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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-10-13, Page 7Never Trust Ari African Buffalo The man in the bush hat was :;trolling across a dusty track to take a closer look at a small herd of elephant grazing a few hundred yards off. Being on a photograpic expo.' dition, he carried no rifle. Yet wl'ien he heard something move behind him he was not alarmed. Small deer, fast but harmless, were common in the area. Nev- ertheless, he looked round just' to check. There, twenty yards away and surveying him with a fiery eye, stood a buffalo. Buffalo are classed among the Big Four of Africa -elephant, lion, rhino and buffalo ---as the wild- creatures offering most danger to the hunter. Would this fellow live up to his reputation? Twenty yards is no distance when there are no trees to climb. A buffalo can charge at 35 m.p.h. The situation was fraught with obvious peril. As a delaying action, the man snorted, waved his arms. The buff snorted back -and moved closer. • Then it tossed its head -and moved closer still. The man took the only chance he could. To run would have been fatal. Roaring loudly and wavinghis arms more vigor- ously, he advanced. The buffalo stopped, turned -was that a sneer on his face? -and trotted off. According to big -game hun- ters, that man was a very lucky one. The buffalo is often rated as the most dangerous of the Big Four. "Never trust a buffalo" are words that have been writ- ten more than once. Especially true is this when the buff is in heavily -wooded or jungle areas. And these days, this is where he is most likely to be found, The buffalo has learned to distrust the plains. This is where the armed hunter has the advantage and the wild creatures are sitting targets. In close country, the tale is different, and any hunter will quail at the thought of pursuing a wounded buffalo into thick vegetation. It is here that the four -legged fighter's vindictive cunning comes into his own and where he will stand up and fight until the last drop of blood has drained from his body. He likes to catch his pursuer on a narrow trail whence escape is impossible. His triangle trap has brought disaster to many a hunter, experienced and other- wise. This triangle trap appears to be a trick used only by buffalo. A wounded lion will lie in a patch of , bush facing the pur- suer. When the . opportunity arises, he will spring. If the rifle shot is accurate, however, only one is needed to effect a kill. The buffalo ignores both these "rules" He will lead off into OCTOBER SAFETY -This draw- ing won first prize as the Octo- ber safety poster in the Ameri- can Automobile Association's nationwide contest for 1955-56 school safety posters. It was drawn by Robert Wong, of the Galileo High School. the bush, leaving a clear blood trail behind him. Some way in he will turn and . double back on a trail parallel ' o.. the first. The hunter moves ,up the first trail until suddenly the buff will appear behind him. There is nothing reckless about a buff's courage. He comes in at an even controlled pace, swing- ing his great, horned head from side tO side, ready to brush aside any opposition. Unlike the lion, he is rarely downed by one shot. There is a case on record in which it took ten hits -all in vulnerable places -before the buffalo went down. Like the animals used in the Spanish bull -rings, the African buffalo never gives up. One hunter, caught from be- hind, was flung by a buff's horns. Most creatures would have been content with this. But not the malevolent buffalo. Walking up to the wounded man, he tossed him again, and then stood by in case a flicker of life should show that he hadn't finished his work. Fortunately the hunter was unconscious and didn't move. The buffalo was badly wounded, and, after licking his victim's face with his tongue, keeled over. He preferred to die on his feet than move away! Another hunter trailing a wounded buff, was caught on a narrow path. The creature came at him from the rear, hav- ing played the triangle trap. The buff's horns caught the man be- hind the thighs. He was thrown some yards and lost his rifle. The buff moved over and re- peated the performance, and only a miracle saved the hunter -he was tossed back to where his rifle lay. Before he was gored, he just had time to grab the weapon and fire. Oscar Koenig, one of Central Africa's best-known personali- ties, tells a story that fully illus- trates the fury and power of a wounded buffalo. Out hunting, he took two shots at one on the run. He failed to bring it down, and' the animal disappeared into thick vegeta- tion. Koenig, another European, and two African gun -bearers, went in to find thewounded creature and put -.it- out of its misery. The