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December 20. 1983 Mahalaxmi Chambers, 22, Bhulabhai 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 Art Consultant: Ram Waeerkar Associate Editors: Nira Benegal e Luis M. Fernandes Production: Maranna B. Shetty1 AM_IN A HURRY. WHAT WILL | GIVE You, YOU GIVE BROTHER. MY WIFE OR MEP MONKEY P SHE'LL DIE! ‘50 THE MONKEY CLIMBED DOWN INTO THE WELL. Wil INVITE ME TO A FEAST. + AND RESCUED MRS. SPARROW. P= THANK a BROTHER MONKEY, TINKLE 2+ PLL’ RETURN HER TO YOU ONLY WHEN YOU CALL ME FOR A FEAST. OH, NOt PLEASE - PLEASE, BRO’ lA _\. MONKEY. THER, «se AND KEPT HER PRISONER. SOME} PAYS LATER — BUT WHEN THE MONKEY ARRIVED AT THE SPARROW'S HOUSE — COME TODAY Dy AH; FOR THE FEAST, Jap| Goop! J BROTHER MONKEY, A 7 A Ss WHAT Y 1S THIS WHAT YOU CALL A FEAST? THIS IS JUST A TITBIT. AND THE MONEY GRABBED THE PEANUTS AND WENT AWAY. INVITED THE MONKEY AGAIN. BUT— A FEW DAYS LATER, THE SPARROW THIS 1S. NOT ENOUGH $ YOULL HAVE TO DO BETTER. NEXT TIME? TINKLEWHEN THIS HAPPENED AGAIN AND AGAIN, TH SPARROW THOUGHT OF A PLAN. SO INSIDE, HE PUT A GRIDDLE ON THE. AND BEGAN TO THROW WATER 1 AM FRYING A CUTLET! TINKLEBUT NOW PLEASE TA THE MONKEY WENT HOME AND RETLIENED | GO_HOME AND | | WITH THE SPARROW. HERE SHE 'S. 'S THE CUTLET READY P MIS MOUTH WATERING AT THE THOUGHT OF EATING THE CLUITLET... PLEASE SIT DOWN. ws AND SUDDENLY LOST ALL HIS APPETITE AND RAN | WAS GRATEFUL TO HIM FOR RESCUING YOU, DEAR, BUT HE SPOILT, IT ALL BY BECOMING TOO THE MONKEY SAT ++‘How Plants are Born 2.2% ssi") MORE THAN HALF OF ALL THE KINDS OF PLANTS IN THE WORLD GROW FROM 5EEDS. SEEDS CAN BE TINY OR LARGE. BUT ALL OF THEM HAVE A BABY PLANT INSIDE THEM. ALL OF THEM HAVE SOME FOOD, 700, FOR THE BABY PLANT AND A SEED COAT ON THE OUTSIDE TO PROTECT THE . BABY PLANT. \ SOME OF THE TINY PLANTS INSIDE THE SEEDS CAN LIVE FOR ALONG TIME. A NUMBER OF SEEDS CAN SPROUT EVEN AFTER THEY'VE SEEN STORED FOR FIETEEN YEARS. AFEW KINDS CAN SPROUT EVEN AFTER ONE HUNDRED YEARS: HERE'S HOW A YOUNG: BEAN PLANT GROWS FROM A BEAN SEED. IT COMES OUT OF THE SEED WITH TWO FOOD BAGS... ~~ sss AND TAKES BOTH OE THEM UP WITH /T, YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THE STEM /S DOUBLED OVER. THIS GIVES THE STEM GREATER STRENGTH 70 BREAK THROUGH THE SO/L. THIS 16 HOW A MAIZE PLANT GROWS FROM A MA/ZE SEED. wy THE WiAlzE SEED HAS ONLY ONE FOOD BAG AND THE BABY PLANT v LEAVES 7 BEHIND WHEN /T GROWS OUT OF THE SOIL. TINKLE 6SOME PLANTS DO NOT PRODUCE SEEDS) THEN HOW DO THEY PRODUCE YOLNG PLANTS? = THERE ARE A NUMBER OF WAYS P IN WHICH THEY 00/7. IN THE CASE OF BRYOPHYLLUM, THE YOUNG PLANTS ARE BORN AT THE MARGII OF THE LEAF. celles IN SOME CASES, NEW PLANTS GROW ee THE STEM OF THE PARENT EXAMPLES — POSE AND SUGARCANE, SUGARCANE — STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF THE SUGARCANE PLANT. 