STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
BY MAX TRELL ❝OW on my last trip to the
King of Saltpepper, I was taken to a wonderful Iced mar- kat Baron Munch was saying to Kharf and Hamid, the Shadow
Saltpepper Market
-Baron Munch Tells Shadows All About It
Children with the Turned-About shaped like a big tall tower Names. "Everything in this with holes at the top." market was wonderfully fresh. I wish I could take you to see it."
Kharf and Hanid were sitting In Barco Musca's pleasant flower garden. The Baron wore a pesch-coloured suit and a hat with a feather at cre side. He was smoking a long clay pipe.
Where is it?
Kwarf wanted to know where the land of Saltpepper was.
"On the other side of the ocean.” Baron Murch answered promptly.
"which ocean?” Hanid asked. "Where are five of them, LOW.
was a
Hanid exclaimed:
"Oh, just like a salt shaker!" Baron Munch went on:
"It was very noisy inside. The moment you stepped past the door, you could hear the cluck- ing of Hens, the mooing of Cows and the rustling of leaves.”
"Inside the market!" claimed Knarf.
ex-
"That's what was so remark- able about the land of Salt- pepper." said Baron Munch.
Fresh eggs
усц "For example, if you wanted
a dozen fresh eggs, you
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went
"I forget which one of them to the Chicken department. was said Baren Murch. "But There you found a whole dock it certainly
Hens wonderful of
sitting in rocking market. Would you like me to chairs. You told them you want- tell you about it?”
ed a dozen eggs. Khan and Hanid said they' "What did they do?" asked were very eager to hear about Hanid. the wanderbil food market that "They laid the eggs," said Barca Munch had visited in the Baren Murch. land of Saltpepper,
Knarf and Hanid expressed their wonder that raw market could be big enough to have Cows and Chickens and all man- ner of trees and vines growing in it..
Then
Baron Munch laughed and answered that while του
all of them right cũ the tree, ripe and fresh and delicious,
"And it was the same with might not ind markets like vegetables. If you wanted that everywhere, you had до potatoes or onions or carrots, trouble at all finding them in you dug them up. If you want- the remarkable land of Salt- "You went to the Cow depart- ed cabbages or tomatoes or pepper which lay beyond one of meat," said Baron Munch. cucumbers, you picked them off the five great cceans, although, "There was a whole herd
of the ground. And if you wanted as Baron Munch himself said, Cows there.”
peas or beans, you snipped them you couldn't be sure exactly
which ocean it was. "Did Dairymaids milk them?" off the vine,' asked Knarf.
Baron Munch nodded. "And Rupert and the Secret Path-22
while you were waiting for the milk to get pasteurised-"
Knari and Hanid asked what pasteurised mennt. Baron Munch explained that it meant making that there the milk pure so were no Germs in it.
"So while you were waiting for the milk to get pasteurised,'
"the repeated Baron Munch, Cows also gavé you butter and cream and cheese.'
"What were the rustling leaves?" asked Hanid.
Fruits and vegetables "Well," said Baron Munch, the rustling leaves came from the fruit and vegetable depart- ment. If you wanted bananas, "And if you wanted a quart you picked them off the banana Knart asked Baron trees. If you wanted apples or plumps or cherries, you picked
*Now to begin with,” said of milk?" Baron Murch, “the market was Munch.
MADDOCKS By Four D. Jones
DON'T
HESITATE, ALAN, SIGI THE CONTRACT
FIVE WEEKS
DE PANTO
OH BOY!
I'VE MADE IT? I'M A
STAR! YANDO!
Mammocks-
DON'T STRAIN YOURSELF 'MAN, WE'VE
GOT WORK
TO DO
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"Oh dear," mutters Rupart. I wonder if all my pals are as inquisitive as I am. I do wonder who that stranger is. I'm sure I've never seen him before. Why is he walking through the woods instead of out here on the Common?" Although it takes him out of his
ALL RIGHTS
THE REHEARSALS FOR "BABES UP THE CREEK ARE IN FULL SWING AT BOLTON
SO THIS IS SHOW BUSINESS FASCINATING
CALM DOWN, -BOX, I'LL LOOK FOR THE STAGE
MANAGER
way Rupert follows the man who seems to know the woods and continues to hurry through the glades Soon the little bear has to realise that he may be late for school. Just as he tums back he notices a small piece of crumpled paper on the ground. RESERVED
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