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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1957,

FEATURES

FOR

BOYS

AND

Today's Animals HENRIETTA COULDN'T CACKLE

Get Real Service

Something

A dog that had forgotten how to bark and jump wouldn't be much fun.

By FAYE C. Walker

TENRIETTA was a little

Nothing came out, but › brown hen who had something certainly came been born without a voice. In- great mouthful of was very rainwater. Even when she

Horses share. Ju the modern end. At Spring Lake, New small sho wondered and "Gulp!" gulped Henrietta, Jersey, thoroughbreds may en-worried about it.

tér a health clinic.

Task under the most THESE days our animals

.modern treatment and

training.

ACT had been added to the training of Aus- 1rian avalanche dogs used in Alpine regions to find people

It includes a therapy room lost in nowslides,

with a 200,000-volt X-ray ma- animal is trained as a para- chine and radionetive are for a plane their aches and pains, a labor- ory well Blocked with over- sized aspirin tabi.ts as well as operating llbloes,

Levnter.

Now

the

He jumps from

after the human few sconds

reaches paratrooper) and

porta otherwise inaccessible.

50

19

When he lands, his 'chu'c removed and такие.

ho's off to the

WEEKLY CLASS

Of course some of our doga have Jong been obedienc!! trained, but not usually In in- learning. stitutions of higher Revently the A.S.P.C.A, organ

weekly class iped

room.

Even the convalescence of the equins patent is providal for, wi padlocks culles play pens, rov.rs with deep, 100% sand. The owner of the etinue says that if a horse is kipi in a stall all day the gels moody, but if ne can roll outdoors in sof, sand, He will

he's happy na

cult,

nod no psychiatrist, at New

STYLISH "SHOES"

York's Washing on Irving High School to train both dogs and owacts in proper conduct,

What an eyeful

Irving's Rip

the dog ot

the

ZIJASTAJA

atk was

Black Angus bull, had g's Rip Van Winkle would

he could

watch If he

the Atomic Age oxyg. cenines of study for their diplomats

The New

of York

pneu-

an

ank.

Antonian 3203, a U.S.$50,000

placed in tent, with six winks of By je u vay at U.S.$15 a Public - What would ola Brindi brary has opened a branch bowshig grandfather's cow buildings to dogs.

paste-ave thought of that?

flotazhu.à hove beca styled

A swanky

than some

It has been found that if they are left outside, they are noisy. But once adil ted, perhaps im- pressed by the long shelves fuil of wisdom, they are more quiet and better-behaved of the children.

It may

be common enough to see a pooch browsing among the dog books or carry- ing basketful of deeper tomes for his master,

hope But let's

these new bookish. patrons won't get too

soon

HON Have FUNat TO & PARTY

I. DIVIDE INTO 2 TEAMS. EACH SIDE LINES UP ON HANDS AND KNEES.

EACH PLAYER HOLOS A TEASPOONN HIS MOUTH

2.A HARD BOILED EGG IS PLACED IN THE SPOON OF EACH LEADER.

3. AT A SIGNAL, EACH LEADER TURNS AROUND. ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES AND PUTS THE EGG INTO THE SPOON OF THE PLAYER BEHIND HIM... (DON'T USE YOUR HANDS)

IF EGG IS DROPPED, IT MUST BE PICKED UP WITH SPOONS (NO HANDS), WHEN LAST PLAYER GETS EGG, HE CRAWLS TO HEAD OF LINE AND PUTS EGS INTO SPOON OF LEADER (FIRST SIDE FINISHED.

WINS!)

