Mo,,dg.August 8.1955 The Guardian rage 7 .

Strange But True

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if you're driving in heavy traffic, always keep both hands on the wheel and one thumb on the horn button. But don't blow it unless someone tries to cut you off with- out looking. With your thumb on the horn button you can warn the .. g other driver instantly. instead of . two seconds and 3500 worth of By Thornton W. Burgess damage later.

If ' l ' l . Jerry Muskrat are careful not to,wm,y:u1(:: gr 5;? gaaigedabglrff: get near them. I guess either of

curb. watch out for exhaust smoke. them could take Billy Mlnk's head 11, g off in one bite," thought Grand- . mum somebody has . mom

running and may pull out from ll?-lief Fl'0l- ithe curb in fromt of you.

He l00k9d UV” 81 "19 3'0!-mill When you are following a truck Ducks. A sudden I.-lioushl came toland want to pass it. don't drive ui-andtailier Frog has lived in him. it wonder-- ialdh he and to within five feet of its rear and lhg smiling Pool a long time. stopi3ed,There was I q eer look then peek out coyly to see if its Because he is old he is thought In his big aossly eyes. He looked clear ahead. Take your look at by his neighbors to be wise, for at the two black heads in lhelleast eight. car lengths behind. lie and wisdom are supposed to water. then over at Mrs. QuackiThen you will have plenty of time

gom,.mer. But Grandfather Frog and her family. "I wonder." hefto pull back if the way is not

- r reasons or run ruhsmmo POOL-

- you wisely spend today ?:,:.'iimfiend tomorrow will repay. .Grandlather Frog.

H miner as old nor as wise as muttered. "what those terrors clear. And you .won't be so apt Q was to believe his neighbors know about what happened to the to get smashed right in the middle .1hmk np is. On his favorite big missing"members of Mrs. Quacks of the radiator ornament by an m, lily-pad, dressed in his green family, approaching car whose driver yr! and whim and ywow waist. He didn't ask either Snapper oflnever dreamed anyone would be 1:21 Grandfather Frog likes to Mrs. Snapper. He was content to so silly as to peek out from behind

M I" the sun trying to look the continue to wonder. I truck like that. , -l or wisdom With his bll! g ':;”m”i"l, Neyer drive more than 50 m.p.h. :'L;:i',? eyps on top of his head he EMBASSY APl'0lN'”-E at night. if you do. you are out-

hes what is going on about 'Pl&Tl3R30R0UGH- Ollle lCPl- driving your lights and there may and waits for a foolish green -Cssle. Blackwell Ol PEl91"l30T0UKl'-llbe some Jerk over the brow of "Y to come within reach, or a 8 University of Toronto graduate. the hill parked in the road changing careless llluiuow. or even anotliepjhas been appointed to the staff of 3 me, F,-mg, providing the latter is small- glll? Calladlin ?ml33553 1" llle D0m' Defensive driving mi-ans defend ” ma" hlmm". :inican Republic by the departmentiyom-591; agaum the qiher drivers IN mm hp was wmchinz Mm inf external affairs. She also stud-Rand seep that you dnve properly . .k and her mwk or hamgmwn led at the Sorbonnc in Paris and Hg an tunes, . "ll"?! ' He remembered the SD98l(S 'F1”0ll:ll. German fill":-77LE'i There are thousands of screw- rill "I" V hp had Seen "mm ””rmr ”"s r” lhalls behind the wheels of auto- l"” Vm" Tk had hmugm hm. l "" in spite of the fact that ll””'” Q”'1 .ihey had to pass an examination to get a driver's license. Why lshould you tangle with them? i

nminv dui-klinizs nut from the rush for their first swim in open water. gm; was very proud of, them. She fiiurd over them Two or three iiere riding on her back. One veiiiiirivsniiic mile swam over near the lug grccii lily-pad on uwhich (iianriI"-illir-r V1132 was sittiiif1- ll? has iAlDll'tl. Yes sir, he was lf'IlllilPfI But that duckling was iusllil little too big even for his

COMMEMORATE FOUNDER i

OTTAWA (CPLAA plaque com- memorating John Murray Gibbon, founder of the Canadian Authors Association and the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, will be his mouth. Grandfather Frog was unveiled at the Banff. Alta.. School looking another way. In this he of Fine Arts Aug. 7, the northern

has as lllhe as he was repute to affairs department announced Fri-

hp TllPl'P is no greater test of day. Mr. Gibbon, a native of Cey- wisdom than in turning away from Ion. died in Montreal in l952.

