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spared. -Jimmy Skunk

Jimmy Skunk is one of the so- railed seven sleepers. He is sup- posed to go to bed in the begin- ning of winter and sleep until spring. just the way Johnny Chuck toes. But Jimmy doesn't sleep as soundly as Johnny Chuck. nor does he to bed for the winter as .3.-1y as Johnny does: In fact. Jim- my is very apt not to go to bed as long as he can find anything to pat without. too much trouble.

when Jimmy goes to bed for the winter he likes company. John- ny Chuck. on the other hand. seems to prefer to be alone. Jim- my likes to have several of his tamlilar friends with him and of- ti-n does. He long ago found out that it is a splendid way of keep- tni: warm. When several are snug- gled up together they keep ea other warm.

This winter Jimmy had four of his grown children with him. It has Jimmy who had picked out the place where they would sleep and you would never guess where t.hat place was. It was under Farmer Brown's henhouse. Yes. sir. that is where it was. They had dug a hole in the ground under the hen-house.

Now that would have been just the worst place they could have chosen had it been anywhere but on Farmer Brownls farm. skunks Ire upposed to be as fond of chic- kens as Foxes are. And when they are found around henyards and hen- hnnses they are very likely to be trapped. It wasn't solat Farmer

Brown's, Somehow Jimmy Skunk

knew it. Farmer Brown's Boy knew all about those sleeping quar- ters under the henhousc and he used to chuckle when he thought of those Skunks sleeping down there underneath that house with the Hens sleeping above them every night. But Farmer Brown's Boy -tad long ago found out for him- self that Jimmy Skunk and his friends were not the chicken kil- lcrs that they were thought to be. They didn't make a business of trying to catch adn kill liens as theirreousin Shadow the Weasel does. All that was eccssary W85 to keep the Hens shut up at night. So. no traps were set for Jimmy and his children. They were as safe down below as the l-lens were above. It was in the middle of the win- ter that Jimmy awake and decid- rd to go out and have a look around. lie had been in the habit of do- ing that every winter. Sometimes he had done it two or three times in a winter. So he lcft the warm bedroom down under the henhouse and went up outside. Jack Frost was waiting for him. He tried to pinch Jimmy's nose. lie couldn't act down through the warm lur of Jimmy's coat. llc couldn't make Jimmy shiver as he tried to do. Jimmy yawncd. Hc stretched. He was a little stiff. You see he had been curled up for a long time. There was a little snow on the ground. Jimmy began to wander

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of year. He ought to be asleep! thought Jimlny. He didn't think that he himself ought to be asleep. He followed Bobby Coon's tracks. He followed them by means of his nose rather than his eyes. He real- ly didn't know why he was doin it. He would have said he was 1 looking around.

Strange But True By F. H. MacArthur

Did you know that the people of the United States do not elect their president? The political sages have brooded over this for a cen- tury and I half. The Electoral College is nothing but a rubber stamp; in fact it elects no one and it is too decrepit to be col- legiate. its usefulness ended even before there were toi-chiight par- ades and hard cider campaigns. The way things have been going on the political front work out something like this. If half the voters in any state. less one. vote for Candidate W. Candidate W gets all of that state's votes in the electoral college. All those who voted for candidate X are ignored. just as if they never had voted.

In states either the Republican (as in New England sometimes). or of the Democrats (as in the south) traditionally gain a propond- crance of the votes. those in the minority are discouraged even from voting. in other words. their mimis votes have no effect on the electoral college. This is an ob- solete way of choosing their pre- sidents in the congress. In 1948 Harry S. Truman's close

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West did not select the lead that

would be chosen without I second lh”"lhl by most players-that ll. he did not lay down the king of hearts. He elected to open I did- mond. Dummy won and dec

Dfomptly tried out the trump fin- esse. West won and led another din- mond. This too was won in dummy. "d W" drawing mother round 0' "l-"KIDS. South led I heart to- ward his own hand. apparently with the idea that he would have to find A-J or K-J at his right. The heart ten forced the king, but West 1113. ply exited. and South eventually had to lose two more heart tricks.

Swill neglected I vital move before touching the heart suit: to Will out the diamonds and clubs from both hands before leading the c heart to his own ten-spot. Had he done tins. the defenders would have been helpless.

Getting back to the opening lead. observe how easy it would have been for declarer if West had 0 ii. ed the heart king. He could s ift. of course. but South would have no other play except to lead I heart from dummy and put in his own ten on the sound supposition that West had led from the'A-K liutkdid not necessarily have the ac .

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MADRID tlteuierstrstudents of the Madrid faculty of law Tuesday staged I demonstiaiion against plans by Gen. Francisco Franco. the Spanish head of state. to re- store the monarchy at some time in the future. Don Carlos. 17-year- old son of Don Juan. pretender to the Spanish throne. now is study- ing in Spain to prepare himself for. I possible restoration of the monarchy. Don Juan is expected eventually to renounce his claims in favor of his son.

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