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STORIES FOR BOYS & GIRLS
A Strange Sort Of Rain
Cats and Dogs Poured Down, Thick and Fast-
By MAX TRELL
TANARF
and Hanică were A standing by the window in Baron Munch's house. Outsizin
my native guide brought me in a canoe to beautiful island where, he said, I was sure to and Cats and Dogs of a kind never before sech by anybody,
***They are silvery-coloured,"
the rain was falling is, n steady ho said, the colour of the rain- downpour.
Baron Munch had
for a moment to pour
(another cup of tea.
drops.
gone off "But, after we had landed on himself the island," Baron Munch con- tinued, was disappointed not
"What's it doing outside to see any sign of the extraordi- now?" he called to Hand cheer- nary silvery-coloured Cats and fully, as he came back into the
room.
It's raining Cats and Dogs" Fald Honld.
Hearing his sister pay,' this, Knart burst out laughing.
Surprised Looke
Doya.
***Oh,' said my guide. "You've got to wait till it rains.""
Baron Munch smiled.
"At first I didn't bellove my
Baron Munch and his guide arrived at an Island.
"Yes, it was a shame," agreed
guide. But I decided to walt Baron Munch. "AR
until the rain came. In about
native
an hour, the sky grew dark, guide wanted to take lue to an
other island where it rained There was thunder and tightning Buckets!"
"Didn't
you 20?" ahouted
Hanid looked at him in prise and so did Baron Munch, "It mover rais Cats and Dogs," said Knart. "It only rains tam
sur-
"Here they come shouted my guide. Get ready to catch them!'
Knart exeltedly.
been able to catch them,"
"Yes, down they came, Cats Baron Munch shook his bend: and Dogs, thick and fast, hun- "I had enough Buckels," be "Oh,"
Answered Hanid, dreds and hundreds of them, said. "But I've always been "That's what I meant. I know in coloured silver, like mln sorry about those silvery Cate can't ever rain Cats and Dogs, drops. But I couldn't catch any and Dogs. I really wish I had It's just a way of saying that it's of them. They disappeared into raining very hard."
the ground as fast ba they fell--- But at this Baron Munch the Cats after the Dogs, and the emiled and said:
Dogs alter the Cata.
"Oh, what a shamel" said Hanid to Baron Munch.
"My dear children, would it
that You will wear it again un-surprise you to know
I der streamlined trewa or a once visited a country where 4 dress with its own built-in really did rain Cats and Dog petticoat.
It was no use for Knart "and For those who have not yet. Hunld to shout out that it was for Cats and Doga grown up there is some shal-Imposible tering news. Strietly 'U' certi-to" come raining down in any country for Baron Munch kept fleste.
Eras and virdies are now | nodding his head and repeating
on the mariect. in over and over: being put
of a this country
"I saw them. I (the result of recog-
total sell-out-In the States) when it happened!" wore it ambulance for precocious/girls of 1.
They go into the shops next El-under-
of men's
grey month So mothers beware!
London Exprver Service).
the cami-slip. Lifted straight out of fashion from the 'forties, it in previewed for spring.
With the male shopper once again on the Christmne prowl the slinky black nightgown has Remember how, clutching to this you
atrenuous the last straws got some competition.
mised Zaminity, you CUTIOS, who make the 10 drive
during the Ingerie in the pictures, have a is the neglige over nightle .., Tew departure from the usual neath A pair
romantic, nover an incurable
best-selling colours: aquamarine. flannel hage?
Current now for badtirrin, and pretiler than ever before,
The Two-Toned
Convertible Comes To Town
By HAZEL MEYRICK
WO-TONED convertibles are in the news this week-
TWO-TON Earls Court Motor Show and at the autumn
fashion collections.
In the world of fashion, the convertible is a new piece
of wardrobe trickery-the outfit that is what it seems to be.
There is the sult, for instance, that turns out to be a dress and jacket, or the summer cost you can wear back to front us a dress, and the nightdress you can put on for a party. And there are endless dresses with shirt tops that peel off to reveal a strapless bodice beneath.
But the tizo-toned convertible has made its debut-the cotton dress which uses colour to de- ceive our eyes still further.
