By Thornton A SUDDEN ENDING

3 present lose t.h.at. causes pain. May prove to be a future gain. doid Mother Nature.

Deep in the Green Forest. two handsome Grouse ,were fighting. and another one was looking on. The latter was Mrs. Grouse, and it was for her love that the others were fighting. She was keeping herself well hidden. but it was where she could watch that right.

They were well matched, those two, One was Thunderer. her long- time mate, Every spring, she had seen him figtht just like this, and every spring she had faltjustasshe did now. excited and thrilled, and not quite sure which one she wanted to win. The stranger was handsome; he was young, and quicker than Thunderer. She ad- mixed him. But right down in her heart she hoped that Thunderer would win.

The feathers flew as the two fighters struck with spurs and bills, and beat. with their stout wmgs. They were m occupied with each other they could give no thought to anything else. There was no watching out for danger now. Sometimes both leaped at the same time and they met in the air. Sometimes they drew apart a little and circled. each looking for a :ha.noe for a sudden spring on the other.

Trotting swiftly through the Green Forest. Reddv Fox and Mrs. Roddy drew near the scene of the .' ht. There was an eager look in llheir eyes. It vms a hnn.g-rv look. too, They had trotted swiftly all the way from the Old Pasture. As bhey drew near those two filziitars. they still moved quickly. but with rreae care and caution. Thev Ieparuted. Reddy oircled so that they would come from opposite

directions. Both were so intent on Ihe fight they paid no attention to anything else, The result was that neither of them sew Mrs- nlthough Reddy passed

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within a few feet of her. And neither new a lone Grow up in a. cedar tree, almost directly above the fighters.

Mrs. Grouse kept very still. It is a way she has of doing when she knows she hasn't been seen. Instead of watching the two tghters. she watched Roddy. She saw him crouch and begin to crawl along on his stomach, He cnarwled nsarer and nearer to the two fighters. Happening to look over to one side, she saw Mrs. Roddy. She, too, was creeping forward, and was it omost near enougth for a auicic rush. Mrs. Grouse waited until the last minute. Then she suddenly sprang into the air with .1 roar of stout wings. a sound such as only the stout wings of a Grouse can make. It is a. start- ling sound. Every other who hears it knows just what it means - danger. It means danger very near.

Mrs. Grouse whirred awav strnigiit. over those two fighters. They heard the sound of those wings. They didn't wait to find at-9. where the danger was, or what it was. They forgot their uuarrei. Thny sprang into the air just as Reddy sprang at them from one side. and Mrs. Raddy from the niher. It was 3, close mil. It was a very close call. Mrs. Reddv actually touched Thunderer with one new when she loaned. That is. she touched his tail. That is how close it was.

Away whirred Thutnderer in one dirmtion, and away whirred the other Grouse in the other direction. Of course. each had flown in the direction he was facing.

"Cow! Cali"! Caw!" shriekcd -the lone Crow in the cedar tree, and in his excitement, he almost fell off his perch, '

Reddy and Mrs. Reddy grinned at each other rather sheepishly. "I guess we won't have that Grouse breakfast this morning," said Roddy.

"Anyway, we almost had it,"

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ropiied Mrs. Roddy.

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They had trottedmswiltly .31” the, way from the Old Pasture.

"My dear," mid Roddy, "I think it is my fault that we haven't got. that breakfast."

"How is it your fault?" asked Mrs. Reddy.

"I should have remembered that Mrs. Grouse was somewhere around, and should have looked for her. But I forgot," explained' Reddy.

"I should have remembered the same thing,” replied Mrs. Reddy. "so it was no more your fault than mine."

"Never mind, my dear," grinned Raddy. "if we had caught them this time, there wouldn't be any next time. Now. perhaps, there may

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By Josephine Clnbertlon

F105 A DEFENSIVE POINTER

In Iruny cases I. defender must assume that his partner holds a certain card - or one two cards - since otherwise the situation is patently hopeleu. But there are times when the loundeet. defense puts other thing: xii-It -

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Reddy. He is something of a piiii-, osopcher. t

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The following is the report for the month of February for Dun- stafinage School:

Grade VIII-1. Elaine Foster.

Grade VII-1. Kenneth Thomn- son: 2. John Cudmore; 3. Lottie' Oudmore.

Grade V1-1. Muriel Dennis; 2. Georgina Thompson; 3. JerryMac- Cailum.

Grade V--1. 2. Janet Fall.

Grade IV-.-i. Alan Ellis; 2.F'ran- ces Hill: It. Bruce Foster.

Grade III-l. Marjorie Robbins; 2. Elizabeth Hill: 3. Shirley Ellis.

Grade II-1. Roddy Maccalitun: 2. Wayne Dover; 3. Jay mbbins.

Grade I (Al--1. Robert Hill. B) -1. Paula Macxinnon; 2. Gerard Long.

Teacher: Ralph oarragher.

Leith Dover: 2.,

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