Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1932, Page 86

STORIES SPORTS' GAMES PUZZLES =5 Y O you like to spin a top? If you do, you'll enjoy giving this puzzle a whirl! SPIN THE TOP. The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. 1. Whirls. §. Kind of toy. 6. Belonging to us. 8. Number. 20. Writing implement. 12. Upon. 13. Exclamation. 15: Near. . Decorated with paraliel lines. . Before. . Affected smile. . Era. g VERTICAL. . Male chiid. . Parcel post (Abbr.). . Negative.’ . Eat the evening meal. . Night- ¢Abbr.). . Part of .verb ‘to be.” 14. “To. imitate, mimic. . Like. . Correct (Abbr.). . Mother. . Real estate -(Abbr.). ST Now come two word chains. Change only one letter at a time, always forming a real word. Change SPIN to CORD in five moves. Change WIND to TOPS in four moves, —3— The words missing from the sentence below are spelled differently, but pronounced alike. What are they? . She took off her —— and hung it on the —— 80 that the fire would dry it. : Tl FOUR KINDS OF TOYS Let's finish off our puzzles today with a set of “tops.” Fill the blanks and form the words. 1. TOP—G—A—H— 2. TOP — — I— 3. TOP — — A— - 4 TOP—C—L Bigger and Better Englishman: “Over here the pumpkins are 80 big that three men can stand on one.” American: “That’s nothing. Over in Amer- lca the vegetables are so big that sometimes 20 cops can stand on one beat.” Honest Editor Author—“What do you think of this stesy? Give me your honest opinion.” Editor—“It’s not worth anything.’ Author—“I know, but tell me, anyway'* THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, B. C, APRIL 10, 1932 %4e BOYS and GIRLS PAGE Fire and Storm Story of a Lookout in the State Forest Service He him up and staggered through BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. Bill Leeds starts out to visit his brother Don. who is a fire lookout for the State Forest Service sta- tioned on of the Goat’'s Head, a mountain 30 miles {rom ranch where the boys-live. Bill s tak#¢ Don a letter announc that he has won a forestry scholarship in the te universiay. His father takes him to the bottom of the mountain and shortly alfter he starts his solifary climb Bill comes upon four men setting & fire so that they may_be hired to fight it. The men see. him. and he _from them into the heart of the flames. He fights his way through the blaze and continues up the trail toward Dom’s cabin:- A .severe elec- trical storm arises, and the wind, thunder and lightning - make his climb dificult and dangerous. Meanwhile Don is in the very midst of the electrical storm, but he feels secure in the cabin. which is protected against lightning. He 80 worried about Bill's absence in the storm that he tries to call the ranger station on the telephone. Lightning comes in over the wire, wrecking the cabin. knock- ing Don unconscious and mllnf fire to his wood- pile outside. The flames are licking the sides of the cabin while Bill is still a quarter of a mile away down the trail. INSTALLMENT V. T last! Bill rounded a huge rock and realized that he was almost to the top of the Goat's Head. A few more steps and he would be able to see the cabin, provided the mist didn’t get any thicker. And how glad he was that his hazardous journey was almost over. The fire, the storm and the excitement of his adventures had exhausted him more than the actual physical work of the climb. His eyes, straining ahead to pierce the mist, suddenly perceived a red glow. With a shout of alarm he broke into a run. Don's cabin was on fire! Frantically he dashed toward the cabin. The woodpile was now reduced to a pile of glowing embers, and one wall of the cabin was smoking and smouldering. Where was Don? Bill reached the door of the cabin and gazed on the wreckage inside with a gasp of horror. “Don!” he groaned. “He's dead!” He sprang to his brother’s side, desperately tried to lift him by his shoulders. He must get him out of the cabin, which might burst into flame at any moment. Unable to pull his dead weight along the floor, Bill grasped one of Don’s arms, pulled it over his shoulder. and thus got the limp body into a half-sitting, half-crouching position. Then Bill was able to get his shoulder under Don’s weight in a “fireman’s lift.” He heaved him up and stag- gered through the open door to safety. S gently as possible he laid Don on the ground. He saw, with a great surge of joy in his heart, that Don was not dead, With no water at hand, he rubbed his wrists, slapped his face, spoke to him. Don stirred. His eyelids flickered. His eyes opened, dazed and uncomprehending for a moment, then overjoyed. “Bill!” he cried, “You're safe!” Bill found relief from the nervous strain of the last few hours in a loud and hearty laugh. “Me?” he cried. “How about you? Here I climb a mountain to pay you a visit and find You lying unconscious in a burning cabin!” With a startled look Don scrambled to a sitting position. “The lightning must have got me,” he ex- plained. “Yes, I remember. I was using the phone. But quick, Bill—the cabin! Get a blanket and beat that wall. If you don't it will go up in smoke in a minute.” Bill ran to the cabin and got a blanket, but he found it so unwieldly to handle. A coat, however, did the trick, and in a few minutes he had beaten out the flames that were crawling along the wall. And then the rain, which had held off through most of the thunder and lightning, suddenly descended upon them in a torrent. “Let's get inside” said Don, who was now able to stand on his feet. “The place is a wreck, but it's some shelter, at least.” HEY hurried into the cabin. One wall had been knocked almost completely out by the force of the lightning, but the building was sturdily constructed, and the