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the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

HUNTING GIANT SEA

TURTLES

By CAROL V. BIRD

IANT sea turtle expedi- 10 and 12. and soMO

turtles than that have been tions are exciting nd- larger

sighted. ventures in Florida. They aro held during the hot The turtle's heavy body has water, and sho nights of summer in the support in

cleayes her way freely through coastal cities in America.

the burf, her powerful flippers Armed with flashlights, and thrashing ky propellers. But to altach to the danger besets her searchlights

from the batteries of their cars, people moment she is forced ashore by cruise up and down the shore the necessity of egg-laying. roads for hours.

She breathes and crawls Everyone pans the beaches, with great difficulty. keeping their lights focused

there.

As soon as they see a "turtic crawl" they dash

the down sandy Incline to the beach. A "crawl" is a broad furrow in the sand, with a ridgo on either side, made by the hugo turtie's flippers. As she pulls her 700 or 800 pounds of weight along she leaves tracks as tractor's.

The

Many giant turtles die 011 the sand after deposing their eggs and trying to make their way back to sea. Turtles have no sense of direction

on land, and if they get turned

Away from the sen, during the big slaying, they crawl back into the marshes and die. Only females seen by men: males never come ashore.

Jus emerging from the ocean, nature-loving adventners will see a huge, dark body. This is one of the giant female sca-turtles, who braves many perlis in order to lay her eggs in the warin sand.

Finding

suitable spot, the big female turtle firm rests a wille,

panting

sighing. and Great ulty globules that looks liko team come from her half- closed eyes. After resting, shu scoops mat a round pit ins this Gand with

Ripper. her hind

the

a time every two

or three seconds,

First, members of a turtle Then she begins Inying her hunt

the eggs, one at a will hear, above sound of the surf, & long-drawn, tremulous sigh, then see the her Brogging huge creature vast bulk up the shore, sighing us she comes,

These enormous turtles vary in size from five and six feet to

Flin Flon Is

A Town Of

Oddities

By Jennie A. Russ

THE mining town of Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada, boasts of several "oddities" peculiar to itself and no other town.

Some turtles lay as many 'es 100 or 200 eggs. Counting Ven is part of the fun on a litle- hub. But they are not harmed. And the turtle is not disturbed by the lights.

Anyone caught with ea ega Is Aned US$30. If this fine was Fot imposed to proter! them),

unusual marine

the

creatures

would eventually be extinct.

The young hatch in August G September, at night, and make straight for sea.

There is evmething rare and stirring about the midnight speelacle of a giant sea-turtle, spotlighted by flashlights, though on Nature's stage.

The Latest

from Ceylon

THE stamps of

YOUR PUZZLE CORNER

Crossword

Triangle

This triangle is based on PER- PLEX. The second word te “a musical note"; // third is French for "son"; fourth "soft" part of fruit"; fáth ""a, wall painting"; and sixth "to tail. Finish the triangle.

ACROSS

Atilre

#

Interstices

B

Redact

D

Hostelries

Amperes (ab.)

12

Boy's nickname

13

Yes (8p.)

14 Egyptian sun god

15 Pertaining to an ago

18 Pare

Glant tortolno in Miami, Flay, soo is just like pet to Linds

MoAdams, daughter of the zoo keeper:

20

Low sand hill

21

22

British moneys of account Disagree

24

Aver

DOWN

I

2

Tiny babies batch from eggs in sand and scamper for safety in the pea.

Willy Says Thinking

Is Hard Work

By MAX TRELL

NARY

Hanid, the with the

Know-andrez way wrned-about parmes, had surge

things.

many strango They had seen him

shaving a pig.

They had seen him dancing a

They had spen him standing

have come a long The electric street lights ince the first 6d purple burn all the time, summer

brown Victoria was issued and winter. It is cheaper on April 1, 1857. In 97. not to turn them off. Power

Jig. years, covering six reigns, the lights the stamps is cheap and if

of this young on his head. were turned off in the winter | Dominion have reached a They had even him sailing the filaments would freeze standard of technical per-down the brook on a boat made In the bulba and crack, fection second to none and of a curled-up buttonhall leaf. causing plenty of trouble.

Flin Flon claims to have the only golf course in the world on the bottom of a lake

Tho

achieved considerable finan- cial value too.

a catalogue,

Looking over

co the stamps

of

range in price

15

from id to

Ceylon

town was named for a dime novel hero. The story that in 1914 Bix adventurers stopped for lunch many miles north of Winnipeg. Other men before them had stopped пе that place, because under a they found a dime novel, "Thi Sunless City. The hero of the story was one Joseph Flintab- of the baty Flomatin, Follow

What gives for the Exploration of

Son Regions. The

estated that he built

story

sub-

£700. That is the assessment for an unused purple brown Issue on April 23, 1859,

value?

This

can

had seen him smoking a

Plive.

him catching

his tongue.

