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DIAMOND

This word diamond centres on A CARTOON. The second word is "possesses," the third is "lags," the fifth "pauses," and the sixth is "a distress signal."

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1 Speed contest

1 Bucket

God of love

10 Girl's name

11 Atmosphere

12 Eleralis

13 Fashion

10 Street fab.)

17 Mineral rock

18 Nonr

18 Near

20, Vegetable

24 Stuf!

20 Route (ah.)

27 Tissue

20 Accomplisher

20 Vend

30 Poker shoke

DOWN

1 Measure of paper

2 Operatic sole

3 Maize

4 Electrical term

5

Gazed

Bustles

7 Taverns

8 Shoemaker's implements

14 Regular

18 Parts of plays

15 Agc

19 Wockly plant

22 Let it and!

3) Press

23 At this place

25 Everyone

28 District attorney (ab)

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1949.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

Oscar Finds A New House

LL be good, I won't chew a mouse-hole in

the will," said Oscar helping himself to cheese. "Such nice cheese!" The checae was from a mouse- trap but Oscar didn't tako serious- thouse-traps very

ly.

The family with whom Oscar lived had set at least n dozen mouse-traps but they didn't really expect to catch Oscar. At least the children didn't because Oscar had found at least 11 mouse-traps already snap- tela, ped for him.

"But

now

WHERE-shall

where,

I live?" said Oscar to himself. He was a new mouse in u house.

new

ran

He

~FADERS

He looked in. the corners. He looked behind the doors. He looked in the clothes cupboards and he even round the bathtubs,

even throw a "Just right, just right," and climb the stairs to sniffed between every brick the family

muttered Oscar rearranging bed. by the fireplace. Not one piece of cheese at him.

Everything was quiel, but "Very thoughtful!" mur- the carpet. little hole did he find where

Osear went downstairs Oscar slept very poorly and the carpenter had skipped, mured Oscar but he kept

He dreamed of trying to get out of outside again.

a mouse-trap.

The next afternoon the noise

Oscar was so provoked ho ran into the dining room, where the family was at dinner.

•

nice nest.

J

"Fie on such a carpenter! running for he was looking and He'll never build another for a house, a mouse house brought back some bits house for me!" said Oscar. With a pleasant comfortable paper and built himself

He was so provoked he mouse-hole.

Then he curled up ran under the dining room table while the family was I sat down to think. took a nap. Oscar had There in ront of think, a rather insy day and still at dinner.

It was tired, Cries of "EEK," "There was the nicest hole!

split wasn't in the wall at all. It he goes!" almost

The boy of was in a big new box that Oscar's

came today.

Oscar tucked back his whiskers and tiptoed in

Of course,

cars.

The Squirrel's Housecleaning uietly

-He Swept Away Dust With His Bushy Tail- By MAX TRELL

"HOUSECLEANING is cer-

fainly a big job," Squire

"a tissue" scramble again and Squirrel was saying to Knarf have a story."

SOLVE-A-RIDDLE

and Hanid. the shadow- children with the turned- about naines, "of. I should

Job"

If a baby chick found a jar of ay, tree-cleaning is certainly a Jam In nest, what would it

say? The baby chick would say: "Oh, look what

Squire Squirrel was sitting

on his hind legs and gnawing Do at a chestnut at the foot of the

the puzzle and find the missing old oak tree in which he lived.

word.

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ADDA GUESS

cream drink.

He looked very tired and his

bushy tail was covered with

dusk.

"Did you clean this tree?" Kmart asked.

whole

"Outside and inside," replied Squire Squirrel.

At this Hanid looked very

suppose," offering, surprised. "I

Now read across the third missing row of letters for the word

HOMONYM

When you insert the missing) words into our sentence, you'll find they sound alike, but are spelled differently:

His

about monkey lost its everybody.

how the Braused

Squire Squirrel carried his duster with him.

she whisked my broom round and

heard a squeak."

and Hanid.

this

it

"WHONG!"

of

rather

house.

the

2

B started again, Oscar hurried from the mouse house. Outside and the noise didn't bother him so

much. In fact, it was

outside the had pleasant

he Oscar looked up and saw

boy of the family sitting on stool and hitting the big white teeth on the front of the house. with his fingers.

a

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Tricks

Your

NAVY HELICOPTER WAS USED TO HUNT PENGUINS FOR, ZOOS NARECENT ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION...

To Baffle

Friends

little mind pretend to be listening, then ERE'S

reading act you can add reach into the bag without murmured

the pull out to your bag of parlour looking and

marked orange. he The boy stopped his work and tricks. to said something:

The solution to the trick elementary. Three of

"May slop now? I've prac

Oscar wakened with start. His house trembled. he muttered crossly us

"What does this mean?" O. Well, I nevert"

turned over and went sleep on the other side. might be a big mouse-trap.

"ÍVHANG! ! ! !" Inside

everything was

“Rong! Bong!” dark and tidy. A long

"Well, that's quite enough slanting runway went up of that," Oscar cried indig

Above,

from the doorway, wire stairposts stretched as high as Oscar could see.

