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PUZZLES

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1919.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

GAMES

JOKES

MENTAL GYMNASIUM Pippin On The Trail ZOO'S WHO

CROSSWORD

· This puzzle is built on wilhouette map of Brazil:

n

Flook

ACROSS

SLANG POSERS

Whether good grammar or

not, siang is widely used.

How

many of theso can you answer?

1. What is a "potato"?

2. Ia a "pow-wow" the bark

of a small dog or a

whone talk prevails?

meeting

3. A "marde nes!?" isn't a

hores stall when you're speaking

in slang. What is 117

4. Is a "pick-me-up”” a ¡dnd

of car, hay rako, or a stimuls.

ting beverage?

RIDDLES

1. Why is a beaster Like an

India-rubber ball?

2. What requires philosophy than taking things DA they comer

3. Why does a baby boy South American country always receive a hearty welcome

Trick

10 Right (ab)

14 Northeast (ab.)

10 Dood

10. East pide (Rh)

DOWN

I Lincolns nickname

2 Rob Roy (ab.)

3. Blemich

Colour

5 Remoteneza

6. Malt bovengo

D. While

12 Toward

13 Permits

CODED MESSAGE

A simple code has been sub- stituted for the letters of, our message. -Can you declpher it? (Hint: Brazil is mentioned.) ·

Qhned. Imdbyn br Brohack no Aqeydk.

ANSWERS

wgd

SLANG POSERS: 1-Ą per- non. 2-á meeting. S--A hoax. 4---Beverage.

NIBLES: 1-Because he is

2

empty and

and full of bounce. Parting with things as they go 3-Because he never comes mis 4 The base (baso), 6– Because it digs into the earth.

VILENCE

RIVER REBUS:

Marne, Beine, Rhone, Garonne.

CODED MESSAGE; Rio do

· Janeiro to the capital of Brazil.

DIAMOND:

C

MOA

MOUSE

COUNTRY

ASTER KRI

MISSING LETTERS: Crumbled. Z-Rifċa. Saddled. Falled.

CHOSSWORD:

Rupert's Queer. Path--54

Rupert starts to tell Timerly of the queer things thai häve" hap- pened since she made the new path igio a real cray paving, but-he docan't get far before her father strives and sternly bids her to get up. Then the conjurer lifts she wanti and takes the little girl to ashore distance from the others. They hear him talking gravely in Chinese, and they ace Tigerlily hanging her head sorrowfully. **Oh, dear, I hope be won't punish her too much." mut. murs Rupert. She didn't mean to be bad

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BRONCHO BILL

HEARD OF "STU

BILL AND SPI THEN OF THEIR.

in a family?

4. If a rogue were engaged to sing a chorus, what part would be the most suitable to

to alma?... assign

5. Why is geology con- sidered a dorp selenoo? ·

FRENCH RIVER REBUS

Uto the words and pictures to decipher the names of the four French rivers hidden here:

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RAZOR

IF THAT

A GAR

}+(MOVE ON?)

SNE!

DIAMOND

COUNTRY is the word on which today's 'diamond ceplies: The second word is "in extinct bird," the third “a rodent," the fifth “a, dower," and the sixth "lo make a mistake.”

COUNTRY-

2

MISSING LETTERS

Here are four words, all of which end. Ja, the same three Jotters Can you All in the blanks and complete the words?

10—— II noted 2. Tiled 28-d-lea

DO-IT By Dale Goss

MYSTERY

NTOMIME G

Chapter Five of the new serial for children appearing every Saturday. It is written by-

-End BlyTow

The Five Find-Outors trick P-c Pippin, the young village constable, into believing ho is on the scont of a mystory. They moot at the Little Theatre to plant some false clues.

faco. ot Then, Fatty 1009 window.....

A

VERY large, furry animal was inaldo the window, looking mourn- fully up at him-or so it seemed. The eyes were big and glassy, and gave Fatty the creeps.

They went back to the girls. "There's something queer up

"Horrible it was noy quito dark, and there," and Fatty, big animal, looking out of the the church clock struck even window

I could just o'clock as they went to fetch at me.

reflection their bicycles from the stands. 900. It in the faint cast by that strbet-lamp out- side the car-park"

squeal

Bein gavo "Don't! I'm frightened!”