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But now those ducklings were far too big to be even a tempt- alum ”Chur.!a-rum!" exclaimed Frniz ”llmv those youngsters have groiin' Tlicy will soon be as big as ilimr mother. Mrs. Quark has it imo family. She certainly has. Rut soiiichow it doesn't 500:!!! UM hit: as it did at first. i won er N5 6 Rillv Illink has caught some of CEWI them. I haven't seen Billy around:

Perhaps his small cousin.

shaihnr ,ilie weasel has lieenl Enjoy chewing Wrigley's Spearmint every day! around. Or maybe Reddy Fox

hE?i”9.::”i.;iiZ.vm helps. polish. on 5 I while it polishes your smile. wlueteifs

siirortwd sonic of them in the I .".'.fl"...3.'..:;1”'E3..':E.'.'1?.3.lL"5'li:2SlOur Boarding House Maior Hoonle

Vlilll lwr now nra big t-nounli fol

mo rare of themselves. I guess; 1-V5 Fieulzao vouclwegns stir (locsiii unrry much now. Shei , , THIS T29 50 A FEW has llll roaioii to." CA.l:,fA CLOSE I CANT 6&OQES Otl .lIlkl than an ugly black head PUYTNG EVEQV PENM; TCAN Ever-l weieu VH6 ifllllf'.'lFPfl Ill the water just out- M05112 NTO A UQAMUM Mv55i,p!-... Axmpugrgz wlr the lily-pads. Grandfather, PQDJECT ON THE HOOPLE lT LOOKS LIKE N MV ZOOM Vi-oi: saw It. "Snapper the Turtle-.”' ANcE5TRAL AcQE5;- -ELL WDU RIDE HOME -v-VOU'VE- hr iiuiltored in himself. "And there, HAVE To END My VACATIOM as me eacx ear vouiz is llrs. Snapper out in the middle": LNLE;s I CA” 80320” A gm) ya ,uA1'1'i25gs II was so. Ilcr black head was NOMINAL 4UM C5-UCKEM asp:-r

III M water in just about the FROM you i .oN

lllIfl(llP of the Smiling Pool. The 1 CHAp5! you!

two heads looked for all the world ; . .

iko the and of two sticks. As long as they didn't move one would luire in be close to. them to see what they really were.

"Those two are terrors. the errors of the Smiling Pool, and are been for as long as I can remember. Even Billy Mink and

Vii--not a Communist, but the m'”"lliinc red that goes with clangmiz hells. screaming sirens In-l racing fire trucks.

The Kent Fire Brigade. in

'CONTRACT BRIDGET

By Josephine Culbertson

OFF THE TRACK

SOUTH almost could have claimed his slam contract. below. from the moment he saw the opening lead and the dummy. but the "guaranteed" line of play es- caped his notice.

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1; lo 2. Pass 89 Pass INT Pass 59 Pass INT Pass 6; Pus IA Has Pass Pass

West opened the diamond seven and East. put up the ten. south won, drew the opposing trumps, than cashed the king and queen of hearts. He went to dummy with I trump and discarded his losing

diamond, on the heart see, then ruffed dummy's last diamond.

Now. with the slam contract. depending solely on the club suit, declarer led a club. Perhaps his idea was to duck in dummy and pass the trick to East. who would be forced to return a club to dum- my's major tenace. or by return- ing mother suit. give south s rat!-and-discard, but West's play of the club eight scotched any such idem Declorer put in the queen for I finesse. and when East won and returned a club. South was helpless.

If south had given due con- sideration to the diamond spat: he might have found the contract easy to fulfill. After he drew trumps and cashed the three hesrt tricks his lead of the diamond from dummy wss eminently cor- rect. but it was not correct to ruff this trick. The denomination

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27. Hire, as a car

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of West's opening lead-to say nothing of Eant's diamond bid- clearly marked the position of all the high-diamonds. and since it was obvious that East, not West. would hold the diamond trick if South did not ruff, elementary logic dictated that South give East the trick, discarding I. club from his own hand. Then it would have been East who was in the hopeless position. 3 23 H BEBE E -2 - 9” tat: min 5 g back Q 14.Per. LEEIEEE llllildlsl Anabii 26. ohose 55' Fl 3 28. Offer gym I 30. D9 llllli HI-Jlilii Wed Lanna iaianina: Spanish - fleet - - - at Yesterday": Answer Manila 35. Pen-name Bay of Charles 82.Man's Lamb name 37. Wander 83. inhabitant about idly of Media, 38. A suffix in 34. Wild ox adjectives, (Celebesl as docile

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