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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

BOYS' & GIRLS' MAGAZINE

PUZZLES A COUNTY-WIDE COMMOTION

THERE'S a

snappy brain tensers for

H

variety

this week:

記 5

CROSSWORD

15

(a

2

1 Cupoln

s Severs

9 Scope

30 84

ACROSS

10 Bewildered

11 Symbol for radium

12 Male sheep

14 Forchoon (ab.)

18 Uncloses

15 Shade tree

17 Exist

1 Head covering

21 Girl's nickname

24 Correlative of either

25 Pigpen

27 Id est (nb.)

28 Beef, pork, larab

30 Concludes

MARTHA couldn't remember

Mwether it war" before s ux

cept after

around. Spelling

or the other

page

By Leo Priestley

way rules rulled off old her mind Fife water off the grey gander: On the other hand,

so smart! hugged Meddlesome, the tiger kit Newcomb WOR

ten, excitedly as she listened. of Tibby sot

Martha sighed and read the

Ellun nodded. "Then the trap blown It was hard having a best chain caught in the trees again.

the friend like Tibby who did every- down by the big storm and thing perfectly.

sampler bear couldn't pull loose that The stitches in Tibby's marched straight as fles of soldiers. So he fought and growled up

away! Pa and sliches wobbled like heard him a mile

guns and the caterpillars. Tibby could Timothy took their make the best butter in the town- Juntern and by that time Mr Sen- ship; she could even at with three luns cone

Then Pa and Mr Sessions shot tomorrow shuttles. And at school

the bear," Mother, took up the story Tibby would win the spelling bee. And as

it was light, She would get her name In the

home to get Barney paper, too, because Editor Evans of nad Bright and the sioncboat. Now the Casanova County Clarion was they're bringing the beur." to be the judge.

That's the story, Mattic," Ellen laughed. Then she stopped to lis ten. "The bells on the ox yokes

Mattic! Here she said. "Hurry,

32 Royal Italian family name

33 Observers

I Challenge

2 Verbal

3 Myseit

DOWN

4 Organ of hearing

5 Eccentric wheel

G Pronoun

+ 13

8 Identical

33 Wary

16 Witticism

17 Wild onniger

19 Abode

20. War. Ged

32 Assistant

23 Not as much

25 Female saint (ab.)

26 Affirmative reply

29 Neur

31 Compass point

-2-

HOMONYM

Missing words in the

following

sentence sound alike, but are spell-

ed differently:

In addition to a canoe, he had -for-

WORD SQUARE

A

Tim

came

SUON

M

closed Martha sighed again and the blue-backed

she #peller. If could best Tibby just once! But she'd have to get up early in the morn- they come with the bear!"

She ing to get ahead of that girl!

bed, it her lamp and went off to with

Meddlesome, the tiger kitten,

shadows on the stairs.

•

•

•

over

making Tittle darting runhes at the THE girls ran out to the front gate, followed by Mother and Great Aunt Margaret, holding shawls' over their trends. The man rising the hills where its rst rays tinted the snow banks pink was not quite ground a round ball. The frozen

under their clanged and crackled feet.

MARTHA

did get up early next morning but she had forgotten Tibby, jall about getting ahead of

The warm kitchen at Averill Farm A excitement.

Barney and Bright, the ox team, was bursting with bear trapped in the wood tot! And bent their great necks under the the Ruch a monster of a bear! Martha yoke and. slowly plodded up sat big-eyed. forgetting to eat her lane, yellow hides gleaming breakfast.

Meddlesore, the figer kitten,

had been nearly usleep Martha's arms. He now felt

that

all his kitten muscles needed a arched his good stretch. So stripe back and humped H, ITo little fore paw stretched out one

and then the other. Night in front of his nose, Barney, the ox, shifted his great yellow legs. Meddlesome renched as high as he could on the front

yellowness und hooked his claws. Then he worked them and down!

up

"Not another pair of critters in the Township would haul a bear like Barney and Bright," Martha's Pa was saying

proudly. "Why, you couldn't get a team of horses near that varmint!"

Mc "That's so, Sam."

Sessions almighty slow. agreed. "Oxen are but steady.

