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STORIES

PUZZLES

HOBBIES

ANOTHER INSTALMENT OF THE CHILDREN'S

SERIAL Five Fall into Adventure

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1950.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

CRAFTS

Be Your Dog's Best Friend

Where can George be? W

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READERS

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Julian, Dick and Anne have come to stay with their cousin Georgina (George for short) and her dog Timmy, while George's parents are touring in Spain. Burglars come one night and ransacked the study, looking for valuable nates made by George's father, a famous scientist, The next night George went out to take Timmy for his bedtime walk. All the others wont to bed. Nobody knew that neither George noe Timmy had come back.

CHAPTER EIGHT

NNE woke up in the night, feeling thirsty. She whispered across

the room.

"George! Are you awake?"

WAA

SO, no answer,

verv

Thero cautiously and quietly. Anne got her- nelf a drink from the decanter on the wash-stand. George was sometimes cross if she was awakened in the middle of the night. Anne got back into bed, not guessing that George hadn't answered because she wasn't there!

She fell asleep and didn't wake til she heard Dick'a voice. "Hey, you two-get up, it's a quarter to eight. We're going for a bathe!"

by

"What's the matter, kid?" he asked,

Sad Blyton

give

ald

he

HEN n now puppy Arrives at your home be sure to do

By BESS RITTER

GAMES

JOKES

ZOO'S WHO

And the kida in the house DESTRUCTION OF INSECTS BY DROUGHT won't wage daily "battle royals" LAST SUMMER ALSO CAUSED ADROP IN about: "I want

Best of all, your dog Win low enough for him to hop in und out. The other three should learn self-confidence early. He'll 1. Have the house ready melont height to protect know, from the day that he be- for his coming.

up the wolis so that one side is my room tonight to sleep In THE POPULATION OF BATS IN

two things:

2. Prepare the family for "Life with Doggie.”

his recambent back

from comes yours, that there are cer draughts. In addition, lift the tain, meint, seldom-changing it followed, merit he clear of the floor by screw- rules

andi

that praise. And ing a knob-type drawer-pull to love

other, "ever ro" regulations can each corner for "legs."

earn him nothing but house- wide, scolding disapproval!

0

Start by conferring with the folks regarding the rooms, furni-

Encourage round-table discus- ture and prize possessions that DUPS bedding can constat of |he-mustn't gonear-This-will-an-okd-folded-blanket or a lons at an early date, too, In

simplify things from the start. discarded

regard to his care and training.

tiere's The whole family-from Baby bedding with

An agreed-on a case made of Unless to Dad-will be ready to enforce plastic cloth, so that a daily division of labour, he may wind the same set of rules with an soapy-rag wiping will keep up with a dozen equal, unyielding rigidity! ·

pillow. Cover

the

a

meals daily, while everybody forgets to give

in his bath! Deelder

1. Who will feed the pet.

2. Who will be responsible for housebreaking him,

3. Who'll take care of daily, essential romps.

4. Who'll train him to heel,

to keep him in Cover ugh romping space, stop, come, fetch and stay.

to

G. Who'l be family vet.

It's easy to make a pen. Just make a bbitomless, topless box by bracketing four ideal-sized

Teen Time

clean.

Adit credited strips of Where will he sleep? That's newspaper, to be replaced dally

the until he's thoroughly house mother decision that all family ought to agree on. If a broken. majority vote makes him an but- Some dog trainers belleve that door dog, install a wind-fight it's also essential to make kennel in the back yard, before play pen" for the pup. This his arrival. Or select a warm should enclose hin bed. It spot in garage or barn, where a comfortable, homey" bed may choull be too high for him to Jump over, and wide enough to be made.

allow

The floor area between

5. Who'll bathe lum each If you want the house through the night walls and bed with a thick car- "But--how are you going to hours, decide where he will stay he can be confined to n limited

peting of shredded paper. Now week. live?" aske! Dick.

