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By Thornton THE LAGGARD

All other attributes above. '3 loyalty to these You love. -Old Mother Nature. A dreadful thing haxi happened aver in the Green Forwt. Blacky '.he Crow had lost five of the mem- Jars of the flock of which he was the leader, the black gang. as some folks call it. They had been shot. Two hunters had fastened a stuffed owl up in a tree. and then had hidden down below. Thoee hunters knew that the Crow folk fear and hate the Owl folk, be- cause the biggest members of the Owl family often hunt Crow folk. This is especially true in winter. when food is scarce. So. whenever a Crow disooveis an Owl In day Lime. which is the time when Owls ire usually sleepy, because they tum at night. he calls the gang together. and they take delight in nakmg life miserable for the Owl. Prom their hiding place. one of the uimers had imitated the rallying -all of the Crows. That had irought the Crows hurrying to see that the cause Was. The first one 0 see the stuffed Owl began cal- imz, and soon the ram: was :aihered there. Of course. they all hougiht the Owl was alive. Only Rlacky. the wise old leader, was suspicious.

Blacky kopt an-av. and he kept

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M”. Bucky away whm me omen doing. One wing a had dreadfully.

attacked that Owl. of course the

to keep up with the others. Thatt is the reason he was lagigirig so, dmptping farther and farther be- hind. And that is the reason that he was not only suffering from

' Pain. but from greater fright than

any of the others. He didn't understand what had happened to him. and that is the reason that he was suffering from greater frig-ht than any of the others.

More and more slowly he flew. He could no longer keep high in the air as some of is friends were

It aiched more nd more. He didn't

bangy bane. of mo” dreadful sum feel as if he could use it. and yet

sent. the Crown flying frantically

he had to. Already, he quite

in all ciii-eotiom. nut five of their mnft He felt himself fl lower

number were by those dreadful guns. "I was afraid of something like

this," said Blaoky to Mn. Blaoky.

as they flew to another part of the Green Forest where they were building a nest. "I knew something

10” behind. killed anl lower. although he was trying

his best to fly higher. Soon not another Crow was in sight. Presently he couldn't go any

just ahead of him zi lone cedar tree, its evergreen branches spread-

was wrong. Thait owl didn't once mg "W" "W '0 b”"5m"- He heal”

turn his head. or move his eyes.

or click his bm' and uh” WIS; among the branches half way up.

like any other Ow-l I've known."

There was some fut flying on the part of those other Crown. It was each one for himself, with no ihougiht for the others. They were

ed for this, and had just strength enough to reach it. He crept in

there he was quite out of sight from anyone who might happen along. That hurt wing was droop- ing now. He couldn't hold it up as he held the other close to his body. There. in that cedar tree.

I" h99d1””S '”5'h” W I?” ”"Y he huddled as close to the trunk

from thou dreadful guns. Now there was one who wasn't flying

as he could get. suffering pain. and suffering even more from

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noticed that he wasn't keeping up with them, He was doing the best he oould. but it wasn't good enough. He was lagging behind more and more.

All those Orowe were badly frigihtened but none was so fright- ened as this one trying so hard to keep up. You see, .-wmething dreadful had happened to him. He had been hit by some of the shot from one of those dreadful guns. hit and badly hurt. That was the reason he couldn't fly fast enough

because he didn't understand what had happened. He was a young Crow. and this was the first time he had had .-my experience with dreadful gum.

A bad thing not understood al- ways seems worse than if it were understood. All the young Crows knew was that there had been a frightful noise. 3. clreadful pain and now this helplessness. For a while. he felt really sick. too sick to even

there was no one there to comfort

CITY IMMUNIZINC CLINICS

Conducted by Department of Health & Welfare To be held as follows:

THURSDAY. MARCH 5th- ........................... .. 1:30 p.m. ........................... .. 2:30 p.m.

I Spring Park ............... .. J Parkdale ..................... ..

m NOTICE

I have been advised by the Chairman of them)- peal Board from Civic Rates and Assessments that the Board will meet on FRIDAY, MARCH 6th. but

that the appeals will not

MARCH 13th, AT 10:00 A.M. J. A. FULLERTON.

commence until FRIDAY,

City Clerk.

him. He was in utter miseng, was that young Grow.

Back where the dreadful guns had banged, a hunter had climbed up and taken down the stuffed ;0v.'l. "That was good sport. iv.isn't tit?" said he to the other hunter. Isis they started for home. would iyou call it sport?

CONFIDENT DEER

FORT ERIE. Ont. (CP) -A tour- ist from Rochester, N. Y., James Wilkinson. had to bring his car to a. halt on the Niagara Parkway while a herd of five deer trotted aedately toward the Niagara river for a drink. Deer have become more plentiful than ever in this

area.

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THE GUARDIAN. CI-IARLOTTETOWN

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Contract Bridge

By Jnnephlne Clubdrtuun O&lOCrO9mG0-mt.-300s MANY GRADES OF ERROR!

Bridge errors range from the slightest indlscretions up to'the moat horr lng ”bui.Is." and, con- sidering th number of points in- volved. Soittilfs performance in the following hand was in the second- iramed category.

North dealer. Both sides vulnerable; Q A K I! C K 8 6 I Q A K 9 1 5 5 . Q J to 4 9 7 o 3 T 8 2 N 9 Q J 7 3 ' mm. xv E Q 8 2 9 10 s 4 a S 4. K J 4 .1. Q 9 1 3 .. y C A 10 9 5 3 O Q J 4. A 10 8 6 1 The bidding: North East South went 1 Q Pan 1 Q Pass 3 4 O Page 5 .3 Pass 6 0 Pass Pass Pass Actually. Nni-tii-South should have been able to rongivatulate

each other for not bidding a grand slam, since A 2-: trump break would have made 13 tricks iron- clad. But. as maitters turned out. they might almost as well have had the thrill of bidding the limit.

west opened the spade queen. and when South saw the dummy he announced that it was "just in question of six or seven." He then proceeded to give the lie to -his owrit statement. Having taken itha first trick in dummy. he led ,a low trump and. when East play- Eed the deuce. tossed his own ace ion the table. West's refusal brougtht a howl of anguish from declarer. but this did nothiiig to salvage the slain e East. had to get two trump tricks.

It. is shameful to lose an im- portant contract in this fashion. The situation fairly shouts for I saifety play. The lead of a low trump from either hand is manda- tory. but when the next player follows suit. decinrer must not put up the ace or ldng, as the case may be. When the lead is from dummy and East follows suit, the play of the nine or ten provides complete safety against. tihe chance that East holds all four missing trumps - West cannot have them. once his partner has followed suit - and the same thing apvpliiu if South's first trump lead is at low card from his own hand toward dummy. in which case, with Wat following. the eight Is the proper play.

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