no. 47 TINKLE AS aah (a a a areata ag TC)Tender childhood ... tough future To face tre of tomorre.. the suppor: help you car gis Be o wise parent — fixed omount ead invest a lump sum i Come, secure Your chic with Bank of india, oan Bank of India ~~ TINKLE TREASURY _ Pie Deluxe editions of TINKLE | bound volumes, each volume | Consisting of 6 issues of TINKLE, serially numbered. (Available in English and Hindi) Vol.| to V:Rs. 20/- per copy Vol. Vl onwards: Rs. 24/- per copy Distributed by: india Book House © IBH Publishers Pvt. Ltd, Ail rights reserved. November 20, 1983 Published by H.G. Mirchandani, for IBH Publishers Put. Ltd.. Mahalaxmi Chambers, 22, Shulabhai Desai Road, Bombay-400 026 and printed by him at Usha Offset Printers Pvt. Ltd., 125 Government industrial Estate. Kandivli (W), Bombay-400 067, Editor: Anant Pai Associate Editors: Nira Benegal e Luis M. Fernandes Production: Maranna B. ShettyTHE EMPLOYER WHO DIDN'T WANT TO PAY Story by: Indu Agarwal Hlustrations: Ram Waeerkar ONE DAY, MANY YEARS AGO, TWO MEN CAME TO SEE A RICH LANDLORD. 1 AM*DHARAMCHAND AND THIS IS MY BROTHER BARAMCHAND! = //. 3 WE NEED WORK, YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE. WILL . | PAY YOU THREE SILVER PIECES EACH AT THE END OF THE — EVERY TASK | SET YOU. THE BROTHERS WORBED HARD FROM MORNING TILL MIGHT. ire| THE MONTHS PASSED BY SWIFTLY. TOMORROW’ AND WE'LL COMPLETE, WE'LLGET \) ATA YEAR. OUR WAGES. THE NEXT DAY WE HAVE DONE EVERY, TASK YOU SET US, SETHII. WELL, THE DAY 15 NOT OVER YET. I'VE PUT THE BIGGER ONE IN THE SMALLER SEE THOSE JARS? THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE! HOW CAN A LARGER POT TINKLE 21S WET. YOUR SECOND WITHOUT TAKING IT OUTSIDE. WITHOUT TAKING IT OUTSIDE ? IT CAN’T BE DONE! T DON'T WORRY, DHARAM, WE'LL COMPLETE THESE TASKS.I’LL TELL YOU HOW!“ THAT IS YOUR PROBLEMI NOW, THE GRAIN IN THE BARN THE THIRD JOB IS \ / BROTHER, SIMPLE ~ YOU HAVE \ \ WE HAVE BEEN) To TELL THE WEIGHT DUPED! ~/ OF MY HEAD - CORRECTLY! [ soo — SETHI, WE HAVE COMPLETED THE FIRST. YOU... YOU HAVE BROKEN MY VALUABLE 1AM LETTING IN THE SUN SO THAT IT CAN HEY! WHY ARE YOU TAKING THE ROOFNEVER A\IND [REATTER ESAS THE GRAIN. TAKE THE THIRD TASK IS > IT OUTSIDE TO DRY! OVER, TOO, SETHSI.YOUR LET MY ROOF, HEAD WEIGHS AS MUCH AS THIS PUMPHIN. IF YOU HAVE ANY WILL YOU CUT MY DOUBTS, SETHTI. HEAD OFF, YOU (HAVE A HATCHET ONLY IF AND A PAIR OF YOU WANT ME TO: PROVE THAT I’M RIGHT! SCALES HERE! TAKE YOUR WAGES AND,A AE ITIS ON PAGE NO.24 IN MY. SOCIAL STUDIES Result iW First Prize Second Prize Third Prize (Rs 50) (Rs. 25) (Rs. 15) J.Meera KhanMohammad _Ninad A. Kamat C/o. P.N. Jagannathan Tariq D-10 Gayatri Apartments Sayavu Steet “Marydale” Flat No. 6 Mahadevbhai ts Shenoy Nagar 2nd Floor, 25th Road Mahadevbhai Desai Road TPS. Ill, Bandra —_Borivii East. Mad Has 600030 Bombay 400050: Bombay 400066 CONSOLATION PRIZES OF RS: 10 EACH isin Sandeep No,Grandma. pilssaehfart y But I just ee . found out a way Mohit Mital n to see stars Baroda) in daytime. Gautam Bothra L TINKLEODD Friends-1 E27 nonce AlL LIVING THINGS DEPEND ON EACH OTHER. SOMETIMES THEY FORM STRANGE PARTNERSHIPS TO MAKE GC LIFE EASIER FOR THEMGELVES. SS ae - —— = = : SS THESE SMALL FIGH FEEL GAFE WHEN THEY ARE WITH THE FEROCIOUS SHARK ANB THEY FEAST ON-THE LEFT-OVERS OF THEIR MASTER, THE REMORA ATTACHES ITSELF TO THE SHARK BY SUCKER DISCS ON ITS HEAD AND THE PILOT FISH SWIM JUST AHEAD. WHY THE SHARK NEVER ERTS THEM IS A MYSTERY! TINKLE 6IN THE FORESTS OF AFRICA & LONE HORNBILL OFTEN FOLLOWS A FAMILY OF CHAT TERING GUEHON MONKEYS, THE MONKEYS MOVE THROUGH THE HIGH TREES FEEDING ON FRUIT, IN THE PROCESS THEY STIR UP BEETLES, MOTHS AND OTHER INSECTS WHICH ARE GNAPPED UP BY THE HORNSILL. SOME SAY THE BIRD WARNG THE MONKEYS WHEN THERE 4S DANGER