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  2. MAGPIE AND COMPANY Nature Notes, Stories, and So On

    I WONDER if anyone of our mates have seen or heard of procession caterpillars. They are just (he same as the ordinary ones, only they have fluffy for all over them. ...

    Article : 179 words
  3. THE BOYS' CORNER "FISHES IN THE NET"'

    You will like this out-of-doors game. It is very jolly, and any number of players can take part. Two players hold the ends of a rope, and ...

    Article : 76 words
  4. Sun In Winter

    Oh! Welcome is the Sun; When lessons are done; After many a rainy day The children shout, ...

    Article : 100 words
  5. An Odd Skeep

    MY uncle saw a sheep, which had five legs. The fifth leg was attached to the side of the sheep, and had the appearance of two legs joined together. The leg would ...

    Article : 58 words
  6. A HOUSE THAT SINGS

    India has many strange buildings, but one of the most curious is the house that sings. The building is elaborately decorated outside, but apart from this no one would think ...

    Article : 172 words
  7. SNAKE FARMING

    Marvellous results have been obtained by the use of venom, collected from poisonous snakes, for immunising horses, and thus obtaining an anti-verine or serum to treat the ...

    Article : 178 words
  8. Adventures By The Sea

    WE are staying at Grange Beach for fortnight. I hare been in for many swims, and have had many exciting adventures. One adventure was on Saturday, ...

    Article : 86 words
  9. Weather Signs

    YOU can lern a lot about coming weather by studying the night sky. If on a clear night the small stars look very hasy, rain will soon come. When all the stars twinkle ...

    Article : 96 words
  10. Nightfall

    Strangely forlorn the crying seagulls sound, Wheeling at dusk above the silver streak. Or dipping, ghostlike, to the reedy ground About the borders of the silent creek. ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. Cherry Cheeks

    Cherry Cheeks was lost tor Weeks, And where d'you think they found her? Up to the eyes in cherry pies, With cherry stones all around her. ...

    Article : 39 words
  12. A GAME FOR WINTER EVENINGS

    This is always a favourite same. One of the players is chosen master, and the others, reused in order in front of him, form a class. The master may then examine the ...

    Article : 155 words
  13. RORKE'S DRIFT VETERANS

    Twenty-five veterans of the Zulu War, including four men who were at the epic battle of Rorke's Drift—John Williams, V.C., of Cwmbran, Monmouthshire; J. Jobbins, of ...

    Article : 110 words
  14. The Grey Spider

    I WAS watching a big grey spider making his web tonight. He makes one every night in the same place on a grapevine. He always leaves one thread leading from a vine ...

    Article : 440 words
  15. When A Boy Thinks Of His Mother

    WHEN he is hurt. When he is hungry, When he wants money. When his mother is sick. ...

    Article : 35 words
  16. THE FLY

    Of late years we have been taught to look at the fly with a suspicion that borders on dislike, but a teacher lately showed an audience of nature study children that there ...

    Article : 164 words
  17. Very True

    If a boy meets a boy Looking very sad, What will wake him glad. Let a boy tell a boy ...

    Article : 50 words
  18. Colour

    NATURE is very beautiful—no words can express its glory. How large a paint box the Creator must have possessed. Why. sitting in one spot, merely looking in one ...

    Article : 131 words
  19. HOWARD CARTER PLANS SEARCH FOR TOMB OF ALEXANDER

    LONDON, Saturday—Mr. Howard Carter, the noted Egyptologist, intends to begin investigations shortly, in the hope of discovering the tomb of Alexander the Great. ...

    Article : 426 words
  20. The Magic Match

    TRY this trick on your friend the next time he calls round to see you. Place twenty-fire used matches on the table and then say that you can make him ...

    Article : 147 words
  21. Riddles

    WHY should a caterpillar be good? Because it is always turning over a new leaf. Why is the letter "E" like London? ...

    Article : 83 words
  22. The magpie

    WHO living in the country does not admire the magpie with its glossy white and black plumage and its flute-like note? What dweller in the town, after he has ...

    Article : 201 words
  23. Our First Bird Magpies

    Do you boar the magpies gay, Carolling at the break of day, And the bush with the echoes is ringing From the song of joy they are singing. ...

    Article : 51 words
  24. Plucky Birds

    WHEN I was staying at Port Germein, I noticed a seagull with only one leg. It would run along and gradually fly up. Down there also was a pet magpie with ...

    Article : 73 words
  25. So Terrible!

    THE conversation took place at a small station in Ireland. "Sure, Pat," said the first native of that country, "it's down to Kilmary oi've been, ...

    Article : 90 words
  26. WHEN WITCHDOCTORS DIFFER

    CAPETOWN.—There have been many strange stories of witchcraft in South Africa, but never one more remarkable than that reported from Basutoland, A few nights ago, ...

    Article : 195 words
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    Advertising : 60 words
  28. Beauty Of The North

    IN Northern Australia we have severe droughts, and they occur at different periods. We get strong winds, which bring up huge duststorms, and look like ...

    Article : 147 words
  29. How Many Cats?

    THERE was a room with 8 corners, a cat in each corner, seven cats before each cat, and a cat on every cat's tail. How many cats were there? ...

    Article : 42 words
  30. S.P.C.A. Junior

    MY two slsters and I belong to the S.P.C.A. So we all try to be kind to animals. In the moraine very early I let the chickens out, and give them feed. Soon as they are all ...

    Article : 107 words
  31. Too Bad Of Him!

    OLD lady:—"And why are you crying, little girl?" Little Girl:—"My brother's broke my doll." Old Lady:—"How did he do that?" ...

    Article : 48 words
  32. Hurst Tames Birds

    IN the north of Australia during the summer birds follow the drovers to get a drink. Their thirst is so great at times, that they will perch on the drovers' shoulders to ...

    Article : 67 words
  33. The Dear (?) little Thing

    A LITTLE girl used to be ray fond of "creepy-crawlies"—spiders, ants, beetles, &c. One day her mother found her crying and nursing her hand. When asked what ...

    Article : 59 words
  34. A WISE MOVE

    "I thought you hated the saxophone?" "I do." "Then why did you buy your son one?" "Because I hate the neighbours a lot ...

    Article : 32 words
  35. TELLING HIM NICELY

    Burly Riffain (to timid pedestrian): "Got a penny, please, stranger? Me an' Bill wants ter toss it an' see which of ua takes yer watch an' which yer pocket-book!" ...

    Article : 33 words
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