By Thornton

rnaouoit LITTLE Miss s:i.vr:n's use

The! wrong for one another may Consider quite the other way. -Grandfather Fro!

Little Miss Elver. the very small Eel who had come from far out in the Great Ocean to live in the Smiling Pool. was already quite at home. She had forgotten the taste of the Sllit water in Viillcil she had lived for more than a year- She had forgotten the urge to keel! swimming on and on that had driv- en her up the long miles of the Big River to Laughing Brook and up this to the Smiling Pool. Nov? she was filled with contentment. She wanted nothing more than to he left along to live quietly thei rest of her life here in the Smil-, ing Pool. She couldn't know that.

Strange But True

It I. I. IaeArtlIIr

She knows he's been a rover;l Then just as soon as they are wed She'll start to make him over.

other small tools which fall from .one's hands while working. apply tbright t ” touchup paint to their heads or handles. using a different color for each tool.

Sign on an estate in Queens County: "No hunting or fishing.- isurvivors will surely be prosecut-: eds.

W.lnrgou

l Farmers in this Island some day may have a tractor which will do their plowing while they sleep. Sounds fantastic? I agree. but E. A. Cary. a farmer in Gloucester!

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shire. England, has one of these ”robot tractors."

. The steering gear is connected by a cable to a control post in the center of the field. It begins to work the field in the center and moves in an ever widening circle as the cable unwinds.

At the edge of the field the tractor automatically turns back. An attachment shuts off the power when it begins to rain.

An English pianist collapsed after playing continuously for 195 hours There must be easier ways

Now he suddenly came as lilc. He began to swim.

few tiays and had found out that

' land. all T0 ioclle Punches. nail sets. andtmines, all the machinery. all

v a long, long time later. years laterllhe). Vere more than shadows. 'n.g,-

of km) king oneself out.

Some persons are so busy learn- ing the ”tricks of the trade" they never learn the trade.

Whlefl Sh? ilzd KFOVLD 10 :9 3 i:Qgyit'erc ilucks swimming on the sur- l9 8! W35 9' mm 915 5 9 W0" -,face and the little paddles were ilk? "'0 i3"Gl”- b9 dl'iV"'g by "itthen webbed feel. So now this must urge that could not be resisted to”), ., duck iazily swimming above

Relax with

leave the Smiling Pool and make; the long journey down the Big, River back to the very place lnl the Great Ocean where she had he-en born.

She had no friends in the Smil iniz Pool. but she didn't mind that She didn't want friends. There was no one to tell her about the Smil-j ing Pool and those who lived there and others who sometimes visiledl there. These things she must learn for herself. She learned fsst. What she learned 'Ihs remembered. Al-l ready she had learned not to go near what looked like mossy fist. stones on the bottom of the smiling Pool test one of them prove to be' Snapper the Turtle. or Mrs. Snap- per. the oldest and the most fear-J 0d of all who lived ll the Smiling: Pool.

One morning sbs poked her head out from the blanket of mud in which she had been safely napping. Round. bright Mr. Sun high over- head was sending the Jolly Little Sunbeams down into the water to bring light clear as the bottom of His Smiling Pool.

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. Re .lsswsmslowlysslbe trying to be careful as nuke disturbance of the water. Two three times he stopped tor a client or two. litte lei looked up. Ihe sew odd shape like a thick shadow with two little paddles moving it about slowly overhead. She knew what it was. She had seen a num- ber of such things during the last

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Kendngfon

ms. Claude Hose. North le- deque. is spending a few days in Kenington the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Woodside. i

Mr. and Mrs. lverstt Gsampion accompanied by their two sons Dale and Carl left recently by motor for Ottawa, Ontario where they will visit with friends.

Miss Lillian Donald, R.N.of. Montreal arrived by plane on Sat-- urdny to spend her vacation with her mother. Mrs. James F. Donald Kensingtnn. .

Mr. Roscoe Barbour of Mont- rose was a recent visitor to Mal- peque.

