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STORIES

RIDDLES

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1949.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

Children's

serial

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1.

Why is the River Thames

nt flood stage like tenrs?

2. Whini

most flower

J-

rembles a bull's mouth?

THE two girls were full

T

of horror--especially

at the mention of that unfortunate handker-

3. Why is the earth ice chief. Daisy went scarlet blackboard?

when she remembered how

corner,

she had sewn a Z on it in never never, thinking that there might be anyone called Zoe.

They both stared at poor Zoe, and Bets was amost in

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on in-

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consistent salesman?

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which

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often found where it is not?

FIND A

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HOMONYM

Rotind alike.

Apelled differently.

gave the clam The professor

he would discuss the no-that

during the next hour,

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5 diutamak. The accamd word a mulai pu the third

Telet gem caved

1.ELEA annalle guddy," and 14th Lupa kit

Although they

the missing words in this sen-cars. Daisy wanted to blurt

tence arr

Complete the rentence:

and slide".

out about the handkerchief and how she had put the 2 on it but she stopped her, She must ask self in time. Fatty's permission first.

"Mr Goon was most un- pleasant," said Mrs Thomas.

E MYSE

ANTOMIME CAT

LARRY

& PIP

ON THE JOB

by

ия, we've

"Let's snoop round a bit- because if anyone sees we can always say come to buy tickets, and we were looking for someone to ank," said Pip. So they left the front of the theatre and went round to the back, try-

"He cross-examined me ing various doors on the ruchten and have | about Zoe till I was tired! why. They were all locked.

He wanted to see all the navy couts in the house tue --goodness

Behrad

behead this

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COMPASS

bave 16 "KINE", and have

telend gam Haste al neta"

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BIRD, BEAST OR FISH?

for!"

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what

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CAT-

GAMES

CRAFTS

JOKES

ZOO'S WHO

"'Oh yes. That constable what's his name-Goon—};a@ been practically llving her this week-end-interviewing · evezy

"Well, we actually came to buy tickets for this But the booking-office atformoon's show," saka Larry Je shut,"

orie.

Ho'a got poor Boysle zo scared that 1 don't think ho really

known

what he's say. itu now. He shouts at him 130 Boyste bucato in to tears."

THE BEES SHOWED THE INDIANS, WHERE TO GET WAX FOR ... bleye SEALING THE SEAMS OF CANOES..... THE RED MEN OBSERVED BEES. finished SEALING THEIR HVES WITH WAX FROM BÅLSAM POPLAR BUDS.

The whd now, and shone brightly. The manager ran it into a ched. "Well, that's done," he said. "Sorry I can't give you your tickets

BOW:

"You'll Ret

them COB lly

enough

this THE WORLD'S LARGEST 100, KRUGER SCREECH OWLS

afternoon NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH AFRICA,COVERS AN There are never | AREA ABOUT THE SIZE OF BELGIUM....

The two girls knew quite

to the They came Goon had got that park at the back of the L Which of the following well.

Panther, bit of navy-blue cloth that theatre. A man was there,

you in your cup of jen-the one many people on Mondays," Elephant. Fatty had jabbed on a nail cleaning motor-bicycle. that was drustited." enid Larry,

56 for a false clue--and he was The boys had no idea who "Did he, mir?”

with a he was. # coat the mm, hyena looking for

hole in it to match the piece of cloth. Oh dear--this was worse and worse.

2 Which powerful terti·

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ANSWERS

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"What are you doing here!” dan baki

"But

"Well. "He also wanted to know

we actually Come to what kind of cigarettes we buy tickets for this afternoon's like smuked," said Zoe. "And show," said Larry

he seemed awfully phrased bucking-office la shut" when we showed him a box- ful Egyptians?

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RIDDLE ANSWERS:

Daisy's heart sank further, and!

"Of course it is You can get the thekein when you cone along thus afternoon," said the inau, vigorously even rubbing

the

so did Bets's, shuning muviguards of the motor-

are you the manager, ******

v

Larry,

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"He certainly brought me in The tea," Bald the manager, "I was very busy, and only Just Klanced up to take it but it was Boysle all right.