#x

Then Meddlesome dug his claws With an outraged bellow, the great fleeper on Barney's hind tex. threw up his head and clashed his wide-sprending borns against his teammate's. With eyes rolling and nils stiff, the steadlest ox team in Michigan ran away, bear, stoneboat and all!

The skidding stoneboat new and across the lone brushing men boys head over heels into the snow- filled ditch.

HIS was the moment that Editor Evans of the Casanovn Clarion chose to come down the road on his way to judge the spelling bee.

Barney and Bright swerved and sharply to avolt Editor Evans and steamy clouds of vapour curling his new, red-wheeled buggy. The

their nostrils.

Brother body of the bear sild off the stone-

the boat. The horse reared shoulder whistled like the steam cars when Then he ran he smelled the bear, away!

Great Aunt Margaret brought from

as Timothy walked beside then. more hot enites. I don't know I'm any more relieved at the bear's forgotten whlp over his

because lightly tapping Barney's wide horns, Ketting caught than I am

A crowd of men and boys cluster ed around the stonebout.

he beat the trap to n lump." she said. "I've been scared to my soul some of you young 'una would fall into that thing ever since your Pa set it."

"And then the trap wasn't big rabber." enough to stop that old Martha's sister Ellen aeleivel.

growls

terrible!" were Mother shiveret. "He woke up the whole township!"

312

"Except me," Martha said, "Oh, why did I have to sleep and hot hear a thing!" Tell It again, Sister" The bear sprang Pa's trap at the edge of the Sugar Bush," Ellen said obilgingly. "But that didn't stop him. He climbed into the pig pen, trap and chain and all, and killed a pig Then carrying the pig and dragging the trap he climbed out again.

right through "Bad went

asked. wonal lot!" Marlia

our

She

across

The editor stood up in the buggy sawing the reins and yelling. The first bump shook his fall slik hat: the reconit, bounced it off.

Martha's gander, lending the flock of geese along the roadside to the pasture, craned his long neck

And hissed at the noise. Just then the editor's tall silk kat bounced off and

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At the gate Tim shouted, "Who, Barney! Whoa, Bright" and stopped the creaking runners. Pn beckoned to them, and the crowd parted to let themi see le bear. After one glance, Martha drew back in alarm.

The bear lay

the big shaggy black

body stonebont, his curled a little and one foot turned fell right over the gander's head! the big pads showed, hanging Ratting his gray wings and bildly so

His head rested on honking, the gander ran down the aver the edge.

us lane. pencefully his front paws

J At the corner where the lone met Shep, the collie, when he slept in front of the fire. But a lifted corner the Township rond, Judge Parson's The horses of the bear's lips showed long while surrey was turning In.

took one startled look at the silk bat teeth and his paws were

with wings weaving and bissing in with great, shining shrank back, dropping Meddlesome, front of them. Then they ran away! the kitten, to the ground, her eyes A lumber wagon on the big road hear. He didn't look turned too short trying to get out still on the dead:

of the way and upset!

AS

terrible claws. Martha

Christopher Cricket's Concert

-He Played for a Clock and a Pair of Shoes--- By MAX TRELL

Rearrange the letters in each rows is the story that Christopher

to form a word, then rearrange the

rows to form

squire:

刀刀刀

f

E

ឃ | ឃ

E

singent

บ

perfect

E

10

E

E PIA

EIAID

word the

SCRAMBLER Scramble a German river and have a forest creature, scramble it have 2 bamboo-like again and

-5

WORD DIAMOND VARIETY

forms the centre of diamond. The this week's word second word is to untangle, the third formale horses, the fifth very small and the sixth an eye tumour.

V

A

VARIETY

E

T

ANSWERS

Crassword:

BARE

ORAL

M

TEAD

MOOLBARE

Sall, sain.

R

READ

ATOR PEET Eder, deer, reed.

MAT MARES VAIHTY TEENY BTY

S

RED RYDER

IF YOU CAN'T FIND ANOTHER DRIVER, ILL DRIVE THE RUN,

FLO I'M PLANNING TO GO ALONG ANYHOW

Cricket told Knart and Hanid.

with shadow-children

the turned-about names, as they all sat around the fireplace.

Christopher be "As you know,“ kan. "How that the weather has turned cold and winter is coming on, I've moved back in my old place in the replace between two loose bricks. It isn't very large--but then I'm not larger elther and for a cricket, it's us comfortable and cozy a place as I could hope to find.