Rule out the following unsafe spot-ih, basement (too cold space while being trained "Dad said Jake would and damp), the top of the stairs perform on paperi

(this space shonid be clear), the money to buy food," Jo. "But only if I do what next to n radiator (hat's un- place that's telis me, I don't like Jake. He's healthy), and any mean."

famous for draughts,

Don't buy a bed for your pet- "Who's Jake?" asked Jullan.

it an "un- to-be-especially most astonished at all this.

reasonable" family member has decided from the start to dislike- "Jake's a gipsy fellow. looked up and came towards knows my father," galit Jo. hum. Bulk a home-made sleep-

Shelle's always turning av for aing place. Once everybody gets DREPARATIONS like this take

the project and two, and going away interested in it shu had bern day or

here begins to help, Doggie's welcome Ishment." George is up already crying. Her small brown face again. If I wall about

tears he'll come and give me a six-will be heartier. The one who didn't want him may even trag her was streaked where the and han

pence or two, I expect."

later on. "Why, I even helped bird. She might

waked a run through the dirt. have

make the first bed Pup slept in!" me, and I could have gone out

"Hallo," she said, loolting nt

The project itself is surprising- with her. It's such a lovely

She tooked to miserable she's tuken Dick. day.

I suppose

ly simple-especially if you can wine that Dick felt touched.

procure a large-enough drawer un early morning

Fix Thomy for

discarded bureau. from a walk Uke the sometimes does."

Aune slippert Into her bathing ran 1 costume and

join the boys.

They went downstairs togther, theh bare feet pad. ding on the carpet.

Anne sat up, yawning. Her eyes went to George's bed. More than It was empty. that, it was all neat ami tidy, as if it had just been made!

"Well!” ni Anne, in aston-

even

made

They met the ragamus Jo. walking along The She was beachi, Follecting wood, and che boked sullen and dirtier than

ere.

"falle, Jot called Dick. She

them without smile

A fanked of

"What's the matter, kid?" he said, kindly.

Tears trickled down Jo's face as she heard the kindness in his voire. She rubbed them away and smudged her face more than

al- ever. "George has Kome out

"Nothing," she said." Where's readly,"

said Anne. "I expect

Anne she woke ently and took Thimmy

"Anne's at home, and George I never even heard ber!"

Julian was bow at the front is out in that hont with Timmy, dour.

fishlug," sald Dick, poluting out to sea.

door

George

"No." he ad.

The in't locked ob bolted

slipped snust

have

down, undone it, and then just

"Oh." al Ja, and

furned

pulled the door softly fo How away to po on with her collect Very consiticrate of her! Last itt af wood. Dick went after

time she went out carly she her. banged the duor no hand that

woke

house!"

everyone

He

"What will he tell you to do?" all Gald Dick, puzzled. "I seems very queer and horrible

You're only kid." to me.

me to go "Oh, he may tell poaching with him or-or-well. there's things we do that folks like you don't," said Jo; sud- denly realising that Dick and Julian would not at all approve of seine of the things she did.

window screen together. As the Is trained, as Pup EDON

their to return can creenc original role after you remove the hardware.

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✡

✡

But trouble.. time and they'll save in the long run. In the "reality addition, they'll bring the whole family down to

Mum can avol much house situation"--dog ownership.

Dad can

prevent chewed-up cleaning, books and clippers.

Knarf Was Taking Lessons

"I

his

-He Was Learning How to Be an Acrobut-

By MAX TRELL

JUST learned a lot of tricks this morning." Knart sald "I'm Hanid. sister learning how to be na aerobal"

"I hope he gives me some money today.

though. I haven't got

looked at any at all, and I'm hummy."

Dick and Julian

*To Jot Poor these days there me another. think that in should be a forlorn tile waif

ke Jn, Roing in fear of others, to and often hungry and lonely,

Hankl, who was sitting in the hand in the Dick at his

and pulled chair under the window, reading this shopping banket

of butter and a book, looked up with interest "Oh. so 3ou're out a packet Fome biscuits. "Here you are" und curiosity.

Tuck to these fearning how to be an acrobat. he said. and If you'd like to go to the Who's teaching you?"

some time today kitchen door and as Joan, our cook, for a meal she'll give you one. tell her about you.” He oaked elusely at her hitta.

"Folk" don't like

in

he the off like that.

what's wrOUT morning."

