Roll the strip of paper in a spiral, and the pieces of the serpent will be joined, while the file will disappear.
Four black discs will be obtained by making six folds the long way of the design and two across it, as shown in the two accompanying drawings.
The animal is an elephant, as the reader can see for himself, and the method of forming him will also be readily apparent without further explanation.
The outline shows the track which is to be followed by the traveller in order to penetrate the forest and reach the castle in the centre.
The following is the series of eighteen movements which are required to transfer motor-cars from one shed into the other:--
3. Move No. 3 into the space between the refuge and the lower shed.
7. Move No. 6 into the space between the refuge and the upper shed.
10. Move No. 3 into the lower shed in the place of No. 5.
11. Move No. 1 into the space between the refuge and the lower shed.
12. Move No. 6 into the upper shed in the place of No. 1.
13. Move No. 1 in the place of No. 2 in the upper shed.
14. Move No. 3 into the space between the refuge and the upper shed.
16. Move No. 3 into the place of No. 4 in the lower shed.
The point is shown in the diagram below:--
[Illustration: THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET.]
Copyright, 1904, by George Newnes, Limited.
When you hear that the four children found themselves at Waterloo Station quite un-taken-care-of, and with no one to meet them, it may make you think that their parents were neither kind nor careful. But if you think this you will be wrong. The fact is, mother arranged with Aunt Emma that she was to meet the children at Waterloo when they went back from their Christmas holiday at Lyndhurst. The train was fixed, but not the day. Then mother wrote to Aunt Emma, giving her careful instructions about the day and the hour, and about luggage and cabs and things, and gave the letter to Robert to post. But the hounds happened to meet near Rufus's Stone that morning, and, what is more, on the way to the meet they met Robert, and Robert met them, and instantly forgot all about posting Aunt Emma's letter, and never thought of it again until he and the others had wandered three times up and down the platform at Waterloo--which makes twenty-four trips in all--and had bumped up against old gentlemen, and stared in the faces of ladies, and been shoved by people in a hurry, and "by-your-leaved" by porters with trucks, and were quite sure that Aunt Emma was not there.