DAFFODILS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23067, 18 June 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)

DAFFODILS

1 have a bed of daffodils Beside the garden gate: But they'll not be blooming yet awhile 'Til springtime I must wait. When springtime comes the buds Will burst In all their golden glory, The soft, warm rain will quench their thirst. It is the old, old story. And when the showers flee away And the sun comes out on high. The daffodils will raise their heads Toward the clear blue sky. —By Jennie Nisbet (13), Kaikohe. (Original.)

stepped Pinkety-tocs—a dainty little bunny.' Elizabeth had not heard the tiny door open, but she had a queer feeling that something wonderful was happening. Then she looked up and saw Pinkety-toes. Oil, dear me, she was startled. She heard a sweet little voice saying, "Good-morning Elizabeth. My name is Pinkety-toes and 1 have just come to live in Oak Tree Flat." Elizabeth jumped up, and although •die was frightfully surprised, she managed to answer very politely, "Goodmorning, Pinkety-toes, I'm very pleased, indeed, to know that. I hope we shall he groat friends.''

THIS is an amusing puzzle game for one player. It is by no means easy, and yet when once you discover the solution you can perform the trick over and over again before your friends, and i ben defy them to do it. Place six black counters or buttons nil the white squares and six white counters on the black squares, leaving Hie centre square unoccupied. A counter may be moved one square at a time, or over any other counter into the next square beyond, if such square is vacant, just as ip draughts, but in this puzzle you, of course, do

not remove the counter jumped over The direction of the moves must always be iorward, that is. blacks u|< and whites down. The following hints may assist you to discover a solution of the puzzle, which is to n\ove the counters to thei>proper squares, i.e.. the black counters to the black squares and the whites to the white squares:— (a) Complete one diagonal row hofore you begin the other. (b) It is not always good play to ii'mn n counter over another of the 6ame colour.