He was still in his cat-skin se 1 cmukin' mistake binɛ. Too lazy to take it off That's Boysie I've even known him all over go to bed in it.

The boys went off, delighted a nil they had learnt. To get the whole story from the mann- ger himself war simply marvel- loun Now they knew ng much as Goon did!

де

"Come 13's

In quarter 10 i cive Let's

Antd get back, Larry, who was bursting to tell e news "I wonder how the They Jud an girls have got im

And so hád my job really.

"Ilut he's queer in the head, Fatty just got to pump Pippin

and that's all." He Like child. you know

is uidn't have done the job by "I like this detecting business, himself. though he must have don't you?" said Larry, as they Fund something to do with leveled up the road "Of enyrse. mure dieul for us that for he's an easily jel."

MATE FOR LIFE....

Someone Was Painting Leaves

-And It Must Have Been Jack Frost-

5)

man

By MAX TRELL

THERE'S

outside painting." said

Chirple Sparrow when he came to the window-sill for hlo crumbs. "He's quite an odd-looking man, all dressed in white. And you'd never guess what he's painting." Knart and Hanid didn't even try le guess, They didn't know that anyone was outside paint. The didn't know anybody dressed all in white. Ing.

It was Egyptian cigarettes begele whose ends Patty had meal-

the foged over

verandah. any

"Then somebody might have Goen or Pippin-all they've got Whoever would have thought clues that their silly false

Yes, I am The Aan de the come back that night--been let to do is to n to muyone they

by Boysie--your tea might like and nak questions, knowing|

For answer that the people would have fitted so well News' The man who was doped

have been drugged-and taken the pulled-and casandals, and tobbed last Friday!" said

by Boysie to you as unur), 50 into this

1 I would nuty 11 werungen fitted poor Zoe so well!

1/50

that you wouldn't suspect any- one who Ret 25 Juzade on

thing." said Larry, tel that Job"

Larry and Pip came along about ten to twelve. They looked pleased with them selves.

"Hallo, girls! How did you get on?" said Pip. "We did very well!"

1:

"Have you nty idea who did * asked Pip

"Aid,

they can

like and Into any house they moop rʊund--but we can't."

AN YOU were

asleep, the one that Haysie let

13t on the

"Who is he?" Hanld naked, "And what's he painting, Chir- ple?" asked Knarf,

The Hitle man was painting leavea.

Chirple helped himself to a few more crumbs. Finally he raid: "I don't know who he is. in must have crept up to your 'No, we can't.

But I can tell rou what he's $5. taken down the mirror other hand, we can perhaps plek "None at all, sad the man-

bila of news that painting. I can tell you because I little- got the key from wherever you up don't really believe it

watched him. Ile's painting the they're green. But when nutumn)

As corner and winter comes He'd wer was that adrol of a Boysit.

krep it, and opened the safe people might not tell Goun,"

"Look out-there's teaves on the maple tree." 1'Ap

nearer the leaves are painted and get away before you wake nd never have been able to do ail

When they heard this Knart different colours. Yes, it happens that

So there exclaimed: like this every year. Rank both

must be n renson for painting "Painting leaves!

them and someone must palat thet."

"Anyway, he's too scared of

me to try on tricks of that sort-

So they had. They had but he might have helped some- biked down to the

Ite

Little Theatre, and had gone to to bouk the booking-office

Was

Blow!

• 15% 9gh thigh) water the seals for the afternoon's

3-Be

show. But the lice A Towslip trow's lip).

children of men

closed, multiply sport the face of t 4- Because he sells who he needs rkreacing himself. 5-Fault

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HOMONYM: Sign, sine.

REHEADINGS:

Scare.

cate,

FISII: OR BIRI), BEAST

Camel, buffalo, zebra. 2- Hyena 3-Crested mynah. Blue shark, S-Male ostrich.

Rupert and a Mare's Nest-11

Rupert oours qui

his story, and at him solemnly. iht Owl gates "You wish to know what Mare's

Nest 117" he says. **Little beat. there are some things that we know bui must not tell that as one of Rupert them, especially today."