BELTED
ם
By_ANNE SHARPLEY
In search of
kind hearts and
copper kettles
my eyes from the view for a
Nect After Canada and America, it was moment and only then noticed
syntholle libre, the makers of
Orton decided to outshine all their competitors.
Tuy took over Talk of the Town, me of London's lushest uni put their night-spots,
No ex- fashion show to music, pense was spared to show Orion in the most duzzling surround- Ings. Things came down frean the ceiling, neon lights Qushed, and girla rose up through the
...use
time to look at England again....
feet.
bulldozers, had formed
paths and lanes that
it was bright green with mould. I continued over the hill- Alde determined to ignore the pork pie incident. Young Inpwings were nervously gather- not ing into flocks to begin their
Arst migratory Bight,
seemed a good week to get out of London and
in any case I wanted to catch the disappearing
floor, to persuade us that bron golden end of the summer I had read about but not
is o fibre we cannot be with-i
out,
been able to enjoy.
The sweaters we will be buy- In Canada and America I had Take the dress I've been ing next spring were wom by boen looking at recnie wonders shown that looks exactly like a a set of shapely chorus girls to not always tactful comments suit. It has a smooth belton top who provided an interesting con- from the natives to the effect In clotted cream cotton, and trast to the habitual dead-pan that there was nothing like this u skirt in dark coffee. It ap look of the model girls, And, in England. pears to be a casual two-piece as if all the colour and spectacle but is really just one dress. were not enough, the show was
Next morning, after spending the night in an elegant Googlati hotel I set off in a bus up the vale,
On the bus we were all given a serious little lecture by the
about the impos It was time to look at Eng- bus driver
gotting back to There is a honey-coloured interspersed with sung com-land again and see what there stbility of
con- Richmond after four. The hot shirt-walster in Sarragossa cot-rcials, chorusing the praise was, I thought my
fdome a little shattered by summer had burned the hill- ton which has a dake white of the synthetic
those amooth roads
and sides to an Arizona-like pink |<fficient motels.
nose. The browning trees look- cd more singed than undergoing a seasonal change.
dickey with lace edging, Brass buttons march down the centre front of this dress, and there
BALLYHOO
formed.
feel. It can be washed over und There was something honest over again without shrinking or good and reasonably energetic about England still, I argued. stretching.
The Swale, usually a most
At Dunnerside, two-thirds of
The farmers with their teams of dogs were bringing in their sheep from the hilltops Tor the sales next week.
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Raah, the simple
thought, ddyllerfly wondering along the river banks, I decided village. Now I was up against
to spend the night in the next
The major obstacle to the enjoy-. inent of a holiday in England- landiadics.
The landladies of this particu- or village, despite the numerous.. large notices saying "bed and breakfast" which might lead a visitor to suppose there was hoS- piality to be had, appeared to have gone on strike.
From door to dost, I ploddeA• with no success. No way into the Good life here. Even the village Pub turned me down.
COCKNEY
the
was Uliere
A Strange Country
Knorf
and Haald begged Baron Munich to tell them the whole story about the country where it ruined Cats and Dogs.
The country where it rakną; Cats and Dogs is quite far away from here. It's on the other side of the mountain in a beauti- ful valley on one of the islands, in the South Seas.
My idyl crumbling sightly, I walked on to the next village. In England, at least, I argued are enormous pockets in the Ballyhoo apart, what is it there is a simple sort of old life
Determined that if I didn't get gathered skirj.
about Orion knitwear that
in there, I would go straight to For the hostess who likes to makes it worth buying? It has going on that you can join. You
can use your feet (redundant in vigorous river, squirmed wedky a burn and sleep in the hay.
was begiming. to It Is North America)
The day make an impression at her own many genuine virtues
an i bod of stones. But the got cleme to colour- Tastature, party, I recommend cotton completely
11:3005 paths and, lames stom Yarns were still in their chill and a deep blue tinge was
romanbered dress in a turquoise print that sugar-pink sweater of Orlon that fost, not bulldozers have well
appenting reaching the valley drom oncler Georgien 'style,
hilltops appears to be topped by an stays that colour, and so does apron but don't try to dis- white, If has a warm, synthetic
-Consistent and harmonious, I card this particular pinafore -
thought, relishing the simple It is sown Armly onto the skiri
te ahend. The most convertible conver- tible of them all is an after- Children's clothes begrimed And hoped..