vegetation had closed in behind the buffalo, and they had to follow the blood spoor through narrow tunnels on their hands and knees. This blood spoor showed that both shots had pen- etrated the animal's lungs. In single file, Koenig leading, the four took thirty minutes to crawl about a hundred yards. It was very dark, the sun's rays being unable to penetrate the thick vegetation. The terrible silence almost • persuaded Koenig that the buf- falo had died, when the African behind him whispered: "There he is. Look out, he's coming!" From nine yards -the distance was measured exactly later - the buffalo rose Out of the un- dergrowth and charged. Koenig fired instantly and hit the ani- mal in the chest. The four -legged fighter staggered for a brief in- stant and then bore on.' Koenig wrote later: "I Gould see the black wrinkles on the forehead. The whole massive body towered over me, seemed already on top of me. I pulled the trigger again, then hurled everything away and ran -ran for my life in utter terror, tear- ing .through the bushes, breath- less, and almost senseless." But the huge animal was dead. The second shot had caught him between the eyes and reached the,brain-from a range of eight feet! Little wonder that, as Koenig says: "Hardened hunters will take off their hats" when a buf- falo dies. "Of all big game to be found in Africa, tan buffalo is perhaps the proudest." Amply. 4.141101.1.1114.4.110kown 2. Egg-shaped 3. T]Igressed CROSSWORD 4. Upright PUZZLE ACROSS 65. Insects 1. VVas carried 56, Affirmative trate 5?, Angle -Saxon scare DOWN 1, Sea 11 the Antal elle 6. Stitch 8. Small valley 12. Above 13. Blunder 14. cry of tl'' haecha teals 13, Except 16. Metric measure 17 t onnder of the Neystore State 15. OIL thin 20 Aims Mole 22. Doe of the oceans 24. corest 26 1 sae for a plotters • 27 !Vent 31. 1 ot•al stable - 1 tenor 1: Matzo certain an. wall: h, water 36 (rbrnb form) 37 Product of natural riisiitlo4 ion 26 r retiaeA 49Remain 'tor 48. Impelled n1L -, 4$ ra 1. InClrternent 411 A t•mmo1lt,Tie11 ST. t,1<ac:+t'i8 in 1tn19t ss r, 5. Large body of water 6, Wandering 7 Twist 8. Delineates 9. At any time 10. Solitary 11. Optical glace 19. Other 21, 3ttse'l tt pe 23. Tune 24. Animal's foot 25. uncle Tom'e friend 38. European robins Anger 30. Cry of a eat 32. Novelty 33, Inquire 34. Traded 36. ileal being 19. Sun god 40. Asiatic country 41. Expunge 42. 1, st 4a. Very black 44. aximum 46, B ood ves, el 97. C ty in Italy 50 Pentale rabbit 'r eISStWhere ora this page. ROYALTY ON THE RUN -"William" the pony doesn't know it, but he has a famous "exercise boy" taking him for a run on the grounds of Scotland's Balmoral Castle. The little boy is Prince Charles. Picture, just released, was to ken during the Royal Family's recent summer vacation. Tllh1'MN FRONT Corn is not just an ingredient of comedians' jokes. . It is also one of the grains that has served mankind for hund- reds of centuries. So important' was corn in the economy of the ancient Egyptians that archae- ologists have found it in Egyp- tian tombs, left presumably by relatives and friends 'of the de- ceased to sustain the traveller on his journey into another "land." There are numerous Biblical references to corn, in- dicating the part it played dur- ing that period of history. * * * Its use seems to have been common among the peoples of many lands, even in more re- cent times. When the white man first came to North America, he found the Indians growing_maize or, what is sometimes known as "Indian. corn" • * * Today, corn has many every- day uses, which, perhaps, are not always too apparent. Besides its popularity as a canned .food, it is used in breakfast cereals, as livestock feed, and in the manu- facture of syrup. It is employed extensively in the manufacture of starch, paper coatings, textile fillers, cooking oils, the prepa- ration of antibiotics, etc. And who, once having experienced them, can forget the tantalizing aroma of johnny-cake and syrup, or the ineffable delight of fresh, tender corn. - on - the - cob? Corn has become an increas- ingly important crop in Ontario. Production is three times what it was in 1934, and almost double in 1944. In 1934, Ontario farmers grew 6,797,000 bushels of corn. Ten years later, this had in- creased to 11,040,000 bushels. Last year, in spite of extremely bad harvesting conditions, the corn crop of the province to- talled 21,920,000 bushels, writes Horace Brown in "Ontario Hyd- ro News". To be successfully marketed today for many of its uses, corn must have its moisture content reduced. This is a major prob- lem because corn is some 30 per- cent water. If it is not dried out sufficiently, it is susceptible to rot and mould. Experience of corn growers, and those using it in various