"Idiot. Fatty! It must be the cat-skin of Dick Whittington's cat," cald Larry after #mo- Fiment.

Then the Ave' cycled slowly home,

סודי

"Masow," said the cot, loudly. twalag - tenards the window, cað waving a paw.

But

"I wonder when Pippin will along." sald Fatty as he dismounted at his gate. "He'll

perhaps the meeting be mure to get there long be- would be in the car-park. fore ten, so that he can hide

In that coco_would_it_bo... before the meeting —takes place and there won't be a much good him climbing up on meeting after alli Only the verandah roof? He plenty of chics for him to wouldn't hear a thing. fnd.”

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*Well-I suppose it was," said Fatty feeling very foollah. "I never thought of that. The thing looked so lifelike, though I don't think it wan Just ព "See you tomorrow Fatty!" "He skin. I think the actor who called Plp and Bets

verandah still bye, Larry and Daisy. plays the cat must have been insido it”

Have to hurry or we'll go And he mw the clues! into a row,"

"Gracious! Does ho live in it, then?" sald Dalay.

The throo baya stepped quietly up the verandah steps and looked in at the window. The cat was no longer "there, but as they stood watching

it come in at

the they caw door of the roam and scross on all fours to the fre. place.

An electric aro

Pippin debated with

him cautiously switched "Good- on his torch and ached it floor

Wo'll round

sav

tho

Pippin stiffened and listened. It sounded to him very like a groan.' But where could it be coming from?

The room behind him was in black darkness. There wa nobody

of

near him out doors as far na ho, kriew-and If it was the cat before the firo making à nolso, how could he possibly, hear that? Не couldn't!

The noise came again, · and Pippis felt most peculiar. Thore he was, sitting on a Tarrow window-cillin dhe dirk, - waiting for. rogues' to meet down below-and groans sounding all round himi He didn't like it at all.

Hen, listened, - holding · his breath; The groan, caine again: It was behind him! Pippin muddenly felt sure of that. Well then, it must be in the room behind him! Pippin felt round the window meaning to. open it. But It was shut and fastened from inside.

his

Pippin remembered torclu He took it from hi beit and switched it out, so that the light thong into the room behind. Its beam swung niowly round the root-and then came to rest on some thing very quatr.

hin

A man was sitting at a desk. He had fallen forward. face, on his out-stretched arms. Beside him wad a cup, over- turned in ita saucer, the spoon near by on the table. -Pippin sigred in horror..

THE SWORDFISH IS THE UNOFFICIAL EPEED CHAMPION OF ALL FISHER,BUT NOONG HAS EVER SUCCEEDED IN

TIMING ITMT

MALE

FOR SEALS

KEEP WATCH OVER THEIR HAREM OF WIVES FROM APRIL TO JULY, WITH LITTLE. HOOD OR REST.

BARN OWLS EAT MORE THAN THEIR

· WEIGHT IN FOOD - EVERY NIGHT...

Plant The Seed

Of Friendship

TIVERYONE wants friends, tend your hand to now folks But no sugar-coated for wherever you and thom,in mula for acquiring them exists school, in your club, on the

George Washington, in a letter playground, in church.

Now written in 1783, sald: "True friends need you and you'll and friendship is a plant of you need them, growth." That is sound

Friendship cannot be selfish.

Then the beam picked out something else. A big wall- mirror was standing on the floor, reflecting the light of the torch. A large bole showed in the wall near by the place from which the mirror had been re-ship could start with the new moved. A salo had been built boy who moves into your you can give in conversation, in behind, the mirror-but it Palekburhond.. You don't know do you talle of your own in- was now empty, and the safe- door was swinging open.

The seed of lifetime. It is not how much you can get

drova his P.-C.

They all rode away. Fatty went Indoors, thinking of tho

"Thieves A His eyes brightened

robbery!" said aa ho way the eat had looked at him

P.-C. Pippin and rose to the the cigarette-ends, the the window. through

Thal

He doubled matches and the pencil chav occasion at once, really had given him a jolt!

ings. Somebody had been here his hand in folds of his big:

bandkerchief and r'a dreat bedoro-quite often, too, jude fist through the windowl "If I Were Bots

he thought, ing by the cigaretic-ends. about that!"

