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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WEEK-END

SECTION

You

Of Course

But Are

By The Dragoman

CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. C. M. T., who

He didn't know claims 48 on. last werk's test, what a mouffion was. Never mind, Mr. C. M. T.- neither did I until I looked it up. Several others is not so claimed 10-so maybe the Impossible Impossible.

Scering rules as usual-two points for each correct answer, 30 a pass, and 40 and over entitles you to a K. of K. (Knight of Knowledge) degree, Now get to it.

You

A friend of mine who has retired has just gone to live in a borough. I thought that was a place where only rabbits lived until he told me i1 was:

A farming diatrict; a corporation town; a small county; a cathedral city.

con-

2. If you walked into the middle of o versution and heard someone mention "--the Cameroons," Instantly you'd know he was referring

to:

Highlanders of Scotland; equatorial hot

winds; islands in the Pacific; an African region.

3.Now, now-don't rush it.

4.

Canada; Perang: Straits

Columbia is 17:

Settlement:

United States of Amerion; Africa; South America.

You'd better see un apothecary," the boss sic Murgatroyd, said to Murgatroyd. "Nuriz,"

"why do I need to see:

A physielan; a surgeon; a stage Mouge:

a water diviner; a chemist; a money lender.

- you go horse-riding and you want to im- press onlookers that you know something about Tkling, the fout you put in the stirrup first is:

Both; the left; the right; the wrong. 61 don't boast about this a rule-hut my

1 mean she grandmother is a nonagenarian.

Gors to church on Sundays, only cais vortables, in 90 years old; sugers with constant illacan, is not a vegetarian.

a man operating a hyd t-

7.1 ever you see meter with a business-like ate, you would be safe in using he is interested in:

Acrostation: acrobatics; sahisky; scarlet fever.

motor racing:

B"Horizontal piece of timber or stone over door or window" is, according to the Oxford Dk- jonary, the definition of the word:

Lental; lante; lenti; tatal, tintei. 9.They've been having a lot of new govern- ments in France lately. You'll be interested to know, therefore, that the present Republic is the:

First: Second; Third; Fourth; Eleventh; Fifth; Nith; Seventh

10. Cume neross a Chartered Band $10 note the other day-curious things, aren't they? Anyway. I was surprised to find the figure 10 printed on it:

Only once: not at all; scores of times; twice.

11- blg, bullying man said to you gruffly, "Hey, you get off my grayne," you'd probably be sitting on:

breakwater

A part of its anatomy; a belonging to him; a toater spout on his roof; a rockery in his garden; his pet dog. 12-it the metric system gets you tricked it doesn't get metricked (sorry!)-and Just to show you, the standard of weight in the metric system

ist

+

Know, Sure?

Litre, meire; dram, kilogram; hectare. 13.-"A caboose," said Murgalroyd, sententious- ly, "a caboose is n

Atexican gaol; a cook's galley on a ship;

a tow drinking den; a gourd-produchig vine,'

14. If you were to arrange these cities in order of population the one at the bottom of the list would be:

Manchester; Sheweld; Cardif; Glasgow; Birmingham; Liverpool.

15. Talking about copyrights (were you?)-du you know the copyright of the Bible in England is held by:

The Oxford University Press; the Arch- bishop of Canterbury; the British Bible Society: King George VI; a curate in Chichester.

16. As a rule, sailors don't care-but they do

reckon it is bad luck for them to kill:

A sea-gull; a shark; a Rying fish; an albatross, a mermaid;

17.--Antimony Is:

capstan.

Maintenance for a divorced wife; a town

in Australia; a mineral; an ancient Greek

(Antimony and Cleopatra).

IB shouldn't wake it up-bul, after all, every-

one knows Al Capone Is serving on 11-years' prison sentence for.

Bootlegging: hijacking: being public enemy No. : evading income-far; man- slaughter; motor parking offence.

19. I've heard of people who don't even know

that an antipode fac

A many-tepped earth warm; a climbing plant; a cract opposite; a cure for poison Tantidepe).

what a

20It will be a help if you know lithograph Is otherwise you'll just be guessing that a lithograph is drawn on:

Paper wood; the table-cloth; plass;

ss: linoleum.

