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This

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1986.

FOR BOYS

SHORT STORY FOR YOUNG BASEBALLERS

AND

GIRLS

WHO INVENTED

Why Robbie Was Ousted MATHEMATICS?

From The Team

"W Peewee Jackson take

did they let old

fth my place on horses":

the team?" "years between 12 and 20"; and Rabhie muttered to himself. rixth AN abbreviation for "seniors". Can you falsh

"I can field better, hit better ther dinanozed?

and run faster.”

word diamond. The HY second word in "ençountered"; third "female

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It

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BOY REBUS

If you te the wonis and pletures right you'll And four Jays' names and nicknames in this rebus:

ANN DREW A FINE SKETCH IN,

CLASS

L

WATCH

YOUR + STEP

N

Solutions on l'age 20)

FLAG WAVES

FOR LUFTHANSA

A

Robbie sat on his front steps and tried to shut out the excited yells of laughter that reached his ears. But that was pretty hard to do when the team was playing right across the street.

As he sat there, sculling one toe of his sneaker buck and forth. Peewee came panking up and down beside him.

dropped

"Hi, Rob," he grinned.

"How is the great first

baseman 7" Robbie asked in

"Hin."

an unpleasant tone. "Boy, could've you sure bubbled that last hit. I could have got him eyes shut." out, easy."

"Sure, Rob. Sure." Peewee sat with his freckled face in his hands, but he did look at Robbie,

37 I'M BETTER

THAN THE REST OF THE TEAM;

HOW COME THEY WON'T

LET ME

*PLAY?

mah Robbie "1 PEEWEE'S EYES blinked done better with my open. His face WRA male, Beaned," he groaned. "Oh, my hend. Some knot on it, huh?"

He spoke to Bib. the cam eaptain.

"Let me help You," unged Robbie,

not

Bili did't utaswer him. He turned instead, to the rest of the team.

Well, well. We got Micky Mantle with us."

Gently, he got Perwer to his feet.

"How do you feel, now?"

**Headache," saitl "But this is the eighth I have to play."

Peewee.

Robbie "No," argued

holly, "You can't. They can get some

"How come they gave you my place as first-sucker?" Robbie blurted. He hadn't meant to ask, but somehow, the words came out before he could stop them.

Peowee looked at Robbie this Elitzer. "Uh-i have to go, now." Robble grabbed his friend's nra. "No,' Robbie

Everybody laughed and Rob-

But be be's face burned red,

coukl Tore he

say anything. Peewee came

plate. swinging his bat. "Leave Rob

lone, you fellas."

the 10

OR twenty centuries the

FOR

Greeks havo beon recognised as the originators of the scierice of mathe- maties. And among these ancient thinkers no name is more famous than that of Euclid, called the inventor of geometry.

However, recent research by the Iraq government has proven that mathematics was known in that country 1,700 years before anyone ever heard of Euclid!

there was

Early in 1960 unearthed, six miles south cast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, two hundred clay tablets, each about the size fof a mun's hand.

EXCLID LIVED

ABOUT 500 B.C.'

HOW OLD...

IS THE ART OF MATHEMATICS

?

WARG

about 300

One of these, translated, ngorus, who lived was found to describe & pars earlier, as the inventor. problem almost exactly the covery considered that the Iraq So Important was this dis- as one described by government sent a full report

same

to Albert Einstein. Euclid.

This 4,000- Euclid in his writing, gave year-old tablet la the earliest credit to another Greek, Pyth- geometrical text known.

Now

sclentists are debating whether Euclid rediscovered the principles that made him famous, or borrowed them from: tho Babylonians.

Strange Items Used As Money

How

Copen

tion

During the years that excava-

has been

progressing on this site 2,400 tablets have been discovered. These deal with such

would you like to on the back printed "valid for botany, history,

kopeks" On whatever

the virtual wind

variod subjects as Ecography, medicine and As well

as mathe- astronomy, your pocketbook three

maties. This amounts to a some day and see a handful amount they needed.