Pippin was on the job! wonder if Pippin's going to on the verandah hide himself

If he nomewhere.

reta glimpse of that cat he'll the fright of his life."

Ret

The verandah knust certainly be the meeting-place. Per- hape the cat was in the plot 100. That was certainly ideal Pippin did not 59 to the

Carefully Pippin picked up about half the verandah until

cigarette-enda, burn- past eight.

the mat- He meant to be ches, and even the pencil shav inig, and the boys could dis- there in good time tinctly set the cat pretending meeting, whatever it was. Ho

rings. He put them to wash its face, rubbing its had been very thrilled indeed envelopes. 17 ears with its paws, in exactly to and the message about the

Ho then found the torn the same way as a cat does. meeting at 10 p.m. behind timetable page

the Little Theatre when he had the aide of the verandah, and blown against "Mecow" said the cat placed together the torn bits was extremely interested in

was

loudly, turning towards. window ang waving a paw.

ald Plp. "I don't know why. But I just don't. I know It's only comebody inside, the skin, but it looks a jolly sight -too-real-for-me-- bet's go!

for the

would be pleared with

all into

the underlined Sunday train.

MORE NEXT WEEK

London Express Service)

FRIENDS

from a person "but how much

hlo name. You terests or those of the other

don't need to. fellow?

Introduc al praizo?

yourvolt. The

stranger will

Are you generous in

Half the people you meet are ba grateful lonely, discouraged and afraid. Your word of praise inay change

and ho bound to re- the entire day for one of this 50 member the percent. Say the tactful thing, first boy or being careful never to hurt the girl who feelings of anyone..

Keep ellent if it means korp- Continue to ex-ing a confidence. Help some-

one on a knotty problem.

spoke to him in an un- Zamiliar city,

What General Tin Told Knarf lous faiths.

---All Animals Have Different Kinds of Talle—”

By: MAX TRELL

NOW take tails," Mr. Punch

"I somehow don't ko it him if he could unearth some He looked round and found

was saying to Kart and mystery or plot, he was sure, the handkerchief with Z 011 Pippin meant to do his best. it, and wondered if it could Hand, the shadow-children

with the turned-about names. bo the letter Neldewayni Pippin" could not for the life Kaart and Hanid looked at: of him think of any name Me Punch with puzzled onc "beginning with Z, not even the pressions. "Tails?" said Knart.

ones the children had thought What kind of tails?" off¦°

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Be had his torch with him, but did not put it on until he had made sure that there was

All kinds, my boy, all kinds nobody about anywhere......

Then he spotted the "bit of of tails. I don't suppose you've -navy-blue cloth caught on, a

aver thought about how many There was a glow in the nail. Ahat Ohöf That was different kinds there' are. For room behind

verandah, the most valuable clue of all. Instance there's the cat's tail, Pippin looked into the room. Find somebody with a hola in which is long and curly. And He saw that the glow came a navy-blua coat and

there's the pig's tell, which is from an electric Bre: front of it, lying us Pippin took another chuitoushort and curly. And there's

rabbit's tail, which asleep, was what looked like a look into the window of the nothing but slump. The lion has a funny sort of tall most enormous cat Pippin room at the back of the Jumped violently when ho raw verandah.

much

abla creature.

in were getting, somewhert V YOU { TERA

Ho couldn't believe his eyes. Pippin was just about to give a loud exclamation when ho stopped himself in time.

there's the squirrel's tall, which

•

is furry, and the turtle's tall, They're used" for flying. Except which is spiky. And there's the for the peacock," be added. earthworm, whose tail begins "Peacocktails are. something

very-very special” » - «¿ where his head ends."

"Why?" asked Hanid, **Peacock" tails are just for

ordinary way, They're just

Knarf and Hanld instantly exclaimed that they hadn't ever

The-great cat was stult' lying in front of the electric dro Very strangerspecially if you considered that the cat war't really-a-cat-but a human being realised there were. so many show. They aren't useful in the.

