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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1952.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

*"BOOCHOW"

"SHENGKING”

BAILINGS TO

.Bangkok

Kean

Niihama,

Yokakınına

Kobo

Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka δε Kobo Singapore, Penang &

clawan,

Nagoya,

10 am. 2d Sept.

5 p.m. 24th Eopt."

10 a.m, 25th Sept.

10 num. 27 Sept.

"YOCHOW”

"FOOCHOW"

"FUNING"

"BLANSI"

Kobe

**YUNNAN"

Shanghai

"HUPEU".

Tientsia

"SHENCKING"

Kenlung

"FENGTIEN"

Djakarta,

Semarang,

Sourabaya & Mocasin

"PAKHOI"

Bangkok

• Balls from

ARRIVALS FROM

Bintan

7 a.m. 22nd Sept, 7 .m. 22nd Sept, 23rd Sept.

"SHENGKING"

"YOCHOW"

"FOOCHOW”

“HANYANG"

"FUNING"

"SHANSI"

"YUNNAN"

Keelung...

Blatan & Singapore

Indonesia

Tientsin

Moji

Bangkok ..Shanghai

&

10 a.m. 27th Sept.

0 pm. 28th Sept. 10a.m. 29th Sept. 10 am, 20th Sept.

6 p.m.

1st Oct.

10 a.. Dth Oct. 10 a.m. 9th Oct, Custodian Wharf

24th Sept.. 24th Sept.

25/28th Sept.

. 28th Sept.

A.O. LINE LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE

SAILINGS TO

...Sydney & Melbourne. 3 p.m. 23rd Sept. .....Japan

Sydney & Melbourne Sydney & Melbourne

"CHANGSHA"

"CHANGTE"

"TAIPING"

"ANKING"

4th Oct. 7th Oct. Bth Oct.

ARRIVALS FROM

"CHANGTE”

Australia &

Manila

"TAIPING"

Kobo

"ANKING"

Kobo

1st Oct. 5th Oct. 8th Oct.

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

Scheduled Sailings to Europe via Adon & Port Said

"AGAPENOR”

"ČALOBAS”

"PYRRHUS"

"BELLEROPHON"

"ATREUS"

"PELEUS"

Liverpool & Dublin

..G on a 4, London,

Rotterdam, Antwerp &

Hamburg

Marseilles,

& Glasgow

Liverpool

Genoa, London,

Rotterdam & Hamburg

...Dublin & Liverpool

Marseilles, Liverpool

& Glasgow

Scheduled Ballings from Europe

Balls

Sails

Rotterdam

. 25th Sept.

27th Sept

6th Oct.

24th Get.

25th Oct.

-6th Nov.,

Arrives Hong Kong

In Port loll's Whart 1st Oct,

Liverpool

S. "AUTOMEDON"

Sailed

G. "ATREUS"

do

8. "BELLEROPHON"

-do

do

10th Sept.

8. "ALCINOUS"

do

G. "ANTILOCHUS”

25th Sept

H. "AUTOLYCUS“

5th Oct.

G. "PELEUS"

"PATROCLUS" 12th Oct.

10th Oct.

G. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool.

S. Loading Swansea, before Liverpool. Carriers' opilog to proceed via other ports to load & discharge cargo.

10th Oct,

18th Oct,

24th Oct,

31st Oct.

10th Nov,

17th Nov,

DE LA RAMA LINE

ARRIVING Vin MANILA FROM US. ATLANTIC &

PACIFIC COAST PORTS.

"AGAMEMNON”

"DONA AURORA"

SAILING for KINGSTON, NEW

3rd Oct. 24th Oct. YORK. via

22nd Sept.

SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & CRISTÓBAL.

"AJAX"

"ANDAMAN"

"HAINAN"

6th Oct. 21st Oct.

Lathay Pacific Airways Ltd.

Boute

Departs Hanskang

IK/Bangkok/Singapore (DC-4) 7.30_a.m. Man, Thyrs.

HK/Honol

HK/Haiphong HK/Salon/Singapare

(Connect at Bangkok with

(DC-3) 0.45 a.m. Tues. (DC-5) 6.45 am. Thurs. (DC-4) 10.45 a.m. Tues.

HK/Manila/BN. Borneo (DC-3) 7,15 am. Tug, Fri.

