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1-h,,,r. nothing that in lean of tin. end in a poor excuse. Th" '' -Mrs. Peter miiiim. Rabbit had been hearing riifrftlg. Those long ears of his 8,... especially good at picking up rumors. You know I rumor is a that my be true or may not be true. he trouble is moot rumors are not true. yet most ppnple believe them when they hr:-ir them. one rumor was that winter had already started in badly in the Far North where the cold weather comes from. It was said that food iias scarce up there and that al- road)” some folks whose homes are

STRANGE BUT TRUE

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llhr-n they find themselves in a wliei-l chair most cripples lust re- 1 V illlfi stziy pm. Not so with Bert

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Paralyzed friiin tli: waist down am iilili only 30 percent use of hi: hands. Bert gets to more un- Ilsllfii places. and manages to have more adventures in his wheel chair (him most of us do in normal fash- lflll

This aniaziiig fellow and his wheel

chair with a special outfitted cam- era attached. have gone into many it-mote places on the globe. He's Fflrllcd his own way, too. In Egypt his was the first wheel chair ever put on a camel's back. -

Egypt was but one of the exotic pl:ii-cs where the cripple stopped on a 25.000 mile world-girdling pic- iiirc-laking spree which he did solo. lie made the trip just to prove that it could be done.

lie wheeled himself across South .-iiiiorica. Africa. Central Europe. and the Mediterranean countries.

in Greece. Bert was the fir st poison to reach the top of the Acr- nli: on wheels. In Venice. Italy. he tiiiirpd and photographed the can- ms with his chair leashed to a life rnti. lowed by a gondola-

li home. Bert likes to take pic- toms of hard to come by subjects like insects and birds. when he ll7iiiiS pictures of bees at work, for instance. he puts on the nec- essary protective gadgets and mov- es in on them in his wheel chair. llo's the first wheel-chair photo- : aphcr to be accredited to work ill movie studies. where he does iioi-traits of top stars.

A former army captain. Bert con- tracted polio during World War 11 ii hlle serving in the Phlllipines. Af- trr his discharge from service. he i-risnlved to resume his pre-war car- ver as a commercial photographer, ii:-spite his handicaps.

p The wheel-chair explorer is look. int: fnrward'to going to Australia, -'r'Iiian and India. He hopes to get a few shots of a real tiger hunt.

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up there had already come down

to the Green Forest or were on their way down. one of these who had already arrived was Terror the Goshewk, one of the bi gent and fiercest members of the wk family.

Now over the dear Old Brier- pntch where Peter and Mrs. Peter Rabbit live there is seldom much exciting going on. It is a quiet place, a safe place. Mrs. Peter loves it. She declares that it is

World. It probably is for Rabbits. Peter. on the other hand, finds it a little dull at times. He wants to know what is going on outside the deer Old Brier-patch. So every now and then he slips out and visits the Green Forest. the old Pasture. the Old Orchard. or per- haps goes over to the Big River. just to find out what is going on

grow sage.

Nature makes few blunders: when she makes a fool she means it. Bring Home The Bacon: This expression originated in the lath century when the church gave a pound of bacon to any married per- son who could kneel before the church door and swear he had not had a family quarrel in the last year.

George Washington was the first president under the constitution, but not the first in the U.S.A. The first was John Hanson. of Mary- land. Delegates for the 13 original colonies elected Hanson president, Nov. 5. 1781-

Washington, long Hanson's friend wrote to him saying:

"I congratulate your excellenc; on your appointment fill the most important seat in the United

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.1. muse piaeoe. "these ruinorunu had he made those long heels of his fairly itch to take him over how much truth there might be in the rumors.

"My "dear." said Peter. 'we really ought to know if there is any truth in these rumors that the winter is going to be long and hard. I think I will run over to

the Green Forest and try to make low was considerably short of ex- the bidding. gnhough it wag iinly

sure that there is any truth in

i them."

"And I think that it doesn't! make the least bit of dlfferencep whether we know or don't iniowi what the winter is going to be” like." retorted little Mrs. Peteru "You are just trying to melie an excuse to go wandering off where you have no business to be. You; know as well as I do that the! dear Old Briar -patch is the safest! place in the world. What good will it do you, eveni if you find out for sure that the stories you have heard are true?"

"Why. my dear." said Peter. "if I find out the facts we'll be better prepared for what is com-

Little Mrs. Peter stamped im- patiently. "Donit be silly. Peter Rabblt." said she. "When did you ever prepare for anything? We Rabbits take things as they tome. and you know it. We live for today and don't worry about tomorrow. That's the only way to live- You stay right here in the dear Old

Moncton. N.B. killed a snake with two heads. the smaller head was where the tail ought. to have been but wasn't.

Lizards have hcc three tails.

Grand Canyon National Park on- closes the home of the Hauasupais, possibly the smallest and certainly the most isolated Indian village in Uncle Sam's country. A few square miles support the tribe made up of 300 souls.

Bogalusa. La.. is the only city in the U.S. which has its name copyrighted.

The statue of a soldier on a river- front street in Paris, France. serves as a flood warning. When the stat- ue's knees are submerged. resid- ents know their cellars soon will be flooded and they should remove their valuables.

Mum” with

to the Green Forest to find out.

CONTRACT BRIDGE

By Josephine Culberfsoni

INEXPEBT DEFENCE

East's defense in the deal he-

'”"t l South and North ”who were per- Eut dealer. ticularly venturesome. Both sides vuinerIb1G- After long consideration of the Both sides 60 on score. opposing bidding, west decided to .sA8K3" lead the ace of clubs. but when :Ao.- the dummy appeared he shifted to guy 10; the king of diamonds. The ace tied I J 63 was put up and declarer ru . . E07 N .?2 club, then led to the trump icing ' m ” W E ' ' l l b N c .KQ1o .332 andruffeddummys astcu..ex g AQ53 S gig 7 543 he cashed the ace of trumps. East had played the deuce and O 10973 six of trumpt on the two leads of OSAQJ 5 that suit. and now. when declare; Q 8'14 led a heart to his lack. West too Q9 the trick but was in t;Iqi:la(tii(lar)& The bidding: kilifilw gas? thee diamallifd Em South West "0"" jack or that he still hadthe spade Flu PHI 1' Db” queen and thus the safestretiirn Pm lo DbI0- PM seemed to be a heart. It did not 3Q 3 0 34' 3 0 turn out t at way. however. Dum- Pasa Pass Pass my's eigh won. and when the - .- heart nine was led. East discarded The fact that bfllh Sides '-Vere a club. This made it easy for de- . clarer to win the present heart Briar-patch where you belong; I trick and then to discard 3 dia- don't care what the winter is going mm-id from dummy on the next 10 be Hid Y0" d0n'1 eiihei There's heart while East was using his high

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