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STORIES

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1950.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

GAMES

PUZZLES

WHY DOGS HATE CATS

NCE

there

By Dan Murdoch

were

110 So Reynard bit right into ho better friends in the centre of the cheese, taking a

Bittle out of the

ON

animal kingdom than cats enuring!

L

alleys in company with was entitled

dog than with another cat, and a dog would want no better companion than a cat when it came to tipping over garbage pails.

centre

and

HOBBIES

it to fall apart. Of and dogs. A cat would course, Reyard swallowed the bit, out, but any rather go up and down part he

sensible person would walke he

commission. to u

the large Hey hard pushed piece over to Rover and the small piece to Tom. Tom look- ed his piece over and said: "O course, I'm sinaller than lover, but size has nothing to do with

diaro I agreed to The reason for their dis- this deal

half and half with Rover. The like for each other ROCs pieces should be the same size."

that's "Well,

Pasily buck to a dog called Rover

fixed" sald Reynard. So he bli off and cat named Tom.

Tom was strolling through piece from lover's plece

it down cheese and gulped the market place on this over growled:

"You took too much. Now my particular afternoon, long,

an plece in smaller than Tom's, 1 long ago, when he saw old woman selling cheese, thought we were going to share

equally."

While she waited on a cus- tomer, Tom reached out nis is

A

Anstructive

value of

pen pals

BY DAN MURDOCH

to

DERHAPS you don't have

pen-pal in some other coun

want try,

or perhaps you

different another one, Here's a

correspon- approach to world dence, that you might ke try In your club or your class. It's the "riendship-chain."

The idea is to have

th Broup in club

even or

with Ponci

abrond,

it whole acuntry-class, school-corres- cimilar group

sponsoring

The organisation the "friendship-chain" idea the School Affiliation Service of Service the American Friends

12th St., Committer, 20 South of

Miss Jennio Philadelphia 7. Palombo, the director, will try to Gd you an oversens club or class or school that is about the level caine size, type, and age

as yours. She has an interest- ing suggestion for getting art-

"Hmmm," sald Reynard. "So it

ed. I didn't judge it correctly.

Heynard bit right into the centre of the cheese, causing it to fall apart.

a

paw and snatched a piece of cheese. Tom, as you can see, WRE little lacking in honesty, but he didn't have the right kind of bringing up.

Tom ran up an alley and ran was Rover who smack luto

pail. cheese and

Upping over a garbage

Tom dropped the Rover picked it up,

"Begging your pardon," said Tom, because he was polite, if nat honest, that's my cheese."

"It's mine now," suh tover. And they got into a friendly argument, with a lot of talk and no real hord feelings in either side. Finally a named Reynard stuck his head

ul from under a garage

loud

Inx

and

told them to quiet down.

Now this fox named Reynard WiS LILLY smart, and

But never mind, I'll fix it.”

So he gulped down another bite from Toni's plece of cheese.

"You

Oh!" ried the cat. look too much! Now Rover's got inore than I have!"

on he

Ami so Reynard kept

biting and nibbling and never could get the two pieces of cheese exactly the same size. and maybe he didn't care, be- cause he swallowed cash piece he bit off. And then suddenly uliced that Tom and Rover

the cheese was all gone.

*

#

ን፡

OM looked at Rover, Rover I looked at Tom, Tom and Rover looked at iteynard.

"I went to a great risk to get that cheese," said Tom to Rey- nard. "Now my risk was all for Bot because I've

dog

aflet hinte

Tom and Rover had explained why they were arguing, the fox wald:

"Why don't you let me arbi- tmte?"

EB

**

*

TOM and Rover, not being mad, agreed to let Reynard jugo which was to get the dicese.

to

The simplest thing to do," sad Reynard, wou be divide the cheese between you." "Of course," eld Tom, "[l'a a wonder I didn't think of that myself. I'll give lover half and half my self."

"Sure thing," said Rover.

It

of

The fox nodded. "That was the cause of it all

"But Tom promised half the cheese to met" cried Rover. doesn't keep his promises," said the fox, and he ducked back under the garage. crumbs of his licking chees Whiskers

So from that day on, when- ever a cat sees a dog, they 16- member Tom and Rover.

The cat says: "Che-e-e-sel" The dug syst Word br-r- reaker--!"

And the foxer just stay

nut

in the woods pretending that the whole quarrel wasn't any of their business in the first place.

