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and GIRLS PAGE

1

DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU READ?

After 100 years

Story Of Frieda's Fishing The Robot

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you know

Here is

Challenge:

Expedition

Do

what you rend?

a short story about a young giri,

Read it only once. Then see how many of the ton questions at the end of the story you сап answer correctly. Write true or falsa. # from the story you can't docido the answer, thon write N. E., which means No Evidence,

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DON'T mind going fishing with you," said Frieda Herlins to her father, "but

} can't pick gur. den worms.

Maybe I am sorry for them." "Don't worry

about that," replied her father. "Already have enough worms to catch i lot fish. Mrs Hilda Herlins ind prepared a gond lunch for her husband and daughter. And How she spoke a farewell

HWAY

118

I MUST HAVE CAUGHT A WHALE!

"The fresh air gives you an appetite," commented her father who didn't eat anything.

Suddenly there was a tug at

| both were sented in their Buick. Frieta's shing line. She tried

"If you watch Asti, wint

ant to pull up the line but found it the leaned. Otherwise give very heavy. Them

You enjoy catch- bag and eating 11sh. But I do t enjay cleaning them it is painful when you get fish scales in your fingers."

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you

pronuse

faithfully," aniel Frieda, "thist If I eatch any fish you will have them [1] cleaned. That much I can do for my darling mother."

A half hour later Mr Herlins stopped his var at Meadows lake. He walked to the shack where Captain Williams rented rowboats.

How much do you get for a rowbont for the day?" he asked. "A small boat is three dollars. And a big boat is two dollars.

"Shouldn't it be the other way around protested Mr Herlios. "Don't tell me how to run my business,"

hack snapped

the captain. "Take it or leave it."

Ten minutes Inter. Frieda and her father were sealed in large rowboat. Mr Merlins was using his shing pole. But Frieda used il drop line. For two hours hol a fish nibbled at the

Worms.

Then Frieda had an Idea. "I don't think the Ash #ro hungry. am getting hungry. I will eat and maybe the fish will get the idea

Mr Herlins watched hia daughter eat one sandwich, then a second, a third, and a fourth. And she drank a pint thermos full of warm cocoa.

Please help me, daddy," she "I must have caught a

pleader. whale."

"Whales swim in salt water. not in fresh waler," corrected her father. "But i will help YOU He pulled up the line and there was no fish on the hook. Instead the hook had caught around a cord that was in turn wrapped around a curdboard box.

"Maybe it is a bomb," Bug- Resten Frieda.

"Cheerful thought." Herllus as he opened the

sold Mr box with his knife.

And then Feleda laughed as she saw

the contents.

Now

nt

"Sx ns of tuna fish! mother will have her 11sh cleaned."

QUESTIONS

1. Frieda's lust name is Herlins.

2. Frieda and her father sat in a Packard.

8. Mr Herlins used an ex- pensive outflt.

-9. Frieda drank cocou,

10. There were sardines In the tins.

10

Scoring-10 per cent for euch correct answer, if you nсt 100 bo prcoat good: 80 to 70 per- pervent-perfect, From BU

cent, fair; if below 50 percent, you should rend with

care.

(Answers on Pago 201

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Similor machines are expected to be installed all over West Germany.

Yes, stamps, like time, march 01.-J.A.A.

A Midnight Adventure

-Christopher Cricket Saw a Clock Parade-

By MAX TRELL

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"I KNOW I've said this

fare," sald Christopher Cricket to Knart and

Hanid, and I'll say it again. It is only late at night, after everyone in the house is inst asleep that you begin to huve strange adventures."

Knorf wanted to know what kind of "strange adventures" Christopher Cricket meant.

Nocturnal Adventures

"Well," said Christopher as he sat himself down comfortably

-3. Mrs Herlins enjoys clean-on

ing Ash.

1. They drove to Meadows Lake, father and daughter.

5. Frieda's eyes are blue. -0. A small boat rented for

two dollars for the day. 7. For two hours not a fish nibbled.

TRAIN YOUR A QUIZ ON

HOW TO TEACH YOUR DOG TO HEEL

BIRDS

answer

an overturned flowerpot. Let me tell you about the adventure that I had last night and you'll understand exactly what I mean."

Knert and Hanid both begged Christopher to tell thern the whole story of his adventures, ther Christopher Cricket began:

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"Well, it was Just minutes ... in fact, to exact, Just one minute before twelve o'clock when suddenly a strange thing hap- pened. Or rather, # strange thing didn't happen.

**I don't understand," said Hunid.

Christopher Cricket smiled. "If you were in a room and you minula

know it was just one

befor twelve o'clock, you must have been looking at a clock to have known that."

wis

L LEAD HIM AROUND THE NEXT TIME you are having

party hero is a good game ROOM DON'T LET HIM GO

to play. It is just as much fun it a group of you are lounging AHEAD OR

about looking for something to

Hanid Admitted FALL BEHIND occupy your me. It's a clever

that test on birds. Use the name of right. 2.HOLDLEASH certain bird to help

"And," continued Christopher, CLOSE TO each of the following statements: "If you were looking at clock

1. A famous English out- and it

was going, you would law.

expect to keep on going, wouldn't you?"

Hand nodded. "And," said Christopher, "if it was the kind of clock that struck, or a cuckoo clock that called out the hours, you would expect the clock to make the right sounds at twelvé ö'clock."

COLLAR.

3.GRADUALLY RELEASE THE PULL ON THE LEASH.

