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By Thornton W. Burgess

THE FRIGIITENED LITTLE PADDLER

little Fox. (who was looking over the edge of the bank clown into the wa- .....L . ter. and startled him so that he For sudden fright there's oft ex- .loet his balance. ruse; l Little Joe Otter is so much at It sometimes prmr-s of Viial use. ihome in the water that at first ' --Ulri Mother Nature. -he thought nothing of Little Too- -.....V lsniin-t's mishap. It was something Heels river head, rollinir down ii l in chuckle over, not to worry about. steep bank. spisuli. into a pool of ;Ynu see, Little Joe spends as much water at the foot. iivni. ii ynllmr Fox.j time in the water as he does on It was Little Too-Sninrt, son of land. Roddy Fox, iiiid iinir 'oiil. in the y But the little. Fox wasn't at home Great World trying: to find .1 place at all. Never before had he been in for hlmseli. A more friizlitmii-cl the water. It was in his ears and

little Fox never rolled doim ii bank Little Joe Otter, waichliic: from the top of the hniik. gi'iniiod ”l-in should. learn to slide properly. nndl not roll down that way.” tll0ll(.'h' 3 Little Joe, and nrinricri innre bl'Olil'i- i ly than before. it was Little Jo:-l who was the cause or it all lin-

'up his nose. and he swallowed a

lot more of it than he liked. In fact, he choked and spluttered, and he was so frightened that he couldnit think. All he could do was

legs going.

shook himself again. He shook hard. He no longer dripped. He had shaken mmt of the water from his coat. He was wet, but not dripping wet. He was not so wet but jolly, round. bright Mr. Sun would quick- ly dry him off:

Little Too-Smart was not I happy Little Fox. No. sir. he was not a happy little Fox. He was far fmm it. That flat rock was out in the

L9 keep all your legs going. He y middle of the brook. There was wa- really was trying to walk or ruir, i ter all around him. He looked over which or cnurse he couldn't do ml to the shore on each side. It was all. He worked his legs Just as fast. i not more than two 300d Jump!

heud. he had come up liehind the ”'jm---- ' V V - wins. he was able to, and without

Ikiioiving iihat he i';a.s doinfz. he iias paddling himself along. Those

E moving feet really were four little paddles. "Go if!" eried Little Joe Otter yfmm the top of the brink. ”You're WVARR-EN C. Miii'I)()N- .-loin: fine!"

Little Too-Smart didn't l1Ill' him. He wasn't listening. He was struggling to keep his little black

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Creek Will be open for bllSi';ll0.!e above water. Would he ever noes SATURDAY, AUGUST 16th.

get on land again? He couldn't rlimh that bank down which he imtl rolled. It was loo steep. With- nul thinking whal he was doing, hf! paddled downstream. That was the rlzht thing to do, hut of course ” l he didn't know it. How he did pad- - at idle. Those little black paws of his iwere going faster than they had over none liefore. In almost no time Int. nil, he was beyond that stem . hank He humped against a big

All school mxps dug Com. y rock in the middle of the brook; it

' ' :wns flat on top. He managed to

wall District, not paid by Sop- ; rllmb up on it. How good it seemed y to be out of that awful water! For

iember J5il”i, will hil liandetl it couple of moments he stood there. ' 'ihe most forlorn little Fox you can in for collection. T immzine. I-iis tail iiun: down. and water dripped from it. it dripped

B . Ord p H from his cost. It. dripped from all 3 or of Tnmhuw p over. Then he shook himself. Little

l drops flew in all directions. Ho

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iaivny, but he couldnit reach either shore without once more going in- in the water. and he was still af- raid of it. Although he had been swimming. he didn't realize this. He didn't yet understand that keeping his legs moving was what had brought him down from the place where he fell in and was what had kept his head above water. He began to whlmper. He was afraid to trust himself in that water again.

Now. the truth is, the Water was very shallow there. On one side. all he needed to do was wade ashore But. yie was too frightened to look down into the water and see how shallow it was. He simply stood there forlornly and whimpered and snivelled. What was going to he- come of him? He didn't know. He almost didn't care. he felt more miserable than he had ever felt in all his short life.

A small' brovm head suddenly! appeared in the water near by, and a pair of beady eyes looked up at him. "Come on in! The waters fine!" cried Billy Mink. Then he dived, and Little Too-Smart was alone once more.

L(;WER. STANDARDS?

EDINBURGH, Scotland e (GP! -7 .1 Steel Maitland of Paisley told the Royal Institute of British Arch- iiccis that architectural standards in Scotland have deteriorated. He said that pre-fabricated houses are taking the place of permanent, tra- ditional homes.

ART IN JAIL

LONDON - (UP) - The first art exhibition by prisoners in Brit- ish jails proved a success here. A painting of the crucifixion attrac- ted murh comment and exhibits also included 3 300-pound ru: de- picting the coat-of-arms of Queen Mother Elizabeth.

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South's bidding in the deal below was almost incredibly bad.

.Nort.h dealer. .Both sides vulnerable. Both sideo 40 on score.

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When North doubled two liesrls. his voice and expression were so confident that West abandoned all thought of leading that suit againsi the club contract-he led the spade. queen. right into North's bid suit. This opening forced declarer from the very start. and with his trump suit further shortened by subse- quent spade leads on West's part. South could not win it single trick in his six-card diamond suit. He was lucky to win four clubs and two hearts, and to go down only 800 points!

Exactly why South iihoiilri have thouyzht so much of his clubs and so little of his equally long dia- monds is imposible to understand. let alone to explain. Obviously. there was not such great discre- pancy between the suits that South should have bid and rebid one one suit while completely ”sup- pressing” the other! For all prac- tical purposes. the suits were equal. and so South should have planned to bid them in normal order and thus give North a clear and easy choice. As is was, after opening the bidding and correctly doubling hearts. North could be nothing but a sliifcrmg bystander. He could scarcely assume that Smith was bidding his hand absurdlykfor all North could tell, South had a seven or eight-card nluh suit. and nothing of consequence in diamonds.

Players must learn that it simply does not pay to give. all "respect" to the slightly better of two suits. Ordinary partnership tactics de- mand the bid of the higher-ranking suit first, then the other suit.

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