JANUARY 20, 1953

By Thornton rr coum mva new woasa

It could be worse, mind.

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W. Burgess

longer have a house to shelter us?"

”You did pretty well with that ' stick." chuckled Paddy. "Better have another. Then you really will feel

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(Top score on the board was well within the grasp of a certain pair in a duplicate. game, but something slipped.

West dealer. -North-South vulnerable. Match-point duplicate.

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"Ilwill be no end of help, youlll find. better." I O 4 I. . ePaddy the Beaver. Mrs. Paddy shook her head. She Ha enierpd It hole in the bank, woil '9 72 V I ml didn't want. to be comforted. She under water, . 01075532 I "I feel better." said Paddy the looked mournfiilly over to the sc:It- ' T55”

Beaver. as he pulled the last bit of tered ruins of their house which mssjssspjj-p'n 4 AK75 N O -I By Alex Raymond bark from an aspen stick and drop- Glution the Wolverine had torn to longer have a house to live in,"' ' A 1096 V 35

ped the bare stitcric in the water. pieces. ”It was such a nice house.” rctoi-ted Mrs. Paddy. ' . :23 ws E zgfogssi -' aaK.N.o.-..-.i5., tp

He was sitting on e ce at the edge she whlmpered. "It could be worse," said Paddy. E W I7)” , HA 95 or a small pool of open water near "We'll have another just as good," "I don't know how it could," re- "'A Q 3 2 5OTHI15,z"pEgg”'i-2'55 'ULLA' HWY” T0 W” TABLETS? one end of his pond in the Green said Paddy cheerfully. "Next year turned Mrs, Paddy. Tgyggea 2 ' I C N 3E

Forest. we'll liuiid an even better one." "It could be that we had no place i :A'

Mrs. Paddy said nothing. She was "What good is a new house next. whatever to go," replied Paddy, IIL98 7

still eating bark. Paddy watched her for a moriiciit. "Don't you?”

said he at last.

"Don't I What?" grumbled Mrs. thing to look forward to," replica Paddy nodded. He nodded several C . . y T 5 Plddy W"-h Ii" mouth W11 Paddy. times. "That's what you've forgot- 2K:”a:;d:i:1:1O?1:Seagg' F3” r&sW1I;d' aoT”Iti.'E..IT'9 "Don't you feel better?" asked ”I don't want to look forward to tengv said he. not murse we have - U 0V'3YC31 "8 EMPTY!

Paddy.

Mrs. Paddy just iiiiimbled. Per- haps it was because she still had a mouthful. Perhaps it was because she didn't want to admit that she really did feel better. She finished the bark on her stick, and dropped it in the water.

”Shall we go and get something more to eat?" said Paddy.

”I'm not lningry." said Mrs. Pad- dy. "I haven't any appetite. What is the good of eating when we no

year going to do us now?" asked Mrs. Paddy. She spoke doleiuily. "No good, my dear. but it is some- i

anything; I want to know what we're going to do now.” declaredo Mrs. Paddy. She simply refused to) be cheerful.

"I think you've forgotten some-I thing," said Paddy.

"I don't doubt I have forgotten something, but there is one thing I haven't forgotten," retorted Mrs. Paddy. -,

"What is that?" asked Paddy.

the middle of winier, and we nol

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, come from Europe over

- If 'our ships and fill the churned; iup acres wiierevei'

than a thousand species

dy.

I . - gwe keep our 'I havent forgotten that this is nothing can happcn tn 3; mere,"

men go. More dear." said Paddii ha”? I of things iIia'i might be, but are not the whnalikcli-' to be? You can always find

"Well, have we?" asked Mrs. Pad- It was plain that she didn't hink they had.

It place to go to. it isnt as good as

ur house was, but it will do. We can

keep dry and warm, and you know as u'Pll as I do that with plenty to eat. this is all we need. If that follow had gotten at our food pile and scattered that, we would be a lot worse off than we are now. He wouldn't have been satisfied just to

car our house to pieces. I'm glad food under water:

"It could be washed away in a lood." said Mrs, Paddy.

