STORIES
PUZZLES
RTS
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
2
CROSSWORD
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10
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Rs 25
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Peel
ACROSS
5 Shakespearean king
9 War god
10 Assam silkworm
11 Number
12 Sacred zong
13. Diners
15 Stenmuship (ab.).
10 Scoff
Scott
IR
20
20
house of Congress
23
20
25 2,240 tha
Great Lake
27 Bacon skin
20 Lairs
29 Pedal digits
DOWN
Top of the hend
2 Extent
8 Lenzca
4 Electrical term
5 Diminish
7 480
7 Is sick
B
Male sheep (pl.)
12 Dress, with the book,
bird feathers
14 Follows after
17 Proportion
18 In bed
19
Withered
21 Sound
22 Concludes
24 Strong drink
27 Right (ab.)
BOTANY POSERS
1. What tree might hurt you
when it gentters ils seeds?
2. What plant's roots
DIAMOND
This word diamond is very easy and centres on HEART. The second word is "an ocean," and the fourth "exists."
E HEART
BEHEADINGS
get
Behead "a dish" and "lardy," behead again and get "consumed."
ANSWERS
CROSSWORD:
BOTANY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, » SATURDAY, MAY 21] 1949)****
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
The Six-Eyed Jingy Bang ZOO'S WHO
Rubbalong Tale No. 8 By ENID BLYTON
NCE little Rubbalong went to se his cousin Popalong. Popalong wouldn't open the door at first, and when he did he 'looked, so scared that Rubbalong was astonished.
"Oh! It's you! Come along in," said Popalong. "I thought you were Fee- Fi-Fo."
"What, the goblin?” said Rubbalong. "Why should you be scared of him?"
"Well, he once did me a good turn, and now I just can't get rid of him," said Popalong. "He keeps coming to meals, he borrows money from me, he takes my 2 vegetables, he."
Rubbalong listened and
us
Foo-Fi-Fo leaped over the wall
pans clanking and banging round. him.
Fee-Fi-Fo turned pale. Popa- long palted his arm. "Don't worry, Ic
never cats good kind gobling!
That didn't comfort Flee-Fl-Fo at all He knew perfectly well that lie wasn't good or kind. The Jingy-Bang went on clanking out in the shed, and the howling of "Fec-ow, Fee-ow," went an too. And then the bangs began.
*Pop! BANG! Bang POP
Fee-Fi-Fo renched for his hat. This was too much for him! Popalong caught hold of his arm. "No, no, Feo-Fi-Fo. Don't be senred The Jingy-Bang always
WHAT DO YOU
CALL THIS
ANIMALS
KAN GURDO?
Jingles and goes pop-inng. He'sHEN CAPTAIN COOK LANDED IN AUSTRAWA IN 1770 HE ASKED A.
NATIVE THE NAME OF THIS ATIMAL WHEN THE AUSTRALIAN REPLIED, "KAN GUROOTMEANING I DONT UNDERSTAND/" GOOI THOUGHT
HE WAS GIVING THE NAME,SO LABELED IT....
safe in the shed. He wont come after you." "Bless us all! Are you crazy, was waiting for- loud bang at paper bags being blown up and "POP-Pop! that was two more grean eyes gleamed. "Popalong. astonishment, "You can't have goblin Fec-Fi-Fo,
Rubbalong?" said his mather, in the door. BLAMI That was the burst by ittle Rubbalong out in Tet me help you! Fee-Fi-Fo once my big saucepan, It's got soup Popalong opened the door. In too, and yowled all the more. of course, the shed. The cats were startled
turned Ma's three cats into logs,
and we very nearly threw them in."
in the fire before we found out 1what he had done and changed treo. Z them back into cats again. I
POSERS:
Tropical sandbox
Altaifa plant. 3-300 feet, 4 wouldn't mind giving Fee-Fi-Fo though! First he collected all the little shed outside.
to
wont Fee-Fi-Fo, sniffing to smell Popalang suddenly wanted what Popalong was going to have laugh, and he could hardly bear for supper that night.
to look nt Fee-Fi-Fo's alarmed Rubbalong took all the others a frightful noise came from the
Now, in the middle of supper face.
Then little Rubbalong went: paper bags he could and and almost jumped out of his skin.
Fee-Fi-Fo mad. He danced round the shed, stuffed them into his pockets.
clanking and banging, ho popped) Then he tied the kettle and ecow! FEE-OW!"