"Hey!"

sakl. "Don't go You just tell me

with you

She

tise to

"She may have rute Think

In her boat," said lick,

said yesterday

led

rly one murning when the

tade was right. She'll probably

arrive complete with stark of LE caught hold of

lah for joan to cook."

with what looked like people in it, Him.

זיינן זיי

There

two

Jo and

I swing her round to the

me

at

could spider The ant showed Knarf how to

balaner a daisy.

IF you need a handy gadget for I

keeping the pencils on your desk, use a glass flower fro Stick the writing instruments in

the holes. They're exactly the This tricky little right size. cadret has a dual personality"—— weight at the self-rane time. for it makes an excellent paper

The

Give your puppy

an old leather glove to chew on.

is the and heavier t larger belter, Put him on your lap,

B tho article after slipping clothing on one hand. Stroke him with the other. He'll start In the it on nibbling future, leave the glove near his freding dish and sleeping place. You'll find he'll be more likely personal to maltreat his own property than the belongings of the rest of the family.

once.

CARLSBAD CAVERNS-

BATS EAT

INSECTS.-

THE AMERICAN ARKADILLO ROLLS INTO

A BALL ONLY AS A LAST RESORT AGAINST DÅNGER

HE PREFERS TO SAVE HIMSELF BY AN AWKWARD BASH FOR COVER-

THE GRASSHOPPER SPARROW'S CALL

IS FITCHED SO HIGH ̈ ̈*

THAT IT IS INDISTINGUISHABLE TO MÁHY EARS.

Puzzle Patch

PRODUCTS, EXPORTS

Use the words and pictures in this rebus to learn about come products and exports of Arabia:

Sands

+

THEY LOOK DRIED CHOUGH

NOW

THE COMMITTEE

DECIOSO TO

BAR LEE

FROM THE

MACETA

WORD CIPHER

Don't throw away a cracked tennis ball when it's simple to First, cleat! repair the break. the cracked nren with an art

Now adhere Kum eraser. strip of strong canvas cloth, cut on the bias, over it. Allow this to overlap a tie at each end.

Here's a puzzle in which you Cover with a coat of household cement, being careful to smooth find a missing word or phrase.

Let this dry Your clues are given out all wrinkles. ovrnight. Repeat the same pro- numbers, each number repre-

a second strip cess with

of seating a letter in the order it binding. After this

dry.

Ty appears in the missing word or

phrase. roughen the area slightly with fine sandpaper, to remove the excess glue. Do this carefully, in order not to injure the cloth.

Puzzle Answers

"Well," gald Knart as he sat to teach me was the spider." down beside her, "the first one

"The spider! Why-why--what They Booked out to sea when and saw that we now had two they got to the beach.

"She fought me how to do "They're afraid I'll steal some. was a boat far out on the water bruises on her face-one rour kitchen doors," said Jo, cram- kind of tricks

I met the I wasn't a yellow, that he had riven her ming biscuits into her mouth, teach you, Knart?"

Then to another. tricks on a rope. when he had sent her flying two thing" Shis glanced up at Dick.

It was snail and he showed me how courge. or three days before-and a new "And I do," she said,

real rope, of

But I made to glide along the ground with-

PRODUCTS, EXPORTS: that," just a cobweb.

and horsen Deled fish; But whe-dark purple.

even sciming "Your shouldn't

myself as small as she was, and

the opossum and Barley. He yelled

then the cobweb looked exactly Then I met Fald Dick.

WORD showed me how to lay still O ht: like a rope.

and pretend I was dead. Then I met the duck and she showed me how to sit on the water and

with

feel. But in; "She taught me," Knart went

paddle the best tricks of all I learned on, "to climb up the rope, and leslide down again, fact as light from the fly."

nink. But then she taught me She of all. best trick

that's George

Timmy," said Dick.

"Where did you get ast waved his hard, but the bruise?" he said, touching bont was too far away, and

nebody waved back.

of

1st

plunged

lightly.

