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I1 '11ios-iitnn W. Burgess

A foolish quarrel. It It Pill!- Will often be enotherls gate.

Smiling Pool there was a most un- pleasant quarrel. Quarrels are "al- ways unpleasant, but some are more pleasant than others for those who are looking on. Two cous- ins, Billy Mink and Shadow the Weasel, were quarreling over I small fish. Billy Mink had caught

it. and had left it on the shore "es "' fa” " , . he to ::::.:....": ;”e.3.:i:;r.1:if.::.:"f.;ii.i sewers" They were larger than 0r'3bai'leV with tliiiir left hand, the He pmnmuv claimed it as his dinary field-iiiit-c. almost black iii' " ' Is the clolur. viith short legs and powerful c aws.

His small cousin had happened along and found that little fish.

own. ”li'indiiig's keepings," rule on the Green Meadows and in the Grown Forest. Billy Mink

had mannapd 1,, take ",3, fish away hid their food illl(lt'l' the roots of

from Shadow. He didn't want that '

(N, hmanu he was hungly Heihred largo litters and l)Ot'Ell'Ile so was"-, lmnnryl He had already pat.inlll'Tl0r0lJS.lllZIl rats and dogs rip-ting sorted their hiiiiios to fill tiirir hcla - 7

fear anybody," he muttered. as he were seven feet tail of an African -Jimmy Skunk went off about his own business.

In the moonlight over by the STRANGE BUT TRUE

, Unearthed In Italy

TURIN, ltaly tAP)-One of the reasons for Hannibal's early sues cesses against Roman legions 2,100 years ago may have been soldiers seven feet tall. Excavations made of Pecetto Hill. three miles from here, have iiiu-overed an ancient Roman town, skeletons of men and horses and what apparently was part of a tviiiple. Seven of the on must be womerml um Q0 skeletons indicated that the men

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Pioneer Days In P. E. I.

By F. H. MacArthur

The plague of mice, three plag-'t1e of it. ll1l9519d lhls 15l3"(l When the fiiilils wt-1'0 ripe, all, hands j()lllt'(l in helping in liarvrst .thc golden iiliciit, the oats illld the

fariiiors giwispi-ti a handful of striiw tli(-n, a quit-k swing of the 'right hand, tho i'0.'ipiiii; liimk dc- st-rnrlcd to st-ior llt(' SltIt'l(N IINIF their roots Fm-ii liziiidfiil uiis laid down in a li('.'ll row for thi-so uhn followed to (in tho raking niid hind-

Diiriniz tlir viiiitor iiiniillis lllt',V

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ri Ia .- WRRENDER to AN ENEMY

on it fish for dinner. He just didn't

want Shadow to have it. It is too

had that people are so often that wav

'lhcy unre so hiisy riuarreling that ihrv didn't see another cous- in mniin: until he was close to lllmll. the nihpr two- They were long and slim and riuirk. He was quite the opposite. it was .llniniy Skunk.

When he saw that fish Jimmy Skiink's iisiially dull eyes brighten- ed. lie lilws fish. but it isn't often tin can sri fish. Without hurrying ho ii-:il'.Ml straitzhl. up tn Billy Mink. "I'll trike that fish, cniisln." said br-

”ttts mlne"' lVIHi'lP(l Billy Mink, barking ;iiv.ay.

"It isn't either. I found il." spoke up Shadow the Weasel, and his valve was I snarl too.

Billy Mink was getting ready to plunge into the water with that fish, knowing that neither of the others would follow him. Jimmy Skunk suddenly stamped with his front fact. At the same time he threw his tail up over his head. and twisted hls' body around in the way he usually does when he uses his little scent gun. He didntt use it now, He was merely trying to scare Billy Mink. It did startle him In that he dropped the fish. Instantly, Jimmy Skunk pounced m -

"I'll take that fish, cousin." said he.

"That's mine!" screamed Billy Mink.

"Thnl'.- mine!" scrramed Shad- aw the Weasel.

Jlmrnr Skunk looked first at one, then thn nthcr. ”i'nu are hnth wrong said he. "lt is mine.” Then. in the most iinronrrrm-d manner. he br-zznn to pat that fish,

That was. the and of the quarrel he-tire:-n Billy Mink and Shadow the Wcasrl. Thry had nothing to quarrel about now. They didn't like each nlhr-r any bciicr. and they snarl?-land growled at each other a few times. Thcn Billy Mink slid

min the water. dived. and was no lirtisrr soon. llis small cousin. who dlirsnt lll((' the water. dodged out f7f'SlEl1l. and decided to go hunting MICF on the Green Meadows. As If?" r'l"l"t.Y Skunk. he ate the fish, ikod his lips, and then shuffled off tn Soc what Vmnrc he could find. All lllf' limo Vnuniz Roddy Fox was """i'lll'llI. and lPal'nllIj!. His rcs. Port for all iiimiibt-rs of the Skunk fmriily irns Itrowing.

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lie didnlt in the least like

lips with these rodcnts of the fniw Bil.

i Came spring. they swarniod out of the woods, fornicd in lung nar-j irow lines and, spreading in battlcj 'foi'niation, swept across tho fields, devouring every vs-stige of crop, from Georgetown to Mnlpequel Small shrubs were denuded as welli as Brass and flowers. Having de-l spoiled the whole countryside in this manner, thry then ate almost all the meagre food rest-,i'vcs of the unfortunate pionccrs.

The inhabitants fared starvation; word was sent in Lnuisbiirg. and. for nnce. the nffirnrs of the Fortl at-ted quickly. Eighty-seven quint-l lain of flour were sent: heads and pork. powder and shot were dealt out generously. Later on. small, seeds were purchased and sent lot the Island in time for the sping seeding.

The inhabitants tried to rid thei Island of the pests, but withoutl any success. They multiplied till, the forests no longer could support; them; then these savage little crea-i tures rushed to the sea where mil-1 lions met death. It

Once great gaps had been cut in, the forests, they gradually disap-1 peared: but it was I long time; before other iandseekers could be persuaded to sr-tile in what they chose to mill "The Land of Mice"

From the sickle and cradle to the modern threshing an cutting combine covers a perio of less; than one hundred years. a periodl of steady progress in agricultural! methods of doing things--and all for the better. i

No doubt the young island far- mers of this generation would thinki it. it hopeless task if they were cal- led upon to harvest their grnin fields with old-fnshioncd gnilgrts. farmers of those days thought lit-

Rain, Wind Damage Along B. C. Coast

VANCOUVER. (CF)-eftaln and wind raused widespread damage; along the British Columbia coast; during the last 24 hours. Thai weather office reported up to two inches of rain fell on the lower, mainland and southern Vancouv-I er island. .

A rock and soil slide near iPort Alb:-rni hnrcly missed I bust irarrying 20 persons; 400 persons; near Stiuamish faced the pnsw islbillty of isolation; and a 30- foot tug in danger of sinking was towed to safety off Parksville, B,, C. l

At Squamlsh. the Mamqiiaml river rose eight feet, wiping out a highway bridge and endanger? ing a railway bridgr. Loss of the railway span would isolate nhout' 400 persons.

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