Cam Be

DILL and Mary got out their

biker and

map. irond "Let's make a tour of the towns on this road map." Bili sug- gested. The map is shown

tho dingrarr:

HOMETOWN

TUILGA

Dome

Can you discover the route that will take you from Ilame- town, marked with a stor,

that you'll back. 50

town only travel the

10

through each and yet not

BOSTON

ITHICA

| NEWARK

DENVER

EUCLID

and

pass олсо samo

NASHVILLE

EMPORIA

AKRON

CHICAGO

the same of road more

"Sults me." said Mary, "but I don't like to visit the same lown more than once. And I don't like to travel mrotch

"It would be hard not through momo of the more than once," Hill said.

than

to go

OGDEN

stretch of road more than once. You can cross your path, but you must not retrace.

HOW IT'S DONE Starting at Hometown, visit the towns in the order of their initial letter, which spell

out

"It Can Be Done." The correct towne route is: Ithaca, Tulsa, Chicago,

Akron,

Newark, Boston, Em- the peria, Denver, Ogden, Nash- beville, Euclid and back to Home

tour

been studying Mary said. "It can

So

An

AMONG THE BEST LOVED AND LONG REMEMBERED OF CHILDRENG STORIES ARE LITTLE THUMB, RED RIDING HOOD, FUSS IN BOOTS, BLLIE BEARD AND DIAMONDS AND TOADS-

THESE SIMPLE STORIES WERE WRITTEN BY CHARLES FERRAULT, A

DIGNIFIED AND INTELLECTUAL

LEADER OF PRANCE,

IN_1697

intellectual

CRAFTS

JOKES

Picnicking is just the thing

Co

for

summer

By 1. R. HECEL

A

A

NOMES the summer and score of 30 first being the win-

read er. we are bound to

Another game is to place something about the roman- basket on a pole or tree trunk, tic Middle Ages when the the distance up the trunk head

the high. Each player receives lords and the ladies of

newspaper and must mount his bicycle in the court gathered flowers in lightly folded the early dawn, placing manner of a polo pony, them in baskets to hang on feat a balloon, air-filled,

see who can wat it into the one another's doors.

basket in jig time. *

*

Now

RTKİ

flower dawn-rising for picking would never rate rave? today. A bleyele basket plenic

*

another game

is more the 1930

maner

of

TILL

divide your group Inlo

in

to

1

wrote

Puss in Boots

The

THE French gentle By Lee Priestley ads: "Let

"One American group," che,

thing they ays, listed Ave wanted to know about France. that French assumed They

Fame chlidren would have the questions about America. they have the Information our end at the same time that

from asked for It they

the Fretch end. They look up one question each month, and sent

without waiting to

Meanwhile

24

material unit

reply. for forested repouses

ita from

began

from

10

man paused with

On au impulse, the visitor re

to the desk where his hand on the door tumed

wrote 1:0 knob of Charles Per- Charles Perrault

busily. What is it that you M'sieur?" he asked rault's study. Turning write,

The old man looked up with atari. "Oh, nothing nothing

with in but old tales

which

say a word of fare curioudy. well to the old man who the French had buried himself youngsters. The project is all his country chateau, there myself."

visitor shook his head sadly.

going strong."

"FRIENDSHIP - CHAIN"

A doegit

records.

|

115

visitor shook his head not quarrel about this," he said. "I will re- turn now to Paris and suggest to your friends that a manu- ment be built to your earlier cenius,"

The

visitor sighed and left. Charles Perrault turned to his work and wrote: "Once upon a time there was a little girl and everyone called her Little Red Riding Hoof...."

TN

N

for

putting the romantic custom to teams again. Hand the leader of Rood use, even if the basket is Cach group a basket filed with salt crackers. When the basket merely the scuffed basket

school- reaches the end of his line, the the old bike, And any

leader whistles. The last player a cracker and com- must take

free afternoon will do,

on

Invite all the pedal-pushers pletely eat it. The moment the for the big scension, everyong cincker-cater is able to whistle lunch answer, he must run, bas-

bringing his own picnic

in his biteycle basket. Selest aket in hand, and lake his place from at the head of the line, passing order the

basket

picnic

too far

sile not the gathering point in

that plenty of energy may

reserved for the games.

*

*

be where the same action

down un

before

takes

place. The first team to

Anish

樂

pedal-

the basket of crackers is the winner, the basket being tossed

gh in the air.

And then, of course,

there's

the

of

TF there are enough

pushers attending the plente, divide them into teams and set last, but you cannot tag a basket at either end of a 10- girl or boy who keeps one

Paris a few days later, the Charles Even before the visitor visitor had heard about

the nonsense that

man who had visited Per- letters left exchange

rault Charles Perrault had Perrault wrote. He asked: "Old

monument, proposed a but it was never built. No only. Groups send one another

picked up his quill pen and steries that the peasants tell?" Tales that children's nurtes re-

monument poems. stories, photographs,

was needed, Charles Perrault's pen built a Haries, taken some sheets of paper pest at bedtime?" кешув, photographs,

The old man nodded, a spark

greater monument to his books, magazines, newspapers from the desk drawer in

coming into his

the games, and even phonograph which he had hurriedly hid- of engerness

memory. The folk tales of "I have Anished

French peasants that he record- den them when his servant faded eyes.

the tale of Puss in Boots' and

ed with that pen are still told and now I begla today to young people all over had announced the visitor. Cinderella'

went

another

the world. Already his quill pen

"Is this childish stuff proper scratching and squeaking

wark for you who have been across the page.