manufacturing pro- cesses has shown that this mois- ture content should be reduced by about half. 8 * * In natural corn -drying, the farmer places the shelled corn in huge, open-air cribs. While this method is reasonably satisfac- tory, it is entirely dependent upon the vagaries of the weather and corn may take weeks and even months to dry sufficiently. In addition, there is a consider- able loss, due to the depredations of birds and rodents as well as mould caused by insufficient air getting through the corn cribs. * * * All these factors made it im- portant to find some mechanical means of kiln -drying, Experiments conducted by ag- ricultural colleges, universities and experimental stations in many sections of this continent, indicated that exposing shelled corn to some form of heat, coupled with en air blast, would dry this important grain sat- isfactorily. This method, it was found, also reduced the, drying - time to a mater of hours,, instead of the weeks or months required by natural drying. * * * Then electricity came to the aid. Manufacturers devised elec- trically -operated eqiupment that made corn -drying automatic. Now, an increasing number of such installations mean money in the farmer's pocket. * * * A man who has put this elec- trical application to actual use for the farmer is Glenn C. Bro- die, of Melbourne, Ontario, some 20 mules west of London. Mr. Brodie felt that individual corn - drying installations would be too great an expense for the average farmer. He reasoned, however, that the farmers of his district would be• willing to patronize a project that gave them. -a chance to market well -dried corn at a reasonable cost. To back this reasoning, Mr. Brodie invested $35,000 in a corn -drying enterprise three years ago, in conjunction with his grain elevator at Melbourne. Now, farmers within a radius of 14 miles bring their corn to Brodie's Elevator and Feed Mill for shelling and drying. Then it is either shipped out as grain, or is sent to plant for the produc- tion of starch and other products. The enterprise has been so suc- cessful that already similar equipment had been installed at several other points in the di- strict. • * * The activity has had an in- teresting effect upon the farm economy around Melbourne. Un- til the new corn -drying business was opened, that area planted a very small acreage of corn; today, it is one of the distric'ts main cash crops. In the first United States and even to over- seas. Last year, business had more than doubled, with 143 carloads going through the dry- ing process. This year, due to unsatisfactory harvest conditions in the fall of 1954, the volume may be lower, but the customers are still more than satisfied with this service, which means tnoi•e money to ahem. * * * Thanks to electricity, the shel- ling and drying of corn are prac- tically automatic, requiring the attention of only two men. When the farmer's truck brings in the husked corn, the front end of the truck is attached to an electric- ally -operated hoist, which lifts the vehicle and allows the load to slide into the shaker. The lat- ter., operated by a 21/2-horsc- power electric motor, conveys the corn to the shelter, which is, in turn, operated by a 30. horsepower electric motor, mak- ing it possible to strip kernels from approxiumately 1,000 bush- els an hor. Naturally, the stripped cobs and kernels are, by this time, mixed together, But power -op- erated machinery finds this no problem. Froin the shelter, the kernais and cobs move up a bucket elevator, snaking 50 revo- lutions' a minute, into a separa- tor --- a sort of fanning mill --- where they are parted forever. * * * Another interesting and im- portant electrical application is introduced at this point, when an elecronic tester is used by Manager Keith Hutcheson to as- certain the moisture content of he corn before it is put through the dryer. Measuring out exactly 100 grams of the grain, he places the kernais in the tester and passes an electric current through them, A dial indicates the electrical conductivity of the corn, which is directly propor- tionate to the moisture content. A table of comparative measure- ments gives Keith the actual moisture count, and this de- termines the length of the dry- ing period. * * Sifting, cleaning and automatic weighing follow this test, and then giant augers take hold and convey the corn to the 55 -foot high Snoblen dryer, capable of handling 300 bushels an hour. Corn, still with a relatively high moisture content, is carried by the augers to the top .of the dryer. 