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DOME ADVICE Fol. PETER Advice, though I be sadly need- ed,

3 useless unless i in heeded. -Old Mother Nature.

"1 still don't believe it." de- clared Peter Rabbit. ”l don't believe ilooty the Owl and Mrs. Hooty are really thinking of nest- ing yet. If they have any sense at all, they must know that wint- er wont be over for some time yet. and there will be plenty more snow before it is over."

"Who told you that?” Sammy Jay wanted to know.

Peter was over in the Green Forest where really he had no

business to be. He was talking they." M

to Sammy Jay. Peter had just

seen and heard a strange par- "Thu may b.'..

formanoe. He had seen Hooty the

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luv; koy defensive play in he following-hand was shrewd. timely and very effective.

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There are grounds for consider-

able doubt that North-South should

have reached game. North's one- notrump response was correct- liie two aces and one jack had

Owl showing off before Mrs. liooty. it was his way of making love to her, and to Peter, it was a ve funny way. lie bobbed, twist and turned, and did queer things with his wings; all the time he was doing it, he was jabuering. They were funny sounds ne was making. Sammy day had told him that Mr. and Mrs. iiooiy were beginning to start nesting, and here it was just a little past the middle of winter.

”Let me give you a little ad- vice," said Sammy.

”What kind of advice?” asked Peter. He doesn't like advice. He is just like a lot of folks we all know.

"Some advice for your own good.” replied Sammy Jay. "Stay at home in the dear Old Briar- patch where you'll be safe, but if you insist on coming over to the Green Forest, keep away from this part of it." t

”Why'.'" demanded Peter.

"Because Hooty and Mrs. liooty are nesting near here. and i hear they are very fond of Rabbit dinners," said Sammy.

Peter twitched his wobbly lit- tle nose. ”They won't catch me," said he. ”They haven't caught me yet, and they never will."

Sammy, chuckled. "You would

not be here if they had," said he. The trouble with those two in that you'll never know when around.” It was Peter's turn to chuckle. said he, "But we know when they won't be a- round."

Sammy looked very hard at Peter to see if he really meant what he said. ”So, we know when they won't be around, do we?" Just when is that?" said be.

”When the sun is shining bright,” replied Peter.

"Who told you that?" Sammy Jay wanted to know.

Peter shook his head. "I don't

know," said he, "I've known that ever since I was a small Rab- bit. Everybody knows that. Owls do their hunting at night. You know that as well as I do. Or. perhaps you sleep at night, and don't know it." i ”Peter,” said Sammy, "What I- don't know about those Owls isn't worth knowing. And I'm telling you again. that if you have any sense at all. you'll keep away from this part of the Green Forest."

"You'll have is show me why," said Peter.

Strange But True I1 I. I. MacArthur

In today's column I am going to tell my readers of the caravan of the lost, one of the most au-

'0 be weigh” "am" M. bad thenticated of American myster- e

4-3-3-3 distribution-Ind South

would have had to lose two dis- . tum made up of 60

monds. a club and a spade-

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On the morning of April 3, 1851, covered wagons moved forward out of

W951 19d "W dkmlmd king Md Fort Leavenworth along the Ore-

continued with the ace and nine.

gon Trail, headed for the gold

South Pulled "30 lhlrd mlmdv led fields of California. Sixteen days

a heart to the ace and then.

later it arrived at Fort Bridger.

Bile? 10118 thoulhh led "19 W! 0i where a hall was called so that

trumps. . While South was pondering--

the party could overhaul and re- pair their equipment and take

ohviously over which trump, jack on provisions for the trek through

or low,

East did some thinking on his

to legd from dummy- the wilderness that lay ahead.

On the 17th of June the party

own account. 50' when the-spade once more took to the trail, but me was led, East mused on the vanished like a fog before the

king, exactly as though he could 5”"!

not help himself. South couldn't be blamed for

taln that West had started with 10-6-4-3 of trumps.

1y tinessed to tlummy's spade

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taking East's bait. it seemed cer-

so. after tak- ing Eastls king, South confident-

elght. Needless to say, he was not amused when East gravelyl took in the trick with the spade!

It is quite obvious that if East had played that spade ten on the first trump lead, he would have made matters very easy for the

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ment officials at Leavenworth, lists the dates the caravan pass- ed the above mentioned places. covering al period of seventy-six days. No additional information has ever come to light. So we can only assume that the party to- getlier with all their livestock. etc., completely vanished. No greater mystery is to be met with in the history of the West.

Thirteen years later. Andy Mac- Donald. a trapper. rep-sixed sce- ing a large caravan in a wild stretch of country in Utah. Then in 1367 the lost caravan wa. u the Painted Desert of Arizona. Later it was ooserved bf!-llliiil times by unimpeachabl vriln'." -s in the Grand Canyon of Nevada. Finally, the ghostly caraian be- came a legend.

In the spring of 1922. Dr. Mc- Nurlen, prospecting west of the Funeral Mountains, saw a man with a huge rifle standing a short distance from his camp.

l'Il let the doctor tell you in his own words part of what he saw and heard: "Soon the silence was broken by a clanking of chains, squeaking wood and har- ness, snapping of whips and the lowing of cattle-not fifty yards away, and quite visible in thi- starlight - moved a procession that fairly took my breath away. Huge covered wagons. drawig cattle with casks swinging from their sides, trundled into view. And as i watched I saw the veh- icles crawl into a circular for- mation, Then the men unyoked their beasts, and banked the wagons, end on end.

"Gradually the campers settled down for the night. A sentinel took up his position not a hund- red vards from my own campsite. I felt somehow, we vtcre worlds apart, separated by a vast un- fathomable gulf” llours passed.

and then the lamp of heaven came Lnho view behind the towering l s. Suddenly the silence was brok- en as a feathered arrow entered the chest of the sentinel. With a stream of pain he sank to the ground. instantly the camp sprang to life and the doctor heard the hissing of water poured on hot embers. The men of the party dropped behind the wagons and began firing. An unex ” ghostly battle was under way.

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From I ravine liehind' his own the strange phantom

camp came showers of arrows. The minutes winged by. Silence then the doctor saw men crawling from beneath the wagons and disappearing into the night. . Attack and counter attack fol- lowed on each other all through the long night. while the doctor sat on the edge of his camp and watched the gruesome slaughter.

Dr. McNurlen continues: ”WitlI the first peep of dawn. the oxen were beneath the yokes. the whips curled above their heads. and cavelcede moved ahead. They had gone- vanlshed into the notlilngneu from which they camel

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