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SPORTS
STORIES
PUZZLES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
MIX-UPS
Rearrange the letters in each row of words to find the three
bidden Bowers:
TONG MEN. TIE
I RAT ON CAN
PAN DON RAGS
DIAMOND
VIOLETS form this diamond'a
FLOWER CHAINS
Link "precise" with "got up" and have a flower.
Link "a land parcel" with "a and have another pronoun" Nower.
Mignonette; Car-
ANSWERS
centre. The second word is "D
MIX-UPS:
point," soldiers," the Aith
DIAMOND;
V
the third "n body of nation; Snapdragon.
"versifiers,"
and the alxth an abbreviation for "pints."
VIOLETS
RIDDLES
4. Why is an egg like a colt? fowl with should a 2. Why only one wing and a fowl with (wo always disagree?
3. What is the difference bo- tween an angler and a dunce?
4. Why doesn't a yak low like n cow?
CROSSWORD
2
34
12
14-
123
127
1
9
10
u
ACROSS
Easter flower
An English wor was named
after this flower
Notion
Uncloseri
11 Bongo
13
14 Total expenses (ub.)
16 Our earth
17 Genus of grasses
19 Abstract beings
21 Pint (ab.)
23 Rodent
24 Motor part
27 Ellipsoidal
20 Weight deciuction
30 Withered
31 Type of moulding
Roster
DOWN
2 Unoccupied
3
Meadow
4 Sweet potato
5-Universal-Innguagɔ-
6 Musical draina
7
Vend
vend
8 Geraint's wife in Arthurian
legend
12 Afirm solemnly
16 Preposition
17 Perfume
14
1 Six (Roman)
10 Greek god of love
20 Church part
21 Minute skin opening
22 Woody plant
25 Indian
20 Labe!
28 French article.
TIP TROOP
VIOLETS
POETS PTS
RIDDLES: 1- Because it must be broken to be used. 2--- Because there's a difference of (opinion) between a pinton them. 3-One baita his hook, so the other hates his book, Because ground it inhabits is high.
The
CROSSWORD:
FLOWER
Rose; Lot-Us.
CHINAS:
Prim-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY
1949.
CRAFTS
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
Another Story By
ENID BLYTON
MR. DOZEY'S DREAM
R DOZEY lived just outside Tiptop
M Village in a dirty little tumbledown
cottage. He was a fat and lazy fellow, who never did'n day's work if ho could help it.
One day he had a very pleasant sur- prise. Mr and Mrs Tuck-In were giving a party, and they asked everyone in the village, even old Dozey. The postman put his invitation through his letter-box, and he was most surprised when he opened it.
"A party! I haven't been to one for years," said Dozey. "The thing is what am I going in? I want a new coat and waistcoat and a new pair of trousers and a hat and pair of shoes. Can I borrow them from anyone?"
But nobody would lend old Dozey any- thing. They had got tired of that years · ago.
Whatever they lent Dozey never came back.
Everyone said the same thing to him when he came asking for clothes for the party. "Dazey-- you go and do what everyone else docs you work a bit, and gel money to buy your own clothes"
Dozey was annoyed. "How mean they are!" he said
to
Blinks, his ent. "Not a scrap at kindness in them.
u job of work? Well, you goi And will you believe it, when builde into my garden and do he awoke, the very first thing a bit of weeding-and you might he saw hanging on a tree near roll the path while you're about by was a fine suit of clothes, it-and there's a corner over with a fine feathered hat, a vest, there that wants digging trousers, stockings, shoes and coat. Doxey was too astonished for words,
and."...
Well I've Dozay was horrified. What
a good mind go along to old do all that work! What was Ma Mn Rubbalong and borrow a thinking of? прен. If she'd give
"My word! Look at that. My
dream's come true. I'm a lucky
札 INO "I came to borrow a Change- fellow today no doubt about Change-n-Bit Spell I could use a-Bit Spell." he said. "I want that. Hat I'll dress myself in
This asemed a very good idea Indeed to Dozey. He appeared at Ma's door and smiled and bobbed.
nuine
a
and then go and show
"I dreamed them and they was in the water, he, Dozey, hnd came true," said Dozey grandly, woken up, and got into Mr
"A very useful sort of dream. Rumbustious's clothes! sald Button disbelievingly, and ever was he to do now? 'ran of..
A
*
FTER he had shown himself off for half an hour Dozny went to Ma Rubbelong's.
What-
"I tell you. If I eatch that fel- "began low, I'll throwin Rumbutious again, in his enor mous voice. That was too much for poor Dozay. He ran to the gate and little Rubbalong saw him from the door.