011 -burners, operated by electric motors, provide heated air, which is blown through the corn. Three hours later the moisture is reduced by about 151/4 percent ... a process that would take Mother Nature man weeks. A chute carries the drie corn down a 47 -foot drop Into railroad cars waiting on the Brodie siding. * * * This process requires several electric motors with a total capacity of more han 200 horse- power. In fact, one room in the Brodie elevator accommodates a veritable battery of switches to conrol the various pieces of elec- trical equipment. * * * At Melbourne, corn is no joke, but money in the farmer's 'pocket, thanks to Glenn Brodie and his modern-day use of elec- tricity. While you do the dishes after a hard day's work so the missus can go to bridge club meetings, you can get considerable conso- lation out of remembering that the male bass does all the house- work. Despite the obvious injus- tice of it all, the bass species have survived for many thou- sands of years. Gigantic lizards were the mo- tives for many of the legends of winged dragons and griffins; consequently, their modern de- scendents are the subject of su- perstition and fear. L 81 Barclay warren B,A., The Boyhood of Jesus Luke 2:41-52 Memory Selection; Jesus In- creased in wisdom and stature,, and in favour with God and man. Luke 2:52. Only Luke records an inci- dent in the life of Jesus during the period from infancy to his baptism at thirty years of age. It occured when he was twelve years of age, the time when boys took their place with the men in worshipping in the temple. Even at such an early age his understanding astonish- ed the teachers. When Joseph and Mary returned and found him in the temple they said, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold thy father and. I have sought thee sorrowing." Mary never forgot his reply which was, "How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that 1 must be about my Father's busi- ness? He was realizing some- thing of his Divine mission. Nevertheless he obeyed Joseph and Mary, accompanying thein to Nazareth and being subject to them. Here is an example of obedience that all children would be wise to follow. Parents have a responsibility in seeing that they do follow it. Jesus likely spent the years of boyhood and young manhood very much as others did. Mat- thew speaks of his sisters and his four brothers, James, Joses, Simon and Judas. 13: 55-56. However Jesus differed from all others in that he never knew the taint of sin. He resisted every temptation to do evil. Jesus doubtles helped to sup- port the family by working at the carpenter trade. Sometime before Jesus reached the age of thirty, Joseph, the head of the family, died. Jesus on the cross • made provision for his mother's care with the beloved disciple, John. The memory selection reminds us of the intellectual, physical, spiritual and social development of Jesus. Each phase is import- ant to each of us. The spiritual one is the one most frequently neglected by youth today. Re- ligion is not just for old people. Youth needs God, • "What became of your partneri, those rt-onderful Windfall boys 7" Upsidedown to Prevent Needing 3 1 N t S 3 3 >i S ; O s 3 0 V 0 t a' '3 1 s N 0 0 s v 1 0 3 M 3 w s A 3 it 3 Oa a 0 4 3'1 $ .L N N 3 d N r+1 3v 3 kiss a .1, • l el 3 N 3 d 3 3 3 0A�3 ,:'a a 1� a, s tn,a n 3 '3 Q... thrills of al 11 the I . 'sl youngsters got a TOTS -These British TOTED T y g carnival ride without even going on one. They just got into this fork lift truck while attending Public Day at the Royal Engineers' Camp at Longmoor, England. The brightly colored) truck clave the kids an up-and-down, brick -and -forth, zigzag ride they'll probably long remember. 2 3 4 5 6 7 ,.:.,1,,1 8 Il la 13 ." 14 15 <y,. 4k' 16 '17 18 19 .1.420 21 ?a 22 23 ift. e.a `'�+:,\ 24 • .AMINE 30 31' 35 �'�• `: 36 e a j 40 Orf 44 zti^,.<. 'I� 47 43 a �.., 32 � �`' 4i y, a 35 . ; 57 'r eISStWhere ora this page. ROYALTY ON THE RUN -"William" the pony doesn't know it, but he has a famous "exercise boy" taking him for a run on the grounds of Scotland's Balmoral Castle. The little boy is Prince Charles. Picture, just released, was to ken during the Royal Family's recent summer vacation. Tllh1'MN FRONT Corn is not just an ingredient of comedians' jokes. . It is also one of the grains that has served mankind for hund- reds of centuries. So important' was corn in the economy of the ancient Egyptians that archae- ologists have found it in Egyp- tian tombs, left presumably by relatives and friends 'of the de- ceased to sustain the traveller on his journey into another "land." There are numerous Biblical references to corn, in- dicating the part it played dur- ing that period of history. * * * Its use seems to have been common among the peoples of many lands, even in more re- cent times. When the white man first came to North America, he found the Indians growing_maize or, what is sometimes known as "Indian. corn" • * * Today, corn has many every- day uses, which, perhaps, are not always too apparent. Besides its popularity as a canned .food, it is used in breakfast cereals, as livestock feed, and in the manu- facture of syrup. It is employed extensively in the manufacture of starch, paper coatings, textile fillers, cooking oils, the prepa- ration of antibiotics, etc. And who, once having experienced them, can forget the tantalizing aroma of johnny-cake and syrup, or the ineffable delight of fresh, tender corn. - on - the - cob? Corn has become an increas- ingly important crop in Ontario. Production is three times what it was in 1934, and almost double in 1944. In 1934, Ontario farmers grew 6,797,000 bushels of corn. Ten years later, this had in- creased to 11,040,000 bushels. Last year, in spite of extremely bad harvesting conditions, the corn crop of the province to- talled 21,920,000 bushels, writes Horace Brown in "Ontario Hyd- ro News". To be successfully marketed today for many of its uses, corn must have its moisture content reduced. This is a major prob- lem because corn is some 30 per- cent water. If it is not dried out sufficiently, it is susceptible to rot and mould. Experience of corn growers, and those using it in various manufacturing pro- cesses has shown that this mois- ture content should be reduced by about half. 8 * * In natural corn -drying, the farmer places the shelled corn in huge, open-air cribs. While this method is reasonably satisfac- tory, it is entirely dependent upon the vagaries of the weather and corn may take weeks and even months to dry sufficiently. In addition, there is a consider- able loss, due to the depredations of birds and rodents as well as mould caused by insufficient air getting through the corn cribs. * * * All these factors made it im- portant to find some mechanical means of kiln -drying, Experiments conducted by ag- ricultural colleges, universities and experimental stations in many sections of this continent, indicated that exposing shelled corn to some form of heat, coupled with en air blast, would dry this important grain sat- isfactorily. This method, it was found, also reduced the, drying - time to a mater of hours,, instead of the weeks or months required by natural drying. * * * Then electricity came to the aid. Manufacturers devised elec- trically -operated eqiupment that made corn -drying automatic. Now, an increasing number of such installations mean money in the farmer's pocket. * * * A man who has put this elec- trical application to actual use for the farmer is Glenn C. Bro- die, of Melbourne, Ontario, some 20 mules west of London. Mr. Brodie felt that individual corn - drying installations would be too great an expense for the average farmer. He reasoned, however, that the farmers of his district would be• willing to patronize a project that gave them. -a chance to market well -dried corn at a reasonable cost. To back this reasoning, Mr. Brodie invested $35,000 in a corn -drying enterprise three years ago, in conjunction with his grain elevator at Melbourne. Now, farmers within a radius of 14 miles bring their corn to Brodie's Elevator and Feed Mill for shelling and drying. Then it is either shipped out as grain, or is sent to plant for the produc- tion of starch and other products. The enterprise has been so suc- cessful that already similar equipment had been installed at several other points in the di- strict. • * * The activity has had an in- teresting effect upon the farm economy around Melbourne. Un- til the new corn -drying business was opened, that area planted a very small acreage of corn; today, it is one of the distric'ts main cash crops. In the first United States and even to over- seas. Last year, business had more than doubled, with 143 carloads going through the dry- ing process. This year, due to unsatisfactory harvest conditions in the fall of 1954, the volume may be lower, but the customers are still more than satisfied with this service, which means tnoi•e money to ahem. * * * Thanks to electricity, the shel- ling and drying of corn are prac- tically automatic, requiring the attention of only two men. When the farmer's truck brings in the husked corn, the front end of the truck is attached to an electric- ally -operated hoist, which lifts the vehicle and allows the load to slide into the shaker. The lat- ter., operated by a 21/2-horsc- power electric motor, conveys the corn to the shelter, which is, in turn, operated by a 30. horsepower electric motor, mak- ing it possible to strip kernels from approxiumately 1,000 bush- els an hor. Naturally, the stripped cobs and kernels are, by this time, mixed together, But power -op- erated machinery finds this no problem. Froin the shelter, the kernais and cobs move up a bucket