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STORIES

PUZZLES

THE CHILDREN'S EXCITING SERIAL

NEW READERS START HERE Julian, Dick and Anne have come to stay with their cousin Georgina (George for short) at Kirrin Cottage. Timmy, George's dog, is with them. On the first night Anno wakes up and sees a face at the window. Štia wakes the others, and Timmy is set loose after the owner of the face.

T

CHAPTER. FOUR THE four children wait. ed at the open front door, listening to Tim- my's ungry, excited barking, Anne was trembling. Julian put his urm round her comfortingly.

"What was this dreadful face

asked ke?" he

her. Ate shiveret in his arm.

and

HOBBIES

"I don't know. He came rush- ing into the bedrooms when Fereamed," sold Anne. "Perhaps he had heard a noise and had one down to see what it was

"That's about it," saki Jelinn. "Never mind, Anne. It was a

tramp; I expect. He found al the doors and windows down-

fartened-and stairs up the ivy to enter

Thamy certain."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1950.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

Five Fall Into Adventure

The Next Day

Face will come back again in hurry," he said. Now he knows there's a big dog here he'll keep away. I don't think we need worry any more."

They all went back to bed again,

A

She

NNE was rather ashamed of herself when the woke up and remembered the fuss

ad made. The Face was rather shinned alm n her memory now, see if he could half wondered she hnd by way of a bedroom dreamed

It all. She

asked W!!! get him, that's

Julian if he thought she might have had a bad dream.

"Quite likely," cheerfully, very glad that Anno hely, I wouldn't worry about

But Timmy didn't get him. He a time, with "I didn't see very much," she came back after said, "You see, I just switched his tall down, and a puzzled look on my torch, and the beam was in his eyes. Couldn't you and directed on the window near him, Timmy? asked by-and it fighted up the face anxiously.

It had nasty and It looked

it was Oh, I wan

for a Recond, pleaming eyes, very dark-perhaps black man's face! frightened"

"Tien did it asked Julian.

disappear?"

Gcorge,

"Woof," said Thumy, mourn fully, his tail still down. George felt him. He was wet through.

should think this.

said Julian,

"More than

if any more, if I were you.”

by

The day was very fine and warm again. 'T vote we do what we did yesterday-go off to the beach and bathe," said Dick, "We might take a plente lunch if Jonn will give us one."

The little agamuffin Kirl was down on. the bench ngain! She was alone. Her dreadful old father, or what. ever he was, was not there.

saw Georgo the Flirt First "I'll help her to make it up

ncowled. and Julian saw the for us," seld Anne, and she and

scowl and then George went off to beg for sand-

the girl, buns. Soon they wiches and

busy wrapping up were colossal lunch.

CRAFTS

Something hit George on the back of the neck.

and his made up mind at once. He

icd tho

firmly to where should others "Do for twelve, I think!" said Jean, with a laugh. jutted up from the beach, sur

lemonade, 100,

tako You can "ere's a bottle of home-made rounded by limpid rock-pools.

as many ripe plums as you like

at

as well. I shan't prepare any rupper for you tonight-you'll not need it after all this He didn't tell Anne that ho

examined the and

thickly hanch," growing ivy outside the window. George and Anne looked and and found clear traces of her in alarm. No supper! Then the night-elimber, Part of the they caught the twhile in her sturdy clinging Ivy-stem had eye and laughed. come away from the wall and

Anne seemed quite to

have beneath the wladow

Ivy leaves. forgotten her fright of the night strewn broken-off

before as they went down to Julian showed them to Dick.

the beach that day, chattering he and laughing was somebody,"

together. Even mid What a nerve-he-had, if she had thought about it the something soon happened that to up

A real cat- swept everything else from her

"Goodness! Where have you been to get so wet?" she said, in Surprise. "Feel him, Dick."

Dick felt him and so did tho "I don't know," said Anne. " others. He's been in the sea, was so frightened that I dropped

"That's why he's ald Jullan the light went my torch, and

wet. I gueri

ог the burglar, Our Plan George woke up whatever he was, must have and rushed to the window."

to the bench, sprinted down when he knew Timmy was ofter "Where

earth WARA Timmy?"

