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STORIES

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1950.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

GAMES

PUZZLES

FOR THE CHILDREN, ANOTHER INSTALMENT OF THE

Enid Blyton SERIAL.

Five Fall into Adventure

How Jo escaped

What has happened

Jultan, Dick and Anne went le stay with (Jeniging, their cousin. and her dog Timmy. Many strangu shises bappened.

napped by a nun entra

Intprisoned in a tower,

Res

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A raga main of a kiri caited da rescued

A her and took her place. Red n seul two men la gəl Gearre trom the foerr, list to their awtoris]= beat, when they open the door, they are not Gearge, but don and do is the daughter of one of

men who has uplocked the

CHAPTER 22

"Jo

OP" said Simmy. "Well, well of all the... JOP

Jake

recovered

first.

"What's all thin?" he said, Simmy was sent flying to the floor. Loughly, to Simmy. "What's

Jo doing here? How did ahe get here?

other ki, caught?"

Where's

the

the onu

we

HOBBIES

How I wrote

"RIDERS IN THE SKY"

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By Stan Jones

(Editor's Note: Stan Jones, Nevada Forest Ranger, Torked the TATRIC world with his ballad about the "bad cowboys" condemned to chase a thost herd of Vaughn eattle in the sky. Monroe's record version of the so sold more than 2,000,000 copies.)

MY legend starts down in

the Sonthwest part of the country after the Civil War, when the first cow. punchers drifted West, many

of them ex-Con- The three men inside federate soldiers, who took heard the key turn, and in up cowpunching for a living.

the Was A trice Juke "How do I know?" said door, pulling at the handle.

"She's locked us in he Simmy, still staring at Jo. "Look here, Ju--what are raged. "And shot the bolt,

too," you doing here?

Go

tell us. And where's the other kid?"

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The Mexican charros who were already running stock had;

It had to do with omething of a Western ver-

legend. sion of the "ide of the Valky-T on, "Yell for Markhoff!"

In other words, it rics," shouted Red, trembling with

bad most of his life กระเ พร

wildemess And Markhoff, left) fury.

ini that

one day

Бес later, he would and see if you can find her down In the room at the sooner or

bottom of the stairs, sun apparition in the clouds, anid Jo.

The two bewildered men denly heard yells and shouts That, I suppose, is the basis of didn't know what to think, and tremendous hammer the legend.

ings at the door! He tore They had come

get George and had only found up at once, wondering what

"Hunt round the room

Jol

درا

But the out later

wen:

THE MUSIC'S GOOD, BUT THE ALGOBRA'S

\NOT GO GOOD

EARR

TEN YEARS AGO FIFTEEN

BOYS AND GIRLS IN GERMANTOWN, PA, DECIDED

TO START A YOUTH ORCHESTRA -

TODAY, 12ZE PLAYERS, SO ALTERNATES, AND ZE UISHERS MAKE UP THE CRCHESTRA-

TO QUALIFY FOR MEMBERSHIP THE BOYS AND GIRLG MUST MAINTAIN

PASSING

GRADES IN SCHOOL-

CRAFTS

ALL MEMBERS ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF NINE AND NINGTEEN, AND ARE OOOD ENOUGH TO PLAY IN FAMED PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY

OF MUSIC

orchestra began

Youth

in

a

IFTEEN youngsters were enjoying a hot-doggie roast. in a back-yard garden. "Let's start an orchestra,"

someone remarked.

back

for

yard

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JOKES

Fancy footwork is this boy's hobby

ARTI By PAULA RICHARDSON

FRED ASTAIRE and Gene Kelly had better be looking to their laurels, be- cause dancing has become an increasingly pastime for hundreds of talented youngsters all over the country.

cer. He's on

A

ardent Astalte fun, and indeed seems to be miniature replica of the dancer.

great

Scooter's extensive repertoire

Astaire's popular Includes

famous "Stepping Out With My Baby number, which he miniies per- fectly.

Typient of the many Juniors who can rival even the muvie stars with fancy footwork Is Roderick Grover Clark of Memphis, Tenn. As you might RUCS

that's too long a namo who

for a feel-footed would rather

dance than ent So everybody

most, that is-so Just calls him Scooter.

Scooter has always thought tap dancing lots of fun" and has been his hobby ever since he can remember.

Tit

This energetic amateur has appeared on a number of local shows, where he received acclaim from enthusiastla audiences.

For relaxation after those strenuous tap routines, Scooter plays

with lus Bordilsh and teaches his dogs, Spots and Quicksic, new tricks,

PRANCING

Aut nothing can keep him away from his dancing very He's long, and it's a rare occasion that you don't hear him pran- cing and turning about the house, white his mother plays a plano accompaniment.

so good at 11 that he even help- ed an instructor teach a begin- ners' clan in dancing two sum- mers ogo.

