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1 Part of "to be"

3 Pair (nb.)

6 Excilement

6 Disencumbered

8 Doctor (ab.)

9 Number

11 Symbol for erbium

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RIDDLES

1. When is the best thing to buy cider?

2. Why is love like n duck's foot?

3. Why would a woman losa her religion if she becainc mon?

4. When are wash women fooled?

6. How can it be shown that

a horse has six legs?

SUN SPOT POSERS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1949.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

Mischief In The Kitchen

Rubbalong Talo No. 5,

By ENID BLYTON

UBBALONG was going through Ding-Dong Wood, a pair of boots hung round his neck to take home

to mend.

He suddenly heard a loud howl, "Don't! Don't! Oh, my lovely_hat!"

He ran down the path and peeped round a tree. He saw Snift, a small grinning at, two brownie

These posers all have "sun" goblin,

In the answer:

1. The Scandinavian penin-children. They were howling dismally. rufu is where you'll find what Rubbalong saw why. Sniff had way- laid the children, and played a trick on

land?

2. There is a large, grotesque them. He had thrown both their hats marine lah known as what?

Was

3. What a very old-high up in the trees. Nasty little fashioned timepiece called? Suiff! He was always doing things like

4. What frozen dessert should that. "old Sol" like best?

ANSWERS

13 Pigpen

15 Female sheep

14 Go in

17 Possessen

19 Opening

10

22 Measure of urea

23 Exist

25 Id est (nb.)

26 Feline crenture

28 Upper limb

30 Compars point

31 Toward

DOWN

CROSSWORD

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Paid notice

2 Witticism

Golf tencher

4 Smallest state (ab.)

Skilt

7 Moisture

Doctor of Science (ub,)

10 Desert short supply

12 Musien! note

14

Affirmative reply

15 Unit of energy

17 Laughter sound

18 Part of a circle.

20 Point a weapon

21 Prince Edward (ab.)

23 Dined

24 Consume

27 Any

29 International language

HOMONYM

Fill in the blanks with words

JAIM

D

ER

WE

HOMONYM; Pear, pler. RIVER SQUARE:

Amazon,

Congo.

Thanies.

Orinoco.

Colorado.

DIAMOND:

CAT

CARRY

PARTIES

THIPS YES

Ohio. Ganges,

He

....But Ma Rubbalong know all right

Rubbalong grinned, strolled round the tree. not loose," said Ma Rubbalong, "Maybe it's Fidgety Spell "Hullo Nice game this puzzled. But no-all her spells you're playing, Sniff! Can I were safe. play it, too?".

And before Selft could say a

word he sintched off bis

feathered goblin-hat and dung it on the topmost branch of the near-by tree. Then he pulled Dit Shiff's coat and threw that up, too, then his belt and then his shoes. There they all hung Beging in the wind that stwok The tree.

"Nice game! Rently exciting!" said Rubbalong. "So glad you let me play it. too. So long, Sniff. Come on. children-IT lake you home."

Now a few days after that. very peculiar things began to Danube. happen to Rubbalong and his

RIDDLES: 1-When It is not

old mother. The kitchen clock Jumbed down to the floor and every time it was put back it Jumped down again.

Then the poker walked out Into the middle of the room

| poked at one of the cats. When Ma Rubbalong

yard went mad. It kept leay

Then the dustbin out in the

in its place and coming to the window and looking in. It event said things.

"I'm waiting for you, Rubba- Jong," it sold in a Unny volce, and jiggled its Ud. "I take in rubbish-and that's why waiting for you.”

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again!' It I see it peeping into the window any more 'H mad."

HO

"Ma — whoever's playing these tricks on us is out in the yard now, moving the dustbin," said Rubbalong, in a whisper., "Quick, Ma-make ́n ́ plan."

Yes yes I've got a plan," raid Ma Bubbalong, tying her apron

me siring. "Get

the pepper-pot, Rubbalong-the big one. And as soon as anything peculiar happens in the kitchen, shut all the windows and (loors at onee, so that

we'll know the Imp is here. Then watch your chancel"

the

Rubbalong grinned. He fetch- ed the big pepper-pot. His mother hid It under her apron.

Then They walted.

the clock SU Jumped down to the floor They knew that the joker was in

have to "No, my boy. It's the spiell will the kitchen again.

move. It's G000000000nh!"

"Mai What's the matter?

shot up from her chair. cried Rubbalong, as his mother

Rubbalong slammed the door shut. He shut the windows. Mo Rubbalong whipped the pepper-pot out from under her apron, and began to shake 11 hard into every corner. She Lod Kubbalong held their hoses-and they ilstened.