VIL

.o fly

now are of mumminum all are

the

put un cuiumno lang vi ou,n-

1001 in

he an Bays of the village små ny.

and swallowed it. By the time she finished choking When the other little and sputtering the rain had chicks were hungry, they stopped. said "Cheep, cheep," and Now Henrietta may hove they were fed. When they been dumb, but the was no. sald deal, so the listened. A moment were sleepy, they

later, to her great Jay, she they heard a welcome "Peep, peep."

voice, "Cluck, were put to bed.

cluck."

vid "Where are you, my little one?" But Henrietta could not And ou: ron Henric'ta from In fact, under her rhubarb leaf, happy sny these things. Henrietta had never been as a lark. heard to utter a sound.

and

She tried very

hard in- deed, but it seemed as if the harder she tried, the more she simply could not do it,

One day when Henrietta was several weeks old, she got lost from her mother, To make matters worse, it started to rain.

Henrietta huddled under a large rhubarb leaf and shivered.

Henrie tn's mother shook her hend, "Dear me!" she exelulined "I don't know what I am ever to do about you. Henri- ©!" But Henrictta could tell that her mother was happy she had been found.

on

the

THE NEXT DAY Mother Brown Hen perched on a fence rail, with Henrietta

in frol of her. "Say KTUES cheep-cheep," ahe soakcil pleadingly. But Henrietta could only open her mouth and blink her eyes.

and barks, When IL dat 1s It was a strange, ferce-look- happy, purrs. When a hen is ing animal, and it did not wag Its tail. It just stood there happy, she cackles.

bristling and barking its loud not. She unfriendly bark, unill at last

first ite bark ebanged to a growl,

"Gr-r-m" growled the dog, baring its sharp teeth at Hen- lelta. "Gr-r-r." Then sudden

11 leaped. ly

Or ought to cackle, But Henrie la could had never cackled little cackle, and, worse, she guessed would.

Henriclla

Hent

was

that what she

was never

crushed, #he thought bitterly, she luy

another

Never, would Never, never, never!

"I was so sure," she moaned to herself. "I was so SURE I

But, doubtless to its surprise, Henrietta was no longer there.

Poor

ttle Henrietta

had!

never been so frightened in all

GIRLS

*

Mystery Of Easter

Isle Is Unsolved

[ANY years ago, Jacob

Some of thers hügờ stodo at fur

Morgeveen, the Dutch heads were found of the fes

explorer, discovered a now from where the workshop in island. In honour of him, the crater stood. How were those this island was named the statues, carried away? There aro no trees on Easter Island. Easter Island.

from which wooden · rollers The island is only 11 muht Havo beoo made. miles long, and it la situated There are no roads and no sign in the South Pacific 1,000 of machinery, such as

un-

the nativel

that the statues flew out of

$3

miles from any other island has been found.

shy and 2,000 miles west of the craters. Perkaps Chile. The natives on this volcances did erupt and blow island

the statues out of the crater, but are grim and friendly and the land is it so why weren't the unfinished sintuce blown out at the sume bleak, with little grass and me, and why

didn't the no trees. The craters of suice bresk when they fall. many ancient volcanoes dot since they are made of soft the barren plains of Eustor stone? To this very day, no Island, which has also been une has found the answer to the

shery of Easter Island, called the "Island of Death."

STONE HEADS

Water Has A Skin

water,

Scattered all over the island are hundreds of statues of huge ¦ faces carved in stone. They all

ID you know that water, just have thin protruding lips, huge

like you, has a skin? Oh, you would like to prover Roses, deep-sot eyes, high fore- and long daru.

Each it? Is about 30 feet high and weighs from 60 to 60 tons. right up to the very top, with

Very wed. Fill a

gines full, The

thega workshop where

Now, very gently place gantic statues were made has u noodle fat open the surface This went on for a long time, could cackie If 1 laid an egg, her life. She few from her nest been found in one corner of the of the water, being careful no

of and out the door of the hen- island, high up in the crater Henrietta dia house, flapping her wings wie statues ilo about, showing that floats because of a "skin" on top a volcano, Over 100 unfinished Yes, the neculo floats, And it Oh, whatever shall I do?"

"But of course

tail feathers and losing few Iny other eggs, many of them.