Mal There's the thief Mr Ho-wouldn't she stare! He
uncle's got all wondered if her brother Mr Dozey. He's
cried Rubbalong, Rumbustious was there yet. He clothes on," didn't like him at all-too noisy and out he went with Mr Hum- and very rude at times to people bustious to catch Dozey.
'Well, Dozey's knees were stil
like Dozey,
+
Dezey thought he would peop knocking together, so he couldn't Into the window of Ma's cottage run very fast, and very soon he Ma's see if Rumburtious had was being marched into arrived yet. So he went round kitchen by Rubbalong and his into the garden, and was just uncle.
to
about to peep in at the window when he heard Mr Humbustious's enormous voice booming away inside:
"I tell you, Ma, if I get hold of that fellow I'll throw him up to the moon! This thief The mean, Enoaking rubber! The fellow!"
Well.
Rumbustious," began Ma's voice, but her brother be- gan again immediately.
"I
CAN explain it all, I can, began Dozey.
"You can explain it to Mr Plod, the policeman," said Rum- bustious. "And after that I'm coing to throw you up to.
"No, no, no cried Dozey in fright. He turned to Ma Rub- balong. "Ma, save mel it was
"I was walking through the all a mistake. What can I do to
woods, and I was hot. I came show you it was?"
to the pool-it looked to clear
and cool. So I pulled my clottes
off-my best ones, mind and sense," into the pool
"Oh, well now you're talking said Mo. "Didn't I teli myself to old Mu Rubbalong!"
I went. And I tell you this very morning there was Come weeding to do, and the So he took off his own things you Ma, when I came out my path to be rolled, and a corner
them.
down Ho clothes had gone-yes, even my and threw
new feathered
hat and theou that wants digging-and . Althy
left instead. dressed himself in the grand sult
rngs were
And that's how it came abou! And felt very fine Gr-r--r--r! If I get hold of that Mr Dozey spent three whole of clothes.
that fellow. I throw him up days working hard in Ma Rub- Indeed.
it on my old clothes, and change to change these old clothes of these them into new ones."
into nice, ones for the party,"
"The only reason I'd lend you Change-a-Bit Spell is to change you from a lazy, sly old "What do you want?" sald fellow into a hard-working, de Ma, briskly, "Come to ask for cent one," said Ma sharply. "It You want clothes, earn them. Get along now-I'm expecting a visitor my brother, Mr Run- bustious, He'll soon and you packing if you're round here
Willy the Toad's Adventure
-It Started When He Left His Toadstool--
By MAX TRELL
WILLY, the Toud, hopped off.
the toadstool on which he bind been stiling, flicking with his tongue at flies (and now and then at bumble bees, which was a mistake) and went hop- ping down the narrow path I don't the meadow,
across
see why. Just because
I'm a
toad, I should have to sit on a loadstool.
"It would be like a man,"
bole
Coas he hopped
to sit on a man over, or a crow having to
sil on a crow-bar, or a monkey
to alt on a monkey- Of a duck having to alt
on a duck-pin, or a cow having to sit on a cow-slip. There's just
Willy hopped off his toadstool.
no tense to it. They don't do itauice, soft c
I don't see why I should to do-
End Of Meadow
By this time, Willy reached the end of the meadow and found Knarf and Hanid, the shadow
I
when he comes."
*
*
*
+
DOZEY didn't like Mr Rumbus-
noyed.
10
He went to the nearby pond to “
bolong's garden, with little Rub "YOB.
You said that before balong keeping an eye on him and looked at himself in the clear water. "Sir Magnificent
through the window. He's not "But Rumbustious," said Ma. Dozey!" he said, and bowed
In the world going to the party, though-no his own reflection. Then he let's think-who
he doesn't like meeting anyone thought he would go and parade could it have been? Who would
thing like that? Just now. They all say
same thing. up and down the village street dare to do a
"I Dozey! Any more dreams and let everyone see him and He would have to walk away in your grand clothes and every- admire him.
come true?" one would see him!"
*
**
Of he went, the feather way- tous, so he walked off, an ing in his hat. It was a pity ho He went through the hadn't washed himself in the woods, muttering to himself
and pool, and it was a pity, too, that It was a very hot day, Dozey soon felt tired. He sat he hadn't brushed his hair that Everyone stopped morning down under a bush and went to sleep.
He dreamed a wonder. and stared at this well-dressed Dozey as he paraded up and ful
In his dream 110 down nodding and bowing. dream had a marvellous new suit of clothes, from hat with feather in, to a blue silk vest clothes, Dozey?" asked little seen him and had undressed and and stockings to match.
