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Monday, Jan. 16, N56

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By Thornton W. Burgou

THE GOOD OLD TIMES ground remains. There is nothing The good old times are always for the Mice. And so. of course there is nothing for a Fox.

”In the good old days there were more bushes along the fences. --Old Mother Nature. Yes sir, there were more bushes. Reddy Fox and Mrs. Reddy stood said Reddy. . on the doorstep of their den in the Mrs. Reddy gave him it funny Old Pasture. From there theytlook. "What of it?" she asked. ”We could look out over the Green don't eat bushes." Meadows to the Green Forest. ”Think a minute, my dear. They didn't look happy. They were 'nk a minute.” said Redd.V-

best. Till present time: with age are , hlest.

not happy, They were hungry, "Bushes lllllalllllldlllg places for They were very hungry. Hunger Mice and .R8l)l)liS.ldlI(l l)lrflS.”TllBt and happiness do not go together. means easier liuiiting for us. . "Where shall we hunt today?" Mrs. Reddy nodded "That is; uked M,-5, Ready, true," said she "il gets a little. Reddy shook his head. it was a worse every year. more and more discouraged shake. "I guess it fences and stoiie-nails are bare doesn't make much difference, without any buslies or vines around "said he. lt0ne place is as good as them. I've noticed it. but i hadnt .m,me,- mm 311 are bad," thought what it meant to us until Mrs. Reddy sighed. it was a deep you mentioned it Just nmi ” sigh. --Times have changed," said "But this isn't dot-tiling where she. ”It never used to be like this..-W9 are going 10 illlnl "td?t.Y." Said There were times when we went , Redd)!- hungry for a little while, but now ”L8l'S E0 0V'9I' 10 tit" 3111 River it seems as if we are hungry all and see if he calclt a thick. I me time." would love to have :1 Duck for din- - ner." said Mrs. Rt-(ldy She licked her lips. Reddy shook his ilt"d(i "Vo use, my dear," said he. "Old King King Eagle is over there i saw him circling round high in the air."

Strange But True

By F. H. Mat-Arthur A bottle uiieartiied in West Ham, England. bears the date 1356. In- side the bottle is a liquid matter. What it contains nobody knows. Why? Because the iiil(l9l'S do not want to break the sealed crystal bottle. You'll never be troubled with stomach disorders if you confine your flesh eating to bear meat. The trouble in P.E.i., is: we have no ”When you said times have bears. cliahged. you -said something." de- Cigarette sales in Canada and the clared Reddy. ”Times really have USA. have increased four per cent hanged. A lot of things are not:over last year, btit tobacco com- th,-way they used to be. in the panics are quick to point out this good old times the corn was left cannot be attributed to the rise in for some time out. in the field after births. It will be a year or two be- it was cut. That always meant fore the population growth can be good eating for us. it was good expected to contribute much to cig- eating and easy hunting, for al- arette sales, they say. ways there's plenty of Mice living According to reliable estimates in and under the cornstalks. Now there are now 570,000 tourists visit- when the corn is cut nothing is ing Dade Country, Florida. The left. Those big machines come month of February is expected to along and when they leave there is usher in another 340,000. March is nothing left for even a Mouse. So the moniii the tourists start mov- therc are no Mice for us to eat. ing out to their homes in the north. Nothing like that used to happen." it is remarkable what is some- Wiiat. Raddy said was quite true. times accomplished by a guilty con- In the old times Farmer Brown science. Dick Mac.-Xdam reports a used to leave his corn standing in man walked into his Moncton store brown shocks in the field for some during the Christmas shopping time after it was cut. Danny spree and paid him 380. for goods Meadow Mouse and his friends for goods he had bought 25 years used to move into the cornfield ago. And he was a visitor who was then and live in those shocks. A just passing through. smart Fox had no difficulty in it's a lot easier to remember catching all the Mice he wanted. what you say when you tell the But Farmer Brown is up to date. truth. Now his corn is cut and ground The African ant cater can break into what is called insilage right through an ant hill with its long on the field. It is blown into wagons tough snout. even though the hill and taken away. When the last is as hard as concrete. if it were cornstalk is cut nothing but bare not for these strange looking creat- ures one cotild hardly live in Africa

"Where shall we hunt today?" asked Mrs. Raddy.

proof. They mutt be dried in the run after each dive.

A church bell in Dewsbury. Eng- land, is tolled only on Christmas day of each year? Because the bell was donated by Sir Thomas Soothill as atonement for the murd- er of a boy. The crime was com- mitted on Christmas day.

Queen Elizabeth's coronation gown had numerous brilliants. seed pearls, and shiny shell on it, but not 1 single diamond.

Did you know that milk left stand- ing in the hot sun for half an hour loses all the vitamin C it contained.

All salt contains a little water. You can prove this by putting some salt on a hot stove and watch it jump. it is the steam from the water that makes the salt jump.

Cricket fighting is n favoilte sport among the Chinese people. Before every fight the bugs are weighed in and each is classified as a heavy, middle or light weight, the same as we chalk up boxers in this part of the world.

Safety experts say this, about I good car driver: "He should think of nothing else when he's behind the wheel."

