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Velv mu-led neatly under him. and his

two golden full moons. (med, for he was fast asleep. His gln5S)' bl! iunbeams.

WP? lovr-ri her dearly. How did he get his name? when

m pulled him, his fur felt so liitgr-r-.

c VPIVPI. really suited him.

im.-i got for Christmas.

llr found the mousn irndcr tli-- '.i-rt Cll'll'. unrl pushed it out liix na-- H" rave a little and mirlicrl it liwrler. and il-

il sliri over tho wnxerl floor.

ll ziflz-r ll lio iwmt. f'r:I'ihln'Y li- -: pm.-..m an -----v---A--i it was

foil, and awav he went after it iV.i.il fun I1&l'l'td for a while.

129 Kent st. Rip Kirby

".1 glory of real children It for very young children)

at sat on the windowaill in -arm afternoon sun. his paw:

down. His bi . round. yellow which looked or all the world were

ck fur gllstened in thr- Whlle he slept, his ears waiting for the sound- of 9'5 footsteps coming home school. He had been her very kitten every since he was a my bit of a kitten, and he

and warm it was just like I when he played with her he was very careful to his claws pulled well back the cushions of his little black He was so gentle that the

pawned. stretched himself. mood up. Gracious!-that sun grl.llllX2 too warm on his back oi down from the window. and looking for the rubber mouse

ll IllP mouse. Tlir-ii he tossed - 5"lll"l."" up a':"osl :''hi on his hind lorrs. Down

Ilchasing that mouse ytable, behird the chairs. round the floor!

knew it was time for her

midi-r the and u.- didnt come. He to be home. for he heard Alan and Phil going by on their way from school. "I'll Just go to meet her." he thought. and meowed at the door till Mrs. Page let him out. He walked out the driveway, stepping carefully around the pud- dies. for like all cats. he hated to get his feet wet. He know just which way to go for he had often seen Janice coming driwn the road from that direction. He had never been that far away from the house before. but he was getting to bel a big kitten now. What was Llll"l'C to be afraid of? so off he went

The snow plow had made big banks along the sides of the road. but Velvet found lots of room to walk just by the edire of the snow He was walking along. watching every stop. for he did want to keep his feet dry

Just then - bow-wow. bow-wow sounded right ahead. Out of the Page gateway came Friskv. LilI.ll'lE'S little doc. and his little dog friend. Tommy. who often played with him. The two dogs wnrr- mav-

Still Janice

By Thornton THE FKETFUL NEIGHBOIL By fretting nothing is attained l

Not even sympathy is gained. -Old Mother Nature.

Mrs. Hooty the Great Horned Owl looked down from her nest halfway up in a tall hemlock tree and watched Prickly Porky the Porcupine trying to make up hisl mind whether to climb up in that" tree. Prickly Porky is slow in every-l thing he does. He is as slow in making up his mind as he is in do-3 lng other things. All the time he was whining and complaining. and' doing it right out loud. l

iilhope that fellow won't climb. "D in this tree." said Mrs. Hootyi

ing tag with each nthor. and bark- ing in their fun. a

Poor Velvet! His heart seemed to fl'ceZr' iimie him. Wildly ii: lroked around. Wherr could he go?

lewriuw townrtls him. b-viking in wrest glen. H-3 dashed no the snow- hank arr! saw the Like a flash of hlock. hr 5l.l'0llI(”d for the po'e. and mi ho went. wliilo the (Ines b'-rkr-d down below. Hr- wus afrwid to go higher. l-le duo in his claws and hung on for dnar life.

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(Continued Tomorrow)

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The dogs h"rl soon him and uerr,

tell-oliovio rvistu

to herself. but not aloud. "If I could know that he would stay ponly a short time. I wouldn't care. lBut if he should climb up and illkf the tree, there is no lmuuiiig lion long he might slay. He miglu, stay for days. and I don't H'ilI'll. any such fretful nmghbor as he vnould be." i Alter what seeinod to Mrs. l-looty ;an endless lines. Prickly Porky did make up his mind. He started to pclimb that tree. Mrs. Hooty decid- ed it was time for her to say something. She leaned over the edge of her llPSl., hissed and snap- ped her bill. "You cant came up in this tree." she said.

Prickly Porky paumrl in look lip. He hasn't very good oyes. He. cnllldii't see clearly now who was talking. but he knew that voice. iiwlio says I can't?" he whiiied. ”I do!" hissed Mrs. Hooty. ”This

treo belongs to Hooly and me. No neighbors are wanted."

"You don't say." grumbled Pl'I4'I2IY Porky. . "I do say!" relorted Mrs. Hooly,

and slood up on the edge of her nest. SI)? was snapping her bill angrily.

Prickly Porky said llolhlnz more. He climbed a little higher. He walked out on one or the big spreading lmibs part nay up. He reached out and pullnd to him a

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with the little green needles which really are the leaves of a hem- lock tree. He began eating them. They tasted good. They tasted very good. Ho had been eating bark tor several days. He had had noth- ing green, so these tasted extra good.

He paid no 'dl.l('Illl0ll wlialever to Mrs. Hooty up above. She flew down to a branch Just above him. She leaned over and glared at him, her big yellow eyes making her look very fierce indeed.

"I told you you can't stay in this tree!" she hissed.

Prickly Porky stopped chewing those green needles and tender twigs long enough In look up at her and ask what she was going tu do about it. "Just try and put me out of this tree." he concluded. and reacned out for another spray of the grneri hemlock.

Mrs. Hooly was helpless. and she! knew it. She didn't dare Lullclll Prickly Porky. She. knew all about” aim tliousand lll.I.lP spears carried on Illa ('.out and on his tuilshe didn't want any oi those sticking in her and sh? knew that she couldn't touch him without getting hurt by a lot or them. She went back! to her nest. She had a feeling that she a as going to have a fret- ful nciglibor for some time, and all she could do was linake the best

of it.

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TOl”.0l.'TO, lCPi --Tim-e anon- ymous gifts of 350.000 ('.'iCIl from Toronto corporations have been iicelved by tun Canadian National Institute for ihe Blind, the Insti- '..ll3 aiiiiuuiice-d today.

The rioiiulioiis iii-re the first to be sent lo the liistituros building fund headquarters here in its cur- rent 83.150000 campaign.

Tilt: CNIB plans to build a ser- vice and rni:al;i'.i'..ilion centre in thc Trironlo arm.

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