"Why especially today?"

starra.

4-

he asks in disappointment. "I can say no more." replies the wise old bird. Now you must run home And try to forget all about it." Sudly Rupert climbs down the tree. "Surely there must be some way of Ending the secret," he murmurs, jun then the sound of running feet makes him turn,

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED..

BRONCHO BILL

GETTING "UP TIME ALWAYD 15 HARD AY RANGER HEADQUARTERS

HO HUM ** CANT BRVVY••

WHAT

CHILD

"WHY

YOU ALWAYS MAKE US GO TO. BED WHEN WE'RE WIDE AWAKE. MAMA JONED, AND WAKE US, UP WHEN WE'RE PLUMB BOUND

ASLEEP

DO-IT

By Dale Goss

ene ets for cher 1,

in that night, theatre was empty("

Someone he when the

The boys were thrilled to hear it is rst-hand information, "It said in the paper that Boycle --the Pantoming Cat-brought

Things to Make With Materials at Hand

SCUTTLE BIG

1.Cut off a section of

PENCIL 2 inches long... Split open remove lead.

2. Tie a STRING

to each end of a

RUBBER BAND...

Put band between pencil halves →→→→→】 '11"

3.Slippencil through a SPOOL

(it must fit tightly).

4. Tie THREAD around spool, wind. 30 times cut off leaving 12 inches.

Overconfident Sheriff

5. With point of SCISSORS, bore `a hole in top and sides of a PLASTIC BOWL about 3 inches across.

...FUT BIDE HOLES A LITTLE AMLAY **OF CENTER...

6. Slip thread through top put strings through sides.

பெ

% Tie end of thread to a BUTTON

tis strings to pieces of PIPE CLEANER.

8. Draw eyes with BLACK CRAYON ...Fasten on RUBBER BAND

feelers with

SCOTCH TAPE.

PLACE ON FLOOR Pull and slacken string and SCUNIEBUG. will CRAWL!

THIS MORNING THE OLD SHERIFF AND HIS CROCKED DEPUTY WATCH THE LOADING OF A COVERED WAGONBUBSTITUTE FOR-

THE DEMOLISHED STAGECOACH

HO USE SENON' RANGER BOYS ALONG TO GUARD THIS CARGO HIGHWAYMEN WILL

NEVER GUIES ANNA) in 2003,

·THING WORTHYMILE

1S ABOARD

WHAT YOU

THINK

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as came

MCAT.

One by One

"Painting icoves," repeated

Guon!"

It," said the 50 11

frowning and and ༢༧་ཛོ་ {[ "That's about

his - manager, sliding up to puliah majestle Goun, riding

Im- "And the handlebars

what's cycle. and looking very more. It must have been one of portaal. He called out in them the rast, because no one knows en much about things as they da why, whoever the thief was keep even knew that I didn't the safe-key on my key-zing I always keep it in a secret poe ket of my wail.

"Where's that fat boy? You fell him if 1 ave him again this morning I'll go and complete Where to his parents. Poking his nere where he's not wanted! is he?"

"I don't know," said Plp and together, and grinned. Lurry What could Fatty have been

"And only the east knew that fut once Jan a why hadn't put Into the tnkings Thursday's

me Bank, because they saw coming back in a teaper with doing now? 1, where I found the Bank wea

used!"

"Who do you suppose it is?" Chirpie. "He's painting them ung Hanid asked again.

And such beautiful by

"All I can do is take a guess,” colour Well, these are very nice replied Chirpie. "My guess is that crumbs the children left for me, it's the same person who paints win- the re-piclures on the I'm certainly enjoying them--"

dows." "Chirpie!" cried Hanid. "Don't

go talking about something else! What is this painter painting leaves for?"

"Oh, that's Jack Frost! But," she added the next moment, He's "there is no such person.

make-

"How should i know?" said just a make-believe person."

Looked Roal "You don't know! Gati! 1 bet Chirile. "He probably feels like Why do some

"Maybe he you know where he's hiding, painting Diem.

