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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, JULY, 10, 1948.

FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

SPORTS STORIES - PUZZLES - CRAFTS • GAMES • JOKES

TEE JOE FINDS A MER-DOG

T

BY LEE PRIESTLEY

"E JOE squeaked his toe through a golden bubble of rosin drawn from the. deck seams by the sun. "Look minute, once more. In just a when it gets quiet."

"It ain't gonna get quiet and I ; ain't got a minute." Bla Jog.jerked a thumb at the black-green clouds rolling up. "We got to take in the net." He grinned at Teo Joo then. "Sallora is always sec-in' Likely it was a mermald."

things.

In the trough between two waves it again! He opened his ho saw mouth to call Big Joe; then shut it again. His uncle wasn't a

TAT.

patient

bark with the boy, she began to shrilly. The high-pitched yapping socmed to bounce from the rolling water.

"Hush, Dog." Teo Joo said hope- lessly. "Don't be no cry-baby like mo,"

Then above the dog's barking he Heard the thumpa, thumpo, thumpa steadily growing louder. The Cur- When the ley had turned back!

with shrimper

surged alongside Philozle ready with the boat hook, Tea Joo stood up recklessly in the pitching skift.

"It wasn't a mermaid, Big Joe!" ho yelled. "Looky, it's a merdog!"

ATER,

when

the

spaniel

"The dark speck moved! Tee Joe Lcrambled up to the houseboat, politely wagging, Oran'mere patted her allky head. "If she ain't the lovin'est thing in this world!" she said in amazement,

had to see. His bare feet made no sound and hè untled the trailing skiff noiselessly. When he dropped over the waves looked twice as high as

When the rolling water swept the edge of, his boat,

he heaved with all his might,

they had from the shrimper's deck. He pulled hard at the little boat's

oars.

When the skiff slid down the green water slope he saw golden hair floating. Maybe it was mermaid! Tee Joe dug the port oar to come rolling water around. When the swept to the edge of the boat be heaved with all his might The skiff tipped dangerously, but with a drenching splash he got his aboard.

find

CHE lay panting, a huddle of soak- D red curls. With long cars And four feel! A clubby tail wagging feebly! Tee Joe couldn't have been more surprised if he had found a mermaid. Wait until Big Joe sees thist

But the shrimp boat was nearly out of sight. For over the water he' heard the engine begin, thumpa, thumpa. thumpa...The Curley was heading home. And likely Big Joe didn't know he wasn't aboard!

The dog got uncertainly to her feat then and licked his Angers. Sensing that everything was wrong

back.

Big Joe pushed his cap "Me. I thought I'd gone crazy, hearin' a dog bark 10 miles off shore. If she didn't turn herself inside out makin' noise, the both of them might be there yet. But not swimmin'!”

"She

must have fell overboard," "Gran'mere

"You ask surmised. around down at the store, Big Joc."

at

all well?" But Tee Joe was, gone, Mr Andrus stared out the door him tumbling into the pirogue.

Teo. Joo shot the narrow boat down the Channel. Ho hadn't real- ty heard! He wasn't going to give

up the mer-dog. Hadn't he her for That gave him rights?

the the

saved somo

Then he thought about the news- about paper. There was a big ad the lost spaniel right up on front page. Tee Joe twisted

them theets together and dropped

water. Thon ho Into the brown

a water bug, skimmed home like

barked The mer-dog bounced and on the font to welcome him,

GRAN MERE clicked her tongue

when he told her he had lost the paper. "Pshaw!" she said, "And I was readin' the story continue."

When the Curley Q camo thumpa, thumpa, thumpa down the channel Tec-Joe picked up the mer-dog, who licked his check. He handed her over the strip of water to Big Joe. "You take her down to the store, huh?"

Big Joe hesitated. "I heard on the radio there's a reward"

"You think I'd trade her off for money? If I didn't know how her folks must feel about losin' her-

•

Hbridge to

E turned and ran over the foot-

the chentere

and

ot

threw himself down on a pile moss Gran'pere had pulled from the big oaks. For a long time he could hear the mer-dog barking.

Tee Joe moped around after that until Gran'mero felt his head for a fever. Big Joe brought him a red banty rooster when he went to town, but Tec Joe didn't feel better even then.

One day Celestine Abshire paddled up to the landing on her way from the store. "The mail boat brung you a letter, Tee Joe," she called.

