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Brown's sugar camp in that part Vernon, P. E. I. nlng, and Farmer Brown's boy and spoons in tile box in which spoons, Thursday. March 24

of the Green Forest where the maple trees grow. Some of the great trees had given freely of their sweet sap for more years than Farmer Brown had lived. He H N E I I _ his Cousin Ned, who had come from a ranch in the Southwest for a visit, were sleeping nights in the sugar house. It was partly for tun, I I but more that the sap might he . kept boiling late and started early. I e The sugar season is short and must Madame Francesca Radzevlclule be mm (Operatic Soprano) t! .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... m. I Auspices Baptist Church Choir Tickets ovdlloble or Abegweir Gift Court and Milton's Old Spain end from Choir Members

could remember hearing his father tell of making sugar from some ot those trees when he was a boy. Now, with Old Man Winter on his Qway out and sweet Mistress Spring

While gelling breakfast early the first morning it was discovered that two spoons were missing. AT _ Farmer Brolvn's.bny was sure that nitcr the dishes were washed the

SHORTSIGHTED BIDDING

An important bidding principle was ignored by the North player in today's deal. West dealer.

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_ . first round of bidding. On the second round, West ot course had a sound rebid after ,1 ls East had raised. North also was entitled to make another hid-but not the one he chose! His rebid of hearts ‘was inexcusable. Per~ haps he felt that his six-card heart suit, being both longer and - - stronger than his diamonds, was u worth a rebid, but this was s. very superﬁcial view. l‘ Many players are misled by the s l, y, a s1 I6 disparity between two suits, and do " "' not realize that a five-card slut headed by only one top and two minor honors may be inﬁnitely stronger than another six-card suit ‘* ‘ ‘ by three top honors. ii the first-named suit finds ex- cellent support in partner's hand, l‘ while the strong suit finds no sup- , port! ‘ In this case. Nor Ts four-heart bid virtually ruled ﬁr} partnership P", ' cooperation! South relt that any- l. eye's 110W t0 W071i It: thing would be better than a dou; ". UUIE-H _ bled heart contract, and so, in de- ~n' L X I D L B A A 3n _ speration, .rebld his ‘weakish club naonornnbow

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still could have bid fivg diamonds, Qor the three L's X for the two 0's. etc; ‘Single letters. lPﬂlﬁ but now that bid would have been

. _ ' ti 1th words are all hints. Each-u a sheer gamble, and in view of Win95 m’ linﬁt:r::g°!m°ré:2o F North's two clubs and his spade . u“ w“ e ‘void, it would have been bad tac- s amen-em Q1059‘! u.‘ tics. For all North eellld know at _ _ , _ - ' ' p ‘ this point, South might hsvelsix f) 2 8W P I. 3 W I I P 8 x i a w r ‘ma’: ‘m, or seven clubs, and a club contract K _ .1? l b U‘! b t ll bl. " w ‘ i B ' q-r J l. ‘I’ B “ISV; brllailineﬂ toubiltfvsropergy on Iqta-Pvwlh N jthe second round. North lost the

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torks and knives were kept. They were not there. nor could they be found anywhere in the camp. Could someone have entered in tho night and taken them? If so who, and what for? - Nothing else was missing. Cousin Ned had said that i! he were at home he would be sure that Packy the Pack Rat was

live in this part of the country. Trader the Wood Rat was said to, though Farmer Brown's boy never had seen him.

"Why do you call that Rat you mentioned Packy?" asked Farmer Brown's boy.

Cousin Ned chuckled. "Out my way and all through Far West folks carrying things from place to place, especially those traveling. are said to be packing them. This is‘ because the things are made up ln packs to go on the backs of horses. So, because this Rat spends so much time carrying all sorts of things from place to place, he is called a Pack Rat. l call him Packy -!or short. Pscky the Pack- er," explained Cousin Ned.

"Did I understand you to uy that Trader the Wood Rat, who is said to live around here, is Packyh cousin?" asked Farmer Brown's boy.

Cousin Ned nodded. "That's right, Tommy," said he. “They look much alike and their habits are much the some. 1n fact, Pncky is often called Trade Rat and Woodﬂtat. Upon in the ‘mountains o! the West are some with quite long hair on their tails. They are cslled Bushy-tailed Wood Rats. Packy. who lives near my home, has e round tail coveed with short hairs and so does the Eastern Wood Rat. All of them have the same love of collecting and trading. Wherever

' you find one of them you will find

him packing things home, things that are of no use whatever to him. You can never guess what you may find in Pinky's museum. That is what is collection is, a regular museum; I've heard of some queer finds in a Pack Rat's collection, like a set of false teeth taken from a miner's camp. when we _are camping out my way and miss any small articles we always look for the home o! Packy the Packer in the neighborhood. Usually it isn't difficult to find and in it we usually iind the missing tilings."

“Dld Packy ever take anything of yours?" asked Tommy.

Cousin Ned chuckled. “l'il say he dldl" said hel.

"What did he take?" asked Tommy.

"My watch," chuckled Cousin Ned.

"Noi” cried Tommy. "You're stringing me."

Cousin Ned shook his head. "N0. I'm not. It really. happened. It was shortly after; I joined the Boy Scouts. Several o! us were taking an overnight hike. I had a cheap watch and when I turned in for the night I put it within easy reach. When I reached for it at daylight it wasn't there. I thought one ot the other fellows had taken it for a. joke. They denied this. Then some one thought oi Packy and we went looking for a Pack Rat's home. It didn't take long to find. There, ticking away on the very top, was the watch and beside it a toothbrush belonging to one '01’ the other fellows, and a fountain pen another hadn't

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