During the Civil War,

of tho At American government

Issued scientific inning of cocoa beans inside?

of the dny. ATW It is one time the people of Costa stamp money also.

no wonder that scientists The ship owners of Connecti-are Rica used

enthusiastic about these cocoa beans for

cut carried strings

of ontons early writings. They even go so money.

with them for trading in trop far as to say, "these discoveries

1+tely tele **

--You, L suppose,“ growled

Many different kinds of items were used for money GREAT, thought Robble. Now Bill behind them. "Like throughout the ages.

Well, almost he's defending

he you could do better than that, sobbed in his anger. "Answer doesn't have to.

He turned de- couldn't you-hot shot?" me. Why I'm better than Bantly away.

you."

Because--"

Answered Pec 120. "Oh, nuts to you, Hob.” Peowee squininext loose bolted back across the With a wild whoon, he was back

in the game.

The crack of the bat stopped Peewee had hit Jong The ball lifted up and on. Peewee inced for first, dug for third, second. Now, hd was al heading for home.

one.

street.

sis

ROBBIE STOOD with his clenched. Now his best friend wa: mad at him.

And he still didn't know why

Hobble yelled hoarsely with the rest. "Come on In, Peewee, Come on. Slide!"

The ball was muiling in from right field, as Peewee begun his long, dusty slide. It was young

to be close. Peewee's foot foed home plute. The ball flew in.

"Safe!"

the umpire. spreading his hands,

ledגרן

In Sweden, slab of copper "No." Robble raid. "Nobody weighing 31 pounds was used could do better than a

Them were about homer, for money. And Peewee's a game little guy -

two feet long and a foot-wide. Lots gamer than I am."

The ellizens had uso carts to carry their money with them.

jedn't.

true.

Ho he

HE KNEW It was ett almost like crying, but

That was sissy sluft. Bill stared at him.

"Well, well. If you can thally say you're not the whole team,

we can use you, Bab boy."

NEW German air fleet takes to the skies and is emblazoned on its country's stamps they

Eastern come from

Ger- many, the Soviet zone,

he was ousted from the team. The new nel is issued to He told himself he didn't care, celebrate the first

hard flight but something was stuck

In his throat. of the East German

He could hear that the team Lufthansa. On the stamp was behind. Maybe. if he The yells started, but died in reproduced here you see its walked over, they would need the boy's throats. For Peewee's flag, with the streamlined a good litter. fle meandered thin gure didn't stir from the

the stork emblem carried by over, and stood on

Krass, Hirt.

swelled head kirking leaves.

of suppose you could've done Robble. the planes.

George Rudd was at bat. The better," said Bill to Robble drst plich went by him. The Hobbie didn't answer, He was text one, a long fly ball that on one knee beside Peewee. the left fielder caught for

"What's wrong, Pat." he asked anxiously. Casy out.

of

деж

Formation of the Lufthansa followed quickly on the creation

similarly- named airline in Western Ger- many. I wad nideal by America and Britain. The East German company

has support

an

Suddenly Bobble knew why he had been cut off the team.

He said, "I 1 can afternate with

better Peewee 1โป teammate than I am."

"Right," grinned Bi "Wo can uso you."

"Kick me if 1 ever #et ค said again,“

Robbie and Peewee winked at each other before their team went on to win the game.

By Viva Whittington

FREDDIE CAN REALLY

PULL WIRES

TREDDIE, who is only a Auckland, New Zealand, Freddle from Russia and is Brst flight little more than five is fairly well known.

Freddie's ich la n combination went from Berlin to Commun-years of age, has a union of business and pleasure. ist Poland.

card.

A finishing line is tied to his

In collar and the line,

turmi, fastened to lengths of electrical wiring. One man holds Freddle at one end of the pipe

while for the carrying of East-West Workers Union had gotten another man at the opposite end passengers and trade.

complaints that Freddie was sets a dead rabbit in the open- an electrician's Ing with an alt compressor, be- serving us are perforated

hind it to force the air into the a union and a set assistant without

pipe and towards Freddie's nose.