Arrives H.R (om return) 6.45.q.m. Tucs. Fri. .B.A. to Hangoon)

4.43 p.m. Tues. 4.15 p.m. Thurs. 6.43 p.m. Wed. 445 pan. Wed. Sat.

All the above subject to Alteration without notice. For passage and Freight Particulars please apply to

1 CONNAUGHT RD C. Tel 30331/8 BRANCH OFFICE 50 Connaught Rd. West; 25875, 32144, 24878

BEND LINE

"BENMTIOR"

"BENCLEUCH" "BENLEDI" "BENALDER" "BENCLEUCH”

SAD PAST

ARRIVALS

FROM

Japan U.K

DUK

In Port 24th Sept. U.K. via Bingapore on or abt. 2nd Oct,

Japan

Japan

It's A Lovely Cloudy Day

--At Least. That's What Blinky and Mr. Owl Thinkin

By MAX TRELL

AH," said Bunky Mole as

"

ho stood fat inside the back door to his underground house and looked outside,

magnificent lovely beautiful, cloudy day! Just the kind of a I think I'll take a day for me! little walk!"

So out went Blinky, and down the path through the field he walked, glancing up now

and then at the thick clouds in tho sky and smiling to himself with pleasure.

Didn't Like Cloudy Days

Most of the birds and most of

the bugs were staying quietly

in shelfered places because they

didn't want to get caught in the "Fa Bilaky Muls, Who-qa-o are rain they were sure was coming. you?" said Dilsky to the bird. They didn't care for cloudy days

at all. But Blinky loved clouds for a walk on the next cloudy

It was all on nocount of

of day the next really cloudy Blinky's eyes. The bright sun- looks-like-rain day. Good day, shine made him squint so hard linky!" that he could hardly see. Usual- ly he wore dark glasses to keep the sunshine. out of his eyes.

But when the clouds were in the sky, he could walk around with his eyes wide open 10co

e cise.

only trouble is," Blinky murmured to himself as he walked along, "I can't find any- one to walk with me on such a this. beautiful cloudy day like It's fun to walk with a

good companion. I wish I could find someone to walk with me."

Curious-Locking Bird

He looked here and he looked there. He looked down

looked up. And finally, just as he was looking up into the Old Oak Tree that hung bver the garden wall, he spied a curious- Jooking bird, standing on a and blinking down at branch Jin,

"Howdy, friend!" Blinky call- ed up to the bird.

"How do

do?" you. curious-looking bird enlled down to Blinky. "Who-oo-o are you?" "I'm Blinky Mole. Who-oo-0," surid Blinky, imitating the bird's voice, "arc

you

"My name, sir,"

bird, is 0.0. Owl."

"Good day, O. O, Owl," and Blinky.

And the owl flow up into the tree, and Blinky walked happily back to his underground house.

ZOO'S WHO

A FEMALE SCORPION WILL ATTACK AND EAT HER MATE

A NEW YORK RACING PIGEON,SOLD TO AN ENGINEER IN VENEZUELA,ES- CAPED FROM ITS SOUTH AMERICAN HOME AND RETURNED TO NEW YORK, FLYING AN ESTIMATED DISTANCE OF

THREE THOUSAND MILES....

BABY RABBITS ARE HELPLESS

CREATURES

AT BIRTH, BLIND

P&O B.I. E&A

COMPANIES

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO.

PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE

Outwards

"CANTON"

"CARTHAGE”

“CORFU"

Leaves London

21st Augus

18th September

18th October

.

Duo Frengkang

-2nd September

2012 October

17 November

Via Southampton, Fors: Kald, Adon, Bombay, Colombo,

kimawida

AND

"CANTON"

ALMOST NAKED

“CARTHAGE”"*

"CORFU".

Boye IM BLISHED

A Strange Kitten

.amall padlocks were kept on the The last thing before Sweet

Titten looked curiously

THE tiny black and white By IDA SMITH cupboard door

at a beetle she had unearth- would climb onto her shoulder Pro went to bed at night the and heed from under a rock, "O, and go to sleep, her anall nose would make the rounds of the look at the baby kitten!" muggled against the lady's house looking for spiders and bugs that sometimes get into neck. said a girl's voice.

the mountain homes. If she found Sweet Pen's food was cholcast of tinned "That isn't a kitten, it's and each evening the had

dog food, one she would quickly eat it up.

