BOTTLED PEAR!

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 120, 22 May 1937, Page 20

BOTTLED PEAR!

A Yorkshire blacksmith of a century ago'used to mystify people by showing them'a bottle -with a pear inside. "How did it get there?" he would ask, and people would examine the bottle carefully, and shake .their heads. ? Had the Children's Encyclopaedia been published in those days there would have been no mystery about it;; but it had not, and the Yorkshire blacksmith always had the laugh. Today his grand-1 son, who lives near Harrogate, treasures some of the old bottles which still have pears in them. "It was quite easy, of course," he explained. "My grandfather used to wait till the blossom fell from the tree before pushing the twig into a bottle, and tying the two securely. ■ The fruit formed, the pear grew—and the trick was done."

# * * A RABBIT TAKES A RIDE.

A motorist in South Africa was driving along a road when he saw a rock rabbit in front ot him. He sounded'his horn but the rabbit took no notice. The motorist drew up and threw a stone gently at the rabbit, but It refused to move. Then it jumped round and disappeared under the car. The driver continued his journey to Beaufort West, fifty miles away, and great was his surprise when, on arriving, he found .the rabbit sitting comfortably on tho petrol tank at tho' back of the Tho rabbit has-been presented to a school zoo.

•To' make one animal -.yoti.will reciulrer throa pipe-cleaners, J/ioz .of wool,, and a corti. . First, tako two plpe-cloiiners- and bond as lv diagram A. Next, lay the third plpc-cleaner on top of the other two, then bend down: a short piece for the tail and a long piece for the neck. (This is for an' animal -with; a rmk head). If a woolly pompom'is used instead of a cork, tho tall is made long ahd the neck short. Wool la wound round and round tbe body