Blg business in the air knows The Auckland Local of no frontiers and the Iwo Lufthansas are now competing the New Zealand Electrical

The stamps

121⁄2, recess-printed

of four-showing some of the curd. planes as well as the far-costs 2/7d in London.

fully done, but I think

the

Furthermore, the Korma Mills Factory, for whom

The compressor 19 started,

The production is very sil Freddie had done the job, Freddie guts a whit of the rab

have shown up was gulity of employing a blt and is off carrying the wires

planes would even

more clearly had stamp designers used gravure.-J. A. A.

AY BAN GOT MONEY FOR GUDE SUIT!

used

Mexico is said to have soap for money and in the South Seas natives used mats of grass.

In

empty used

certain parts of Africa, cartridge shell were

cal countries. Strings of differ-may revise the whole history of ent lengths had different values. human civilisation."

-By Charlotte Radford

By R. S. Craggs

The Hustling McHustle

-Nobody Else Was Able To Do Four Things At Once-

By MAX TRELL

NARF and Hanid were just

KN

passing the Old Oak where the Pixies lived when

Pixie McSpry came running out of O'Cheer Hall which was at the bottom of the Osk. He was go- ing so fast that he bumped right into them,

hסיי

I beg your pardon, Hanid! I'm sorry, Knart" he blurted out.

Knarf Grobbed Him

Pixie McSpry would have kept on running only Knart grabbed hold of him.

"What's your hurry?" he said to the Pixle.

"I've got to meet somebody." Pixie McSpry cald,

"Who?" asked Knarf.

"My cousin," said the Pixie, "What's your cousin's name?"

as money. Four shells would equal one salt and four salts woud equal one Marta Theresa dollar. This doller was

coin issued in 1780 by the asked Knart.

and sent Austrian government

to Africa for trading purposes.

Com-

The Shadows hurried to the shoemaker's shop,

"Oh dear, you'd better read It," caid Pixle MeSpry.

Too busy to wall. Am in the mushroom patch, picking much- rooms," Hanid read aloud from the note.

Knari, Hanid and Pixie Mc- "His name is MeHustle," said Spry ran as fast as they could over the bridge, then under the Pixie McSpry.

fence and over the wall untu refinally they reached the mush-

room patch.

One traveller in Africa

Knart and Hanid both mented that when he arst saw marked that they were surprised

a bar of salt, It was so grimy to know that Pixie McSpry had

trem being handled ∞ much that he thought It was anything | but salt.

a cousin by that name.

"Oh yes," said Pixle McSpry. "He's been my cousin for a long was time. As a matter of fact, he

was born.

ho

"He's not here, either," said Knarf in a disappointed voice. This one was tied to a dande

Hanid dound another note. llon with a bit of cobweb.

Another thing which difficult to understand was that there was no small change. It been my cousin ever since

"Have_finished picking mush- one went to a stand in the mar-

rooms. No time to waste, You'll ket place to get a cup of coffee

Over The Brook

iind me in my shop," the note the man a dollar, ho and gave

said. would get no change. If coffee

"Come along and meet him. was selling for ten cups for He's waiting for me down at the

So they ran into town, and dollar, he would

go back from side of the road where it dips down several streets and up time to time to get the other down a little just before it several

and avenues

around alue cops if he wanted to get comes to the bridge that goes

several equarta and Across full value for his money.

over the brook,"

several boulevards unti present- Africans also

shells, Kaarl and Hanid thought this ly they came to a tiny lane palm iwas a good idea but when they between two other lanes.. And Abres,

suger, balts of cotton got down to the side of the ad there they entered a shoemaker's cloth, and glass bottles.

where it dips down a little just shop. Iron hers were Babi tribo of Sudan, David Lly that goes over the bronk, they lagstone pold three iron boes to didn't see sight or sign, hide or longer there! be transported across a lake. hair of Pixie McHustic,

Metal was rearce In Russia "Here's a note!" Hankt sud- -By R. S. O'Connor at one period so the government denly exclaimed, as she picked Issued slamp money. They took up a bit of white paper pinned their regular postage stamps and to a daisy with a thorn.

strings of glass d

on

Freddle gets his reward.

three рапу

hundred

dollars to

How amart can ferrets get?

the worker under fifteen years behind him along the length of which it would have cost photo-of age. Also they were pipe to the opposite end.

