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Versart

HERE'S

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1048.

FULL-BAGE. FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY,

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

By Lowotto B. Pollock

a game for you and your friends to try. Scribble lines on paper like the examples below and write littlo Jingles to fit them. See who can make the funniest. If you're 'n good "versartist" you can get some weird results.

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Adom and Madam (Eve, I believe).

He can't say:

"Going my way?"

if it could squirm *Twould be a work,

'Gator

On Escalator.

The Sparrow's Wild Notions.

-He Had Funny Ideas of Where to Build-

By MAX TRELL CHIRPIE Sparrow came to the

window sill for his bread- crumbs. Then Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with tho turned-around names, ame to wish him good-breakfast, and ho said: "Thero's a question I'd like to ask you two.. I need some advice. Perhaps you can give it to me."

So Knarf and Hanid bath prompt- ly asked him what It was he wanted to know, and what kind of advice did he want them to give him.

Ato Several Crumbs

5.5

The duck told Chirple to build on

the ground.

Chirpic ato several more crumbs. Then he said: "Spring is here und it's high time I started building a

"And as for living in the steeple nest. Now where should build it? Should I build it on the ground in a

of the Old Church in the middle of thicket? Should I build it between Town," said Hanid, “who advised two loose bricks in the chimney of the house? Or should I bulld i in the steeple of the Old Church in the middle of Town?"

For a moment Knarf and Hanid. remained silent, for to give a spar- row advice on where to build a nest wasn't the easiest thing in the world to do. But finally Honld said: "Why should you want to build a nest on the ground?"

"Because my friends the Ducks advise it," answered Chirpie. "They say that u nest on the ground can never fail down no matter how hard the wind may blow."

"Yes," said Hanid, "but the cat can find it with no trouble at all. A nest on the ground isn't good next for you".

"Hmm, you're right." agreed Chirple Sparrow, swallowing on- other crumb.

Coxy As A Bed

"And why?" asked Knarf; "why do you want to build your nest be- tween two loose bricks in the chim- ney?"

"Because," answered Chirple, "the Swallows say I should. They say a nest in a chimney is as cozy as a bed near the furnace."

"Yes, but think of all the smoke: and soot that come out of the chim- ney and soil your nest. Your little sparrow-babies won't like a chim- ney-nest, even though the swallow- babies may!"'

"H'mm," said Chirpie Sparrow for the second time. "I never thought of it that way." And he swallowed

another crumb.

Rupert's Island Adventure-16

that?"

"My friends the Pigeons. They wouldn't live anywhere else."

"The sleeple of the Old Church is too high for you to fly to," sald Knarf.

"You'd get so fred flying up, you'd never want to fly down," said Hanid. "The steeple of the Old Church is wonderful_for_pigeons but It's not for sparrows."

*Then," sold Chirple Sparrow. eyeing the last crumb on the window sili, "where should 1 build my nest?"

"There's one place," said Kharf, "that you didnt even mention:"

"Is there? What is it?"

SPORTS - STORIES - PUZZLES » CRAFTS • GAMES . JOKES

DAWN RIDE

JONY STRIKE swung into the big screened porch where his cousin, Vic Kinnebrew, sat leisurely fan- ning himself. .

"Vic," said Tony, his aun- browned Texan face registering pleasure-plus, "I have a date to go horseback riding tomorrow with Addle Lucien."

"Horseback?" Vic echoed. Ho stopped fanning himself and his thin face took on a vague expres- Blon. "I say, old chap, this is South Africa, you know."

"So what?" Tony retorted, fling- ing himself in a chair and sprawling there, legs apart. "If I can ridë horses in Texas, I can ride 'em in South Africa.

"But the Luelens have no horses," Vle stated simply. "They own an

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YOUNG IDEAS

JUNE MAY

HE nigtall crowd has a new game called, "Flying Saucers" disc rolling to you. A wooden disc, Le about six inches wide, must whittled from a discarded Cuver. The trick is to see who can roll it the straightest and farthest. To uda

few handicaps,

haff scatter a dozen tin cans along the course. If the disc touches a can, five points

Inken

points off. Twenty

are

is the secre for a straight distance throw and the scorer reaching 100 Arst wins.