7 TINKLETHE PINERFPLE FRUIT SEARS AT ITS BASE AND TOP, 2 NUMBER OF 4OUNG PLANTS. EACH ONE CAN BE SEPARATED AND GROWN INTO A NEW PLANT. IN THE CASE OF PLANTS GROWING = \X IN MARSHY AREAS OR NEAR SALT WATER, THE YOUNG PLANTS ARE BORN WITHIN THE FRUIT ITSELF. AFTER A CERTAIN PERIOD OF GROWTH, THE PLANT GETS SEPIRATED FROM THE FRUIT AND DEVELOPS INTO A NEW PLANT. YOUNG PLANTS GROWING OUT FROM FRUITS TINKLERAMU AND THE RICKSHAW Ilustrations: Ram Waeerkar READERS’ CHOICE | Qh jased on @ story sent by Bi Kumar Menon, Cochin ¥ RAMU, HERE'S 100 RUPEES, 'WANT YOU TO GET ME {é A FEW THINGS FROM THE MARKET. y Cc FOOL! WHY DIDN'T YOu TAKE A RICKSHAW WITH RAMU! | NEED A MATCHBOX. HERE'S 25 WHAT 1S THAT | HEAR? you WON'T BE ABLE TO COMPLAIN TODAY, SIR! PLEASE, PAY OFF THE RICKSHAW!| ONCE THERE WAS A RICH MAN WHO COULDN'T HELP SHOWING OFF. \\ (A TALKING PARROT? PLL GET ONE IMMEDIATELY! WAIT FOR ME... 1A AND OFF HE WENT TO THE F MARKETPLACE. HERE’S A HUNDRED RUPEES FOR THISTHE RICH MAN RUSHED HOME TO UMPRESS HIS FRIENDS. Tarmree THERE’S NO DOUBT ABOUT mt Wid f ‘ ‘aa ey) TINKLEReaders’ Choice tllustrations : Ashok Dongre ISARLA WAS BECOMING VERY IMPATIENT WITH HER LAZY BROTHER. 2AGHU! WHERE AR! SS 40U GOING? LAZY RAGHU | Based on a story sent by Hyderabad OUT TO LOAF 4 SUPPOSE ! WHY CAN'T 4Ou GET A PROPER JOB? aN / nee THAT EVENING SARLA’S HUSBAND CAME HOME EARLY. CHOP THE ONIONS AND GRIND THE SPICES. ILL CUT SOME FRESH VEGETABLES_FROM, GOODNESS, THESE ONIONS ARE SHARP! DIDI, WHY ARE YOU CRYING? OH! RAGHU! YOUR BROTHER IN-LAW 1S GETTING READY To Kitt YOu! BOO! TINKLERAGHL RUGHED Ol/7— | HE HAS A KNIFE AH! THERE YOU DIDI WAS RIGHT,| ‘TO KILL ME! o COME BACK YOU RASCAL! 1 NEED YOUR HELP — DON’T RUN AWAY! AND NOW THAT HE 1S ON HIS OWN, HE?LL HAVE TO (ORK. . SN AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. RAGHU GETTLED IN ANOTHER VILLAGE AND | BEGAN TO WORK FOR A LIVING. 13 TINKLE| : | Mooshik Based on an idea (\ suggested by Juee, Bombay Could you start a feature on stamps and their origin? You could tell us about the stamps which have become rare and the first postage stamp which was issued in India and when. Suhail Niaz Calcutta 1am studying Sanskrit and my little knowledge tells me that the Sanskrit word for‘Mouse’ is Mooshak and not Mooshik. Am Iright? Jyoti Chawla New Delhi (Yes, you are - Editor) ‘When my teacher asked me to write a composition on tigers, |wrote what had read in TINKLE and | stood first! TINKLE is the most popular comic in our school. K. Sanjay Thank you for publishing a feature on the Hyderabad Hove TINKLE. | suggest that you have a page full of jokes. |also suggest that you should havea TINKLE CLUB. Sukoon Manekia Bombay I want Chamataka to eat at least two animals and laugh at Kalia. Jmran Khan Mysore There are several cases of child-lifting in the Pavgada district of Tumkur. | have a ‘suggestion to make. Since most of these cases involve wolves, why don't you send ‘our Dog Detective RANJHA to solve this baffling mystery? He would do so in less than aminute! Upendra Babu Bangalore Be ENN Fae = ee dolphin in TINKLE No. 41. It proved helpful to mein school. Asif Alt Udupi ENTRY FORM NAME CUT HERE Say it Yourself - 6 Answer. ADDRESS STATE PIN | |DiD yOu KnOw? The game of chess origin- ated in India. Originally it was a game for four players and included