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The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE Stories—Sports Games Crafts—Jokes Puzzles L SECRET MISSION More Exciting Adventures of Ronnie and Hick y BY AV. BOYCE MORGAN. INSTALLMENT IX. THOUGHTS tumbled over them selves in Ronnie's mind as he realized the man in the door way was the thief who had stolen the professor's car. He didn't know whether to run, or stand •till, or tell Hicky or what! Then he saw the man wasn't look ing at him. "Where'd you come from?" he was Hiking Slug as the latter stepped in. "Thought you was in for a while yet." "We took it on the lam. Mike." growled Slug. Then he turned back toward Ronnie and Hicky. still on the porch. "These here is two guys made the break with me—Hicky and Ronnie. They're Ο. K. They want to do a couple jobs." "Good." Mike said. "Come on in." Ronnie hesitated, then Hickey •hoved him in the ribs and they THE OTHER SIDE THEY SAW A LARGE HOUSE WITH MANY LIGHTS ON ■went in. As the man closed the door hp looked at Ronnie closely. "Ain't I seen you somewhere, kid?" he asked, looking sharply at Ronnie. Ronnie's heart jumped into his throat, but somehow he thought quickly. "Naw," he muttered, mak ing his voice tough, "I never done no work fer you." The man looked at him intently for a minute, scratching his un shaven face, then he shook his head. "I would of swore I seen you some where." he growled. Then he seemed to dismiss the thought. He turned toward Slug. "Well, tell me how you made it." Briefly Slug described their escape. "Good enough." Mike approved when he had finished. "I guess you pu y s are ready for a little shut-eye, then. Come on upstairs." rPHEY followed him through a nar row. dirty hallway and up a flight of creaking stairs. Mike showed Ron nie and Hicky a dusty room with an unkempt double bed in it. As he closed the door, they heard him walk Into an adjoining room with Slug. Too tired to take ofT their clothes, Ronnie and Hicky dropped on the bed. Hicky started to speak, but Ronnie put his finger to his lips. "Pretend you're asleep," he whispered. For about a half hour they lay quiet, then they heard a soft foot step and the door opened quietly. They sensed some one looking at them, then Slug's voice muttered. "Ό. K. They're cold. Never even took their clothes off." Then they heard Slug go back into the adjoin ing room. Ronnie nudged Hicky and put his fingers to his lips again. They lay still, hardly breathing. From the rext room came Slug's muffled voice. They caught only phrases. "... so this Hicky done me dirt In the fight, see . . . gonna get him . . . suckers thought I helped 'em break 'cause X liked 'em . . . frame 'em for a double sen tence . . . dumb mugs . . . " Ronnie felt Hicky's muscles tighten. He grabbed Hicky's arm and gripped it tight. Then Slug's voice went on. mentioning names they didn't know snd talking of other things. 'J'HEY lay still for perhaps a half hour, not daring to talk, then they heard the door open again. "Hey!" yelled Slug's voice. Ronnie sat up dazedly, pretending he had been asleep. Hicky grunted ind rolled over. Ronnie shook his shoulder. "Wake up. Hicky. Slug wants us." Hicky sat up slowly. "Sleep good?" asked Slug, and there was a leer in his smile. "Come on down an' we'll get something to eat." They heard Mike go down the steps and Slug followed. When their footsteps had echoed on the last step, Ronnie turned to Hicky. "What'd we better do?" hfe whis pered excitedly. Hicky shrugged. "I'd like to knock that bum's head off right now and get It over with." he growled. Ronnie shook his head quickly. "Play up," he said. "Make 'em think we like it." Downstairs they ate greasy fried eggs on a spotted table. There was little conversation, and distasteful as the food was, Ronnie and Hicky man aged to wash it down with the luke warm gray coffee. V\7HEN Mike had swabbed the last crust of bread across his cracked dish and rubbed a greasy hand across his mouth, he turned toward Ronnie and Hicky. "Slug tells me you wanta work for us." He waited for their nod. "Well, we got a job on tonight you can start on. There are two cars In the next town—big cars—we wanta get 'em out of town and out on the road a ways. Wc got the keys, an' we know where they'll be parked. All we want you to do is drive 'em out of town and into a big truck about 10 miles out the roed." "Ο. K.," Ronnie heard himself say. His throat was dry. Then Mike was talking again. <fWe'lI tell you the direction to takq and where to meet us. Then you can ride in the front of the truck with the driver to the next town. You'll get your pay when the job's done. We're gonna meet the chief outside I he next town," Mike explained fur ther. giving them directions and tell ing where the cars would be. Night was an age in coming. It was nearly midnight when they stole down the rickety back steps and crept up the dim alley. Slug and Mike walked behind Ronnie and Hicky. The boys