STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
́ By MÀX TRELL
HRISTOPHER Cricket said
to Knari and Hanid:
mcon
"If you'll meet me in the park tonight when the comes up, I give you a ride in a Roman chariot
Aner and Fanid both started 10:33 "What's a Roman char- ki? -but when they looked areynd for Christopher Cricket, they found he had gone.
From somewhere far off they could hear - or fancied they could hear-the faint, cheerful tinkling of a guitar and the knew that Christopher Cricket was pechably sitting under a daisy playing a song for all his friends in the park.
Mose themselves small. That night, after everyone had gone to sleep and the moon had come up, Knarf and Hanid made themselves small, then they squeezed through the key- hole and made their way down
to the park
By the light of the moon, thus made their way down the the until they...came to each where they had been fting in the mining.
*Hill?” said Christopher Cricket. There he was, sitting on the edge of the bench with his
The Roman Chariot
-Chris Promises To Give Shadows A Rides
five or
"But you on one of his guitar six knees (for Christopher said Hanid. Cricket had quite a number of legs).
"You're just in time," he said, the ride in the Roman "for chariot. Follow me, please."
can't even
Standing where they were, it looked for all the world that the Horses were racing. with the chariot while the Roman Emperor urged them on.
And suddenly, on this strange moonlit night, as Knarf
and read,"
Hanid and Christopher Cricket watched, a wonderful thing hap- the pened. The Horses' feet pound- ed up and down. The Emperor snapped the reins and shouted: "Faster!"
"I heard someone read name out loud," said Christo- pher.
All this while, Knari had kept silent because, as it happened he didn't know what a Roman] Started across lawn chariot looked like.
"Come ahead and show it to Christopher hopped lightly off.
said. "I'd the bench and started across the us, Chris," he now
lawn. Only Hanid like to see it." moonlit stopped him.
Chris-
as she
out- him
"Now just a minute, topher dear," she said, stood with her arms stretched im front of "We're not going to Eo wan- dering through the park, look- ing for something you think is a Roman chariot."
Christopher chuckled.
Across the lawn they all went, then under a group of trees and around the lake several more paths.
and across
"Look! There it is!" cried He pointed, not Christopher. with one hand but with several hands, to something standing just to one side of the main
"It is a Roman chariot!" he path that crossed the park. exclaimed.
No chariots "Christopher dear, there aren't any Roman chardots in this park," Hanid said.
Bronze statue
It was a bronze statue! There was a team of prancing bronze Horses. There Was a bronze Homan Emperor. "There aren't? I'll show you," The Horses were hitched to Christopher insisted. "There's a' a bronze Roman chariot. The name
on it.
It says Roman Roman Emperor was holding Chariot.”
the reins.
And most wonderful of all, the wheels of the bronze chariot started turning.
"Look! It's going!" shouted
Knarf.
"I told you so!" cried Chris- topher Cricket.
The Roman Emperor seemed to be waving to them to jump on the chariot with him.
The next minute Knarf and Hanid and Christopher Cricket were all standing next to the Emperor, riding behind the gal- loping Horses in the great Ro- man Chariot (that was only a statute in the middle of the park!)
Rupert and the Rugger Match-11
Rupert has chosen a lonely spot a bank. It is only after a long high on the common to avoid
search that he spies it lodged in the chance of meeting Bill and a bush. As he bends forward to Algy, and, as before, he cannot reach it, a loud screeching by his make the ball go where he expects. ear makes him stop. With a Then he tries to kick it straight startled jump he looks and sees two up, but it curis back over his birds close by. "Whatever is the head and bounces crookedly down-matter with them?" he mutters.
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Four D. Jones KEN THE ASTURS-ZAKER
DOCKS
ARRIVES ON THE SCENE
WITH HIS BOSS....
THAT'S HIM, CHIEF, HS CLAIMS HE KNOWS THE
-DEYIL PERSONALLY
NOW THEN, YOUNG MAN. WHAT'S ALL THIS TM IN
LEAGUE WITH THE DEVIL"
LARK THEN ?
HE CONTROLS EVERY--|
THING I SAY AND
DO MATE
THE MAN IS AN IDIOT, I SUGGEST YOU INTRODUCE HIM [TO OUR STRIP CARTOON:
DEPARTMENT
WHO'S THE IDIOT WITH THE WHAT?/
FERDINAND
་་
IT'S TRUE. HE MAKES ME DO THINGS OUT OF ME CHARACTER
YOU DON'T THINK WE HAVE
A STORY THEN?
By Mik
SWISS
Sheaffer's
PAM
Pin For Men
THE BOLD-NEW PEN DESIGNED EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEN
NANCY
OH, DEAR ---IT'S` OUT OF ORDER AGAIN
BRICK BRADFORD
SEADY FOR OUR APPROACH TO ALPHA DORADO !
GOOD I'LL TAKE OVER, BRICKI,we
TIMED IT RIGHT-CUR
LANDING ARGA IS
STILL IN DAY-
LIGHT!
I'LL CALL THE
REPAIRMAN
ATERA YOU ENTERED
THE ATMOSPHERS OF THE
PLANET. BEAUTIFULLY,
SADE!
DON'T BOTHER
THANKS, BRICK! THERE'S QUE
AREA
BELOW!
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By Ernie Bushmiller
IT WAS A ́ CLOSE-UP
OF A ZEBRA
By Paul Norris
THERE'S SONS THING WRONG DOWN THERE! IT OESN'T LOCK RIGHT!
I'LL HAVE TO USE AVISUAL SIGNALS!
YOU HANDLE THE SIGNALLING !
I'LL TAKE OVER
THE SHIP!
Ah! Thet Food!
That Service! That Sarssair!
SWISSAIR
THE ABLE OF TACKER, AND
Now...
PEPPERMINT
AERO
Delicious
PEPPERMINT`
flavour
As always
ex
ILFORD
is Best
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