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-Green Forest Folk.

it was fall. lovely fall. The soft base lay over the Green Meadows 'and the Green Forest. The pine trees. the spruce trees. the hem-

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lock trees. and the cedar trees

were as green as ever. But all .the other trees were clothed in hardly gold or crimson dress. or perhaps rich brown. It was very still. The winter Merry Little Breezes were quiet. it was the stillness of peace. or was meant to be peace. There was a loveliness such as no other season year knows. There was the gladness of harvest time. lisppy Jack squirrel and his cousins were Up in the Green Forest. Paddy the Beaver and Mrs. Paddy were building

h the filling their star t-

thelr food pile for the winter.

Buster Bear, Lightfoot the Deer, Thunderer the Grouse. and others were feasting on the beechnuts hidden under the leaves on the ground. Everyone was well fed. It was the time of Thanksgiving. the dsne of rejoicing in plenty. Work gnd worry over bringing up child- ran and starting them out in the great World were behind. Hard times were ahead. But just at this time it was Mother Nature's plan jhat there should be peace and joy till! rejoicing.

lsbtsycesaaadtl. Pol- uudaredaeteensestntaa after gag, ..

Instead of this a great fear. a dreadful fear. ruled everYWhG1'0 through the Green Forest and over Its Green Meadows, over the Old Pasture and around the Smiling Pool. And it was a fear that Mother Nsture never had intended. Few there were among the tuned and feathered folk who were not in con- stant dread. It was the man-nude hunting season.

The fined and feathered folk eouldn't understand it. All throulh the spring and summer Man had

them alone. Now for no reason

t they knew, Man was the woaat qgemyofmenyofthem. only e smallest folk. like Danny Meadow- nsouas and his cousins, and the litle feathered folk. had nothing to hear from dreadful guns. But even these were constantly frightened by the noise of the guns. and the Doll that were aiding Man to find the folks-he wanted to shoot. so these lovely days were dread: ful days. Thunderer the Grouse and Mrs. Grouse had lived throuth

soon drenched the party through several seasons like this and they to the aid. causing them to be new just what to do to avoid the most miserable.

hunters with the dreadful lllns. lut it was the first huntinl IIIIOI up as. young mernbere oi their flock. and things happen to some of these. They saw some killed and othus

. By Thernips W. 7' Ill nuanrur. (LOVELY IIAYI 2 H as place in Nature's

s sleet atom descended The sleet mixture

.i:g tempest. the rain giving way

of

Thursday. Nov. 17, 1955

Canada's imports

Higher For August

(YPTAWA. (CF)-Canada's im- ports in August amounted to a record for that month and near the all-time montliy blur of M3t.000.00 in MIN

The bureau of statistics report- ed Tuesday that imports for the first eight months of this year

hilly urn dared not come out until dark. and were hunted , even

flock. down from far north on their way to the feared to come near

and Mrs. Light.-

VI let the Dear bet the stant . Bobby Conn and Unc'

twins were in can-

then. Happy Jack Squirrel. he 53 of the gray coat and beautiful tail,

totalled 33.011.900.000 compared with 32.73.600.000 for the corres- ponding period last year.

For the clan months. Canada had an unfavorable trade balance -imports exceeding exports-of This compared with 5i98,w0,000. The figures cover commodities and exclude gold.

Imports from the United States during August rose to S30l.69l.o0o from szia.9a7.ooo a year earlier. Purchases o firon and steel pro- ducts from the U. 5. increased sharply to Gl20.456,000 from 333.-

1.000.

ies takes us back many years to a time when a party of Brudeuell settlers started out for Charlotte- town. then a mere village.

It was late autumn. The route of travel lay nearly all through the forest, and there was only a blazed trail most of the way. They had oxen for filling the land. but as these animals were too slow on a journey; the trip was undertaken on foot.

The parw consisted of the Wood brothers. Sam French. John Perry and Peter Black. with sufficient ... visions to last them on the jour- ney provided everything went al-

smoothly

If . he second day of November saw the

were put up for the allit-

The following day they reached their destination in time to pro- 5:?! the goods and chattels ne 1-

Next morning. Wednesday, they turned their faces homeward. Ab- out dark. they reached the settle- ment where they had lodged on way ts Charlottetown. and out Is for a second time

Thursday morning the sky wu overcast. portending a storm. with a fresh gale from the northeast. The settlers with whom they had spent the lllht urged them to stay until the nut day; but the group. being anxious to get back to Drud- ellell. decided to press on even at Itlsd risk of being caught in a bliz-

They

had not proceeded far when upon them. lradually h to a

st a

t a fire while the others set

t cutting dried brush and logs. Fl lly the steel, flint and fin- de the desired contact, and and

der

clothing. as the c their gar

nts.

of snow and rain. which

Dy noon the wind was a bowl-

sbliadiag

snowstorm caused the to seek shelter in a thicket. low. dense spruce. .