"A whoooah: 00!" What a яncezo? IL

under came from The table. Rubbalong dung him- "No. It's some Invisible imp scif there-no, he didn't catch

goblin," soid Rubbaleng anyone. fiercely. and he stared alt round, "Where are you,

you nisery? Show yourself!"

"Something bit me," said Ma Hubbalong, and showed him her hand. "Just there. That's 210 spell, Rubbalony. Spells don't have teeth."

I'm

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"Haw nwfully rude," sald Rubbalong, and put the dustblu back into its place. Be civil," he sold to it. "And stay put."

But it didn't stay put and one night it kept Rubbalong and his mother awake for hours be- Cause it jiggled its ld without stopping.

and back again. Once it even. Then the three cals went mad, too. Til suddenly leapt into the air as if somebody had run a pin into her. Tab sud-

baking cakes, the oven

was door

Be heard a squeal of laughter

from the dresser, and the dishes on the top shelf began to roli to and fro

to catch

feel came from

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squeal

A-WHH0000005H - oooo!" was over in the Ala-that

Ma

and Rubbalong corner. Rubbalong both grabbed at the air there.

And they caught someone-- tomeone small and wriggly whe visible as soon as Mo Robbalong lunged out, hoping became

whoever was sitting Bubbalong sprinkled him with en the shelf, but he couldn't hot water.

anyone. Another

"It's Sniff" cried Rubbalong. behind him,

and Sulf.

the goblin! I might when he turned round quickly

these tricks Just he was mending flying up lato punished him for tensing chil- dren. The nasty, spiteful, little know creature. I really don't what we're going to do with him."

that sound alike, but are spell very clear; it will settle for il-kept opening and shutting, and denly jumped out of the win. he saw all the boots and shady have guessed it. Ma, he played

sentence:

The waved farewell

kdden in the

(heather).

ed differently, to complete our self, 2-Decause it often les breast.. 3Bc- cause she would be as he then 4-When they set to catch soft water and it tuba rains hard. 5-le (four) legs in front and hehad.

the ship left the

RIVER SQUARE Eight rivers are hidden in our And- square. Locate them by ing the correct starting pulat, then rending each letter either up, down, backward or forward (but never diagonally);

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NO

LIH

ROOOOZ

ADISA│M│A

DOE {M}A|H

AINIU BEIT

DIAMOND

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fore two

SUN-SPOT POSERS: 1-Land of the Midnight Sun. 2-Sun- fish. 3-Sundial. 4-Sundae.

"Dinny,"

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·ANY millions of years have gone by-and that's a long, long time-since the big dino- saurs, lizards, and flying rep- tiles flapped and waddled their way through the forests and marshes of the world.

Everyone likes PARTIES, so But we know a lot about Jet's try a diamand centred on their looks and we have them. The second word is “a feline," the third "to transport," proof of their size from the the fifth "Journeys," at the footprints they left in the sixth an airmative reply." mud and from their fog- silisel skeletons in the rocks which are constantly being unearthed.

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Near the Red Deer River in Canada is a territory known as the "badlands."

This favourite meeting place of the "old fossils" because so many

Was

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Rupert & the live togs-18 | petrified bones have been dug

That night, as Mts. Bear is tuck. ang Rupert up in bed, slre becomes thoughtful. I hope you've done righi," she says, gently, "but you sure you liaven't let your kind heart get the better of you? Have you thought what Santa Claus may feel about it? He may not like his toys playing trigant. and he may be worrying and wondering where his suraffe and hippe have got to." "Oh dear, that's awkward.” says Rupert. But, surely, if we've bera kind to them, it must be all right. And soon he is askep.

ALL HOUTS REZERVAN

BRONCHO BILL

$15.

Reconstrution of these ancient animals and reptiles ins been started in a Calgary. Alberta, park, Here, in the finest "prehis- toric" garden in the world can be seen

life-size in cement, models of the giants who walked the country millions of years ago.

all her cakes were spoilt. The dow and ran for miles. Tubby ele behaved queerly, too--it woke up with a yow! and tore would keep tipping Itself and pouring

Up round the room without stop- the ping. three eats on the hearth-rag.

water on to

"Mal I don't like this," said Rubbalong, in alarm. "Has one of your spells got loose?"

**What's

happening?" sald ittle Rubbalong, more alarmed than ever.

"Ma, I don't like it. There is a spell runaing about loose here. We'd better move.