"For me?" Tee Joe had never had a letter in his life.

on

im-

Celestine wiped her red face ker apron. "I guarantee It's portant, foo. Mr Andrus sald you

should come sign your name."

Tee Joe skimmed the pirogue to the store fast as a put-put boat. Mr Andrus turned a book around so he could sign. Then he gave Teo Joe a long envelope.

The ABC's in Puzzle Verse

By LEWETTE BEAUCHAMP POLLOCK

In this rhymed alphabet, a dozen letters, are missing. Fill these in yourself, using the datted ......} #paces. A few letters may be order but that needn't out of their 'regular

verse and go bother you. Start with the B shead!)

First A of course. It's neatly bent To make a little pointed tent. What letter could the second B7 Just note this rhyme and you will. I like to keep the....quite near. It starts such lovely words

"dear."

F's just an....that lost its base. Now isn't this the saddest caso? Sir G's a very lordly letter, But I like gentle 3 much better.

AS

walks on stilts as best he can. He'd make a splendid ad-board

man.

Tall, slender....is always good. He stands up straight, as people

should.

It sometimes seems as if the K Gets down upon its knee to pray.

When visiting New York, it's well To see the city from the ". MNVW's steep sides

Would make quite perfect winter slides.

The letter....wherever found

Is always going round and round.

If meat's too costly, give mé, please, A nice big dish of fresh green....

The Q's amusing trick can't fail To please. He sits up on his tail! · You want to be a social star? Cheer up the corner where you.. To make an... takes lots of nerve. It has a very dangerous curve, There's nothing like a warm June day. "It suits me to a.....

U say.

I don't know....the criss-Cross .X. Is hard to rhyme. (I'm dumb, I 'specs.) Poor, crooked Z's an awkward chap. A child would slip right off his lap!

Imitation Firecracker Desk Set

By E. ANN BRUSH.

THIS

HIS gadget looks like a fire-

useful: cracker, but it is a ornament for a writing desk. The firecracker holds - sealing wax and the drawers hold extra matches and stamps.

The drawers are made of two safety match boxes, which are approximately two and one- fourth inches long and about an inch and a half wide.

Paste a strip of paper, over the top (to hide printed mut- ter), letting it go over one end of the box and under.. JOE turned the envelope, over and opened it. The cracking This will give you two closed paper sald something about a "Ken-ends that can be glued together nel Club." And there were names unlike any names Tec Joc had ever

TEE

heard. "Ch. Lady Brucle Beautiful; Ch. Golden Lad of Louisiana," and a lot more like that. And something "registering for Joseph about

authreaux, Tee Joe's Rescued Re- ward."

"I make more sense when you see what goes with the paper," Big Joe sald. From back of the counter he handed cut a slatted box, making little whimpering sounds and boune-

"Go on; it up the lid."

Curly ears Four feet with furry

for the Base.

For the firecracker, roll a pliable piece of cardboard four

and one-third of an inch wide (which will be the measure-

CAF A INSERT

ROLLED CARD- BOARD PAINTED R&D

FIRECRACKER-

MATCH

SET

23

ROLLED TUBE FOR MATCHES

MATCH BOX DRAWERS

ment for the height of the fire- cracker) and six inches long (to roll).

The Parrot Didn't Like Cages

-No One Could Get In; He Couldn't Get Out-

By MAX TRELL

rainy. Next day was cold and Gran'pere had a misery in his back, so he stayed beside the fire and let Teo Joe go alone to the store. When Gran'mere called "Tee Joe, you ask

Inte folks," about her

he made a

NTOW where 1 come from." the feathers merry Wagging tall! X N Par racket with the paddle in the bottom

was saying to the of the pirogue and pretended not to

not to golden puppy with ever like the annry, "we don't have any cager, I mer-dog's When Tee Joe lifted heren't the 5o of cages any- hear.

sho When he had paid for the coal off in his arms licked his cars way. All they do is to keep everyone. ond the sack of meal, Mr Andrus, happily.

1s0 from coming in." mer-dog's folks sent her." the postmaster-storekeeper, handed. Tee Joe Gran-mare's weekly news- Big Joe was almost too tickled

then

the paper. Just

of 010

talk. loungers around the store turned up

the radio.

