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THE CHINA' ‹MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1958.

FEATURES

FOR

BOYS AND

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Two Puzzles For You To Try ICE CREAM

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ROMANCE OF THE

THE STEAMBOAT DAYS

FREIGHT moves at a fast pace these days, Huge trucks haul it, diesel perishable engines speed freight in refrigerated cars; loaded planes Lake to the skyways hourly. But the romantic era of freighting passed with the steamboat,

any,

were with

Headlights, merely fron baskets fled blazing in knots swung out on a boom 10 or 15 feet before the bow.

and even fat

Engine fuel was wood or coal, exrept in racing when kegs of rest, turpentine Park might be tossed Into glowing fireboxes,

the

Colten was the chief item of

Nothing can quite come up to the excitement caused by the first sound of a favourite parket, us 1ts whistle sounded over the freight in the water.

Then it was that great crowds gathered on the levees, o jumble

Routh Six or

eight watcloneu guarded the eargo with buckeln of water at hand as the sparks sprayed out of the stacks like a giant fire-

of freight wagons, drays, family works display

earringes, Negro roustabouts When the steamer anchored, and the merely curious

And if the roustabouts took over mGy-

the landing was made after ing it. luge piles of bacon, darit the whole levee was ablaze flour, whiskey, lord, pork, hay, oals, bran and com were mip- with pine knot flares.

planter's crop to the landing re- quired weeks of hauling by ox- drawn wagons. Sometimes as of many as six or eight yoke cxen were needed to pull the wagons through the mud.

Those wagons were fascinat ing affairs, especially to small boys, who looked greedily at the "provision box" nitached to the rear of each one, filled with cold boiled fresh horn, fried chicken, potato, bread and Jam cake,

A'

T the bus stop Jimmy's mother told him, it on the bench lika a good 'boy, Jimmy, while I go into the bank and cash a chequo. I'll be back before the bus gets here."

Jimmy Bat on the bench, swung his feet back and forth, and watched the cars move slowly in the tieavy traffic.

But he soon became ired of sitting there,

So Jimmy got up and stood beside the bank's double doors. Now he could watch the blind man, on a stool nearby, who was playing his violin,

A few people, in passing, dropped money into the blind man's in CEO, Jimmy wished he had some money, but he hadn't any. His mother couldn't let hiru have spending money, because

saving up she was money for taxes.

WHEN

FOR

BARKS

FOR JIMMY

Kaid D

deep voles, Jimmy looked up and recognised his neighbour, Mr Ward.

Jimmy was lod into the sweet. shop. "Give this youngster a cone with two scoops of choco- late ice cream and another cone with two scoops of pineapple Ico meara," said the man to the waitress.

"But-but

Mister,

that's an awful loternal's-

stammered.

Jimmy

"Can't you eat 11,, son?" the man teased him,

"Yes, of course, but—” "Then i want you to have it, because you are the kind of dependable boy I like."

WHEN JIMMY reached the bench, with both hands full, his mother came from the bank and sat down beside him.

"Have a treat, Mother," offered Jimmy, handing her, the pine-

"Where did you get the ice

naked his mother-in

* *

"Finders *

keepers** flashed bill that fell out of your tin can, apple lee cream cone, through Jimmy's mind for a It was on the pavement,"

"Thanka, my PASSERSBY second. What a lot of ice cream THE

boy," spoke up cream?" thinned out, Jimmy saw a packet he could buy with in the shop the blind man quickly. "Thanks surprise,

"Our neighbour, Mr Ward. of paper on the sidewalk beside next door!. He didn't get fee very much. I haven't made very

much today."

treated me. cream very often.

He saw me give the blind man's tin can.,

Jimmy picked it up and un-

But the dollar bill belonged "You're welcome. I haven't the blind man the dollar bil z either," confessed found right beside him on the folded a dollar bill. It was just to the blind man, even if the much money

And the Jimmy, "Mother's a widow and pavement." like the dollar bill Mre Ward man couldn't see it.

