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Tllll TELLTALI. SMELL The Bear. the Deer, the sex "n knows

He's safest when led by his no", —Old Mother Nature,

11M may seem queer, but i. 1.- i-rue o! not only Buster Bearand ' Lightioot the Dee;- and Roddy N: . but at many other Green Forest ' and _Green Meadow folks, not to mention Bowser the Hound, They may doubt their eyes and doubt their ears, but they never doubt, their noses. Eyes gnd ea," may b; easily fooled, but not s good nose, No sir, not a good nose. 1t not only ‘an’ blhem a“ m” w“ “d m"! of the Green Forest where the can. ut much more. a Over in the Green Forest Bush) m‘ maple m" ‘row

Bear had wakened trim his long deep down in his throat, 1; m‘; sleep. He was disgruntled. out of plain, very, very plain that n;

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now. Winter wasn't ove-r. What had wakened h'i.'n he didn't. know. While as s, rule Buster Bear sleeps right through most o1‘ the winter it isn‘t such a deep sleep as that o! Jﬂhﬂﬂy Chuck and Nlrnbleheels the Jumping Mouse. When they are in their winter sleep they seem hardly to be alive. They may be irrakenezl only by wanning them. Buster Bear doesn't sleep like that His sleep is long and deep, but he doesn‘t have to be wﬂrmed to be wake-nod. He is wan-n, so some- time he Wakes up when he had much rather remain asleep. He wakes up too early for his cvwn comfort.

That is what he had done this time. Winter was not yet over, but he "was wide awake. He got up. He couldn't Just lie there. He wan- dered about aimlessly. There was nothing for a Bear to eat. That didn't mat-tee, not at first anyway He wasn't. hungry. No, sir, he wasn't hungry. would you think anyone could 8o so long without eating yet not be hungry? Buster wnsnt. He couldn't have eaten anything had there been anything to eat. You see his stomach, having been empty for so long, had been shrinking until now it seemed like nothing but a hard knot down in- side, .

Though he wasn't hungry he

which the Merny Little Baum hsd come and more were cumin!’- Each in passing tickled his M50 with that same smell-

"m- He didn't WM?» w be swells didn't like what he smelled. Therl

was a look o! uneasiness in his rathtr small eyes. He listened in- tentiy, but his ears told him noth- ing. There was no sound from that direction.

He was startled by the snapping 0t a twig, Te turned quickly Llghtfoot the Deer, looking any- thing but proud and handsome without his wonderful crown of antler’: stopped out from behind a tree. He was looking in the same direction Buster had been looking. l-lis slender nose was held high and there was anunpleasent look on his face. '

"so you smell it too." growled Buster Bear.

Ughtfoot nooded. "Of course. and I don't like it." said he.

"Nor me." growled Buster Bear.

what was it they smelled? It was smoke, and both knew Whﬂt it meant-that where thli Smell a: smoke was coming frcm there must. be one or more of those two- legged folks called Men. The)’ Iwere right. That smoke was com- ing frcm Farmer Browns sugar house zmons the maple tree!-

The next story: "EVE! 1578f! m‘! Noses."

i Contract Bridge

_ - v03 was thirsty and there was water to . z gunk.’ Asdhe wgindderedkaboiutt those h yuuphm; ﬂglﬁQﬂol f i-rs ew ays e ran qu ea o . i - v ~.~ - -. = Sporting, Club Dance ; a ... H]. ...;_. .2... .1. bu; .1... mww ~~ » WES SW9 111g l! S OmBC BC Ii O _ h - 1 ~ h NO CONFIDENCE . DON'T MISS THE BIG nmcs é gg"§esg,jjl,j“,,g°,dwfj,jwﬁi‘ioilgﬁi. T... an»... went hi... .... u. l A’ Th. ﬁ gin to be hungry. Now there was “T! “"1, _l’°°a“‘° m“ i”? . 6 nothing n. do but wander about he" Svllwéeli: "m: s"! dgcgsd t - ‘ a n r i SPORTING w» MONDAY NIGHT i if;‘“5....‘i;‘;°‘i£°t2§‘i..;€‘i. °..'-°.ii|Z?§$§i°-"°° ° ‘s °‘ z ' " ~ W l - - - I longer, Lf he tried to go to sleep i Proceeds m aid not Children: Fund é; again a lung nap w“ we be“ he v Y: ~ could manage. Whether he liked it we" “Men _ t . or not liis long will"? 51;‘? “:3. Both “ides vulnerable ovor and there was noting e ' . . . .4 s4. Colllled lliladabfilzllttltcrcd over to that] .2323‘, ‘R}\‘ gaff ‘of the (li-rcetnc Forgtwwhgas‘ ._ 1985 _ A‘ i e igmape res o. 7 .5 wasn't yet among them. Nothing all?! 16 N " IA-Ss v E y special had brought him over as: w E oi " there. He was simply wandering QKJOB S s} '_ about because there was nothing ‘A2 657-; else to do. A Merry Little Breeze. §AKJ1°3532 IIICAIDESCENT oknﬁdof Ogdmg/Kgrrtiginzvensltonvglirgd‘: zg‘; » - c rcn, t “nd Fluonssczut tickled the nose oi’ Buster Bear. 41°"! Frcm long habit Buster sniffed The bidding: , - to find out what scents theiévlerry w‘; ,3,“ p"; _ ‘gouﬂg Littl Breeze was carrying any. 1Q Pass 2‘ 4Q SOLD BY Boater made a face. He sat up Tasa Pass, IPsu, and faced the direction from

East thought a long time before passing to tour spades, but. he tin- ally concluded that his only safe action was to pass and hope to

BRINGING UP “rATiiieii '

Oi-l, I JUST THOUGHT

ID use TO HAVE ‘ BREAKFAST IN BED LN THE MORNING,’ .

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MARY. \QU TELL HIM TH’

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the ace, and hence East could feel

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hearts.‘ hat observed the discard. all right, but as he afterward lam- ely eamlained. he felt that his part- ner waa trying to tell him that he did not have the heart ace. Since East himseltwns in possession of that cud. he decided to casih it. in order to clarify the situation tully. Unfortunately, this was no time for clarification! Decllrer ruffed the hem-rt. ace, then ran off every trump,‘ At the end, West had to throw away the heart king or bsnk ‘ H109 o! diamonds —~not that deciarer would not h!" token the diamond finesse anyway — and thus wlLL BE the contract was fulﬁlled. “AcKsAw s Iis intimated previously. East V ¢°NC5ALED l.“ '

should have given his partner credit _ »

for more intelligence in respect to . . - _

the discard of the hesrt deuce. , i Wit-h or without the ace‘ of ‘heartl. West would certainly have called for a hgart lead sxceptvtor the fact that he had a amen better Ides fn mind. and that could be only one thing -' ability to over-ruff f: am ylayed still another round of clubs! i - ‘

"'“Tvou REALIZE THAT iF cggilltta seems JAiLi YOU MAY ee ARRESTED FOR SENDING HIM THAT - HACK€AW 1 .

u: THE TOiLE

as: i to our YOU‘ , i gliggllsproo-Youee - see HIM SPEND some 1o BAKE THE

RTHDAY CAKE M6 Hi5 BiRTiiDAY B1 lN JAIL !

ly Alex, Raymond

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