks at the end of its "string"

0

Here is a perfect sport for you to organise among your friends. Even more to is the shape of It strengthens the arm, and It can be the stones used, and each de- sharpens the eye. in the hope of entering the na-ce has his secret way of played by teams, or individually, be tional championships, which are fashioning them. One adept at and even alone.. Prizes can

he arranged for singles, teams of held annually in the nation's the pastime, asked how

threw, replied: "I take the stone three or six persons. Be sure capital, Copenhagen.

in three fingers, pauso until I to have an arbitrator or qual- find the right poise, and then ified Judge, with a keen eye.

•

Elimination contests are held monthly. The game is organised | into divisions in which men and themselves, and boys contest Individually among Fl girls do the same. Doubles" teams, which include members in both sexes, also contest for honoura,

WDRICK

for "I'm surprised at you asking such a question!" said Mr Punch in surprised voice "Teachers of jumping are all over the place. Some of them live down at the pond. Some of them live in the meadow. Some

Every contestant is permitted of them live in the trees. But to select and use the stones best the best one of all the jumping fitted to his technique-there is teachers lives in Australia. Now no regulation as to size or Australia, as you may know, weight. Most devoices of the sport spend weeks hunting for

15m

"Just a minute, please" said the right stones, and often

Knart.

"What jumping teachers.. live down at the pond?"

"The frogs answered Mr Punch. "Now Australia

"And which ones live in the meadow?" Hanid asked.

"The grasshoppers." "Well, to continue story, Australia"

with my

"And Mr Punch," said Knarf ngain,

"which ones live in the trees?"

"The squirrels. Now are you going to let me tell about the who lives in jumping teacher Australia, or aren't you?”

Game With

Words

Here are definitions of wards than one. which have more meaning. If you figure out each meaning correctly, you will have the name of a well-known bird ag its other meaning. Another clue is that, the mumber in parenthesea after each defini- theylon tells you how many letters could guess the name of the the name of the bird contains.

Could. Guess Namo Knarf and Hanld said

thought by this time that

wonderful jumping teacher

they

ZOO'S WHO

OSTRICHES

MATE FOR LIFE.

AFRICAN BUFFALO

IS CONSIDERED BY MANY BIG GAME HUNTERS TO BE THE MOST DANGEROUS BEAST IN THE WORLD TO

-HUNT...

who Try to name at least half of 2 WORLDS LARGEST LIVING

in Australia. "It's the the birds. The answer to No. 1

said Hanid,

garoo,"

Mr Punch nodded. "You're absolutely right, Only I didn't have to go to Australia to find him after all. I found him at the Zoo. I went right up to him and asked him to teach me how

to jump. He wasn't very busy, so be agreed.

|is SWALLOW.

1. An action of the throat (7).

2.

2.

A good time (4). Speedy (5).

To fool come one (6).

A hoisting oppamtus (3).

6. A truck (4).

7. To dodge (4).

8. To cower (5). COWE

church dignitary '(7),, To brag or boost (1),

To grumble: (6). Drug To flutter, when speaking of a light (?),

I went to take a lesson from 9. A crazy person (4).. the Kangaroo every afternoon 10. after school. By the end of the 11. week I was jumping over barrels 12. as casily as you can jump over a 13. datsy By the end of a month I was jumping over fences, bushes, 14. clotheslines and policemen. And 15. Material from which flags

A stupid person (3); by the end of six months ·I are made (7) WRE

10. An old-fashioned girl's But at this instant Judy, who was Mr Punch's wife, put her 17. A fying top ((4)....

name (6). head in at the door and said: 18. To carry on light conver- "Punch, stop telling all this non-.

ention (4). sense and come help me dry the ' ''; dishes."

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