SOMETHING TO MAKE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 15

SOMETHING TO MAKE

This little toy is easy to make, and with it you will be able to have lots of fun. Take 'a mantel box, remove the litJg from the ends, and tie over the ends pieces Of grease-proof paper. Cut two holes near the ends, but on opposite sides of the box, in the position shown in the sketch, To play it, place the mouth over one of the holes and sing or hum into it. ■ that he would give mo .anything I wanted.' •"You silly!" chicd Daphne. "You have only juat learnt how to swim; you: couldn't save auyono from drowning." ; Howit 80" happened that near to the children's? house. there' was a big house staging in its own park.' Its owner, M 6, Cameron, had spent a number of yeafp abi'Qad, but had lately come to live permanently in his beautiful homo, : John and Daphne knew him very well by sight, as he was often to be seen:on foot or on horseback, and henearly always had three lovely dogs with, hin;-™an :: Alsatian, a. : liver-an(i-whi(;o spaniel, and a white .wire-haired torriqr,. '•' ■'•' ■■■'■'•■ ■" •'" "■• The vorynoxt-aftemon tlicy were scrambling through a wuod. Suddenly t hey heard footsteps, and, crouching down behind some thick bushes, they waited■■ to sec to whom they might bolong. To their amazement, they saw a whia trtre-haired terrier, muzzled and with a thick cord attached to his collar, by which he was being dragged roughly along by ah evil-looking man. The clutched " one another tightly, and, as soon, as the man and dog had passed, John said in an excited whisper, "Daphne,'I 7m sure that is Mr. Cameron's dog, and that man has stolen him. Let's follow and see where they .are going," So they followed, silently, and keeping well under cover. They soon came to a little clearing -where a caravan was standing with a small tent pitched by its side. The gypsy, for the man was * gypsy, was greeted by a woman, and both of them vanished with the dog into the little tent. "What shall wo do?" whispered Daphne. "Shall wo run and toll Mr. Cameron? " "Wait a minute," counselled John. "Lpt US see if they go away, for if thoy do we will rescue the dog and take him home." >: ■ Sure enough, in a short time, the man. and woman camo out of tho tent alone, and wen| off in tho direction of the village. _ "Now is our chance," said John, his breath coming fast. . "I-will go and fetch the dog. You stay here, and if I am caught, run as fast as you can and, tell someone," So he crept ouj of his hiding-place and ran, his heart beating very quickly, towards the caravan and into the.tont. In a moment.ho appeared again Jeading-the dog. "Come on, Daphne," he panted. "There's not a second to lose, they might come back again." Arrived at" tho big house, breathless ami excited;" they found Mr. Cameron standing.with :his chauffeur on the