"Move! When we've only just Ma Rubbalong. come!" said

The Atom-Bomb

MANY MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO GREAT CREATURES ROAMED OVER PORTIONS OF THIS WORLD.

CALGARY CAÑADA WAS CNE OF THESE PLACES

AND HAS REMEMBERED

THE BEASTS WITH LIFE-SIZE

STATUES

THESE EARLY MONSTERS

WERE HUGE –

HOW'D-YOU LIKE

TO BRUSH THAT

SET OF CHOPPERS?

A GROWN DINOSAUR

COULD ATTAIN A HEIGHT OF 32 FEET AND BE 100 FEET

LONG- HIS TEETH WERE SIX INCHES

LONG

The colts of this dawn-day

the air, one after another.

"Ma! What are we going to do?" cried little Rubbalong. "Ma-.your hair's coming down-and your apron string's undone. Ma, your...."

beenuse

But Ma Rubbalong knew all right. She took off her slipper, she put the howling Sniff across "Hold your tongue." said Ma her knee and she gave him one Hubbalong. "I want to Bless us, there goes that dustbin

think.

Animal

FADER

sea

of her very, very best spank- ings. How he yelled.

You'll hardly believe it, but Interested the dustbin was so that it almost broke the win- I'm not dow, trying to watch. surprised. It's always good to know that somebody is getting what they deserve.

-(Lotion Express Service)

JIG-SAW GAME

T.your next party, gather up All the simple jigsaw puzzles that you can, along with a num ber of card tables. Scatter the pieces of these jigsaw puzzles around several rooms, assign a chair at the tables to each player, and give the signal, "Go."

First prize goes to the player who first finds all the pleces to one of the puzzles and arranges them correctly on the table.

Second prize goes to the player who correctly arranges most of his puzzle within a given time Imit

Another angle is to cut up in small pieces pictures from maga- zines and newspapers and seat- ter them around.

Not only must the player find

There is "Dinny,"

Something killed them. No one later engulf their bones, they the pieces to a pleture, but she it glant

their footprints in the must also paste them into a neat dinosaur, 32 feet high and 100 horse, known as the cohippus, knows just what. It may have left

were about the size of a kitten. been a plague, a change in cll- mud. These Impressions, some pleture on a piece of cardboard, feet long. This fellow weighs But the big dinosaurs were male, or it might have been a of them 25 inches in diameter, 125 tons and looks 43 if he could swallow a whole classroom the boys that everyone looked small animal that ate their eggs, were transformed by the

Into hard layers of sandstone. out for in this prehistoric age. At any rate they disappeared, of school boys and gobble the They had jaws armed with girls for dessert. "Dinny," who double-edged teeth more

The land sank and the sea in- Today they tell us much of what than vaded the area after that. Selen- we know about the age of rep stands right out in an open six inches long.

ilats know this because several files. feld, has many other strange pals

Some of them went around on hundred feet of marine shale who lie crouched and rearing

two fest, ench foot having three overlies the dinosaur trucks.

The ponderous dinosaur among the trees nearby,

huge toes with knifelike claws. Hundreds of thousands of years king of the jungle, the most feared living creature ever to and used their tails for balanc- later, the land bobbed up above NOT all of the creatures of ing. Others walked on all fours the sea again. Then the mighty exist. Smaller species were pro-

from theted

him by natural those days were glants, but and some couldn't walk unless Rocky Mountains were born. conts of armour, great bony›

of the bones of the they were in water. most smaller animals were last, There

slabs, which advertised that the

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In

dinosaur days the region

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when the dinosaurs,

are, however, bones of a 10- was full of swamps and ex- RUT to return to the age of owners were 'Indigestible. inch-high ancestor of the horra tensive peat bogs and which appeared about the line swamps were filled with 1 the dinosaurs died oft.

rushes and ferns.

Object of Search

WONCHO BILL MEADS. FOR THE WIGWAM WHERE THE RED-} SIGHS ARE HOLDING THE KID-

NAPED CHILD ~

TENING, HE SEPARATED SHORERS FROM A WHIMPER“)

*ING YOUNGISTER =

SOUNDS LIKE RUTHIE IS JUST ABOUT

HERE

DO-IT

By Dale Goss

was

to swim to safety when

the big The weaker, fern-cating tall fellows waddled along the

shores of this occan that would specles had high narrow taila and webbed feet which they By Harry F. O'Neill

hungry, the snorting.

bone- crushing monsters came along.

Sun smaller creatures developed such muscular legs they could jump from tree to treo until they were lost in the dense forest. As for the miniature horse, he would dnul: to safety in the underbrush: when the last of the monsters chased him.

