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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1950.

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A FIGHT IN THE DARK IN THIS WEEK'S INSTALMENT OF THE CHILDREN'S SERIAL, FIVE FALL INTO ADVENTURE

Dick makes a capture

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Julian, Dick ned Anne are staying with their cousin Clearcina (George for short) and her dog TimDIY. Curious thingy, Ünye nappened. The Hindy belonging to George's scientist Tatlier has been ransacked, and valuable notes faken, tienrgs and Timmy navodern kidnapped, and the thileves liavo sent a note by in. a title sugomullo, to say that another book of neces must be hidden in the garden, and tiny will colteci il Dick in poing to hide near by, hoping that he will are who collects the unreel, and he then means to fofin diem.

CHAPTER ELEVEN DICK stood and listened, holding ha Ho could hear no sound except for the rustling of the trees around, and the sudden squeak of a field- mouse, It was a dark night and cloudy. Was there anyone hidden near by, or could he find a hiding-place in safety and walt?

I thought for a few

Inve

Julian Bashad his torch and sow Dick rolling on top al somebody.

by

Bunnlove

CRAFTS

GAMES

JOKES

The Inventor and the Water-Bucket CONJURING

A

ed

By DAN MURDOCH

窳

TALL. lanky man walk- and strode away. She shrugged, London tapped her head significantly, along

and with a sigh carried home her water bucket.

Street in the year 1790, muttering to himself. People stared at him.

"That's Willam Would- have,"

someone remarked. "Odd an hin name, he is! A crazy inventor."

Wouldhave, when he reached his own home, Alled a large tub with water. Ho cut a bowl in halt, puslied one piece down to the boltom, and it popped right to the surface.

He turned

rned the flont upside down, and 2+ promptly turned right side up again, Furiously he churned the water with his hands. The flout bubbed, twisted, banged the tub sides—but it slayed upright.

ft

He never held a job very though he'd tried Jong, averything from painting bouses to teaching music. He was always inventing-

"Eureka!" shouted Wouldhave. an electrical machine, "I've found it!" And rushing clock, an organ. But nobody out of the house, he began ever wanted to put money jumping and clapping hands and Into

sputtering explanations to every- his now-fangled one he met. "A boot that'll swim fought back. I wouldn't have schemes. A cheerful chap, in any scal It can't sink, can't though, always kind and overturn! A lieboat for slip- savage, deceitful, friendly..

"I didn't know it was you, Dick, I didn't know," wailed Jo: "You pounced on me and I

bitten you like that,"

"You're a

thien

nt a

Но сусід

We owe MUCH OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE MODERN

LIFEBOAT TO WILLIAM WOULDHAVE, WHO FIRST CONCEIVED THE IDEA

OF A LIFEBOAT THAT WOULDN'T SINK, FROM A FLOAT HE

SAW IN AN OLD WOMAN'S WATER-BUCKET

MANY LIFEBOATS STILL USE WOULDHAVE'S

QUARTER-BOWL IDEÁ

Even if

Ing or turning over. He couldn't ments in the bottom. persuade them to make a work- one compartment Bills with water ing model from his plaus. He the others keep the boat Booting. died the way he'd lived, poor Even 20 holes or leaks wouldn't and unknown, Sixty years sink such a boat. The boat and is made of tried out. buoyant material, such as balca

wood or cork.

later. In 1860, his "self-righting" everything on it

was first

principle

QUICKIE

conjuring

THIS is a "cutio"

trick,

casy

to do and speedily prepared. Best of all, its very simplicity serves to hide the secret better than many n more advanced mngle act.

Take a pleco of paper about three inches square. Write on It three narties, one above the other, placing your own name in the middle. Then tear the. paper into three equal sections with one name on each strip and place these strips in a largo paper bag. Shako them well. Then, without looking in the bag at all, thrust your hand in

and

mary

Jack Ruth

ono

bears

wrecks!" minutes, and decided that

A loud noise made him jump, double-dealing little wild-cat,"

A few days later, Wouldhave there wouldn't be anyone

Then a brillant light dazzled sald Dick, looking at his bites.