In her scramble to escape. the sculptors who were working of the water called surface ten- And each day she tried to

Then all

their at

on the a

statues had to leave once she heard a never voice W na cackle, but there

work

in a cackling,

a hurry. Some of the This skin is formed by all the "Cut-cut-cut, aues lie on their backs, and particres of water-so small they even the slightest suggestion

cut - a - hair-cut! Cut-cul-cut, of a cackle.

cut-a-crew-cuif

some lie on their faces. Cut-cul-cut,

Many we invisible-holding together of them, however, stand upright and holding to the particles of cut-a-cur-cut"

facing the sea or the barren water teneath them. Thus, the idud around them.

"skin".

up.

"Cheep. forvier may be

cheep!" she and thought miserably. "What finally both of them gave Heleita. they decided. mis save a valuable thorn the world um I ever would NEVER be able to speak. oughbred,

WHEN HENRIETTA grew up More than half the ships used going to do?"

and old her first egg, she was very happy about it. She wanted to sing and cackle for Henietta decided to try joy. She knew the sn isfaction she Race horses wear stel shoes just once more. She poked of having done something between races, lien are shifted her head out from under was meant to do, and she want- to the lighter aluminium.

The the rhubarb leaf, calling ed to tell the world about it. animal feels the difference and voicelessly to

Again and again, she opened her mother, rus fus :)", Just us Wo often walk more

and this time something her mouth and tried to cackle. nimbly In light-

Again nothing came out. weight shoes.

happened.

Henric.ta was very 50d. When boys and girls are happy, they sing or whistle. When a dog is happy, it wags its tali

These two great horned owls are still bables.

"TIGER" AMONG

XHO

W

THE BIRDS

is the

"tiger**

You will not see the great

among the birds? The horned owl very often in great horned owl. And it the daytime. He is a noc- is because of his destructive turnal bird and most active habits that he is called that. at dusk and moonlit nights. His food is of great At times he may be heard variety. He eats other birds hooting at about midnight (aven owls), poultry, rab in the "dark of the moon." bits and other mammals, as

His flight is well as reptiles, fish and for which reason he has been easy and silent, insects.

called "hushwings,"

Indians of certain

tribes re-

He is fierce and untam- garded this bird as an omen of able, formidable in

ap evil. They feared him; they be- pearance and the most lieved that his vialt meant powerful of all the owls, disaster,

ZOO'S WHO

THE CHIPPING

EMARLOW IS

THE SMALL

EST OF ALL

SPARROWS, WEIGHING

·LESS THAN

ONG OUNGE/

THE AVERAGE HIPPOPOTAMUS

WEIGHS ABOUT 5000 POUNDS HORNS ORIGINATED IN. AT HOME IN THE RIVERS AND LAKES PREHISTORIC TIMES, OF EAST AFRICA, IT EATS 400 WHEN THE TIP WAS POLINDS OF GRASS AND TEN- BROKEN OFF AN ANI DER, SHOOTS IN ONE NIGHTS MALHORN WHICH, WHEN V-BLOWN PRODUCED ONE FORAGING...

OR TWO NOTES,

GOOD TRAITS

In spite of all his bad traits, the great horned owl arousa admiration for his qualities of courage and wild trettiom.

Bometimes thego owls Arc found nesting as Carly 24 Jan- uary but more otca in February and early March.

They guard their eggs clopoly, even if snow should cover both

them and the nest.

If, afer snowstorm, the owl should be driven away from her

**

the

And she knew that the votre was her own.

10 hear herself

THEN ONE DAY. when Hen- rletta had just laid an excep-

From that day forward Hen- every clelia not only cackled happened to look up. There cackled just

Ane, large egg she tencily

she lald an *gg-she the doorway of henhouse Blood unbelievably large, cackle. In fact, no hen in the

entire farmyard possessed black dog.

2 cackle which was as loud and "Bow-wow!" barked the dog. clear and strong as that of Bow-wow-wow!"

