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STORIES

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1950.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

GAMES

PUZZLES

HOBBIES

EVENTS ARE DRAWING HEAR A CLIMAX IN THE CHILDREN'S SERIAL,

Five Fall Into Adventure=

A few surprises

What has happened so far..

Julian, Dick and Anne want to stay with their cousin Georgine and her dog Timmy. Many strong, things happened. Same important intille papart were stolen from Coorpe's father. Then George and Timmy were kidnapped and spirited Red. away to ostona hauta on the coast by a man colled Julian and Dick went to rescue her, with the help of a engumuffin girl called da. Ja, whow father is on ocistat. managed to climb up the by-covered wall and reach George's PRO She rescued her, bet as only one of them could be saved, she stayed behind. How Julion, Disk, George and Timmy ore hiding in a cave near the pen. Jution chake ka hears someone coming.

S

CHAPTER 21

soon as Julian had said that he

A kept hearing noises, the others

felt as if they could hear some, too. They

and ant

listened intently. George's heart beating so loudly that be she was certain the boys would able to hear it.

the

Wo

"Hello, Dod," said Jo. "You do seem susprised to see me.

by Gud Blita

"I think perhaps it's the sound of the sea, echoing in through the caves and

tunnels," said Julian at Inst. "In the or- dinary way, of course, wouldn't need to bother to listen-Timmy would growl at once! But, poor old chap, he's so doped and sleepy that I don't believe he hears anything."

"Will he get all right again?" ked George, anxiousdy, fond-

Timmy's allky ears.

"Oh yen," said Julian, sound- ing much more certain than he really fit. Poor Timmy

There slich Teally wasn't even a growl in him.

seein

"I wander what's happening to Jo?" said Dick. suddenly Yo was now remembering that imprisoned in the lower room where Georgo had been kept so long.

"And do you suppose Red and Markhoff have discovered that we've got out of that shed, and that Timny has disappeared too?" said Julian. "They'll be int when they do discover a fury

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said

men waiting there. At frat ho couldn't ree who they were, and he stepped back hurriedly. Then be saw it was Simmy and Jake. "What are you doing here?" shouted Markhoff, "Weren't you teld to keep watch on Kirrin and make Cottage police weren't told anything?"

"Y" sold Jake, sulkily.

cure the

Red went purple in the face, and his strange eyes shene with rage. He stared first ut Mark- ho, Uhen at Simmy and Jake. Markhoff looked uneasy, but. Simmy and Jake looked back insolently.

"You-you--you dare to come here when I told you to keep "You've shouted. away!" he

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A MINNE THE MUNCHIER

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HAPPEN DOG

By Opal Loe Shore

"That's ensy," Lorenzo said, OME days everything

at the Delter, looking coldly goes from bad to BW- "you have a chance to get rid ful. To begin with, my of the creature. Let the pound cousin Lorenzo pulled some keep him."

hairs out of O'Leary's coat.

Then he saw by my faco

Lorenzo is doing a study of that, dumb as O'Leary ls, he's dog. Lorenzo felt his animal hairs and fibres so scratched head tenderly as hu He nodded.

he wanted the linir for a thought about it. good reason. But O'Leary, Snally. my Irish setter, doesn't "We'd better go over to the house where the pheasants were caro for science so ho nip- killed." Lorenzo decided, "We'll

real-

have to convince the ownern na

even well as this gentleman."

CRUNCH ped Lorenzo. He didn't

ly clamp down, but then you couldn't expect looked at me then. "You're sure O'Leary didn't kill those birds? Lorenzo to turn the other if he did, my teat will prove it

without any doubt."

CRUNCH

What not to do when you

W

go to the cinema

WATCH

your movie manners. All over the

By WALTER KING

them DEEN paid. You can't black-country youngsters are the goers. Study

of big problem theatro make sure you're not mail me for any more money."

owners, who try in all sorts them:

*

Add next nobody knew because

"And we've cuine to say that WHAT he would have that cook-woman called Juan

went down to the police this from up the spiral stairs there She Jud one of the came yella and screams and the HOLS of someone apparently trying to batter down a door.

"That's that girl, I suppose," muttered Morkhof. "What's up with her? She's been quiet enough before."

morning. tide with her-a ziri. The boys don't seem to be about."

•

YOU'RE a bit late with your I news! Lot of nood you are, with your spying!" said Markhoff.

"Pait!"

Siminy. said

"We want some money. We've done sur work."

"Can't we get away?"

You can ask Red for it" George, feeling suddenly scared.

didn't growled Markhoff. "What's the "You

a boat, came tu

good of asking me? Go and ask you? Well, "can't we get away in that and go and fetch help him for Jo?"

"We'd better get her out now and go," said Hed, his face still purple. "Jake, go and get her. Bring her

down here, and knock sume sense into her if she goes en screaming.”