They had seen mosquitoes with

But today Koart and Hanid stw Willy Toad

doing the

strangest thing of all.

observed him working.

They

Willy Toad, dressed in a pair

Willy Toad was wearing blue

isans and red suspenders/

of blue jeans and red suspenders, it might even be harder that

I was digging a hole in the ground working.

with a long-handled shovel.

A Misunderstanding

For

instance, how

much is one and one and one and one and one-?"

Nelther Knauf nor Hand could answer this. "You said 1 too

said Knarf.

On seeing Koarf and Hand, mere, sou zce," said Willy,

from

алго

his

13

such he stopped digging, leaned on stamp a

about It The answer is usually his shovel handle, mopped the "you have to think

Hard work. I brow Thinking scarcity.

be caused perspiration marine with which be hoped to by was age-the issue was small and said "You look surprised." wouldn't know the answer my

"Well, wo

surprised, self to how much one and one and the stamps were just used explore a bottomlesy lake in

Willy. ald Hanid, "and very and one and one and one erior ju ot his up and lost an the Rockies, and hold

Loo"

unless I did a lot of thinking experiences

in the lake and printing can causo a whole issue

mean because I'm work- Knart and Hand now greed eventually he found the to be cancelled after a few have ng ld Wille. that

"What's so that thinking was pretty hard crater of an extinct volcano. He got out

surprising about that? I'm work just as Willy had sald.

"But why are

was climbing the side of the Anyway, remember if you spot | always working."

crater when there Ward по

a fd purple brown unused you more pages and the men never have found a treasure. knew the ending of the story.

HERO'S MINE

cd.

Knart and Hand both laugh- hold?" Hanid not digging this

Willy Will Consider

"I don't know yet," said Willy. "But it's true," insisted Willy, "I'm going to think about what The stamp illustrated here laThe trouble with you two kids' I'm going to do about it after I The latest from the islands that you think the only time til " Dominion. It is produced by a person is working is when However, as the men

con- the newest type of stamp-printing ho's working with his hands. tinued their prospecting

"But, Willy dear," anid Hanidi, And I'm told it You can also work with your here aren't many things you they photogravure. came to a hole in the ground was done by the Swiss firm of head, you know

can do.

·with a plt." ""You mean like_standing about ten feet across. Looking Courvolilor.

"Aren't them though?" ald at it, Thomas Creighton, one of The stamp shows women your hood?" said Knarf the party, is reported to have harvesting rico. 1 is perforated "I don't mess like standing on you can do with a dug out place o Willy. There are more things said;

"BOYE

guess we've 11, face-valued 0 cents and your head," saki Wily in found old Fila Fion's mine costs ad in London.

dignantly, I mean like think than you can think of. You can They had. And they named the

ing with your head.

plant potatoes there, You Thinking spot for their hero.

When copper, zinc, gold, silver, and cadmium were found in the neighbourhood, a town grew fast, but because of the war and so many men working In the mines, there was

no

Lime, nor men, to brist

to bust rock

and muakeg to lay mind.

nhosult the sewer placed on top of the

Water pipes were

Word

parallel

fald with them and both paretfel with the stimols. "Aroctangular wooden cung closed themti Suggested using which

The town is built on uneven #round

Jending to babile

is done.

Not a treasure yet, but very, neo all the same.---J. AZ AL

can

ls the same as working. In fact, Plant boots and carrots and rad- shes and onions and water. melons in a bole, 12 c

That's righ," said Enarf "You can also.

no plant a tree in a

Rupert and the Spring Chicken-43 |ma"

#es" suld Hanid, "and I kuts poke if you filled the hole with Water, you could make a little pool and keep a bird both.”

deep Brough," wald Willy, "I might find a goid mins or a sliver mine or a coal mibe I might strike oll. You |«red how many · different things shout once you

to digging this

sides thinking?

Fall in dropa

Bonka Bax

B Daybreak (comb, form)

Bilde

Rational

6 Extermed

7 Implore

A

Comforled

10 Fur-bearing aquatics

Blackbirds of cuckoo family

10

17

For fear that

18

10

Sea cogie

Versinler

23 South America (ab.)

Add-a-Grams

To "a boy's nickname" add a letter and scramblo for "a fruit drink"; add another letter and scrumble for "to conduc!""; re- peat for “a cuplike spoon"; and once more for "to refer."

Word Square

PERPLEX

Wacky Compass

WIT

WACKY COMPASS

· Start at SOUTH- SOUTHEAST and

·Uso every eighth letter (you decide direction) to And a proverb.

Boy Square

Nine boys are hidden in this square. When you find the right starting point and then read oach letter olther up, down, back or forth (but never diagonally), you'll find them in order:

HTTREB O.MASAL ARLJ H│P. CL R│Os JEOY MA ELR

Readjust the letters in each MSSR GE

Line to form a good word. When that's done, move tho rows of worda around until they read the same down as percen

4

A D│A │A [H]C.

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