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STORIES

PUZZLES

HOBBIES

ANOTHER INSTALMENT OF THE CHILDREN'S

SERIAL Five Fall into Adventure

What happened in the night

Julich, Dick and Anne are staying at Kirsin Cottage with their cousin Georgina (George for short) and her dog Timmy. So for two things have happened. They hare got to know on extraordinary gipsy-like girl colled jo, who has taken a liking to Dick; and in the night Anne was frightened by a face of the window,

THAT night Anno began to look

T

rather scared na darkness fell. She was remembering the Face at

the Window!

"It won't come again, Ju, will it?" she said to her big brother half a dozen. times.

"No. Anne. But if you like I'll come

and lie down on George's

bed instead of George to.

night, and stay with you all

night long," nald Julian..

Antic considered this and

then shook her head. "No.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1950.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

T

Swiss Naval Battle

HIS scheming game will test your power of deduction.

For the playing surfaces you will require four pieces cf cardboard each about nine Inches square. Rulo cach off into 81 small squares and place the figures 1 to 8 along the top and the letter A to I down the left side.

Only two score boards

are required as shown.

By WALTER

KING

the second board as a record of shots at the enemy fleet.

The four aircraft carriers may be placed anywhere on the board providing they are all in a traight line. The same applies cruisers and two to the three destroyers.

The

ano

fleet ahead,

who

the

opena

calis cach of Ave

GL. As they are

Jits Jits

CRAFTS

of that volley in squares oppo- site the letters on the Bcoro

board,

When the first volley has been Ared the receiving side becomes the firing side and thereafter fir- ing alternates between the two sides.

nil ships of any one When kind has been hit, the team ships loces "shooting" at the smoke-screen

losing all such shots such as FI, 117, B3, D4 and shots during the next volley as Aircraft carriera called the follows: ali lose

all three shots; player marks sunk,

cruisers sunk, lose two shots; all shots on the

second destroyers gone, lose one shot board by plac-

The side that remains afloat with any frint power left after the other side has been wiped out is the winner.

SINKING THE GWICS NAVY

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The markers

A

are easily made

B

by on

00

tracing

'Look at this The master's study turned upside down."

around a coln and

cardboard

C

D

by

the circular

I think I'd almost rather bed at once. He rushed down-

have George und Timmy, stairs, Dick followed him.

I mean-George and I-and

even you might be senred

of Faces, but Timmy

wouldn't. He'd simply leap at them."

"You're quite right," said All "He would. Julian. "right" then, I won't keep you you'll see, company-but nothing whatever will hap- if Anyway, pen tonight. you like, we'll all close our bedroom windows and fasten them, even if we are too hot for anything-then we'll know nobody can possibly get in."

vel!

open,

cutting out

disco. You will

require a total

of 0 dises os

"Well, we'll certainly have to the police in, then," sald Ket

looking rather white Julian,

Georgo glanced at follows: Eight and stern. him. He seemed suddenly very marked grown-up indeed. She watch, letter

with

B. pix

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PLAYING BOARDS

B

6CORG

ed him go out of the room. He with letter C.

D, went into the hall and raug ttp four with letter CARGO C tire police station. very relieved.

Joan was

"Yea, get in the police, that'e what we ought to do," the sald.

The four

at the

10 with figure

1. 10

with figure 2,

3, and 10 with flgure 4.

10 with figure

ing

the fivo ve

No. 1 dises on the called squares When his second turn ho comes, hooto

his ccond

volley

of Avo shota and records his

shots using the

figure iwo dises, and

OD.

·loco

SHOTS LOSE A

LORD

SHOT

Aloud

BLOND

GO

As the shots

of each volley

GAMES

JOKES

ZOO'S WHO

To win, you must dispose of

in unlikely A TASMANIAN Own your

Beet positions, scatter your first volley TIGER, LONG.

or two well over your opponent's THOUGHT EXTINOT, WAS con in an attempt to locate her REPORTED BEING SEEN ships,

and when you do make

a hit, concentrate your follow-AT HOBART, TASMANIA.... ing shots around that area in

an attempt to hit the rest of the straight line of ships which you have already nicked.

You will and this the most ab- arc called the sorbing home-made game you: opposing player have ever played.

repeats them

check 10 tion and

the

Toca-

at the same time

At the start of the game you records them in his own ocean

one

children stared ruins of the

two board by the discs numbered I OOK at this! The master's silently

boards,

score for the first volley, 2 for the "Ltd turned upside study. What a mers! Could and your opponent get

be cleared up? Nobody playing

three Jetter too, would know what was gone ull board, four letter B'a (alreraft second, 3 for the third, and 4 for

C's the fourth. carriers), down-those drawers ransack- ever

safe's The

D'a letter two (cruisera), Mercy me, who's been here in Uncle Quentin came back. How

(destroyer), five of each of the the night with all the doors furious he would be.