WALK WAT It

brilliant debater and a poet? true, thought the visitor, for you who helped design the what other visitors from gren building of the Louvre? who was King Paris had reported. The old for the

spokesman in the man, once the intellectual outs XIV'S

karued Academy of France?" leader of France, was not

"They are interesting tales," said Perrault quite right in his head.

Simple, handmade practical gifts are especially pleasing te both sides. To make a strong "chalu," a group doesn't wait

WRITING TO PEN FALS IN OTHER COUNTRIES IS FUN- AND YOU CAN GO FARTHER- GROUPS CAN CORRESPOND for an answer to each thing it wala. It keeps sending things regularly on its own, knowing keep that that's the way to things arriving to them just as regularly.

man

The Water Was Boiling Away

-The Steam Wanted to Get Out of the Pot-

that remembered muddenly jucomolives were pushed by

By MAX TRELL TANID, the shadow-girl with team.

tumect-about name, was sitting quietly in the corner

HA

the

W

*And we push steamboats- of the kitchen, when she wan and steamships! We push them)

Walt around the world. It came startled by a noise.

that was right, Hanid knew from the stove where a pot of ever get tired of pushing!" water had been set to boil. The

being made e

puth noise itself was the cover of the pot, which was

fseries. attling furiously up and down, we build buildings. We dig

But over and above the nobe

machines We push derrichts,

in

We

of the rattling pol-cover came holes. We blow whistles, loud hissing voices, "Let us out Press clothes"

"Press clothes?" said Hanid ut here! It you don't get or.

Let us 10 surprise, we'l

push you off!

"We pred clothes in tallor ON'T worry about not un-out!" DON'T Merry, edura dint a

next Instant The

the pot shops!"

raced arcand the They all sverseas roup sends, Many cover was pushed up into the

abroad

again Fot of water again. But Hand write air.

It fell right back young people English well. If not, you'll find the pot. But in the instant noticed now that they weren't teachers, parents, and students it was up a dozen white #gures racing around nearly as fast as in your community who can leaped out of the pot, hissing they had been before.

What's the maller? What foreign language foruri splashing.

goodness criod Hand. are you trying to do?"

The The water is bolling over!"

She quickly turned the flame down.

translate you.

Spud Sculpture

Racing and Whirling

In the meantime she saw that

the pol inside the cover DITI

you may not be artistle, buture widite, steamy figures were you can't fail to enjoy sculpting and whirling around the ture If you work with potatoes top of the pot. They seemed to Instead of marble!

their friends still Surprising results can be ob- be calling to. "Come Out Push talnel with a small knife and a the

"Here! sald Honid severely. supply of potatoes. Peel Dotato

that noiset and begin. If you study the shape of the potate, it may "Stop making all

Who are you anyway?"

Ave of There were four or them, but they all Were mixed up one with the other that Hanid

hand to found it eparate them. They all seemed to be arms and legs and necks n heads, which kept getting

carve

doesn't

an

suggest what you can from it. If the potato give you any ideas, carve Indian bend,

to

Indian

NO

sala.

tonger and shorter and flying A dozen white figures leaped

off and coming together again. Tier Anally all settled down the pot of around the edge of boiling water.

Giants" they all

answered **Wo

out of the pot.

His eight stories, published in 1697

were:

SLEEPING BEAUTY LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

BLUE BEARD

PUSS IN BOOTS

DIAMONDS AND TOADS CINDERELLA

RIQUET WITH THE TUFT LITTLE THUMB

It is said that he was

this

the

original Mother Goose, although in dispute, Molher Goose, say some authorities. had was the old woman who been Perrault's nurse.

"nonsense" But the Charles Perrault wrote no long aro has become one of the most famous and best known books of the world.

Try some other

type

of tanning

that

summer

21

EXPOSURE to the sun is

popular

the boy or pastime. But girl who reaches the sum- mer's end, having only coat of tan, has done far too little with three big months. What about other kinds of exposure? For instance, the public librarian is ready to select Books fer help you

basketa quart-size fruit balancect on his head.