2
Caves In
Z
"Where did you get
Button, in surprise.
those
UTSIDE the window Dozey's knees began, to knock t- went pake. ether, a face He felt very peculiar indeed.
His dream hadn't come true. Mr Rumbusuious had come along while be had been dazing, hadn't
gone for a swim-and while he
Can Be Used
Many Ways
chair in a big, quiel house. Why!" he said suddenly, as he glanced across the road. There was a largo while house standing there. "That's just the kind of house
ern France, two boys I'm looking for, I can chair standing right in the win- were hiking. They poked IL From now on," he said gally their heads into an opening
"you'll in the ground.
БОС
dow. And no one is sitting
children with the turned-about names, sitting on the fence. to Kharf. and Hanid, "How do you do, Willy?" said And me sitting in that chair!" Knart and Hanid.
"Howdy, folks!" greeted Willy. "Do you notice anything UA- usual about me?"
Knarf Hanid
looked care
Rupert & the Arrows-38|tully at Willy and said they
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Rupert unpacks the satchel which his mother gave him and spends the Next night in Dingo'a coltage, morning, to their delight, the sua la shining, and they put their skia bui of the window. "Before, we start, let's warm burselves ap by sboyel ling this now away from Yous door," says Rupert. And while they are busy he tells his pal all about. the queer affair of the arrows, but Bingo hardly seems to hear him. Now we've dug enough," be aİYL Come on, let'i par "the skiajou and see what happens.”
BRONCHO BILL
THE DEPUTY SHERIFF BENDING WIDOW JONES TO ACT AB BARRACKS MOTHER POR
THE BOY RANGERS ON
"DON'T CRY, MARY JANE / MAMA JONES WILL
TO TAKE YER MRW'S VREUN AMY MINUTE
noticed nothing unusual about him at all. "Except that you look hungry," said Knarf.
Willy explained in
in
NEAR Lascaux, in South-
"Let's drop a stone," one
With that, Willy hopped across suggested, "and see how the road. A few moments later, Korf and Hanid saw him hop-deep it is.”
ping through the open window The stone sounded echo-
and landing plump on the sent of the chair,
chairs."
Don't Like Toads
"I hope no une bothers Wily
Would there,"
remarked to some Knart. "Some folks don't like what disappointed voice that to have toads sitting in their being hungry wasn't at all un- usual with him. "I'm
The next instant Knarf and a general Hanld
alarmed to were bolh always hungry as rule," said Wilty. "But that's hear someone shouting from in-
what I meant. What I meant is this. It's unusual for side the house: "Shoo! You
Toad!"
not
me
not to be sitting toadstool."
Hanid,
almost
in
my
Willy came
ingly.
"Must be a cave. Let's ex- plore it!"
They returned. home for rope and candles. Soon they were standing on a rocky floor, the rope dangling from the open- ing above their heads, Curlour- ly they held up their candles and peered about.
Within a few hours, police had roped off the hole, and the government had taken charge. Geographie and selentine cocio- ties sent out their experts to study and photograph the re-
"Look!" gasped one of them,
out leaping
On the walls, in colours that "that's through the window, followed gleamed menacingly in the fic- by a broom. He didn't stop hop-kering candlelight, were fallo answered Willy. ping until he reached the toad-nimals-prancing porles, racing markable find.
"Humph!" he sald, deer, huge bleons and buils, and "I've decided not to sit on s
Korf and Hanid met him fother bensts. toadstool any more.
"Oh," said right. Why aren't you?"
That's it
Cats don't when
~
water-buga sit on
something better to score" sald rotate bugs sit on potatoes. So
"Come alt on this fence.". Knarf. "Thero's plenty of room," why shouldn't a toad sit on a
Willy looked up and down at load-stool?"
2
"Look!" Agali the boy. alt on cat-tails. Bats don't sit on again. "I like it here. Why bareball-bats. Lions don't sit on shouldn't 17 Grasshoppers sit
trembling finger. THE two
French schoolboys, dandelions. I'm going to find on grass, pond-Hilles sit on ponds, pointed
out on a hike, had found water, and "People!"
They saw tle brown human paintings by cavemen who lived
20,000
years ago! figures, alming spears and or-. ruws at the gigantic animals.
