STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL
HANID, the Shadow
Girl
the Turned-About
Name, said it was time for
Some Fruit Riddles
3.
the silence Teddy's voice was heard saying:
"And the fruit that I hate most is a banana-"
Without Even Trying, Teddy Guess Them All Hanid, clapping her hands with
So everyone in the room, that blue-eyed China Doll, all gath- is to say, her brother Knarf, ered in front of Hanid waiting Mr Pinch and his wife Judy, to hear the first riddle. General Tin, the Tin Soldier,
Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, Hia- "Tll give you a hint," said wala, the Small-Sized Wooden Hanid, before she began. "All
Kan, Mary-Jane, the Rag the riddles I'm about to ask. Doll, and Gloria, the beautiful you will be about fruit."
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- Ba Rupert gives chast be sees that the figure ahead of him is also heat of papers "What Erde perion he is," Rupert inks, a Small enceză to be a toy zum. Hil Fizze Was a munte." At his cad the other gives a violent start and drops some of his papers.
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'Oh dear, I'm sorry to startle you," #aya Rupert. "Are you collecting those sheets of paper? Look, I've picked up all these. Are they yours? And
"The
little man turns and glares at him. "Mind your own business!" he
snaps. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Everyone in
the room
said that that was a wonderful idea because they loved fruit. Only Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, ob- jected. He said he didn't care for fruit at all.
"I'm stuffed with sawdust," he said, patting himself on his tummy. "The only kind of fruit Fd eat is wooden fruit. But that kind of fruit doesn't grow anywhere."
"It grows on wooden trees," said Mr Punch to Teddy.
"Teddy, you're right!" said joy. "The answer to the riddle is banana!"
"Is it?" asked Teddy. "He doesn't even know he's guessed it," grumbled Knarf.
Hanid got everyone quiet. "This is the second riddle," she said. "Listen carefully: "White cheek, red cheek, yellow
cheek, speckled. Big face, small face, round
face, freckled." Hanid stopped, ished.
having fin-
"The only kind of fruit I'd eat Is wooden fruit," said Teddy.
No one could think of the an- swer to this riddle at all. Not even Teddy said anything.
say
And again in the silence,
He found everyone looking at Teddy's voice piped up:
him, waiting for him to "And the one fruit that I something. So he finally said:
"Yes, sir, than a banana is
I hate an apple hate
more than I hate a banana. And an apple."
I hate an orange more than-"
"Orange!" cried Hanid. “You Teddy. grow
guessed it again!"
Looked puzzled Teddy said that he had never He looked thought of that. puzzled for a moment or two. Then he said he wondered why wooden trees didn't wooden fruit.
"All right," Hanid interrupted to say when he stood up in front of the whole company, "This is the first riddle: "I come from a place that's far
away,
Where the coconuts grow and
the palm trees sway, Where the Monkeys jump and
the Parrots scream! Cut me in slices and eat me
in cream!" No one seemed to be able to guess this right away and in
Four D. Jones JONES AND THE STRIPED MAN CARRY THE MAJOR TO HIS
THAT'S IT, MAJOR,
END PUT ME TO YOU'RE HOME AND THATS} BED MAN, I'M SICK!
EXHAUSTED
AN END TO IT
HOME
worse
Hanid threw her arms around
"Teddy, you darling, you've guessed it again!"
And she kissed him on both cheeks.
Always won
Teddy just gave up. No mat-
answer the riddle, he couldn't help winning.
"Guessed it? What did I ter how hard he tried not to guess?" asked Teddy.
"The .riddle, of course!" shouted everyone else in the room, jealous that they hadn't thought of the answer.
Hanid smiled. "This is the third and riddle," she said..
"Every one
Is a golden sun.”
SUDDENLY THE MAJOR NOTICES HIS GARDEN...
EGAD!
100K AT ME GROUND NUTS,
THEY'RE ENORMALIS!
"Anyway,' he said, as he. waddled out of the room, "I still think that wooden trees should grow wooden fruit. What last I'd like best of all is a wooden
fruit salad.”
But no one else in the room said a word,
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