AROUND. THE SOOTY SHEARWATER MAKES 17S NEST IN RETURN FOR. THE BIRD*S IN A BURROW. SOON A TUATARA MAY COME HOSPITALITY, THE REPTILE CLEANS 70 LIVE WITH IT. THE SHEARWATER DOESNT THE NEST OF BEETLES, CENTIPEDES MIND. THE BIRD 1G OUT HUNTING THE WHOLE = AND FLIES. DAY AND THE SLOW-MOVING REPTILE 1S OUT HUNTING THE WHOLE NIGHT. G0 THE ae 7WO DON'T GET ibe EACH OTHER'S WAY. IE THERE RE NESTUNGS, HOWEVER, THE TUATARA MAY GOMETIMES, GWE IN 7 eee, AND EAT ONE OF THE BABIES, NEXT ISSUE: ODD FRIENDS IL THVKLEBased ona story sant by Ken, Kohima Mlustrations: V.B. Halbe HELLO, MY AND JUST FRIENDS. WHEN WE | |HOW ARE 4OU WERE GETTING TODAY? READY TO DOES HE NOPIF YOU DON'T LIKE THE WAY | SPEAK, THEN YOU MAY Leave! YES .«.1 SAID "LEAVE... DID. But | ACTED WELLE! THINK 1 WAS SLIGHTLY CERTAINLY? IT’S SO KIND OF You TO ASK ME.Based ona story WAS A VERY ABLE KI | He RESPECTED BY HIS SUBJEC YOUR ENEMIES = IN ORISSA HAVE RISEN IN REVOLT [Ay meanes THE WISE KING “sevice & Wiustrations: H.S. Chavan Shitlong | LONG AGO, THE STATES NOW CALLED ONE DAG BENGAL, BIHAR ANP ORISSA, WERE | |i E RULED BY KING RAMANA, MAHARAS, ay "i | BRING BAD 4 NEWS. A ane, a 4 AND WSS PEEPLY LOVEP AND 1 WILL MARCH AGAINST THOSE WHO HAVE REVOLTED, | MY PEOPLE,! GIVE YOU MY WORD THAT 1 WILL DESTROY THESE £ ENEMIES OF OUR 4ING RAMANA’S ARMY MARCHED AGAINST THE REBELS AND EMERGED| VICTORIOUS, TINKLEYOU ARE FREE TO GO. NO ONE WILL J HURT YOU. 7 THEM FOR THEIR TREASON— THE ENEMY LEADERS WERE TAKEN CAPTIVE, BUT INSTEAD OF PUNISHING oe FOL? RE BRAVE AND GENEROUS, PEOPLE, THIS 1S A STRANGE. | WAY TO FULFIL YOUR PROMISE TO THE YOU CANNOT SET THEM FREE! YOU GAVE US YOUR WORD. THAT OUR ENEMIES WOULD BE (& DESTROYED... | PROMISED TO DESTROY ANP | HAVE KEPT THAT PROMISE. OUR _ENEMIES. THESE MEN ARE NO LONGER OUR ENEMIES, THEY'RE FRIENDS!WAIT; CHILDREN! LET THE SCOOTER 1 e, Script and Illustrations by TINKLE reader, Rambabu Mathur BUT WHY HAS THAT MAN HUNG AN ‘L’ IN -- THAT IS, HE GENTLEMAI (S STILL LEARNING HOW TO DRIVE A PLEASE ASK MUMMY _ TO MAKE TEA FOR MY FRIENDS.BUT, PAPA, MUMMY IS NOTAT HOME.SHE HAS GONE OUT. Pe WHY ARE YOU LOOKING SO GLUM? HOW ABOUT MAKING THE TEA? Pent | _ AN IDEA. Do YOUR BEST, AND LEAVE THE REST TO ._ B- BUT 1 DONT KNOW HOW TO MAKE TEA AND SNACKS « SUPPOSE | DO SOMETHING WRONG ?ANWAR, COME LET’S PLAY “OFFICE”. SSH... NO TALKING IN THE OFFICE. leg) SSH... NO Ay TALKING IN THE OFFICE... BR) No Huceinc AND Ri) KISSING IN THE OFFICE!Miooslaiilx sased on an idea suggested by Jyoti Cardoza, Bombay Readers Write... Jam aregular reader of TINKLE and have made aname for myselfas a “good story-teller”! Iread good storiesin TINKLEand retell themto the great appreciation of my listeners. *_N-Gokul Muthu Virudhunagar ilike reading TINKLE, but after two weeks the front cover gets torn. Please use better quality cover paper. CK Shahina Malappuram The Moon ~ Our Strange Neighbour in TINKLE is very informative. I hope you will publish alot more on science. Shakeer Ahmed ‘Bhatkal ‘One day I took two issues of TINKLE to dass. ‘Our teacher confiscated them. But after she had read them herself, she was happy. She returned them to mesaying, “lam giving these books back to you because they are not really comics, but meaningful books!” Marianne Menezes Pune In TINKLE No. 41 you wrote aboutspeed. You mentioned that man has notyet built a machine to equal the speed of lightning. What about “thinking”? Isn’t thinking faster than lightning? P. Devairakkam - Bombay (Tulsidas, a great poet of India, while describing the speed of Hanuman, says,“Hanuman went faster than a deer; faster than wind; nay, faster than mind itself.” — Editor) YES, FATHER. T HAVE SET ARECORD | IN CLASS. I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO FAILED IN ALL THE SUBUECTS! £2