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With some folks nothing'a over right. , h creaking always they.dellght.

i-old Mmher Nmuretgllafsh V0109 lhiil llles him hlsgtwelfth year, after which the yield 'I1alHC. "I'm 501”?! 10F Wu. i'8d- gradually declines. The best qual-

Somelinies it does seem as if I is just that way with people whom we all know. They seem to delight in having things gu' wrung. Then always they say, "ll

"The snow," replied (Yroaker. "There is too much snow."

Paddy the Beaver sat on the roof of his house in the watery deep in the Green Forest. It was raining. It had been raining for I couple of days. It wasn't I heavy rain, bill it was I steady rain. It was just the kind of I rain that with the help of Sister South Wind's soft breath can melt

snow faster than can jolly. round, right down here an Wm”. when

bright, Mr. Sun when shining his brightest.

Paddy was worried. The water in the pond was rising steadily. Already it was flowing over the dam in severel places. It was coming down Laughing Brook with something very like a roar. It was making I strong current down through the middle of the pond. Paddy was used to floods. and be was prepared for one now, as he always is every spring. But he had I feeling that this might be I worse flood than us- ual. So as he sat there on the roof of his house he was wishing that the rain would stop and that Gentle Sister South Wind would stop blowing for I while. Then the water would not rise too fast.

Presently Croaker the Raven. who dresses all in black. just as does Blacky the Crow. lighted on I dead tree at the edge of Pad- dy's pond just a little way from the house otlt in the water. '.'There is going to be I flood," croaked Croaker.

Contract Bridge By Josephine Cnlberl-Inn T00 LUCKY

No one can be considered I wise investor who trades an over- whelming chance for I I600-point profit for g slim chance to score 2400 points. That. however. is what North-South did in this deal -and the opponents couldn't be blamed for being pretty resentful toward Lady Luck!

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south West Nortr. East I A Pass 2 Q P 1 N1 Pass 6 Q P 7 Q' Pass Pass Pass

North's leap to six spades was sheer. unadulterated optimism. for all his excellent trump sup- port. After all. he had only 9 points in high cards--scarcely enough for this tremendous jump. After that bid by North. South couldnt be criticised in the slightest degree for going on to the grand slam: he not only had I high honor count. with three Ices. but also had what looked like perfect Iupport'fnr North's heart suit.

Wsst. naturally reluctant to It- lack any side suit. opened I trump. Declarer won, drew the other outstanding trumps, and then led I low heart from dum- my. The mere fact that the House of the Jack succeeded was en- couraging but by no means con- clusive-ihe hearts would still to break for him to get

there's going to be such a flood?"

zsaid Paddy. "No sir, it isn't too ready." Bird. and his voice sounded more

I icroaky than eier. "But you should

I've never seen so much snow

W. Burgess

"Are you telling me'."' asked Paddy. ”There is I liood al- ready." 1

" is nothing to what it is goin tu be." said Cmaker in his

u'y. Probably you'll lose your" house, and perhaps your dam. li' you lose your dam, you lose; your pond. Yes. I am sorry for! you Illd Mrs. Paddy." :

;”A cheerful sort of neighbor? you are," said Paddy, and hisl voice. was both sharp alid wor- ried. "Wliat makes you think

”'l'he suoii ," replied Croaker. ”'I'llcre is too much snow." "it isn't too bad arountl here."

had. A lot of it has gone al-

"'l'ruc," replied the big black

see it up on the Great Monti- lain. Thatis where the snow is.

as there is up there. I'm glad I'm not you, Paddy. Yes sir, I'm glad I'm not you."

"The snow on the Great Moun- tain isn't worrying me." said Paddy ."The Great Mountain is a long way off. It's the snow around here that I think about." ”And it's the snow up there on the Great Mountain that's go- ing to make trouble for you," re- tored Croaker. ”For your sake I hape the rain will stop soon. If it doesn't. all that snow on the Great Mountain is going to come

and if it does. you'll be lucky if you have anything left."

"Oh. stop your croaking. I've got enough to worry about with. out listening to you," rem.-(ed Paddy.

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Agricultural News

be practiced throughout the growing season, Cultivation should be thorough enough to control weeds. Heavy soils will absorb more water if ihey.are kept loosened by an. tlvation. 18. when should asparagus brush be destroyed? when ill? asparagus brush is removed in the fall it should not be cut too early. as it has been shown by monthly chemical an. alyses that plant food materials continue to be translocaled from the tops to the storage moi; un. til the tops are almost dead. 19. Is stable manure of benefit to-the asparagus bed? Stable manure is of considerable value to the physical conditions of the soil. It is of particular value in preparing the soil for new bells and maybe worked in- to the soil in the bottom of the furrow or plowed under when the field is being prepared. 2). What is the average prom. able production period of In as- paragus bed? The profitable production period of an asparagus bed varies from 12 to 15 years and occasionall, under extremely favorable con- ditions may extend to 20 years. The yields obtained gradually om. jm

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yet kind to your waist because never rich or filling I

By I-' H lilIcAr.Iur I l

There's this about the niarriagc vow I do not understand: A girl will promise to obey And then take full command. Be conservative with your op-I

timism. Look on the bright sldel"

of things. but use dark glasses when doing so. .

It you live long enough you can say exactly what you think. sincel

increase until about the seventhlgu,

year after the roots are set. Then. it maintains a rather uniform level of production until about the

ity is usually obtained from the fourth to the tenth year.

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The 0'Leary 4-ll Calf Club held its regular monthly meeting It the home of Fenton Shaw on Feb- ruary 17. 1955. ivith the otsesidentg Mary MacDonald. presiding '

The meeting opened by repeating the pledge in unison. '

It was moved by Fenton Shaw and seconded by Rankin Mac- Kinnon. that we enIei' in the crok- inole and debating competition.

