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Snt., July 3 1956

Did Stickeytoes Do It

By Thornton

he always slow in Placlll 5131'"- Lest. innocence be put to shame. .0ld Mother Nature.

Water covered the Green Mead- gtts everywhere. There had been . great rain and it had caused a great flood. Many little people in fur had been driven from their homes. some had escaped in time. some had been caught by the N5” ing iiaior and drowned. Some- were still in great trouble Indy danger. - t g i

Out in the middle of the larceny Meadows was a tall. lone tree! Now it was standing in the water.1 Up in a crotch of that tree were.

W. Burgess

He ought to have known better

than to call so much. Just look at the trouble he has made for us."-

Don't tell me that you still. think that Stickyioes had any-i thing to do with all this iiater."l said Johnny. I

You heard him calling and you

'saw the clouds come up in the

sky right afterward. Then it be- gan to rain. Don't tell nict hall Slickytoes didn't have anything to do with it. I've known he could call rain ever since I was a small Chuck." declared Polly.

Pooh!" exclaimed J o h n n y Chuck.

You can pooh' all you want to.l

CONTRACT BRIDGE

oy n. say nncissin

south dealer. Both sides vulnerable.

The bidding: South West North East 1 N 1' Pass 2 N T PHI 3 N T

Opening lead-quccn of clubs. One of the troubles with siltiiig behind a good player and watch- ill:1 him perform is that the oper-

Johnny and Polly Chuck. The wat-lb"! mat d”e5"'l ""3"-E9 ””"i35' iatiun usually goes off so smooth-

er had driven them out of their home and they had had W 5w""

Stu-kytoes called, the rain fell, and i here we are in the worst trouble

ly that you don't realize how skill- ful the play has been. I was forci-

for thier lives. It was just as they W9'V9 599" in 3" 001” "V95" l'9' l,.ly reminded of this once when n

were getting almost too tired l-0

torted Polly Chuck.

kibitzer who had been watching

.- 1, t tn 2 ched that tree We are in trouble all right and a well known expert suddenly de- Isiiiimciiriibed iii: rinio it. Now they I dont know how we are some cided to abandon him after he had

were prisoners in it. It,was too tar

lo get out of it. but that doesn't

made three notrump on today's

to the nearest shore for them to PFOVC Slick)"-0&5 had anything to hand. The lady in question didn't d

try to swim there. g Now before the great rain there had been days and days "Ni ii?” with no rain at all and everything. had become very. Very dPy- The" one day Polly Chuck beard Sticky- meg the Tree Toad calling. She had thought he was calling rain- Polly was not alone in believing this. A lot of people will tell 3'0!-I even today that when I tree toad calls he is calling rain and they believe it. Sure enough the rain had come and no one could make Polly Chuck believe that Sticky- toes had not called it.

"I guess you'll believe now that Stickytoes can call rain," s aid Polly as she snuggled close to Johnny in the crotch of the tree.

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o with it." retorted J o h n n y

Chuck. Some folks will believe anything they hear." he added. Just then Polly Chuck saw some- thing that for the time being made her forget all about Stickytoes. Look at that big stick out in the water and see who is on it!" she cried. Johnny looked. Sure enough. I small log was floating along slow- ly. On it huddled Danny Meadow- mouse and Nanny Meadowmouse. They looked forlorn and terribly frightened. Truth to tell. they felt just as they looked. They should have been happy that they had not been drowned, but they didn't look happy at all. They were two very. very frightened little mice. They drifted past out of sight. Then Polly Chuck thought of Stickytocs again and blamed him for the trouble that Danny and Nanny Meadowmouse were in.

see anything at all about his bridge that was worthy of the rep

i utation he had acquired.

The technique employed by the expert was not remarkable. All he did was perform a good work- manlike job to get his nine tricks. When the hostilities of play start- ed. he had seven triclrs. His as- signement was to find the line of play which offered the best chance to pick up two more.

The opening lead was won in dummy. A low diamond to the jack lost to West's Queen. The lack of clubs was declined by South, but he won the next club. ..

MONTREAL (CF) A night watchman told police Thursday be burned his hands off with his cigaret lighter after three thieves tied him tightly to an office chair

and escaped with an unestimatcd haul from petty cash boxes.

Wants To Be

By ALVIN STEINKOPF ROSLARE HARBOR. Ireland (AP! - A colorful Irishman with a nice bank A and imagina- tion proposes to set up his own island principality off the south coast of Ireland.

So far Ireland. which went to a lot of trouble to become a repub- lic. has not become especially concerned.

The ”prince'. Michael Neale. plans to establish an 'Irish Monte Carlo.' He wants a casino. fine hotels, a golf course and an air- field. and aims to make Great

lush holiday centre. He wants his

close. He believes that Saitee post- age stamps and coinage. a police force. and maybe 8l'nb8S5Bdui3 to world capitals. will come along in due course.

FORGOTTEN ISLAND

The project is based on an as- sumption. wrapped up in a great deal of vaguenes, that no one ever got down to deciding who owns the two Saltee Islands. about five miles south of the Wexford coast. Neale contends that neither Britain nor the Republic of Ire- land holds dominion over them. and that he is just taking over a land that politicians forgot,

For some years the only inhab-

Saitee Island, now unhabited, n

own laws - Bars would never

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l itants have been some milions of sea birds which nest there. and countless rabbits. Neaie's property rights on Great . Saltee about 600 acres in extent, are W('ll founded. He bought. the real estate in 1947 from the last man tnglive on it. Claude Francis. who had bought it before the First World War from the Irish land commission. The LusssInlS5l0l15 ownership long ago might. off- hand. suggest some official Irish intcrest in the place. But it was contended in NeaIe's behalf that the republic has lost everything by long neglect.

"EMERALDS" T0 HIM

Neale as a boy lived on the Wexford coast. and from his fath- er's farm he could see the Saltee islands. They looked like emeralds on a hliie sea, and be resolved to have them some day.

How the project will fare no one could guess. But Wexford folks say there is nothing wrong with making a holiday resort on Great Sallee even if Neal's title of prince is not recognized.

But if Great Saltee is not to be an independent principality what about the casino? Ireland has stringent laws against gambling. and what would be the good of a casino without some dice and chips about?

Declarcr played the king and another heart. finesaing the jack. whichliost. lack came a spade, which South won.

A heart to dumrny's ace was

followed by the nine of diamonds, which was allowed to run, declar- er playing his seven. Another dia- mond and another finesse sewed up the hand. Then the little old lady walked away.

What did declarer so but was good? Nothing startling as we said before. He took the club lead in the right hand. He played dia- monds first instcad of hearts. By doing so, he had both suits run- ning for him. instead of just one. Southrlid one more good thing. He avoided a trap that the little old lady who walked away prob- ably would have fallen into. He led a small diamond from dummy at trick two and played the jack. He did not make the mistake of play- ing the nine it trick two and let- ting it run. If he had. he would have been defeated.

Not only that. but if he had. the little old lady who walked

Application For Recount Squashedi

Justice L. M. Ritchie of the NW" Brunswick Appeal Court Thur!- day dismissed an application of- J. LeRoy Bctts for a recount of! ballots cast in the June 18 prov- incial election in Northumberland County. '

Justice, Ritchie. who said he would later give a written Judi-l ment to the unsuccessful I3ro8l'C5' sive Conservative c a n cl I ii a it. found that a cheque issued b.V A- .i. Robichaud, attorney for Mr- Betts, did not constitute legal ten- der. ,

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