In Lincoln. Nebraska. it is illegal to kiss a gal or hold her hand while driving an automobile.

The first actual camertrwas in- vented in 1553 by Baptista Ports, but it was almost three centuries after this before Daguerre made public his famous photograph pro- cess to photograph a human face. A thunder storm accompanied by rain is more dangerous than one without rain. Why? Because light- ning s t r i k e s oftener when every- thing is wet.

An old fish can swim in more positions than either airplanes or birds can fly. Besides being able to move forward, backward. and sideways, a fish can swim with its head down or up at will.

The red blood cells in our bodies never seem to get any rest. They carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. and. on the re- turn trip, carry carbon dioxide back from the tissues to the lungs.

The powerful hind legs of a jack rabbit enables it to run faster up hill than down. In fact. it can't run down hill at top speed because if he did it would turn at somersault at every lap.

In the city of Orlando. Florida. the natives eat black rattlesnake meat, canned and otherwise. In- deed, it is eaten in many parts of the south as hors,d'oeuvres. My wife and I sampled in can of the stuff the other evening and it was delicious.

FIRE LOSS Il0(l.tl'l0 CORNER BROOK, Nfld. 1CPt-

destroyed one of Corner Brookis oldest b u s i n e s it establishments causing damage estimated by the owners at more than 3100.000. Fire Chief Mike Smith said the two- storey building owned by T. Coombs Ltd. was I mass of flames when his men arrived on the scene.

PC MARGIN GREAT OTTAWA tCPt - More than four-fifths of the 17,000 eligible voters in Rcnfrew South east bal- lots Thursday in a provincial by- election which gave James Mal- oney the biggest winning majority a Progressive Conservative has enjoyed in the riding in 10 years. Mr. Maloney. 52-year-old lawyer here. polled 8.204 votes to defeat Liberal Nathaniel E. Lindsay. 57- year - old feed merchant, who polled 5,923.

FRZOEN HYDIIANTS HAMILTON tCPt- Fire Chief Reginald Scarborough said nearly 10 per cent of fire hydrants are

500 of Hamilton's 4.700 hydrants are an old type. not properly in-

with its huge army of ants. food-yet ifs feathers are not water- The water turkey dives for its

sulated against cold.

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Many people never rum to get 3 good ighlfs rent. They turn and ton-blame if on 'nervu'-when it any be their kidneys. Hulhy kidneys filter poisons and uceu acid: from the Island. if they fail Ind hpurities any in the , ' 'isturhed nut often follow. if you don't rut well get and on Dodd's Kidney Pills. Doddi

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CO'NTR'A.CT BRIDGE

By Josephine Culbertson

The hand below was the much

match and, u a matter of fact. had quite A lot to do with deter- mining the victory and defeat.

A IUCII-DISCUSSED HAND

discussed feature of n team-of-four

to rebid, and then pertupg I worth- while penalty could he nouged from the vulnerable enemy. A: It thappened. "Went got hit Willi."

A three-alarm fii'e early Saturday -

useless in .iib-sero weather. Aboutl

Both South players ended up in but he did not enjoy the outcom. heart contracts, with this paradoxi-: as he had expected, when wgu cnl result: the declarer who was; opened 1- almond mm; sang.

it t . . 2:1: mm not mm - -posite number was doubled at one every opportunity. and the result

heart and paid twice as big a giant was that East-West collected only nlty! six tricks, for I Z10-point penalty. hi daueri At the other table Went felt lhlt

Noruhgongh mmnbl. iit was too optimistic to hope that South could bid twice. and so he

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:36 5 ' doubled the one-heart. overcall, hop-

. 81y, ing ll: bgoliect 53? pants. which

.Gg ,wou more an e value of

Q 100 8 I i Q 6 A 4 3 "”"'lt';:i"e:.'!m'M 3””" whn" 9 A Q 2 N 9 J 9 3 .-'"0”,- '5 ' reuonins on . KQ W E . A J 10 9 : West 5 part. turned out beautifully- g A 9 1 5 S 3 5 3 with the declnrer's etgoperntiont 10 As before. the ” d L,

g KQ -, ,, was ruffed by declnrer. but. evi-

' K 10 7 . 5 g dc-ntlyt ltping. to get in some side-

.Z suit tricks. this South led the spade

gig." 3 king. East won and returned 1

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M553 tcnsh the spade jack. East ruffed hit South Went North jand led his singleton club: West 1. I9 I Q PHI tput up the ace and gave his part- 3O 3' 9N'- P”' iner a club ruff. On another dia- Pou Pun mond lead. West overruffed de-

we t Could have bid gm, mu ciarer and gave East still another Lrurn: over South's one heart. but ruff. At the end. Wlsi Simply he hoped that if he simply hid it handled his own trumps properly, spade. South would be encouraged and dcclarer was down two.

i EXPORTS 10 RUSSIA UP 0- Ixi The

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nearly a third. the Manchester Chamber of Commerce was told . Monday. British exports during the i first 10 months of 1955 reached an annual rate of l:28,700.000 com- pared with 1 total of f.l4,100,000 tpouiids in 1954. Imports from Rus- t sit: up to the end of October were .at an annual rate of i:57,000.000 lcompared with h4l,800.000.

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