roof and other walls remained intact. In a few minutes they had managed to fasten extra blankets up over the ruined wall, which helped to keep out the driving rain. Soon Don had a fire roaring in the stove. He found the coffee pot in one corner of the cabin and the frying pan in another. He filled them again, found a can of soup and set it to heating, and then sat down to listen to Bill's story of his adventures. Bill had hardly started the tale when he suddenly broke off. “Look here,” he said, “I'm forgetting the whole purpose of my trip up here!” He picked up the haversack that he had tossed aside a few minutes before, and from it took the letter to Don from the State university. Dom de- voured it eagerly. “Gee, this is great!” he cried, as he read the words informing him that he had won a scholarship. Then suddenly he looked at Bill, who was digging deeper into the haversack. “What have you got there.” “Cookies!” grinned Bill. “Mother sent them to you. And believe it or not, they came through fire, storm and everything else, almost as good as new!” IR meal was ready in a short time, and they devoured it avidly, while Bill related how he had seen the four men starting the forest fire, and how he had escaped from them. “This rain will be over in a short time,” said Don when he had finished. “We'll spend the night here, although it’s going to be cold with that wall knocked out. But luckily we have plenty of wood here in the cabin, and lots of blankets. “In the morning we’ll have to go down to the nearest patrol station and arrange to have this cabin repaired. And we’ll make a report on these men who started the fire. I hope they can catch them.” They spent a shivering night, but awoke on the following morning in bright sunshine. As soon as he was out of bed, Don took his glass and carefully examined the entire range of his vision. “No fires,” he reported. “Evidently the patrol put out the one down the Goat’s Head, aided by that rain. And things should be compara- tively safe for a while, after the soaking the woods got last night.” “That's great,” agreed Bill, “but how about some bregkfast?” LATER that morning they started the journey down the mountain—a far easier trip than Bill's climb of the day before. A day later they were back on the Goat's Head, having packed up additional supplies, a new telephone, and material to repair the cabin. And, aided by the description Bill gave of the firebugs, the rangers caught them several days later, and they eventually went to prison. Bill enjoyed his visit with Don in the look- out station, but it was not just what he had planned. He spent practically all of his time helping repair the cabin and cutting & new supply of firewood. This was far from exciting, but Bill didn't care. He decided that his trip up the Goat’s Head had given him enough ex- citement to last for a long time. THE END. RIDDLES How about trying the riddles we have for you today? They all sound pretty new and catchy to us, and we think you’ll agree when you read them over. We have to thank Michael Horowitz for sending them in. 1. What is round as the moon, black as coal, and reveals personality. 2. What has a tongue and does not bite? 3. What has a lot of keys and can’t open & door? 4. What is the most bashful thing in the house? 5. What has a hundred eyes and can't see? ANSWERS. 1. A phonograph record. 2. A shoe. 3. A piano. 4. A clock, because it always has its hands in front of its face. 5. A thimble. Ring Toss Fans ING TOSS is a game of skill that you can make yourself and that the whole family will have fun playing. It's easy to make the hook-board, because be of the inch and one-half size and either the square-cornered or the rounded kind will do. Screw them into the board at equal spaces. center being numbered higher than those the edges. This arrangement of num- bers is also shown in the diagram. tossing rings are ordinary canning rub- bers, such as your mother uses on glass jars. These rings aren’t the easiest kind to toss— that's what makes the game interesting. How- ever, there are plenty of good big hooks on the board, and with just a little practice you'll be able to ring one nearly every time. Hang the board on the wall or set it on a chair, mark off a line about 8 or 10 feet from the board, and youre ready to start. The one who makes the highest score in five tries wins the game. Ring toss can be played by each player taking turns, or by choosing teams to play each other, but whichever way you play it, you'll always have fun. Possum Hunt Is Real Sport N indoor ’possum hunt is almost as excit- ing as a real outdoor one. Each hunter has a pack of well trained “dogs,” and, though the 'possum is a clever animal, the crafty hunter captures him before very long. Pieces of candy or large-sized beans are hid- den in the room. Then teams of about four each are formed to carry on the hunt, each team consisting of three dogs and a hunter. As in a real ’possum hunt, the dogs are silent until they tree a 'possum, so in the indoor hunt the hunting dogs must also be quiet until they find a bean. As soon as they find one they bark until their leader comes and bags the “’possum.” In order that the leader can al- ways find his own dogs, each team should have a separate mark. Those on one team might tie bhandkerchiefs around their right arms and those on another team could tie them on the left, for instance. The leader holds the beans until the hunt is over, when the one having the most of these ““’possums” wins. ANSWERS. 1. Cross Word Puzzle Solution. [S[PL1IN]S] 2. SPIN—shin—chin—coin—corn—CORD. WIND—wins—tins—tons—TOPS, 3. Mantle, mantel. 4. Doll, airplane, blocks, coaster. 5. Topography, topsail, topcoat, topical.