the use of a dice to decide moves. It had a king-piece and four other types of pieces — an elephant, a horse, a chariotand four footmen- corresponding to the four corps of the ancient Indian army. It was called “chaturanga” or “four corps”. In the 6th century AD. traders took the game to Persia where it became known as “shatranj". From Persia it moved to North Africa and Europe. Akbar, it is said, played the game of “living chess” with maids acting as the chess pieces, moving on the open air chequered floor of the court at Fatehpur Sikri. Today chess is a game of skill for only two players, played on a board divided into 64 alter- nating black and white squares, with 32 chessmen. It is played ‘all over the world.SY Tir YOU KELi= AND WIN A 1, Mail your entry to: : 3. Decision of the judges is final and binding. TINKLE Competition Section, Names of the prize-winners will be P. Bag No, 16541 Bombay 400026 announcetl in TINKLE No. 53 2. @ First prize-Rs. So Second prize- Rs. 25/- 4. Entry form for Say It Yourself No. 6 is given © Third prize- Rs. 10 Consolation ‘on page No. 15 prizes of Rs. 10/- each Last date for receiving entries: 10.1.1984 [Youril sit RIGHT WHERE] You ARE UNTIL YOu THIRD PRIZE FIRST PRIZE SECOND PRIZE (Rs. 50) (Rs, 25) (Rs, 15) Debjani Dutta Poornima Audiseshu —‘Kunal Jha 47 Lansdowne Cio. Wing Car. Audiseshu 133 Katari Baug Terrace 196, Officer's Quarters Naval Base Caleutta 700026 _AF. StationJamnagar 361003 __ Cochin 682004 Consolation Prizes of Rs. 10 each R. Dhyana Shobha _Nanditha Nagaraj Purushottam Bangalore Madras Hyderabad D. Mohan Krishna. Umashankar K, Ram Kumar Secunderabad Bangalore Secunderabad Ipshita Sen Gupta Ashutosh V. Bapat —Shalini Gopal I don’t have to go Cuttack Bangalore Visakhapatnam ‘0 the class, Karun Kumar Kak Prize-winning entry New Delhi from Debjani Dutta 7 TINKLE243 My young friends, The headman of Rangenhalli village had a son called Rangegowda. He was sent to the city to | 4 study. When he came back to the village for his | { holidays, his friends were eager to showthe 4 villagers how clever he was. So one day they announced that Rangegowda | would give a lecture and that everyone was welcome to come and listen. Alarge crowd came to hear him speak. Rangegowda got up and asked the crowd RG. Sarvesh whether they wanted to hear his speech in aeapbors English or in Kannada. They all shouted back : “Eng-li-pice!” Rangegowda cleared his throat and began : "ABC... WXYZ... ABC... YZ ... ABCDEF ... XYZ... ABCDE... Z... AB ... UVWXYZ!" all the time making wild gestures. Sometimes he spoke in harsh tones, sometimes softly. He continued for 15 minutes and then stopped. There was loud and appreciative applause from the audience. Then one villager turned to another : “How well our young gowda speaks ! But did you understand what he said?” The other villager replied, “Where's the need to understand what he said when we SAW his speech!” cress OATHE RESOURCEFUL RANI Readers’ Choice Mlustrations ; Dilip Kadam’ Ly Based on a story sent by 4. Sundar Pandian, i Me fs | Tuticorin, LONG AGO THERE WERE 