"I'm proud his neighbour had given him blind man didn't get very much can't give me any." when he had watered her lawn for his playing. Jimmy noticed.

praised Jimmy's mother. and flowers while she was away "HERE, MISTER," said Jimmy to the blind man. "It's a dollar on a visit.

At ports like. St Louis, New 1 Orleans, Natchez und Loulaville un the Mississippi, 20 elegant steamers might be anchored at one time, But on the river piya- fatlons, wealthy planters bullt. their own lotidings and watched with their families while goods were unloaded and hides and cotton taken aboard,

Those

water was up the price might Those early steamboats had gled with beautiful furniture,

1 drop to as low as a dollar per Freight rates were based fall smokestacks to create

When it bale. Boats carrled from 1,000

were the good ol powerful draft, paddle wheels the stage of the river.

"Steamboat Days," and their that could operate in shallow was low there were many haz to 2,500 bales at a time.

Those Then it might cost as

were the days when like will never be seen again. water, and one or two decks "ards.

# thriving above the engine room to house much as $10 a bate to get the wagon yards did

To

the inland

-M. G. SHELTON cotton freighted. But when the business. mal feed the passengers,

get

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OPTICAL TELESCOPE SEES THROUGH ONLY A SLIVER

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Duzzle Pete's

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Unusual

4 Smells

6 Mimic

7 sull

↑ Musical note

10 Negative reply

11. Powerful explosive

13 Cleopatra's snake

14 Kind of cloth

16 Colouring matter

DOWN

1 Puem

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2 Accomplish

4 Uncloses

5 Intelligence

6 School subject

8 Spinning to3

12 Boy's nickname

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A MALE FERRET 19 CALLEDA HOB" AND A FEMALE A “JILL".

Rupert and the Jackdaw-23

Rupert is now as argcious to ga as he was to get in and he leads the way to the open window when 'a cey from his pal stops hlen.“ Just amo, ya Bill. 70 Have a look at the fireplace. I believe I aaw something moving there." Rather unwillingly Rupert turfla’to cros

the room. Bill removes the few. guard and they 'peer'. Inta', the grate..** All that atoll muit have come down the chimney," says Rupert. "It's mostly grubby snow and there's something black in it and you oh my ↑ "You're right, it is-maving 1 ** "ALLIRIOMTI MSTARVED

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PICTURE WORD SQUARE

Use a four-letter word to de- neribe each picture or its wording, and when you put them down in rotation, you'll And your answer reads the same i down as BETOSS..

THIS IS

AN ALOE

WORD DROPS

Drop the correct letter from each of these words and you'll find the remainder is a part

of your body:

SHIP

WHEEL

CHAIR

SHINE

TRIANGLE

Just then a heavy arm slipped across Jimmy's small shoulders. "Come, have a treat with mo,"

Brain

of

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-Olga Root Newcombe

Teasers To Try

PROVE THESE WORDS by filling in the blanks to mako

words to fit the denmitions.

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3. PROVE

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PROVE

C. -- PROVE 7. PROV

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Wise, saying.

To anger.

To think favourably of.

Furnish with.

To chide.

To grow better.

Division of a country,

Thrifty.

Fruitful,

Thrusung forward.

Form an idea beforehand. Favouring Improvement,

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Why Knarf Was Late

-He Stopped To Do A Favor For A Cat-

By MAX TRELL'

"MY goodness," Honid, the Shadow Girl with tho Turned-About Name, sald to her brother, Knarf, when he came into the room, "You've been gone most of the afternoon. Yet all you did was to go to the grocery store around the corner. What look you so long?”

Knart sot himself down next to Hanid. He was all out of brenth,

Finally he said: "I could have been back much sooner except that I stopped and did a Cat a favour."

"You did a Cat a favour!” ex- claimed Hanid. "What kind of a favour did you do?"

