THE BOY WHO BEAT A CROCODILE

Evening Star, Issue 22817, 27 November 1937, Page 8

THE BOY WHO BEAT A CROCODILE

If anyone ought to have a gold medal it is the brave African hoy who saved his brother, a herdboy, from the jaws of death not long ago, A farmer living near the Njelele Elver, near Louis Trichardt, sent his 14-year-old herdboy to the river to water his cattle. The boy did not notice that what looked like a log of wood half out of the water had a pair of wily little eyes watching him. Shouting to the cattle, the boy walked' into the river, when—snap! A crocodile had seized him and begun to pull him toward the deep water, when hia screams were heard by his brother, who ran to help. Most people would have wanted to keep out of the way of the crocodile* but the' black boy did not hesitate. He tried to release his brother, and, as it was impossible, he managed to stop up the crocodile’s nostrils. Unable to breathe, the reptile had to open it* mouth, and the boy was saved, A RHYME WITHOUT AK E In this three-verse poem every letter of the alphabet except e is used in every verse, and e is used nowhere, THE FATE OF HASSAN, Bold Hassan quits his caravan* A bazy_ mountain grot, to span; Climbs jaggy rocke to spy his way, Doth tax his sight, but far doth stray* Not work of man, nor sport of child* Finds Hassan in that mazy wild; Las grow his joints, limbs toil in vainPoor wight I why didst thou quit tha* plain? Vainly for succour Hassan calls, Know, Zillah, that thy Hassan fallal But prowling wolf and fox may joyC To quarry on thy Arab boy. A ZOO AT SEA , There were exciting tune* at sea during the voyage of the City of Rayviile, an American ship which has been taking a cargo of live animals to the United States. Soon after leaving Calcutta a score of monkeys broke loose, scampering ah over the ship. The crew gave chase, one of the sailors climbing the rigging in his effort to catch one of them. The monkey chattered at him from the mast, but when the sailor was within a few inches of him it took a flying leap into the ocean and was lost. . It may have been rather jolly chasing monkeys, but it was terrible going m search of a python. For 16 days three men searched high and low for it. They kept their secret for fear of causing panic, and glad they must have been when, with the help of an electric heater, they were able to lure His python back into its cage, A RHYMED RIDDLE What workman likes to And thinas dull? true, Though strange, as then he has more work to do, For different jobs are found in different lives: The answer is—the man who Minds the knivesl