"A BIRD IN WINTER" FUN CORNER

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1932, Page 7

"A BIRD IN WINTER"

FUN CORNER

HIDDEN BIRDS. A Bird is hidden in each of thesa sentences:— (1) He gave me tuition in music. (2) Jack raced north, but Eric ran east. (3) The girls wandered over the fields. (4) Elfin charms, laughter make. (5) Don't panic, row your hardest, and you'll (6) He is just, or King George would not have knighted him. (7) Boy Scout Harrow rendered first aid. FAIRIKL. JUMBLED BIROS. (1) Raprows. (2) Wore. (3) Calbbdirk. (4) Miegap. (5) Luglesa. (6) Hersifgink. "FAIRY GUKGLE." (8) Karon. HIDDEN BIRD. My first is in mine, but not In yours. My second's in mouth, but not In jaws; My third is in boat, but not in ship. My whole Is a bird. Oh, guess it quick! "TIGGTWINKLE." (5) Earori. l ' » * • BIRD FOLK. Can you answer these with the names of birds; (1) It lifts a heavy weight. (2) A schoolboy's prank or Joke. (3) To push under the water. (4) A country in Asia. (5) A light-weight boxer. "BOSE QUEEN." (16) Falmerston, •

"When Dad was coming home on* evening a little sparrow dropped at'-his feet in a faint. The wind had teen too strong for the little bird. Dad picked it up, and a-lady passing said: 'Put it in the trees.' But Dad said, "No, it will die. I will take it home.' When Dad came in with the little bird in his hand (under his overcoat, of course)' wa put it before the heater, arid it t>egan to revive. How it has a large cage. We do not want to keep it, but Mother pat it outside and it did not want to fly; away. It took fainting fits for a fewdays afterwards, but now it is strong again."

ANSWERS FROM LAST WEEK. <l) Rlddle-Me-Ree.—Cocoa. (2) Jumbled Animals.—Elephant, tiger, leopard* monkey, bison, kangaroo, puma. (3) Hidden Birds.—Goldfinch, parrot, starlins, turkey, linnet, larfc. ..■•■ ■ . (4) Word Square:— LAST ANNASNAP TAPS' • * • CLEVER ONES WHO THOUGHT TWICE. "Rosemary" (12); "Balnbow Gold" (9)----"Tigress" (io); "Toddles" (13).; "Bed Rover"' (8); "Cowboy" (13); "Birthday Child" (10); "Tinkles" (9); "Queen of the Snow" (11); "Tinker-Toes" (7); "Purple Pansy" (9); "Lily of Klllarney" (9); "Delna Ness" (11); "The Forest" (10); "Little Gladness" (10); "Fairy Dancer" (15); "Pipkin" (14); "TinkerbeU" (S); "Betsy-Girl" (10) ; "Lalli" (15); "Boy Chevalier" (14); "Sunkisf" (10); "Brown Elf" (12); "Harold Lloyd" (8); "Sleeping Beauty" (7); "Greencap" (8). FOR YOU TO GUESS. What tree makes us think of each other?—* The yew (you) tree. Why is the letter W a mischief-maker?—B»i cause It makes 111-will. "WHITE SWAN" (9). Petone. What is silence?— Something you can't hea* when you listen. #i . Why Is a tin whistle good tempered?—-It will take a blow from anybody. "K1XI" (12). , Petone. i