The Guardian Page 9 Friday, July 29, 1955

By Thornton W. Burgess

JUST A BABY EEL 3 A5 day by day we older grow. The more we find there is to know.

-Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit had for the first iiiiiu st'('ll uiizit he called a baby mi. It was hardly as long as your finger and very small around, and ii mukcd almost as it it were Illlllle of glass. when Peter got limit to the (tear Old Briar-patch he told Mrs. Peter about it.

"i wonder where that baby came from." said Peter. "I've ne- ver seen any baby Eels in Laugh- ing Brook. or the Smiling Pool, or thu Big River. I'm afraid that baby won't live long. It is such a little thing I am sure I ' e

will get lt.'Ii is too young to be swimming around all alone. It is just a baby."

I Now they beaded for the loan- ost land which was America.

" was too bad that there was no one to tell Peter about that hnby. She was called Little Miss Eivor, and she wasn't quite so much ol a baby as Peter thought. She was far, far from being as helpless as Peter seemed to think she must be. He would have been a surprised Rabbit could he have known that already she had made as long a journey as some of the feathered folk who go way down to the sunny South to spend the ivinter. She was a little ovei; a war old. perhaps a year and a hull, And most of that time she had been traveling.

Of course Peter knew nothing a- bout the Great Ocean. Graywing the Gull, who sometimes visited the Smiling Pool. had told Peter that the Big River joined the Great Ocean: but that was all Peter knew about it. Little Miss Elver had been born in the Great Ocean. ray down where it is always sum- mer. She had been born deep down in the" water. Then. and for some Mfr .-ifti-i-wnrd, Little Miss Elver l'r'ill look the least bit as she W Hvlw. She was flat. She wasn't Inns and slender at all. She was

At the same time there were other baby Eels, cousins of Little Miss Elven, who looked just like her, but really were different. They also were heading for the land. but not for America. They were heading for the other side of the Great Ocean, for Europe. It would take them more than twice as long to get there. perhaps three times as long as it would for Little Miss Elver and her brothers and sisters to reach the shore of America. At the some time they were heading for the shore they were also swim- ming north. It would take Little Miss Elver more than a year, per- haps a year and a halt. to reach

th licron, or Rattles the Kingfisher. .

Mexico Seeks

- Third Win In

Tune Cup Match

CONTRACT BRIDGE

Jy Josephine Culbertson

HALIFAX, (CP)-" ' will seek its third consecutive victory in the international tuna cup match at Wedgeport, N. 3.. Sept. 1-9 with a team of veterans. Joaquin Cicero of Colon, organ- izer and captain, said his squad will include last year's captain, Dr. Rodolot Arauho. the 1953 cap- tain, Miguel Barrenechea, Jorge Cuevas. Jose Fuentes and Mauri- cio L. Guerra.

The entry list now includes teams from Argentina. the Brit- ish Commonwealth. Chile, Cuba. Mexico, the United States and Venezuela.

the place where the big River came flowing down through the land to join the Great Ocean. All the time those little Eels that didn't look like Eels at all were in danger. Just as so many babies with no mothers or fathers to take care of them are in danger.

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Keep alert while you drive-chew giiinl ,

Alert drivers are safe drivers. Avoid drowsi- ness and driving jitters. Chew gum while you're behind the wheel. Chewing helps relieve strain and tension- helps keep you feeling fresh and alert, us

Hollander iwins Bike Race

I BORDEAUX. France. (AP) - .Wout Wagtmans of Holland won

Wednesday's 195-kilometre 19th lap of the Tour de France bicycle f race from Pau to Bordeaux. Louison Robet of France kept the yellow jersey as over-all lead- er of the 4.820-kilometre race. Wagtmans covered the lap. on flat roads through the pine-cov- ered lands country, in five hours I; 15 minutes 38 seconds.

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tint. :md'if you could have seen ll-'i' you could have looked right imigh her as if she were glass. 4” course she was very tiny then, 3 V931 hfibyl Unless you had known all about her. you never would have messed she was a baby Eel. All fishes from the time they come out of their eggs can gwimg little Miss Elver. and ever and fvcr so many brothers and sister. inst like her began swimming in nne direction. They had been born for. far out in the Great Ocean. l-MW. they headed for the nearest and. which was America. Of course SIWI tiny babies couldn't swim last. All they .could do was to k'f'PD lWiH1ll'ilnu. Sometimes the wind blew the water into great waves. and the baby Eels couldn't move ahead at all. The waves

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And this is the factual account of what transpired: '

West opened e spade, and souii went down a trick.

North then said that South

should have gone on in diamonds Inez being raised instead of per-

nolswnp. South. for lab part. argued that dies North Md bid ally Ono hearts our use two diamonds, and only am. an. monk over the two notrurnp. South could not afford to try for an 1!-trick contract; it looked Iettertotryforninetrlckaet notn-up, even without a spade stopper In his own hand. i so much for the facts; now tor me analysis:

There was great merit h South's argument that the com- bined hands might not stretch to 11 tricks. The bidding went. off the track due to North's reluct- ance to support diamonds more

strongly. This sequence would have been thoroughly logical: North South I 9 2 Q 3 9 1 N 'I' 4 O 5 Jr 6 9 Pass

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