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Show wis &0QL3ir I BIRD HOUSE PUZZLE Junior Journalists ACROSS 2. Good to eat! 4. Birds build nests in the spring. 6. Boys and girls love to Daisy Ridings Dear Miss Barrows: I am in the second grade. My teacher is Miss Powell She has a little bird. His name is Jerry. She lets one of the children take him home every Friday and bring him back Monday. I took him home with me and we had lots of fun. I sure enjoy Junior Treasure Chest Your friend, Mark Fritsch Austin, Tex. Age 7 . guess 7. Name for an Irish Setter. 12. Large body of water. 14. A bird is not a late . DOWN 1. A Blue 2 3. 4. 1 7 5. 8. IO urn n 1 . 19 5 9. . would like this house. A cushion. A long room added to a building. This house would also a sparrow or please a wren. Every year. Woodpeckers larger houses. Can you birds peek ing out the door? Dear Miss Barrows: Mr. Croaker is only his name. He lives in a pond in our woods. He's always jumping and croaking and he is very green. Every Summer day I go down to the pond and see him, and I take a jar of flies on the house and the birds will fly away. 11. The Bluebird very 10. pretty. 13. Are there four Seldllea ca pas 10 ' . Jlggern! Margaret Key bank. I open the jar, and the flies and mosquitoes fly out some get away,' some go in Mr. Croaker's tummy. Mr. Croaker is my pet frog. five Sincerely, Ruth Dixon Here is a game to play outdoors, and if you are near the beach, it's really fun! Form two lines of. players facing What jacket is like a meal? each other at quite a distance .What coat is a weather, forecast? . with one person who is IT What jacket ba city in Virginia? What coat material is like part of a fish? standing in the center. Players try to run past IT and What jacket needs the fire department? reach the opposite side withWhat kind of coat is a river in Scotland? What kind of coat is named after a member of a royal out getting caught However, no one runs until IT calls out, family? ., "Jiggers!" : : : "; ,t , ANSWERS:" One by , one he catches them, and the players caught voounuy S PHVKW0I Z ; TaMx 6 join hands with IT, making a VJpvf jaurnp y y chain.. AU . future captures Treux-jo-jtg . have to be made with this auoqSuii9H 'L chain unbroken. Try it! It's 103 p33p3UO Y 1 Age i 4. 5. : 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. -- ' . . lots of fun! r V i ' 12 m .n fl" " 'i r if ! t "- i- r" - 10 Age Marathon, N. 10 I Dear Miss Barrows: I have a coon hound named Bobo. He is six months old. Dad lets me go with him coon Y. Dear Miss Barrows: I have two little hamsters. Their names are Sammy and Tammy. Sometimes at night they watch television with me. I also have two fish named Carrie and Mary. Once I could not find Mary. I looked all over and in the dark green seaweed, hiding, was Mary. I have two turtles, too, but they have no names yet I have a nice rock and shell collection. I found the rocks in Lake Michigan. My grandfather and grandmother sent me the shells. My prize one is a beautiful snail's shell, colored white and brown. Love, Michael Caufiejd Hamden, Conn. Dear Miss Barrows: I live in the Valley. Almost every Summer Mother takes my brother and me high into the mountains to camp by a lake. The Indians call it "Lake in the Sky." There are many colors of blue in the lake. It is like a picture. My brother and I caught five tiny trout, then we put them back in the lake. We used salmon eggs for bait The fish liked it When it gets dark, everyone sits around the campfire, singing, telling stories, and playing guessing games. I won a prize for climbing highest on a tall, straight pine tree. Camping is fun! Sincerely, June Ardith Kelley Sacramento, Calif. Age 12 wo - m.nni m Sincerely, Billy Teeter Age '. Turn hunting, so I can teach my dog to hunt Dad says all boys ten years old should have a pet of some kind and learn to train it themselves. He says we are both young and willing to learn, and Bobo and I will be great hunters some day. Barbara Warner L What coat belongs in a baggage room? 2. When is a coat like writing tablet? 3. What kind of a coat belongs in a post office? : l Codti cad Jackets and mosquitoes to him. When he sees me, he hops up on the the nest? eggs in i Milwaukee, Wis. 10 Dear Miss Barrows: Last Winter a robin stayed in one of our trees all season. He fed on the berries of our Pyracantha bushes. One day a whole flock of birds with yellow, black, and red coloring came to our house and ate all the berries off the Pyracantha bushes. We did not know what kind of birds they were, so we looked them up in our bird book. They were called Cedar Waxwings. Sincerely, Joan Cavanaugh Age Boise, Idaho 11 LETTERS-HOSBIES-STORI- ES ChiMrtn! Sond in your ORIGINAL onf to Miss Mrjori Barrows, JUN- N. MichiIOR JOURNALISTS. gan Avnwo, Chicago I, llfinois, with your Mm, AGE, and addross. Tha writars of tho bost coatri buttons $5. Al contributors will rocaiva tho JUNIOR JOURNALISTS' button. 153 |