RUTHIE THIS IS UNCLE

BILL - SH-H«H/

DON'T CRY !

Old "Dinny" was the alom bomb of the ago of freaks and monsters. All other creatures

feared him and maybe they 3.Roll

GYPTIAN

PARTE

GOOD LUCK NECKLACE

CRAFTS

GAMES

JOKES

ZOO'S WHO

LOONS HAVE BEEN

TAKEN ON FISH HOOKS AT THE DEPTH OF

NINETY FEET.

KEYS IN

JAVA ARE TRAINED

TO HARVEST COCONUT CROPS...

BEES ARE THE ONLY INSECTS

DOMESTICATED BY MAN...

Teddy Saw a Picture Book

-But He Didn't Know What the Pictures Were---

By MAX TRELL

JHEN Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with the entered

WH

turned-about

found

names, the playroom. they Teddy the Stuffed Bear looking,

It was into a very large book. Inld out on the floor before him.

of pictures."

the

"It's all fuli anid Teddy; "but they're strangest kinds of pictures. They aren't pictures of people or animals or trees or houses. I don't know what they're pictures of."

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Teddy looked at the funny plċ- tures.

Knarf sald: "Let's see them. Teddy." So Knart and Handd looked at the pletures in the big book. The next instant, Knar and Hanid both Ex- claimed that they weren't ordi- nary pictures at all. "They're coloured green?" maps!" said Hanid. "It's อ Ecography book!"

"What arc mapa?" Teddy asked. "And what's

progra- phys

Drawings of Land

"And wint's thal below,

Knarf said: "That's Mexica It's south of the United States."

"And what's that all around the United States, and Cunado, and Mexico? It's all coloured blue,"

"Those are sens and oceans," sald Hanld. "On one side in Hanid explained that

Atlantic Ocean. On the maps the were drawings of-all-the-land,-other-side--is-the-Pacific-And- and seas, and rivers and coun- way up at the top is the Arctis tries and ellies of the whole Ocean, which goes around the world. "And when you study North Pole where it's very about all these things-the cold." land, the sens, the rivers, tho countries, anci the Towns that's

called geography," sho added. "The children all study geography in school."

Teddy looked

at the again. "Why fre there many different colours?” asked.

Groat Continents

Knurf and Hanid explained many more things about mape maps to Teddy. They explained 52 about the six great continents: ha Asia,

Africa, North America ("Where the United States, Canada and Mexico are," sald "Those are the different Hanid); South America, countries," said Knart. "Each and Australia. They explained Europe

about

the different

countries of the world such as England, France, Spain and all the other countries. Then they showed Teddy how all the large cities were shown on the map by dots with their names after them.

of them has a separate colour. That's to you

coin tell them up apart."

Slates

"Here's the United where we are," Hanid broke in pointing to the middle of ono of the maps. "You see coloured brownish."

"And what's that," Teddy, "right above coloured pink?**

wonderful!"

are asked Maps

it, Teddy finally sald, "You can sit right in front of one, and go travelling all over the world, It's across oceans, and continents, and from ono city to another!"

"That's Canada, Teddy. north of the United States."

Things to Make With Materials at Hand

1.On a brightly colored MAGAZINE COVER mark off triangular strips 1inch wide and 9 inches long

2. Lay strip with brightest colors down on a NEWSPAPER... cover thinly with PASTE down to 1* of base.

learned to stay out of his way tightly on a ROUND,

no well that the dinosaurs died

through lack of nourishment TOOTHPICK to the tip.”

At least that's na plausible an

'answer an any other,

Remove toothpick !

Make It triangular beate then make moro beads-

So Knart and Hanid nodded and said, that was right, and walked out, leaving Teddy sit ting in front of the maps in the geography book, travelling all over the world.

from strips of PLAIN PAPER Upside Down

wide and 3" long.

After beads have dried. place on toothpicks and paint with dear HAIL POLISH

STICK IN BAR OF SOAP

TO DRY.

5. When polish is dry...remove toothpicks. Starting with small boad,string alternately on a heavy string.

ITS hard to identify familiar objects when you're looking

at them upside down. That's why this game of identifying · upside-down, pictures is fun.

Place a row of pictures upside down on the floor. They may bo pictures of almost anything, famous buildings or personall- tics, your friends, or buildings In your own home town, In- clude pome comnon objects, such As advertisements of

TIE stlyerware, furniture, animals,

AROUND NECK!

your

and food.

Allow the contestants to look

only a few moments at these pictures at a' certain distance from them.

Then tell them to go to the table and make a list of what they saw.