"Very thoughtful," nod- ded Oscar, very thoughtful to provide such a nice mouse house."

Up, up the runway Oscur climbed and there at the top

was the most comfortable little box with a nice piece of felt for a' carpet.

nantly as he ran down the runway.

"WHANG! Whong Whang! Bong! Bong!" went the stairposts. Oscar ran out of the mouse-hole.

Put six oranges the same

. Ilsed on this plano almost an size in a bowl and ask one is

hour!

of the guests to take one your six oranges have the The mother replied: "No, it

pips removed. If hasn't even been 15 minutes and mark his initials on the little vel tell you when the time skin with ink or crayon. is up."

Of course, Oscar didn't under- stand these words. But he is tened to the binging and bong

the ing noise. After a while

While he does this, take two more oranges and put them in a paper bag. Then in put the marked orange boy Jefl.

other the bag beside the In time, Oscar grew to like

two. the noise. It made him feel

Allow one of your iike

dancing. He had some cousins called Dancing: Mice audience to shake the bag NOT until the family had who whirled whether there was and then announce you can yone to bed did Oscar music or not. Besides, nights discover the marked orange

were always quiet. The mouse summon courage enough to house was very nice and Oscar by "listening" to it. You put return to the mouse-hole was very happy.

your ear close to the bag,

TEST YOURSELF FOR SUCCESS

answer

hour or more

un

neces-

guest

chooses

an

Was

the

ог

Ramo

Fill in the definitions, reading down: Lots of saddlers. 2-T make a picture. 3-To run in and out. 4-Charity and

-Colour of grandpa's hair. said. "the outside of a tree-en- round-n-1-climbed-lower-and.

I never lower inside the hollow trunk.TTERE'S a quiz designed home and at school? 6-Not prelly. 7-Boy's name, be cleaned (although

"(Ask" responsibe position in-your- 20.-Do-you-like-studying your consult your school or clubs? (3)

and planning out things? orange with a pip, you-put- 8 Ice

two oranges without pips in 9-heard of anyone doing it), but Finally I reached the cellar. It to help you find out if mother and

how can you clean the inside was quite dark. All at once I you are falling down in your report card if not sure.) 13. Are you perseverant? (3)

takes # Observed.

of a tree?"

21. Can you concentrate the bag. If he (Do you stay with things

choose two. pipless orange, "The inside of a tree is all "A squeak!" exclaimed Knart him to be a success in life. (6)

Ask yourself the questions 6. Do you feel you are until they are finished?) for an

with pips. You can tell by full of wood," Krarf added.

any, one problem if n chipmunic," said below and It was

them as good or better than the (3)

the feel which orange On the Ground

"He'd been honestly.

average student your

Own

14. Is it hard for anyone sury? (3) Squire Squirrel look another Squire Squirrel.

living in my cellar for years

22. Do you have very few marked, chestnin

The instructions, which age? (2)

to discourage you if they

bo ganw or two of the

without my even knowing it. I

The samic trick can must be followed, are: If 7. Are you a good mixer say mean things or tell you quarrels with your pals? (2) before he laid it down on the

told him to move aside until

23. Do you between

feet.

respect done with apples by remov his cet got throuch cleaning. Then ground

you answer "yes" to a ques at a party? (2)

you'll never make it? (3)

Be stems.

Aure, Nothing is a whisked some more. "You're right.

SuddenlyLion give yourself the num

money another person's ideas? (2) ing the 8. Do you like meeting 15. Do you save

24. Do you try to avoid when you perform full of wood us the inside of a

there was a grunt."

systematically? (3) ber of points listed at the new people? (2) good deal of this tree. But

time?" "Who was it

mistake trick, that the oranges old oak tree of mine is hollow

How asked Kharf.

end of the question. If you 9. Are you pretty good

16. Do you avoid saying making the same peanut like the inside of a

apples are about the answer "no" your score is at thinking up new ideas? things you don't mean and twice? (3) Didn't Know.

25. Does a failure spur size and shape so that your shell, or in other words, like

that particular (4)

for which you are sorry "A mole," said Squire Squir-zero for house. The hol- the inside of

you on to greater effort? guests will not suspect that Rupert's Elfin Bell-39 low part of the tree

add till said he didn't even question. Don't is my rel. "He

10. When stumped in afterwards? (2)

direc- parlour, my bedroom and my know I owned this tree. I told you complete the test and your efforts in one

the trick is done by "feel." 17. Have you good control (3),

26. Are you strong and cellar. The branchen are ke hlin to move aside too.

remember that the most tion do you keep on trying over your feelings? (Can

The Magic with I swept some more. my porch and garden,

the other ways until you win you keep something wrig-successful person in

from getting healthy? (4) paths big and small going off once I saw

27. Do you take care of in all directions. The leaves gling. It was an earthworm. world could not score 100 on out? - (4).

angry or from crying if dis-

yourself? (Ent and sleep Handkerchief: And before got through this test...