A term often heard around the is "Barbell Training." It is Hym nothing new. Barbell Training has been practised for centuries and, at the

present time, is enjoying a revival among screen celebrities and professional athletes. "Weight lift- ing" is the name the amateurs use.

In the amateur class aro many leeners who are taking up it up and-Jerk to gain poise, balance, and perfect body building.

Something has been added to kite flying. It's the "Whirlwing Flier" from California, looking like a big spool looping through unbelievable acroballes and often rising to a height of 1,000 feet. This newly patented kite is

t is an irregular-shaped airfoil wing fastened between two discs, the wing starting to rotate when it hits a wind current. Two threads tied to opposite ends of a control stick direct the tall-less kite on its sky Journeys. The stick is held in the hand of the operator.

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Instead of two pockets on those ice cream coloured cottons, stilch two bows of white organdy. Add a Gibson Girl collar_of_the_ same material, and even an old dress will have a mint-fresh summertime touch.

Harry J. Warner writes: "Not many people know that the

ostrich farm. That's what Addie excels at-riding ostriches."

Tony mat up suddenly. erect, "Is an ostrich ride what she meant by her early morning invitation?"

Vic shrugged his slim shoulders. "It might be a bit of a lark, Tony. You have been twitting the girls about their lack of exercise, you know, Steer clear of those Lucien ostriches at any rate. They're af- fectionate

biris па for us their owners are concerned, but they'l strike at a stranger

and trample him to a bloody mess."

"Quite a sense of humour Addle has," Tony sald soberly.

OR a moment then he was silent. Maybe, he decided, he brought this on himself. Ever since he had arrived in South Africa, two weeks ngo, he had boasted about his riding ability to the young crowd here at Durban.

He had bragged at great length too about his Dad's ranch in Texas, forgetting that South African boys and girls had plenty to boast about themselves.

Why don't you excuse yourself now?" Vic persisted.

Tony shook his dark head stub. bornly. "Not me. I might show Addio a trick to surprise her."

"What aro you going to do?" Vie demanded, scowling worriedly. He was eighteen.* two ( years older

By I. R. Hegel

brightness and Tony Inched closer to the wall He scaled it easily enough and swung himself up on the broad top railing. Then he glanced

below.

A magnificent cock of oxirnar- dinary black and white beauty was

deckled.

calmly strutting about the hard earth of the enclosure. If that ostrich comes a little

little closer, I'll jump down on his back and ride 'im cowboy, Tony

He held his breath

cock strutted expectantly. The nearer the wall, Tony leaned for- word, his muscular

body for the leap. poised

Just then the cock looked up emitting a deep rumbling sound like the roar of a lion. His neck, hend and bill turned fire red while the 300-pound body came charging full force at the wall. Then the

young

bird leoped and Tony's heart pounded. His perspiring hands be- gan slipping. Another leap and the red henk shot out to stab at his boot. Tony jerked back, fell and landed with a thud.

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"WELL, Tony Strike!" a familiar

voice declared and Tony, open- ing dazed eyes, roused himself from the heap of dusty sand into which he had fallen. Bending over him in a spotless while riding habit was Addio Luefen. Two black, grinning serv servants flanked her side.

"In case you're

than his cousin, and not so tem- you are, it's the ondering where

pestuous.

had

his

Tony chuckled, rose and thrust his hands in the pockets white trople sharis.

of

bet

"You'll see," he promised. "Don't figure on getting the ter of an ostrich," Vie called after him. "Remember what I said- he's a vicious fellow."

I've broken vicious horses, Tony

side of the Addle pen,"

continued, "It you fallen inside, you'd be a pretty That's a sorry sight by this time. brooding pan, Tony Strike, and the hen is sitting on her eggs. I was in the stable and when I heard the commotion I came running."

