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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1948.

FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

SPORTS. STORIES PUZZLES. CRAFTS. GAMES

•

JOKES

A SHORT STORY

Denny Unravels a Fire Bug Mystery

HE

"There's the Yates boy now!" exclaimed the policeman.

Dsweeping the list shay- & sexcontt time

GARRISON was caught me by the fire alarm box

Denny wrinkled his nose. don't get it.'

"I

•

• BY 1. R. HEGEL

Into the sunlight of the late after- noon. A police car, the fire chief's and a fro appliance were coupe assembled at the corner of Arch- wood Drive and Maple Road, directly across from the alarm box in the centre of the pavement,

of onlookers had

small

group

"

Housewives of Insect World Never Worry About The Menú

By ANNA H, SCHOONMAKER A

gathered, too. AB the boys - WHILE humans fret and fume

proached, Mulligon, the policeman, pointed at them and exclaimed: "There's the Yates boy now." Cori hesitated but Denny pulled him forward to the comer.

to

about the high cost of living, and housewives every- where wonder what on earth dinner to- prepare for night, millions of tiny citizens "Chrl was with me until four

us are quietly a'clock, Mr Mulligan," Denny an-around about nounced. "We were working on a laughing up their antennae. model plane in my basement.”

Smacking their mandibles in "So?" OMeer Mulligan exclaimed anticipation, they leisurely with a rising inflection in his voice settle themselves down to the The policeman was well over six feet tall and he towered above the same old menus prescribed for five-feet Denny like a glant. "Now them by their great-great-ever- it's nice to stick up for your friends, so-great grandmas. Yes, what- my boy, but not when they've ever the problems of the insect world may be, ment-planning is not one of them.

broken the law!"

"Carl Isn't a are bug!" Denny insisted. He glanced over at the alarm box. Something caught his cyt. He raised his face, smiling confidently. "In fact, I enn prova it!"

..

same spot again. Hide me. DE

Denny!"

nke

Denny said emphatically: "No- thing doing! Look here, Carl, you were working on a model plane "Didn't you hear the firo with

four #1

o'clock. You have rung that siren?" Carl pushed his sweater couldn't possibly

tell the und sleeve across his perspiring alarm.

makes two policeman" forehead. "This

against the

Let's

Carl pressed back

ings from his cellar work table when he heard the wail of a siren on Archwood drive. The next moment the basement doer back of him banged open and Cari Yates rushed in. Carl's face was brick-red beneath his false alarms on Archwood Drive work bench. "They won't belleve close-cropped yellow hair and he in two days. The police said u

"They're going to hear our story was panting as if he had been after the first that there's a running at a mile-a-minute clip. 'bug' in the neighbourhood. Just the same," Denny declared.

"What's up?" Denny demand They'll think it's me because I was passing the box yesterday cu.

"Mr Mulligan - the police when the firemen came clanging He caught hold of Carl's arm and panted. "He along. Today I was at the self- stains Together the boys went out

Man

Carl

It Was a Lovely Morning

-Everyone Said So in Their Own Way-

By MAX TRELL

NARF, the shadow-boy with the turned-around name, was taking a stroll with his good friend Ting- a-El If was a beautiful morning. The pun was shining, the birds were twittering, the bees were humming, and from far off came the sound of people singing.

"Everyone is lappy because it's such a beautiful morning," Kart xaud.

Ting-a-Ling happy, too.

smiled. He Was "It's a beautiful mor ning indeed! It's even more than a

beautiful

morning."

morning.

It's a

gout

"Is that better than a beautiful

Morning?" asked Knart.

Bright and Cheerful -

"Oh yes," said Ting-à-Ling

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"Quack-quack," said the duck to Ting-a-Ling.

Knari looked

Lit

Tin-a-Ling

"after the chicken and her chicks had

it's good it's beautiful as well. And

crossed the road

Into the grass.

"it's also bright and cheerful and "Did they say good-morning. Ting-

and joyful a-Ling?“ Wittm and pleasant That's why." be naded as he stepped out the alde of the road to plek wild rose, "that's why everyone says Good Morning"

Just then they met a duck; wad- dling to the pond with her duck- lings.

