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Manawatu Herald, 12 February 1898, Page 4

HOW TED WAS ENTERTAINED. With SLite, Peacll and an Obliging Aunt ECo Learns t!io Game of "Patchwork." l: Do you know any nJco new gamos, Aunt Alma?" Ted asked. "I know two slato games that are so old they v/.'ll bo quito new to you, Tod." Ted's clato was closo afc hand, and the first gamo thoy played was called "Patchwork. " First of all, Aunt Alma put ever so many dots on tho slato in a square form (Fig. 1). Aunt Alma and Ted then began drawing lines from ono dot to'anotbcp, in turn. Soon tho slato looked like Fig. 3. Tbo game required each player to make a lino in turn, and each player tried to rnako tho lino without enabling tho opponent to complete a square. As often ns a player completed n square he earned the right to make another line at once. Beforo ho knew it Ted was completely absorbed. It was really exciting, for, as has been stated, whon a player added a fourth sido to a equaro he had the privi- • •••«. '• •, «^— •: ft / 1 • • » • « :• •, {+—*9*r^} <• » .* • '• y:.r<L—» • < | | Mojo • o-— •— a • • 4— • — c—-•e — -• I I o | ol o I ►—— 9 9— —t O w __p-.^»— i— ■• DIAGRAMS FOX PATCHWOBK. lege not only of adding another lino just | as often as ho comploted a square, but he could put his own mark inside tho square Ted used an X and Aunt Alma an O. At length Aunt Alma was forced to add a third sido to a square, and she prudently drew it on the lowest line at the right I hand. I Ted saw his chance, triumphantly comI pleted one square, two squares, and put an I Xln them (Fig. S). t{ He was so elated with his success that I his next line was drawn without caution, "~" and this enabled his opponent to make a t fine showing, for when he drew an upc right lino at tho extreme left between the lowest two dots, as shown in Fig. 3, he lost not only ono, bud ten squares, for she could comploto all marked with an O, a 9 ..Bhown iv Fig. 4. Then Aunt Alma filled in another line, I and Ted had the pleasure of making a L— hrrgo X in each of tho four remaining [ squares. Yon sco that Ted gained only six I squares whilo Aunt Alma mado ten. I "Not a \ery good showing,", said Ted. I r ' But I worn you, Aunt Alma, that I see I through it now, and in tho next game I'll I boat you badly. Please make another di- ■ agram, only mako it a great deal bigger, ■ for I'm going to scoop in 6quarca by the ■ dozen." ■ So Aunt Alma made one diagram after I another, each diagram having more dots ■ in tho beginning than tho one that went I before. Ted was so interested that ho for- ■ got all else, ami when a square containing B 100 dots at tho beginning had been mado ; B into "patchwork" Ted counted in it i B three movo squares to his credit than there ■ wero to his aunt's, according to a writer B in St. Nicholas, who with this little story H describes the learning of a pleasant game. The Merry Musician. V A merry musician wandered onco H On tho banks of the river Nile. H Imagine his fright! There hove in sight H A monstrous crocodile 1 H His teeth wero long, his jaws were strong, H His raouth was horribly wide, And lie grinned a grin: ''Dear sir, come in. There's plenty of room inside!" The merry musician shook with fear, He shivered from hat to shoe. "You're ever so kind, but if you don't mind I'd rather not lodge with you." "Try it at least," said the wily beast With a broad, malicious smile. "You'll see in a trice how quiet and nioe It is to liv^ in the Kile!" The merry musician groaned again. Hft The fiddle was in his hand. HA tuno he tried, "The last," he sighed, ■K "I shall ever play on land!" BB'Twas a polka gay, and, strange to say, When the crocodile heard the sound, laughed and rose on the tip of his toes HH And began to caper round. merry musician played and played, And faster his fingers flew, closo to the Nile the crocodile |^B panced faster and faster too. length he stopped, and down he dropped, Too giddy to hear or see, HHAnd when he came round his prey, he found, j Had run away home to tea. The Blind Bat Is Cared For. When an animal loses its sight, Its case HBwould be very hard but for the kindness ! shown to it by fellows of its own A farmer tells a story of witnessmore than onoe last summer an inLEADING THE OLD BLIND RAT. of really touching devotion. An blind rat was being led about by two rats.- The blind one carried a stick its mouth, and its friends placed themone on each sido, seized the end of stick in tbelr teeth, and so conducted helpless creature along the pathway fl^^Hid across planks and other obstacles in ease and safety. Where Popular Music Prevails. is gravely affirmed iv Golden DaysJ thero is in Italy an entire village of. organ grinders, all speaking EngH^Hh with im Italian accent. They have all! I^^Btde their money in England or this 1 and havo returned to spend the of their lives with their famiTho majority havo kept their organs and on fair evenings the is entertained with familiar aits countries on the globe.