No. 28 COMPETITION

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 127, 1 June 1927, Page 20

No. 28 COMPETITION

Try to guess the names of the books which these children were supposed to represent.

A little while ago one of my friends asked me to a party to celebrate his twelth birthday, When he was inviting me hie last words were, "Don't forget that it's a book evening—everyone has to come representing some book or other; then you all have to guess what the others are meant to represent." The day before the party I found that the battery of my electric torch had run out. This solved my problem at once; it was all I needed to represent the book I had in mind. Can you guess what it was? (No. 1). When I arrived 1 found one little girl there already, carrying two baby dolls of simp to represent her book. (No. 2). Number 3 had cut out a dark horse's head from a magazine illustration. This was so easy that I gueeesd it at once. One lazy boy had simply scribbled on a pieco of paper the words "Open Sesame." (No. 4).

The next person to arrive was a little girl who said she could not draw, and had just written on her label 1925. Too easy, this, but they didn't see it because they couldn't realise that it was so Jong ago. (Xo. 5). Another girt pinned on her dress two' photographs, one of her baby brother and one of her grandfather. (No. (i). Number 7 had pasted on a piece of cardboard some pictures cut out of a book oo animals. The pictures represented a kangaroo, wallaby, platypus, dingo, laughing jackass, opossum, and wombat. This was such an easy one that nearly everyone guessed it. A boy had a scrap of paper, evidently torn from a larger piece, on which a word had been written, for the edge of six letters appeared. The first one seemed to be a B and the last a D. (No. 8).

One girl wrote on her card the words, "Everyliodjfs favourite." There wasn't one child in the room who couldn't guess this. (No. 9).

No. 10 brought two snails on a cabbage leaf, while his brother (No. 11) simply stained his nose red with cochineal.

Two little sisters arrived hand in hand, dressed up in their mother's dreeac* and hats. (No. 12). This was easy. No. 13 had drawn a kennel on his card, and a notice, "For Sale —Apply Within— £5000."

No. 14 was a boy who wore one boxing glove and pretended to spar with an imaginary opponent. Another boy came with his father's fishing rod and tackle all complete. (No. 15). He represented an old book, written many years ago. One little girl gang all the time, but kept always to the same two songs— "flood King Wenceslas," and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing." (No. 10). Two more boys, twin brothers, had brought an old fur of their mother's and a muff to match. To these they had attached price tickets, and went round offering to sell them for sixpence each, or to barter them for various possessions belonging to the others. (No. 17). No. 18, a girl clever at drawing, had made a picture of a men sitting up in his bunk and looking at the sea through a porthole. Underneath the bunk appeared a trunk labelled "Thomas Jones." She had entitled the picture "Uncle's Trip Abroad."