On this particular day, an old sent plans for his new lifeboat to watching the back of the him and he felt ud he could and scratches. "Pretending you struggling to lift her heavy water

woman

street-pump was the government. house now that it was dark. There was a car in the field. A who gave you that note-and all raised

duck down behind the gate.

knew nothing about the man bucket. Wouldhave's big hands Julian and the others would

car that had just started up the time you're in

11 smoothly from the be in full view of any engine and switched

with that ground. Then he stopped short. on Ils watcher at the front, sented lights. It was going. moving crooked lot of thieves and kid-tipped it one way, then another, A YEAR earlier, a storm had

nappers, whoever they are."

kleked it,

wrecked a ship only 300

ROUGH EDGES as they were in the lighted slowly down to the water

"I'm not in with them," wept font in the bucket.

And It worked yards from lund.The crew woukl The car was soon out in the Jo. sitting-room--there

jumped into the water to try to

the come out willi "This wooden float keeps thu swim ashore, People stood along

Passenger ships and the United strip of paper which I gained speed and then be no need for anyone, to

Dick heard it roaring off in the a fury. "I was up in a tree where'd you get it?"

"Don't tell lles," shouted Dick. water from spilling!" he cried. the beach, watching. Before

States Coast Guard both have your own name-not once, mind watch the back,

and rafts special

Jifebant crews. These you, but every time. distance. He couldn't stalk a

The old woman stammered, one by one.

Ecom miraculous to men have special training, take The secret painfully simple. He debated where to hide r, that was certain! He held when you came and took that

his breath, Ustening for some Parcel from under the stone-"It's junt

This tragedy aroused the Eng- William Wouldhave. - round wooderi

Twice as

exumination, und have The piece of paper on which and then made a quick deck movement of the other on who, and I followed you right to bowl, sir. One that broke In lish people. The government large as his, they hold up to 300 regular drills.

your own name is written, be- that car and followed you back (wo alon. "I'll climb a tree," he he felt certain, was still there.

offered prizes for the best plans people. They have 50 different The lifeboat has come a longing the centre plece, has two again! You came back here to

"Half a round wooden bowl," for a strong, safe lifeboat.

pieces of

equipment tools, Way since William Wouldhave. rough edges. The other pieces thought. "What about that

Ife heard a sniff and crouched steal again, I suppose?"

he repeated softly. "One quarter

"But the Prizo Committee signals, blankets, medicines, food, But we owe some of its efficiency have one smooth edge. It takes one just near the crazy lower still. Then a shadow

of a sphere."

laughed at Wouldhave's idea.

kite, shing

even a Bible, to the man who saw a float in only a very few seconds to run paving path? If the clouds passed quickly through the rate,

Abruptly he

an old women's bucket. lie was your dinger along the edges of kissed the old They couldn't believe a boat's "Guns" can throw life linca clear away I could perhaps turned back in the direction of

for kind enough to want to help the paper slips to determine woman smackingly on the check, SHAPE could keep it from slal ships many yards away,

people to hold on to and clamber her, and clever enough to make which is the Kirrin Collage and was lost in catch a glimpse of what the the darkness of the lone.

10 safety. Swimmers can hold use of what he saw. man's like who comes

on to grab-rails and ropes all collect the parcel. Then I'll

long Runwales.

to

In a trice Dick was after it ngain. At least he could track

going somewhere!

shin quietly down the tree down this fellow! He must be and stalk him."

its

He climbed up Into

to the tile an onk Down the lang tree that sprend

broad Over the attle and Into the field He Across the held and back at the branches over the path. wriggled down in n comfortable hedge, that grew at the bollom fork and

set himsel to wait of Kirrin Coltage. patiently.

