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JERRY MUSKRAT TELLS WHY Who looks and plans head you

find. -. Most likely bloat with peace of

mind. .. -Old Mother Nature- .

Peter Rabbit couldn't understand terry Muckrat at all. it was win- ar. The ground was frozen hard. There had been snow, but it was gone now. Peter hadn't liked things when there was snow. but he lik- ed them no better now. The Smil- ing Pool was covered with ice all but a little opening at one end. terry Muskrat had climbed out of the water there and was siting on the ice. Peter was on the bank

that these were hard times and zlared just the opposite.

times."

ed Peter.

hard times at all. Go over to the

lust above him. Peter had said Dd Pet".

"Just What 1 SW-" Squeakd Muskrat, that you like having the en L :::'t....Y:.."..:?'r:.:i.:r.'::::. 3:: 3.:-s:.:.?w' 1- mm or -my we

do so," said he.

Ptr.”l-lowc a suha .

theme” supposgg ff; ijaplgn lilac: ders of the Ignited States: had km” over mo, ago sewage disposal system: Col- be a prisoner under the ice."

When his car stalled he wan driving his expectant wife to I hospital. Edward Martell of Mono- ton, N..B., ran into a house to summon help by phone. Mrs. Mar- tell had disappeared when he got back to his car. Later he found her in hospital with a baby daugh- ter. A stranger had completed tb trip for him.

There are nine boys and Iix girls in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Felton oi Blyth, Eng- land. So the government had :1- located to them two units of a public housing development.

Mrs. Thelma Haywood. of St. Thomas. Ontario Hagged down I train with a diaper when her car -straddled a double track railway crossing. Both trains came to a stop when their crews spotted the universal distress signal.

Latest trials of modern mothers are the less than teen-'age daugh- ters who try to get by with wear- ing jeans instead of pretty dress- es to Sunday school.

By xamining the bones of a skeleton Dr. T. D. Stewart identit- ied the body of an ex-marine who had been dead for 15 years!

' Girls were taking part in the most dangerous sport in history- bull wrestling. They swung on the

"What do you mean?" dc

T.....e---- he dldnlt hke "'5'" Jerry Md at Green Forest and ask Chattener animals' horns while the infuriat- the Red Quirrel if he thinks these ea bust, 1-an ground 9... menu,

"Peter." Said Jerry. "the trouble are hard times. He'll probably tell That was back in 1400 3.0

with you is you don't look ahead you these are good times. My Ind plan for hard times. If You cousin, Padd the Beaver. wu in - - iiid there wouldn't be any hard tell you the ysamc in French History, lived to he should ask him. Any Muskrat would "What do you mean:" demand- tell you that too."

Joan of Arc - greatest woman thing if you only 19!

Cancer of the lung and bronch- us occura four and one half times as frequently in men as in wom- eal cancer is 12 times

"Do you mean to tell me. Jerry

g H newborn Am ' n in bias. 32 ill '79"? mdded ms bmwn head' I develop canceeIrl.casom?:tlme duigng r toned their lives.

9 The seven civil engineering won- Chic-

"! don't believe it."

me" youd orado River Aqueduct; Empire

State Building; Grand Coulee Dam

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By Josephine Culborio6Q'.

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There are certain types of do tenslve situations that are rarely handled correctly by average play- ers. One of these types is exem- piilied in the following deal.

No:-thdoolcr. Both sides vulnerable. 4.11 '10: QAK6 aaxiooss gqnot 4542 s N goons QAJM ' W E 9984 9732 5 MN: 6 P 41:96 UK?! QQJ106 4.J4a Thebidding: North East South West 1; , Pass XNT Pass 3.; Pass 3N'l' Pass

Pass Pass

West opened the spade qucen. Dummy's ace was put up and do clarer cashed the two top clubs. hoping of course to drop the queen. This was sound enough play, inasmuch as there were nine clubs in the combined hands, but luck was against the declarcr. The latter could not count nine tricks without going ahead and clearing the club suit, so he led a third

LEDDEFINQ

round. and now of court; East wu in the lead.

East saw clearly -that 3 heart slim was the only hope d setting the ' ' Dednu could obviously make five club n-Ickfud at least two diamonds. and he was also marked with the nude king by West's original lead of tho queen. Thus. it would be a case of abject surrender for West to return his partner's original spade lead. Uh. fortunately, however, the particu- lar heart East ledvwaa also tanta- mount to a giveup play, He 1.3;: the three-spot, and South simply ducked. West won with the jack, but he then could not make a dan- rzcrous attack on South's heart king. ,

East should have given more .thought to the heart situation. once the correctly decided that that suit was Ihe defenders' only hope, 1!: would never get in again on this dea, hence it behooved him to lead a heart that would trap the king if South had that honor. With dummy holding the doubleton ten, the or- -gently required lead by East was 'the queen. on the once chance that rwcsi would have the heart spots to Hurll this lead to account. Obvious- lly, if East had led the heart queen instead of the three. South would 'have been helpless.

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"A very comfortable and happy

we don't have to work: we don't have to worry; we don't have to watch out for enemies; we can rest all we want to. What more could we ask?"

Peter scratched a long car wih a long hind foot. Then he scratch-

doing this when he is puzzled. It

to eat?" he asked. at last.

"I Just swim out under the ice and dig up a lily root. or a root of the cattails or other rushes, and take it back to the house to eat. Or. if there's an opening anywhere. I may climb out and eat it right

in the mud." explained Jerry. "I don't see how you breathe

AA and Columbia River Basin project one," squeakcd Jerry. You see, in Amonawevada:

Mrs. Jerry and I made ready for . cold weather before it came. Now gla;ngrit:gee.Sa" Fmnclscmoakland

the cave of James Swan's home, Meadow Brook, picked up a live cigarette butt and started a fire that destroyed the farm dwelling.

edthe other long ear with the other men. 20 percent of them are 60 long hind foot. Peter has a way of 0? 0Vel'-

ia for all the world as if he is in Canada and the United States. ll'Yll18 90 Scratch thoughts out of This is twice the number in ex- his head. "How do you get enough istence 10 years ago.

sells five foods in common. They are, beans. hamburgers. pop. ice cream and hot dogs.

century ago were better spoilers and knew more about fo r m ai there. There are always roots down grammar than ueshmen do today.

Panama Can-

A swallow, building a nest in

Pilots of planes are not all young

There are 50,000 motel courts

Every Canadian city and town

The freshmen of a quarter of a

If you were to go down into a

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down under water all the time," said Peter.

deep well in the daytime you would be able to see the stars in

"I don't breathe uhdcr water," the 5kY-

; . ., retorted Jerry. Cupie Scott once said: "Women I Peter blinked. ”What do you who are not proud about their clothes are often vain about not

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mean you don't breathe? Every- body has to breath," said he.

water." squeaked Jerry.

something," squeaked Jerry.

Jerry.

being vain about their clothes.

The gypsies have been a wan- dering people since the Middle Ages, having passed through Eg-

"1 said I dont breathe wrler

"But if you are under the ice all

the time you must breathe under ypt on their way into Europe, and water," pwtested Peter.

then on to the New World.

It takes five quarts of milk to make a pound of cheddar cheese. In the days known as Colonial said America it was a fairly common " . practice all over the world to buy But thats out in the water." and sell slaves as one would live

"You seem to have forgotten

"What?" demanded Peter. "My house over there."

Fl EOTR 8 y cried Peter. stock, '0 J''But not under water," retorted Nearly all Siamese cats are - 617:3 ross-eyed and they also have Renal” 'nked tails. Both of these char-

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