Children's Corner

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 17, 20 September 1928, Page 6

Children's Corner

IHN Lower Hutt, broadcasting from the "Hutt News" Office. Uncle Bill wants all children to know that he will be pleased to publish the names of any children who send to him correct answers to any of the puzzles. He will also be pleased to publish and to acknowledge receipt of any puzzles sent in for publication. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES. 1. Riddle-me ree. —KINGFISHER. • 2. Proverb. —Look before you leap. 3. Word puzzle.—Money. 4. Square word— GAME ASIA MISS EAST. 5. He bought 20 eggs on the first day. NEW PUZZLES FOB THIS WEEK. 1. Riddle-me-ree. ■My first is in deer, but not in fawn, My second in anger but not in scorn, My third is in rat, but not in mouse, My fourth is in window, but not in house. My fifth is in wind, but not in blow, My sixth is in grapes, but not in sloe, And if you can make out this riddle-me-ree, The name of an insect I;m sure you '11 see. 2. The following names refer to words that, when placed in order make a Dianond puzzle: — A consonant. A pronoun. A tale. To advance. Something to eat. Strong and well. A Situation. To have eaten. A vowel. 3. A riddle— 1 went into the wood and got it, I sat me down and looked at it, i The more I looked at it the less I liked it, And brought it home because I coul ln"t help it. 4. THE THREE CLOCKS.—On Fri- j day, Ist April 1928 three new clocks were j all set going sft the same time, tYrpkpe ]

noon. At noon on the following day, i, ne'e Bin saw these three clocks in the jeweller's window, and found that the first clock had kept perfect time, the second had gained one minute and the third had lost a minute. Supposing that they were wound regularly and not altered, when would they all show the same time again (i.e., when would each clock snow the same time as the other two?) 5. Find a word such that the reversal of the two middle letters gives another word of exactly opposite meaning. It is interesting to note that the words have each six letters. A GRANT.) ADVERTISEMENT. ' ' I"m anxious,'' said the Elephant with emphasis and vigour, '' To try some remedy for the improvement of my figure, i weight at least ten tons, you know, when only in my hide, My waist is thirty inches —I mean feet, of course,'"'" 1ili sighed. '' Cheer up ; '' I said. He shook his head. '' Cheer up,' ' I said, still louder. ''I know the very thing for you —that's Barnum 's Baking Powder, It makes, although perhaps you won't r believe it altogether, Whatever it is mixed with quite as light as any feather.''

'' If that be so,'' with eagerness he said, "111 tell you what '' I '11 do —I '11 buy a hundredweight right off, and take the lot" So there and then, he bought up all the powder in the town, And mixing it with greengage jam contrived to get it down. And scarcely had he swallowed it, when, singular to say, There came a sudden puff of wind and blew him light nwav! And everyone who witnessed it agreed . with one consent, That for Barnum ?s Baking Powder, 'twas a grand advertisement. THE PICKLED WOGIES. '' Well, I won 't go to bed, so there ! Yes, you can fetch Father and Mother and all the rest of the family. You can fetch anybody you like, but I won't go to bed, I '.von 't, I won't! " '' Now, now, Bella, do try to be a good girl, just for a change," coaxed nurse. '' Sit still and have your hair brushed, and see how pleasant you can be.'' But Bella rushed to her bed, and banged it in a temper, and threw the pillow on to the floor and jumped on it. Go to bed ?'' she screamed, on a fine hot night like this! Why the sun is still shining in the sky. Go to bed indeed; I would rather walk in the wood and play with the Pickled Wogies."

Nurse stopped folding up the quilt and looked seriously at the angry little girl. "Do you really mean that?" she asked. *' Yes I do, " replied Bella, and the nurse opened the door saying, '' Well, run along then. I do not know which "Wogie you will choose, but I have heard that there are ever so many of them. You will be sure to find a few playing in the forest to-night.' '

'' I suppose you think I will not go ? but I will, so there,'' sobbed Bella. * ' I would sooner go to the Wogies than stay here,'' and out of the door she rushed and down the stairs and out into the garden and so into the forest.

Through there lay her path^ but how dark and gloomy it was! Immense branches of trees met over her head and quite shut out what little daylight was left, while the thick trunks cast long shadows and made the dense parts look worse than they were, for not a leaf stirred or rustled in the breeze.

'' I suppose the birds are in bed,'' thought Bella to herself. "I rather wish I had gone there too. It would really hs more comfy than out here alone. But I expect that nurse wants me back. so I won't go '' Making up her mind to be extra brave, she rushed down a path as fast as she could, but it was all bumps, and soon she.fell. Nobody help-

Ed her up, but as she brushed the earth off her dress, she heard the nastiest laugh that you can imagine. She turned round crossly. "I should think that instead of laughing you might have helped me up,'' she said rudely. ' ' Why should I help you up, and how could I when I have no arms. I should not trust you to catch hold of my hornsHelp her up, indeed, did you hear that,, you others?''

"Oh yes, we heard. Ha, ha, ha!" and the laugh was louder than before. Bella looked from one to the other and then decided that she had never seen anything uglier in her life. She knew they were the Wogies and that they belonged to the Pickled kind, for they both had the funny dark brown look that^^ Pickled things get. One, who said he had no arms, looked like a snail that had possessed a Jewish grandfather. He had a great flat shell which covered him all over except his neck and his two long horns which waved about when he was pleased or when he was very cross. Then another Wogy was just like a monkeyy for lie had long, thin legs and hairy arms and lie held on by his tail to whatever came in handy. He had a fierce white face, too, that gleamed in the twilight like a gas-globe. There was also on© .with a hard high shell which covered his body so badly that his arms, legs, tail, and even his body bulged out all round like a balloon under a board, while another object like a toad sat on the shell as if to keep it down. The last one had only four fingers on his hands, and these he kept waggling round as if looking for the fifth finger which he hoped to find in time. "That is why he looks so hopeful, I suppose," said Bella, and she decided that lie was the nicest of them all. Then she saw another Wogy that caused her to shiver, for he was long, and while fat at one end was very thin at the other with a row of sharp spikes down his back. "He is just like a comb on top of a sausage," said Bella to herself, "but his blunt nose is the worst part of him, £ think. I suppose though that he has a. name and somebody loves him." On see-. ond thoughts she changed her mind "No, I don't see how anybody could." Bella tried to pretend to herself that she was not afraid, but was just wishing that nurse was there to hold her hand when the monkey-like creature said "I will hold your hand, you pretty thing in a white frock.' > (To be continued.)