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Qt Red-Coated Little Spy

By Thornton W. Burgess

i find out all that you can: I you'll know just how to plan. -Chatterer the Bed Squirrel.

Long, long -ago. Chatterer found out for himself how necessary it is to learn all that can be learned about a subject before planning to I 'lte use of it. So it is that Chat- lorer does a lot of investigating, which is only a big word for spy- liig. before he plans what he will do

Chatterer had discovered that Beauty and Mrs. Beauty. the pretty Plir of wood ducks. were often to be seen at the pond of Paddy the Beaver. He guessed that they were nesting somi-whcar near. in fact. Paddy the Bravcr had said II much. But Paddy didn't know where they were nesting 11, W35 no business of his and he said so when Chatterer tried to find out from him where that nest migh be. So the red-coated little rascal i::gan spying.

It isn't considered nice In sP.Vl on other folks. No sir, ll is-n'i, considered nice at all. But some- times. that is the only way of (Ind- in: out important things. What Chatterer was spying for Masii'IVT.hEl'i "9

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Quite high up in that tree was a queer looking object.

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a fondness for mushrooms.

stood almost

He was trying to find th those two Ducks because he uas sure that it must have eggs in

Like some people, cmmerer would have an egg for breakfast every morning if he could.

so it was that for several rlnvs Chatterer spent much of his fllllfi near the pond of Paddy the Re-aw 1

while watching what they were. doing and where they went. He found that Beauty spent most of his time at Paddy's pond. but Mrs. Beauty spent only a little time there.

"That r ans she is sitting on eggs,” thought Chatterer. After that. he didn't pay much attent- ion to anyone else. He watched to

had put it up there.

ed to go over to it.

nothing to do with looking for eggs. 1 he pretended to bel

hunting for buried nuts. Snmetini-l es he preiended to be looking tori an early mushroom. Chatterer has

So it was that he came to ii-herev alone. I -n g. I wasn't another tree neari nIP0l'tlnt to anybody blllellylwisifnr enqugh m it for Changer M NH W0 It by way of the treetops. He ih :i in run across the ground in it now. He has a liking for eggs. ig” '" it mm” high "P in "W

ill'P.9 was a queer-looking object. lie had never seen anything like ll before in the Green Forest. didn't know what to make of it. ill was a small nail keg with 5 door. Way cut in it to make it into a

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"3 keeping out of light of others ; house. It had been put up in that ltree for the Wood Ducks. The Old

illermit who lived not far away

lingo 10, The Guardian rims; June 21. 1956 " Inspected

Signal Regt.

Lt-Col W.l-l. Ellis. C.D., com. innnd gnal Officer. Hendquu-1. ti-s. Eastern Command. nnluu, uiiwt? llisllhgtflhyl "”nm.gi.,.'”k' en V .. gnnl . , R.C. Signals before their dent:-ti. ure to Summer Camp at Camp Borden. Ontario. on a Jung, ,

The Regiment was on a Divis- ional exercise Sunday in the wear Iioyalty area and 1 zvided normgl linen wireless and Signal ,DI.pg(ch Service communication . Col. El. IE5 8"” 111599011!!! communica- tions congratulated -the Regiment on the very fine showing it mm, and wished the Regiment every success at Summer Camp where they will be in conjpeuuon Wm, Signal Units in Canada East of Winnipeg.

0!! Manda? Col Ellis discussed administrative matters pertaining to the Unit move to Camp Borden it is anticipated this year the Reg. iment will have the largest rium. her of personnel ever to leave Charlottetown for a signals can- ccntration.

Ad-dress And rPreseniciiion To -W. K. S. Teacher

'llllSS MinnieVMacKay of west hen! School who will retire with "19 l'0mPletion of this school year ivras honored at a special germ. lccilier of the staff Friday aftgr. . nunn. Following cornplirnpntary re. mafks by the Principal. Miss (Gladys Taylor read the following address:

Dear Minnie:

While we have known for several nionlhs that it was your intention to retire at the end of this school year. the full realization of your

Chalterer was full of curiosity ileaving is only beginning to make He is always filled with curiousity when he sees something new. and this was new to him. But because it was something new, he hesitat-'only

itself felt among us.

Throughout your long period of service in this school you have not ' performed your normal lteacliing duties in a superior man-

Ieo in which direction Mr. Beauty

flew when she left the pond. He T-rm

soon found that it was always in

the same direction. S--O Chatterer also found that when y W? I

Mrs. Beauty visited the pond. she came from that same direction. This must mean that the nest he was looking for was somewhere in that direction back from the pond. Of course it could he that when she was out of his sight she changed her direction. hut he doubt ed it.

So Chalterer began workinir aw- ay from the pond in the direction he had seen Mrs. Beauty goingl and coming. lie didn't hurry. He looked carefully. but all the time" he kept out of sight as much as possible. When anybody did see him he was always pretending to be busy about something that had

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The advantage of the ' ale spade play over the diamond finesse is that if it turns out that West has the Queen of spades de- Cllm can always fall back on the dilmond 'inesse: but if the dia- mond finesse ls taken first. and loses. there is no equivalent play to turn to. A plan where the favor- able location of.em1ei- of two ,d.l verse cards will lnakg the con. tract is clearly better than one where all hopes are banked on the postion of one card,

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most obvious way to win a twelfth trick was the diamond finesse, which Smith look late in the play. The finesse failed. and declarer had to lose another trick, going down one

South can improve his chances greatly, if. after winning a club

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when East has either the queen compared to South's method of

-when East has the king of dia- rnonds.

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ner, but have willingly and capably undertaken tliose many extra chor- es that harassed principals find so difficult to assign. Always there was that link) sense of humor that encouraged and chided your pupils to better effort and lightened the labors of iour colleagues along the way.

With your leaving. West Kent is losing one of the finest teachers it ever bad. This is the feeling of the present staff, your pupils of the muineiit, and the thousands of youngsters who have passed through your hands during your 3 teaching career.

With this small gift to mark

your retirement goes our sincere wishes that you will have many

years of hunt: and time to enjoy many aspects of life which you may have been dfmled You up" to this point.

forget us but will visit us here at the school from time to time so that we may keep bright the bonds of friendship and welded between us as we manned the educational "front line" togeth- er. Affectionately,

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engraved. on behalf of the staff.

of the pleasant relations among staff members and fine spirit which

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Staff of West Kent School.

Miss MacKay was presented with beautiful wrist watch, suitably

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characterized West Kent. She was glad to have spent most of her teaching years under sympathetic and capable officials and among -genial fellow-teachers.

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