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:50 as not to upset it. Now it was You fear the worst. and then youlvery close to shore. The tow little

(ind, Mice hail their heads out under

-v0ld Mother Nature

Two little Woodmice, Snuwfoot seemed to (.'tllll(' nearer and near- i,om,m U,"-ii... u,(,i,. feel, The" may were oiil on the bank, two of the

and Tinkle, had made their home in an old tomato can they had found beside Laughing Brook. A heavy &in had made a flood. and their home, with them in it. had been floated down Laughing Brook into Smiling Pool. it had been truly a frightful adventure. Of pourse, they were quite helpless.

-, 3 IX! Their little legs were moving at last its they could make them go

Wet hut Happy . .- -The Merryvlslttle Breezes hadi

blown the old can across the Smil ing Pool. They had blown gently,

Strange But True

.1 l. I. MacArthur

Boa copstrictors, adept at. catch- mg rats and mice roplacs cats for that job in hotels of many MPXl' can villages. The owners know that the snakes won't hurt pennie- no they let their 10-foot pets roam true about. g

Frogs like pcopla. have different accents. but the ones with the "southern diawl" live in the north! They ct-oak much slower and in 3 lower pitch than their southern relatives. says Chas. Boilerh 0' the American Museum of Natural

" History. hi.Nsw York City-

Armed with a tape TN'N'dl?l”-

Bngvrt goes to ponds. etc. in get -..the low down on the local frodi

gossip In far he's been able to pick five kinds of frnfl calls -1- tlmugh no single species Pl'0t'l'l"-' all of them. Each of these iioilndl uttered hy any one species is dif- ferent from the others.

The five calls referred to are the mating calls. The most my-

aterioiis of these is the so-called "rain song" which still baffles"

scbntists. Whenever it ruins. the frogs will hop forth and bellow

with their finest arias. Why? No-

body knows the answer. The only explanation is that the frog is somehow like I man in that they both like in sing in the shower.

Vnicp accents helps us to dis- Ingutsh between the frog species.

One plants spring vegetables to get the vitamins to relieve the aching back one gets planting spring Wgctnhles.

Youngsters would learn to write ltioner if hinckhnards were made of cement

Two strange portraits may be soon at the New York Historical building in New York City. One shows it woman with two right

'hands. the other depicts an early.

New York governor dressed in female attire

The piirtr.'ii'i of Maria Van Alen.

done in H595 and attributed to. Peter Vanrlcrlyn. looks normal un- less you happen to notice what should be the left hand. Origin- ally. Vanderlyn painted the left hand hanging loosely from somel support. However. for some reason'

the position of the arm and hand was changed. The ariisit painted a

hands and no left.

The anonymous painting of ward Hyde. Lord Cornbiiry. was'

not a mistake. Hyde tl66l-l72.'ll

was a first cousin of Queen Anne of Fingli-iiid. He was a poor gnvcr-l

nor. being called a spendthrift. izraftcr. a bigoted oppressnr. and a drunken. vain fool.

Perhaps the thing that upset the

colonists most dtiring his term of)

office was his appearance in pub- lic dressed as a woman To adii in their chagrin. the governor held slate functions. at which all present had to dress in female I"1l'!'.

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:C:u-.C-Q- -can-o-J

mind the half-open lid and were an-

hago 10.Tho Guardian. Monday. Aug. 22. 1955 ""'l ”" W "” 'l"'

"we can try." replied Snowfont. He started to climb up on the edge of Ilie old can. it tipped. It tipped so niuch that the water he-

. gun It! run in. Siiowioot tried to

jump dlltl couldn't. He was out in

. the water. and he was swiinming "without knowitii: that he could.

Tirikle was out and swiiiiming too. it was a very little way they had to swim. but of course to them it seemed a long. long way. Their

' little legs were moving as fast as

they could make them go. They were trying to run in the water. Of course. they couldn't run. but those little feet were taking them through the water just as if they could. They were swimming. They hadn't known that they could swim. hilt there they were doing

I secondl l'lElll hand larger than the first.l The painting now show two right;

xiuusly watching the shore us it. jip in a moment or two they re"

er. 0f cuiirsc it was the drilling can that was gt.'ll'lliH nearer and nearer to the shore.

They had had one triglii attet Linotlier Min all these ti'ilihlF were forisotten as they drifted nearer and nearer to the beloved dry land. For a liitie tiiey had been quite liopeless. but non they were sure that all would and well r'l'higi would soon be on land again. .Tht') had had quite enougii oi sailiin:

Presvnll) tin can gl'iliilltll'(.l i'i'here was still HJIIH tietui-eii it and the batik. iiiii it t'()lllfl drift tin no nczirer The two little toy takers iinitctl hopi-luliy. but they ;got no ncarer the Sh0l't'

l "What are we going to do?” tVi'hiillpPliP(l Tiiiklc

”Perliap.-; if we jlllllit our very best we can make it." said Snow- tfoot.

Tinlvtie shook her head. "We

Our Boarding House

wettest and happiest little Mice in

all the Great World. All their ll't)llt)lCS were over now. At least, that is what they thought. it was enuiitzh to feel the ground under their feet They no longer were- heliiless. Tiiey shook themselverol then crept under some uver-hang- ing mass and stiiialteti down side

liy wide to dry off.

The old van was partly iilledl shivered ast they looked at ti The home ihatl they had thonglii was so wonder-l

uith water now Th

ful was no loiiecr a home for any- (HIP.

hClIll;.!'.'4l'l'lilIl."' called Grand- tather Frog from the big green 'iypadx on the other side of the .miling Pool. ”Chug-a-rum!"

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By Josephine Culbertson

All caperts agree that proper shutout bidding in a powerful weapon, but the unfortunate part is that they don't agree on what. is "proper"! Very obviously. it is hard for one partner to cooper- ate effectively with the other without. knowing the precise meaning and scope of the pre- emptive tnd. Consider this use:

North dealer. ' Both sides vulnorsv 435 Qqer QAJl08'f4l Q8 QJi3 b01012 piio91 N QA83 00 W E OK65 QAQ9 SI QJ107 bi QAK9 pics: 93 4.i(la32 The bidding: orth East South West

Q Pass 3 NT Pass Pass Pass

It was tempting for South to take A chance with three notrump but, lacking any card of value in diamonds. it would have been more logical (and certainly more discreet) to ”let North alone."

ruoii. UNDERSTANDING BEQUIIED

But we'll get back to the bidding: now let's has what. developed. West. deciding to keep his club! back of declarer's probable king. opened the hurt jack. Dummy played low. Eapl. signalled encour- agement with the eight. and south won with the king. Declsrcr nowlled his diamond nine and. when West played the queen. ducked in dummy u the best. means of maintaining com- munications. Obviously. however. with diamonds hreaking as they did, South was helpless. West contiiuied with the heart ten and '4 u m m y ' I queen wu neatly trapped. East then had the in- spiration to shift to the club jack. and when the defenders were through. they had collected the tidy penalty of 500 points. against an undoubled contract! Again referring to the bidding -it is quite evident that closer understanding is required of part- ners in respect to shutout open- ings. One thing or the other is vital: the responder must give great leeway for weakish suits and pass whenever in doubt: or the opener himself should decline to play at. three notrump except with a solid suit. Five-trick sets. even undoubted. are not to be ac-

cepted lightly.

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