"Fee-ow! Fer-ow! Fee-Fi-To- saucepans together with string, Who's that calling my name
BEARS
HO-
HUM
his bags, and then he fell over DO NOT HIBERNATE ON A FULL a lower-pot and howled with STOMACH.THEY FAST FOR SEVERAL pain.
Fee-Fi-Fo gave
4. howl
-A person, (Plants breathe;
a care at all." carbon dioxide.) 5-By count-
"Nothing scares Ing the rings in the wood,
him." said Pupatong gloomily. "He's com RIDDLES: I-When it ising tonight worse scaled. 2-A live coal. 3-my Jarder will be bare and und hung them round his neck. in such a peculiar way?" said too, and fled out of the door, AR/WEEKS BEFORE DENNING UP
Juck-and The room for improvement.
empty when he's gone!" -Because without it she would; bo a "young Lad."
HOMONYM: Guessed, guest. DIAMOND;"
IX SEA
HEART
ARE
Plate,
BEHEADINGS:
ate.
He had a hurried tea, and then Fee-Fi-Fo nervously. "I don't he passed the shed, the thres three cats following him, their set out for Popalong's house, the in't worry. It must be the and art there, to watch him go.
It."
cata icapt up
up to the window-sill
my All he could seo of them were
"I'll como after tea," said Rubbalong "And if you'll do and say just what I tell you, you'll falls in the air. Popalong heard Six-Eyed Jingy-Bang in soon be rid of Fee-Fi-Fol the jingle-jangling noise and shed, said Popalong. "I've got their six gleaming eyes,
He ran homo, chuckling. "May" Little Rubbalong grinned.
came to the door in surprise. him shut up there because 1 "Owl It is a Six-Eyed Jingy- he shouted, as he burst in at the cats waved their tails.
The don't think he likes goblins. For Hang!" cried poor Fee-Fl-Fo, door. "Can I borrow Tib, Tab
all I know he cats them for his and leapt over the wall and ran and Tubby' again?
And your
"We're going into your little dinner. You know what Jingy for his life. late, kettles and saucepans7
Bald Rubbalong. "But Bangs are, Fee-Fi-Fo-ways And shed," have you any paper bags?” before we go I'm going to tell Robbling up something or other?"" you what to say to For-F1-Fo "I don't know anything about when he heart peculiar noises "Never heard of one in my life. them." sald Fee-Fi-Fo, in alarm. Are you sure it can't get out, Popalong?"
The Little Man in the Moon
-He Visited Knarf and Hanid One Night-
By MAX TRELL
4
will
grow to a depth of 50 feet in MR Punch sald: "This is my
search of water?
3. What Is the deepest in)
friend Merlin. magician."
He's
Knart and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turn- the
the ocean that plants will growed-about names, looked at vigorously?
man standing beside Mr Punch. He was tall and thin with large eyes and thick eye-brows. Ho wore a tall hot with the moon and stars all over it. "How do you do?" said Merlin.
4. Which will produce more carbon aloxide In a room, a few house plants or a person?
5. How can one tell the age of a tree?
RIDDLES
Meriln suddenly clapped his hands. There was a puff of smoke and a sharp explosion,
1. When is a wall like a When Knarf and Honid looked
Asti7
2.
again, Merlin was gone.
liku
#little
What is the only thiar this." Mr Punch smiled, "He'll
"He often disappears that can remain alive in a fre? be back again after
3. Which is the largest room
while." in the world?
Why 1
A young lady dependent upon the letter Y?
HOMONYM
Heard-A-Laugh-
tonight. Now listen,
Fopalong listened. He laughed. He smacked his hands together in deilght. He danced round his kitchen, Aha, what a joke!
>
sat down on a flower-pot and Popalong wet to the shed. He cried with laughter,
"Oh my, oh my! You're the best Six-Eyed Jingy-Bang ever heard in my life, little Rubbalong!" he said, wiping has eyes, "Come on in--Fec-Fi-Fo's left all his supper--and I've got some kippers for the cals."
With their siden aching with Jaughter the cousins went In- doors, the three cats following.
"Well, Fec-Fi-Fo's gone and he wont's
I come back!" said Rub-
"It might burst the door down, Rubbalong led the three cats a horrible yowl that is, isn't it? of course," said Popalong. "What into the shed.
It was getting Fe-ow, Foc-ow, Fee-Fi-Fo-ecow! very dark in there. He made the I can't help thinking that the cals sit down on a bench in a Jingy-Bang must guess you're row, close together. He took out here." his paper bags and put them The Jingy-Bang chose that balong, taking off three kettles ready. He settled his kettles and moment to mako. another fright- and two saucepans. "My word- saucepans comfortably him. He talked to the cats, and ing and clanking that made Fee- Jingy-Bang. I'd do it all again round ful noise-a jangling mad clink-1 did enjoy being a Six-Eyed told them what to do. Then he Fl-Fo leap out of his chair. It for sixpence!" waited.
was to Rubbalong dancing Al six o'clock, when it was madly round the shed, of course, little Rubbalong! Do it again!