had been told where to go. In tneir hands they clutched auto mobile keys, made, Mike had explained, from wax impressions taken in public g&rages. Following directions, they walked several blocks down dimly lighted back streets. They were in a resi dential district. As they came in the ί-hadow of a tall hedge near a better lighted street, they heard Mike hiss. 1 They stopped, while the other two sauntered casually up to them. "Across that street," Mike whis pered out of the corner of his mouth. ' "They're all in that house at a party. ' The cars are parked outside. The two big ones." yi/HILE Mike and Slug stayed in ! the shadow. Ronnie and Hicky ' walked as naturally as they could j around the corner and up the more traveled street. On the other side they saw a large house with many lights on. Music came dimly from within. In front of the house they saw , three cars parked, two large sedans 1 and a small roadster. Ronnie's key, they had said, was for the blue one, Hicky's for the black. With a quick glance up and down ! the street, they hurried across. Ron 1 nie saw Hicky open the door and get ! in the black car. The door on the blue one was locked. Somehow he got the key in and opened it. Inside he fumbled in the dark for the light and , ignition switches. Finally the key slipped in and turned. His foot groped for the starter. As the engine sput tered^and took hold he saw Hicky's j car, dark, pull away from the curb ahead. Then Ronnie had released the hand brake, slipped the car in gear. He released the clutch too ! quickly and the car jerked away from ; the curb. He shifted to second quickly ί and the machine shot ahead swiftly. He saw the tail light of Hicky's car I flash on, then he turned on his own ] lights. Glancing quickly back over his shoul ] der, he saw something that froze his I heart. On the porch of the lighted ; house was a man jumping and waving 1 his arms wildly. Ronnie looked ahead quickly, jerked the wheel to steer the car away from the gutter and pressed the accelerator. Ahead he saw Hicky's car swerve around a sharp corner. HI· heart in I his mouth, he made the turn. Down the road Hicky's tail light was a red speck. Ronnie stepped down on it and the powerful machine shot away like a j bullet. (To be concluded next Sunday.) Baker s Dozen 'J'HE "baker's doze ι," which means 13 instead of th· regular 12, had ; its origin in England long ago. Tlien, as in many countries at the present time, bread was sold by weight. But 1 many bakers would "short-weight" their customers and a heavy penalty was inflicted for this practice. The city of London made a special provision for such cases. Alter the baker had weighed out the order the law said that he should add another piece of broad so that there would be no chance of dispute as to the quan tity purchased and thus the risk of, incurring the fine would be avoided. Thus, 12 pieces of bread and the one extra which was added for surety's sake came to be known as the "baker's dozen." The thirteenth was known as the "vantage loai." and the expression "baker's dozen" is still used in both England and America to 1 τ*»-" gnrvi measure. »· Kitchen Talks BY BESSIÎ E. EARLE. gETTY sat at the kitchen table. with Dinah in her little chair by her on the table, both looking at a seed catalogue, planning Spring gardens. "Oh. if my vegetable gardens would only look like these pictures,'' Betty sighed. "'Just look at these cabbages." Dinah peered at the colorful pic tures with her beady eyes. However, her mind was not on gardens, but on ways of cooking vegetables. "Betty." said Dinah, breaking the silence, "we had better stop this day dreaming and get to work if we want to oo any cooking for supper. Which vegetable do you want to cook now?" "Oh, I don't know." Betty replied. "Those beans look nice, so do the peas. And I love beets. I know! I'll close my eyes and put my finger on the page and whatever vegetable I point to I'll fix." "That's a good way to decide," laughed Dinah. So Betty closed her eyes tightly and pointed her finger right on a bunch of carrots. "Breaded carrots it will be. Ever hear of them?" questioned Dinah. "No," Betty answered. "They sound good. I do get so tired of carrots cooked in the same old way." With pride Betty served the car rots in a new fashion for supper, and both her grandmother and grandfather agreed they were delicious and nice for a change. Breaded Carrots—Wash and scrape small carrots. Cook in boiling salted water until tender. When cool dip in light cream, or milk will do. Roll in buttered cracker crumbs. Arrange in a shallow pan and bake uncovered in a 375-degree oven for 20 minutes or until carrots are brown. Edelweiss, Flower of Legend. Λ CCORDING to Swiss stories, only the brave and the pure may find and pluck the edelweiss, a little white star-shaped mountain flower. Many poems and songs have been written about the little flower which grows high up in the Alps and the Pyrenees, and perhaps