Tony got up, aware that he was dirty from head to foot, that his shirt was ripped and that he was mighty

thought, marching through the long, sorry-looking. He lowered his head

dim corridor to his quarters. It will inke more than an ostrich to get me down. He smiled wryly. What a joke on Addle to have her come to the paddock tomorrow morning and find him riding one of her precious birds! He'd do just that. ife'd show her how a Toxan did things.

IN the thick frople blackness that preceded the sudden dawn the next morning, Tony rose and dressed in cowboy clothes he had brought from Texas,

as the giggling servants retreated.

"I thought you wanted me to ride one of your ostriches this morning I decided I'd learn how to Addle.

do the job before you started laughing at me."

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"WH

KITCHEN KAPER

BY E. ANN DRUSH - WHAT'S this?" asks the cheerful breakfast egg. "A romance between the salt-dog and the pepper-pelican? My, my! I'm beginning to feel like a lonely old ecig,'

This, of course, is just a bit of nonsense, but we got to thinking that if an artist can put together some fruit and bric-a-brac and call it a "Still Life," we could do the same with some kitchen parapherna- Ja.

Now let's see what sort of a "s tili life" you can arrange with this, that and the other taken from your kitchen shelves and cupboards. But, with Mother's permission and a promise not to touch her best dishes.

Peacock Not Proud, Just Well-balanced

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BY KATHERINE HOUISON

WHEN you a peacock strutting around in a zoo or pompous drum- park liko n. major you will probably remem- ber the old simile: Proud ng a

peacock.

That strut is not caused by pride in the gorgeous fan of

beautiful tall feathers the pea cock can unfurl whenever he feels inclined. It is balance!

His body is so small in compari-. son with that marvellous tall, he has to strut to keep himself right side

plumes Even when his

up.

Even hla gorgeous colouring is not a matter of pride, but of safety. The peacock is a bird of the tropics, where the vegetation is as brilliant as his plumage colouring is necessary out of danger.

and' protective to keep him

The peacock might be proud of his ancient lineage, for he can trace his history back to the days of the Roman goddess June and the Greek goddess Hora, who both held him in high esteem, Aristotle accuses him of all sorts of crazy

stunts, even to tearing the roofs off houses! Credit for introducing the bird to Europe goes to Alexander the Great and history anys that during the Middle Ages peacocks were roasted and served, in all their gorgeous

He looked up then to meet Addie's heavy enough to over-balance him plumage, at stately dinners of that

calm gray eyes.

never

Peacock tongues were a great one. Many one.

young

oung knights in those dayR

Look

Tho

Vow of the Peucock." by eating a plece of roast pencock meat and then, with their hand held over the platter contain- Ing the bird, pledging themselves to perform some deed of valour.

There was an ancient belief that peacock feathers were unlucky-- some people still feel that way! Dr William Beebe, famous naturalist and scientist, thinks this origina in the old legend that the

We never Invite guests to our if he does not watch his step. In icacy and definitely an expensive plantation to laugh at them," she fact, he has to strut in order to walk said. "I invited you because Dad- at all! dy bought a pair of riding. horses

We've yesterday.

ownerl horses and since you talked so much He knew the way to the Lucien about your Texas ranch, I knew you place. Once he had been there on would make a Arst-rate Instructor. a party with Vle, and a second time I've never been on a horse and he had accompanied Addic home I wouldn't mount one unless I were from a golf tournament. The home- shown how first." slead, half a mile from the Kinne-

"Don't rub

it in." brew plantation,

typical WDS 11 South African farm with a low shaking off the dust.

malo building of white lesson. But I'm not giving up. rambling

side by still want to ride an ostrich stone, flanked on either

Addie was smiling. "If you teach dividing fields and high mud walls.

Carefully keeping away from the me to ride a horse, Tony, I'll teach Is it a bar- house, Tony crept through the dry you to ride an ostrich,

out a sim grass to the first dividing field. No gain?" She stretched one was up yet, not even the native gloved hand. servants. Down came like the quick Tony grasped it in his dust-stained raising of a dark curtain upon vivid paw. "You bet!" he said humbly.