Dick, feeling him-and jumped into a boat! sald

I was his only chance of pet- suddenly surprised that Timmy hadn't awakened them all by in way." barking. Surely he must have heard the owner of the face front climbing up to the window, chain, too,

A

Julian shut and bolted tho dloor, He put up the

"I don't think the

Game of Tittertot

By Walter King

TITTERTOT

to

the

basement what a golf ball

in to the smooth green fairway In other words, an indoor titter, totter may be future golf champion.

TITTERTOT

2

TAP THE TOT USING

A FLICK OF THE

WRIST MOTION

The "ut la

made from

piece of soft wood about

whiter is the one who frst

wores nine,

Playing rules are as

of

**There

right

elimbing window like that. burglar."

were

Puzzle Patch

ADD-A-LETTER

Ad a letter to "frozen water" follows, and have "p cereal grain': add The tots are placed on the floor another and have "charge." anywhere within 12 inches

CROSSWORD the starting wall. The tots are then sent spinning towards the "hele" by means of a sharp tap with the stick on the end of the 20t's nose.

Some players pre- fer to top the short nose same do best by hitting the long une but occasionally there

the

་

no choice

on

account of

position of the lot. The hole"

is

the dishpan and to score one puint each player is

expected

to land inside the pan withi

D

he allotted number of strokes. 22

The number of strukes allow-1

determined the tots.

ed each player is by the numbera 011 Suppose you are shooting first. If the number 1 falls uppermost when your tot lands, this means you have only one more try to land in the hole. If your ponent's tot lands with number 4 facing the ceiling, be

A four more shots

27

23

1.

TRICKY QUESTIONS

Does a boy or girl become legally of are on his or her 21st birthday?

2. Can water be carried in sieve?

3. Want come trun?

does banana

oil

CITY SQUARE

After finding the right start-

read

letter Ing point,

every either up, down, backward от forward (but never diagonally), and you will find the six cities hidden in our square:

EVC TI O

LEL ETR

1

A ADY TO NHNE WR

ACROSS

I Enthusiastic ardour

to

& Wolfhound

op-

9 Belongs to me

Pets

10 Tissue (unul.)

D

11 Bury

13 Vigour

A

14 Total expenses (ub.)

15 Take out

17 Martinique volcano

Reis during that If the tots

both one round.

of The players show the same num- ends of the stick are tapered hers, either 1, 2, 3, or 4, after:

by one by three

the

Inches.

other

In-

off to make two "noses," one the Brst stroke this means the longer than

(see number of extra shols diagram). Then, on the rectan Imited for both, gular urfaces, the numbers, 1, 3 and 4 are painted, one hum- ber on each side.

Then

the player landing in the pan the first is the only one to score a point for that round. Note that only the first struke

The tot ber of shots allowed. numbers are ignored after the irst stroke each round.

The tal stick is a two-fool length of broom handle. Two counts in determining the num-

tots and two sticks are required for the game.

The starting line is at one end

of the basement room and the

Tittertot has a lot of

base-

Anish line is the far wall near ment fun stored up for you for where a dish pan is placed. Nine the days when you cannot get "holes" make a game and

DO-IT

By Dale Coss

the outside.

VE A MAT

WEAVE A

1.Cut a piece of CARDBOARD 6 inches by 9inches. 2.Draw lines 2 inch from each end...

cut slots tinch

apart.

Things to Make With Materials at Hand

5.Tie YARN20 inches long "in end of stick.

6.Slip other end of yarn inslot B. With stick shuttle,weave yarn over and

(under strings.

3.Start at sbt and As you wears BACK AND FORTH

loop string back and

forth through notches.

SLIP PENCIL UNDER.

{ STRINGS)

[COMPLETE

SIKINGING

4.With point of SCISSORS

bore a hole in erld of a

POP SICKLESTICK for the Shuttla.

PUSH LACHTEN FIRMLY TOWARD TOP.

