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SATURDAY

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AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

BOYS' AND

He was as big as a teacup and his face was almost human.

ANDY AND THE AMBITIOUS

A

he

3 Andy walked between the maple tree and line bushes

became en- tangled in a spider web, not an ordinary web, but one whose silken strands held him like cables. He fought the thrends in panic.

"Humph!" came a voice he-

SPORTS . STORIES - PUZZLES - CRAFTS. GAMES - JOKES

"He studied engineering all win- tor." the magician's voice WAS gloomy.

The nylon cable stopped swinging to make a shining loop across tho blue sky. High on the lower Andy saw a moving speck as the spider began to run out his cross web at incredible speed.

"We've got to do something!" Han- zan Ben Wize walled.

ed.

"I could shoot him." Andy offer-

Oh, no, I'm fond of him. He'a rently a good spider-just too ambi tious. Let's try to talk him out of this ransom nonsense," the magician sald.

Andy didn't see how the spider's

could plan

fail. The towering strands were almost invisible in the morning sunlight and the plot wouldn't sco them until too late. And without wings no one could

reach the anchor cable of the top of the maple tree. Andy shielded" his eyes against the burning rays of the sun.

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"It'll burn!", Andy shouted. "We can melt that nylon cable)"

Hassan Ben Wize shrugged his shoulders. "How? I can't send magic fire that far."

Andy reached for the runaway planet and pulled it loose from the bubble gum on the magician's hat. He caught the rays of the sun on its

SPIDER

By Lee Priestley

face was almost human. He even had a moustache which he twirled with a foreleg.

"Ah! There you are, Legs!"* claimed Hassan.

"A falking spideri" This side him. "It's that ambitious aimest too much for Andy in spider again! I see he's been day. working here!"

bright-surface. Then he directed the beam at the nylon cable that held the spider's webf He could see

the wisp of smoke when he heard ex- approaching roar of the big plane. "Hurry! Hurry!" Hassan Ben Wize was hopped up and down excitedly.

onc

"Not only do I talk, but I have a genius IQ," Legs announced, with a smirk. "I've read all of Hassan's industrial ebemistry

That books.

Beside him stood a man in a black robe, decorated with twinkling stars and moons: He was how 1 learned the formula for started pulling at the elastic nylon."

cords which held Andy prisoner. "And you spin nylon webs?" Andy He jerked so violently that his was wondering if he had lost his tall pointed cap slipped to one sanity.

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Andy plucked another star from the maglelan's robe and handed it to him. "Get It focused on that cable, quick!" he shouted.

The roar of the motors grew louder but the smoke was growing. too. Seconds before the eastbound plane flew. safely over, the gleam- ing cable melted and the spider's web tumbled to the ground,

side and u amall planet flew off "You shouldi know, I almost Abres which had cushioned his and began to circle in an orbit caught you in one," the spider leer- around his head. But finally ed. The spider shifted n Andy's arm was free, then leg and at last Andy was out of the snare,

iL

a

portable tank he carried on his bacic and

hose tucked its nozzled

under

could foreleg. "If I were bigger I spin a web strong enough to catch the moon"

"Who are you?" Andy asked,

The spider manipulated the con- panting and staring at his visitor, while the curiously trols on the tank and a thin filament dressed stranger replaced the squirted from the nozzle of the hose planet on his hat and anchored with a hissing sound. Legs began to weave rapidly with six legs while It there with bubble gum.

standing on iwo. The nylon grew "Hassan Ben Wize is the into a gleaming cable. "name, me-lad-l-the-man--re-

plied. I'm dabble in science. But I've no time for chit-chat. My stars and constellations! Where

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THE spider sat up in the tangled fall. You win, boys," he said, tip- his forchend. ing a foreleg from "No hard feelings. Next time I'll make It."

must “Why

you be

4 plane asked. "Don't you pirate?" Andy know crime doesn't pay?" He began to understand how the magician felt nbout the spider. Legs was a like- able scamp.

"Sure," sald the spider, "but I'm ambitious. I want to make a lot of money and wield a lot of power. I'll consider any suggestions."

sales

"Why don't you go into manufac- turing?" Andy suggested. "You "I'll catch an aeroplane!" he could get rich and powerful spinning magician-I chuckled. "I'll hold the passengers for nylon into stockings for ladies, Has-

ransom and use the money to buy son Ben Wize could be your

manager." vitamins to grow biggerf Then I'll The spider considered the plan, catch more planes and get more stroking his moustache thoughtfully is money to buy more vitamins to grow with a middle leg.

Andy poked Hassan Beri Wize. bigger and catch more planes-"

"It'd be a good

opportunity," he can whispered. "Promise Legs he be vice president-in-charge-of- production."

that Ambitious Spider!"

He reached out to attach a loop "Ambitious Spider?" Andy scratched his head. Suddenly of nylon to the anchor cable. there was a violent shaking of

"What am I going to do?" Hassan

the leafy branches of the lilac Ben Wize walled. bushes.

came

a

"Who-who-who would think I'd get caught in a fly trap at mournful my age?" voice. ----Hassan Ben Wize parted the branches. "Hootl," he said, "I told you to stay home!"