I tried two more places with moon dress in black and white with food and faud, office girls' Pocketing a toothbrush I set the way up the date, the bus dhock that sheds its sleevas for sweaters that become stained off for Swaledale, Swakdale is came to the end of its run and out sucess and was no pre- my second evening and becomes chle with carbon black and ink #a deeply cut, stone wall-strung was on my own, anding the paring to contrent
they're made of Orlen they will ordre des which is reached simple life, it was lunchtime pork ple at the village shop be-
and I went to the village shop, dre ding to a burn..
Benta the bar was a divdly, The three-quarter length stand up to laundering that by two Bellinterik atOPERS,
always a hazardous undertaking
all sleeves are not attached to the would make wool shrink.
Boud with, of unless it le information, not friendly dress at all, although they Dindvantages?
things, a Cockney accent. Well, no-onb
Ipod von WEER,
"You can say with sin. But Abere appear to be. They are Dawn his set discovered the perfect
the palha,
packeted onto a cotton blouse which you fibre, and Orion's problem id
Rejunts of the
Das only just done English Tural my wife wear underneath ---- a neat, quick that is pilis -Little balls of fluft
diet ware dimissed. I had to buck from hospital andikyou will solution of the problem of what appear on its surfact
buy a pork pie since there was Gave to help with the washing- to wear to a 'straight-on-Irvin- can eat downs this trouble if is the lovelient cfly in England molling ele, along with a slice make your own bod
you turn the clothes inside out fiñnd Hietanend at the maith at cheese, a block of chocolate when you wash them and never, at the dile, where apron at fired bangne, BIG BROTHER
- never rub' them.
Nerermità "CHSTIN
The glass is going up Two things from the Orion zur di pile of stima cottages Wild and the
woman behind DIG Brother has taken over show that impressed me; The the river wale norting rodné muit zutter soonills, Bashonworld..
The wonderful "white jersey slacier below.
sheath.
the-offence ufikir,"
But you
NO SOUND
First Toric which to try mind
–
Wow bence Fett fast, were all Chim.
Takea
in
the
20 de Proven, Cooling for.
admit
"Popper kettles and Jemá koeris
wants of sisertis-anade
E
Two cupboards filled with 32
"I was exploring all the islands in the South Seas, look- ing for Birds and Animals to bring back to the zoo. One day.
first dress show with commer· made Irom Orion and wool. - legme an határ z ent on the castle | clais (hrown Je, was staged in They can be washed and dripoeg watching the armies, whiliados
thla London.
And -men' week just dried.
cricket troni the 31stễn – huddled (down) another round in the battle that pullovers that are easy on the below you would win die simpped at cut was going to be all angit, Ja raging between the synthetic umpire, for they are feather home disturbing than a phlid he got bez revenge from my good, thick sandwiches made the Wild Box, Badlo, Tory- ardered and dried ovneniency a dog barkedry reartless onloyment of the sun event to be Barang khám nema zamatovabbodný a skine, however. For When an BATH FUNne for me for the ret long, sud harian, to namo had no that tatimer enn turn up si è simple, kummoigne and fgood, it netin karton Phone alting on a un sie werk Just als hood It sa sekali mang do perslinsa supyday, malah ih pristine thought, remersbering the neon politie, inny spare tighe almost would endpolyan fuFELÁRIE
their while sweater für both lininas i wrest of Mata muuričah towns, continent, I happened to tura
Light They сад
bo
Boron Munch smilled and finished his tear while Knart and Hanld looked at each other and wondered whether the story they had just heard was true."
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"nien now wislatie How do you ako je
"I wish you'd come and lank. R isn't one of our goldfish. It's a new one that the shopeaan gave ME." Sam needs Da comd bidding, and he is quickly kneel- ing beside the pond. Next minute the Hab has broken surface again and is whistling at him with the same tiny sound. WEL RIGHTS RESERVED
That's a
**It wasn't tu s Yearned.
rior Rupert.
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