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HOW TED WAS ENTERTAINED. With Slate, Pencil and an Obliging Aant Ho Learns the Game of "Patchwork." "Do you know any nice now games, Aunt Alma?" Ted esked. "I know two slate games that are so old thoy will be quito new to you, Tod." Ted's slato was close at hand, and tbe flret game they played was called "Patchwork." First of all, Aunt Alma put ever so many dots on tho slate in a square form (Fig. 1). Aunt Alma and Ted then began drawing lines from ono dot to another, In turn. Soon tho slate looked like Fig. 9. The game required eaoh player to make a line in turn, and eaoh player tried to '' make the lino without enabling the opponent to complete a square. As often as a player completed a square he earned the tight to mako another line at once. Before he knew it Ted waa completely absorbed. It was really exolting, for, as has been stated, jvhen a player added a fourth, gide to a square ho had the privi- • • » • t f ■■. •. '■ ' itjj" S ♦ » • » » \ -«=—! • ; ♦ • • a > i, if -«' ■ 4 f ♦ • • • *_ s ■■■ i, .8- »J»V ♦ »»•'♦ »-■;■«■>. i » i i z I |o o j 0 I 0 0 ♦ • ••■§- i » A * ■ » ■»■ -» 1Q 0 0 C 4 ■ ... s t - ■< i #. .r ■ i— .«~»* \l' x 0 01 * x • ♦■ .# * — * i—^* — A— •*-— ♦ 3 4 DIAOBAMS FOB PATCHWORK. lege not only of adding another line Just as often as he completed a square, but he could put his own mark inside the p.quare. Ted used an X and Aunt Alma an 0. At length Aunt Alma was forced to add a third side to a squaro, aud she prudently drew it on tho lowest lino at the right hand. Tod saw his obance, triumphantly completed one square, two squares, and put an X in them (Fig. 8). He was so elated with his sucoess that his next line was drawn without caution, and this enabled his opponent to make a fine showing, for when ho drew an upright line at the extreme left between the lowest two dots, as shown In Fig. 3, he lost nob only one, but ten squares, for she could complete all marked with an O, as shown in Fig. 4. Then Aunt Alma filled in another line, and Ted bad the pleasure of making a large X In eaoh of the four remaining squares. You see that Ted gained only six squares while Aunt Alma made ten. "Not a very good showing, " said Ted. "But I warn you, Aunt Alma, that I see through It now, and in tho next game I'll beat you badly. Please mako another di- . ugram, only make it a great deal bigger, for I'm going to scoop in squares by the doten." So Aant Alma made one diagram after another, eaob diagram having more dots in the beginning than tho ono that went before. Ted was so interested that he forgot all else, and when a square containing 100 dots at the beginning bad been made Into "patchwork" Ted counted In it three more squares to his credit than there were to his aunt's, according to a writer In 6t Nicholas, who with this little etory desoribes the learning of a pleasant game. Th© Merry Mosie!an. A merry musician wandered onca On the banks of the river Nile. Imagine his fright! There hove in sight A monstrous crocodile f His teeth were long, his jaws were strong, His month was horribly wide, . And he grlonett a grin: "Dear sir. come in. There's plenty of room inside > " Tbe merry niuelolan shook with fear, • Ho shivered from hat to shoe. - "You're ever so kind; but if you don't mind I I'd rather not lodge with you. " I "Try I* at least, " said the wily beast I with a "broad, malicious smile. I "You'll see in a trice how quiet and nice I ft is to Ut* in the Nile!" I ne merry musioian groaned again. I Vh« Addle was in his hand. I ▲ tan* he tried, "The last, " he sighed, I "IshaUeverjlayenlandJ" I Twss) a polka gay, and, strange to say, I Hhso ts* crocodile heard the sound, ■ Be UoglMd sod rose on the tip of his toes I And began to oaper round. I Ths many musician played and played, I And faster his fingers flew, ■ IVaUa eloM to tbe Kile the crocodile ■ DaiMsd faster and faster too. ■ A* length he stopped, and down he dropped, ■ Toe giddy to hear or see, ■ And when he came round his prey, he found, ■ Bad ran away home to tea. I The Blind Bat Is Cared For. I When an animal loses its sight, Its oase ■ would be very hard but for the kindness ■ often shown to It by fellows of its own ■ •peoles. A farmer tells a story of witnesaH Ing more than onoe last summer an inLEADING THE OLD BLIND BAT. H stance of really touching devotion. An ■ old blind rat was being led about by two H young rats. Tbe blind one carried a stlok in its mouth, and its friends placed themselves one on eaoh side, seized the end of the stick In their teeth, and so oonducted helpless creature along the pathway H and across planks and other obstaoles in perfect ease and safety. Wber* Popular Muslo Prevails. It Is gravely affirmed in Golden Days' Htbat there Is in Italy an entire village of' organ grinders, air speaking Engwith an Italian accent.. They have all their money in England or this and have returned to spend the of tbelr lives with their famiTbe majority have kept their organs ■Hy mementos, and on fair evening the is entertained with familiar airs all countries on the globe. .

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Manawatu Herald, 27 February 1897, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
954

Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Manawatu Herald, 27 February 1897, Page 4

Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Manawatu Herald, 27 February 1897, Page 4

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