Just as the clock began to chime the hour at eleven, the lltchen door opened and Dick

"Going to gel into the house again and ransack it, I supposel" thought Dick, in a rage. He con- sidered the thadowy figure by

Jodid! You'll be handed

TO gulped. "No, I didn't,"

over to the police tomorrow." eald Dick, still furious,

"I didn't come back to steal, I can. back for something else," insisted Jo, her eyes peering through her tangled hair like a frightened animals.

their eyes, the sailors drowned, would ebonts

Willy Had a Terrible Time

-He Found "Sound Language" Very Confusing--

By MAX TRELL

in an

about

names.

"Hot So you say! And what did you come back for? To find

110 (TTS to dope? jeered another dog

use," Willy Toad was saying

Цп- Dick.

to Kourt .and "No," said Jo, miserably. "happy voice

Hand, the shadows with came back to tell you I'd take

the turned - to where George was, if you you Ing. He had the parcel under It must be a small man-one his arm.

that Dick could tackle and bring would half kill me if he thought

He could yell I'd to the round He zaw Julian to swiftly loudly for Jullan and maybe he down the path and sensed him could hold the fellow down till looking all about. Ife dared not Julino come. give the slightest hint to him that he was just above his head!

saw Julian outlined in the open- the window. It didn't look big in't tell on me. My Dai "Every time I go for a visit to

HE heard

spilt on him. I know I took the parcel-I had to. didn't know what it was or any- thing. I took it to the place I was told to. Jake told me. And "And then perhaps we could then I come back to tell you all do a little kidnapping, and I could. And you set on me like little bargaining, too," though! that," Dick grimly. "It then hold George as a hostage, we'll hold one of them, too!. Tit for tat!"

Jullan scrabble

He waited till the shadow left -about In the path, and then.

the window

Then 110 drop the bly stone back into its place. He watched the light of pounced. His victim went down Jullan's torch bobbing back up af once with a yell.

moving

Then he could most

distinctly hear somebody breath- "Julian! JULIANI

ing hard as they tugged at the JULIANI”

heavy stonel The pureel wan

being collected as arranged!

Help!

Julian heard. He tore out at once, "Dlek, Dick,

where are

Dick dropped quielly down, you? What is it?"

He had

mado no

rubber shoes on and

noise. He slipped

through a big gap in the hedge

near by and stood straining his eyes to find the mon he wanted E flashed his torch towards

follow. Ah-there

Four pairs of eyes bored into Jo, and she covered her face. Dick took her hands away end made her look at him.

NEXT WEEK: Jo Begins to Talk,

-(London Express Service)

Exclusive!

town, something happens,"

"What happened, Willy?" Knarf and fanid both asked.

Willy looked more unhappy than ever as he replied: "I can't begin to tell you all the things

that happened. Not

elther. good things,

And all I don't understand because sound-language."

"Sound - language?" sald

Honld....

sounds.

(7-16.

Willy Toad was all dressed for town.

my

That's

Once, when a lifeboat capsized, the crew clung to the grab-rall all night. Then, in daylight, they stood

grab-rail, pulled on the other, and so they

on one

righted the boat. Then

went on to save 22 other people swimming in the

the water!

be

A modern lifeboat can Inunched und driven

even in a storm. It has salls and ours, eldes a motor that keeps run- ven with the boat full of ning.even water. "Sea anchors heavy containers dragging behind the boat-spread oil to calm angry the boat from beas, and keep drifting too fast in Calc. Automatic valves drain water off the deal.

Many lifeboats today, especially In England, still use Would- have's quarter-bowl principle. A newer Iden Is to have many different water-tight compart-

CURATOR

AT 13

By I. R. HECEL

0

**Look here," he said, "this

"It in't English," sald of the way just in time, Al matters a lot to us, whether you are speaking the truth or not. Willy. "It isn't words. It's it rot was the tail of Do you know where George is?" just

they all beautiful greon coat." But the path to the kitchen door. Dlek was surprised how small Jo nodded.

incan different things. And *hat bell, Willy-It meant Then the door shut with a bang he was-but how he fought He

"And

will you take us there?" you have to understand all the stop, look and listen. It meant bit and scratched and heaved

rallroad train was com- Five minutes went by and and kicked, and the two of them ad Julian, his volce stern and different things they mean else that'

cold.

you find yourself in trouble." ing along the tricks. nobody came. Then he heard rolled over and over and over, Jo nodded again. "Yes, I will.

why

all those people and all you happen to travel through the slightest sound. Was that breaking down Michaelmas You've been inenn to me, but somebody crawling through the dinises in the beds, and scratch. I'll show you I'm not as bad as

Needed Explanation those cars were waiting.”