it is because of these stories that the edelweiss has * Fun at Home BY RAY J. MARRAN. IfzO Seei ol striny 5 Section o% can out avOay to ghoW nazi Jxoldinj string "Wallholder Sor permanent phone Tin Can Telephone. WITH two empty tin cans and 100 to 150 feet of kite string, you can make a telephone to com municate between your friend's house and your own. Voice vibrations m the cans will be carried very distinctly over the tightly stretched string at these distances, without electricity. For each can cut a small tin disk to fit loosely over the bottom of the can. Punch a hole in the cerner of each disk, also in the center of the bottom of the cans, then thread one end of the string into the hole in the can, then into the hole in the disk and tie the end of the string to a shingle nail. This disk and nail assembly acts as the phone diaphragm and converts the sound of your voice into vibrations. When each can is mounted to one end of the string in this manner, you can talk into the one you hold and your friend, 150 feet a^ay. can hold his to his ear and hear every word you say. For outdoor communication you will not need any holders for the cans. Only be sure to pull on the string tight enough to stretch it, but just so it will not break. For a permanent indoor phone be tween your room and your friend's room across the street, rig up a holder for your tin can phones similar to the one illustrated. A holder like this will not Interfere with the voice vibra tions. For across-the-street talking use wire instead of string. Wire is stronger and can be stretched tigher. Any sort of thin wire will do. Old copper wire salvaged from discarded radio equipment is excellent. The wire, or the string, should be stretched very tight, and high enough to avoid traffic, and it must not touch any thing. Longer distances than 150 feet can be tried out on this novel phone sys tem. For a call signal small hand bells can be hooked on the wire so when the wire is jiggled the bell will ring, but the bell must be removed from the wire before you sïart talking. won the reputation of growing only in remote and inaccessible places where he who would pick it must be daring to venture. Only part of these legends are true, for the edelweiss is grown in many English and American gardens. It is a hardy little flower, kin to our daisy and black-eyed susan. and it flourishes with very slight encourage ment. On the other hand, left to its own devices, the edelweiss takes only to its favorite mountain heights, where it wears a little fuzzy coat as if for warmth against the icy mountain blasts. High up on rocky cliffs, it thrusts its roots into the cracks of limestone rocks and blossoms in a profusion of starry white flowers sur rounded by wooly leaves. Its center is clustered and yellow. But whenever and wherever it is domesticated, it invariably doffs its fuzzy cloak of hair and assumes the more commonplace texture of its garden neighbors. Because of its romantic history the edelweiss has been much sought and much picked, until now it is protected by law in most of the Swiss cantons. Like the orange blossom in the United States, it is the bride's flower oi Europe—a symbol of purity. Literally translated, its name means "noble white." Minor Operation. AVHY did you tear the bark part out of that new book?" asked the long-suffering wife of the abfcent minded doctor. "Excuse me. dear," said the famous surgeon. "The part you speak of was labeled 'Appendix.' and I took it out without thinking." Compliment. "DUT I've signed your book before," said the fairly distinguished film actor. "Yes, sir, but when I get 10 of your autographs I can swap them for one of George Arliss." Caring for Pets BY HORACE M1TCHF.LL. More Eagle Neva. *£"ΗΕ king of birds Is still around. He comes to the place and perches on one of the chimneys or on the big wooden ball atop the cupoTa and looks down across the country. When. Everett Billings gets within sight of him, the bird cocks his head and | watches to see if "Ev" has any meat ! for him. At nights the king roosts in the pine trees a quarter of a mile away, where the town has a park. Once the crows see the eagle they mob him, zooping after him and cawing distractedly. But they never dare to get within reach of (ils long black talons, or that wickedly sharp ; bill. So far. the bird hasn't killed ; anything, not even for food. We've ! watched him down on the shore eatinj dead fish washed in by the waves, and he'll feed on whatever dead animals or birds he finds. But after a good j while of observing him it .seems that the bird books are right. Bald eagles don't ordinarily kill their food them selves. If the birds are very, very hungry, it may be another matter. One of the families that live in town only during the Summer has told the local storekeeper to feed the eagle on clean meat scraps and send ONE WOMAN WAS AFRAID TO GO TO CHURCH. the bill for it to them.. So far the ι eagle has had about