THE LITTLE HOME

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22195, 11 September 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE LITTLE HOME

JACK AND THE OCTOPUS One day Jack was going home from a day's fishing when he felt something pulling him into the water by his leg. An octopus was holding him tightly. The octopus said: " I will let you go if you do two things for me." The first thing that the octopus wanted Jack to do was to find the largest and heaviest jewel under

the sea. "And you have only three weeks in which to find it," said the octopus. Jack searched hard for two days, and then he found a huge jewel that weighed two tons and a half. The octopus gave him a reward, a jewelled bicycle. Next, Jack had to find a precious stone. He found this, too, and the octopus gave him a watch. When he arrived home, his mother said: "Well, you are a lucky boy!" —ALAN HIBBS (aged 10). j BRIDGE BUILDING ! One afternoon recently, the children of the big room marched down to see the New River bridge. We walked over to the hut where Mr Nealson showed us some plans of the bridge. Soon after we saw a man bpnding steeft rods, and watched him for a little while, after which anrlher man showed us how to cut steel. Having obtained a fairly good idea of how 4he builders go about the construction of a bridge, we all marched back to school again. (Author wanted.) t