"But there isn't any flood. my "So why think

-Air. almost all of the tables tne bidding started off the same, with

with two spades, and West doubling, Only one East, however, accepted the double W the others bid three clubs. In these latter cases, the best scores were earned by those East- West pairs who managed to bid and make four hearts, for scores of 420 points.

The one East who stood for the double of two spades should have been rewarded with 500 points, and a ”top," but his partner's defense was not what it should have been.

West opened stlie diamond queen. South laid down the heart king; West won and properly returned it heart. It would have been 9. good idea for South to win this with dummy's queen, then finesse for the

MR. BOWEN WILL AEVER GET IN THIS PLACE

ARE vou ALL RIGHT, MR. WALSH ?

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These several thousand years bf recorded history of man is but a single instantaneous frame in the, reel of time. Therefore, we can-: not say, but can only qucstioni whether these aggrcssors will some day supplant the trees and then- associaies. If so, the weeds will inherit the earth's crust after the downfall of the forests-and geolo- gic history will be repeated.

In the past, nature produced flora. along 8. scale of immense time. Today. the weeds of the world have spread in a twinkling on the split-second scale of maiils time, stimulated by running across man's ploughed fields and along his disturbed roadsldes. Instead of building a great organism like a tree. they form small, fast plants whose energi s are concentrated not on creati.n wood and size but on packing myriads of dynamic needs. Because they are of the open spaces. their dispersal mech- anisxns are mostly wind-borne, Their embryos sweep across land like I. blizzard of snowflakes. Their seeds are tough and long- lived. and they ride the seas in

clearings. Such are the daisies and. black-eyed Susans, the sunflowers Queen Anncis lace. rag- wort, fleabnne. chickory, 1histlc.I mustard.

the weeds with cool, dark placcsie

protected from the wind. B:'anib-'S1,mted up unm It was above -me '95 Md b”"- burdock mid 7113' water, It was an old bank den they

weed do not grow in the shade oak and maple. They flourish a- mong their stumps. Without man's. aid, the weeds cannot prevail ovcri the forest. The old (!0l”D0l'ilii0ll still holds the title to the land.

Through the pages of this won- derful book we have been explor- ing among the rocks, woods, and fieldsln quest of adventure and dis- covery. We have found ourselves standing at a unique vantage point of time. looking back at the mas- sive sweep of life on this planet, powered by the living cell. Per- haps for some of us the inilpact of this perspective has been a spiritual experience. The grandeur of life in our flowering world lies in its infinite possibilities.

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I I dfwiistcri with Mrs. Paddy. land but lost their restraint in curl

t'ilS'iI')T)&RT8d under muuem IPod(iv hesitated a moment. then '1 followed. Paddy swam I ice distanra. to where there was a fairly Isteen bank, He entered a hole in the Tlie csialilished forest can resist I bank We” under water, 1; was the

to make the pond in which they

g?;gd)ih1'::i1d I;glIFIb:lot32lIf1?IliLI10USP- MTS Iirllnlp. and the contract was down

Iwas due to the exact break of spades and ciubst, so he won with his own heart jack and exited with a club.

West cashed the queen and ace of clubs, then led another heart. East ruffed dummy's queen with the spade jack, and deelarer discarded his last club. Now the crucial point of the play arrived. East laid down the club king: declnrer ruffed with the eight - and West over-ruffed instead of logically discarding, After that. South could easily take all the tricks except West's second high

He slipped into the water and the ice. Mrs.

under the

iip Lauizhing Brook :1 short

ntrance to a tunnel that grndiiallv

ad used before their dam was built

only 200 points.

This very point --- over-ruffiug I dcclarer when one might easily build an extra trump trick by mere- ly discarding - arises time and again. and it will repay players to stop and think before giving them- selves the pleasure which seems to he inherent in the over-ruff situat- irm.

FAMOUS ROUTE

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So deIici'ous- f ' I I so re reshmg' i The pony express between Cali-

fornia and Missouri. 1.980 miles, operated in 1860 and 1861.

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Tilly The Toilet

By Al Capp

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