FLORC;

21. Hope you didn't forget to serut your me-in m-law a cable last week when the new chepp rates

In furre-well. knyway. The

with

the inventing generally credited Telegraph was:

rame

[11451 electric

Edison,

Wurlizer Stephenson; Bell;

Ford, Mr. Wynne Jones. Morac 22-Mention of Hitler reminds me that in Ger- many they call him the leader, and the word they use to mean lender is spelt:

ein

Pheurer; Feurer; Fewerer; Frenkrer; Fuehrer, Feuhrer.

23.The typhoon couldn't hurt us but pemmi-

A pun my word! Pemmin, of course, is:

A plant in the wilderness; o bird; a Red Indian Chief; dried meat; sples; a South Seas fruit,

curious

24. "You've been working hard, Johnny," said the teacher. "Have a speel. But it was no good Johnny couldn't plek out the word spelt wrongly

here

Dinghy; derelict; semaphore; perigrina- tion; idill

25. Pencils away--here's some mental arithmetic, If you travel and if you're mental, afl the better. 100 miles an hour you will travel one mile in: 1 minute; 40 seconds; 30 seconds; 36 seconds; 100 seconds; 11⁄2 minutes, (Solutions on Page Three)

WARREN'S New Showroom

is

now open

Diversions

It will turne upside down! In a postcard pricka

hole about the size of a pin-head. Hold the card about 3" from your eye and the pin-HEAD UPRIGHT- close to your eye. Move the

card about until the head of the pin appears UPSIDE-DOWN,

as shown in the inset.

"IF I were Sherlock Holmes, Dumbell," said Joshun Playfair to his sergeant, "1 could put up quite a good show with this envelope and its con- funts."

Air.

Dumbell was interested. "Yes,

What is it?"

"It's the latest of the threal- ening letters sent to Sir Hugo Chatlove.

"There's been, Sir Hugo tells us, quite a spale of them, and since he's a friend of the A.C.'s--and a sub- stantial taxpayer to boot-he thinks that the Yard ought thing about them."

to do somo-

THREATENING LETTER

The letter

true to type. It had been written in block cupitala un

Puzzle Corner

Cryptogram

Here's an item that should be to everyone's taste:

BAZ CIKL XYZAS

DEF XBDXZO-DGZZX, DBKX, DCHA, (EXXZA, NZXBXKEO, DJF BKQB- KEJZ, HX RKESCAD BICHIP EJ BKNCDX HJKENEXZP JHNIZAD.

Letter Changing

Here's an opportunity to take it cusy or is it? At any rate, try changing SPRY 10 LAZY la 7 moves. Follow the usual rules.

Find the Dimensions

A rectangular garden contains an sere, and the length of the rec- tangle exceeds the width by 2 rods. Find the dimensions of the garden.

art

As

Fun With Synonyms Here's another, shared by Osage City, Kansas, reader. first usual, the

word has been matched with ils correct synonym. Try linking the others:

Bourn

100

aujabakke

aparte

negieat

ohtes

5

gather

help

7.

employ

[8]

"contrest

OTITA

hire

9

Елеци

promote coltest

EIZ

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1938

Lino Cuts

Ploce 2letlers HEADS and

kfront of those

TAILS

gived and the

same 2, in the

WITH

STEL

API

REVERSE ORDER,

behind them to make a common g word in each case

RIND

Round the

World

Moving in any direction EXCEPT DIAGONALLY,

form the names of SEVEN 11A] countries in oxa con-

tinuous ling Every letter must be used

BUT HONE MORE THAN ONCE.

HERE IS AN ODD-SHAPED

PIECE OF CHECK LINOLEUM WHICH CAN BE 30 CUT AS

AT THE

G.PQ

I wish to lay 3 stamps from a shoot of each of thes having at least 1 complete SQUARE side joined to another of ROOM. the buQIN HOW MANY

·TOFITA

HOW

WOULD YOU

CUT IT?

