Page 14, The Guardian IEDTIME STORIES

Wed., March 14, 1956

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;Too Frightened To Move

By Thornton

Fright. if we the truth but tell. Very often serves its well. -Danny Meadow Mouse.

As everybody knows Danny

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peeping out of the end of it. had seen the birds going and coming to that flat rock and picking up seeds. One had been dropped al-

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ST. JOHN'S. Nfld. (CP)-A dele- gation of 16 federal transport 0(- ficials headed by Deputy Minister John Baldwin arrived here Mon-

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M8.8d0W Mouse is a very timid t most on his nose by at b'ItVl f1)v'inll,ern Newfoundland. will be opened

peison. He is so timid that he afraid of his own shadow. There is hardly a minute when he is awake in which he is truly free from fear. A dry leaf rustlcs. It frightens Danny. A mischievous Merry Little Breeze blows the grass so that it moves just ahead of Danny. Danny turns and Scamp- ers back as fast as his short legs can take him.

A little cloud sailing high in the airy casts a shadow on the grass below. Of course the shadow mov- ed as the little cloud was blown by the Merry Little Breezes. Dan- ny Meadow Mouse was sure that that shadow was made by one of the Hawk family. and again he took to his short legs to get under better cover. That is the way it is all the time with the Mouse folk. There is hardly a moment when they are not afraid.

Sometimes if the fright is sud- den and unexpected, they will be too frightened to move. Does it seem rather dreadful to you to be too frightened to move? More oft- en than not it is not dreadful at all Danny's life has been saved many times hy being too frighten- ed to move. liuiuzry enemies who might have caught him have fail- edyto see him because he didn't move. Had he moved even the least bit. keen eyes would have seen him and he would have been caught. ,

Now most of the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows are afraid, very much afraid, of boys and grown-ulist whom they know only as those two-legged four. ' -

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Danny dartel back into Minerls tunnel.

Danny had been getting E;

bold. That is. he was getting hold , for a Meadow Mouse. Quitc by ,

chance he had discovered that Farmer Brown's boy was feeding the birds on a big flat rock JllSl. back of the house, A tunnel dug by Miner the Mole had led Danny over there. Danny often uses Min- er's tunnels because in them he finds many things to eat that he wouldn't find otherwise. This fun- nel had ended just a little way from that flat rock and Danny.

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over. It was a sunfloncr secd.

It seemed to Donny that never in his short life had he ever tasted anything as good as that sunflow- er seed. That one sunflower seed was what is called a teaser. A teaser is something that makes you want more of tlic sonic. Dziiiiiy

lwanted more of the same. and he ;wantcd it right unity. lie was try- ing to screw up his courage enough -to dart across In that rock and lsnatch a seed. uhcn him should come out but Fni'incr Brown's boy ,himsclf. lie nus lirliiciii: iuurc seeds to spread on that .lul rock.

Danny was too li'iulilclicti to move. He just held his breath and lay there motionless. Fnrnier Brown's boy would hzixc secn him

It wouldnt have innilcrctl it" ho had but Danny dnlnil lmmr that. Really Farmer Bron in tiny ulls the best friend that llanny alni Nanny Meadow Blouse haul. but they didnt know it He was and is at all times a frlcntl of all the little people of the tlrccn l-'ui-est and the Green lileiidmts.

When Farmer Bron ifs buy ltirn- ed to walk away. Danny darted back into Miner's tunnel and hur- ried home to tell Nanny about his adventure.

EXPAND PROGRAM

OTTAWA (CPI-The Canadian again will 8 P a n t geography scholarships after a three - year suspension. Maj,-Gen. H. A. Young. society president and deputy works min- ister, also announced Thursday that the society has launched a campaign to boost membership to 30,000 from 11,250 to permit ex- tension of its research, lectures and publications.

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by an address by Premier Small- nood and will be under the chair- uanship of Dr. F. W. Rowe. pro- vincial minister of welfare and re SOIITCQS.

