MARCH 29, 1952

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By Thornton DUSTER. FINDS 0-UT

Beware. though they be friends or toes, ' Oi stepping on anothers toes. --Buster Bear.

Big and clumsy-looking as he is. Buster Best is quite at home up in mes. when he was small. a cub. he was almost as much at home in a tree as a Squirrel. indeed he had spent much or his time up in trees. When Mother Bear wanted to go of! on atlairs 0! her own she oi- ten would send Buster and his twin sister Wooi Woof up in I big tree and tell them to stay there until

her return. She lound it the surest

way oi keping them ou oi: mis- chief.

S0 EVER when they were very

small they would climb to the very tops 0! tall trees and were with-

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outiear or falling. Many were the good times they had up in trees, and many were the naps they had there, too. As he grew older Buster climb- ed less and less, but he never did get over his love oi being up in a

tree. Great big fellow that he was now. he sometimes climbed a tree just tor the fun of climbing. if he suspected there might be a hollow tilled with honey nothing could keep him on the ground. He is very, very fond of sweets, or honey especially.

Now as he stood looking up to something near the top of a big tree deep in the Green Forest he wasn't thinking of honey. There was no hollow in that tree. What he saw was a big nest. The sight oi it reminded mim that he was beginning to ieei hungry. rie had wakened from his winter sleep only a few days before. At first he hadn't thought of food. it was so long since there had been any. food in his stomach that it had become smaller and smaller until it was hardly like a stomach at all. You see, while he was asleep he had no need or food. So when he had iirst come out his stomach couldn't have held any food it he had eaten anything. so he didn't want any- thing. This was just as well tor there was little food to be iound. Jack Frost was still keeping the ground hard in most part or the Green Forest. too hard for even his great claws to dig out the roots that supply him with most at his food in early spring. so far the first few days he had no appetite. But he was thirsty and drank much water. Perhaps it was this that walrened his stomach and caus- ed it to gradually 1111 out -to that

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He reached up to the iirst branches and prepared to climb.

is could hold a. little Iood. Now as he stood looking up at that nest he began to be hungry.

I wonder if there anything in that nest." muttered Buster. l-le guessed whose nest it was from the way in which the big Owls were flying about, swooping at him but never quite hitting him, all the time snapping their bills threaten- ingly. He paid no attention to them. They couldn't really hurt him and he knew it. They might have been only a couple oi tiles tor all the notice he toot: oi them.

That tree wouldn't be hard to climb for there were plenty oi big branches. But. he hadn't done any climbing yet this year and he didn't want to go to all that work now unless he could be sure it would be worth while.

"I wonder." he repeated, looking up.

And then he heard a sound that ended his wonderingl. It came irom up in that nwt and it told him just what he wanted to know. It was the crying of two hungry young Owls.

Buster Bear grinned. I suspecthis mouth watered ever so iittle.'A hungry look crept into his eyes as h.-. started up at that nest. when people eat nothing for a long t'.me they are said to be lasting. Buster had lasted a long time, nearly all winter. Now here was a chance to end that long fast. He reached up to the first branches and pre- pared to climb.

”You can't climb up therei" siirleked Hooty swooping so close that one oi his wings brushed the top,of Busters head. '

"Why can't I? Who's going to stop me? I'll climb up there it I want to." growled Buster Bear,in his deepest. most unpleasant

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grumb y. rumbly voice. ”You'll find out whyl" retorted Hooty the Owl.

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By Josephine Culbertson 3200-C-to-taco-&oo-two Till: ALL-ILIPORTANT nsnm

it goes without saying that it is wise to get of! to the correct

hand, but in a great many casu the original bid is less important than the rebid. That was the case in the following deal.

Wtdeder. 3:5: sides vulnerable- glues .6 w:.:: 1lIQ1 V,” 4.10:” 9x110 VQ ass 0'3 .A5 T-1.73 02' T QKQ yarn tgxomo gaxs g Thebidding: West North East South pu, pug Pan 16 1. 2... Poss aN'l' pug Pun PI-II ,,.'.

west was not to be talked out or a heart opening, despite the possibility of South's having the A-Q. and this lead meant automa- tic deieat to the contract. south had no chance for nine trick: out- side of diamonds, and on the tint diamond lead West put up the ace and ran his hearts.

Simply analysis disclosed that a six-diamond contract would have been cold, and so North-South had more to mourn than their 200- point loss!

Superiiciaily, it may seem that it was South's decision to open with one club instead or the more nor- mal one-diamond bid that caused this catastrophe, but that is not A valid conclusion.

South chose the club bid to make it as easy as possible for North to respond,and in that sense his selec- tion was not without logic. it was South's next action that was so questionable. With West bidding hearts and North finding the free raise of clubs, South should have taken warning on the one side and eutuliragement on the other, and thus should have bid his diamonds as a normal and logical explorat- ion. Perhaps North-South might even then have failed to reach the diamond slam, but at least they probably would have landed at a far sounder game contract.

FAMILY LIGHT

PORT BURWELL, Ont. -- (OP) --Army enlistment oi 23-year-old Jack Sutherland ends aianiily connection or 100 years with the Port Bur-well lighthouse. His great- grandiather first filled the posit- ion in 1332 and it's been in the family ever since. New keeper is Jack Hayward. navy veteran.

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