The three the into

cold waves Hiter-irr-rrr!

that it

"That was my dad," said Jo. "He's gone-off and left me- taken the caravan anit all:

to, fon, but be

"Lovely12 mid Anne, when they came out again, the drove wanted to

let

the

into 17

du

E

boys not

worried

up to about this But what

KU,

could

of sea-waler running down wouldn't their bodies and listening in the caravan. And when I hammer ragamuffin.

ru

now,"

I

3

Up the Rope

branch of a

end

to move.

CIPHER:

Camels Pearls

Washington,

ענן

In this, the missing word is a city in the United States. There are twelve letters.

Letters 11, 5 and 10 spell a word meaning "a noise."

Letter 12. 2 and 8 a full- Erown kitten,

Letters 3, 4, 9, 8, a discharge from a gun,

Letters 6, 5, 7, 4, 8, "inte

STORYBOOK POSERS: 1-Came evening." home. Prince. Hansel,

tom 9-Allen.

4-A

SIIX-UPS: Saudi-Arabla: Yemen, Kuwait; Mucat and Oman: Balirain

DIAMOND:

Islands.

"From whom?"

said Hanid

г

FS

ELATE

PLATEAU

STERIL

EAR

SENTENCE:

The

"From the fly."

SCRAMBLED "What could you learn from best cantels in Arabia er bred in the interior of the Sultanate of Mincat and Oman.

MIX RIDDLES: 1-Yes. It has letters: three of them are P. 2- An lelele 3-A fire. Dyrd. Ch

e at the dear, he came out they do. Nothing except feed the early morning sun. "Let's have a punta me down the steps. her and give her money. Dick Motched the rope from the

a tree. It was quite That's when I got this bruise had slipped a shilling into her of the fence right across to the in surprise,

her eyes

above the ground. word,

n few fost and I've got another on my leg, hand and she had pocketed It

without

She thowed me how to walkc two."

Heaming.

not home across it without falling. That's the fly?" Dlek and Julian listened in

George was still What kind of a lif horror,

Hanid nodded, She glanced was this that Jo had to live? by lunch-time; and now Julian called tight-rope walking."

If the boat was at her brother in admiration. tricks did what other "And and Dick pulled Jo down be anxious. He slipped out to the

beach to see then glowing and very hungry. The boys sat down on the beach for the first time began to feel went back to breakfast

was just pulling sil at sea. It "Where's George?" asked tween them.

inking heart you learn?" as she brought in their

"But surely your father Is in-and with a

it was not saw that breakfast. "I Fee her bed's coming back?" said Julian. "Is Julian

all-what's and

the earavan your only home?" George and Timmy who were derful trick."

in it, but two boys.

HEY chased one another up

Joan.

made

china

We've al-

over her

"George will be absolutely "Yes," sald Jo. "I've never He went to look for George'n It was, high starving by the time she comes had another home. back." said Julian.

"Perhaps wayo lived in a caravan. Mum boat-and there

was alive. up, on Ute boat-beach with she's got one of her moods on did, too, when the

But many others, George had not and wants to be alone. She was Things were better then. awfully upset about Thom this is the first time dad's gone been out in it at all

off without me,"

being drugged."

Rupert and the Caravan-

Delaying, no longer, Sailor Sam remounts the horse and gallops up to the hilltop, but can see nothing of the fugitive. We don't know how he got away or in what direction.he sighs. He rides in circles round his shack looking for aigns, and at one point he gr. off and gazes intenfly at a soft piece of

APL RIGUTS

one.

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"Here's another hoof ground.

"It's # mark." he says tensely.

that That means fresh Roderigo also has a horse and that he has passed this way." Quickly he sets off with Rupert clinging to him, and as evening falls they spy Roderigo disappearing over horizon. 'RESERVEV

the

"Oh," Fald Knart, "if only could have learned her tricks! the only ones But they were that were too hard. She tried to show me," said Kharf, "how to walk up a slippery pane of "The ants taught me a won- glass. I couldn't do it"

"That must have been hard,"

Hanid "What cla couldn't you do?"