"I hope nothing very impor-numbered markers. locked and bolled, too!" Joan

and wrung her tant has been taken," said Dick. wailed loudly hands as she gazed at the untidy It looks as if somebody knew something valuable hive, and meant to get it!"

"Ai has probably got it," Hnilo that must said Julian be the police! Come on-1 cnn ste it will be a long time before

breakfast Act our

Tuom.

Even got

open-and

there was

"I say!" Fald Dick, horrified, "Someone's been searching for

the safe thing pretty thoroughly wrenched the drawers out."

"How did he get in?" sald Wo out "Let Timmy for me, Julian, feeling bewildered. He morning!"

called went round the house, looking will You?" Julian,

that night, "Amie at doors and windows. Except which kitchen door, doesn't want me to leave her, for the

Timing out Joan said she had unlocked and take old for his last walk. Just open the unbolted herself as soon as sho window or not a him out. He'll came down,

had been touched. All floor come in when he's ready.

were fastened securely,

George,

even to

door and let

th.s

NEXT WEEK-Policemen In the House, -London Express Service.

HOBBY

Anne came down, looking STATIONERY

seared.

"What's the matter?"

she said. But

Julian brushed

her aride. How did that burg-

amall amount of paint, an art and a sharp um eraser,

"RIGHT!" called Julian, and iar get in? That was what he knife can make attractive hobby Kopened the front door wanted to know. Through one stationery which will make your Timmy trotted out, tail wig of the upstairs windows, he letters doubly welcomed.

supposed-one that somebody ging.

Julian went to the door and had opened last night after he

fastened it. hart He whistled.

Ustened for

the girls' room? hear- Timmy to come. Then, Ing nothing, he whistled once more.

your

Each puts his own fleet on ene

و

HAVE A

CIGAR

THE FIRST REINDEER BIRTH IN CAPTIVITY IN THE US,,OCCURRED LAST, OCTOBER AT THE BUTTERS - RANCH IN AMCHIÒÁN.........

OUCH! MY ARM!!

WHEN DRAGON FLIES

GET VERY HUNGRY, THEY BEGIN BATING PARTS OF THEIR

OWN BODY...**

Puzzle Patch

CROSSWORD

Teen TimeIT

By BESS RITTER

any

with

At the end of each volley It nny ships on the receiving alde have been fill" by enemy shots

girl'o THE To play the game, contestants, the receiving side announces the THE window of

room will look twico ភព face each other across a table kind of ships hit and the number with a card or large book stand- of each which have been sunk, lovely if it's decorated ing between so that neither can such as "You hit one aircraft six-inch ruffling all around the

carrier and two cruisers,”

sides, instead of "as usual" cur-

four see the other's playing board.

The Aring side then recorda lains. Start by putting up

top, curtain rods one at the of the playing boards and uses these hits by placing the number one at each side, and one at the bottom of the woodwork. The

Work ruffling can be home-sewn in short order it really wide, tatin ribbon is used instead of cloth. Resulta candy box frill that frames the view-especially if on edging of old-fashioned lace completes the effect, Don't for

edge get to sew some to the of the window shade as well.

The Shadows Heard Laughter

And They Found the Pixies Playing a Game--

By MAX TRELL

THERE were sounds of laugh-

It was a curious game.

ing and shouting as Knorf near the Old and Hand came Oak. And when they walked around the trunk and reached There the other side they found all the pixies playing a game. were Pixie O'Bean, and Pixie What is your hobby? What do

McSpry

and Fixle O'Boy, and de best? Swim, pixie O'Slub, and Pixie Mc- like to you Perhaps in hike, row n

boat, ride horse- back? It doesn't matter. Usual- Broad, and Pixie McLittle, and But no-not one window was ly you can find a simple design McGiggle, and Pixie O'No' and

favourite all the rest of them. symbolic of All were fastened OPT.

Jean pastime. Or, if you prefer, you securely, including

use your nickname on your stationery, or your monogram, or

emblem of your club.

A's make If you don't

through current drawing, look George was trying to magazines for a small sketch to

"Ju, Ju! Timmy off the bed.

on your stationery. Then There's something wrong with use

If were four-lent clover leaves, He won't wake up" trace the outline of the drawing The gloves that the players wore tail Timmy. Timothy

his wagged

Carries folded back to fit each pixie's "He's breathing to on thin transparent paper.

the He didn't Jump up at the erled

outline

sketch still feebly.

are hand. The bases were live troga, who never moved from the spot Julian as he usually did. "You heavily, too-just listen to himi look us if you've been up to And what'o Die natter down-out the original idea, you

ready for printing. If, however,

where they were sitting. But the mischke, Tim,"

sail stairs? What's happened?”

oddest thing of all was the ball. Julian told her shortly whilst the drawing has lost its identity, bed on-up Julian. "Go

then continue your search. Re- with you-and mind you burk he examined Timmy.

member profle views make the if you hear the smallest sound

best silhouelies.

of

This time he heard the round Then a thought struck him as

paturing footsteps

coming he looked into George's room. up the path to the door. "Oh, Why hadn't Timmy barked?