"Felch her yourself." Jake, insolently,

Yer.

shid

Red looked at Markhof, who revol- immediately produced a

"My orders are always obey- ed.

suddenly cat Red in a cold voice. "Always, you under- stand?"

"Ught. We will, said Jake, Lis face as black is thunder.

Red was in his study, sean ning through the papers that had

Not only Jale scuttled up the bern stalen from the study of

Flairs lien but also Sunny! He was in a

They went to the locked and black temper. He Bung down

the top and un- the papers as Markhoft came in botted room

I locked

They pulled the door. These

aren't the notes I

opened the began,

fourly back the bolt and wanted!"

toor. Sirniny stepped into the "Well, rn hold the girl till I

c... why, Markhoff, what's room to deal with the imprison up? Anything wrong?"

"SHOULD we wilt George's father.

Markhoff have gone off in

Julian the hellcopter?" said "Then we'd be much safer."

Yes--but what about Jo?" arked Dick. They think she's George, don't they and they'll take her away with them, just with as they planned to George. I don't see how we can try to escape ourselves without first trying to save Jo. been a brick about George,"

tit

She's

They talked round and round

t girl.

But he stopped dead and "Plenty," said Markhoff. "The

there taped. He blinked, rubbed his dog's gone he wasn't

Jake gaped again. when I went to shoot him-and eyes and the two boys have gone too caped too. yes, escaped out of a locked shed. Beats me!

"And here

the idea of trying to save Jo. for you-hry

"Ifallo, Dad" said Jo.

"You

are wo

want

visitors muncy!

do seem surprised to see me!" NEXT WEEK'S INSTALMENT WILL APPEAR ON SATURDAY

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but nobody could think of any They've come to tell you what know the poller you already rently sensible plan at all. Time went on, and they ali felt hun- Lave been told about you." gry and rather cold, "I only we could do something. It wouldn't

be so bad" grouned Dick.

"I

wonder what's happening up al the house?"

Up at the grey stone house with its big square tower, plenty was happening!

To begin with, Markhoff had gone to shoot Tummy, as Red led ordered. But when he got to the summer-house there was

theref dog

no

Markhoff stared in the greatest amazement! The dog had been ued up, even though he was doped and now there was the loose rope, and no dog attached 10 IL

Markhoff gazed round the summer-house in astonishment. Who could have loosed Tummy? He durled across to the locked

ahed, where he had tied Jullan and Dick with rope to the iron was zull The door caples. tocked, of course-and Markhoff rned the key and pushed it turned

Here, you," he began, shout Ing roughly. Then ho stopped dead. Nobody was there! Again there was loose ropo-thin time cut here and there, so that it lay in hort pieces and again the prisoners had gone. No dog. No boys.

He went in through the mas- sive front door, and in the hall he came face to face with two

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of ways to get children to Wandering Willic. behave.

Consider

their

and

Bet he likes the first one best and goes back.

Andy Acrobatic Andy. like plops into his seat by sit- ting on the upturned edge You and sliding down into it. know Wundering Willic. He When he gets seated he' view climby all over you and a shakes himself out of his point: They run a theatre row of others in an fort wraps, swinging both arms where they want people to to capture a centre seut, and connecting with home have a good time and relax. Then when he gels there, runs on everyone within During the They don't want to be he decides that a seat in arm-rench. cranky with their guests or the centre three rows down show he is up and down, scat, putting spoil fun. But youngsters would be better. He climbs jiggling his sometimes spoil the fun of over everyone again get his feet on the seat in front

anxl ting out,

everyone of him and doing other Here are some especially three rows down getting in. acrobatics, bad types of young theatre- When he lands his second-

others.

Squire's Spring Cleaning

-lle Was Dusting Off Ench Branch of the Tree- By MAX TRELL

THE weather was beginning to

T

was

turn warm, the grass

up fresh coming

and green. Here and there in the shady Gee violets. places you could Spring was already well on its way.

13 was no surprise then that who • Whed Squire Squirrel,

201

Squire Squirrel was sweeping the ground with his tail,

Sally Beat-Saver, Sally comes to the show carly and piles her hat and coat on the choice seat xt to her. Every time some- one wants to sit down in it, she hisses: "It's took!" (She should manners say "taken" but bad and bad grammar somehow go together), Seldom is she ever really saving the scat for any- http In particular. hopen a friend will appear.

leg.