7WO KINGS WHO WERE ENEWES. ONE OuR ENEMY HAS GONE AWAY WITH HIS ARMY TO FIGHT HE HAS LEFT JUST A_HANDFUL OF MEN BEHIND TO GUARD ANP SO, BEFORE NOON, THE KING be THE FORT. AND HIS ARMY SET OUT. = O _ ary » we :LATE IN THE EVENNG— OH, GOD! WE HAVE ONLY 4 FEW ARCHERS TO PROTECT US! HEARING THE COMMOTION, THE RAN/ oT. 7 WHAT’S ALL THE NOISE ABOUT P TOWARDS... | MEAN THE C-i 1S OUR ENEMY... AN ARMY IS M-MARCHING ‘OWAR!OUR RAJA WHAT WILL SHOULD HAVE LEFT MORE MEN BEHIND. ‘WE WILL ALL BE KILLED. CALM DOWN _|[WHEN THE WUADING ARMY REACHED ALL OF YOU AND||£O@7 AT NIGHTFALL — DO EXACTLY AS | SAY 1) WONDER EXACTLY HOW MANY MEN ARE \ UP THERE. THEYRE SHOOTING So! THOUGHT THEYedie NOHLA, HELD HIS: QUEEN iN GREAT ESTEEM. Ae a oo ig yo = SS S An Army of Dogs READERS iuetredions: Ram Waeerkar a aN SIRS} ISH WE ary an nae OF OF AN Ais OF MEN? ‘a A soy orb ae |WE ARE BEING ATTACKED! ff + AND A LITTLE LATER, KING NOHLA 700 FOLLOWED. MY BRAVE WARRIORS MUST HAVE TORN THE ENEMY To BITS BY NOW. THE ARMY TROTTED | 3K 70 THE FRONT... “Hy THE CURS! THEY ?VE LET ME DOWN? TINKLEDO 4OU NOW AGREE THAT ANIMALS CAN’T N THE SOLDIERS: 7 URE SI |AHARA. JUST WANTED TOTHE STETHOSCOPE S2euo.N tue PR, LAENNEC WAS A FRENCH DOCTOR. ONE DAY AS HE WAS STROLLING THROUGH A FARK... wn HE SAW SOME CHILDREN PLAYING. KEEP THE END) o>} TO YOUR EAR. | CAN HEAR OU TAPPING! “WHAT CLEVER, CHILDREN ¢ SOME DAYS LATER A WOMAN CAME TO SEE DR. LAENNEC.MY HEART IS BEATING IN A PECULIAR WAY, PULSE SEEMS 1 WISH | COULD LISTEN TO HER HEARTBEATS. BUT HOW. «+? HMM... PERHAPS 1 COULD LISTEN To HER HEARTBEATS IN THE SAME WAY, NOW YOU TAP AND PLL LISTEN. Kea c WW WILL PO JUST AS WEL! AS THE ROD THEY WERE USING. THIS ROLL OF ea | io [S| |THE FiRST STETHOSCOPE. 5 WONDERFUL! 1 CAN | HEAR HER HEARTBEATS PERFECTLY. |OTHER DOCTORS IMPROVED| THE STETHOSCOPE ANP GAVE IT /TS PRESENT FORM. mt q |2R. LAENNEC HAD INVENTED) LATER HE BEGAN TO USE A WOODEN TUBE INSTEAD OF A ROLL OF PAPER. a7 DOCTORS USE THE STETHO- [SCOPE 70 LISTEN TOA PERSON'S HEARTBEATS AND TO OTHER SOUNDS MADE IN THE BODY, | TTINKLEA WOLF SINGS! Illustrations: Ashok Dongre Based on a story sent by G.S. Ramakrishna, Hyderabad A SHEEP WAS WANDERING THeEOUGH A FOREST... + WHEN SUDDENLY— AH, YOU TASTY, Juicy MORSEL! PM GOING TO EAT YOU UP! ‘OH, SIR, BEFORE 4yOu_DO, PLEASE SING ME A SONG SO THAT | CAN DIE HAPPILY. Tra la la dummvty eh screech!) Fey Tra la la serumpty Ce ' y) screech! HIS LIFE... THE WOLF PAN FOR tee AND THE SHEEP QUICKLY RETURNED HOME. TaE ZEome ON! WHY DOES HE’ (come ONY) UI want THIS BX HURRY! EASY THERE, EASY! DONT iO BREAK IT! | | r | | } Wie: 7< em in i ; fe ee : 2 SN a a4 ty a CEN a | ay * ee) aSChoice | iiiustrations Bapu Patil Readers’ SHOES FOR A TOWER Based on a story gent by Ashwani Kumar Azad, Ranchi I LONG AGO, 4 SWALLOW ANP A TOWER: WERE FRIEN?S. ONE DAY — FRIEND, YOU TRAVEL FAR AND WIDE. COULD YOU BRING SOMETHING FOR ME? DID You BRING THE SHOES P YES, BUT YOU WERE NOT HERE. 50 ! TOOR THEM BACR. WHERE COULD | GOP YOU KNOW | CAN'T WALK! YOU DO WITH PAIR OF SHOES? 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