Henrietta.

WHEN SCIENTISTS

GO DIGGING ..

ANITOULIN ISLAND

M Lake Huron has

the distinction of being the largest fresh-water island in the world. Recent dis- coveries made there may alao tell us much about how The Stone Age Indians lived. In 1951 Thomas E. Lee of Ottawa's National Museum was out driving on Mani- toulin Island. At a place called Sheguiandah ho got out of his car to look around. A few hundred yards

he found Away

head spear

made of quartzite.

Digging for these ancient

ging

MANITOULIN ISLAND

LAKE

or arrows,

even

SPEAR HEADS

STONE SCRAPER

so wet the needie.

sion.

Willy Learns A Lesson

-Now He Knows That Toads Shouldn't Act like Ducks-

By MAX TRELL

THIS is the story that Chirple Sparrow told Knart and Honid, the shadow children with the turned-about names, when he came to the window

ail for his bread crumbs,

"11 all happened last summer," Chirpie anid, "but I just heard about it yesterday. it's about Willy. Toad and Mrs Quack, the Duck."

Knarf and Hanid suld they had never heard the story about Willy Toad and Mra Quack, the Duck. So, after swallowing a few more crumbs, Chirple began as follows:

"For the past few weeks, now that the weather has turn- ed warm, Mra Quack has been going down to the pond with her large family of little Quackies"

He Was Puzzled

*f don't think it's so hard,” Willy told Mrs, Qunek.

"I don't think it's so hard, Willy said.

"Mrs Quack glanced at him for a moment. Then she said: 'Perhaps not....perhaps not....

"Quackies?" said Knart in a Come, children....there's the

puzzled voice.

pond now! A fat worm to the who duciss

Chirple nodded. "Ducklings, first one aid. "Little ducks. Mre Run!' Quack called them Quackies.

iwon

himself!

ran. The next moment, they

"With that, all the Quackica continued Chirple, "Mrs Quick was teaching her were paddling about near the

hackles how to paddle about in the water, and

odge of the bank. Their mother to tip over joined them and soon they were

"Quite

With this indication that pre- historic Indians had once lived ings or objects skilfully worked tell if they were tools made by with their tails up and their here, he organised

scientists to man an expedi in metal for the

or just ordinary rocks bills down in order to and food all tipping and seesawing In the

w water. Lion.

And.

that happened to be that shape, among the weeds growing on

decide the bottom of the pond. have to

She Then they After digging all summer the

Low neighbourn party on Manitoulin Island had what each object was used for. was also teaching them to keep gathered under the willow tree tools is very discouraging work. perhaps half a ton of different Was it a spear head, a skinning quacking to each other when to watch. There was Croaket, To begin with, you can't use shaped pieces of rock. That's knife, a hammer, or was it used

ever they

thought they might the Frog, and Christopher a shovel for fear of disturbing all — just rock No pottery, for something else?

be getting lost.

Cricket and Blinky Mole, 1. dig- bows

They yo Icarned and

quito comething. You do your

with a trowći̟ and these human remalus.

quackly mean, quickly," Mrs "Very good..........very good!* diggers used fruit-trimming

Quack was saying to Willy Toad Blinky was saying. “That's quita knives to remove the earth

remains have whom the mot on the way to a trick, standing on your head In the winter, when the Other ancient from the objects discovered.

under water,? ground is frozen, the scientists been found in other parts of the pond.