Then O'Leary, taking usual

I worried about that while

and I

went to

648

short cut, Jumped the hedge wood and the pount man

into the next yard. Some new

people had moved in there with brought

O'Leary in the dog

bird

n daughter that was strictly a wagon. What if my setter had Junior grade witch and I intend suddenly decided to be a

W13 no distracted I ed to get acquainted as soon as dog? I

politely O'Leary when

hardly heard Lorenzo possible. But ianded on her where she was explain something to the people zun bathing behind the hedge- whose well, relations were strained.

pheasants had been killed. First thing I know I'm

"It'll be twenty bucks this time, Jerry," the dog catcher and. It being that kind of day, holding O'Leary while Lorenze wasn't surprised when the dog goes to work on the dog's teeth catcher phoned that O'Leary was with some dental flors! I'm not In the aug pound. O'Leary's of the only one looking bewildered ways eating his dog tog and na Lorenzo carefully transferred costing me 75 cents to bail him the small bits of material ho'd out. But when I handed the taken from between O'Leary's

of my total teeth to a glass slide. pound man half

wraill, he gave it right back.

"It' be twenty bucks this

She just time, Jerry," he old, quietly

but tnily.

凇

*

*

WHEN Lorenzo took some la-

belled slides from his

I goggled at him, my mouth jacket pocket I began to catch.

Minnie Muncher. Mianie | hanging open. always gets comfortably settled

al

040

hair

He was making a study of ant-

and fibres! And mal Greenwood uessed that feathers are a kind

of hair. "Now

please look at these through my

folding he told samples of

pound "For damages," the in her seat and waits till every- nun said. "He killed four phen- one else is settled and then ghefsants rets down to the serious bust- Avenue." ness of feeding herself peanuts,

I pointed at O'Leary. "Him? slides popcorn and candy from a bag

foud Never in this world, Mister. The pocket microscope." After her That rufties.

buy him was them. supplies are gone she pops her reason I coul

of because be wouldn't be a bird wool, dog hair and feathers. It those phca- O'Leary did kili bubblegum during the rest

would be feather she dog." when

rants there and the picture leaves she throws it down

"The people phoned me and I filaments between his teeth. If the four where someope

there" picked him up

the you can find nothing to compare that. specimen feuther step on it.

pound man said. "There he was with

on

wi

"Here are

the maple tree that stood along side of the garden wall, should be hurrying to tidy things up There were dead twigs to puil There were old nests in down. the higher branches, most of them quite pulled apart by the raing and snows and winds of

for the elsewhere Georgie Give-Away. No mat-and there were the pheasants slide, then you'll have to look pheasant The ground the past winter.

ter what the picture is, Georgie mighty circumstantial."

O'Leary ambled over and cat killer. around the trunk of the maple

has always seen it and he tells!

As simple as that. My cousin was unsightly, too, what with

everyone around him in a loud down trustingly at my feel.1

Twenty Lorenzo is a big brain all right. of corners

do something. and ends and bits

that the rest of different things such as old

"One year," said Squire, "It voice just what is going to hap-hud-

me with 75 cents It was plain nobody dollars! And and pe next. Naturally leaves, and broken stems, and was caterpillars-yellow

the eyepiece cquinted through pebbles, and a piece of the root black caterpillars. They moved enjoys knowing what's coming to my name. Then I heard my them thought he knew what he

a10 the dog catcher. of something-or-other, and even all over the place. Couldn't get next and the theatre manager's cousin Lorenzo outside tailing was talking about, too.

little microscopo the "I need a cat for the hair and of must have rid of them blite marble that

until finally they wish that people will have rolled away from the children w away. And then another good time is not fulfilled,

Gogle Woogle.

Oogie hums fibre studies I'm making," Le compared Lorenzo's alldes with

had made "I won't harm the the one he month:: and months ago,

Knurf away!"

ex-the popular tunes at all musical renzo said.

won't at a bit and after I've finished, O'Leary's teeth. pletures so the patrons

my turn to look, chimed, Sweeping the Ground

able to

zong I'll give him a good home." recognise the "They turned themselves into be

screen. For "Lorenzo!" I yelled. To the clied I could hardly adjust the busy butterflies and flew away. Well, being sung on the Squire Squirrel was

a rescue?" sweeping the ground around have to see about getting these added amusement he makes

And drum of the seat in front tree with his fall when dead twigs off. So long." Kaart, the Shadow with the squire started, climbing up the him and stomps on the turned-about name,

the

Cio

trée.

stopped his Greet him.

sweep-

Knurf climbed up after hun. "And

carne who

unottier year?" he demanded,

"Another Kutles."

with his feet. even whistles.

the

along.

Squire ing to

"Well," said Squire, "It won't

be long before they're back- all of them."

**Who?" sald Kaart.

*The folks who live

the Rabins, There Arc

it was year

"Katles? Which Katics?"

Was Surprised here. There are only two kinds," she sa

at. Knarf who the Squire zaid, looking Wrens, the Catbirds, the Jays in surprise at his not knowing.

all the others," Squire The

Didn't, with And

Dids and the They moved in. They came late added after a pause.

of

floor bu Sometimes

They

and

from When it came

was so cx-

thing. Suddenly reemed

leap to

the

slide

Ty

FLOR.

