liL

-l. East-Wests bad luck in

tchowed his genuine suit-such as

. .4 leads. was

1'; a trump lead. but now he could

,' tlneue succeeded he - creased his chances enormously.

i I and the ace and king of clubs. and 2' then with diamonds stripped from hnth hands. he lrrl I heart. West put. in the eight it .Ind Smith milled hr I ; nine. When East took the trick he V xv-as serurely hooked-whether hr.

' led back I heart to dtimmytsy El

By Thornton W. Burgess

n't really look at it. Presently' Peter saw a small fish coming that way The fish was swimming slovily. and was down very near

PETER HAS TO BELIEVE Although ttis true eyes ma) de-

ceivl - , , the bottom. Peter watched it. wha!:en:':,3:l mu” we "'05 Mn wondering as he did so how it was

that a fish could breathe under miter. . I

It is easier to believe what one! 'l'l'"3 llih Sli"'IEd V-0 SWIIII P-fISl' sees than what one is lnltl. Most that ttwssy old stone half buried mm, heheve mm, ,.,..s V91 eivpgllll the mud. In a flash that mossy b- l:".”

I e ' nec ar

' out. Before the fish could start to swim away Snapper the Turtle htitl II I lliitirs eyes fairLV POP!-led outl of his head. ”0h!" he exclaimed. l'lt.tti he leaned over, the better to watch what was going on down below. He saw Snapper eat that I- It Ile ate every bit of it. Then he settled down on the mud again. atiu xiitiitlreu his head until there was little more than his nose be-

--Old Mother Nature

;ed. He managed to reach

Strange But True

I! I ll. MacArthur

When I hull escaped from the

ten ' ' . Policemen were sent to bring himllt s leggy to tell that they re mar

in. In the meantime. the bull stop-l

Denver. Union Stockyards.

Ped for a red light and a ped t i I roped him. tied the aniniai5iii'a:'whe,,bS'm looks a, , dress in me that lined up for the opening or the

Parking meter and walked off. For the first time since the Re- volution. Moscow. now

wear evening clothes. for two costs 87 rubles - or the equivalent of 521.75.

Its an old sustom in (icriiiaiiy to smash top hats on New Year's Eye. On Wall Street in New York City. straw hats are smashed on each ybeptember I5. and this cus- tom is an outgrowth of the old New l'ear's Eve top-hat taboo.

lieres a startling fact about I famous sleep walker. lie left home In France on February 3. tn keep a luncheon engagciiient tip in a friends home. The next thing he remembered he was waking up in I field. faiiiished and exhaust- the nearest town. ftiiiiid that he had crossed the border inltl llclgiiim and that the date was l”e-brunary 12. Of the pi'tit'et-(litiiz nine tlays he remembered nothing. I)ot-tors diag- nosed the case. not as aiiiiiesia.

but as soiiiiiaiiibiilistii. or sleep- walking, strange hut true. The average per: detect

yond the edge of his shell. Once imore he looked like I moss-cov-I lered old stone half buried in thel -S: lniiid Pt-ter shivered as hel I I

W -2.. V

in ,..,

lltni i

Re ate ercry bit of it.

Jerry Muskrat had told Peter- R: .II. that Snapper the Turtle could only eat when he took his food under Water. He t-ouldnit eat; with his head above water. To, Peter that didn't sound trasonalile. l It sounded very queer, and he said . so

l

- I "Are you doubting nie"" asked 3

Jerry, and his voice sqtieakcd more than ever. "No." replied Pt-lcr. hi-ixlih.l ;

”No. indeed! Of course I'm not doubting you. Did you ever seel him swallow food under water'.'''.

"You're still doubting my word. . Peter Rabbit. Yes. I've seen liiiiil eat under water. I've seen liotli lie and Mrs. Snapper eat under water more times than I can re- member." retorted Jerry.

"But how do you know they Iannot eat out of water?" demand ; ed Peter. 1

"You've seen them out of i-:iIri',' and youie seen them with their heads above water Have you ever seen them eatangi” cried Jerry. I

your feelings

"No." confessed Peter ”I never have "

"Neither have I. nor has any- body else." declared Jerry. "But

ready to hit the Ceiling!

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thou ht of what he had seen. and whaf might happen again.

”I don't like that fellow." Peter.

”N0l)tit'l)' tines," said Jerry Illiiskrat, who happeiictl ailing Just then.

said

BLAZE DAMAGES BRIDGE

ALBANY. NY. IAPI Fire 'l'hursday daniaet-d the centre of the New York ('eiitt'al railroatl's main bridge across the Hudson river here. The bridge links Al- bany and Rensselzier on the main line. (Yaiise of the fire was not de- terniiiit-tl iiiiiiietliately. lllll it iias reptirtetl that work crews lizid lIl'Pl'l using acetylene torches on the bridge.

when you're

t'i.tznrtzi7r

HQWING .60”

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more than once I've seen them get their food above water and al-' ways take it down in the miitl at out our Way the bottom of the Smiling Pool to

eat. You ought to learn to swim under water. Peter Rabbit. There are many things you might see, and learn for yourself if you could

swim as I can. I

It was I day or two after this

that Peter happened to be sitting

on the bank of the Smiling Pool

where the Water was quite deep; L'luS(.' to shore. lie could see that bottom very clearly. At first he: Iaw nothing but mud. and certain .' small water weeds growing in it. There was what looked like I big moss-covered flat stone. It wasn't interesting. It scented to be partly buried in the mud. It rezilly was nothing to look at. and Peter did-I

Contract Bridge By Josephine Culherlsun NOT ALL l.l'(iK

the following deal could have been offset by I lteener defense.

