Children's Corner

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 18, 27 September 1928, Page 6

Children's Corner

IHN Lower Hutt, broadcasting from the "Hutt News" Office. Uncle Bill thanks those children who have sent in puzzles etc., and will acknowledge them in due course. More puzzles will be gratefully accepted. Answers to Last Week's Puzzle. 1. Riddle-mc-rce.—EARWIG. 2. Th eDiamoncl Puzzle : —

3. Answer to the riddle:— A thorn. 4. The three clocks. They will all show the same time 720 days after the date mentioned. Uncle Bill will leave his young readers to calculate the exact date. 5. The words in questions are : UNTIED UNITED. New Puzzles for This Week. 1. Riddle-me-ree. Our first is in climb, but not in walk, Our second in swing, but not in talk, Our third is in house and also in shed, Our fourth is in starved, but not in fed, Our fifth is in violet but not in rose, Our sixth is in comes and also in goes, Our seventh is in grass but not m tree, Our eighth is in prison but Hot in free, Our ninth is in elephant but not in hawk, Our tenth is in putty but not in chalk, Our eleventh is in think but not in thought, Our whole is a river you must ha ye been taught. 2. Another diamond puzzle : — A vowel. A girl's name. A Country. A Monarch. Hopes. Self-reliant. A Number. A School. Daily Food. A Number. A Consonant. 3. The two errand boys. A country baker sent off his boy with a message to the next village, and at the same time the baker in the next village sent HIS boy in the opposite direction. One boy ran faster than the other, and they were seen to pass at a point 720 yards from the baker's shop. Each stopped ten minutes at his destination and then started on jthe return journey when it was found that they passed 400 yards from the butcher's. How far apart are the two tradesmen? £ t

The above represents an amulet or charm much in vogue in thft 12th Century for warding off diseases. It forms the basis of a puzzle which is to discover how many times you can read the word "Abracadabra" on the amulet, always starting from the top. 5. Four merry tramps bought, borrowed, found, or stole a box of biscuits, which they agreed f.o divide equally among the tramps at breakfast next morning. In the night while the others were fast asleep ' under the greenwood tree' one man ate exactly one quarter of the biscuits except an odd one leftover which he threw to the dog. Later in the night, a second man awoke, and, feeling hungry, did the same thing, taking one quarter of what remained and throw-

ing the odd one to the dog. The third and fourth men followed his example, taking a quarter of what they found and throwing just one discuit each to the dog. In the morning they divided what remained equally amongst themselves, and gave an odd biscuit to the dog. Each man noticed that the contents of the box had dwindled, but said nothing. Can you say what was the least number of biscuits that could have been in the box?

\ The Pickled Wogies. (Continued). But Bella shrank back in terror, for she was sure if any of these ugly creatures touched her she would never stop shrieking. "I don't want to hold anybody's hand. No, nor yet their horn," she added, as she saw the one with the snail's shell was becoming very alert. "Keep back all of you, please.'' "But you have got to choose one of us,'' explained the creature who looked most like a toad. "Come to me. I would be such a ! kind master.'' ! '' Why should I have one of you 'for a master"?" asked Bella, who was now almost too frightened to speak. "I have my own mother and father. I do not want anybody else." "When a mortal comes into this wood after the sun has set and walks about on this path, it means only one thing," explained the Wogie who had the back like a hair-comb. "I want my Nurse," sobbed Bella. "I want my Nurse clreffcl badly. I don't mean anything else. It's just Nurse." | "Not a bit of it," replied 4;he | monkey one. "As you came down this path alone, it means to us, and to all the creatures who live in the wood, that you are tired of your comfy home and nice clean nursery, and the dinner always ready on the table with a warm plate and a silver fork. It means you are tired of being good and that you won't go to bed." To bed! How well Bella remembered it all now, and how she longed for her soft white bed and the cool sheets! "And as you are tired of thsse things," continued the monkey one, "we know why you are here." "Why?" "Because you are going to be servant to one of us and forget you are a mortal child any longer." "No, no!" screamed Bella. "Indeed I am not. I want to go home. I will go home." Biit the Pickled Wogies advanced a bit nearer and each one described what a good master he would make. "Come to me," said the snaillike one. "Then you will have no boots to clean."

"Don't mind his boots—that is silly," the monkey one exclaimed. "I am the best, for I should never bring any mud into the rooms, | and I always swing by my tail and never walk on a wet day." "Wet or fine, I never walk," the one who resembled the toad urged. "For I hop along gaily, l always light-hearted and merry. I sing too. That is why my mouth is big. Think how liiee to be sung to!" "I never sit on chairs," said the one who had a back like a hair-comb. "So there will be nothing to dust.'' But it all seemed too terrible for Bella even to listen to. H itone idea was to escape, and v.itli her hands over her ears she turned and rushed away. Her little legs, encased in black stockings, never went so fast as they did then, for she longed to reach home and get to Nurse before she was caught by the creatures among whom she had fallen. The Pickled Wogies hastened after her as swiftly as they could. She could hear them lump and bump along as she fled towards her home, and from the loud way in which they breathed she felt they were gaining on hor. Soon the Wogies would capture her and she would never be a free mortal again. Oh, if only her l?gs were longer and would work fastier! She knew she would bo, caught, for they were almost at her heels.

"Oh, Nurse, Nurse, come tomonkey Wogie got quite close to me!" she yelled in her fear as the her and made a grasp at hor curls. "Oh, Nurse, Mummie, Somebody! Do help!" "Why, Miss Bella, what a noise to make!" said Nurse, as she gathered the frightened child in her arms. '' See, the sun is shining in the room and your bath is ready waiting. Come along—get up!" "Get up, Nurse?" the little girl cried. "Oh, look out of the window and see if the Pickled Wogies are sitting on the lawn, waiting- tobe my masters." "There is nobody on the lawn but one blackbird, and I think I can tell you where the Wogtes have gone. You will never see them again, so don't you fret.". . "Why, where have they gone?"" said Bella, who still felt suspicious. "Back to Dreamland," Nurse told her. "They will never be back here again." And Bella wondered why.

Making the Best of a Bad Giant. ! (By F,L.) Once on a time, by the Caspian Sea, There lived a bad Giant, as bad a» could be; He stole people's cattle and geese by the score, And when these were eaten he bellowed for more! If cattle were scarce and he socouldn't dine, He shut up the farmers in dungeons to pine; (Whilst Knights who opposed him,. in armour of steel, The weight of his club were, alas I made to feel. A Wizard there was, by the Oaspian Sea, And he muttered, "There comes a bright notion to me* ' ' A circle of magic around him he drew, Inside which he spelt seven spells that he knew. The Future Dropped Open! The Wizard was seen To search with his wand for your pet Magazine And when he had found it he sent it with speed To the Giant, who happened toknow how to read. Then oh, what a change by the Caspian Sea! The Giant remained in his Castle where he Was laughing all day, notwithstanding his crimes, At humorous pictures and rollicking rhymes, Or holding his breath over stories well told, Or guessing at riddles, and oft getting "sold!" The farmers could now frisk about hunting dews, For the Giant was deep in the latest H*** N***