FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

WHAT BOBBY SAW. . a IN THE BIG BOOK OF ANIMALS. My Dear Little Friends,— Bobbie had been very good the whole day, and so mother allowed him to stay up Half an hour longer than usual, and after the dinner dishes had been washed up and dried and put away, she went to the big cupboard by the stairs and opened the door. "What book to-nigh*., Bobbie?" she asked, and Bobbie did not hesitate a moment. "The animal book, please," he replied.

Mother accordingly took a brightly covered book from the shelf, and, settling down by the fire, in her favourite chair, she took the little boy on her knee, and commenced to turn over the pages. "Is that the bear which chased doldylocks?" Bobby inquired, seeing the picture of a big grizzly. "Well, not the exact bear," his mother answered, "but it was one just like him." "Oh, what's that pretty thing with the big horns, twisted like granny's candlesticks?" "That," replied mother patiently, "is a gazelle. Have a good look at it, then off you must go to bed, for the big hand on*the clock is at six, and the little one is at eight, and that means it's bedtime." "Yes, and it means half-past eight, too," cried Bobby, who was quite a clever boy, as he was hustled off to bed. " In the night Bobby dreamed of the gazelle, but it took him quite a long time to make out what the figure in the dream was, for the animal was hiding like the one in the picture, and Bobby had to connect: up all the dots before eventually the b"g curved horns, the sleek neck and the shapely head appeared. You too must connect up all the points in the picture if you want to see the gazelle. Place a pencil point on the dot beside No. 1, then draw a straight line from there to the dot marked 2, and from 2 to 3, and so on, until you come to dot 59, which is the last one in the picture. When you have finished, take your pains or crayons, and colour it in. The coat should be fawn, the horns greyish white, and the eye brown. - 1 Get to work at once, children, and soon you'll have another picture to paste in your scrapbook.

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