"Who-who-who's going to get me out so I can get home, Mas- ter ?"

you

I'll

"You're a magician. Can't enchant him?" Andy asked in whisper. "Change him into a spider

yt Or a spider monkey!” The maglelan whispered, too, "I daren't try. Lege is a genius. knows as much magic as I do." He tenned closer to Andy. "In fact, I'm afraid he knows more!"

The spider leaned on one elbow dreamily. "Legs covers legs with enchantment! A good slogan, chỉ have an office with six tele- phones and two secretaries!"

Hassan waved his hand, In Instant. Hassan. Hooll and Legs seemed to grow very small. Final- ly they disappeared altogether and Andy returned to the house. His mother was there.

an

"Andy," she said, "who brought this package to the door just now?"

"I didn't see anyone, mother," Andy replied quite truthfully, even If he did fall to mention that he'd

a funny-looking gent named Hassan Ben Wize.

E spider climbed the maple tree been talking to an owl, a spider and with all his spinning legs hold- ing great loops of nylon. Watch! Bet you can't do this!" he called and a leaped oft into the

Andy's sky. Swinging In the bushes Andy saw big gray owl struggling in at the end of his anchor rope

mother opened

the

he package. She drew forth six pairs flew in a wider and wider are. Andy of beautiful nylon stockings. another of the shining webs. and the magiclan shuded their eyes Quickly Andy reached in and by to watch him. wrenching, pulling and

cut.

"Oh!" she said. "They're

won- derful!" She searched the box. "Maybe he won't make it." Andy · "That's strangol No name or any- wonder who sent them!"

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ting the atrands with his pocket sald hopefully as the spider swung thing inside. knife, he freed the big bird. toward a toll radio tower. Hooti flow down to perch on

Ilassan's shoulder.

"Now," said Hassan, "what's to be done about Legs? I can't spend all my time rescuing people and poultry from his webs-I've got. 40 rush orders for magic spells."

"Logs 7" Andy asked, examining the web. It wasn't like an ordinary spider's web.

"Legs in the spider's name," Hooti said.

"A talking owl, a man in a masquerade costume and a- spider's web.that looks like..

"it not only looks like it' but It is pure nylon, sonny," carne a voice. with a wicked chuckle in it from the maple tree.

NDY looked up. Dropping from a limb on the end of one of the Birands of wab was a large spider. He was as big as a teacup and his

IT PAYS TO BE TRUSTWORTHY

ALL of us want to have people trust us, call

us dependable and trustworthy, What mest of us often forget is that we can't expect others to trust us, unless we have FIRST proved that we are worthy.

This is particularly true of school work. If you have done a worthy Job of studying you'll be trusted with a new grade and new studles. If you've skipped' classes or study periods, don't be 'surprised.If you are not so trusted,

The rule also applies at home. You want Mother and Dad to trust you in certain things, to go, to town for shopping. to drive the car, or to use expansive tools, Unless you have already extablished in small ways that you are worthy of being trusled, you won't find yourself getting what you want in big- ger things.

Do the small, everyday things to the best of your ablilty. Don't shirk, or try to get by with a poor job. Do overyihing you possibly can to show prople that you are, dependable, that you understand the need to be worthy if you want them to trust. you.

No matter where you 'are, or who you are, you'll find you --receive-big, dividends of popularity, happiness and ruvoess ‘if

'you, prove, to 'gthers that you are trustworthy.

BOY HERO

FENY

SAVES FAMILY AND DOG-Johnny Sharp, aged 15, holds his pet, Jay Jay, after saving his sister, her husband and the dog from a gas-filled Philadelphia home. Johnny dragged Mr and Mrs RichardHull to safely, then went back for his dog.

PUZZLE

-1- COMPASS PUZZLER

N

START AT

(EAST" AND TAKE EVERY THIRD LETTER? YOU DECIDE IN

W

WHICH-DIRECTION)

TO DECIPHER A SENTENCE ABOUT

LEAP YEAR

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WARPLANE PUZZLE

Can you name a warplane for each of the following:

A bird? A make? A horse? A tropical storm?

WORD SQUARE Rearrange the letters in each raw to form a good word, then rearrange the rows of words to form a perfect word square:

IDAR

EINTE

RA

CORNER

Ą

SCRAMBLER

Scramble to get up and have to lift, re-scramble and have a cara- vansary.

سب است

our

WORD DIAMOND

TERRACE is the centre of diamond. The second word is "an English river," the third "n Libyan seaport," the fifth "to make into Inw and the sixth "to perform."

TERRACE

TERRACE.

ANSWERS

Elephants Need Peanuts Like You Need Vitamins

By KATHERINE HOUISON

WHEN the clephant atretches shoulder, and weighing_FIVE his hardy trunk for peanuts TONS! Yet he moves with he's reaching for something more Instinct tells him is essential to his health and fitness.

This was brought out forcibly in the case of the Bertram Mills Circus elephants during the war.

ouse and agility than

smaller animals. Ho many loves to swim and often, all you can seo is the end of his trunk sticking up like a periscope.

