STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL TEDDY, the Stuffed Bear,
the
the
went up to his friend Knari.
Shadow
Boy with Tited-About Name, and asked.
What's an oCEED?”
Kad, who was trying to the
■ atbelace, locked up at Teddy and sala
"What's a what?”
"What's an ocean?" repeated
Teddy.
All About Oceans
-General Tin Has Seen Five Of Them-
hands or rather, paws. He care- fully counted his fingers or, rather, toes. There were five them.
"Oh," said Knarf. "An ocean. answered Knarf. "It's very big. the Pacific Ocean,
It's tremendous." What about it?"
"I've never seen an ocean," look said Teddy. "What's it like?"
"An ocean is a lot of water,”
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Constable Growler has spotted something that the Eittle pals have missed. * That slab down there,"
sys-/ urgently. "It's been covered with earth and
are. "Tisn't stone. It's wood 1 It's quite light." In the space under the slab is a strong leather case, and seiring it eagerly Con- stable Growler examines a sheal of papers inside it." This is just what I needed!" he exclaints "We've got myT
him ! Now it's proved!"
**Well, what about
says Rupert in a puzzled
Let's take it up the Constable. Ah, there you
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"As tremendous as the lake which some in the park?" asked Teddy.
"It's tremendouser,” said Knari.
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"What's an ocean?” Teddy,
General Tin was saying: "I've seen the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the North Pole Ocean
People call the Arctic Ocean and the South Pole Ocean-which some People call the Antarctic Ocean."
Teddy asked General Tin how Teddy was silent for several the oceans got so tremendous. minutes, trying to imagine in "Well," said General Tin, his own mind how tremendous "long, long ago, the oceans were an ocean can be if it was
tre- just
big holes in the ground. in it!"
park.
the Stuffed Bear, asked Knari;
"And you
can go swimming
mendouser than the lake in the Then it started to rain. It "And you can catch Fish in
rained and it rained and it it," said General Tin. ocean rained....and still it kept On "Oh," said Teddy, "I didn't
finally. when know
"I'd like to see an sometime," he finally said. you ever see one, Knarf?” asked again.
And.
"Did raining.
you could do all those he everybody thought it had rained things in the ocean.'
enough, the rain started falling all ever again, and it rained and it rained some more."
"No," said Knart. General Tin, the Tin Soldier, was standing guard by the door on the other side of the room, with his musket over his shout- der. He stood there to
keep Tigers and Elephants and other wild Animals from coming into the room which, of course, they never did.
Teddy went up to General Tin and asked him if he had ever seen an ocean, General Tin gave Teddy a look and then he said:
Lots of rain!
"That certainly was a lot of rain," said Teddy.
Could live there
i
"If you were a Fish," sala General Tin, "you could live fa an ocean, too."
Teddy went and sat down next to Knarf and they talked "It filled those holes in the about how wonderful it would ground right
up to
the top," be if they were Fish and had said General Tin. "There was all five oceans to swim in!
"I think a Fish is like a 50 much water you couldn't see ·
"And the from one side to the other." Bird," said Knarf,
"Yes," said Teddy, "but what ocean is like a tremendous sky. And I bet the Fish talk about I want to know is what you can
North America and South do with the ocean?"
America and Asia and Africa and "My Boy, I've seen more "You can sail on it," said Europe just the way we talk oceans than you have fingers General Tin.
about the five big waterplaces- on one hand."
From the other side of the I mean the oceans that they live Teddy held up one of his room, Knart called out.
in."
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