Tho basket slips off. After he's a target.

recovera his

foot playing space. Each player those

into must throw a tennis ball the basket at his end and. it minute the should enter on the first bounce however, and slay there to count. Playing him before is fast, the team reaching the headgear!

Rupert and the Back-room Boy-6

Freling too, tanished to speak, Rupert leaves the net and lean forward just in time to see the angry little creature disappear behind the tree. He follows and gazes around. "Where on earth has he gone? He's vanished 1" be While he waits there is a noise below and his pal climbs breath

thurmurs,

lessly up the bank. "say, what's Did you happened?" nay Billy. ire that little black rabbit that I That was "'Rabbit > raught ?"

** it was no rabbit" cries Rupert.

live imp. just the same shape a the imps of spring, only he was in black. and he was very upset above it 1"

ALL RIGHTS RESERVAD

ZOO'S WHO

summer reading. Perhaps ex- posure to good Uterature is not NALUSES LIVED IN WHAT IS NOW FLORIDA

at

Just the

especially appealing theURING ICE AGE AND MOOSE THRIVED A school term's end.

FAR SOUTH AS KENTUCKY... same the fiction and non-fiction you are going to read on a rainy afternoon or in the cool of hammock when the temperature is sizzling, will give you enjoy- ment now, help you in your next semester and add cubits of mental stature

for the rest of your Ble.

Expose yourself to Acida un- known. Peep into a telescope on a starry night. It will not be as dull as you imagine. Try

if you

can get a apelunking,

explorers to- mineralogy.

or

crowd of cavo gether, They answered in low voices zoology,

"Move the cover a bit,

now.

erYea

DO-IT

By Dala Goss

KBOBO

The *

THE PORPOISE(S) KNOWN AS THE DEAD MANS FRIEND BECAUSE OF ITS HABIT OF FINDING) PODIES IN THE WATER AND ROLLING THEM

ASHORE...

BATTLE HELMETS HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN MADE OF STEEL HIPPOPOTAMUS HIDE WAS USED INBOTH; HELMETS AND BUCKLES BY THE ANCIENT

ROMANS...

Things to Make With Materials at Hand

1. Draw parts

BALANCING of CLOWN OWN

or

DRAW

}ilin.

ARMS

SCA

When the carving is done. use a ring and a hairpin han the carving where it con remain undisturbed for several ays. If your curiosity will per- mit, don't look at the potato in

Then you will The meantime.

and that the potato has darken-

Junior was determined to ed and twisted as dried so

"Who are you?" Hand asked please. We want to get back." <righton Loda Mae who hat the queer tony object again.

"Duck in the pot of water?" summer week-ending with his scarcely resembles the

Please move it back older sister. He placed a large you carved.

in their saing voices,

We feel cold."

spider on her pillow and that With a le practice

you were in that pot of water; It

They sounded weaker and night he waited for the expected can turn out strange primitive-

got so hot we Anally jumped

Hank was quite sure weaker,

serenm. When nono came, he look

Loda Mac was looking pleces that will

out We pushed the cover they couldn't push any locomo-peeked In.

We can push any- right off.

the spider under a tives, or steamboats, or factory examining thing off."

machines now, They couldn't microscope.

recommend You'ro "Oh," sald Hanid

iron

We

wouldn't a little handkerchief.

than epider

to the collecting You' She was much stronger nothing but

Yet it is true that nothing but a few drops of they were now. So she pushed squeamish. The those who

seek exposure to weter turned into steam."

the cover arido a little, Whirled Around water had stopped bolling. The now skills in sport, new proweES could under-

and craftsmanship Millie, nover rland why she lost her vacation At this the white figures all whlie Agures said: "Thanks in hobbles

Break-

whirled around again in mage, and Instantly dropped back into find a fresh world of adventure

each day. job as waitress at the

They are never water floach Katel All she did we're glants. We can do any the water.

In fact, a Hania looked, são bored. And never being bored Table ting. was mix her orders at

We can push loceme

Jaw that they had turned into themasives, they never bore No. 5 and ask the 200-pound | Livest”

Hanid was about to say: water: themselves; Utile drops other people. dat "unburned” dowager if she was the "stuffed

as if they had come from the ruins of a lost civilisation.

A Slight Error

"

deam.

even

CORRUGATED

CARDBOARD.

DRAW BODY

4.Twist

2 PIPE

CLEANERS together and push through holes.... Hook a small HUT

to end of each pice cleaner.

24.

ON YOUR

HOT ROLE

TRAQUGH

TANDS.

Z. Cut out parts

SIAMOCIÓ

and color with

'GUE

PAINTS.

3. GLUE Arms and los place

TWIST PIPE CLEANERS IN DIFFERENT

WAYS TO SEE THE TRICKS

BO-BO CAR DO!