Her bed was in a

coverg corrected baby skunk,”

her and

lovely salad of chopped veget. paste-board box in the Itche.. brother. But

the boy and girl felt ables topped with sugar. She She always went to "bed" on .loved salads, and she love top of the box first. As it grow sorry for the animal, narned

her warm blanket. She chew- and took her sugar. A skunk's natural food cooler the would go inside to her Sweet Pea,

is meat; insects and rodents.

ed a little hole in the top 20 home.

get in without climb- The children's mother was a

she could

down and around, black ing take her cupboard doors and her new weeks to adjust herself to sleep- mama found her sitting in the ing at night and staying awake sugar tin eating sugar almost during the day, because

that, instinct handed down for ages Pea up to her eyes. After

had made all of her relatives night prowleym

the

replied the

Blinky had heard of Mr 0.0. Owl. He had heard that he was a very wise old bird. He was that Mr 0.0. 0«l quite

sure was wise because here be was,

sitting outside, enjoying the cloudy day just the way Blinky himself was, ¡A person had to be wise to enjoy a cloudy day!

"How about us taking a walk, 0.0. OW!?" Blinky said.

Docan't Usually Walk

Owl and

"I beg your pardon, sir, but I don't, usually walk. I fly. Оп the other hand, it sounds like a very good iden. I'll be right down. With that 0.0. dropped from the branch landed on the ground right be- side Blinky, who spring back hurriedly to make sure his new companion

didn't land on top

of hum.

A few moments later Blinky Mole

and 0.0. Owl were walk- ing around the end of the den wall into the garden,

"It seems to me, my friend," Blinky remarked as he gazed around the garden, "that people don't appreciate fine weather. Look, there's nobody In this garden but flowers."

all

"People are foolish," agreed the owl. They stay awake day and sleep all night, What could be more foolish than that?":

Admired the Flowers

kind-hearted lady and entered

Into

most of their projects. Sweet Pea soon learned to love her. Every evening after din ner the lady would sit in her rocker to read. Sweet

Q

•

ONE day. her little

hards unfastened the lower

It may seem strange to have a pet skunk, but they are play- ful and cute when tamed.

Seven-Acre Tree

Blinky and Owi strolled UP THE banyan tree is one of the and down the garden several most remarkable trees in the. times, admiring the flowers, the world. It is found principally in- hedges and the trees, "I like this India. The most place," said Blinky presently. peculiar thing about this tree is "So do 1," sakd 0.Ö, Owl.

its method They both pleked a bouquet

of pansies, roses and lilles and sending out, from walked slowly out through the its long spreading front gate and then back Into branches, other

old branches

the field to return to the

Oak Tree. The only other per- son they net was a black beetle who scurried under a rock the moment he spled them.

"It was a lovely walk," Blinky "I hope you'll join me gain some time."

root

that

grow downward. When they touch the ground, they take

And form new trees, which grow up, other and soon branches KTOW down from them:

"Certainly, certainly," said the which take root

2nd Oct. Fald, 28th Oct.

owl. "I be glad to join

Loading on or abt,

Buoy As

27th Sept.

you and grow up

Crossword

ita

again. In thir way, the original tree, with widespreading branches, covers large areas,

can

Treo has

COMETIMES

the

several

Penang & Singapore

· Leaves Hongkong

20th Sept.

24th October

1st November

Due Lenton

27th. D.;

24th November

22nd December

Accepting cargo for Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay,

Outwards

- "SINGAPORE”

Hainswards "BURAT"

Ader, Part Bald & Londoə...........

·FREIGHT SERVICE

From U.K. 19th October

Loading

7 October

for Japan

Fox

Singapore

Port Swettenham, Penang, Colombo, Adom Port Said, Genoa, Marseilles, Casablancs, Havre, London & Continent

Accepting cargo for Bingapore, Port Bweltenham, Penang, Colombo, Aden, Fort Bald, ́ Genoa, Marrsities, Casablanca, London, Hamburg, Antwerp Rotterdam with Uberty to call at Bunday if inducement offers. Tanke available for carriage of oil in Bolk. Space for refrigerated cargo. Limited Passenger accommodation.

BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.

dua. and Oct, salla ith Out.

"BANGOLA" •

"WAROBA"

"SIRDHANA” *

dua 7th Oct Balls 9th Oct.

due

9th Oct.

salla 10th Oct.

