FOR THE LITTLE ONES

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 141, 16 June 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

FOR THE LITTLE ONES

easily made model. TED, THE DANCING COWBOY. My Dear Little Friend*, In the picture you will see goo d old t«j »u , JU * t come to New Zealand in order to •tariff' J ""boy, who scale. Texas came to see me i . , cattle (arming on a big much about the life of the cowboy in AmeriL. T Auc . lda,,d » *°U me great outdoors, and claims to have the VOry ke * n on the "Jest look how supple lam " k. -j mn 7 man Irving. •ood.rM ji, on th. floor, .h.wio, off uSSLjS?* , ***• ji* •« amused me that I at once sent for the *ud asked him to draw the cowboy as he gave another demonstration, which I'he the hornpipe, the , * jig, a reel or two, and the Charleston all rolled into one. The artist handed me the sketch; I put a few mysterious lines upon it, and with a knowing wink and a very broad smile he left the ' room. hope that chap doesn't throw guns on me," laughed the artist's voice from down the passage. "Now, what's the game, Peter Pan?" asked Ted, turning a bewildered bee ha my direction. "Oh I nothing at all," I assured him, and quickly changed the subject. Of course, as you may Ruess, there was a "game," but it would never have done to let Texas know, but as it will all have to come out, I'll now tell everyone. I had made signs for the artist to draw Jed "in pieces," so « . . that the various limbs could be joined together with pins and pieces of cork; and to make another •ketch snowing my little readers how to join up a piece of thread which, if pulled, would make the miniature cowboy throw himself about in the f*"* **' M Ted had done in my office earlier in the day. . *«««•. you'll all like that. Just paste the picture on to a sheet . Y\ ,n cardboard, and cut out the various parts. Join them together by •ticking a pin through the holes, and putting a small piece of cork on the end of the put so as to stop it from coming out, then connect up a ___ piece of thread or twine, as in the rifl —\ second little figure. By holding the little man firmly round the waist A L/ n fZ . with one hand and tugging the end of the twine with the other, you can make him perform some truly wonderful dances.