FUN CORNER

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1933, Page 7

FUN CORNER

PIXIE PEOPLE: Well, we still have our Fairy Ring, but, oh dearU if you could see the stains on one green wall, and the cracked ahd blackened windows! You see, ,there was a fire ... so very near that the Fairy Ring, pictures, mushrooms, and all, very nearly disappeared into it. And that would have been a picnic; for how could I have remembered the pixie names of twenty-five hundred of you? ... not to mention ages and addresses and suchlike? Imagine when Postie arrived. "Fairiel, here's a new elf. Can she be called Topsy?" "Postie, I don't know! Haven't we a Topsy now?" And if we hadn't, then it would be all right; but if we had . . . well, no wonder I'm glad the Ring is still safe! Animal Page happens next Saturday night, elves. Everything is ready for-it, and are you ready too, with brnshes-for-painting, and pencils for puzzles? This week there came two photographs from "Flying Arrow" one of himself, and another of his five-puppies-in-a-row! They're so splendid that I'd like you to see them in the Fairy Ring. . . . Must ask our Printer Man, though they may not be ready for a week or two yet. Now, love to you all, and heaps of it. . . . 0, and did you all plant a tree on Arbor Day? FAIRIEL.

/ burnt the leaves of a Daphne flower. I put it too near the flame. 1 wanted the buds to all open up, I thought that the heat would make them grow up, But I left it too long. And now the leaves are a dull ugly brown, And I'm sure that the poor flower is sad and unhappy. Oh, please, someone, tell me. What shall I put on it To make it feel belter again? , "DAUGHTER OF FLAGE" (16) Kelburn.

HOW MANY "r«" IN THIS? RIDDLES. If.a fellow met a fellow in a field of beans, What Is the difference between » Jeweller could a fellow tell a-fellow, what a fellow and a gaoler?— One sells watches and other . means? ■ • ' watches cells. Answer: There are no "F's" In "this." Why did the willow weep?— Because It heard «ut4ttv w'irTAii.'K (oi the waterfall. v . WALLY WAGTAIL v .l»). why ls th(j tw ,,, ght , lke the i etter T;_ivgaio. , .; # 4 » Because It ls the close of day. CARELESS. JIARJORIE ACKROYD (12). "Who broke the window while I was out?" Fellding. ... cried, the greengrocer angrily. ' hoVTh^H be U?u EcU did W h^l, rtl Prr a h'y™at a ™?LT%& "**'* "' '" h"n" "MAOm BKLLE" (11). CHy : "GLOAMING" (12). Pctonc. # , ' •. • • . EASILY! ASSISTANCE NEEDED. Uncle; j hew you h&Te learned t0 roUer . Small boy: Policeman! Quick I Train being akatej Bob. What * did you think was the held up! hardest part about It? Policeman: Where? ... . Bob: The floor, uncle 1 SmMmXmnilh^htcK"lT .TINKLE-PURR." (U) City. , . Mlramar. .