Tin," saki there you tire Jultan, "what have you been up to?"

somo

In the night,"

"Wool,"

rald

to

in

Timmy, rather a subdued voice, and went upstairs le climbed on bed and sighed

to George's

heavily.

¶OW_awful!” "H

said George. looking very pale. "And

now something's wrong with Tim. Ito didn't wake up last

"What a sight" said George, night when the burglar came! "And what have you ben ent- he's . Juliant"

Ing. Timmy?"

"No, he's not. It's been

Timmy wouldn't be pushed dopod," said Julian pulling back off the bed. He reltied down Timmy's eyelids,

to sleep, his nose on George's why he was so long feet as usual,

that's outside He snored a lust night." Somebody

Kave some ment or something little, and woke George in about him

with dope in some kind half an hour.

And he ate it and slept drug.

"So

of

with her feet.

"Shut up Timmy," she said, so soundly that he never heard

a thing and isn't pushing him

yet. Anne woke up, alarmed,

"What is

she it, George?"

even awake

"Oh, dear-Timmy, do, do whispered, her heart thumping, wake up," begged poor George fund pho shook the big dog "Nothing. Only Timmy snor gently. He moaned a litle and

He won't ing. Hark at him

irritated muggled down again. sald George, stop,"

stop Timmy, and "Wako up,

soring."

Tunmy moved

sald "Leave him," "He'll be all right. sleepily and poisoned, only drugged. settled down again, Ho stopped down and see the damagel" snoring and George and Anno fell sound asleep. Julian woko

open doors tho rooms, he lay at rest.

CHE

In

It looked, at first glance, like a game of baseball. But it wasn't baseball, at least not regular or- dinary baseball.

The bats were datsystems.

In The Sunshing

It sparkled with silver in the Sunshine. And when it was thrown by the pitcher to the bat- ter it just Boated slowly across the field, or went drifting away in the wind. The batter had to leap high into the air to try to hit it. And when he did hit it (which Knart and Hand was very seldom), the ball in stantly burst like a balloon.

It was a soap bubble!

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The moment the ball was hit and just as it burst everyone started shouting. Then the play er raced around the bases, touch ing each frog as he passed, with all the other pixies in the game chasing after him. If they caught him, he was counted out. If he got back home again before any- one could catch him, he made a home run.

Every one of the pixies seem- Reverse the tracing paper and ed to be as happy as larks. Then transfer the design to one side all at once Kharf nudged Hanid. Julian.of an

art Kum square (an He was pointing to someone sit- He's not

block-like pencil ting under a raspberry bush be ordinary Come eraser), which should be slightly hind the frog that marked the "Look! It's Pixie the design. It is first base. larger than important to reverse the design O'Scowl," Kaart whispered. George was horrified at the on the eraser, or the drawing

on the They went over to see what Pixlo O'Scowl was doing, for he once, thinking he heard some state of her father's study will appear backward

"They were after his two special stationery.

Uso a sharp pocketknife and was bent over something. Even thing fall-but hearing Timmy

again through books of American notes. I'm she said. gently snoring

they We¿Te

cut away the background from before they got to where ho was two sure of the

other that any down, his mind "Father sald

in the world would be around the design to a depth of sitting they could hear him

one-eighth Inch, keeping all lines grumbling. glad to have those. Whatever and curves even and sharp. The

But what he was doing they craser now looks like a rubber

couldn't see until they got right Then he turned "Better get in the polloc," said stamp.

can't Ordinary oils are used for up to him. it, no doubt about that, George

gravely. "WO always said that Timmy slept Julian,

manage this sort of thing our-printing. MIx the paint with around and they saw that he was

the consistency of making bubbles with with one car open.

selves. And do you know your turpentine

rich cream. A rough textured corn-cob pipe. nothing more father's address in Spain?" Julian heart

will take a better imprint "Me!" he complained. "Making paper 1 "HO a glossy one.

bubbles for this silly old game! till Joan went downstairs

"No," walled George.

Spread the paint evenly on the And spoiling my best corn-cob seven o'clock. He heard her go

eriall Into the kitchen and do some and mother said they were go-

ing to have a real holiday this rubber stamp with thing to the kitchen grute.

time-no letters to be forward-brush. Place the design on the pipe to de ill I'm disgusted!"

country

If the nolsa had really been a are we to do?" noise Tinumy would have heard

at

an old

"But why are you doing it?"

