JOHN KNOWS WHERE TO HIDE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

JOHN KNOWS WHERE TO HIDE.

Where to hide —that was John's problem. He had told the others when they played hide-and-seek yesterday that it would take them all day to find him, yet he was the first one found, though lie hid in the linen press. "Hut you won't find me to-morrow," John had said confidently. Now it was within half an hour of hiding again, and he didn't feel quite so sure. Hide-and-seek was a favourite game of his cousins, with whom he was staying, and, of course, they knew all the best places to hide. John wandered into the big hall. It was surrounded by suits of armour. A sudden idea came to him. if the 3uits were hollow surely he could creep inside one of them? The first suit lie looked at had been sealed together, but the back came off the second, and John crept inside. He wasn't exactly comfortable, but that didn't matter. Then he slipped out of the suit, and, making a note of the right one, went and joined his cousins, who at once suggested the usual game. "See if you can't find somewhere really difficult," said Charles, and John smiled. He waited until they had all gone to hide; then he ran into the hall and popped inside the armour. He heard cries and laughs as the others were found; then there were voices and noises in the hall. "H® B anybody seen John ?" Charles was heard to ask. "No," said' his father. "Has he really found a, good hiding-place at last? Be careful -with that suit. Hold it upright." John was lifted high up in hie hidingplace, he wondered what had happened"Be careful how you clean this suit," his uncle went on. "It is the only hollow one." "It isn't hollow now," said one of the workmen, who was moving it. "Something is moving inside." "Impossible! Put it down and we will see. It must be the cat!" But it was John whom they found when they opened the hack, and he was seized upon by his cousins with glee.

"Didn't I find a good hiding place that time?" he said.