The announcer's voice reared, "lost overboard before the storm. A reward is offered for this valu- able

Turn that down some!" Mr An- drus shouted. "Well, son, the folks

MENTAL GYMNASIUM

FLOWER REBUS

You'll find

four flowers here if

you use the words and pictures to #fhme them:

TAU THINKING OF GETTING

A LIGHT BLUE

DRESS NEXT TIME

JOHN

FLORAL DIAMOND

The PETUNIA forms the centre of our diamond. The second word · Is ""throught," the third "a flower part," the fifth a "Hindu queen," and the xixth *to prevaricate.” -

P

PETUNIA

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Our puzzle is on the sllhoucite of flower:

2

ACROSS

I Short sleep

4 Plural of our theme

Fur-bearing animal

7 Long fish

ANSWERS.

FLOWER" REBŪSI - Bluebellį Panty:

Tulips; Jonquil.

FLORAL DIAMOND1, .

РЕП

PETAL-

PETUNIA

RANE! LIK

› WORD MAMBLAGES: - Carpetten; Toz

'MIX-UPH| Zavender: Sarigold: Arbur

"To keep?".

to

"And they keep us from going ut." the Canary, added.

Knarf, the shadow-boy with the

Big Joe nodded. "Didn't you read | fürned-around nome, who camo Into on the paper? Her name's Teo Joe's Rescued Reward","

"No, sir!" Tee Joe said firmly, "She's not going to have a silly name like that. She's "Tee Joe's Mcr- Dogl

th

A Set of Puzzles About Flowers

DOWN

1 Memorandum

2 Star-like flowers

3 Pore

4 Universal language

5 Senior (Abbrev.)

WORD MARRIAGES

By marrying the two words you get when you solve each definition in cach line, you will have the name of a flower. (Hint: the answer to the first is "carnation.")

Sedan-Country

Animal-Hand covering Constellation-Replica Cornish mine-Boy's nicimame

MIX-UPS

By rearranging the strange words in each of the following lines, you will learn the names of three more Bowers:

VEND RALE O GLAD RIM

SUB A RUT

IF YOU'RE STUCK

INTAP

ROSE

ASTERO

OZ

he room at that moment, looked *m the Parrot to the Canary and hack again. "Were you two talking

each other?" he asked, "We were tolking about cages, answered the Parrot. "I don't like

them."

"Neither do I." said the Canary. I don't see what we can do "Only about getting out of them."

Knarf said: "You're both kept in cazes because the children don't want you to fly away. If you'd promise not to fly away, I'm sure no one would keep you in them at all."

Both Kept Silent

Knarf waited for either the Parrot or the Canary to promise. But they both kept silent.

Presently, the Parrot said: "I only wish I could fly back to the Junglo

T once more. I'd like to see all my old friends.

The parrot loved the jungle.

"Why was that?" asked Knarf "Because the trees were so thick. They grew close together. They had big leaves. And the branches all met together at the top. It was all closed in. It wasn't casy to fly around in! Oh no!"

The Parrot suddenly started laugh- ing, or rather cackling with laughter. though He cackled and cackled, as ho had thought of a joke.

"What's the matter? What are you laughing at?" Knarf sald.

Parrot kept right on

we used to What a wonderful time. But the

At this the Canary said: "My mother and father both came from the jungle, too. They used to me about it."

tell

"The jungle is far away from here," Knarf said, "I've never seen a real jungle. I've only seen ple tures of one, in a book,"

"It's beautiful," the Parrot suld. "We used to sit up in a tree and cail to one another. We'd call out at the top of our voices really scream, But we could hardly see, each other."

RED RYDER

BASI

cackling..

Then the Canary leaned out of his cage and chirped to Knarf, "I bet I know why Parrot's loughing,"

**Why 70

"Because, with the Jungla zo thick, and closed at the top, and so hard to fly around in, it was just like big cage!"

a

And the Parrot cackled: "Yes! Yes! Yes! That's it. Canary, just like a great big eagel Only—” and then he stopped cackling, *only it was a cogo out in the big wide world! And that's the difference."

with

Glue this well and bind string, leaving it unt the glue has set. When rolled, it should have openlag. seven-eights of an inch Now cut and fashion the small roll- ed length that goes inside the fire- cracker and this should be one and

and Jong IA smaller

a quarter inches orning so that it can be slipped in- side the firecracker. Then make the

and сар

(on inch

a quarter wide) Through this you push A double width of string, knot it underneath and let the two ends stick up but of the top. This cap to glued to rolled "insert."

the

When the glue has set. you will be able to take hold of the protrud- ing strings and pull out the capped insert.