Of course! It must be Dick insido a cat-skin--or a Whittington's cat- the one "skin, of some port. that defed in the skit In the

pantomime.

different kinds of talls. furry

"The lion has a funny sort of beautiful But the peacock is more proud of his fall then he is of anything else. He struts It's around, showing it offylike a fan

As he watched, Pippin cawal," said Hanid, the cat move a little get more "Indeed it has, my dear,

He hadn't soen it himself, comfortablo and apparently like, & whip with a, pompom nt. io all the lady-peacock, or per- but he had heard about it, settle itself to sleep again. |the end of it" Funny the cat keeping its skin.

on like that--because it was really somebody inside it

You'd think he'll

"Funny creature," thought

Pippin, still puzzled but very

much rolleyed to pee the ent

Long Brush

The

horse's tail is like a long - want to move.. art of feel if a brush," said Knarf, Med

"Exactly. And the horse uses

an soon mouse ran -across the room,

hehs, So does the turkey, and so does the rooster."

"Mr Punch," said Knarf; "are there any flies underwater?" į

"No," said Mr Punch.

take the hot skin, off as he could

the cat would be after this tall like a bruh, too. He Then what docs o Osh use Pippin wondered if the though I know it's not a real swishes-off illos with How his toll for?" treefing whatever it was, cat! would take place if there was a decided that it was quite have hands. Wo can slap a fly. otherwise could he get a dy off his back? We're lucky, Wo

Flips His Toil that cat in the room near by,

time he climbed up through But the horse and most of the tail-sud away he goes, The "For swimining. Ho flips his the hole in the verandah roof, other animals have only their while has an enormous all. and sat on the window-sillo feet and a tail"

By Harry F. O'Neill

the room

The men

The rabbit,"

0

St Francis of Assisi hnd

I still prayer-that

widely quoted, in magazines of all rell-

A portion of it reads: "Grant that I may not so much beek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved, as to Tovo; for it is in giving that wo receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."

How Tactful Are You?

STUDY this picture and try to decide what you would do

In this rather annoying altuation, The tactful answer is below,

The situation: You have

waited a long time at a busy shop counter. Then an elderly

IT WAS HOKE FIRST·

AND SHE'S PUSHING "AHEAD OF ME-

above.

When he flips it, he can lift a lady pushes ahead of you when

· might” coment any monent

boat out of the water or smash leis your turn to be waited ald Hanid, to splinters And the little now-one of them might be off his back sea-horse, which early-you..., never), knew!

with his stump of a OPECKS/wouldn't do for him to

GO TO

EXCEL

hlo

tall."

scrva you

Jarger than a mouse, has a long. 1. What will you do? (a) Look ald Mr Panch, twing fall, which he uses to curi inquiringly at the clerk, hoping with, all his clues safely in the backs of, rabbits. "don't have time to

on around seaweed like a monkey the (or he will: light on

Rabbits s

uses his tall to hold on to a ahead of (the discourteous customer? (b) Tell the lady you monkey's tail, Mr Punch co mement.

were there first? (c) Call out

: pocket, Pippin heaved

branch,"

himself 'up through the hole move too fást: And there's the "Oh,” exclaimed Hanid at this our order to the clerk and push

in the roof. He felt his way tinued. There's a tail that

to the window sill and

down on it?

It was hard and cold, and branches like a kind of live: It's a kite!!

"I know something

Isn't used for shooing off ales, that lan's a bird, or a fish, or annlitad of the elderly Indy... (d) It's used for holding on to animal. And still it has a tail. Say to the clerk, "Just a moment now. I was here abead of this | much - too' ? narrow to bescom, Įrope;"

"And I know. something" said woman? MANA fortablo. Pippin, resigned. him- (23)

Inarf, that has a tall and it Knart said: "Robins and spar- Isn't bird, a feh, an animal or [self in a long and

The solution. The best and... wait

rows and other birds all have a kite. It's penny?”

roost: tasfħul way to handle the talla. But they're not like animal Mr Puschkiniled, come situation is to follow solution A, fails. They're all feathern-books are full of tales, too. But look at the clirk ́and hops the #Birds" talis "aseplied air that's a diferent alors And clerk noted that you were first Punch, “are very w special, they all laughed.

tinensy

He had not been there more than" o "fow/mementi) when "ho heard a very

sound.

in fine;"