He was wakened, suddenly od, and no address left till they paper and with a firm steady twenty minutes later by loud had been settled somewhere for pressure made with the palm of Hanld naked, doing her best not He a few days. Then they'd tek- the hand, transfor the design to laugh at bin. For it was funny screams from downstairs.

tram tho eraser to the stationery, to see Pizlo O'Bcowl, the oldest wat up and then leapt out of graph it." -

Pixie 'cowl was blowing

bubbles.

When you build a

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1 Crate

25

ACROSS

Spiritual body (Egypt)

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14 Kind of monkey 10 Relieves

17 Bowling lerin

bonfire,

10 Lubricator

driftwood

make the flames look like bona fide, dramatic blaze by adding a small piece of old copper screening to the wood.

21 Silght bow

24 Covered with grass

20 Pronoun

27 Rave

20 Level

30 Conclucca

boys

спе

thought

A large percentage of and girls wouldn't worry bit over what others

of them if they realised how rarely others think of them.

to

When your favourite brand of

stuck chewing gum Kets your best suit or the upholstery of the new car, just take an ice cube and place it over the spot while you count to 100 (or do a little praying). You'll be mur- prised and delighted to find that the gum will ceparate from the in-fabric with very little coaxing.

and most dignified of the pixies, blowing bubbles--and with his best corn-cob pipe, fuo.

The Only One

"Why? Why?" he repeated dignantly. "Because I'm the only one who has a pipe, that's why. How else can you make bubbles

if you haven't got a pipe?"

At this moment Pixls O'Boy came running over, "Let's have more bubble balls, some O'Scowl. We can't go on with the game. We've used all the others up."

"Used them up?" cried Pixle O'Scowl. "What happened to them? I just gave you a whole basket-full."

"They busted, I meon burst," replied Pixie O'Boy. "Ah, that's a fire big oner" he suddenly said, seizing the bubble that was just coming out of Pixie O'Scowl's pipe. Thanks. I'll take it. make some more, please!" ran off.

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Pixie O'Scowi started grum- bling again. But then he changed it to a chuckle. "You know," he said to Knart and Hanld in a low

BTATE SQUARE: voice, "I'm not really as mad as

Blowing bubbles is Florida, Georgia, Sirinsippi, you think.

But I don't want them to nessee, Texas.. fun,

They

MUSIC-MAKERS: know I'm enjoying it. might want to do it themselves." B-U-GL-E; C-A-LL-IO-P-E.

BRONCHO BILL

| BEN TRAUBEL

IS WORKING ON, A SCHEME TO CHANGE THE. COURSE OF SADDLE RIVER

Louisiana, Ton-

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DOWN

1 Low, vulgar fellows

2 Operatic solo

3 Thus

4 Female sheep

Oriental guitar

4 Ascended

7 Rent

B Employs

13 Approaches

15 Land surrounded by water

10 Nuisances

10 Hideous monster

20 Persia

22 Portent

23 Low sand hii

25 Affirmative reply

20 Virginia (ab.)

and

SCRAMBLERS

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have

MEASLES form the centre of our diamond. The second word is "n

the third vegetable,'

fifth "apportion,"

group

"rings. the

and the sixth "0

matched pieces."

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of

starting

lotter

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SETESS

MUSIC-MAKERS

been loft out of the names of these musical instruments. Fill in the blank spaces:

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Rupert and the Caravan-21

At length the strange conversation Gnishes and the stranger turns to Rupert. "Now, little bear, see deal with you,” he says. **You ask for Sailor Sam. You want to see him? Very well, I think perhaps you go to join him, Yes, that's a very good ides. Haha 1 But we take no

chances that you run away. B 2 And getting some bits of thin rope he ties up Rupert's wrists and ankies. Then he binds his arms to his sides and, picking him up under his arm, he strides away over the grass, down the slope, and through the wood until they reach the cleat ing where atands the caravan. ALL RIQUITE RESERVED

The River Ditch

WE NEED BUNPOWDER. SNAKE AND I DON'T DARE BUY ANY YOU MUST STEAL

IT IN THE SETTLEMENT

MEANWHILE, MRS, WESSON TELLD HER SICK, HUSBAND THAT RANGERS REPORT NEW ENCROACHMENTS ON THEIR RANCH AT A DIFFERENT POINT

·$4+M+M/

TRAUBEUS UP TO DONG TRICK

By Harry F. O'Neill

RILE: SOUTHE CEME TRAUDELS.COMĀPNES DISONS A DITCH FROM THESE RIVER: AROUND THE WEST

OF THE SMALL, SADI