The agenda includes transporta-

-tion, communication, health and -welfare services. fisheries, forest industries. agriculture, economic development and resettlement,

l'3Ii;hl)' delegates from Cape Ray on the province's southwestern tip to North Harbor on Placentla bay have been called to St. John's to take part. They will meet with Mal. C. W. Carter, federal mem- her for the south coast riding of Btu-in-Burgeo. south coast mem- bers of the provincial House. llE(ldS of federal departments in St. John's. provincial department l'cpi'eselitatiVes and representa- tilrs of Newfoundlantfa two paper companies.

first War Gas h Shell Deadly

i l.HTx(:vl'Y France (AP)-A First World War mustard gas shell has ,caused the deaths of two boys and fellctl doctors. nurses and an am- bulance driver of the Longwy ,hospital.

E Parents and friends of the boys halso have been affected by the ldeadly gas.

Four schoolboys found I 105 m.m. shell of mustard gas on the loutskirts of this town near the Bel- lgian border, scene of heavy fight- ,ing -10 years ago. When they tried lip dismantle it, the shell exploded. l Farmers summoned the ambu- lances to rush the boys to the Longwy liospilal. Two of them died jun the operating table. Two are aiearticath from their wounds. r A: nightfall. mcmbcrs of the hos- pital staff began collapsing. They lhad been contaminated by the gas. lin critical condition are two doc- ytors who operated on the boys, the attending nurses and the am- bulance driver.

An army decontamination squad is working over the entire hospital.

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T BRIDGE

By Josephine Culbortsof

When you double a one-bid for a takeout. and your partner, by "passing, converts this into a pen- alty double. don't even look at your hand-open a trump! Here is the classic illustration of this situation. and of what happens when a dif- ferent lead is made

South dealer.

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South West. North East 19 Dblc. Pass Pass Pass

East wasn't particularly happy about leaving in his partncr 5 one- heart double. but with three rea- sonalbiy sure ilcfciisive tricks against hearts, and utth only sketchy values for Wrst if he bought the ctinirart, the conver-

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sion to a - . double seamed best.

West, hearing his "puma-'. pm. alty pass, beamed and doubtleu reflected. "Oh. oh, we'll mung” these fellows!" - and forthwith laid down the king and queen of spades (after South had complet- ed the auction by paulng, .1 course).

South ruffed the aecond k, and feeling that the club neck?” on his left, laid down the king of clubs. Maybe he could coax an- other spade lead from West.

West was nothing it not abusing, Taking the cltib king. hg log; N, time in forcing declarer again in spades, to reduce his trump length. South gratefully accepted the force. then cashed the ace gnd king of diamonds and led another ruff with a low trump, and he sun had the A-K of trumps to round out the doubled contract,

It can't be denied that West's spade honors consituted an attrac- tive opening lead. but even in this case the trump opening wag mu- dato'ry!mFar from forcing declarer by spades. the defense should have led trumps at every opportunity. and if West had fol- lowed this important principle. he would have collected at least 500 points instead of paying out the equivalent of 160 points,

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have reached a point zoo miles

southwest of Baffin island on the

west side of Boothia peninsula. Searchers learned they had aban- doned their ice-bound ships there and the survivors struck out south-

ln Baffin Island

CHURCHLL. Man. (CPl -. Graves of three white men have been found in the barren land of Baffin island. more than 600 miles northeast of here.

Sketchy reports reaching here said the graves are known to be those of English sailors and are 125 years old.

They were found by men em- ployed on the Distant Early Warn- ing line. a defence chain now be- ing built across the Arctic. Members of the ill-fated Franklin expedition which perished in the Arctic while seeking the Northwest

ward in hopes of reaching civiliza- tion.

I! E ADWAITEB RETURNS

TORONTO (CP) T llohn Ellla King, Royal York Hotel head- waiter reported missing 11 days ago, has retitrned to his suburban Leaside home Friday night. police said Saturday. He was located in Las Vegas after he sent a tel- egram to his family here for money. No reason for his disap- pearance was given by the family police said.

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