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By :Thornton W. Burgess

WHAT WAS IT? And that is one of the saddest times in all the Greell Forest. Rain Christmas comes but for a day. storms and silow storms can be very Would it could forever stay. bad. but ice stornlsnre the worst.

-eF':trmer Brown's Boyl At the same time they can be very beautiful. Strange as it may seem. There had been a great ice storm. that which is bad can be and often

DAILY CROSSWORD one

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. - 0 V- ACROSS 2. In a row 18. Particle of gown” GAE 1. Public lpoct.) addition 3- vehicics 34 Undel'el- 20. Slmpleton I. Baby oped flower 22. Polynesian

carriage 4. Mergansera drink 9. A kind of 5. Body of 23. Improved wheat soldiers 21. Covered I0. Citrus fruit 6. To let again with broad I2. Eat away 7. Afghan criinlbs 13. Living prince 26. Lofty 14. No (slang) 8. Set in 28. Newt 9

9;! is MI

E. iita

l'i-undo)": Allsiier 37. Patron saint of sailors

.8. Ceremony

1 9. Similar 2. Girl's name

15. Diluted motion 31. Angel-

I7. Neuter .An in- 33. Small pronoun habitant or-prcssior

I8. Kind of 1l.Man's IH. Gaze at scarf nickname 36. Cone of

19. Hill in 16. Perform Jerusal- 1

21. Towari

22. Warp-yarn

25. Avoid

27. Not ever

29. Medieval boat

80. Note in the scale

32. Doom

33. Earliest

85. Tantalum (3)'m-)

39. Small crown

39. Guided

(0. Fruit llt.)

41. On tire

43. Thin. round plate of metal

.44, Used a. garden tool

45. Deed

46. Looked at

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DAILY URYPTOQUOTE-Here's how to work it:

A X Y D L B A A X K 1!LONGFELLO'IV

one letter simply stands for another. In this example A is used for the three L's. X for the two 0's, etc. Single letters. apos- trophica. the length and formation of the words are all hints. Each day the code letter: are different.

A Cryptogram Quotation TEDOJWNF LNQEMUG LDGU MNWRG- wlro rallvw warn ADYEGW RYJ er- FWWY HRNG.--OQYMCWOOQL.

Yesterdays'Crn)toquote: THE SUNDAYS OF MANXQ LIFE. THRE4DED TOGETHER ON TIMES STRING. MAKE BRlkCE- . LE'i'S.-3-HERBEliT. .

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contract Bridge - K By Josephine Clubertson T0?)-gacll

South's misfortune in the follow- ing hand was that he had been

i luv. dealer. North-South vulnerable. Q K 9 5 3 Q A 6 2 . 9 A K e 4 2 There were places where he fairly QA. we J”3:l3f”"r on N on Is. very. very lovely. lifls so with an 0 K 7 3 W E V J9 85 4 ice swrnl. It breaks down trees and O J3 73 O Q 10 9 lluslles, and at the same time it 0': Q J 9 5 S -3 0 4 2 turns them into shining silver. so that the very harm it docs is made 331130" beautiful to see. i .5 Nothmg ls dreaded quite so much. ,a K 10 3 7 3 by the people of the Green Forest, . and the Green Meadows as an ice The mddmgz stol-in This is because one of the Eut 50""! W9” 5'0"” drerldful things it does is to look up 1 V (1) 1 4 2 9 6 0 all the food or many of the little Pm PM Double NW6- Pass Pull Pu:

people in fur and feathers. This is :v5liIJ(:Clrl1t1l);tt;tllB' of the folk in fur yEnst's psychic hcart bid trapped (Hm rliile ":31. and 01' lh5:no one but his own partner-ab In-wteglwm tzbirt Os gmlst llitwelthough west had to be very in- wh y P dr as. H31; Winocent indeed to double opposing S I9!-91?-9 Wall 100d 1 5 mticontract. True, as it happened, the Aufli-MCI mo do mid Wme 0' meydouble brought West a good profit. EJ115190 iiipalglsgfeIggnfllztllfrlahi-2;but it should have cost him a great : i : - A ;many points. ”'”-l W? lcewmelmr y . I West. led his lowest heart. South laitistei Bear-(loeslit like the coldlmrgm have let this N59 to his urn no: of winter. It lsnt becausgqueeny since East-5 psychic was ;iCL:e;'?11:l dtc)1:;1c”1lfIlii:::i9-Stir” mils ntlllsuper-evident. but there was a la” for -he Wm” R warml0fuCr0 Cmftichance that Ert had the heart Ht - is b . r M . -iking. if nothing else. so South put 1'” o t ”C3”V5e 5 91' NPR Frostillp the heart ace alld cashed the i:y.nlCS ro Sdl33s- Bustctycan Iulcl mtleitop diamonds, discarding his other 110 1(Il1i:1gm:t255I::)91g1:;g:5gl11l:;heart. He then cashed the club 5- l . I 1., lid di. . .3 V5Dl0ll(ll(l way in which to torgetgligxi. rtlliunem atowglfgonddumargg. lwesal li,;?;1t:r”t?l:l:1efi- N980”; KEDWS mldidllcking, the nine won. South ruff- i ' H, Jill "5 fr 93T:.N0V'lrd another diamond, setting up the 1;'C91:iOl(?sIl:.El”19S(;4pt(:1lggetgglteff fifth card in the suit, while East - discarded a Clllb. l l ll x 1 o 1 1 l . . , .::...::.-". :::b"..::".;::S new in; cm r H 1 s r irowing o a lerlr roln dummy lmI;'l(rmiruBl:I:i:rie:iii;llqtio mm H H-and then faced a problem! As the mm" mp Weft he L V 1H3 cards lay, M course. he could ;mm,'L him'rd"Rfl U1 rip flmmr d9 have led another trump, but he Wind him” Ouelmlo l9K1N:V”-lpfeared that West still had ace- mmugh mg (1:EeenltIE;0req5 fie llmilsmnll and that he would return the been covered with a blankgt hi1)flSmg' lmkl-W: 3;” Scuwsnglast tlminp V i p inn ewlng ummy w a os nx rs” an slept qmmyl per;lcech,”13'rmlVh”: 1'3Ri3'?r:iT'ii?ftf'1a3rIlu:”:;1t'loflutr2::R'?:'three-:1 bra-nclies were broken from theqmd Ejsl-5 m.erq.u” was the V0!” sulrnillidilig trees. and crime cl':i.s.liJ0r doom ml: down. Than. Just at the and all RQam.,.;. Wm ha", nhsmrved mm wrnftngim-vi:(lt'l;2. 13hr”L;”:Vt Nglml :the contract could have been made Mm. 'a dead z”ee' at Th: imm Fgflin several different ways. but the which BuS'mF He” had one to b dlti-niv remarkable feature was that W1-,en1l,..f1.l5t wow mg Is V e lSouth fa well known player, by poor Maze tfmfklnvonc "t I ”f5 aithe way) would have been virtiinlly bed. Btutv Btmer is not ;LSs:,m:n3hi'or1ccd to win 12 tricks if he had he is lllzv especially at timesNTllis acted the dub kmg-a simple was one or those tirrles. He was too 31::-rggcnwollld have delivered lazv to look for a better place. -...' ' That tree fell right across Buste . T . Fortunately for mm a thick bhmkeruin what seemed like it strange

dealt a king instead of a deuce! '

THE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN

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and irrmvliniz. he pulled himself from under the fallen dead tree,

cred with clear ice that made ev-

GEE1 HEQE COMES MES. J INKS, WHO DOESN'T LIKE DOGS" ONLY

ice cmst. Evelgvthlnlz else was cov- Bringing Up' Father

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