By Thornton

HOW BUSTER BEAR WENT TO BED

some folks some don't ispare. Some. think they haven't time to

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are lazy;

-Old Mother Nature.

It is siirprisiiig how many excuses can be found for not doing things that should be done. It is true that some folks are too lazy to do any- thing they are not absolutely obliged to do. They may even fret and worry because things are not as they should be. but still are too lazy to make them right. Other tnlks just dont care. And some other folks are so busy having: a good

lzme. or doing things they want to do. that they think they haven't time to spare to do the things they should do. It is this way all over rl

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Blister Em. ".lC1lll'Pr'i in be lazv. He does very little that he doesn't have to do Also Buster is one of the "rlrin't-care" kind He isn't. lilssvg aiiythiii: goes with Buster. If he wants a tiiiii: hsidly r-noiigh he will VlD'.'k in set ll This is vsrieciallv true if it is sninrtliiiir: for his

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sleep that Johnny Chuck enjoys. Busterls sleeg is deep. but it is just like the sleep of most. folks. He can easily be wakened, just as can you and 1. Johnny Chuck cannot be

wnkened except by warning him.

Now wouldn't you think that anyone knowing that they were going to sleep for a long time would be a little bit fussy about their bed? And where it is? Buster Bear isn't. that kind. There is only one real reason why he goes to sleep for such a long time. It is because he cannot find anything to eat. Life with nothing to eat is just not anyi fun at all. Buster is lucky that he. can go to sleep and forget it. Most folks can't do that. Buster can even igo to sleep and stay asleep to: weeks with not a bite to eat in all that time, yet not be hungry when he wakes up.

Buster had stayed awake later than usual. That was because he .had been able to find food of some. ikind later than usual. He did a lot, nf wandering about to find it, bull! he did find it. Then came the first snow. and covered everything. ;Buster kriewllt was time then to go ttn bed. Where should he do it?

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4. . -VII-I5 Then he signed and lay down.

raked in some of these leaves at the foot of the old tree. He want at all fussy. He didn't care if a number of small sticks were raked in with the leaves. He was making a bed, It wasn't a. neat bed. or a tidy bed. Had you seen it you wouldn't have been tempted to lie

ldown on it. It would have been

much better had he had several times as many leaves. He broke off a few branches from the evergreen trees. and added these. Then he sighed and lay down. The snow was already shifting down and in a short time Buster was covered as it with a white sheet.

That first snow was a very light snow. It covered Buster without warmth. as a sheet would. The next snow storm added to,it. and the next added to that. and so the sheet became a- white blanket. and really did keep him warm. It shut away

.Where should he make his bed? Hr wliined a bit as he looked arounf.

the bitter cold. Jack Frost couldn't get down through it to reach him.

lNeither could Rough Brother North

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A GOOD ENOUGH CONTRACT '

North-south would have been bet- ter advised to select a six-heart ra- ther than a six-spade contract in the following deal, if they insisted on reaching a slam, but, with the opponents' help, they did all right anyway.

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West opened the fourth-highest. diamond, and of course declarer had to ruff this on the board to avoid the immediate loss or the red aces. After rulfing, however. he found it no easy matter to decide what plan of play to choose. He thought about drawing trumps

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vtnniarh. Let. him find somethinzibut he was too lazy to do mu 'ii i ery. icrv sweet. like a hollow trCl'.;lockint.: around. He is never too 1”" full of liniicjv. and he Will nork with,t,o look for food, but he is too 1 5i might and niam to act. it. But heltn look for the best place possiblcl has to want sonirtiiziiz vcijv, iieitwfor a bed. You see. he really doesn't. much to ronllv Work liarrl care. He complained a little as he

Likf some h.'”i'S :lll'l rzi , Biisterglooked around. It was a whining dncsnlt like tn an to bed early Youicomplaint, : know he is siipposerl to sleep all He found a more or less sheltered winter. He is supposed to sleep the place at the foot of an old stub of way Joliiixiy Chuck does. in tha.t,a tree. A lot of dead leaves la.v deep sleep called lhiber-inbout on the ground. It was so nation." The truth is that while sheltered there that the wind Buster Bear sleeps tliroiiszh niuclvhadntt blown these leaves away.l of the rviiitrr, it isn't the kind of With his big fore-paws Buster

and depending rm :1 3-3 break of clubs. but. fortunately for him- self, decided a.'.'.ZllllSL this plan. In-

Wind. Strange as it may seem. Buster Bear was sleeping comfort- ably on that iinconifnrtable bed. in

that iiiicomrorahle place. He could 5t"d- he hid dmm the 1193-” have found a comfortable cave had km? "Dm me bail”. ln view of the fact. that East.

he looked for it, He was too lazy for that. And that is where Buster Bear was when the great ice storm came. But he was so sound asleep that he knew nothing of it.

followed suit with the nine-spot. it would have been an excellent idea (or West to hold up his heart ace, but few players can steel them- selves to make hold-up plays when defending against a slam, and East was not one of these hardy few, He took the trick. and, an the extremely remote chance

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The Home tion of St. District held Augustine-'3 Convent. her 9th with Mr. Blanchard presiding.

The meeting opened with pray- er after which the minutes were read by Mrs. Felix Pineau in the absence of the secretary. Mrs. Raymond Daucette.

The president then gave a de- tailed report of the meeting held in Charlottetown, urging those present to unite to form a Pro- vincial Home and School Assoc- lation.

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belong to this Association and

that East could ruff a second heart. returned that "suit.

Declarer had nothing to gain by finesinig dummyls heart ten, be- cause, if East could ruff. the con- tract would be set on the spot, so he put up the heart queen and was very pleased to see East's jack. New South had the clearest sail- ing. He cashed the club ace and ruffed a club. drew trumps. and used his last. heart as a communica- tion card to dummy - there were plenty of tricks in that hand!

parent: and teachers should meet frequently to talk over school problems. The officers were for the year:-- Presidenl. Mr. Theophllus Blan-

thon elected

Rev. Father C. Peters gave an chard: vice president. Rev. Sr. Interesting talk In which he St. Cyrllle; secretary. Mrs. Felix strongly advised the parent: to Plneau.

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