Atked A Favour

The strange Cat snatched the fish and ran away,

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free and I couldn'y climb very a mon come "Well," sald Knarf, "this Cat high. Just then had a piece of fresh fish which along. someone had just given her, The

tho Puzzle Pete has hung his word

What you need," said plece of fish was in a dish on the man, 'is triangle from

ladder. Look,,, hangi TALENT. The second word is "Idolise" third back steps of the house next said, pointing across the street.

tender affection"; fourth "be asked if I would

doar,

When she saw me, she There's a painter, painting a

do her the house.

• Ask him if you can favour of watching the plece of borrow his ladder. thesh while she ran across the

13 Years of your life

16 Railway (ab.)

GEOGRAPHICAL SITES

foro"; and paint Can you triangle?

TALENT

Do you know where the fol- towing places are located?

Triborough Bridge

The White House Back Bay Applon Way

th "a compass

complete

(Solutions on Pare 20)

HOW NON-SKID 3 KEEP ON UNTIL ALL ARE

TIED INTO ONE LARGE UNIT

TO RUG PAD 1.LAY THE SMALL RUG FOR WHICH YOU NEED A PAD ON THE FLOOR,

LAY RUBBER JAR RINGS

IN ROWS TO COVER IT.

2. LAY THE JAR RINGS ON THE FLOOR IN THE SAME.. ORDER...TIE THEM TOGETHER TWO AT A TIME WITH PIECES OF HEAVY NYLON THREAD ABOUT 12 IN-LONG

14. SEW THE PAD: TO THE BOTTOM

OF YOUR RUG AT CORNERS AND CENTER "TRY IT FOR SKID! “NOT BAD,

street to visit one of her Kiltens. "So I went across the street,"

I'm in a hurry to as to the said Kuart, "and asked, tho! grocery store,' I told the Cat. painter If I could borrow his i only be gone a couple ladder so as to climb up the of minutes, she told me,

slippery elm and find the Crow' "So I finally agreed to do the who had stolen the fish from Cat a favour by watching the the Cat which had stolen ́ ́the plece of fish in the dish while the ash from the drat Cat which ahe ran across the street to visit had gone across the street to one of her Kittens."

vik ore of he 'Kilens and "That shouldn't have taken had asked me to mind her very long." sald Hanid. "What plece of fish unill she got back.” happened?"

"And what finally happen- ed?" asked land.

Snatched It Away

"Well," sald Knarf, "no sooner did the Cat go across

Cat Was Happy

"What Willk

finally

happened."

the street and leave mO

the dish with the piece of fish said Knart, was that by the In it, when suddenly another time I climbed up the slippery Cat came along. Before I could elm, the Crow had eaten tho

other do anything, this

Cat plece of fish. So I had to goʻto snotched the fish and ran down the fish store and get another the street with 12"

piece. And by the time I got! "What did you do?" asked back to the next-doc house Hanid.

ngain with the new ploce, of

* "I ran after him," said Kaart, fish, most of the afternoon WAS

"He rais around the corner, but gona

she

I grabbed, his tall. He dropped. "But the Cat was glad the piece of fish and ran into a gel her pjece of flak, and celler. But just as I was about thanked me for,, talking such to pick up, the piece of fish, good care of it. And, snó salā. Crow. swooped down."

she would doʻmo 'afavour any Oh dear, uld Hanid. “Did time I wantot/ft, Ute Crow take the plece of "I wanted to ask her to do Ash?"

me the "favour of going to the "Ho curtainly did,” ・・ eald grocery store for me, but I Knarf. "He matched it in his know, that, Cats couldn't buy in beak and Slow up into an elm' a"grotery story, so I had to go tree with it."

mysel And that's why I'm so What did you do?" asked later at hand Hanid

"Poon Knart," said. Hanki what did I do?" sald Knart. "you oœmainly got into a lot of "I"started climbing up the alm troifile Just doing a CRE trợc: But it waa. a. slippery eim; favou