Page 14. The Guardian Wed., July 13 1956

BEDT ME STORIES

I Told You So

Strange though it seems. it Still 1'”

is t-Tue. That which is old can

"What is the reason you don't. believe Stickytoes can"! i know.

"Because I dont believe any- body can call rain.

lieve anybody but

CONTRACT BRIDGE

3! B. JAY Wu! denier. Neither aide vulnerable. QKQ852 Q QJ 3 By Thornton W. Burgess y 0 A96 y QA4 anded Polly Lhuck. 9.3 "It isn't raining yet.” replied; T?gz N :m”g still be new. Johnny Chuck. ”Two or three lit-' ' H3 E .173: -0ld Mother Nature. tle clouds may not mean rain all :KJ8.,3 S nq. cal .”l don't care Wllieldhelyty dyoi: boa; rain?” Polly Chuck wanted to ”ClfLfckI?u1.'.we at; gtfikngrim .KQ1o have rain. Wait and see." JI10951 . ”i'll wait all right." declared The bidding: 31dd”';1'0nil):l: Johnny with a gi'in.and went over. War Nomi Eur, south y . . ,, s . to a patch of sweet clover and: P”, 1. pg; 3N'r Nature can bring rain. replied began yo mbble Somel it was wilt- Pu, 3N1-

Johnny Chuck.

calling for a long time. have

you?" said Polly Chuck

Johnny Chuck admiitcd that he sky. The "What of it"" he Wanted there were growing bigger,

;more clouds were coming up over bald the treetops Already . cloud had hidden the face of Jolly. will you believe that he can Calhround, brirzht Mr. Sun. It seemed; to Polly that Stickytocs was call-ll ht-Sling louder than ever.

hadn't. to know.

”Wc-ll. you hear him mm " Polly Chuck ”ll rain lollmis soon.

it?" Johnny Chuck scratched

led and "You havent heard Stickytoes of

rather tasteless because the long spcll of dry weather. Polly Chuck continued to sit on the doorstep and look up at the clouds that were up

dummy and East won the queen and and rciurncd

Opcilini; load---sevcn of clubs. A4 ion club was played from

i club. South had

no hopc for nine tricks except by icsiahlishing the spade suit. Un- fortunately. West turned up with the are and ran his clubs to the tune ol down one.

y South took his partner to task. as sometimes happens in bridge'

the

nose ihougzhtlully. He looked alll

around the sky. There wansil a cloud to be seen. "Yes." said he. ”lf it rains soon. I'll believe that Stickytoes can call it; but it Just won't rain. You can make up your mind to that."

Polly Chuck went down in the house where it was cooler. John- ny Chuck followed her. They were down there for some time. Then Polly Chuck went up the M18 hall- way and poked her head out the door. The first thing she did was to look up in the sky. Then she

turned and fairly squealed with

excitement ”Come up here!:' she squealed. ”Come up here right away!"

NORTHAM

A fire from an overheated kit- chen stove pipe in the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Ellis on Fri- day morning caused considerable damage to the residence before it was put out. liirs. Ellis was hang- ing clothes in the yard when she notlved smoke from an eave of the house. She quickly help. and with the help of neigh-

out the blaze but not before con-i

circles, for the failure to rebid his spades, pointing out that eleven

siderable damage was done. Thel fire-fighting equipment from the village a mile away was broughli to the scene of the fire. but was- nut used. the blaze being extin- guished before arrival.

MacLean. Bedford. N.S.

Northam recently.

Johnny Chuck looked up at thei two little clouds. y Johnny began to grumble, but he came up. "What are you so excited about?" he demanded.

”Look up in the sky and see if you see what I see." said Polly Chuck.

Johnny looked up. He blinked. He blinkcd two or three times.. Can you guess why'.' Up there in the blue. blue sky was a cloud. it was a small cloud. but was was a clniirl.

”Lisien!" said Polly Chuck.

Both listened. Stickytoes the

Mrs.. Alfred Colwill and fam-

Congratulations are being ex- tended to Mr. and Mrs. Hartford Millar. lNee Elevyn Morrison) on. tended to Rev. and Mrs. L.lil. Mac-

BECKER

win the opening lead with the act.- of clubs. It can be seen that in the actual band this play assures ten tricks. The opponents' clubs get tangled so that they cannot cash more than two of them. Fur- thermore. South is in a position to know this will happen.

By applying the Rule of Eleven to the opening lead. declarer can tell East has only one card high- er than the seven. He deducts seven from eleven leaving four cards higher than the seven in the three hands other than West's. Since he sees one in dum- my and two in his own hand, East

DENIES SLAVE LABOR

CANBERRA, Australia (Reut- ersl-Paul Hasluck. Australia's minister for territories, Friday denied ii report issued by the Anti-Slavery Society in London. claiming that Australian aborig- ines are denied the right to offerl their labor freely. Hasluck said in a statement that aborigines are free to offer or withdraw their: labor as they wished

-.s,L STRIKE FORCES TIE-UP CLEVELAND IAPi--The United States Lake Carriers ASS0L'i3tl0It said Friday tuo - thirds of the Great Lakes llcct is laid up or in the proccss of hi-iiir: laid UP b9' cause of the Cnitoci States steel strike. The Great Lakes fleet in-

can have but one.

K'Qr-I-7. or he would have opened the king. Therefore. East's one card higher than the seven Must be either the king. queen or jack. But the inevitable effect of this.

that the suit is bound to be blocked It the ace is taken iminctiiately. And if West started with only four clubs. the contract is iron- clad.

North and South were both hark- ing up the wrong il'PE.

West cannot have started wiihl.-,0 other Vessels. mainly self-load- ing stonc and coal haulers.

I BURKE CONDEMNED

whr-never West has five clubs. is! iTriggerl ' man and prison cscapc artist. who

cludes 260 iron ore carricrs and

lAPt - Elmer

ALBANY. .N'.Y. y niilorioiis gun-

l Burke. figured in the Boston Brink's rob- bery. was doomed hr New York's higher court Vl'i'(lric.silay to die in the electric cliziir thc iicck of Ann. 13 for the harrooni killing of a former frienil in 15152.

Iigliev Mouse

Nauizhton on the occasion of their mariagc which was solcninized on Wednesday afternoon in the Prebyterian Church. Tyne Valley. Their many friends wish them i many years of happiness. ..

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'1 Mr. llorace MacKay left on Sat- yurday morning to visit his uncle. Mr. Shelton Mai-Kay. Toronto. Mr. MacKay will be absent for month.

ccn cmploycd in Plaster Rock.

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Tree Toad was still calling. There was no doubt about it. he was still calling. .lust coming up above the treetops at the edge of the Green Meadows was another little cloud.

”Now do you believe that Sticky- toes can call rain?" cried Polly.

Johnny Chuck looked up at the two little clouds. Then he saw a third cloud beginning to show above the treetops. Could it be that those clouds were coming be- cause of Stickytoes?

"Well. do you believe it?" de-

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