Tony rose, "I've had my

I

MENTAL GYMNASIUM

world record for speed skating on Follow Directions rollers a faster than Ice, The

"A tree!" cried Knurt and Hanidamateur roller record for one mile In This Wacky

together.

And Chilrple Sparrow was so sur- prised for a moment that he almost toppled off the window sill. But he quickly caught himself, and anid thank-you for reminding him about trees, and started to fly off to begin building his nest at once and then he suddenly remembered about the Inst crumb, and hurriedly swallowed It, and flew straight to the elm tree at the foot of the garden.

two Compass Puzzle

is two minutes, 34 2/3 seconds. For professional rollers, it is minutes, 32 seconds. These records were made way back in 1909. Any body with energy to burn should try to lower this record.”

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The pigialiers are sewing charms about the cuffs of their socks just as they used to rew charms their beanies. It looks cute.

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on the peacock plumes were the eyes of the seven deadly sins and that these ains would haunt the owners of the plumes,

Many people believe, when the peacock spreads his tall, it la an unmistakable

of sign

an carly spring,

Give Your Brains a Workout With These Sharp Puzzlers

Page

the Dictionary!

This Crossword Puzzle Missing words in the following Has Some Tough Spots

sentence sound alike, but are spell- ed differently:

The truck farmers sirove to

each other to market with their———

crops.

Scramble

SCRAMBLER

1 Rabbit

DOWN

2 Russian river

3 Musical note

4 Endures

5 Vegetable

6 Chaldean city'

15

14

7 Get up

8 Pillars

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13 Fruits

16 Mimic

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circuit

15

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a race course and havo a high mountain; re- scramble and have a chum.

THE ANSWERS-MUSTN'T PEEK!

Crossword puzzle answer.

PURL

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WACKY COMPASS—Don't Judzo

a book by its cover.

HOMONYM-Beat, heet.

SCRAMBLER—Lap, Alp, pal.

WORD DIAMOND:

W PHO

PLEAT

TREATED

ΟΛΤΕΝ

1 Toss

ACROSS

& Knitting ferm

@ Space

10 Silkworm 11 Sun god

12 Mineral spring 14 Street (abbrev.)

13 Fuff up

17 Romon bronze

18 Sacred song

20 Beforo

22 Drive off

25 International language 20.Snaico

27 Virginia (abbrev.)

28 Grupo refuse

30 Paradiso

28

17 Ampero (abbrev.)

10 Victim of leprosy

20 Girl's name

21 Low-grade sheepskin

23 Nights before

24 Narrow way

20 High card

29 Right (abbrev.)

31 Accomplish

WORD DIAMOND

no

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Scorbo.

RED

RYDER

WHATS THE MATTER?

INDIANS SCARE-UM ME RED RYDERY

BUT WAIT..m THEY FRIENDLY”

At length the dwarf takes the twD little pale up the dark stairway. through a doorway, and a strange aight meets their eyes. The old professor standing at the handle of a queer machine which is making hissing; noise and spraying some- thing on to what looks like an end. less piece of paper: running over Tollers thought you said wa were to help him to build some- thing,” exclaimă, Rupert:**** White ever is he doinst there ?**At the sound of voiced the old man tuma and smiles chestfully.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVAD.

IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT FOR EVERY SPECIES

OF INSECT KNOWN TO SCIENCE, THERE ARE ÁT

· LEAST TWENTY MORE THAT ARE UNCLASSIFIED AS YET,475,000 SPECIES ARE KNOWN TO SCIENCE..

IN AUSTRALIA ABANDICOOT IS CALLED A BROGER AND RELATED TO THE KANGAROO. IN INDIA A LARDB RAT IS CALLED A BANDICOOTË:

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32 Poker plako

33 Flower

Out of the Past

BOILING MADZ

ME LONG

RED

YOU LOOK FAM NAMES AREN'T, WHER

I SEEN YOU DES

YOU REMEM LOST BADIN,

By Fred Hurman

OVERTHROW EVIL WHITE MAN. PINIC CLOUD, WHO RULE

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