REPLICA

costumes,

Like all the rest of America's Young dancing

Seveter Gel,

dreams of the time he'll see his name in lights on a Broad- way marquee, If wishing will make it so, It's a cinch ho'll

From his glittering, requined the dancinu join. Furthermore,

complete players must always be evenly with tails, to his nimblenora dividext into three groups and assurance, Scooter looks advanced, intermediate, and the part of u professional dan- get that desire! elementary. That why, all

Muny e ket equal chance. an applicant gets turned down for the odd reason that he's tou #ood!

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By DAN MURDOCH

enough to play to capacity

famed Phila audiences in the dolph Academy of Music!

The dongle-roasters and their cowboys who come

Today, 10 years later, the purenta planned most of the weren't always little Germantown Youth Orches- policies that made ull thi

They

decided, in the world had happen-ngels. They told the story tra in Philadelphia, Pa.,

is possible.

kids them- and it

It the only one of its kind.

stance, that the little differently,

the selves should run

affair. But how-why--what had ed.

"Unlock the floor!**

something like this:

has 125 players, 50 alter- Aduits would help, naturally, happened? They didn'

ushers "That kid's!

called with raising

funds, arranging TEN Successful years have know what to do. Neither shouted Red.

If they unw in the clouds on rates, 25

contracts,

such. dark and stormy day "Grace Notes," and a wait- conductor should be

and

A top- of them wanted to go back one."

always in the ori "There's no key!" yelled an apparition of a herd of very ing list of hundreds-all professional, End there on! and tell Red. So they be-

the founders. spirit of or animals "She must wild-looking cows, bark Markhoff.

between 9 and 19 years old, would be real concerts before

Far too and kind or another,

many players applied Kan to search

It has an adult board of direc- An audience that paid for 10 for popular instruments like feverishly. Jooking into have taken it. I'll go after of one

behind this group of cattle ther

Club in saw a band of riders chasing tors, a large Mothers'

The orchestra would be open ments like the viola and butsoon.

the piano, too few for instru likely and unlikely places, her."

them, that they would actually charge of social and welfare

a "faculty" of five to all young people who wanted So the orchestra with Jo jeering at them all

decided to secn the Devil's lier, problems,

musicians

in 11. With neither lead violas the time.

und bassoons and

had been professional the boys that

salary, and a budget this year dues nor fees, nobody is kept condemned to chase that herd.

or $25,000.

And it is

good out just because he can't afford

the

room

AN angry voice came up

a very

Actually Jo had made her

the kitchen and have ta Way

She was found the larder.

wanted very hungry and something to eat.

a rushi She found hanging on a nail and

some food into sausage-rolls, some buns,

the stairway. "Jake! What are you doing up ped there? Bring that kid down."

Well, that was

If they did see it they would bag be condemned for all time with slip-that bunch of boys to catch the

Devil's Heril. it the legend and it was added t ruck-and

from taken away cheene and many years. Now, if only she

Home

"She's not here!" yelled bread. back Jake, suddenly losing could find the others, how

you done with her? Яonel"

for

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it HEARD

many times, and I suppose I

when 14

many,

tickets.

on

to phy

Chirpie Sparrow Had a Twin

-And a Very Smart Bird He Was, Toom

By MAX TRELL

INSTEAD of coming alone to

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the window-sill for his bread did, he usually crumbs Chirple Sparrow came with on- sparrow who looked

**

his temper. "What have they would welcome her!

She's

Jo went cautiously into She could the front hull. Red came tearing up, two hear Markhoff upstaire, still steps at a time, his

eyes tearing about. She smiled the range one morning. The delightedly and slipped over hat rane uut to a windmill to enough like him to be his twin.

narrów

with anger.

first thing he saw in the to the door. room was Jo and, of

course, he thought she was George.

Red looked at Jake as if he had gone off his head.

Was another around

см and I were out youngster

We other

ית

wouldn't beat

Indeed, as Chirple exclaimed pull a pin to it

to Knart and itself to pieces in storm that immediately

with the blowing up. On the way hnnid, the Shadows

and turned-about names, the new back we took a shortcut curved

up a narrow ravine, sparrow was Chirple's twin

Smartic

my twin brother,"

IE other three, Julian, About halfway up we stopped raid. "We call him Smartic

caves.

Dick and George, were on the point. Looking out Then he looked at Jo. He still sitting in the

together with could see no difference be- crouched tween Jo and the absent Timmy in the centre,

Suddenly Thamy growled. George at all short hair, freckles, turned-up, nose-

But Jo had a word to say, it. A voice came to them.

Julian Dick! Where "Yes,

I'm Jo," she "I'm not Georgina. Your I've lost my way!"

You've come haven't you, Dad?"