7.Weave in new

yarn as shown.. 8.When finished slip strings from card and pull

yarn down to

even up ends.

WEAVE AS FAR KIWI

BOTTOM AS POSSIBLE.

9. Tick loose.

ends into

18 Conductor

20 Exist

22 Worthless norse!

23 Carries (coll.)

25 Attachment for loan

27 Canvas shelter

21 Not as mitch

39 Tol up

1 Eject

2 Row

DOWN

3 Social Insect

4 Required

5 Near

6 Man-made river embank-

ment

7 Dismounted

# Title

12 Rent anew

10 Dormice

17 Tops of heads

18 Lle at ease

10 Great Lake

-20 Twisted

21 Italian city

21 Beverago

20 Nova Scotia (ab.)

SCRAMBLERS

body"

Scramble 'n heavenly and have "covers with pitch"; rescramble and have "rodents"; ngain and have a former Rus- slan ruler'; once more and have "crafts."

WORD CIPHER Here is a cipher giving the Arst line

of-a

well-known Mother Goose rhyme of 24 let- numbered ters. Each letter is

in the order, in which it pears.

PILECİK ADHI L.

Y-B L Ploc

NA

HGA

DIAMOND

The centre of our diamond is ILLEGAL The second word

is "a high mountain," the third "Arabian delty," the fifth "leaves of a book," and the sixth "possesses,"

ILLEGAL G

Puzzle Answers

ADD-A-LETTER: Ice, rice, price.

CROSSWORD:

LAN

A

IM

rocks

be here sald. "It's so hot we'll be kind of the shado from the rocks. What about just here?"

George, "It's all right," rald half-sulky and half-amused at I'm not Julian for being so firm about things. "Don't worry. having anything more to do with

that amely girl."

I'm glad to lient it, sald Julian. They had now turned a corner, and were out of sight of the girl. Dig rocks ran in an upwards direction behind them, and jutted up all around them Julian sat down in a lovely little corner with rocks protect- Ing them from the sun and the wirl

read before we "Let's have a bathe," said Dick. "I've got a I simply mystery story here. MUST find out who the thief is."

like

George small roundish thing.

"Why's Q pleked it up. damson stone, she said. And "ping" Another one hit her on the shoulder. She leapt up in u rage.

She could see nobody at all. her danson stone to appear, but none did.

"I just wish I could draw your face, George," said Julian, with saw such B gein. "I never frown in my life. Oooh!"

The "ooch!" was nothing to do with George's frown, it was caused by another dainon mone that caught Julian neatly behind the car. He tempt to his feet too, A-helpless giggle come from behind a rock some way behind George was and above them. up on the ledge in a second.

EHIND one of the rocks sat the Dregamuffin girl. Her pockets were full of damsons, come of them spilling out as the rolled on the rocks, laughing. She sat up when she saw George, and grinned.

"What do you mean throwing ile settled himself comfort-

there stones at us?" demanded ably. Anne went to look for sen anemones In the pool. She liked George,

"1 wami't throwing them," that the petal-like creatures

and said the girl. looked 50

plants

"Don't tell lies," cald George weren't. She liked feeding them

"You know you! with bits of biscuit, seeing their scornfully. "petals" close over the agents were." and draw them quickly inside.

George lay back and stroked Timmy, Julian began to sketch the rocks around, and the filtle pools. It was all very peaceful indeed,

rats, Star, ins,

SCRAMBLERG: ap- Tanr, arta.

WORD CIPHER: "Humpty lotters Dumpty sat upon a wall."

to Guess the answers the clues, write in the and you'll have the answer:

Letters 10, 20, 10 and 24 is boy's name.

3, 14, 11 is a small rug. 21, 22, 23, 24 is part of

house.

TRICKY

QUESTIONS: 1-A boy or girl has finished 21 years on the day before his 21st birthday, and is therefore 21 on the day before us biriday, 2-Yes, freeze it into ico cubes. Almost everything bus bananas. It is made from beets,

17, 10, 10, 12 is a small amorted grains and potatoes.

horse,

-15, 14, 5 is one way to make

14. means wages. body of mat.

face.