Roll call for next meeting is to be answered by donating 5c. The next meeting is to be held at the home of Rankin MacKinnon on March 3. I955. with Eric Phillips. Elaine Palmer. Parley Mat-Nciil and Sheldon MacLean on ltinch committee.

Sheldon iii.-icI.ean and Billy? MacI(innon were appointed on programme committee.

It was moved by Dana lilac- Neill and seconded by Eric Phil- lips. that the meeting be adjourn- ed. Following this a delicious lunch was served by the com- mittee in charge.

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The Sea Crest Calf Club held its regular monthly meeting in the Hamilton Hall on February 17. 1955, with 11 members In- swering roll call and also six via- itors present. The president, Janet Mann, presided.

The meeting opened by repeat- ing the 4-H pledge.

Roll call for next meeting is to be answered by naming "the best movie picture you have ever seen." Donald Bearisto and Earl Lockerby were appointed to se- cure films for the next meeting.

Following a discussion on the control of lice. some portions of the handbook were read by club members.

The recreation committee for next meeting are: Elizabeth Ram- say, George Riley and Dale Pick- ering. appointed by the chair.

The secretary was asked to send for entries for the crokinole and debating contests.

The main feature of the eve- ning's programme was a debate. The judges gave their decision in favor of the affirmative side by the close margin of 7 to 8 points.

At the close of the meeting I period of recreation, consisting of I "Soap Naming Contest" and the game "It", was enjoyed.

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Here is I. new, pleasant cou h medicine-Vlcks Med -tratin Cough Syrup. It'sdii'l'erent Acombination of I new penetrating in re- dient with a medicat ng formula. The enetrating ingredient carr es the medi- cine to irritated crevices oi' the throat, where the medi- cating ingredient can go right to work.

That's why it's named Vlcks Medi-trating Cough syrup. It msdicatsa II it penetrates.

VICKS MEDI-TRATING COUGH SYRUP

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Strange But True in

anyway. when he was granted I divorce.

Iowa. Kansas. Thomas K. Kim- uy was warned lot to marry again within six month. Khu- v.ey will be ill) years old next May. l-le sakl his wife. Clara. deserted him in 1952. ,

Launhing at a friend's Joke cost Robert C. Mead of Montreal his life. The 27-year-old man was all- ng on the sill of an open Wh- dow and laughed so hard he lost his balance and foil 50 leet to his death.

The fastest snake in the United States - the Western Whip Snake crawls at scarcely more than ee miles an hour.

when carefree elephants are feeding in the jungle the noise of breaking branches can be heard for miles. But when they scent danger the entire herd can tra- vel along without snapping I single twig.

Tree toads make their musical sounds with vocal cords through which the air is expelled.

The shock from an electric eel can fell a horse. .

Straw has been made into pa-. par for countless centuries. The Chinese. who invented paper about 105 A.D., soaked straw in lime, boiled it. and trampled the re- sidue into fibrous mass.

foot hole in Belgium provides hot water for all the buildings in the town of Turnhout.

When the sea mils through thunder hole in Acadia National Park. Maine. it produces a thun- dering noise - hence the namel "thunder hole"

Thomas Blazer is fire chief of the Jacob street station in wheeling, Virginia.

DROMORE SCHOOL

School:

GRADE Ix - I. Eleanor Hughes; 2. Gladys Hughes.

GRADE VIII - 1. Imelda Cal- laghan; 2. Eric McGuirk.

GRADE VII - I. Hope Rose; 2. John McGuirk.

GRADE VI - 1. Audrey Hughes; 2. Joseph Corrigan; 8. Edward Hughes; 4. Reginald Cor- rlgan.

GRADE V - 1. Edna McLeod; 2. Shirley McGuirk; 3. Shirley Hughes; 1. Mary Hughes.

GRADE IV - 1. Thelma Hughes; 2. Pauline Hughes.

GRADE III - I. Edna Barrett; 1. Gerard Grimes.

GRADE 1! - 1. Janet Mc-

Cross

Report for January of Dromore '

rrtacanlt cnoss scaoot. Halt-yearly report of Tracadle

GRADE x'- 1. may rim;

2. Gloria Doucette; 3. Mario

Lacey.

GRADE IX -- 1. Bernadette Power; 1. Margaret Macnoaald; 3 Avanda Benson.

GRADE Vtu - 1. Isralcc Smith; 2. Leonard McQuillIn and Mervyn McNal!y (equal); 8. Maurice Fitzpatrick.

GRADE VII - 1. Helen Power; 2. Eileen Mcinnls; a. Ivan J.

Mullen.

GRADE VI -- 1. Patricia Pow- er; 2. Marie Hughes; 3. Ralph Brown.

GRADE V -- 1. Elisabeth Pow-

er; 2. Emma Maye; 8. Georgina S. Lacey.

GRADE IV - i. MIry'Evans: 2. Joseph Power; 3. Anne Don-

uelly.

GRADE III - 1. Mary Dougan;

2. lilarioh Power; 3. Frankie Mc-

Quillan. GRADE II (I) - 1. Judy Corri-

gan; 2. Phyllis Smith; 3. Iilar-.

garet Fiske.

GRADE II (bi - 1. Deborah Eolgcr.

GADE I -- 1. Theresa Dougan

and Norma Donnelly (equal); 8.

Edwina McQuilian and Hamid

Believe it or not. but a 7.200-'Mullen tequali: 3. Josephine Lacey and Dianne Perry (equal).

GRADE I e No Exams. Highest Average in Senior Grades. Imelda ' Callaghan M85. Highest Average in .Iunior Grades. Janet McLeod 977-2. Teacher - Mae Grimes.

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