Well. here's my six-pente, dark, Popalong heard what he setting all his kettles and sauce-
A Swedish
Legend-
How The
-fLondon Express Service)
Flowers Got
Their Colours
asked
"But how can we?" another cloud. "We don't go near enough to the earth to put colours on the flowers,"
A little man was riding on the moon.
who stood up and bowed, and then invited them all to climb up on the moon, to go for a Just then, Knarf and Hand ride with him through the sky. heard little laugh, and there So Knarf and Hanld and Mr was Merlin climbing out of an
Punch, who had nover gone empty flower vase on the book- for a ride on the moon before case. "I just went to the moon (an how many people over ure and back," he explained. *1 have?)
climbed up and sat toka little trips now down beside In the little man.
LONG time ago all the asked. "Isn't there some way and then. Have you ever been And Merlin aprang up and sa pale and unattractive. For would love them as they do tho flowers. The more they thought, flowers on carth were in which we could give them So the clouds sat around to the moon, my dears?" beside them too. Then off they
colours, too, sa that
of the people unhappily thinking Knart
and Hand said they all went, out through the win-colour, people looked up into sky floweta?" had never been to the moon dow again and into the starry the sky where the little "But we'd like very much to sky. All around them the stars clouds played in the rosy
Wor twinkling. was ng Winken, Blynken and
Missing words in this sen- tonco sound alike, but spelled differently. Can you
complete the sentence?
No contestant the identity
of the concealed-star.
Ulke to
said Hanid. Merlin sold there
need
to go to the moon,
Rupert & the live toys-36 bring it right into the room.
༤...
The giraffe and the hippa run happily round the little circe until they are tired, and then the hippo' goes str: ght to Sylvia just as he had done before. But the giraffe can't make up his mind. "You're all so nice." he squeaks. "I don't know who want to belong to. Rupert was the first to find us. Let him choose." "Very well, I will agrees Rupert. Willie hasn't had toy this year, so you shall belong to him, and you can both join in our games whenever you want to."
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
BRONCHO BILL
PREME - SALID QUANTERS
BRON
"AND
POR
like
Nod,"
He'd said Hanid.
Lights In Windows Far below them, they could
"You mean you really can do that!" cried Knori.
"No trouble at all.", sald Merlin "Just open the window see the little houses with tiny lights burning in the window,
A
"Perhaps we can get the stiv., heavens just before sunset. to shine down upon them and People loved those colours give them some of his gold," of the heavens and often said one little cloud. came out to the flelds to sit and watch the sky and those fleecy clouds,
a blt, Mr Punch. Put out all the And all night long they sailed"I wish I had beautiful colourK lights. Is everybody ready?"
Knart
and Hanid and Mr and walled, while everyone else Punch all said they were ready.
arty was fast asleep.
we
riad
They couldn't see Merlin very "But how are we ever going said another flower, "people well but th
they heard him say to get some strange words.
All at suddenly
soon re
One little flower signed sadly, like the sky""
"Perhaps, colours like those up there," down again?" Knart would be careful not to step on |onço an enormous round ball the, sky in the cast sfarting to as they do now when they
asked, for he saw sailed In through
the window turn pink and he knew that the
go through the Belds" and Ilt up the whole room.
A little cloud passing over, It sun would floated slowly around between would be morning,
and It hurrying the floor and
to join her sister the ceiling,
clouds who were playing hide- As though
this
"That's weren't strange "Just shut your eyes"
casy," said Merlin. and seek in the west, overheard enough, Knart and Hauld were astonished to see a little
the conversation. How different man And now comes the strangest those little flowers were from sitting on top of the moon part of the "Hello, Merlin!" the little man. Knart and Hanid
story for when the colours of that western sky. called 'downL
and Mr. How pale and sad they looked! Punch opened their eyes' again, "That's the man in the moon." there they were lying in their Mr Punch whispered hastily to own beds Knart and Honid.
and it seemed though they couldn't be stre, Merlin now Introduced that Merlin and the whole trip Hanid and Mr. on the moon had been nothing Punch to the man in the moon but a very pleasant dream.