Baby elephants weigh anywhere from 160 to 200 pounds and have possession of all their facilliles when It takes them 15 of they are born. their usual 75 years to grow tall and strong enough to work or carry man.

-Anyand

has who

watched

realises

elephants work or perform their intelligence ranks high. An- other proof of this is their willing- ness to let keepers, or trainers take sickness hit over when pain and

their huge boules.

SEEKS MAN TO

RELIEVE PAIN

where tho

dose of

mon in According to elephant England had not peanuts for 2001 and circuses, an elephant with a toothache will actually irumpet for people, let alone for animals, his keeper, then put his trunkt Into and the six circus elephants his mouth to show him soon had trunks so sore and stiff trouble 18. they could not feed them-

Immense an It takes selves. Sclontists called the anacathotle to put the animal into allow trouble "fibroitis* and tried the dreamy-dazo which will electro-therapy. This helped, the "dentist" to work. With the blocked with 0 local but did not cure. It took bales tooth

anaesthelle the veterinarian and his of peanuts with their fibrous assistants clamp forceps on the tooth husks, sent by the United and work until they finally unsent States after newspapers printed the aching tooth. the sad story, to get the trunks into operation again.

Cenzu

The elephant must have a of gratitude, as well as intelligence,

The elephant is the largest for he has been known, to trumpet dentist his thanks whenever the of the land animals, standing came near, even weeks after the cight to 10 feet tall at the operation took place.

February's a Short Month

-It Has a Good Reason Not to be Longer-

BY MAX TRELL

"FEBRUARY," said Mr Punch

to Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turn-

Here are the answers, printed up-ed-about numes, "is the shortest

side down:

15

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JOVAN BOVUURL

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month in the year."

"Why is that, Mr Punch?" Baked Hanid.

"Melnly, my dear, because no one wants it to be any longer. It's not a very cheerful month. When it isn't raining, it's cloudy. And when it isn't cloudy, the wind is blowing. And when the wind isn't blowing, its foggy. And when it isn't fuggy, wind isn't blowing, and *Dust and the (Buzzenpl—equiŃ____thoro-are.no.clouds in the sky, and it

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ex do isn't raining-why then

Lep vaxa un voy dininə, t

By Calvin Fader

With crayons or water colours fill in the white spaces in which letters occur. Paint the squares according to the letters, R is for Red; O for. Orange; Y for Yellow; G for Green; B for Blue. Remember, don't colour the spaces in

which there are no letters.

RED

RYDER

SO LONG, Y HAPPY NEW YEAR, MY

DONNA! EYE' AND THE SAME HAPPY NEW

YEAR!

"O YOU, OLD

"TIMER'

the run

comes out, and everyone looks up and shakes his head, and anys: 'How strange! This isn't at all like February!' But just the same," Mr. Punch added, "I like February." Knarf and Hanid asked why.

An Odd Month

"Well," cald Mr. Punch, "it's such an odd little month. It's like a puppy that isn't as big as the rest of the puppies. And it tries and tries no hard to pretend to be big, like the rest of the months, All the other months have thirty and thirty-opp days. Eut poor little February only has twenty-eight."

when it "Except on Leap Year has one day more," Hand inter-

·rupted to say.

one

"Yes," said Mr. Punch, "but even with

day more-oven with twenty-nine days-February is still the shortest of all the months. 1t comes in It looks around-then, pouf, it's out again. I feel sorry for it. I don't blame it bit for being so cross and bad-weathered. There's something I'd like to do for February. And perhaps, one of these days, I'll really do iL"

What to Do

Knarf asked Mr. Punch what he wanted to do with February.

"Why," he said, "I'd just change: its place. Instead of having it come right after January, I'd put it be tween April and May. And then, exclaimed Mr. Punch, "what a dit- ference there'd bol. The sun would shino all through its days. The flowers would grow in February.

Disgusted

WHEN I WORKED IN A GAMBLIN HALL I GOT "PAID IN GOLD DUST?

NOW I STAND BEHIND A COUNTER ALL DAY AND GET A NICKEL FOR A SACK OF TOBACCO

FEBRUARS

February took one look around and was gone before anyone realized it,

The birds would sing. People would look up into the sky and see the sun smiling down on them, and everyone would say: 'What a beautiful month this February is! It's short, but how sweat, how very, very sweet Yes, my dears, that's what I'd do with poor little February

Knarf and Hand thought that was such a wonderful idea that they were puzzled that no one nad ever thought of doing it before.

Rupert helps Dr. Lion-8

Heating his name called, the old man tume and peers at, Rupert, "Oh, plesse, could you help Dr. Lion? saya the little bear, "He wants some more sunshine to cure all the sick people in Nutwood. You are so eld and wise. Can you tell him how to get it?" Gaffer Jargo staren. Whatever win 'eo be askin' next, young Rupert?" há gaps. "Never have I heard such a queason. I wish you'd ask_some- thing easy for change" Rupert waits in anxiety while Gaffer frowns and tries to find an answer,

ALL RIGHTS AESERVED,

BY FRED HARMAN

ONE RESOLUTION I'M KEEPIN' THIS TEAR 15 TO CHANGE MY WAY OʻLIFE”.

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE~"

AND IT CANM BE

WORSE?