"Quack-qunck!" said the duck. "Quack-quael" said all the duck-

lings.

"They didn't say good-morning," Knarf said to Ting-a-Ling after the duck and her ducklings had gone. "They just sold quack-quacle."

"You don't understand duck lan- Cuage. Quack-quack means good- morning." And Ting-a-Ling smiled again.

A little farther down the road Hey met a chicken and her flock of Little chicks,

"Cluck-cluck," said the chicken. "Cheep-cheep!" said the chicks,

Cluck-clock and "Of course. cheep-cheep are chicken-words for goud-inorning."

Other Words

During the rest

of their walk, Knatt and Ting-a-Ling heard lots of other words for good-morning.

The sheep said "Boo-baa!"

The horse

said

"Neigh-neigh!"

The cow said: "0-mos!"

The bees said:

n-num

pulled

*

him up the

basement

HILARIOUS GAME FOR THE PARTY

A TWO-HANDED CONTEST

15 GOOD PARTY

PUN

AND SO IS A`SINGLE

HANDED CONTEST

ENNY. went to the alarm box. The fire chier undi Omcer Mulligan followed.

The Lox "The glass on

isn't broken," said Denny.

He pointed to the lttle window must be broken when an that alarm is turned in. This glass had been broken by a falling tree limb two days ago but a new glass and been installed this morning. "Now," Denny went on

"Loo There's the fire bug?" inside.

Policemen, firemen and bystanders clustered around.

WHAT'S SATIN' YA?

HUMANG MAY COMPLAIN ABOUT THE COST OF FOOD OR THE LACK OF IT- INSECTS ARE DIFFERENT- A PLBA, FOR INGRANCE, DOESN'T WORRY WHERE HIG NEXT MEAL IS COMING FROM-

BUD!

MOTH LARVAE EAT OOVERAL TWRG THEIR OWN WEIGHT

IN WOOL OR FUR-HEY DON'T HAVE TO FRET-

THESE CREATURES HAVE THEIR PREFERENCES AND DIBLI KEG-A POTATO BUG LIKES POTATO

PLANTE ODST

'MA MOR

STUDD

THANK GOODNESS THEY DON'T

ALL LIKES THE SAME THINGS"

A CICADA, FOR INSTANCE, DOESN'T

LIKE WHAT A COCKROACH

LIKES

\

CICADA-

ping eider through a straw, but lined larders are well supplied with baby

food in the form of grubs, wonns up in soda-fountain formation and equipped with piercing stylets, they and spiders. do a thorough job of sucking sap from plant stems.

Ages before humans had tested the virtues of horsement, the botfly hud already discovered this to be the ideal food for its young.

It is not to be supposed, how- ever, that all insects prefer the same bill-of-fare, for each' separate family has its highly specialised food tastes. What's sauce for the cicada is definitely not so toothy for the cockroach.

The Vegetarians Take, for example, the vegetarians of the insect world. A striped black decided and yellow beetle shows a preference for the leaves and stems of the cucumber. The potato bug thinks there's no food quite as de- licious as the potato plant. Tender young cabbage is relished by a green caterpillar, while horn chooses tomatoes,

Life may be just a bowl of wild "Wow!" exclaimed Omeer Mutcherries to the tent caterpillar, but

in your library. the codling moth says, "Make

literary

So the strange menus go on. Fur, over the key

for which mine apples." Plums and peaches you into thinking he has

tastes, however,

ha's merely feathers, cotton, wallpaper, grain," ligan. "Is my face red!"

preparing to enjoy his favourite tobacco, carrion, and numerous other operates the alarm was a centipede, help to entisfy the appetite of

products go to make up the bills-of- better known as a "thousand-legged curculio. worm." with a pair of legs on mach The grub of the capricorn beetle meal of book-bindings.

fare of our insect friends and foes. Poultryless days are unknown in But no matter how much wo joint of its long body. The Insect has no place for such fancy foods

simplicity was actually turning the key as it in his diet. A rugged individualist, the chicken-louse family. Po and might admire or envy

offspring of these original "one-dish-menlers," moved and setiing

another he insists that fresh sawdust is good Mo and their numerous off

enough for any-buggy and goes have chicken every Sunday as well it's quite certain that things in the alarm.