11. Do you do things appointed?) (2)

carefully, regularly, wash "And how dld you clean cleaning." Squire

18. Do you make and keep think enough of your teeth Squirrel 1. Have you decided what that have to be done with- everything?" Hunid wanted to ndiled,

n beetle, a

know,

nail, a a spider, a famliy of ants, you are going to do when out being spurred on or re- friends easily? (2)

by one corner. Then, to minded by your teachers or 19. Do you consider your to have them checked often, HOLD your handkerchief "With my

katy-you grow up? (3 points) broom, "Squire mouse, a cricket and did. Squirrel said, as he held up his Just Imagine, they were 2. Are you doing any parents? (3)

self to be well mannered? and "doll up" as often

possible to look your best?) give It stiffness (80 you it briskly shy), stroke all living down did the nut-

in my cellor bushy tail. "First

12. Have you held

any. (2)

(3) side of the tree. I ran up and and I never even knew that thing special to

yourself for your life's down the trunk and branches, they were there." sweeping, swishing and brush→ "And did you make them all work, as reating authorita-7 side stay on the

while you tive books ing as I went. How I made the

or talking to dust Ay! When I got through, cleaned?" sald Hanld.

"I tried to," Squire Squirrel those who know about the the bark on the trunk and tho

work? (3) branches gleamed like new and sighed, "but

At the top at the castle Rupert seei

A great pillar and, above it. an

EROTIQUA [an which is whizzing round at tremendous rate. There's the answer to your ques- tion, ays the elf. ** We've got dozens of those great tans working day and night, pulling the smoky air into those funnels and down into the castle below. You saw the works' down there. The smoke geta taken. out and the pure air sent back into. the sky." "My! Won't my staddy

be thrilled to learn all about this." cries the linle bear.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

BRONCHO BILL

are like an owning."

"I found

there

All

Then at

were 50

prepare

the leaves were as freshi and many of them, they kept gel- 3. Do you tackle what-

Then I ling in each others' way and ever you have to do speedily!

green na new gris5. went inside

"And was that the hard time when I should have been port?" Knarf interrupted to

4. Do you usually try to A floor, I was. really

them. But, thank do a little more than is just for good Unless you clean the inside noodness, I'm all through now. necessary, of a tree (which I don't think My tree is as clean as measure? (2)

In my way too, that half the and cheerfully? (4)

Ask

you have), you' can have no whistle, inside and out, and t 5. Do you consider your- |iden of how hard it is. I start for a king-or a squirrel-lp

ed at the lop of the hollow and live in."

COME. OU BIDE "THOUT YER STAR, DEPITTY, AND FIGHT ME, BARE

CKLES~

The Deputy's Stall

GOOD JOGA, TORNADO IT'S A PLAY FOR TIME~

DO-IT

By Dalo Goss

Things to Make With Materials at Hand.

EARS

4. Wrap

FRISKY

THE PIPE CLEANER

PUPPY

cloaner

around

head....

let the

ends

stick out

self to be a good worker atj

By Harry F. O'Neill

Bend 2 wire PIPE CLEANERS' for legs.

for the EARS,

BAY

YER PRAYERS,

SAWED-O

RUNT-TUL

Shape one cleaner for head.

BANTY

BOGGS!

VEITH FEROLE DWINGS, FAR" SHORT OF THEIR MARKS, THE |TWO OLISTERS TEMPORAR« |ILY STOP ALL ASSAULT ON

THE JAILHOUSE

3.Hold leg and body wires

wind fourth wire, together around to build up body......

5. Wrap around more cleaners to make FRISKY.fluffier...ink spots can be EYES and NOSE...

ARF

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28. Are you quick to learn several times with the free int school, or if not particularly hand.

brilliant are you making the very mont of your time opportunitica? (0)

und

Next grab the lower end and let the top end go. To you happy and the amazement of your cheerful, getting the best out of friends the handkerchief

29, Arc

yourself and looking for the best in others? (3)

stands upright for a while

30. Are you usually right in as your

opinions, decisions,

Judgments? (3)

you go through the and motions of trying hard to

31. Are you strictly honest, balance it. straightforward, and dependable

in your work and play? (6)

say.

"That's not so hard as it' 32. Do pon practise the looks!" someone may Golden Rule? (Do you treat Let him try it with his own others the way you would like handkerchief or a second them to treat you?) (4)

THAT completes the test. Now

THAT

one which you have ready.

If his handkerchief is suf-

add up your total score. Over ficiently well. starched he 90 is lops, If you deserved may be able to get by, which. A total is exactly what you hope you will go a long way. of B1 to 80 looks good. If you he will do.

live up to this early promise

you cannot miss leading a happy Then comes your second and successful life. From 1 to stunt. This consists. of 80 is better than average

score. If you stick at the 61 lo making your handkerchlof 71 level you should do reason- stand out horizontally or obly well. People in the 61 to bend backwards and for- 60 bracket are not very SUCCESS-

poor.

..

in

ful in life. And below 50 is Wards just as you beckon.

You see, your obliging If you are in the cellar position

must start climbing fast handkerchief has more because competlilon Iskcon it than starch. There is a nowadays and

oor is length of picture wiro hid- crowded. There is always momden inside the hem.

you

at the top.

Orst