Clintonville, Conn., U.S.A., hedge?

Dick strained his eyes ing legs and arms and faces on

Knart and Hanid begged "Yes" sald Willy. But you make out. I'll take you to willy to explain exactly what how was I to know,

you are bound to pass the old but could only make out a dee rose bushes, Dick yelled for George."

You see,

brick Clintonville post office, on per

shadow that seemed to be Julian all the time.

he mennt "because,"

sold you have to understand yound the third floor of which is Knarf, "we don't know what language. And then, when I museum started by a boy when you're talking about."

Anally got to town, I started

he was only 13 years old and to to across

the main street. already housing more than 8,000 "Well," said Willy, "I dressed

was standing In Itemst A policeman up in my best cont-the creca the middle. As I stepped off The young curator, Donald S. one with the white stripes the curb he blew a whistic. Smith, now 23, storied his col- and started hopping down the And

all the acain

people lection by bringing home a road to

town By and by I waited. But I didn't see why robin's nest that he placed care- came to the railway tracks. I anybody

chould stand and fully in his father's barn. After was just about to cross over wait Just because a policeman a while neighbours, admiring the tracks when a bell started happened to bo blowing a the earnest collecting spirit of Hthe shouting and saw Dick W friend feel like being "ex-

ringing. It WHEN you and your best

was just a regular, whistle. Anybody can blow a the boy, offered old

him photo- ordinary sort of bell, and it

it whistle. So I kept right en graphs, toys, kitchen utensils, shadow moving steadily down rolling on top of somebody. He

walking."

farm implements and all corts the field-path to the sille. Dick ran to help at once, throwing clusive," start a "What is 11 didn't even sound very

ilke church belli for the his torch on the

might

of objects of Interest. grass so that conversation.

Jooked aroundt and

"My

Hnnia something Bike this:

goodness!"

The

boy's collection both hands were free.

"Were you hit until it was too valuable to leave surprised to see that a great gasped again. Ho kept

"They certainly keep a per-many people, and a great mony by the well behind the

In his father's barn so he trans- It wasn't long before they had son from being lonely." moving shadow til it reached the struggling figure firmly in

attic "That's sure, yet I never en-cars all stopped at once at the

of his home. ferred it to the "By the cars? No. By hop- the stile, got over it and went their grasp and dragged it, wail-joy, pne unless I'm all by my-de of the tracks and waited, ping this way, and that way,

And just when the Smith home listening to the bell. Now it

was bursting ing, to the back door. Dick re-self."

and by dodging, and running

БЕЛГОВ, at the seemed very silly to me that all those people and all use and stopping short and darting trying to be a residence

und Inuscum forward again, I Analytics Grandpa William Smith came to

at the cars should stop and wait and the other side. But I last hotn

sumo time, "Yes, isn't it funny? Yet isten just because that foolish sleeves and all the buttons of the rescue and offered third floor

with always take some

me old bell was ringing. So I not attempt to keep under cover.

her upstairs."

when i go on vacation."

space in the building used as The Clintonville post office, an started right across the tracks my beautiful coat." Down the lane it went and into Jullan. "Get her to bed. She's in

You'll enjoy watching the saying to everybody: an awful state now. So am I faces of a field.

offer which the young curator of others who are present can waste your time stening Dick was about

to follow wouldn't have lammed her like grow more and more mystified to a bell,

quickly accepted. when he heard

Ï'm going!'" the sound of that if I'd known It was only as they try to figure out what voices,

They were very low, Jo."

you're talking about. The fun "My goodness!" and he couldn't hear a word. He

"Were "I never guessed," said Dick, will continue as long as you Hanid, crouched in the shadow of the wiping his allhy face with his remember to keep from men- tio=" gate, which was swung right bandkerchief. "My word, what | Honing the subject back, leaving an entry into the a wild-cott See how she's bitten discussion. Which in this case the feld.

me!"

happens to be bookal

to

was a

followed, keeping close to hedge.

into the lane beyond.