Unfortunately-he- -went-on:- "there isn't room enough belwean those two bricks to play my guitar, and as I don't like coming out into the middle of the Foom while mother and father and the children are sitting there, I have to wait un- til one is asleep before I play any music

Earlier Than Usual

The shoes danced as Christopher

played.

went to it at once. I was quite sure I would find someone there to listen to my song."

sald

The runaway grew and grew like 1 snowball rolling down hill. Martha's Pa sald He wouldn't be surprised if every rig in Michigan ran away that day. If the gander hadn't twisted himself out of the silk hat! And If Tim hadn't caught the ox team, the commotion might have been world wide,

BY.

best

hat

Y the ime Editor Evans go the

snow brushed from his brondeloth and found his silk again, it was late. And after the men and boys scrambled out of the red-wheeled ditch and pushed the butgy back into the lane, was later still. When Tim caught the winded horse and Pa patched the harness, it was too late for spelling

bee. The editor and hurry back to town to put the Weekly Clarion on the press.

the to

And for once Martha got ahead-of- Tibby! When Martha's Pa took the paper from the mall box next day there was

"The the story of Casanova County Commotion."

The story told about the bear. trapped and shot in the Averill farm wood lot. Then it told about the runaways, and there was Martha's name as plain as print, right on the front page!

"Well, last night, I felt like "Where did you go?" Knarf and playing my guitar earlier than usual. Honld, both asked eagerly.

"The tiger kitten that started all The children were already in their "To the garret," said Christopher the commotion," said the Casanova beds but mother and father and Cricket,

Clarion, "belongs to young Miss "But no one's up there!" company were, sliil sitting Some

Martha

a pair, Averill. Quite around the replace. They were Hand. busy talking among themselves so

"Oh, yes, there are," said Christo-Meddlesome and Mattler“

Tibby certainly had never had her they didn't notice me tiptoeing past pher. And they're just the ones name in such a big story on page them and sliding out through tho to enjoy a jolly tong. Yes, indeed," one of the Clarion! Not even crack under the door."

he said, "I played my songs for when she won a spelling bee. them all right imagine how much they enjoyed them. There was the Old Grand- father Clock, all covered with dust. for He hadn't ticked and tocked

tocked but he ticked and

There was gain for me last night.

torn the Old China Doll with the

"Did you go outside into the gur

Hanid asked. "Wasn't it too

dent

cold?"

"I didn't go out into the garden," said Christopher, "although it was where I would have most liked to years go. No. I slipped under the door into the hall.

"Now," sald

and you

can't

Christopher, there curls that mother used to play with lɛn't múch fun; playing my guitar many years ago. She clapped her Just for myself. I like someone to poor little hands with joy when sho listen. Because what's the use of heard my song.

a jolly song if you just play it for yourself. I knew mother and father were too busy with their company to pay any attention. So

climbed

Waved His Arms

"And there was the Old Pair of Shoes who tapped his heels

and tried to dance again when he heard up the stairs to the children's room; me playing. And there was the

you see, I was hoping one of them was still awake."

"Was one of them awake?" Kriari asked.

their

Old Coat that waved his arms, and

Books that lifled the Old covers, But happlest of all," sald Christopher, "was the Old Broken Fast Asloop

Violin. How it wanted to play Christopher Cricket shook his jolly song along with me!" head. "No, they were all fast asleep "And did it?" asked Knarf.

sald and dreaming. For a moment, I "It only had one string," thought I might go down into the Christopher, "so it couldn't play a cellor and play a

But every now and song or two for whole song. the mice and the spiders. But I re- then, instead of twanging my guitar, Old membered that the mice were all I twanged the string of that out hunting for crumbs, and the Broken Violin and is one note, from spiders had been swept out by Katy- its one string, was jollier than many bello a day or two ago. There was

a song

only one other place to go and I fore anyone has ever played be-

NOW WHERE'S

| POP: THAT KELJ

GUARD? I WANT

TO TALK TO HIM

Pop Isn't Going

HE'S NOWHERE AROUND I HOPE HE HASN'T QUIT, TOO7

NEXT DOOR WWE YOU SURE I AIN'T LIKELY TO GET HURT

122 GUARANTEE

NGʻLL

GUARDIN THE

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JAKE?

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