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"HUPEN"

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1952.

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Pixie McPlump Was Very Fat

-It Was 'All Because She Had Too Many Pockets!-

-By MAX TRELL

"NOW," said Mr Punch as ho lit his pipe and stretched himself out comfortably in his rocking chair under the sunny window, "there are all kinds of pixies- good plxies, naughty pixies, thin pixies and fat pixies. The pixio I knew when I was a boy was fattest pixies that One of the anyone

was-"

P

over saw.

. Her name

itera Knart and Innid, 'the shadow children with the and turned about names, General Tin the tin soldier to whom Mr Punch was speaking, all exclaimed in one voice: "Oll It was a girl-pixie!"

Sounded Surprised

· Pixie McPlump's pockets were full of things to eat.

"Certainly it was a girl-pixlc{" Mr Punch said, sounding sur- "The other pixles cured her."

"How, Mr Punch?” prised. "Didn't you know there

just took away hor They were girl-pixles"

Karf and Hand and General pockets. In a month she was a Tin admitted that they had never beautiful pixie, and Jollier and thought there were any girl- better-natured than ever. They pixies. "It seems odi to think called her Pixle O'Joy. It was of a girl-pixie," General Tin a much better name}" tald, "and especially a fal one."

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Mr Punch nodded. "She was

a giri-pixle all right, and as

fal

fat can be. Her name was Suette McPlump."

"Even the name sounds fat," said Hanid.

"She was all round, like a bali

of yarn,"

rn," Mr Punch went on. "I

tell W38 sometimes hard to whether she was lying down or standing up. She was just as wide as she was tall, She had But stie checks ke balloons. was folly and good-natured and quite smart, too....except for one thing.

"What one thing, Mr Punch?" "Pockets," said Mr Punch. "Pockets? Pockets? You mean pockets for keeping things in?" Mr Punch nodded and smiled "That's time. at the exactly what I mean!"

same

Nature's

By IDA SMITH

(TRANGE little stones shaped like crosses are found in numerous places in America and Europe, the most famous location being Virginia. Specimens from New Mexico are uften found set with tiny garnets. In the early days people used them as good luck charms and as baptis- mal stones.

were

Hanid said: "I don't under-

These crosses, as well as stand what her pockets had to do

others of nature's with her being smart, or not many

creations, What was beautiful smart, Mr Punch. wrong with her pockets?"

not understood by the early people, so they wove legends Handed around them.

Mr Punch paused a moment to

down for many generations

crosses:

about the

ZOO'S WHO

STEGOSAURUS

DINOSAUR HAD ONLY ONE MEANS OF DEFENSE.......A POWERFUL,SPIKED TAIL, WHICH IT SWUNG LIKE A CLUB AT ITS ADVERSARIES..

A BUTTERFLY SPENDS MOST OFITS LIFE ON THE WING,SPEED- ING ALONG FROM SIX TO TWENTY FIVE MILES PER HOUR,.....

Rock

Skarba

BEES WERE BROUGHT TO AMERICA FROM EUROPE, AND THE INDIANS CALLED THEM WHITE MAN'S PLIES..

Carving

30140000

Staurolite Crystals From Virginia)

One on Right Cantalas 4 Garpet)| Pak brot Fied of tur

4. 2016

From Georgia

Too Many Pockets "Two things, my dear....two things! The first thing was that she had too many pockets. The among North American In- These Staurolita Crystals, sometimes called Fairy Crosses, are not charming hand-carved, but made by nature. They were made deep down int second thing was that she kept dians is this

the earth but were pushed upward by geelogio action and at last these too-many-pockels too full." legend

little.

were found by men. (Photo by Chelsea Biqdia, Phoenix, Ariș),

combination of two in loafing at the end of one' lite, being a "Once long ago

some Greek

words meaning stone you can see its hexagonal (six- were "Now fairies

dancing in cross. They are compoeod sided) pattern which is flattened ask me what Pixie McPlump's the woods when a white Iron, aluminium, silica, hydrogen a 1tle. The crosses are made and oxygen. Mineralogists dia- up of twined crystals, or two too-many-pockets were too full dove fluttered down among covered this by crushing them single crystals have formed to

and making a chemical analysis gother. It is not known why they so often do this. of the powder.

enjoy the bewildered expressions on the faces of his three friends, then he took another slow puff on his pipe and said:

of?"

Mr Punch's three friends lost no time asking him that ques

tion.

to cat."