"They paddle beautifully and Digging in Canada In't likely sort over. the objerts they've Ontario, but those on Manitou-

"I don't think it's so hard," to be so exciting as in warmer gathered during the summer, A la are among the oldest. Mr call to each other loudly, but wily kept repeating, 'Anybody

dis Lee thinks they are about 7,000 they skil need some practice can do 11 the ancient lot of these have to bo countries where

nuzzling for things o propics were more civilised. carded because even the ex- years old,

bottom. There aren't many big balld-- pertenced scientists can't always

Hard To Do ***I guess that must be pretty

FUN WITH GAMES

AN EGG RACE

cubes all at one time. I be can spell a word from any of

AMPTY eggshells by the letters which he turns up, E blowing out the

eggs the letters

through a small pin hole, Make a darning needle hole

10 points for each

letter in his word. s--R-E-E-D-A-T-S. One word

For example, suppose he rolls

in one end and a pin hole in in that combination L the other, then blow.

which

T-E-A-S-E-S for a score of 80 Give an eggshell to each points. Another is S-T-A-R-E-S also scores 60 points. player. Line the contestants only one word may be scored nest, it may be found covered at a starting line and have for each roll, so the player tries with snow surrounding the im them race their eggs across to

make

the longest word print of her body, showing the floor or across a

table possible for bis combination of where she faithfully outstayed

letters. by blowing and fanning. he weather.

The player with the highest

It rolls for each player will be the determined by the number of players and the time which on be given to the game,

"Usually the owls remodel anthem. The egg may not score wins. The number of old nest of a hawk or crow, be touched by hand. adding a sparse lining of ever will zigzag arten kaves and feathers from heir own bodies as a finishing touch: Two eggs are usually lald, althoughs comeilates three or four are found

Despite its many shortcome ines, this owl bas, soma, good iralts. Don't you think sơt

„ROY L. WARREN

goal.

toward This is a good game for two

play,

SPELLING FUN

GUESS WHICH

Can you tell which eggs are Take twolve sugar cubes and hardboiled and which are not on each cubo write with red without ernéking the shell? trayon one of the letters needed ~ Spin an egg with the pointed to #peli E-A-S«T-E-R ́S«U«N» and up? An erg which will

A player role the spin fin harábolted.

On the mainland of Georgian) Bay, near the village of Kil- stone tools havo larney, crudo

be. been unearthed that are lieved to be about 15,000 years old. This would probably maloo them the oldest man-made ob- jects discovered in Canada,

hard to do Willy said.

the

"That's being foolish, Willy,' Christopher Cricket warned him. I might be easy to go down but....

.

Big Splash

"It 19, Mrs. Cuack agreed Te like learning to stand on your head, except that it's even that instant, there was a splash "He didn't get through far, at harder because your bead is as Willy sprang off the bank

head first Into the pool.

——R. 5. CRAGGS,|| under water?

Rupert and the Rock Pool-22

Rupert's" ́arang journey con did you get bare ? Surely you can't . fitues on the rubber rak.. First he, cuius an last as that great whale 25 is pulled backward", and then "Oi diveran Femi, wrys the Belt Seward Mills, 1e reachen, a, high cheerfully. Get And W War 1 who cave filled with lights: The raft arranged that journey for you. How comes to rest beside a shaft of cock did you skjóy it?”. • 3 didn't ... and on the shelf' to hladmonishe enjoy is at, nicht anys. Rupert,“ la zpene" he ⠀pera<the talking" Bay, was awful and I was very scared :

"What you 17 he tries, !?Howeviz : all the tima."

ALL RIGHTS RESENTED

Look Willy's standing) on his head all right? Blinky cried, "His foot are up in the air!'

What's he doing that for? Christopher Cricket added,

The next moment Willy began kicking his legs, 15.

"Humph.

1... quacked Meg Quack. I know what that mcana. He's stuck in the mud.

THOD

Mirs Quack, who was one of the finest divery in the world, sprang into the water and taking Willy's_legw In her mouth, pulled him out

"Willy was covered with mud from his head to his shoulders; He had to stand under a waterw fall for ten micules before ha began looking clean again, alig

"Personally, I lieble do mês In the fountain," Chirple said to Knart and Hanid. “But

fonda

Liickly to #et, like

ندبادی

Then Chirpla ate the last O hia erumbu and dew away,