DIFFERENT WAYS CAN IT BE

with &matches form ibis figure. How glastches position

(Solutions on Page Thres).

mom and add 1

DONE

spasto jorm 2 DIAMONDS

The Case Against Flynes

a cheap notepaper; its wording, if no fingerprints--other than Sir Hugo The stationery is un- in or the letter, tacking both Was picturesque,

Identifiable; a cheap braad obtain courtesy and in precision:

able anywhere. So la the Inis; I've THIS IS MY Last Warning had it analysed and it yields no CUR special characteristics. But the post- YOU UNSPEAKABLE

West Runbury: time 8.15 THE HUNDREDS YOU HAVE the letter was SWINDLED IF RESTITUTION posted, I believe," IS NOT MADE THIS MONTH Flynen on his YOU CAN CET READY TO station, CROSS THE STICKS

WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR mark is morning. And

posted in a hurry;

by Mr. Corbett way to Hedgeways The station is a mile from Mr. Flynes's house and be posses West Runbury post office on the

ONE WHO IS NOT AFRAID way." TO ACT.

"Flynes." said Dumbell. "Who is Mr. Flynes? And why was the let- "I'm," said Dumbell, when he ter posted in a hurry?" had perused this document. "Un- What are fliese friendly, isn't it?

SIR HUGO'S No. 1 SUSPECT

"One question at a time, my good references to swinding, sir?"

I'll tell you why the letter don't know," answered Play- Dumbell

an- was posted in a hurry. The stamp 12 fair. "Sir Hugo, naturally,

a company was stuck on hurriedly-you can see communicative. He's promoter; that's all I can tell you; that for yourself-und it had been and he's done rather better out of hurriedly torn off, too: before it was

You notice stuck on, 1 mean, his companies than some of those who've invested in them. Hence, as ragged edge? That means, I think, as I've sold-pupped Flynes-as I've thurt Mr. the poet says, these tears."

the letter into the West Runbury box "And this reference to crossing as he bolted for the London train. the sticks, sir? What's that? The As to who he is, he's Sir lugo's No. 1 suspect. An investor in the Chat- Grand National?"

Playfair laughed. "Tut, tut, Dum- love companies who lost a good bit bell. General Knowledge nought. of money and who's conceived a great The Slyx, my dear fellow, in a dislike for our titled financier.

river." He glanced vul of the win- duw. "Murkler even than our old friend Father Thames."

WHO IS MR. FLYNES?

Its

"I've had him here, Dumbell, and he agreed-under persuasion, you questions and to know to answer be searched. He's down below now. He told me quite frankly that he,

He had fallen into a reverie from came up from Hedgeways yesterday, which Dumbell recalled him with but he denies all knowledge of the

im through o I put him thr

sort of another of his questions. "What letters. about the envelope, sir? And what informal spelling-bee; he had no about the Sherlock Holmes touch? difficulty with unspeakable or resti- "Ah, yes," sold Playfair. "Here's tution, and he spells Styr the same the envelope. Perpend. There are way as Virgil does. So if he's a Chatlove's on either the envelope rogue, he's a cunning rogue. As for

Keep-Fit Calendar

Start with one cxerclac, and add DRC new one every day, until on the last day doing

you are

seven altogether. Copy what the little man in each picture is doing, and follow the instructions the side, c.p., 8-

means

12X1+

do the exercise elght to twelve times loft and right. (World copyright.)

9th week

Is the upper

figure smaller than the lower one:

by1E0

EPISODE 60° FROM INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR'S NOTEBOOK

the contents of his pockets, you'll find them on the table there."

Dumbell Inspected the exhibits. There was a watch and chain; keys; a fountain pen; a card-case; a wallet containing four pounds in notes, a book of stamps snapshot of a girl,

a season-ileket, Hedgeways to Victorin; 11s. Bd. in loose change; a pipe and tobaccopouch; an automatic lighter; and a half-consumed packet of chocolate.

and a

A PIPE OF TOBACCO "You might have let the poor devil "What's to smoke," said Dumbell.

from his

and pipe be deduced tobacco? Come to that, sir, you've nce, have you? Why are no evidence, you keeping the man at all?"

"I'm thinking things over," an- swered Playfair. "And I thought, you know, that I'd like a second opinion. I think we've got a case."

What in the evidence agathat

Solution on Next Page

Fiynes?

POEM

Bo Ktrong!

We are not here to play, to dream

to drift;

We have hard work to do, and loads

To lift;

Shun not the strumle-then it; 'tis

J

God's gift.

He strong)

Say not, The days are evil. Who's:

lo lame?"

And, fold the hands and acquiesce—

oh, shamel

Stand up, speak out, and bravely, In

God's name.

Be strongl

It matters not how deep intrenched

the wrong. How hard the battle goes, the day

how long

Faint not-fight and To-morrow coinon} the song.

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