"They were too full of things "What's wrong with that?" asked Knarf. "It's good to have of things to your pockets full cat.

them exhausted. He told them that he had flown across the big waters from where he had seen a great and good man crucified. When he finished the story the fairies all cried, and as their tears touched the ground they turned into little stone crosses."

"Perhaps 50," agreed Funch. "If you are going on a long journey, let's say to the Moon, where you can't stop off

The stones are called fairy and buy things on the way for breakfast, or dinner, or supper, crosses because of that legend.. It's a wonderful thing to have In the 1800's mineralogists dis- your pockets full of things to cat. covered that they were natural mineral formations and named But when you're playing just

dour and them staurolite crystals. Staure outside your kitchen you can be quite sure that all the good things you need are cooking on the alove, then it

seems to me wrong to have your ING pockets full of things to eat.

The

Wrongest Thing BOSS PADDY

"But the wrongest thing about poor, fat, jolly but not-so-very- smart Pixie McPlump was that she kept eating those things ali the time. She'd reach into one pocket and take out a stick of candy, she'd reach into another and take out a bar of chocolate,

and take out gum-drops, drops,

marshmallow,"

temen lollypops and (if I'm not mis- taken) ice-cream cones and

bottles of pop. And the mora sho. the fatter she got.

"Aner

awklle," Mr Punch went

on, "she go so round that they had to roll her in and out of the house."

"And what happened to Pixie McPlump finally Hanld wanted to know.

PUNCH

HOLE:

SIN.

MARK

OFF

IN

IINCH

4

•

of

Οτι combination

Each ot

yet

The true story of the fairy crosses is more fascinating than a legend. In order to determine FTEN when people see the how nature fashioned them. It

some glone crosses in a minerak was necessary to know conection they think they have thing about geology as well 93 been carved by hand. Then the mineralogy

chemistry, and

what mauve➡ collector will show them other Geology tells us crystal formations, quartz, garments and changes occur inside nets calcite...etc... and explain the earth and why. how nature forms them.

It has been determined that mineral minerals fashions different kinds staurolite crystals are formed the nds deep in the earth where

minerals are so hot they are of crystal patterns.

The staurolites ure

often melted. This melted minerol single crystals found as

and matter s

Is called molten magma. In this hot, liquid magma the atoms of iron, aluminium, sill

bydrogen and oxygen form their special crystal pattern,

doing

they have push other materials aside

to get together to fashion, their design.

2.Cut him out and make either singly or as little crosses,

a ring with a PIPE CLEANER or a 6

Ід

to

this

In order

inch piece of WIRE. All of our hard gem stones are

SQUARES 3. Tie it in the hole under his nose with a STRING 10in.long.

10

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What? Why? 1.Draw PADDYon CARDBOARD. 5-5

How?

THREE words, WHAT, WHY

oid IOW, yro the mark of a person who wants an educa- tion. What the question of Introduction; why lo getting ac- quainted, and how is becoming good friends with the subject.

Too often when wo nek a question the answer is unratis. factory Too often it is inne- curate. Loan to find out the factz for yourself. Leaming where to find 'flip correct on- swers is just as important as the Answers themselves,

Learn to LiteO the dictionary, the encyclopedia, and what the inter, to a book is. Even among genlund scholars, there are fow who can give an accurate, qff-hand anawer to a questioni that requires thought

But smart poople know where to ful the uneWorn)

Rupert's River Rescue-31

Rupert and Sailor Blank carry the bags and goon, Mrs. Bear sees the Lim garty marching op: to her front gate. She is astonished when abe bears the story. ***What a tertible, thing, no::hagosa' likhe cries." "Of couren Grahny Gost must stay. With a unia ber homes

is Hry, again." She busles thems all indoor and Rupert at „DODE finds the kitten and rolls granny how he found it,TM** Good gracious. Myjown - kitten, pra, the delighted old lady. And did you blow hem on the flood, too & Peu been worried abosiq you, for alim juaj two-days.

formed in this way.

14 site.

S geologie changes go on in- the earth these mineral crystals are gradually

pushed upward toward the sur-

face. They cool and harden. One day, after perhaps, thou sands of years, the uttle crosses And

themselves on top of the ground, where "rock hounds" (rock collectors) dig them out and marvel at Mother Nature's curious method of doing things,

Scientists have

discovered where and how the crystals are | formed, but, as yet they do not. know what makes the atoms work in such a mysterious way. When they find that, they will have discovered one Wife's greatest secrets.

RUPERT and the

BLACK MOTH

Ash Mommy and Daddy to

buy you two bosh of pay salomenil, drochage, aloof fi perth Adventureą... There are que evening socket, la, mag

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