#It's Jo!" crjed

Dick

and

nother.

remarked

5+22

The

the

brought a few changes iz

to

plano ployers, and teach the new Instru- them to play ment free of charge. For these "scholarships" the orchestra bought its own instruments and engaged Ta own teaching staff.

savo

Three years

ago, to taxes and to put the argouls- tion on the best business foot- Ing. the orchestra became a non-profit corporation register. ed with the state's Department of Welfare. Adults still handle fund-raising and business problems. Musical

social and oclivities are entirely in charge of the players themselves,

Leman, the "Pap

only

guided by

conkluctor, and his four assist-

outs.

Players meet monthly

with no adults present, discuss their problems in their own way, and send ideas, to the

to

gripes, and requests,

board of directors.

bc

on he the valley floor and the teeth because he's so smart."

Arual auditions are beld for sure an old cow- the fale wan

orchestra members who want to ked at Knart puncher who find been graduat-Smarlie as he

be lolsts, vocal or Instru end Hanid across

window. ed to a range rider.

inental. Three winners

cach sill, "There aren't many birds

year perform on the Academy He was no longer able to ride as smart as I am. I don't like "This is my twin brother,"

of Musle stage their first step a Yes, he actually growled,

Chilepia said.

toward fame and fortune in a hadn't done at all no with the rest of the boys and to boast but that's the truth." thing he

Look care of springs and

Hanid thought to herself that these things or not. They simply musical career. he couldn't believe that she far. George put a warning hand

and one thing and Smartie didn't sound very waited for Smartie to go on. At first, players and mane was Simmy's daughter. on him. They all sal up, listen-windmills

to modest. When we got up

She thought

that it

"Now the way I did it was both came from the Ger- are the old fellow, he punched nie would have been better if this. Instead of trying to fly intown neighbourhood.

But in the sitle and said:

until someone else bad waited too.

from Cullfornis to Florida to in the last five years youngsters said.

Son, them are the kind of had complimented him on hit Connecticut with my own wings have been applying from every sces the riders smartness rather than talk about (which would have taken me section of the city and from She's gone, I'm just Jo, switched on his torch at once clouds a man

The next morning 1 was it himself.

wecks and weeks) I just told towns in three nearby states. and Simmy'o my Dad. "Here we are, Jo! How did you in."

But Smartle Sparrow didn't myself that the smart thing to So for the first time this year #etting ready to go to school 1 to save me, escape? What's happened?"

and came found out that the old man seem bothered by this at all

do was to And some bigger and nibscriptions and contributioná "Heups," said Jo,

be will

from nil accepted dend that night. "My, it

stronger wings that could carry gladly over to them.

had dropped

Without Flying that is the

The board of me. So I just sat in a tree neighbourhoods. Red completely lost his was dark up in those passages So far as I know,

directors will I

be doubled, and without a torch. Somehow legend and that is how I came

"Shall I tell them how I get and waited. temper.

parents committers will way. That's by the son?.

from one place to another with-

"Well," continued Smartic, "formed in all neighbourhoods. He went suddenly over went the wrong

Gut fying. Chirple? It's

Wasn't silting very long before to Simmy and struck him why I yelled. But I hadn't gone far wrong. live a saUBALO

wonderful story, and it shows I heard a loud humn in the air. It how smart I am." hard, his eyes blazing, roll?" "Have you double-crossed "What?" cried three hungry

Chirple urged his twin brother soon turned into I

to tell Knarf and Alanid the when I looked up I saw-high. voices, and even Tinmy lifted my birthday last year me?" ho shouted.

his head and began to sniff at

was lounging around

sailing acrosa

It was Lago, la too "old" ***Well?' strumming on my guitar, sert place to another without flying, thing

saiti Smartle

who wasn't a bird at all. the of browsing back through the Jo laughed and opened

23 now, married, and studying his story, basket. She handed out all the years, and I happened to think wasn't in the least need of any bigger than a whole flock of her fute in the orchestra.pl

urging to tell

"the day cagles. It was an aeroplane,"

Oh!" exclaimed Hanid.

medicine at Temple University. food and the three of them fell of the

"Did you hitel on it?" asked filda Pollack is a professional be a very dark before yesterday

California. Yesterday ont like wolves. "Jo, you're happened to

I was in Karte

musician, while Jane Dewees the eighth wonder of the world," and cloudy day in Death Val-

Florida. And here 1

1 am, this

Sparrow chirped operates her own drug store in raid Dick. "I there anythingley. And, well-ull of a sud~ [5.4

on a window-zil merrily. "Certainly, I flew to Deven, Fa. very minute, left in the basket?"

den it was almost over.

in Connecticut. I suppose you're

1

Other "grads" are in big sym "Yes," said Jo, and took out

I think about 25 minuses saying to yourselves," he said, the field where a lot of acro-

studying JO looked at the three the enormous key. This, look

looking at Knart and Hanlu, planes were standing, and I flew phony orchestras, or

anlu, right in. I made myself comfort. in colleges and conservatories. inter the words and music wire Jnke shouting I locked Red and

di that litle sparrow struggling,

Of course finished.