"Oh, the ants! What trick did raid they teach you."

make myself as "I had to

Ifo Cottage and

he was.

ran

back to

up an enormous Kirrin really told the other stem, though What could have showed me

part it

They were at once as anxious as big and heavy as a log) and "stand on a lump of sugar and

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how to

"I couldn't stand on the I couldn't stand And above all, small as they were, first. Then chandelier. they showed me how to pick on the wall.

log (it was I couldn't walk upside down of a dalsy across the ceiling!" And Knart to be righed. "But I did," he added, balance rub my feet together" and this it on my head. They showed time he smiled. wait 11 tea-time," me how to run with it, how to cald Julian, "Then if the's not tumble with it-without drop- climb oveT It-how to ping have to do back we'll really

rocks with it, and how to crawl about it-tell the something

into a hole with it." should think. But police, 1 che has sometimes gone off for the day before, so we'll just wait a bit longer."

become of George?

"Wo'll

Tea-time

"That's a wonderful acrobatic trick, Knarf"

"And then," continued Knart, no" met come but

a kind of worm, It George and no Timmy. Then showed me a wonderful trick, they heard someone pattering too."

up the garden path was it Hanid wanted to know about) Timmy? They leaned the window to sec.

out of the

sort of trick the taught Knar£

Wor

"Ito Jo," sald Dick, in disap-

pointment,

or something,

she want?"

་

"She's got a note:

Whatever docs

In a Ball

"This worm showed me how to curl up in a ball and go rolling from ono place to another Then NEXT WEEK: An Extra-without hurting myself.

#

ordinary Message—and Laught me how

Plon.

I met tha squirrel, and he to run up a tree and leap from one branch

BRONCHO BILL

STORM

STILL ANGER

TER SADDLE

TING

CROSSWORD:

AIN

SAT

T

RE

APE

ARABIA

Letters 1, 5, 10 and 7, part of a bird.

all of the Now you know letlers, Put them together..

STORYBOOK POSERS

If you've read the alories, you'll know the answers these pusers:

10

1. Did Little Bo Peep's sheep

go to market, to the fair, or come home?

2. Did a prince, a king, or

DIAMOND

SCEDO

Most fertile part of Arabia is the PLATEAU of El Jebel, whileh forms a centre for this word diamond. The second word is "measures of cloth," the third "to put up," the fifth to Kulde," and the sixth "an auricle."

PLATEAU

E

U

CROSSWORD

A silhouette of the Arabian peninsula serves as a base for this crossword puzzle:

F

10 P

1 Begin

0 Weird

ACROSS

7 Mimic

8 Cry softly

10 Old-womanish 18 Pester

DOWN

1 Southeast (ab.)

2 Symbol for tellurium.,

3 Gur subject

4 Tear

5 Golf device

6 Wus scaled

Individual

11 Left side (ab.)

12 Eye (Scol.)

SCRAMBLED SENTENCE

The Puzzle Maji had a litte trouble with his sentence about

4-Adiniral her mother awaken the Sleeping Arabia. See if you can straighten

Beauty?

3. Was-Peter, David or Han- It out:

sel the name of Gretel's brother?

4. Was Black Beauty a dog, 1

n horse or a skunk?

5. Did a hunter, Goldilocks

er Alice fall down a rabbit hole?

MIX-UPS

Eenrrange the letters in the strange lings following to form the names of the five idngdoms, etc., which make up Arabla:

RUB AA SAI AID

ME NEY

AUK WIT

NUT CAD SO AM MAN BAND HAIL BAR SIN

Caught Red-Handed

WRONG, FELLERS!

BOMETHING

Muscat best are interior The

the bred Omazi, Arabla of in

the of Suflantate

RIDDLES

camela and

1. Is it true that pepper la half pens?

2. What grows with its roots upward?

3. What goes out but never comes in?

4. What is the largest bird ever seen at the South Pole?

5. What food tastes hot but sounds cold?

MILES

ATOP

CAUSED MAN-MADE

NCHO

TIONS TRABAL RIDERS,BESIDE THEIR CRAD

By Harry F. O'Neill

X TRUE YÜN THIS GLIDE WAS AN ACT OF PROVIDENCE, AND ROPLE RIVER NOW FLOWS OVER TRAUBELS

LAND

-THROUGH YOUR HAND-DUG DICH, :

YOU CAN TELL THAT TO

THE COURT OF