Isn't a

ready

to pick Pippin's brains painters paint pictures? Why do Does he think he's on some painters paint houses, or believe person at all," said Chir- flo ngain.

Well, he's not, fences, or signs? He's the kind of pie, "After all, I saw him. this cuoc, too?

a painter who paints leaves. Now looked real enough to me, I think I'm in charge of this. You tell

I know as 1 was saying, these bread-

where he is. Let's go and him that"

crumbs"

see him." "11'a important to paint

Kharf and Hanid went out housest" Khart broke in. "It's with Clilrpie. There he is. Just Important to paint signs and look at him! He's way up in the fences.

But I don't know why top of the tree!" anyone should want to paint the leaves on the maple tree."

And with that Mr Goon sailed

The boys drank att this in. Soine of it they already knew,

much but it sounded

more oft, leaving Larry and Ply full exciting and real to bear it from of curiosity to know what in the been doing the lips of the manager himself, world Fatty had

"I suppose the police are on the job all right," said Pip, taking a duster and beginning to rub up the spokes of the wheels.

You Can

now!

MORE NEXT WEEK

-(London Express Service)

Coloured

"Yet," said Chirpte, "they're painted every year. In the spring

Have Fun With

Tops

TOU can have interest- alde a bright red. Reverse the

the of the top and same colours appear but in the

ing and profitable fun direction indoors experimenting opposite order.

with home-made coloured tops.

AG./

FIG. 2:

It was no use, No matter how ard Knarf and Hand tried to look, they couldn't see anybody up in the top of the tree.

Perhaps Chirple really saw him.

most

Perhaps Chirpie didn't. Perhaps (and this was likely) you needed eyes as sharp as a bird's to be able to see this mysterious painter of leaves.

At any rate somebody must have painted them. For the next morning, when Knart and Hanid went out and looked at the maple again, overy leaf was painted- splashed with colours-from gold to purple.

"The most wonderful painter in the world," Chirple kept way-. ing. "And it's Jack Frost all | right. I asked him.”

FIG. 3

FIG. 4

A

PENCILS ARE PUZZLING

LEAD pencil is a strange thing if you think about it because there Isn't any lead

The

ancient Egyplang had

For the second experiment you will require a cover sector From a sheet of white the shape of figure 3. This is cardboard cut two circular painted black and is made to or lightly over the peg to cover By Harry F. O'Neill discs about four inches in one of the seven sectors of the diameter. Pegs may bo colour circle on the second disc made from meat skewers (Figure 2). pointed at one end or from It is important that the hole pencils about two and one in the top of the cover sector be

Now start experimenting with in it half inches long. Those are made slightly smaller than the

First, cover pushed through a hole in size of the peg of the colour top

so that there is no chance of your cover sector,

up the red sector and spin aguia. pencils made of real lead-but- the centre of the discs. slipping.

is green. the pencils you use_today are What you

Graphifo is For the first experiment, The seven equal sectors of Cover up the green and you see made of graphite.

Cover blue, and the spin-a mineral. also known as black divido one of the discs into disc 2 must be painted with the red two equal portions. Paint colours of the rainbow. These, ning top appears to be yellow.. lead-only there isn't any lead in it at all; It's really a kind nre: red, orange, half the disc jet black and in order,

You will see that what you get of carbon,

Brat The In each case is the complemen- on the other half mark the yellow, green, blue, purple, and

violet,

tary colour of that which you even made for writing. They 12 arcs shown in figuro 1.

'with the black were part of an artist's equip Spin the top and when it Spin your rainbow dise and blacked out

ment-really very Ama brushes. moves from left to right the out what do you see? A sort of unl. cover socter.

You will get the best results And certain paint brushes are side lines. will appear green form grey. This shows that all Blue, the intermediafe, lines the colours of the rainbow odded when you spin your magic tops today called penells. yellow and green, and those in together give us a greyed white. under a strong artistolai light Puzzling, isn't it?"

2

Ece now

"poncila"

were

not

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