PUZZLES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20930, 8 January 1938, Page 15

PUZZLES

Buried Cities To be fit a boy must be sinewy or know how to exercise. I never shall on donkeys ride. The scenery of Vermont really is beautiful. Will you have steak o romelet? Leave that hen’s nest alone. (Answers next week) A Puzzling Letter Jack is still very careless, (said the father at tea) in spite of being reproved both at school and at home. In a letter which I received this morning he wrote: “It was and I said not or.” Whatever can he mean? How should the sentence read? • Answer next week) What is the Word? What word in the English language will tell of a person as not being in any place, and yet, without other alteration than a separation of the syllables, will describe him as present? (Answer next week) Dropped Letter For first please track . An African black; Drop out the centre, and see That an emperor’s name— • It is of fame — My next will surely be. • (Answer next week) LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS Hidden Animals Stoat, squirrel, weasel, otter, fox, hare, rabbit, hedgehog, deer, badger. The Puzzling Birds Crow and parrot with changed become prow and cafroC’

FELIX, THE GLOBE TROTTER Felix Starlight is a globe trotter who has visited every continent and almost every country, writes a correspondent of the “Children’s Newspaper.” His home is in St ..ohn’s, Newfoundland, where he longs to return. He left Port St. John as long ago as 1922. Going west to Canada he walked across the plain from Port Edward, then down through Texas. He found life difficult while wandering across the States because farmers there treat every tramp with contempt, so that food and shelter are had to come by. Mr Starlight is a converted Red Indian, and this perhaps accounts for his nomadic likings and for his apparent aptitude to come through uncomfortable situations with the creatures of the wild. In Mexico he came face to face with a puma, but managed to get out of its way in the nick of time, though it is said there is no case known where a puma has attacked a man. Bolivia, too, held its excitements for him. Here he found himself trapped

by multitudes of giant ants, a most unpleasant experience. Fortunately a river was close at hand and by jumping in Mr Starlight saved his life. The problem of getting from one continent to another was solved by sometimes working his passages or stowing-away. Eventually he reached Australia, but his memories of that country are not of the happiest, for he was continually attacked by wild dogs when trekking from one farmstead to another. Borneo was his next country, and here he lived among cannibals, but got through safely and found himself in Siam, where he came upon a herd of wild elephants, escaping them by climbing up a tree. His nights in India were constantly spent with snakes of all sorts as his companions, but on one occasion a cobra entered the hut where he was sheltering, and the .situation was only saved by his lying motionless until the reptile chose to go. In Kashmir our Red Indian friend had an adventure with a tiger and a boa constrictor. Tribesmen attacked him in Afghanis-

tan. but he managed to get away by hiding in a drum. Russia sent wolves by the multitude to meet him on his travels, and later he was arrested there as a spy and cast into prison. For weeks he received rough handling by soldiers who struck him with the butt end of the rifle while officers questioned him, but as nothing could be found against him h: was released.

In the Sahara he lived for forty-one days on snails, as there was no other food to be found. Here too tribesmen shot at him with rifles, but he got through to civilisation by way of Gibraltar, and then on to Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Holland, Norway, and Sweden. He visited other European countries and at last has come to England. He has been with us for some time now, but he dreams of Newfoundland. He tried to stowaway for this island once, but was caught and pul back to shore. Having travelled the whole world over we feel that nothing will deter this tireless wanderer from what he sets out to do, and we wish him good luck.

“Oh, Mummie,” cried Bettie, crossing the field, "there goes a rabbit!” "Nonsense!” said her mother; that’s imagination.” "Is it?” said Bettie, doubtfully; and, after a moment, “Mummie, has imagination got a little white tail?”

After his first day at school mother asked Bobbie how he had liked it. “Not a bit,” he replied. "That teacher doesn’t keep her promises. She said to me ‘You sit down for the present,’ and I sat down all the morning and I never got a present at all!” A Singapore student was m an automobile accident. He was not seriously injured—one of his legs was smashed a bit, and he was somewhat scratched —but he was not well enough to go to school, and this is the letter of explanation he sent to his teacher: "I entreat pardon for my awayness, but I am unreadably sick, for I have my limbs compressed by an auto, and am much scratched as to my leather.”