AK OYHER INSECTS

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30'! as 1

Joe Pall-luv

For many years, Morris Gordon, 30-year-old native of Russia. work- ed in a junk yard and lived in a bare room in Chelsea. Mass. A routine check of his room after he was found dead revealed bank

Snapper the Turtle Snapper was moving more slowly and carefully. He was very near the surface. Was he going to poke his head out as she had sometimes seen him -. (ri,nK'hlT:::rD5l:':pg:f about .0 swim books recording Sl7.000 in deposits. Just as the Duck was directly and "Oi" Walmg smvooov C0V"'i"3 over him Supper-S long makyploans he had made to others. neck shot out and up. his stout! Geilrlle C0""9"u5- 1051 keeper” jaws seized that Duck from below 3 sandim SW99" 83'"? in England- and in the time it mok w wink ,1, made a great leap to stop the ball eye Snapper had puled that Duck and suddenly vanished over a 70- under water and was dragging it (001 0"” ' down is the muddy bottom where Other players approached the from a safe distance the smailtllii" N189. EXPe('tiI'lR (0 "nd 590119 Eel watched him eat it. That young dead. N01 50 They SEW him Clutch-' Duck hadn't had a chance to es- ins the bail and Shoulinli "I'm cape, not a chance. It was the 0. K. vs WI no I-loll!" same young Duck who had lsggedi One is every three of Alaska's behind when Mother Quack sndtwage earners is dependent upon his brothers and sister had leftlwildlife for their bread and butter. the Smiling Pool for the Big Rivsr:The country's animals and fish are and whom Grandfather Frog hadtworlh three times as much as its watched mysteriously disappear. mineral output and 30 times as

his a I auseusue.

Fish taken irons Alaskan waters since tlrl. the year of its purchase has anyone could resnssnber. But from Rusaia, have repaid the 3'7.-.diiring 1&1 flood waters submers- aoo.ooo cost more than 300 times ed the whole lake area. Vover. Furs have repaid the sum She'll take a man for what he is, 30 limtl 0V!I'-

tiie buildings. all

pouring down

the livestock - everything of tangiblei value in the United States.

Within five years a lake was born and 'died in the heart of Aus- tralia. Water courses of a long dry river first reach the arid bed- of Lake Eyre in June 1949. It began spreading over the salt flats that form the lake bed.

the

-bees-dr-y'ss.:sr back

itliebedhad

I Then two years later. the lake vbed rose to the surface and then The U. 8. Federal debt is equi-issnk 13 feet and is now a beauti- valent to the full value of all the fol lake again teeming with vari- tlietous kinds of fish. Sr'”-iiists study- ing the unusual ieke that dried up and was reborn think that it fills icompletely only twice in a century. when danger threatens the fly- ing frog of Borneo takes a deep

breath. spreads

and launches into well controlled

' gliding flight!

Of the more than 1000 varieties of frogs, this little tree-dwelling iamphlbian is the only one to con-

Divided into two sections by a quer the air.

its webbed feet

CONTRACT BRIDGE

By Josephine Culbertson

Till ESSINOI OF PAITNEISHIP BIDDING club ovsrcall. but that was North's last correct action. It is very evi- dent that he drew highly un- imaginative inferences,

from his partner's bidding was a pity. because south bid his hand perfectly throughout. Let's

EVERY player is of course ex- ectsd to bid his own values- ugh-card and distributional - as no lees them. but there is a little more to good partnership bidding than this. He is also expected to .ntsrprst partner's wishes when they have been clearly expressed. and. if able to do so, to make the bid that will obviously be wel- eomsd by partner.

All of which points up the fact that North hid very badly in the following dead.

South dealer. North-South vulnerable. since! 9106 giu 4K.H82 it use 3K6 N 93732 .08! W E .1642 asdio S Q15 0!! stress QAQJH QA1095 4... Thebidding scum West North East 19 IQ Dbls. Pass 3.; Pass nrr Pass 4.; Pass is rm Pass Pass

North did the right thing. of

analyze South's South scsrcely

especially since

sible suggestion clubs would find by South's club psrsntiy North

for South.

of enterprise.

psrste sign-off,

Vulnerable as his against non-vulnerable

favor on a mere two-club double,

hilities of a slam for his side. So he took out the double. and in do- ing so he made the strongest pos- any suit he might hold outside of This was the message conveyed

should have realized that a bid of three noirump would do nothing

if any, N l:

sequence of bids: side was is

could look with

there were possi-

to partner that splendid support.

cue bid, but ape was deaf. He

louth gave his partner another chance when he North name a suit, it he could. over the repeated cue bid of clubs. but North really proved -his lack Still refusing to show his fair spade suit, he made a bid. four hearts, that could not fail to be interpreted as a des-

insisted the!

and new south

ooiild go no further. The upshot was, of course, that North-south missed a lsydown

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GOLLY. JUST MY LUCK T'BE 5TANDIN' IN BETWEEN TWO WATER-PISTOL TOTERS .. .

Mickey Mouse

THEY'RE SUQE TRIGGIR HAPVY

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