It

The shadow went on again. cognised that wailing volcol "At exam time I always wish It obviously did not suspect that Good gracious-nd, it couldn't they'd never been invented." it might be followed and, albeit couldn't be Jo! though It moved quietly, it did But it was!

BRONCHO BILL

CHIEF CRAZY FORS WARRIOR

HORSETM

GRAS THE BRIDLE OF BILLS

cald

"Put

บ

WA

You

Blowing the Whistlo

krow

"That policeman wasn't blow-

SCHOOL MUSEUM ing his whistle just in fun," At 18, Donald Smith left his gasped

sald Knart. you

"He meant zor collection to serve his country' at hit by

you to stay Just where you wor. But while in the Navy at

to cross of your Willy shook his head.

were, and not "Dy street!"

the Okinawa and Saipan, he found rallroad train? No. It

new curios gather. Now back whizzed by me. I hopped ou

home again Donald Smith is "Sound-language," said Willy.studying American "How was I to know, what a Wesleyan and he hopes

culture at whistle

meant? And

make were other sounds in town,"" museum work his profession. Willy went on, "Sounds of

Collecting the old and the in- horne; and sounds of bells on whether it leads

teresting is a worthwhile hobby street-cars; and crashing sounds wh

to muscum work or not. It can be a means whon cana of oghes

werow

Dash for Freedom

By Harry F. O'Neill

GET EM,

BLACKIE„/

BLACKIE REARS AND FLAILING HOOPS REMOVE TWO OBSTACLES FROM THEIR

OLD TIGHT. JEADPANTEJ

THE

& CLIPA

ther

dumped into trucks and dropped

red of money-making. A Sunday

back on the sidewalk; and school class collected articles sounds of sirens

that were parts of church his-

when

engines and ambulances ere tory. The articles were housed. coming. You had to know in a glass cabinet, each piece what ail of them meant. I tabulated, the donor's

didn't know what they meant printed and a

when I wont to town.

But for free will led box amxed

now I do. Fortunately nothing

hit me. But," he said sadly,

to

offerings.

A class in grade school, trying

learn Appreciation of free

"My beautiful new coat is nii educational privileges, began a

in rage".

Kaari and Haula

thought

that as long as Willy still in one piece it really didn't mattor how tom to places, bla

school museum, one hoy carving

a miniature log hours of the 'one-room school in the dis- Any old“ slate; carefully trick preserved for over a was :: brought : in... by:

a stif

DO-IT

By Dale Goss

030 you

promised, to fish out

Things to Make With Materials at Hand

BEAR-L OF MONEY

BANK

1.Find a small GLASS JAR about 3 in high and Zin.

across.

2. Cover top of

jar with circle of PAPER. Fasten witha RUBBER BAND,

HEIGHT OF JAX

HALF DISTANCE AROUND JAN

Thin.

3. Cut a

pattern for

bear from

folded paper.

have

4.Put pattern on brown CONSTRUCTI PAFER and cut out.

5. Drawon face with BLACK CRAYON.

6.Pasta bear around

Jar with HOUSE-

HOLD

CEMENT.

FILL with

COINS BEAR-L-OF

AND HAVE A

"Money!

Rupert and the Dragon Pills-4

Rupert walte outside the shop, Soon the shouting ceases. Pong Ping comes out," and instead of looking angry he is smiling all over his face. "Hullo, Rupert." he cries, "I'm sorry, I passed you so rudely just now, I was a bit worried. 1 bought some fireworks from Mt.

party

Chimp yesterday and had last night, but one wouldn't work so brought it back and told him about it ind. look, he's given me another one." "You certainly tald him." murmurs Rupert, Pong-Ping laughs. "Come and help me Gre this rocket."' he says, and they set oft.

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