"employing & worker not On one job Freddie lald wir- employ a human electrician.

ing through sixty pipes, BODLO in the presence of register of them one hundred and sixty

ZOO'S WHO

THE AMERICAN YELLOW- BILLEDCUKOO DIFFERS FROM THE EUROPEAN CUKOR IN THAT IT BUILDS ITS OWN NEST AND REARS

ITS OWN YOUNG THE PUROPEAN CUKOO LAYS ITS EGGSAN OTHER

·BIRD'S NESTS AND LEAVES

THEM TO BE HATCHED,

BY OTHER BIRDS

"THE STEELHEAD TROUT TRAVELS UPFRESHWATER STREAMS FROM THE "PACIFIC TO SPAWN, BUT LINLIKE SALMON IT DOES NOT DIE AFTER SPAWNING.

OLDEST REFERENCE TO MILKING ANIMALS IS A PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION THAT DATES AROUND BC.

3000, FOLUND IN / MESOPOTAMIA.

ed wiremen." Nor was this feet long, this saving the com- worker

Д

union member.

And also they considered

the pay insufficient, They

enclosed an application for THE CHUCKLE BAG

membership.

KUAL

The Korma Mills, in replying to the charges, said that Freddie a grandfather, and was presumed to be experienced, so they were filing n card for Freddle. The union accepted

him.

Freddie ins also been iri- Kures ngainst

any neuron paychological complications that might arise, and ho,receives the pay ot one rabbit at the end of every day's work.,

PATIENT: I dream every night about baseball,

DOCTOR: Don't you ever dream about anything else

girls for example?

PATIENT: What--and miss my turn at batt

•

"You look ali

broken up. What's the matter?"

"I wrote home for money for study lamp." "So what?" "They

the lamp.

RURAL SCHOOL TEACHER asked in plipi, *lf yöûr faüller Now, beforò, you think this à sold fifteen hundred bushels of sample neuropsychological grain for $2 per bustiel, what

lot me explain would he got?” that Freddo e a ferrof; t PUPIL: "A new car.” constit lenfock. virlot it the polecat, He rent does work an A kangaroo want to let fan manutricikiW HADH, and indoctor

•

(SOMETHING'S NOT

YUGHT, (DOG)

"What Boers to bá ino troubio?" asked In Doctor.

the "I don't know," replied Kangaroo. "It's just that I don't feel jumpy,

HEAD COOK Didn't tell you to notice when the soup bolled over?.

ASSISTANT: Í áld half-pt-10.

used by the before it comes to the bridge But Pixo MeHusilo was

Rupert and the Black Circle-31

"But how?" For, Aniwer Mr. Anteater taken them through to a. thed.........! I've been meaning to aminen up my gate and fence for long time, he smiles. .** Here are if the things for cleaning and. painting them. 25. Olt, do let m ity to do it for you," crite

Rupert in hot mistaken, Me Anteater'a expresion kindly Y the people and almost amused, to own up at once, to felt fadite," he says, ** And, Jów” “I expect you would rather put things right than be punished, "woûlda's "poli >

Few Why, yes, of coutée 1” says Bingo in relief. Bings

ALL NIGARE MERENTAS

Nover Idio

no

"Cousin

Pixie McSpry sald: McHusuo is the shoemaker for

all the Pixies Ho'a never. Idle for a minute. Ho's tho busiest. Pixie in the world."

Hanld heard noisch iri tho back of the shop. They went through a little door and there they found Pixle McHustle.

He was cooking the mush- - rooms in a big pot. He stirred the mushrooms with one hand while he wrote a letter with the other hand. With his right foot be cracked peanut, shells With his loft foot, he politicd fa silver pol. While he was doing all this, he kept; whistling, a song) while Lhu, oyes, merry dunced and hals 1pm amilodagra

"Pixie MoHustle certainly. huling Pixie," Kruirt said. Pixie McHustlé invited them hil to stay for a mushrðóm. dinner, which they did:

After duffler, ha showed them how to play the g checkers: at the,

wan qlite: ARVING

MeHunk Could-66.

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