elevator, snaking 50 revo- lutions' a minute, into a separa- tor --- a sort of fanning mill --- where they are parted forever. * * * Another interesting and im- portant electrical application is introduced at this point, when an elecronic tester is used by Manager Keith Hutcheson to as- certain the moisture content of he corn before it is put through the dryer. Measuring out exactly 100 grams of the grain, he places the kernais in the tester and passes an electric current through them, A dial indicates the electrical conductivity of the corn, which is directly propor- tionate to the moisture content. A table of comparative measure- ments gives Keith the actual moisture count, and this de- termines the length of the dry- ing period. * * Sifting, cleaning and automatic weighing follow this test, and then giant augers take hold and convey the corn to the 55 -foot high Snoblen dryer, capable of handling 300 bushels an hour. Corn, still with a relatively high moisture content, is carried by the augers to the top .of the dryer. 011 -burners, operated by electric motors, provide heated air, which is blown through the corn. Three hours later the moisture is reduced by about 151/4 percent ... a process that would take Mother Nature man weeks. A chute carries the drie corn down a 47 -foot drop Into railroad cars waiting on the Brodie siding. * * * This process requires several electric motors with a total capacity of more han 200 horse- power. In fact, one room in the Brodie elevator accommodates a veritable battery of switches to conrol the various pieces of elec- trical equipment. * * * At Melbourne, corn is no joke, but money in the farmer's 'pocket, thanks to Glenn Brodie and his modern-day use of elec- tricity. While you do the dishes after a hard day's work so the missus can go to bridge club meetings, you can get considerable conso- lation out of remembering that the male bass does all the house- work. Despite the obvious injus- tice of it all, the bass species have survived for many thou- sands of years. Gigantic lizards were the mo- tives for many of the legends of winged dragons and griffins; consequently, their modern de- scendents are the subject of su- perstition and fear. L 81 Barclay warren B,A., The Boyhood of Jesus Luke 2:41-52 Memory Selection; Jesus In- creased in wisdom and stature,, and in favour with God and man. Luke 2:52. Only Luke records an inci- dent in the life of Jesus during the period from infancy to his baptism at thirty years of age. It occured when he was twelve years of age, the time when boys took their place with the men in worshipping in the temple. Even at such an early age his understanding astonish- ed the teachers. When Joseph and Mary returned and found him in the temple they said, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold thy father and. I have sought thee sorrowing." Mary never forgot his reply which was, "How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that 1 must be about my Father's busi- ness? He was realizing some- thing of his Divine mission. Nevertheless he obeyed Joseph and Mary, accompanying thein to Nazareth and being subject to them. Here is an example of obedience that all children would be wise to follow. Parents have a responsibility in seeing that they do follow it. Jesus likely spent the years of boyhood and young manhood very much as others did. Mat- thew speaks of his sisters and his four brothers, James, Joses, Simon and Judas. 13: 55-56. However Jesus differed from all others in that he never knew the taint of sin. He resisted every temptation to do evil. Jesus doubtles helped to sup- port the family by working at the carpenter trade. Sometime before Jesus reached the age of thirty, Joseph, the head of the family, died. Jesus on the cross • made provision for his mother's care with the beloved disciple, John. The memory selection reminds us of the intellectual, physical, spiritual and social development of Jesus. Each phase is import- ant to each of us. The spiritual one is the one most frequently neglected by youth today. Re- ligion is not just for old people. Youth needs God, • "What became of your partneri, those rt-onderful Windfall boys 7" Upsidedown to Prevent Needing 3 1 N t S 3 3 >i S ; O s 3 0 V 0 t a' '3 1 s N 0 0 s v 1 0 3 M 3 w s A 3 it 3 Oa a 0 4 3'1 $ .L N N 3 d N r+1 3v 3 kiss a .1, • l el 3 N 3 d 3 3 3 0A�3 ,:'a a 1� a, s tn,a n 3 '3 Q... thrills of al 11 the I . 'sl youngsters got a TOTS -These British TOTED T y g carnival ride without even going on one. They just got into this fork lift truck while attending Public Day at the Royal Engineers' Camp at Longmoor, England. The brightly colored) truck clave the kids an up-and-down, brick -and -forth, zigzag ride they'll probably long remember.