one Some are being financed by all

In a le scholarships obtained through men, and shrugged her Simmy into that tower room, happiest time about the whole manage to get to so many far- able in a corner where no

What do shoulders. Let them fight! and here's the key.

song was when I heard Vaughn away places co fast and without bothered me. And you think of that?"

boun out with his even flying! I

Bevan P. Y. Jordan, Nancy's Monroe all

the air, faster than any sparrow forgotten They had

NEXT WEEK - Markho

I fell father and the first chairman of about her, and that suited Goes Hunting)

had ever flown before.

advisory board, sleep, And when I woke up. the orchestra's

Is still very active as present -(London Express Service)

of the board of directors. Accord= Inst to him, the kids practi-

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And

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£1

TANCY JORDAN, in whose garden it all began 10 years

Simmy was aent flying to the rush basket that Je carri-house on my day off and I was story of how he got from one high up in the sky-an enormotta

the floor.

Jake came up ed.

immediately

to help him. He tripped up Red, leapt on him,

and

her very well,

· BRONCHO BILL

FTHESE RASCALS DO NOT KNOW THEIR GUNS

|HARME WEEN VROADED, AND NEITHER DOES BILL

REACH FOR THE SKY, SHERE? ?

YOU WON'T

GET POWAY

WITH THIS

and

old fellow because

it

the

how

In

one

thunder and put into it what I using my own wear, without while I was being down through their work in the orcheste

always thought and hoped would be put into it.

In Person

OH, NOP

SUDDENLY, HIS LITTLE GAS SPEAKING 100 STEPS DIT GEEMINGLY PINOM

MARCH YER THE JAILHOUSE, YUH LOW-DOWNED KI-OTEES.

Karf and Hanid didn't say whether they were supposing

By Harry F. O'Neill EQUOLY, THOUGH ONLY WITH BLANKS, A NOWHERE,

ST (GULP) L DANGEROUS DAN N

THE END.

there I was in Florida!"

In A Plane

Is that where you wanted to go?" Chirple inquired.

"Well-h'm....no, it wasn't. I really wanted to go to Canada.

cally forecd their parents into

the project,

when many "ex- perts" predicted it would soon fall like most other Buch en- But you can't tell an aeroplane terprises, He's quite proud of where to go, even though you're the 10-year recort Musically,

ja "tops," even very smart sorrow. It just the orchestra aes where it feels like going though "Pup" Leman can have So I got in another acroplane, and advanced performers in only that flew me across the ocean one-third of the chairs. Educa Then I got in o third aeroplane,

Monally and culturally, the or- and that flow me back again chestra has done an even greater And finally

got in an aeroplane job hat got me here. And I'm still on my way to Canada. 1' get there, though even if I have to be down all around the world first

The orchestra has strict rules Players can be dropped for ab- sence without excuse, and for falling behind in their regular school work. All players, and Knart and Hanid were quite especially thono who get certain now that Smartle Spar-"echolarshilpa" to learn new in- "OW WAS anything but smart, struments," must promiso noi But they did't tell him. They to stop taking privato lessons i just walled."

from their present teachers.

Rupert and Miranda-28

After sliding back the panel, the toy clown leads the way into the dark cavity beyond. and Rupert finds they are behind a very thick

curtain.

They listen cautiously, end then advance into the roots.

Miranda wants to belong to princess."

whispers

"Well, the little princess who lives in this palace will come in here before long, and she'll sit in that chair, so let's prepare for her. Rupert arates, "There's something How queer about this," he says.

do you know that all that is going to happen?" But the clown doesn' trouble to answer.

the clown.

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ZOO'S WHO

BABOONS SEEM TO BE THE ONLY ANIMALS WITH AN UNDERSTANDING

OF WEAPONS... THEY THROW STOKES

AT THEIR ENEMIES

WITH TELLING

EFFECT

DENGUINS FIGHT WITH SWORDS AND CLUBS...THEIR BEAKS ARE USED AS SWORDS AND THEIR FLIPPERS AS CLUBS...

禁

ELEPHANTS PROPERLY HARNESSED CAN DRAG A LOAD OF FOUR TONS OVER ROUGH GROUND...

DO-IT By Dale Goss

IN THE

Things to Make With Materials at Hand

FLIEU CAGE

В раск

1. Mark off 2inch squares on CARDBOARD.

Draw on front.

and back of

Lion and cut

out.

FRONT

12.Color

WLERATIONS and GLUE

to an

empty

3. Cut bars in the top and bottom of the outside part of a largo MATCH BOX...... Cut a decoration

from cardboard,

color and glean

4. Cut out the bottom of the inside part of the box......

SET LION

IN PLACE.

-Close the box.

SPOOL.

fut LEO