TWILIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 433, 15 August 1928, Page 14

TWILIGHT

PRIZE-WINNING POEM We spoke your name in the dusk tonight, When the -world was grey in the dim half-light; When seething breakers were laced with foam, And shrieking gulls went wheeling home. Strange that the world went just the same When we on the hilltop said your name; Strange that the night pursued the day, When he knew that you were away, away. The dim mist vanished, the air was clear; The wind went singing, the sky seemed near; The seagulls shrieked in the red halflight, As we said your name in the dusk tonight. Harvest Moon (Alma Chamberlain). FOR WISE HEADS HIDDEN ANIMALS In each of the following sentences is hidden the name of an animal. How many of them can you find? Among the collection was a ball, a magnet, a top, a piece of string, and a bent halfpenny. The scientist poured into the tube a .reddish-coloured liquid. I am not sure if he came sixth or seventh. Jack gave the three children a pear each. There was just a gallon of petrol left in the tank. From the description you give I think it must be a very fine example. He went to the hotel and booked up three rooms. Answer to last -week’s riddle-me-ree: Totejm Pole. A DEVOTED SCOUT Ooi Peng Guan was a schoolboy in Malaya. From his earliest years it was his ambition to become a Scout, and as soon as he was old enough he joined the school troop. XT nfortunately he had no uniform, and as his parents refused to buy it for him he had to find some other way of getting it. He decided to save the money given him for his lunch each day (which meant going without food from a very early breakfast till a verv late tea), and in a few months he had enough money to buy a Scout outfit. Then Peng caught leprosy and had to be sent to a settlement away from his brother But someone started a Scout troop among the lepers and Peng was able to rejoin his beloved brotherhood. He was acting-Scout-master when the great day came on which he was pronounced cured. He was free to go home, yet when the senior medical officer visited the settlement Peng asked if there were not some kind of employment he could be given therq so that he might be able to carry on the work.

Surely the spirit of brotherhood was never more strikingly shown than iji the case of this Malay boy.