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All through life he best vi-Ul fare Who does not fear to do and dare. -Old Mother Nature.

Moueeville was a little town under the snow, a town where the Meadow Mouse folk lived. In summer, the streets of Mouseville were very small paths cut through the grass in all directions. After the snow fell those little paths became tunnels. Of course all the Meadow Mice who lived there were used to tunnels. Even in Summer many of them had short tunnels leading to snug underground homes.

Down in one corner of the little Mouse town uitder the snow was the opening to a tunnel that wasn't dug by any of the folk who lived in Mcuseviile. Grandpa Mite had been past it many times and had paid no attention to it. He knew who had dug that tunnel. He knew that it had been dug by Miner the Mole. It lust happened that he had been close at hand when Miner had opened that entrance.

Miner had com." out far a few minutes. then gone back in again. and hadn't been out since. Some- times Mite had packed into that tunnel and wondered what it was like. He wondered where it led to and what he would find in there.

This day. having: nothing else to do. he look it into his head i.o explore that tunnel a little way. ”I won't no far." thought he. "No. sir. I wont go far. Miner hadn't been around for sortie time so there's not much chance that llil meet him. It I should. I can run faster than he can." '

So Mite went into the tunnel and crept along it slowly. Every few steps he stopped to listen. Of course. he couldn't see anything in there because it was dark. It was of just good size for a Meadow Mouse. He could turn around in it in a hurry. He went a little way and stopped. He listened. There wasn't a sound. "I'll go a little farther,” thought he. and did. He stopped: he listened. It was very. very still "I may just. as well go a little farther." thought he again so he kept going farther and farther.

At first the little tunnel was just barely under the ground. In fact.

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'I may just as well go a little llarther." thought he again.

'iZf7-a long way it really wasn't iunder ground. It was more on the ground than in it. When it had been long. Miner had been so close to Lie surface that he had pushed the jexrth and roots of grass up so that they made ridges along the ground iMina sometimes spoils the looks oi lawns and golf greens by pushing the earth and grass up into little I3-idges as he forces his way along- Because it was such easy going lMite went farther than he thought. i'I'hat tunnel led away from Mouse- 'vilie. Finally it. led deeper and deeper into the ground. Still there lwere no signs of Miner the Mole. IPerhaps he wasn't awake. Perhaps he was asleep like Johnny Chuck, iand like one of the Mouse cousins, lliiimbleheels the Jumping Mouse. the only Mouse who sleeps all winter. At first some roots had been just overhead in the roof of the tunnel. Now. as he got deeper and deeper in the ground, there were no roots. That tunnel was below all roots. it was warm down there. Up near the top of the ground the earth had been frozen hard; the walls of the tunnel were too hard to be dug into. That was because Jack Frost had been at work down there. But. down deep where the tunnel now led the earth ' was hard-packed. but it wasn't solid as up above. You see he was deeper than Jack Frost could reach. i A faint sound osme up to the listening ears of the ventureoome Mouse. He stopped. That sound must have been made by the owner of that tunnel. Mite felt very bold and daring, but he had no in- tention of being foolishly so. He had passed many branch tunnels. He would no bacie and explore some of these. He did Just this. He explored them very thorough: ly, but he found nothing to eat. Had it been summer it might have

New England in October

Bleued month of my nativity, Lured onward by the woodland call, 0nce,more 'tis mine to roam the wild .

And watch the leaves of Summer fall,-

Or lean my back against a tree Beside a bright lake's leafy edge And glimpse the placid waters Their brightly burnished camoue flage;-

Through which the feathered song- sters flit

As joyously they now prepare, Without; a chart or compass. soon To southward plough the seas of air;-

And thus retired I alwayl love To hear the north wind's stirring

song As thro the waitingwllderness It sweeps so swelling along-

Or listen to the infant breeze Along the rustling tree-tops go, scared by autumnal tints. as these

In the glad sunlight stand :igiow.-

But 0 what pen could e'er port-ray The sun-lit SYIVBI. scenery

Where myriad hues of branch and vine

Are blended so exquisitely?--.

Let others throng the shrines of art,

But somewhere just let me surie" The witching beauty of the wild Upon a bright October day -James Macduff Providence 11.1.

(The author of the above poem visited Prince Edward Island last Summer.)

NORTH BAY. Dec. 5 -(CP)n Thieves broke into the City Laun- dry Company Wednesday night and stole a safe containing s'l00 in cash. employees' unemployment insurance books and other records. Police said the thieves pushed the safe out of the building after trundling it down it night of stairs.

and had he been in Farmer Brown's garden. he might have found bulbs and roots that were very good est- ing. If he had. and had eaten them, Miner the Mole would- have been blamed for eating the plants. And Miner would have had nothing to do with it. for he lives msotly on worms. insects and grubs.

And all the time Mite was explor- ing. Miner the Mole was busily at work. still digging new tunnels in search of earthworms that had gone down deep when Jack Frost came. These are Miner's favorite food.

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It is usually n. sound idea. at. any form to bridge to bid one's own limit before doubling the enemy, but this becomes even more advis- able in a duplicate match.

A certain East-West pnlt learned the truth of this principle in the following deal:

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Almost every East-West pair in the large field bid up to five hearts or five diamonds. logically trying for a vulnerable game, and in these cases the non-vulnerable South players invariably sacrificed at five spades. ,

One East-West, however, thought that they had better accept a sure profit, even though at small one. and so they let the enemy buy the hand at four spades doubled. This was the auction:

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West made an unfortunate guess in the opening lead, laying down the heart ace, and after that, his side could defeat thec contract only one trick. Even if East-West had collected 300 points, however, they would not have fared well in the match-point column.

The East-west chances were hurt badly on the very first round. when East answered West's takeout double with a minimum two-heart response. He should have given a little more thought. to that bid. West, vulnerable. had doubled a non-vulnerable spade bid, and therefore could be presumed to have, not only support for the ”other major" - the almost in- variable implication of a takeout double a but a generally strong' hand. Surely, East himself had A great deal more than he might have held under the circumstances. and so he could afford a stronger bid than two hearts. (The latter might even be passed all around.) East should have bid three hearts, and

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