APRIL 29. 1952
By Thornton W. Burgess
01.!) DE. TOAD HEIDI
Love dares all things; knows no iear when comes the call 0! those most
dear. -Old Mr Toad.
Old Mr. Toad was iidgeiy. He was uneasy. Pie couldn't keep still. This was not at all like Old Mr. Toad. No, air, it wasn't at all like homely Old Mr. Toad. He was in a corner 0! Farmer Brown's garden. it was 'the time of day he iovestbesti, when the suit dusk of early even- ing makes it possible for him to move about with less danger oi being seen than in daylight.
Across the Green Meadows ii-om the smiling Pool came a joyous chorus of many voices. Peeper the Hyia. the tiny Tree Frog cousin of Old Mr. Toad, and very many oi
NOTICE
This is to inform all interested parties that as of the 1st of May, 1952, I will have severed all connec- tions with the P. E. I. Veterinary Services Policy.
From this date I will
large animal private practice with fees similar as in the past with the exception that there wiiir be a mile- age fee charged in addition to professional fees
Signed:-
DR. JOHN E STERNS. Veterinary Surgeon, Charlottetown, P. E. 1.
his own kind were pouring out their joy in being awakened by sweet Mistress Spring. To them as to so many others it was the hop- piest time or all the year. Listening to that joyiui chorus. Old Mr. Thad grew more and more iidgety. He couldn't sit still. He wanted to be down in the Brail- ing Pool, having a special part or his own in that chorus oi love and joy and simple gisdness in be- ing alive. and Old Mr. Toad knew that somewhere, he didn't know where. Old Mrs. Toad was listen- ing to the happy voices coming irom the Smiling Pool and she was listening even more closely than was he. for she was listening for one voice. a. voice that in many years hsd never tailed her-his voice. He should be there now sing- ing to and (or her. singing the love song that would make his voice the
be conducting a restricted
rnncusox
Euston Street
Now is the time to buy for your Spring Work. See This "POWER FULL TRACTOR) at our Showroom.
W. G. BARBOIIII LTD.
Ask the man who owns one.
rnacrons
CIiariotteto..n
Old Mr. Toad wasn't as young as he used to be,
sweetest voice in aiiethat joyous chorus. ' Old Mr. Toad wasn't as young
as he used to be. Nohodyis. .Be- '
cause he really was old it looked to him like a long and dangerous
journey ttom Farmer Brown's'
garden to the smiling Pool. He has
made one false start; That is, net
had started, then came back be-
cause oi Peter Rabbit. Peter had"
said that he had seen Jimmy Skunk in the neighborhood. That was enough. Old Mr. Toad promp- tly retreated under the wide board where he made his home.
He knew that it he should meet Jimmy skunk. it might prove to
be Just too bad. Then again. it. might not. It would all depend on".
just how hungry Jimmy was. it he wasn't hungry, he might not even look at Old Mr. Tosd. But it he was hungry--well, Old Mr. Toad didn't like to think what might happen; would be quite likely to happen. It was better to be sale than sorry no matter how much he wanted to get to the smiling Pool.
Peter had gone away. Jimmy skunk hadn't appeared. Probab- ly he had gone oil in another dir- ection. Oid Mr. Toad was outside again and getting more and -more iidgety as he listened to Peepex the Hyla and his friends. "I've goi- to get over there," said Old Mr Toad. talking to himself. "I've got to. I'm late as it is. What will Mrs Toad think it she doesn't near mv voice? I feel as it every up or those small cousins of mine is calling me. Hello! I wonder what has hap- pened nowi" '
The singing had stopped abrupt- ly. Not a single voice was to be heard. From long experience In the Smiling Pool himself, Old Mr Toad knew just what that meant one o! the little singers had been irighten 1 and stopped singing, o.- had been caught by a hungry ea!- er oz little frogs.
The very instant that voice ceased. it was missed by the other singers and all stopped. No one knew what had. happened but everyone knew that to be silent was the surest way to be unseen and so sale. s
While Old Mr. Toad waited and ildgeted he hair-iilied the music bag in his throat as if to try out his voice. Then he thought better of it. To fill that music bag full and sing his sweetest he should be in the water. That was the only place
THE GUARDIAN. UHARLUTTETUWN
mm
lg contract Bridge i By Josephine cuiwtun AfOO&O . EXPERT QUALIFICATION!
True expertness st bridge in- volves two similar but by no means identical qualities: the ability td foresee and thus guard against bad auit-breaks; and the ability to minimize, it not overcome, dim- culties which could not have been avoided. ' '
In the (allowing case. the due-
iarer, needed the iirst-named quality. i8miutdeaior.'-. North;BouV.I'IVilTli . Q95! 007 ca" ass " exam oases N 73 gas 13 W E :9”, Q10 4-2 s wk . .A6 . Qkllzlli QAK 'Ti .pK5 friieiilddirlg: a south West North Int 1' Pass INT Pass in Pass 40 66 sq Pussy Pan Pug ,
As may be seen, mast kept on passing until the enemy reached game, then ventured his sscriiice bid or tour spades. This 'sort oi tactic is rarely successiul against good players, but it sometimes works against weak oppositi-in. It seems to have succeeded here - south, instead of doubling iour spades. decided to try (or live hearts. Actually, this was a good idea, but south couldn't back it up in the play.
West opened the spade eight. south took the trick and conno- ently led 3. low trump to dummy's queen. East. won with his blank we. and, when he returned two r
of spades. deciarer was in a hope- less position. He had to run high to shut out an immediate overrun, but this simply esulted in de- laying defeat, since West's heart holding was then good tor the set- ting trick.
The iour-spade bid made by East was all the warning South should have required to be some-' what more cautious in his trump- handlingi The heart ace was mark- ed in East's hand, and it might well be blank. In any case. it could not cost anything to guard against that possibility. South should have gone to dummy's club ace and returned the trump seveni That play would have given him rigid control oi the situation.
.5! I?! I
6&6???
to sing. He really show! be down
continued on page 11
0 MUSS N0 BOTHER
By wait" Kelly.
'MssrnNsAII1'iosv!A-mo
MILE eveaviwmmuc
-nMsu.eemgusAuuM:ic: . V
4
WM.-AH is mrstzssiv so-u , , - 9 X i
HUSBIN.
.'s'.l-?&"iQ9iAlt'si3'.-li:'i'&'ii”iE Y'.5'oa -m amine AH in-r HER-THREE - A NEW Lira-
DAVE AGO -WHEN AH
STIPDID GJT T'6iT u TH' EAPER.
I ,3 ."i 0 til it '-i we . i t 2 , t ' 1' X I T I
KING or me ROYAL MOUNTED
PAGE SEVEN
WELL. Ll-i--YOU SEE, I ALWAYS. PAY NN BILL5 N ALPHABETICAL ORDER-
You SHOULDWT oi never: sAia:mA1.'
- me I ALWAYS P-UN our or- MONEY av THE TIME I REACH we BILL
FOR ZINKLEY . AND CO I L. ff
V. 1- zj z . 15-far: Mallow AA.-. .t.--..i-u
-sAN' NOW I CAN
G0 LOOK AT THAT
ANTIQUE LAMP IN ' ECOND-HAND
BRINGING UP FATHER
...........&g..J
i By George McManil
V''..,.
&.'.'O WHATA i GUY HA6 TD HIT (P WITH TD-IICEEP HIS
' pa LIKE MINK MID OIAMGIDG...
.. - - .. T l1iimrHmiIIL'.,- sue use To crop Hsvme) an AGE WHER! so-asp anzn-uosvsx Edimue tAoi21'HwHu.E ans
'- F