.

from Japan

for Singapore,

Popang, Rangoon

& Calcutta

from. Japan

for Singapore & Chittagong

from Cakutta, Ilangoon, Penang & Singapore for Japan

(* These vegaals have refrigerated cargo spaCH)

P. &.0./B. I. JOINT SERVICE

"OZARDA"

t

due 23rd Sept. exis 26th Sept.

an

"OBRA”

due 23rd Sept.

satis 24th Sept.

children

would romp with her in the evening and she learned to play hide and sock. When sho Ald under the davenport they would pull her out, by the tail. Then she would dash around and threaten them with her bic, plumed tall--but it was only a fun-loving threat, because nover caco did she make use of the odorous defence which nature gave to the skunk family.

However, the children's father never felt easy, and what Sweet Pen was several months old they took her to a veterinarian and had her deodorised

One day the family went on a rook hunt aWDY out into the desert. They found a littig, white dog almost-starved. Someone had alther carelessly lost, or abandoned him

named him Rocky.

They

During the days while Rocky Sweet Pea was getting well.. watched him belligerently from under the refrigerator and would stamp her foot at him. One day she made a ferocious pass at him and frightened him almost out of hla wits..

AS

S soon as she discovered that he was as afraid of her or she had been of him, she soun- Banyan trees can be found in

tored out and began to dare India that cover nearly seven him. Before long they wore acres of ground. Thousands of

people

romping, wrestling and creating under the shade. a hilarious circus for the entire Thia

family. frull on it the It was shortly after this that size of a cherry,

we visited them. Sweet Pea Its wood is very spotted us as strangers imme- light and of no diately and hid in the kitchen, value. A power-When we called "Kitty, Kitty" ful tonie is made she would run toward us, then from the bark of wheel and dash back to the this tree, and its kitchen. white glutinous

IS THAT

A TREE OR A FOREST?

Pretty soon she learned that is used to relieve we were friends and that sho toothaches and was in the spotlight. Then she also to allay in-swaggered, in and let us hold flammation caus horn hottoms of her tiny feet Truly the barren were jet-back A. white stripe, tree is a boon to beginning on her nose, extended the poor natives

by

sores.

of India, giving over her head, divided down her, them both bless back and met on her tall The rd shade and rest of her was black,. Valuable

Sho

very tidy cines.

wonderful, but an unusual pet.

Rupert and the Butterflies-9

mod-

was

+"DENMIIOR*

"BENCLEUCH”

"BENALDER"

*"BENLEDI"

"BENOLEUCI*

BAILINGS

"Direct to Bingapore,

thenoo

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Hare, Kobe.and *****Yokohamë.

"Diroot to Bingapore, shenoo Havre,

Liverpool Ġiasgow, Hamburg Land Hull,

Calla-Manila

Avonmouth, London, Rotterdam and Antwerp, ́Direct to Singapore, thenco Liverpool Dabila, Glasgow

∙and Rosterism.

3rd Oct.

6th Oct.

28th Oct..

↑ Refrigerated Epace Available,

All Vessels nocept Cargo for Aden, Buca and Fort, Bald.

W. R. LOXLEY & CO., {(CHINA) LTD. Agenta

York Building.

Telephone: 84103,

ACROSS

2 Short-haired dog

Munic

DOWN

1 Young dog '?'.

2 A dog kong is --

3. Every youngster would like

to — a deg

(Sainiink on Paro-16)

Rupert nds that níthough he is, explains why he has come "Do walking and the Bowers are way, you think your master would like ing about, the Butterfly makes no to sew this butterfly 7" hapanka. The dwarfantiles curiously. effort tq-fly awày, so he còpies You have come to the right fastes and finally breaks into a arbè. place," he says, "^ "That's exactly In a few minnies he meets the oid, what he dota want more than any Professor's dwith, qurvang; būdything. Coose, l'll take you to chopping down a spinney: fridi he" him."

PASSERE DIONYS RETRAYED⠀⠀

RUPERT and the

BLACK MOTH

"Aub - Manwy "and" The

bey you the book

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"BASTERN" “NANKIN"

In Port

due 2nd def from Japan

salis 3rd Del

for Sendakari, Bahian. Taraken, Pt. Morsely, Bris-

bane, Bydney, Melbourne & Adelaide

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