GINGERBREAD CAKES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 572, 26 January 1929, Page 31

GINGERBREAD CAKES

I can remember 0 When I was small I never liked gingerbread Cakes at all. And often when I was out to tea And someone offered Ths plat© to me, I used to*tell them I’d rather not, For gingerbread cakes Were much too hot. Gingerbread cakes, When I was young, They made me thirsty, And burnt my tongue. .And every time that I took a bite They got more gingery Just for spite. And that’s the reason When I was small 1 never liked gingerbread Cakes at all. LITTLE TOY CREATURES Here’s a lovely game you can play. Y”ou only want a sheet of clean paper, some paste or glue, and then ask mother to let you have a few things from the kitchen store cupboard. A few grains of rice, a little pearl barley, and also an apple if she can spare you one. Apple pips are good for this game, so are orange pips, so save them all. Now, with these things, see what funny creatures you can make. For instance, with the apple pips you can ‘make funny little mice. Stick one down on to your paper with u little glue, make his ears by lifting up the skin at the thin end of the pip, and draw him a curly tail and four little legs. The rice and other things make queer caterpillars and beetles. You can make one with a grain of rice for his body, and a pearl barley for his head. Paint him brown, give him legs, and he’s a beetle. RIDDLES Why is the letter G like the first sweet you eat out of a bag?—Because it makes one gone. Whsr are ships most convenient to keep chickens in? —Because they usually have yards. Why does mother never make a square plum pudding?—Because she wants it to go round. Absent-minded butcher (weighing customer’s baby) : “Eight pounds, exactly. Madam. fehall I take out ttie bones ?’*