Sale from the sunlight which Breathlessly they clambered
would dim their work, our an- ran to tho
cestors painted-their stories on buck up the rope, village to announce their and. cave-walls. Mordern govern- ments have the same iden for protecting our tre
treasures, pecially in times of war.
the fence, then back and forth. And Knart and Hanid, sinil- He chook his head. "It's too ing, couldn't think of any season near the road." he said. "It's too why a tond shouldn't. Especially dusty, What I'm looking for Is, such a sensible toad as Willy.
Close Quarters
SHE BKIZZLE MY \COMES) (2IZZARD
By Harry F. O'Neill
Greece, for instance, took her many statues when the last war broke out, and hid them in CAYM and underground dun- geons. The Dutch people stored away a whole art gallery in a sandstone cave formed By a quarry.
The lovely, stained-glass win- dows of England's cathedrals were buried far underground until the bombing stopped. The Germans did the same thing with art collections they took from. conquered countries. The Allies found pletures Nowow, statues, Jowellery and so on, hidden away deep in the salt arici. Els copper miniot Chotinany und Austria,
PEOPLE
well ns art treasures, fluid caves a pre- betion in wai-ume, even though they are damp and uncomfort- able. Old caves on the English sea coast, on the island of Malta, on the rock of Gibraltar, enved hundreds of Ulves. The Cer- hans, too, had many bomb and plane factories burled under- ground.
Some caves are popular for sightseeing. Expert guides lead parties through caverns, tunnels, galleries, and rooms, pointing out strange stone formations and oddities of all kinds.
From cave-men's days to our own, the holes and tunnels of the earth have been Important to us for science, for protre- tion in war, and for just plain fun.
the
-London Express Service)
A NEW
PLAY
HERE is a new ball game, just for two. All you need is a ball, ono other player, and one pitch,
First, mark out the play- ing ground as shown in the diagram. You can do this quickly by scratching lines on the ground with a-stick. The size of the playing court does not have to be exactly as shown. You can change it to suit your own require. ments.
the two To start the game, players inke up positions in op- posite catch "pens." The plt- cher tries to throw
into the ball the opposite pen so that it lands without first Inside the pen touching the ground. The ball, however, must be made to go higher than the catcher's head as it travels across "No man's lond." The catcher, of course, will try to catch the ball in prevent it from falling into the pen he is guarding.,
ZOO'S WHO
z.
WHEN SAD, AUSTRALIAN KOALA BEARS CRY UNTIL
TEARS RUN DOWN THEIR CHEEKS...” -
CHELP!
FISH DER CALOHT: 26,504 POUND)
MALLARD DUCKS HAVE
BEEN TIMED AT 60 MILES:
CANVASBACK HUILESPER HOUR.
·PER HOUR DUCKS
GAMES
DO-IT
RING
JOKES
By Dale, Goss
GOSS
1. POP BOTTLE CAP with' MODELING CLAY or PUTTY. 2.Punch a hola
in the center of. PAPER
PLATE-to fit
tightly around a PENCIL.
4.Slide plate upside down onto pencil. . Push down?
5. Place at ore and of a
table and try
to ring the pencil with 5 RUBBER JAR RINGS... Humberther 1-2-3-4
and 5.
6-25
3.Stick
the eraser end of a pencil in the clay
KEEP SCORE!
ADD THE COUNT FOR EACH
Ringer!
WAY TO
BALL
PEN A
NO
OMAN'S
LAND
PEN 8
CATCH BALL GAME
ET'S suppose the player in pen A has first throw. B is the catcher.
If the throw is a wild one and goes outside pen B, three things may happen.
(1) B may run out of the pen to catch the ball and score two points.
(2) may run out of his pen but fall to catch the ball. This Is a "double error", and no one scores.
(3) B may see the throw is wild and let it pass, If so, he scores one point for his good judgment.
If the throw is a good one-- ane. which would land on the ground in B's.pen unless caught
three
ree things may happen:
(1) B may catch the ball. If
so, neither player scores.
(2)
B may try to catch the
ball but drop it.
scores one point.
(8)
Then A
B may think the. throw is
a wild one and make rid,allempt
ito
catch
the ball. Then
scores two points.
*
FROM these rules, you will see that your catch but trains you to use your head and to control your arm. Any tho judgment, You make an error of
or throw a wild ball, you put your opponent one point closer: to winning the game.
The pitcher, of course, must throw the ball while standing somewhere in his own pen, and the ball is thrown from player.
to player. as the game Pl
It is not necessary for the
to warn the catcher that he is going to pitch the ball except for «The very first throw, When
a player has recovered a wild pitch from the opposite pen & he returns to his own
pen and makes his return throw as soon as he can.
The player. 21 pointed as winner.
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