COMEDY OF ERRORS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19626, 21 October 1933, Page 13

COMEDY OF ERRORS

BOY AND HIS WAGES. TUSSLE WITH DETECTIVES. A comedy of errors was enacted in Temple Park, Sydney, one night recently, when two detectives were on the look-out for bag-snatchers. A boy of 16, proud of his week’s earnings, was making his way home across the park. Determined to let no man pass without investigation, the detectives flashed a torch upon him. The lad thought they were thieves. He ran and the detectives ran after him. Feeling certain he was in danger, the boy picked up a half-brick, and, turning quickly, heaved it at his pursuers. It struck the leading detective on the foot, but the police rushed to grapple with him. Before they fell on him, however, the boy dived to earth and hid his money in the long grass. After a wrestling match which would have delighted patrons of the Stadium the boy was convinced that his pursuers were police, but when he reached home—still without his wages—he became dubious and made a report to the police station. By this time the two detectives had arrived back at the station, and were ordered to investigate a complaint that a boy had been molested by two men believed to have been thieves in Temple Park. The same two detectives hurried to an address, and to their amazement discovered that the complainant was the lad they had seen in the park about half an hour before. Having been convinced this time that the two men really were police, the boy told them that he had left his money under a tussock in the park, and persuaded them to assist him in his search for it. The park was combed, but the money could not be found. Another careful search, however, located the tussock, and a very pleased young man went home to his family with his wages intact, while the detectives went on with the night’s routine. DOLLS’ KNITTED FROCK— Leather and fan stitch. Cast on 45 stitches. Knit into the back of these stitches. Then knit two plain rows. Continue as follows: First row: K.2 together three times* (wool over your needle, K. 1), six times, K.2 together six times, repeat from *. Second row: Knit plain. Third row: Knit plain. Fourth row: Purl Repeat these rows until you have done sin. Next work 3iin. in stocking stitch. I Cast off. Do another piece like this. If you want small sleeves, do one (21 stitches) row ofpr atn Iter (21 stitches) row of pattern and cast off. Join up the sides, sew on sleeves, and join the top, but leave about 3in. for the neck. WHAT I LIVE FOR. I live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit, too; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do. —George Linnaeus Banks.