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By Thorton W. Burgess

SOMETHING WRONG

A thing that doesn't. seem just.

right, lay still not be a cause for (right. -Old Mother Nature

Johnny Chuck's young son, Bust.- .-r, so called because he had grown I0 last and so big, crept. up from his underground bedroom along the lung tunnel, or hall, toward the Ioorway. He crept up very slowly. He kept stopping to listen. You see. he had been frightened down into that snug safe home in the ground by two big two-legged folks who had found the entrance to his home. They were the owners or 8 near-by garden and his boy. Bust.- er had been living high in that garden. He knew no reason why he shouldn't help himself to what he wanted there. and he had been do- ing just that.

Now the owner 0! that garden was a man uith a heart. He felt that he must get rid or that wood- rhuck in order to save his garden. But. he didn't want to kill the chuck. So he decided that they would trap him and do it in a way not to hurt him. The boy uriit home and brought. back a wire iiiip, a sort. of rage made especially to catch small roll: in iur without hurt- ing them. This was carefully set in such ii way that a chuck would be unable to leave his hole with- out. entering the trap.

Now or course, Buster knew noth- ing about this. All he knew was that strangers had been around his door- way tor some time, and that made him suspicious. Now as he crept up his long hall he was wonder- ing who it was that had been at hi doorway, and what they had .-... M

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been doing. As he drew near the entrance, he moved more slowly than ever. Little Friend. the Sons Sparrow was singing his lovely song just. outside. That. meant there could be no enemy outside. Buster listened a moment, then moved on until he was right at the entrance. Something strange was there. It

When it ended the little brown sparrow flew up and sat on that wire trap.

was just outside, and it seemed harmless enough. He could see right through it. Just outside ri little way he could sec the cross wires on the trap, but they didn't mean anything because he could look right between them. He could see no reason why he couldn't go right out. as usual. But; he didn't try to.

Young as he was, Buster Chuck already had learned to be suspi- cious oi' anything strange, of any- thing he didn't thoroughly under- stand. Now he sat with just his nose inside that wire trap. He didn't know it was a trap, but he did know that it never had been there before. He listened to the song oi Little Friend. When it ended the little brown sparrow ilew up and sat on that wire trap. It couldnlt It anything harmful, tor Little Friend hopped about on it and ilnaily new sway unharmed. The young chuck wanted to go out, but he was still suspicious. He didn't understand this thing that was now where it had not been when

he had entered his own home. He TM

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went back down to his bedroom. ii-ie would take a nap. Perhaps that strange thing would be gone when he awoke.

He was down in that bedroom a long time, but at last he began to be hungry and lllllde his way up to tho doorway. The strange thing was still there. It still locked harmless; but was it?

PARTIES OIJTLAWED

GUATEMALA, iAPi-In a sweep- ing new blow at supporters oi deposed president Jacobo Arbenz Gusman, Guatemalas ruling junta has dissolved political parties, Communist-dominated labor unions and Red-front organizations which

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SOUTH GRANVILLE W. 1.

Members oI,5outh Granville W. I. held their August meeting at. the home of Mrs. Stirling Corbett. August 4.

It was decided to put up posters re the Blood Donor Clinic at. St. Mark's Hall, Kensington, to be held August 31.

concerning the P. E. I. Cancer Campaign, Mrs. J. H. Maclieod volunteered to canvass resident oi district for contributions to the 1954 Campaign.

Mm. Maclieod was appointed. also, to inquire about a size or quilt most needed at the Protestant orphanage.

Receipts for the evening amount- ed to S430.

The Keirs invited members for the September meeting. Roll call will be "Where I Met My Hus- band”,

New committees appointed: school, Mrs. Ma:Leod and Miss Annie Keir; Sick, Mrs. Abbott and Miss Mae Buchanan; programn.e,lMisses Alex- andra Keir and Mac Buchanan lunch, Mrs. MacLeocl and Mrs. Ab- bott.

Mrs. Louis Corbett put. on a memory contest which was won by Chrissie and Mae. Mrs. S. Corbett. read an article entitled "There Is Magic in a Word of Praise."

WITHOUT OXYGEN

SKARDU, Kashmir. (Reuters)-- Two Italian mountaineers who reached the" summit oi 28,250-loot: Mount Godwin Austen July 31 ran out of oxygen an hour before they got to the top. They decided to (0 on, and reached the top at 6 pm.

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