on to prove by making it his one as the other days of the week. food line will continue pretty much and only food, as he slowly bores No one knows better. than the the same with us. After all, a man's his way into the heart of the ook. wasps that adult food is not suit- a man (though we may be tempted Long ago the aphida discovered able for infants. So, before they to call him a louse sometimes), the merits of an all-liquid diet. They gorge themselves on nectar and and when it comes to dieting, an in- may t know the joys of sip, honey, they see to it that their sect is just plain “bugs."

Crawling

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have belleved. It. the fire chief declared, "Smash the glass, Mulligon. Get that fire bug out!" He chuckled, looking toward Denny and Carl. The department owes you two fellows an apology. How about riding back to the station on the Bre

I'll bring you both home Denny

Carl nodded ongerly. When the two boys were sitting high on the hook-and-lad- der

along truck, roaring swiftly Archwood drive, Denny turned to the radiant-faced Cari.

"Isn't this better than hiding in my cellar?" he asked jokingly.

Carl wagged his head. "Boy, you cald a mouthful"

(I. R. Hegel, author of this story, adds: "If my var sounds like anmething that couldn't happen, I'd like to say that the Manchester, Ohio, fire department has a similar fra bug' framed at ita station. So, while! actually 711, story fiction, it COULD happen!")

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES

RIDDLE ANSWERS: 1-Because he

a

worm

the

"Give me wool, all wool-and it

The flen is a confirmed vampire in needn't be a yard wide either," im- provises Mrs Clothing Moth as she his tastes. He lives on blood sucked sneaks about in your closet hunting from living victims, preferably dogs for last year's bathing sult. Mean- and cats. But even you can be a while, the silver moth muy be fea's Sunday or week-day dinner.

One-Dish Moals

browsing about among the booka Don't let him fool

MENTAL GYMNASIUM

SPORTS QUIZ

Sports fans will make quick work of this quiz.

1. What was the nickname

football star Red Grange?

of

2. Nane. three games, played with. racquets besides tennis.

CROSSWORD

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the

Variety Puzzles for Smarties to Solve

ANIMAL SQUARE

Eight animals are concealed in our

starting

square. Find the right point, then read up, down, across, or backward (but never

lyl and drive

diagonal-

out of their

Inits:

them

LIT NABİL ESHPE

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3. How many pieces are used in a chess game?

15

19

20

(21

31-22

1

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4. Dr James A. Naismith was the originator, of what popular game?

5. What colleges are known nix Panthers and Lions?

6. What former President of the otto-man. 2- Į United States was once a was an

him coach? When he comes down and biowo

up. When it's a "phiz" (fzz), 4-Be- cause when exposed to Are. they run. 5-When I sing (leing) and spread it.

football

sport

Is the

term

7. In what both hands who win in this

By ANNETTE LINGELBACH

left- you're WHETHER

handed or right-handed, it's The sparrOWS and mbins and the people who are skilled with thrushes all sald: "Chirp-chirp!"

And all along the road, every time game. they passed a tree, they heard the leaves good-morning, good-morning.

The dandelions, the daisies and the blades of grass were the only ones who didn't seem to say it. But they nodded to Knart and Ting-a-Ling as they passed. It was the same us saying It, Ting-a-Ling told Knarf.

whispering good-morning,

ZOO'S WHO

THEPLATYPUS

OR DUCKBILL

OF AUSTRALIA IS THE ONLY POISONOUS MAMMAL IN THE WORLD. A VEŇOM GLAND IS LOCATED IN THE ANIMALS. HIND LEG....

A number of objects, a piece of brend, a pencil, a comb and a toy dial telephone are placed on a table. Each contestant must use one of

in the usual way. eating, combing, writing or dialling-

it with but hu

must do hands. If he forgets and uses one hand, he loses a point.

these objects

APORTA QUIZ ANSWERS: 1-Galloping Ghose, 2-Squash tenul, racquets, badminton. 3-32 (10 on each sifet-Basketball, Pittsburgh and Columbia. -Woodrow Wilson (Prince- ton). 7-Basketball. 0-Canada, Tennis and bowling.