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-om..."-..-b.': to 'li.”"....'""....'f.' with Rich watts and his flock. our

IIDDDS KIDNEY mus ,

a thorocoplasty operation for tuber- culosis in die Freeport sanatorium. A call was issued for volunteer donors in the rare RH "0" negative class and many responded immed- iately. including students from two colleges. .

IIJOOD IAVEI LIFE

TV JETS ABOUND OTTAWA (CP)-Television sets.

V

H,leduc'ea lsnoke and soot Cuts Heating Costs. Costs No More

; ARNFAST Z LIMITED

leading ; increase - ORE HEAT PER GALLON cgngdig found in about four of every 10 homes. The bureau of statistics said Wednesday a septemt

the parade in the steady of modern conveniences in n households. now can be

eyforradipor

WHITE

hie. one

soon 5- warmth of the blaze reach- tract ag lh9'l bodies through the wet efforts.

ll stood around the fire North-South took

ting of ice melted from game and scored

RCONTRACT BRIDGE

By Josephine Ctilberlsgonyg

1'00 IRAVI

Excellent r u b b e r-bridge at a love score: players take liberties in doubling low contracts for penalties as long as the couble cannot result in a game against them. but it is quite a different matter to be "brave" in the face of a redou- (for example), doubled and made. costs the dou bling side only 110 points. but one spade, redoublcd and made, gives the enemy anywhere from 470 to 870 points. depending on the vul- nerability conditions.

All of which is a generalized way of saying that East in the deal below was guilty of a very foolish action.

spade

Ignpo 1 gm 3 1; 1 d - .1 south dealer. dl1'9549 "Bill Bllhtfllll "12 in me Irnsonbh To s;5,:5':.oI(')oVar';l()(:11 Both sides Vulnerable. W” hi '0"?! "rd throvlh "I0; s:i1.14s,ooo with the non-ferrous .Q932 - , ; metals and the iron and products Q Qlos so it was that. these lovely daysl groups showing the largest gains . A K94 '

that Mother Igature had providcd.' guy 10

were turned nto fearsome days, - - sad days. days of dreadful frights ”C'E"T Cmmc" .' 4g””” N 0 K5 and dreadful happenings. And it Holy Trinity church at mi. , V ” w E '”43 wasall becuase of whit Man cells cheater in Essex county. England. .Jo S 9 Q72 sport. ldates from 1050, R 8 7 5 3 IF it 9 6 3

4 J 7 3 STRANGE BUT TRUE 0 76 2 -my---m-em-m-. 9 10 8 5 3 Pioneeri) I PEI ”" X ll e e e The bidding- I: r- itw-cnnhur 333:" .33.? 1"?” 533 it x 1 NT Pass Pass Dole. The story of the deserted bab- x wo of the group undertook in Redbm P." PE" Pa"

The opening Ind W” M, M HTORONTO (CPI - Condition of great

significant-e-South did

The was

sxxewex-smxxxt.

Wllld setback last week. was improved fulfill the redoubled con-

ainst the defender's best, that rubber 7l0 points by bidding and making only one-odd

dian cnnsul-general in New York and farmer lieutenant governor of Ontario, underwent major surgery last month.

Actually, South himself

notrump redoubled.

It was not West who deserved re-. double was logical enough. He had passed originally and had passed again over South's unim- presslve notrump response. Sure- ly. East could not expect Eesi to have a better hand than he

critism-his pass over the

was ready to produce. it was East. the last to speak for his side, who should have lation by bidding two clubs. Even though he too had passed previ- ousiv, over North's one diamond. ”bailed out" of a dangerous'situ- clubs as the least of evils. there was no way of West's knowing that that pass had not been of the trapping variety. But East knew it! It was not unrea- sonable-though it was risky-to make a competitive bid when the one notrump came around. but South's redouble hanged the pic- ture radically and it was now up to East to run from an explosive situation. He should have bid two

LAWSON BETTER

on. Ray Lawson, who suffered

Wednesday. hospital authorities

en- gaged in quite a gamble when he redoubled one noirump. but he at least had much more to gain than -to lose. This could not be said for East-West. however-in fact the exact reverse was true. they had far more to lose than to gain by letting South play one

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By Bob Gusts-rfsoll

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