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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Merlin's Garden

It Grows The Same Day It's Planted- By MAX TRELL

BERLIN, the Magnif- cent Magician, came out from behind the bookcase where be lived.

You may think it strange for anybody to be living behind a bookcase, but let me remind you that M- Merlin was a Mas gician and a Magnificent Ma- gician at that!

Mr Merlin looked around the

Saw Merlin

Keart and Hanid, the Shadow Children with the Tumed- “About Names, who were sitting on the other side of the room, ́Hw M• Medin.

"Hello!" Hanid called over to

Merlin!” shouted

Mr. Merlin smiled. "You're just the ones I'm looking for." he said. "I've

· Hanid started to say that if Mr Merlin had just finished planting seeds in his garden, he could hardly expect them to be growing so soon.

-

It was a good thing that Mr dear Children,” he said as he Merlin warned them to watch began laughing, "those are the their step. For no sooner did seeds popping open. My garden they step foot inside the door is starting to grow." than the most extraordinary things started to happen.

Vines appeared on the ground. On some of the vines were to- matoes. On others there were pumpkins and watermelons and cucumbers and cantaloupes.

Stalks came up out of the ground, leaves

buds

opened. Flowers blossomed.

grew,

"Pick them," said Mr Mer- lin. "You're welcome to pick as And what extraordinary many as you like." Now in most houses if you things now started to grow in Knarf and Hanid returned to

see the rooms, want to

you Mr Merlin's garden! A bush their own room with an armful usually have to walk through sprang

up out

of the ground of magic flowers from Mr Mer- them.

covered with red and Knarf and Hanid didn't have roses! A tree grew up.

white lin's magic garden. But this is There the strangest thing of all-no to do this at all in Mr Merlin's

were red-cheeked apples Knows her thoughts

magical house. Instead of walk every branch. ing through the rooms,

the what you're rooms seemed to go sliding past" “I know just

said Mr Merlin. them, one after the other. They thinking,"

and the rooms "You're thinking that if I just stood still planted my seeds in the garden, moved! it's much too soon for anything to be growing.”

"The garden will be along in a minute," said Mr Merlin. · Hanid was very surprised. Sure enough, the next mo- "Things grow faster in my ment, the garden came along. garden than in ordinary Then everything stopped mov- People's gardens," Mr Merlin ing and Knarf and Hanid ·had said. “And also," he added, a chance to look around. There "the seeds I planted are a bit was nothing to be seen in the different from the seeds that garden at all except rows and most People plant."

hills where Mr Merlin had planted the 'seeds.

Mr Merlin took Knarf and Hanid by the arm. A minute or two later, they were walk- ing through a dim hallway, At last they came to a door.

Mr Merlin snapped his fin just. faished planting seeds in gers. The door opened. my garden. Would you like to

"Watch your step," said Mr

walked inside.

come and see how they're grow- Merlin, as Knarf and Hanid Sing

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Popping noise

"Mr Merlin," said Hanid sud- denly, "what's that popping noise?"

Knart heard it, too. "It sounds like balloons going pop," said Knarf.

Mer-

"Noise?" repeated Mr lin. "Balloons going pop? My

ME

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YES, YES, WE DID

.

on one in the room was able to see

them except Knarf and Hanid.

Rupert and the Secret Path-5

Rupert stares at the brainy pup. **Why do you call it a secret path?" he asks "The sand's

clear and bright. Anyone can see it, Sara spotted it at once and saw that it wasn't there by accident."

"Oh dear, I never realised that,"

says Bingo

SACRE BLEU

THE IDIOTS ARE ROUND THE 'FLAMIN' BEND

WER WITH

STR "TEHALL

INVESTIGATION. UT ANY OWN WAY

BOLD AS TO ASK JUST WHAT YOU TIMO, GENTLEMEN ARE DOING LURKING "ABOUT IN THE LATE GALLERY DURING CLOSING HOURS?

SIR, I AVILA, HAVE YOU KNOW

1 CAPTURED THE DEVIL

SERGEANT! SEND FOR THE MEAT WAGON -

MAKE IT A PADDED ONE

•

gloomily.

**I can't be as brainy as I thought I was! Anyway, why isn't Sara on the path too?** She is," Rupert replies. "Only she went the opposite way to find the other ́end." "Then let's follow." says Bingo." And I' show you where I got the sand."

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