ANIMAL

woll, SQUARE: Leopard, both cheetah. panther, fax, elephant. Bonesa, just skunk,

Dialing with two fingers is awk- ward. But combing hair with two hands on the comb is a terrific job.

Next, the contestants must use ong hand in actions that usually re- quire

both hands. This time the equipment will include shoelaces, overshoes, a needle and thread, or other items that you can think of yourself.

Lacing shoes with only one hand' is a pretty difficult task and so is sewing, and putting or overshoes is a job for an expert. But the contes- lant must use only one hand. Using both hands counts off.

The game can be conducted on an individual or team basis. To makça the game lively, have several con- testants competing at once--the more the merrier.

RED RYDER

HOMONYM: Hare, hair, CROSSWORD:

TALENTED

RALNSOR [A]R[ET]e &

SELS ANERUP R

WWSARA PR AIT E'S

SCRAMBLED REVERSES: Par, rapi Enid. dine, nide.

WORD DIAMONDI,

HOWA IGONNA GET THESE HOMBRES TO PRISON IF PINKY WON'T SELL ME

TICKETS, FLO?

ARM AIDEY ORDEAL

"dribble" used?

8. What nation turns out the most hockey champlons?

9. In what two games is the ex- pression mixed-doubles used?

The answers are on this page.

HOMONYM

words in Uls sentence but ace spelled dif-

Missing sound alike,

ferently:

The hunter

missed the

RIDDLES

+

by

1. Why would Otto of Bavarta have made a good stuffed seat?

2. When do husband and wife change places?

3. When is your face like 'soda water? ►

4. Why are cowardly. like butter?

soldiers,

5. When is enke frosting

most

nearly musical?

On the House

THE TRIPS ON ME.

SHERIFF/

I AM TO TEACH THESE COTOTES THAT IT DON'T PAY TO ROB STAGE

COACHES!

ACROSS

1 Mentally gified

# Shower

0 Mineral rock

10 Rugged mountain crest

12 Preposition

13. Selections (abbrev.)

15 Any

17 More mature

20 Not high

22 Girl's name

23 Church dignitaries

DOWN

1 Malayan coin

2 Swiss river

3 Falsehoods

4 Come in

5 Toward

0 Silkworn

7 Lion's home

11 Feminine name

14 Potty quarrel

15 High peak.

16 Companion word for neither

10 Before.

19 Short-napped fabric

21 Uz

SCRAMBLED 'REVERSES

Reverse a golf term and have "to knock."

Scramble a girl's name and have "to eat": to-scramble and have "a brood of pheasants."

·BY FRED HARMAN

ALL IT NETS EM 19

A FREE RIDE TO THE

·PENITENTIA

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GSOX

POEK

R

ARLU HE WOKNIT N

OCHITA A

LIFE EHP

WORD DIAMOND

OR-

The diamond centres on DEALS. The second word is "a limb," the third "military nagis- tants," the fifth is "pithy," and the sixth is "crafty":

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ORDEALS

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THE GLORY OF THE SEATA SHELL OF THE PHILIPPINES, 15 SO RARE THAT THEY SELL

·FOR $500 EACH....

GREAT HERDS OF WALRUS ONCE INHABITED THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE„WANTON SLAUGHTER OF THESE ANIMALS, MOSTLY FOR OL,DESTROYED THE COLONY OVER A CENTURY AGO...

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Pong-Ping is very delighted, and puts his pet dragon on its lead just as Bill and Edward rather cautiously join the party again. This is very queer," saya Bill. "What ever does it mean? Rupert laughs happily. It's been a jolly adven. ture, he anys, and it all began with that mysterious noiac like an express train that we heard. . If you and Edward will come co tem, I'll tell you the whole story." "folly good idex," sayı-Mr. Bear heartily. "I'd like to héár, it again, ios,*

THE END. AND RIGHTH RESENTAD,