་

1. B, 9, 10 Is a part of camel.

A

13, 2, 7, 13 la made from

oap,

pipe

Now put the letters together and you have the answer.

NEXT WEEK you'll need six spools about 134 Inches long,

ping pony ball, string, dannci scraps, thread, a

cleaners; dark fels and a frozen lollipop stick.

CITY

New #QUARE:

York, Chicago. Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland. Albany.

DIAMOND:

ALLAI

GES

Suddenly something landed on George's middle and made her She sat up, and so did jump. Timny.

"What was that?" said George Indignantly. "Did you throw something at me, Dick?"

"No, said Dick, his eyes glued to his book.

Something else hit George on the back of the heck and she put her hand up with an exclama tion. "What's happening? Who's throwing things?"

She looked to see what had hi her. Lying on the sand was a

I wasn't I was just spitting thern," said the awful girl. słono "Watch! She slipped a

deep Into her mouth, took a breath and then spat out the stone. It flew strai

and hit her shariat George

"You," said the ruga-

some of my

and squarely on the nose. George looked so extremely surprised that Dick nnd Julinn roared with laugher. "But I can spit stones further than any of muffin. damsons and see.”

"Right!" said Dick promptly. "If you win I'll buy you an lee- cream. If I do, you can clear off from here and not bother us nay more. See?"

"Yes," said the girl, and her cyca gleamed and danced. "But I shall win!"

Next week: Ragamuffin Je

(London Express Service}

ZOO'S WHO

ARGENTINA PAYS A. TWO-CENT BOUNTY FOLPATROTS, WHICH ARE A PEST IN

THAT COUNTRY/1

MORE!

PAY UPSKI

"THE AVERAGE MIXED DOG FOOD PROVIDES AS GOOD OR BETTER HUTATION FOR DOGS THAN THAT EATEN BY THE AVERAGE CHILD,SAVS PROF OLIVE M. MCCAY OF

COANELL

westbe

Scarto

FISHING NIGHTS IN THE CASPIAN SEA SOMETIMES BROUGHT THE OLD CZARS OF RUSSIA AS MUCH AS $500,000,.

A YEAR

BRONCHO BILL

WHILE MRS, WEB CON IS DRIVING DEN TRAUBELS MEN OFF OF HER LAND, RANGER BOYS RADIJE TO HELP

K

GAMES

JOKES

Shadows Visit Ting-a-Ling

-And Of Course He Told Thom a Story

By MAX TRELL

NARF and Hand, the

Shindows, were allting in the rowboat with their old Irlend

Ting-a-Ling, drifting slowly niong the edge of the pond. It was a lovely day, or more correctly a lovely after- noen, for the sun was already sinking behind the high hills That euchreled the pond. There were white and yellow waier lly blossoms gathered in etle clusters here and there in the cunny patches, and the dragon- flies were daring among them.

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The three friends were out rowing.

They had been talking about the dragon-files and the water- Hlies when all at once Knarf noticed a hugo gray rock, half In the water and halt on the

"While the children remained land. A clump of tall cat-talls outside the cave, they remem almost bid the half of the rock bered these things no more, and that stood in the water, and the were quite happy again, land part of the

rock

Whe

Dut fringed about with thick viner once a year, on a very pleasant, sunny afternoon such as this, and bushes and several moss they would go back into the covered logs.

rave again and sit just for a few moments thinking again of the things they had forgotten." "Why did they do that, Ting- -Ling?" Hanid asked.

Bottom Of Rock Hand had been looking at thla rock, too. All at once she exclaimed: "Look, Ting-a-Ling! Is that a cave at the bottom of

Ting-a-Ling smiled. "Some the rock?" She was pointing to a dark space where the rock times, my dears, even the un- pleasant things are good to re- was cracked and where the

member. For even the mistakes water seemed to be going in.

