FOR A WET DAY

Northern Advocate, 28 July 1934, Page 7

FOR A WET DAY

MR STUBBY AND HIS BROTHER i ‘ A RACE TOR CHAMPION. I - Dear Northlanders, , I wonder how many of us there are who don’t like being' out in the open, 1 running round witli plenty of space 1 to play tiggy or hide-and-seek, or any i other game we choose? Very few, I’m > sure. The first moment we have a chance out we go straight into the 1 garden or»to the nearest paddock, there to play and run races to our heart’s content. Now, it’s a sad fact that we can’t always be out in those nice open places, free to rush about as much as we wish. Sometimes we have to stay indoors because of a grey sky overhead and wet grass underfoot. That’s when it is so hard to know what to do. We can’t play tiggy because it makes too much noise, and after a while we grow tired of of hide-and-seek. Let’s run a race, not a real one of course; there’s not enough room for that. We’ll make two little men out of cardboard to do it instead. The best way to do this is to draw one and trace it on two pieces of stiff white cardboard. You’ll find that a rather fat little man, about six inches high is best for the purpose. When you’ve cut out the drawing, make a hole in the place where the mouth should be. Now you need two long pieces of string. .Take a chair and tie a piece to each of its back legs. Next thread on your cardboard figures. You will by this time have chosen names for them both. I think that “Stubby” and “Tubby” would be rather appro" priate, don’t you? If you jerk the string gently they’ll travel along quite easily. The winner, is of course, the one who reaches his chair-leg first. KUPE, Rangatira, Northland Tribe.