Knarf and
AND EVERY WEEK
EACH ONE OʻYOU
MUST TAKÉ
A BATH
"
+
Soap and Water Treatment
WHAT? IN THE
WINTERTIME
her sister clouds
the little cloud spoke to "Can't we do something to make the flowers' cheerful?" she
DIOJA HEAR THAT, TOTINKYS
NOSIRSE? TAINT RTH IT
(((GULP
"The sun does shine upon them all day long,”
repited another, litle cloud, "but they, hava nover, been able to take any golden colour from him."
"If all the lowers of the earth were golden in colour" re- marked a third cloud, people
By Harry F. O'Neill would soon tre of looking at
them. Everybody likes a lot of colours, such as we have up here in the heavens. We catch. the colours of the sky and show many different colours brown, gold, purple and artice, I'm surowa wouldn't-miss- little colour if we each gave some to the floware"
FTTHEN OBG of the clouds, had
an idea,
"I'm willing. I'll give soms of my purple. Each of you, give some of your colours. Wo'll make the flowers happy."
the more uphappy they became until they started to cry.
And with each tear a little of the cloud colours was dis- solved and it dropped to the ground. The tears fell on the Bowers,
.
People called It rain and they thought the shower was nico because it helped the flowers grow. But it did more The colour that came off the clouds was picked up by the flowers.
So people no longer walked on flowers, but admired them for their colour.
DO-IT By Dale Goss
LENGUINS FLY UNDERWATER
THE WINGS WORK LIKE PADDLES THE FEET SERVE AS RUDDERS..
Here's How You
See In The
By WALTER KING
Can Dark
F you stumble and grope your way around when caught outside on a dark night without a torch It is probably because you are "looking too hard."
In daytime, you see an object at it in the dark turn your head most clearly by looking straight slightly and let your eyes con- This allows you to see what is tinue to look straight ahead.
the retina, or image plate, in in front much better, because
side areas than it is in the your eye is more sensitive in the
centre,
You can demonstrate this by a pin hole in a 12-inch square sheet of cardboard. Cover a torch with a piece of green
tissuo paper. Go in a dark room and,
GLAEN TIGAUE OVER FLASHLIGHT
IN A DARKENED ROOM SHINE YOUR FLASHLIGHT THROUGH A PIN HOLE IN A TWELVE-INCH CARDBOARD
after waiting for two or three minutes (don't get impatient) unil your eyes are accustomed to the darkness, hold the card- board about a foot away from your eyes, and with the other hand. through the.
shine the flashlight
Din hole. appear as you guze straight at it. The faint green light will dis-
But turn your eyes alightly aside and it appears again.
This shows how to see, in the durk properly-stop looking straight ahead into the darkness.
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
5.
rings on top
JUMPING Jenny Lanta
1.Cut JENNY from STIFF CARDBOARD.. 8thigh.and 61 wide at ham of skirt.
2. Color with CRAYON or -PAINT.
"
13. CUL OUT FREE
31 lang and
4* across...se
stiff cardboard
4. Cut 16 ringe from heavy PAPER... 21 Dinches acros5"
of each other. Fastan alternately with pinces of SCOTCH TAPE.
TAPE
6.Fold cardboard
dong and 1.
wide.
-back
7. Tape fast to
rings and hings to
HER
Musical Marching
action. You need music and HERE'S a game with plenty of
a pall, basket, pan or box and a two players. number of small objects for cach
bles, tops, dolls-items not eas-- The objects can be balls, mar- fly loat or broken.
The group is divided into pairs, each getting one container and its small objects. The small items are placed under the con- talter and the music begins.
the
One player matches with play. ers from other teams to muale while the other player on. the team of two scatters the ob- Jects around the container. When the music stops the two groupa change places and the musle starts again. The marchers then try to replace all the objects before the music stops a second time.
Then the players change places and repeat.
A prize is given to the contes- tant who has all or the most of his objects under his box.
Make This Wiggly Snake
HOME MADE
WIGGLY WATER
SNAKE
HERE is a awimming snake
that will wiggle its way, right across the bathtub if you do à lille noaxing with a meg
La minde
The
ewater snake
from a short piece of cord such as in used on a window. blind. The cord must bo
fairly thick but not too stiff and six inches long. To make It: Water proof, sonic it in melt-
ed candia C ovenly coated' allow
then press a needle part way into one end of the cord, Fix
the hoodle so that the evo slicks. but to form the #ake's
rhead." When placed in a water or in-the bathtub your 1.apan.or
mako will wiggle itself a swimming mood if you hold a magnet in front of its now. The magnet attracts the noelle and strange to say the anakes body wiggins if it were alive a
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