He we make, if we remember them, nodded. Ting-a-Ling steered the boat in closer to the keep us from making the same rock. Kat and 1anid peered mistakes again. And even if we They could have lost something we love inside the cave. sce nothing but a glint of the very much, remembering it is water rippling in the darkness, like having it again, Just for And then Ting-a- "It's called the Cave of For-moment."

Ling, taking up the oars again, #etting." said Ting-n-Ling.

Knart and Hand wanted to moved the boat slowly away know how the cave got such a from the Cave of Forgelting. curious name, and what that, name meant.

It

ngo.

"It's an interesting story. had its name long, long This is how it came about. In Kille the old days there was village not far from this rock.

Teen Time

By BESS RITTER WRIST WATCH is an excel-

I was a happy villinge, Alled A lent daytime substitute for

and will keep you

with happy children. But now a compass, and then things happened which from getting lost in the woods. everyone, hoppy though they Point the hour hand at the sun. Half way between that and tho were, wished to forget."

Is South "What things?" neked Knart. figure "Sometimes," sald Ting-a-

Here's how to take bad-tasting Ling. "it was a little thing, like medicine: Just before the dose

a quarrel that should never

*

This

your sense

of

•

have happened, or a penny that is to be swallowed, rub an ice

will deaden was lost, or a glass of milk that cubo over your tongue. waa spilt, or an unkind, hasty taste.

someone's word thint hurt

For n party that's different, feelings. All these things were better forgotten than remem-plan a Silent Night affair. Post ja sign saying "QUIET-HOS- bered.

PITAL ZONE" outside your "And Gometimes,"

When the guests ar- house. Ling went on, "it was a more rive, introduce them to each cerious thing. It might be other by pantomime only. Tack Und "NO signs on the wall reading, sickness that they wished to forget; or a pain. Sometimes TALKING

of bowl It was n sorrow for a dear loy that was lost, or a pet that for the gag of it. went away and would return the

no more.

Ting-a-

Wished To Forget

ALOUD," Pass a walnuts

around, just

should bear

Bolice: "EAT IF YOU

CAN

following THESE ONLY

BE QUIET ABOUT IT." Keep a large platter filled with small "And so, when a child, had cards on a prominent table.

these things they wished to for- They

should

get, or those pains or sorrowa jike, "HOW that were making them sad, "WHATS they went into this cave and sat "ISN'T IT A

bear messages

NAME?"

DO YOU DO?" YOUR

NICE DAY" and in the darkness for a moment ather bits of small talk. Guests or two, thinking about them. may pass these back and forth, And when they came out into instead of making verbal con-

versation.

a person's shoes the sunshine again, the un-make too much foise, bring him

pleasantness, and the pains and slippers. Keep a record of alk

who forget them- the sorrows were left behind.

the people

They They weren't gone. They were selves and talk out loud. st in the cave. But in the should be required to perform cave they stayed for ever and a stunt by way of a forfelt, at the end of the period of silence.

over.

Rupert and the Caravan-9

Inside the shack Rupert starts can't have been gone very long. But nothing much seems to have back in surprise for the whole place

been taken. What he was search has been turned upside down and

ing fon I can't imagine. He's made Sam's things thrown in all direc

an awful mess," 'Hasn't he left tions. "What on earth has hap any traces? Let's go and look tor

"1 wish I pened?" he cries.

footprints." suggest Rupert, But knew," groans the Sailor. "Some the ground is hard and although one must have broken in while they search carefully they find

nothing, was at the shops this morning. He

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

While Investigation Proceeds

WE STOPPED TH CHIWELYDOTH #

THROWIN

HERP

OF LEAD,

SHAKE

YEHT THEY MUST HAVE HELPY WE BEST TURN

OUR COWS BACK

FOR TODAYou

By Harry F. O'Neill.

{WHILE AT THE ONEMFNS OFFICE

"SON, THARIS

THAD A MISTAKE IN WEBSON)\/DEED BAYS RECORDS HEI DON'T HE DORS OWN BROOLE RIVER

KALLEY, AFTER

I AM I SET

THOSE

RECORDS