BURY DR BURN THESE MASTER -

PIECES N5TEAD IN OUR HOUSE

OF GIVN6 THEM I5 PTTCHER5 'D KIDS? 1 DON'T OF MILL CARE FOR THIS STREAM5

GLAIZIN6 AT ME

NOTHIN'.' ALL WE (:-OT

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N(,,.,,du,e, Q. V v ALJTEI xr wi.J'rn MY rMr:1'. YKMY Bout sidcs vulnerable. rt i- . ::"'”;e F cnrrwu WLJTE t-out-tovon AKQJ scum-mm soon J”W::”. ff”: I

: A1 95 ' TEARVDOJ "3"il””" -I ” " . Sl0urtlly'I Cryptoquota: ma: OLD AGE or AN EAGLE II o A K) 'rr-rm"TTi l I AS GOOD Al THE YOUTH or A seumow-enovniu. q..u ---- - - -

has a swank resturant where the waitersl

A dinnerl The fellow who yells for the gov-

or . , D smells. a chemist mo, and n pertumer. 2.000.

It was John Wesley who intro- lduced the phrase "Watch Night." "the idea is taken from the ancient tliebrew passover night.

Automobile: Iegln Usln Cuuuwc

MU RAVE. N.S. (P)-Band leader Charlie Hlllcoat took his- t0l'Y's first automobile ride Icrou Canso strait Friday but there Wu nothing to distinguish it from any other day in the year.

iYou can see in the flick of an Hmcoars W" the mm of” an

EYE

Canso causeway highway nearly two years after the first shoevel- ful of fill tor the 623.000.0110 pro-' ject was dumped into the unit by the late premier Angus L. Mao- donald.

Trains have been using the 7.000- foot land bridge for I week. The roadway to Cape Breton Island was opened ahead of schedule partly because of the loss in a fire last month of the car ferry John Cabot.

Toll gate operator: reported no rush oflbualnesa.

window And he looks at a skirt passing b .

Iernment to balance its budget is usually the guy who borrows 35 un- ltil pay day. . 50.040 new churches have been built in Canada and the U. S. since 1950. This makes a total of 390.- 340 churches in both countries. Anthony Eden is the l700th. icommoner to be knighted in the Order of the Garter. Approximately ll.000.ll00 pounds

. . " Simmons.

of paper, enough to fill 16:! stand- .H" lard railway cars was needed l('RADE? vn - 1' Them" M":- print all the various forms for thel Le”d' 2' by" Suva" "M 1954 income tax Gerald Brown (equal); I. Lewis Simmons.

Nero of Rome was the first er-

lsoi to use Venetian blinds. Anrli)oy- GRADE v - 1. Linda Macuoa: led by passersby looking in hisl 2. Donnie Macbeod; S. Elrlc iwindoivs he ordered the impcrlall Campbell.

sculptors to make a series of slatlGRADE IV - 1. Donald Stavert;

S

UDI'l2hts to hide him from the' 2. Wendell MacLeod; I. Wen- 'iJUbllC K829. dell Stavert. GRADE iii - 1. Irene Evans; I IRISHTOIVN SCHOOL 2. Shirley Evans; 8. Lois Mac- L d. --Report for.months of March zettlne Brown. It-:;"gA?)I;4"1g(' "'5'"1"l't";35C';”"l'M GRADE it .. 1. Harold Evans I I - . erye ac- g r - I l Leod: 2. Lois Stavert; 8. Char- GRADE I 1' June Cimpbem

2. Kathryn Campbell and Leta MaeLeod tequalt.

Teacher - Mrs. Olive .1. MacLe

y les Brown. .GRADi”. i'lll -- 1. Flloyce Stav- ert; 2 Willie Paynter, II. Mer-

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DAILY CRYPTOQUOTE-Here's how to work it: A X Y D L B A A X K II LONGFELLOW One letter simply stands for mother In this example A is used for the three L's. X for the two O'a. etc. Single lettera apol- trophiea. the length and formation of the words are all hinta. Each dav the code letters are dit'ferenL

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spouse of two diamonds. then It was - over North": next. hid. North Wll I lltle over ambi- tious when he carried South's bid to the five-level' and South compounded the optimism by accepting the sham urge. i West. with a difficult choice of unlucky enough to incite! I low diamond. Sotith would have had no chance on a club or.

WKERE VA PEARD ANYTHING ABOUT DONNIE...

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take the vital diamond finesse without using up his only entry. the club king. and when the had in-

Joe Pololic

He drew three rounds of trumps. cashed his other diamondf tricks

and rliihs

dumm,v's

gtenace. or I club that would per- unit a ruff-and-discard. the slam as sure to make. I South hld to be lucky in three, . -v is: I favourable opening! ; the fact that the

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Grandma

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By Carl Anderson

ER-AH-EX(l.& ME, MS BUCK BEFORE YOU. BEHN, MN - I INQUIRE WHY ALLTHESE (HILDREN HAVE NAME PLKTE3

ON THEIR DESKS ?

By Wally Bishop

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