WHEN HE DOES IT RIGHT,TRY WITHOUT THE LEASH.

THANK YOUR DOG ABY PATTING HIM

AND GIVING HIM A TREAT. HOW TO TEACH YOUR DOG TO SIT...

2. Bird In "Rhyme of the Ancient Marine".

3. The last streetcar at night

4. Last name of "The Lady With a Lamp."

5. The last work of an artist or poet.

8. A famous American artist.

0. The flash of a light. - 10. A religious leader.

Group of islands.

Timo Stands Still

7. An Indian woman.

Here Knart joined in to say 8. Machinery used to hoist that everything that Christopher things.

had said was right, "Well," said Christopher "what happened last night at one minute before twelve, was that all the clocks house stopped. They In the

They stopped stopped ticking. striking. The Cuckoo didn't come out at all. And more than

Kind of closis.

11.

1. HOLD

12.

A poem by Pot. HEMEN

18.

LEASH

A polico spy.

14.

IN RIGHT

(Answers on Page 20)

HAND

2.

PRESS

DOWN

WITH

LEFT.

HAND "ON FIRS

3.HOLD HEAD UP WITH LEASH AND GIVE COMMAND:SITU REPEAT UNTIL HE DOES IT ON COMMAND ONLY. GOOD RULES TO FOLLOW

Rupert at Greyrocks Cove-15

To Rupert's disappomument the taxes it and gradually

foreign stranger" only, gives him" delight, aprèás. ode of the; linobbly new fruits 167 €“ Run bacit And. hias goinal: de 'hope Daddy man to come! (won't, think Dwe, beets, wasting his?'' 1'4" lika, ro money, it he thinka, as he hurries: Munimy, round the harbourd, But Mrt Bear, i can make jimat after, gazing at the queer thing....... Rupertati bar fi ICA

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Christopher

expecting the clock to strike 12.

that, the clocks all over town also stopped going.

"Of course," Christopher, con- tinued, "I couldn't make out what all this meant. And then I looked out of the window and saw a very curious parade.

"I saw all the clocks in town marching down the street. I baw alarm clocks and grund- father clocks and grandmother clocks,

"I saw enormous clocks that came from factories and Liny clocks that slood on shelves. I Gaw old silver clocks. I BOW wooden clocks with pendulums. I saw cuckoo clocks. I saw clocks with chimes and clocks with bells.

"I saw chips' clocks. I saw gold clocks that once belonged to kings. I saw old clocks with faded faces that had hung in disty garrots for years and

years.

"And do you know," said Christopher, "where all these clocks were going? They were going to the town square, where the big clock stood in the tower of the town hall. They all gathered there in a great crowd. And the old clock in the tower looked down at them (for they wero' all his friends) in surprise. Ho couldn't understand why they had all come.

"And the next moment, at exactly twelve o'clock, all those hundreds of clocks struck and chimed and rang and tinkled, and the cuckoos came out and called. And do you know what they all called?""

"What?" asked Kaart.

"I know," said Hanid. "They called out twelve o'clock,”

A Birthday Salute

Christopher Cricket shook his hend. They called out Happy Birthday. They called it out twelve Umes. You see, it was the birthday party for the old Block in the tower. And the

Bid clock in the lower was so. pleased that He beamed down at all his friends below and called out In his deep bell: voice "Thank”, you' twelve times. Then all the clocks' went tomb #gain, marching tick-tock, "lick-

"I wish," said Knarf, “that all the plocks Would' Happy Bir

YOUR PUZZLE

CORNER

CROSSWORD

Cartoonist Cal has lottored in the word LATVIA to give you a little help in solving this crossword puzzle:

2

A

1 Jump

5 Wands

1 Nobleman

ACROSS

10 Kind of cheese

11

kiln

12 Remove

13 Cuddle

16 Compass point

Scottish sailyard

18 Part of "to be"

20 Armed floct

24 Peruse

20 Mover's truck

27 Sea eagle

28 Check

29 Hardens

30 Bear constellation

DOWN

1 Boy's name

2 Facility

3 Wiles

4 Place (ab.)

5 Ransom

@ Poem

7 Pigeon peas

8 Merganser

14 Barters

10 Gibbon

18 Greek god of war

10 Simple

IV Simple

21 Stato

22 Raised platform

23 Girl's name

25 Social insect

28 Symbol for ruthenium

CODED MESSAGE

MIX-UPS

Rearrange the letters in each of the strange lines following and you'll find the three facts about Latvia that have been concealed in them:

TARGET PET HERE SAY

ASH

EARN DRAM ROSY

KEAS SOUND LATH

TRIANGLE

con-

Today's triangle is based on LATVIA. The second word in an abbreviation for "D tinent": third an abbreviation for "seaport"; fourth "a Balkan native"; and ifth "an Algerian cavalryman." Complete the triangle:

LATVIA

LATVIA REBUS

and

can

Four facts about Latvia hidden in this rebus; you

them by using the words and pictures correctly:

find

D

Nå

E

LET'S GO FOR

A SWIM IN THE

ANAGRAMS

Rewrange

the letters in tro first part to form a word defined by the second part:

A simple cade has been sub- stituted for the correct letters in the following message

about Latvia. As a clue, Latvia is the first word in the sentence:

Mbuwib j b TpdjbmJtu Tpwfu Slavemjd, OVU

THE opu siphohte bị tri ca ulf Valuate Tubuft

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