PUZZLERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 24 (Supplement)

PUZZLERS

HIDDEN BIRDS 1— Now who is this on a dusky nif** Who stole a spoon and a thimoie bright. , Who walked away with a ribbon reo And took a brooch and a reel oi thread. 2He builds his nets in a lowly way And starts his song at break of w* He flies on high with a joyful sour And scatters his notes on the ai around. 3 Hark to his song at the close of Whistle to him, and 'praps he ll stay. He wears a jacket of speckly brown And digs up worms from the lawn m town. 4 Just look at him, how well he* In his coat of black, and his nea i black vest. Oh, how he loves the cherry tree. There w ill be no fruit for you or m SDo you hear that song like a sil'ebell, d Ringing o’er bush and stream a deH? . onV It chimes the hour for the sleep/ sun, . And tells him the work of the da. begun. 6 Such a cheerful chirp I heard to day, mV A little brown fellow flew m In a frock of mingled grey aC< * brown - Who is this comes hopping down--7 He roamed the plains long yea r * And sought his food where pin®* now grow'. He was so strong, and such a n * That hunters tremlbed at the The answers to the jumbled nam^^; boys, sent in by Kathleen Ricket . Raymond, Herbert, Ronald, Victor, Leonard.