The next step is to gluc your fire- cracker to one of the boxes. This, too must be allowed to stand until the glue has set.

Now make your matchstick, which is four inches long and one-fourth of an Inch wide across the opening.

By whittling a couple of matches wo forced two of them into the

Then opening.

the cardboard "match" was glued to the right- hand box and when this had been two allowed to set, we glued the boxes together.

Next to the last step of this hobby- gadget we took the matches out of the right-hand box and tied a small -ing to the “drawer" part of the set. Then we did the same thing

he left-hand box.

with

--Finally, we-painted the fire-cracker. bright red, the matches bright yel- low, and the two boxes, with the exception of the dark strips (which is the sulphur), light blue. Also, we painted Httle faces on the "fra- cracker" and "match," respectively.

If you're really going to use the celling wax and you're over 12, you undoubtedly know that it must bo done carefully. If you're under 12. we would urge you to led Dad or big brother show you how.

Rupert's Island Adventure-34

As the water near the tower is so smooth Rupert leans carefully over the side of the paper boat and paddles with his hands until he has moved away from the shelter of the island. Then the breeze catches him, but still things don't work out properly, The" boat starts, to spin round in slow circles, while a bird looks on curiously, know what's wrong." says Rupert. "It's no good having sails facing two ways. I'll fold one of them, down, into its groove." He does so and at once the boat sails 'straight.'

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· AND ROUND UP HALF A -DOZEN OF THE TOLICHEST GUN-HANDS-YOU KNOW?

PROMISE EN SHARES Y OKAY-

IN THE GOLD DIGGINS CRABROCK

IF THEY HELP US,AND

|COME BACK PRONTO,

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True Courtesy Leads To Popularity

COURTESY has roots in considera-

tlon. It makes

run

smoothly. It lubricates contacts with other people just as oil greases the gear of machinery, making them work. together: cnally, without friction.

entera into all human elationships and crentes a feeling of case, toleranco

and good will.

goda

Courtesy deeper than sur- face

politeness

springs from a sincere desire to make life hap- pler and easier. The fact that it also makes you

bou. it.

RIEND HIPS:

appler and more popular, builds up 1 more interesting and exciting life for you, is just an added value you gol.

Every really' great person, every- one in a high position, has an in- nate courtesy which reflects everything he or she says or does. It is one of their most important assets in their present position and it played an important role in ting them there. It takes more than brains and skill to be a truly worth- while person-lt fakes heart and soul. True courtesy is an expression of that heart and sout in you.

put-

Courtesy in De important to your present as to your future, for the courteous person is a well-liked per-. sot. The well-liked person is apt to be chosen captain of the ball team, president of the club, a leader in school and church sclivities.

Fascinating Game Of "Contact"

You

CONTACT", PUZZLE GAME

XSTART

GTART

By WALTER KING

can spend some busy hours making this puzzle game and then you will have a new toy with which to entertain your friends.

The playing field may be cut from 1 plece of this plywood, but heavy ardboard will do. Follow the pat-

In ern shown in the diagram;) Jay- ng out the field.

You will sca there are 100 on

and

'nch squares, 36 "contact" places

marked by small circles,

trails" Joining the contact

-80

spots.

The squares are solely for the pur- ose of helping you lay out the laying field. You will and it best 'o do the whole plan in pencil first, ind then mark on the contacts and trails permanently with India ink or You will require To play the game, you only two markers of colour. The starting places of each are shown by the double circles at the

crayon.

0.

a diferent

Buttons will do. nicely.

top right hand and bottom left hand

Corners.

Moving in turn from one circle to another, the idea is to "mako con- tact" with your opponent. This is not so easy as it sounds or looks be- cause he will manoeuvre around in the hope of slinking in behind you and making contact himself. The first one to contact the other s the winner of that round. In other words, you must try to corner your opponent so that. you "capture" or "contact" him on your next move.

It is

necessary to many

rounds

be played to de- termine a winner. scoring in as

in as follows: Win a con- tact in 29 moves, score one point; 28 moves, two points: 21 moves, thres points; and so on. Make your own chart, but you stop at nine because It is impossible to make a contact under. nine moves.

decide how

method

will

Tho

of

You will And this a fast hating new game for the days when the weather keeps you indoors,

By Fred Harman

DO YOU THINK THEM REDSKINS LL WE'LL BE

ATTACK?

YES,BUT.

READY FOR TEMA