I've

into view. Jagged bits of bone. Elfferent sized soft pieces. Dog food. No ORENZO poked his head feathers. No feathers at all!

"It's convincing Ma'am," the around the door. When he 14 Tillie Tulle Talker.

ataw me he came into the umice pound man said. "Isn't li, Sir? You can natural-born commentator, Sho stroking a big tiger-striped tom We'll have to look elsewhere for

about ent he held in his arms. Remem the pheasant killers. has a remark to make

take the big Irisher home, verything that is going on, and ber the kind of day it was?

the skin

of bir often tells about other pictures When the cat saw O'Leary lung Jerry."

featuring the actors ing for him he climbed Lorenzo

Lorenzo sold looking at this.like a ladder, not stopping un "Saved by appearing In Are

to teach been trying She's a

regulor fan magazine he was rate on top, well dug

in.

to shuke Found,

hands for I latched onto O'Leary and O'Leary Lemmie

picture, the pound man peeled the tom months with no luck whatso- Would you believe it?

all the

get rid of them either. Used to when everything is heading for eat off Lorenzo. Finally I was ever. argue at the top of their voices the final climax, Lemmie jumps able to tell Lorenzo my troubles. O'leary with a grin all over his "Why is that a problem?" Lo long red face, goes over to Lo- Nobody und staggers out.

renzo and hands him a paw! couldUD night long. Nobody "Never can be sure until they al

comes in renzo asked.

Lan't to dumb "I just told you! If I cant Maybe O'Leary here," get

but answered Squire. sleep a wink. Another year it knows if he always

Invariably

Hla prove O'Leary didn't all those after all.

Lorenzá "Have to get back to my sweep was the cat. I got rid of her, I at this point,

when he leaves.

And what's more,

"What's a few started pushing bit her on the nose and the that's ing." And he

backt. But she makes everyone mad and spoils pheasants, I'll have to fork over

twenty bucks that I haven't got. shook the paw. Came his tall back and forth over the never

Or

will pound of them-oh the show most of the time."

keep bites between friends?" he said, the the wasn't the worst ground again, plling ail

grinning. O'Leary odda and ends into a little ditch no!" just under the garden wall.

"But, Squire, who

Knarf. Then in the summer but I couldn't exciting

"Oh yes," said

10 inches long

and Finch wide. PASTE

he others?

said: "Who are

on for the

handle.

FILL

WITH SPRING FLOWERS,

SHOOTIN' ARROYS "ROUND HERE IS DANGEROUS **

DANKY ALL TIME DANGE-RUS5

think they'll be?"

Squire

some up

oft knocked do you dead twigs, then climbed

higher to get at some more. He to have for- neemed suddenly

Bul Rotten all about. Knarf.

By Harry F. O'Neill

ME KETCH BAD MANS

F THEY DON'T WATCH OUT-

HEY THERE'S A GOOD NAME FOR YOU.

DANGEROUS

DAN~

At the most Out. part in the

**

求

**

how many of these

JUST are worse than others, but all

movie pests are you? Some

Knart went right up after him, are bad, If you want to

Squire asked.

score

almost up to the top of the tree.

you want?" yourself, here are polats:

Willio "Now what do

Wandering

15; Andy, 10; Sally-Scat- Acrobatic of were the Who

worst

Muncher, 20; Minnie Saver, without them? You went off

10; Oogle Georgie Give-Away, telling me.

Talker, 10: Woogie, 10; Tillle "So I did." laughed Squire. W

Lemmia Out, 20. That's "Well, the worst of them were

points. If you've scored the ones who used to come here 201 with a little ladder, climb up points at all you are a

to the peace of mind of others who so to movies to themselves.

Into

the branches and

there,

pretending they

iving in a tree."

slay were

"Oh!" said Kharf. "The chl- dien?"

Squirrel

100

apy

menace

enjoy

50 to 60 you can you score send a theatre into bankruptcy.

Squire

chuckled, If you score 60 to 75 you are a then scurried up to the very top threat to the movie industry s of the tree" He started dusting a whole. If your score is over off each branch. It was a long 78, you ought to be chained up Job. He didn't have time to my at home, so other people can swingle word "morn, --

enjoy themselves.

Rupert and Miranda-22

Miranda is delighted to hear that she is going get what ilin ·WENIS, and she begins to skip away with the way clown towards the auto- Byro. But Rupen cennor under stand it at all. Hi, look here, there

in the dell, and she was she only Christmas present that poor len nifer had. Santa Claua must have known what he was doing." "Yer, and he still knows, what hu is doing, replies the down

must be some mistake," he protests, mymeciously as he helps Hizandy "This doll was sent to the rectare - up on to the plane...

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