five pounds of j raw beef trimmings a week. The whole town is interested in I him. Every day somebody reports having seen him. And one woman was afraid to go to church because the eagle was roosting high in one of her big elm trees. But it doesn't seem possible that he will harm any one. Don't some of you members of this ! pet gang know a few good eagle ί stories? I'd like to find out, and I'd ι like to publish in this column, any material on whether any species of eagle carries off live things. Golden eagles may do it. I woundn't be sur prised if they did. And there is at least one other species that kills- its own food. Let's see what we can find out about all kinds of eagles. Cietting a Bite. rrRAMP—Could you give a poor fellow a bite? Housewife: I don't bite myself, but I'll call the dog. Two-Wheel Skates gOME day when you're tired of using regrlar roller skates, try making this kind. The whole job doesn't take more than an hour to finish up. Make up two wooden blocks of hard wood, 18 inches long, 3 inches wide and 1 inch thick. Chisel out the two mortises, as shown in the illustration and use a small bit to drill out the hole for the axle. Either wooden wheels or regular skate wheels may be Get tvOo -rioodeJiblodtB Ιβιη.χ Sin.xlJZi.·* C7zz$e7 out £ Mortise g C Serevt hofl 2>7och down mfronl dî rear \Qhee7 Dri72 holes lor aille Ad/ust straps to Sit loot Paint gray used, with a carnage bolt as the axle. The heel block must be adjusted about 2 inches in front of the rear wheel, and should be screwed down instead of nailed. Where to place the straps can only be determined by the wearer after fitting his own foot into the skates. These skates are easy to use and tumbles are not as frequent as with ordinary four-wheel skates. After a ' little practice, great speed can be ob-I tained and many new stunts, impos- \ sible with four-wheel skates, can be performed. The skates should be painted a dull grey, to look like steel, but a bright or fantastic coloring may be used if desired. » Plenty of Citrus Fruit. TREMENDOUS increase in citrus fruit production for the current year is expected as a result of a sur vey by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Last year's production was 61.500.000 boxes. The estimates this year indicate a yield of 72.700.000 boxes. A reduction in the Florida prospects has been more than offset by the great increase in California and other States. Below freezing temperature in California was experienced in the citrus areas, but no damage resulted because the fruit was sufficiently matured and contains sufficient sugar to prevent any harm to the crop. PUZZLE S Λ PICTURE anagram starts off this group of puzzles. —2— We haven't had a word triangle for several weeks, so let's try one. The second line Is to awake, the third is a point of the compass, the fourth is a moral obligation, the fifth is a kiod of tree, and the sixth is an abbrevi ation for left end. Can you complete the triangle? VANDALS D — A L — S —3— Here are a number of words that start with the syllable "fan." Can you guepi thrm? Thp spelling of the sec ond one is tricky! 1. The fan the Spaniards dance. 2. The fan that is ghostly. 3. The fan the Chinese play. 4 The fan the trumpets make. 5. The fan that is grotesque. 6. The fan that is a pigeon. 7. The fan that is very enthusiastic. 8. The fan that is a whim. —♦— Take a four-letter word for some thing to burn, add T, and form ft musical instrument. Take a four-letter word for pets, add K. and form a chimney. —R— CROSS-WORD PUZZLE. HORIZONTAL. 1. Obstruct, retard. 6. Father. 8. Hospital attendant. 9. Postscript labbr.). 11. Still, nevertheless. 12. Scat in a church. 14. Serpent. 16. Wicked. 17. To the inside. 18. Fishing device. 20. Moisture. 21. The night before. 23. Road (abbr.). 24. Men who patrol the forest. 26. Bey's nickname. 27. One who grades. VERTICAL, 1. Occur. 2. Negative. 3. Arid. 4. Home of Adam and Eve. 5. Return labbr.i. 6. Material for covering wall·. 7. Yes. 10. A few. 13. Humor. 14. Conjunction. 15. An explosive. 19. Above. 21. Food eaten for breakfast. 22. Period of history. 24. The sun god. 25. Western State (abbr.). ANSWERS. 1. Hat, thaw, wheat and wreath. 2. Vandals, arouse, north, duty, ash, L. E. and S. 3. Fandango, phantom, fantan. fan· fare, fantastic, fantail. fanatic, fancy. 4. Fuel, add T, form flute. Cats, add K, form Stack. 5. Cross-work puzzle solution. sabotants m ati β@Η η lâfiEQ s) aura @000 Ufijfl® C0E3E3 S SHUE H @fiSÛ 15S ΗΘΟΒΕΘίά® @ 09 ssEsasa Stimulate Fish Use ΤΤίΕ Bureau of Fisheries, charged with the preservation and gen eral welfare of the various types of fish caught in this country, is going a step further. A special kitchen has been set up for proving ways of pre paring fish to make them more at tractive and bring out their full food value. With the rising cost of meat, a greater use of fish in the diet is being urged by the bureau. 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