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PAGE TEN

p A BLACK Mm.

Call no one stupid lest you show How little you yourself may know. , --Buster Bear.

Buster Bear was lllllillibllllz to himself. It sounded like grumb- ling. but it wasn't. really. He was just mumbling. He liked to hear the aound of his VOLCP. A lot of people are l:ke that. Tlit-)' murnble and thrxv ziiiiiiiblo and they rumble withmit it; mmiiin:

anything more than that ilivy

Buster was digginz. Buster ll 1 good digger. Buiter has bu: Itrong paws. and each ion nn oath paw has a hiiz stout claw. 80 ll" has real digging feet, and he knows how to use them. Buster Beer will do A lot of very hard . W0” 1”” eve” -Wm” r'"'"”1r He Moms. in his hi: mouth. the? Wmhd”; 3' 3”” biz mm .(”'"1” Monte may be hnrrll.V R bite. but! '9 dig N” inf? "awn a N” 5m”i'Buster will consider it worth all'

QaooQxo3rg,s,r:i:-mas.-.'.i;x.4 Iio work he gone to, to dig iii

0 ,9.mIt ail Bi.:slPr wasn't digziniz very hard. ..iPcrhap.: you would have said he wris just. scratching around the

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By Joeephino Culbertson

right now." Buster looked suddenly pleased over his own thought. Yen. sir he did no. He beun dig- ging with a little more energy.

"Stupid! There is nothing in the world more stupid than work- ing for nothing." croaked the big black bird. He apread his great. black wings and slowly flnpped up to a rocky point high above. It was his favorite perch.

Buster Bear watched him' go. ''So I'm slupld.." said he. He grim ned. "There's L Mouse down in there somewhere. for I can get the Mouse smell. It won't. do any harm to do a little digging. That black rascal is altogether too insistent that there isn't any

1'1-iii GUARDIAN.

Mouae here. what does he know about it anyhow? A little exer- cin wont! hurt me. There may be a whole nest of Mice under that old stump. Yes. sir. there may be so." He licked his lips at a plea- sant through. Then he began to

dig again. -

"Stupid." muttered Croaker looking down from the rocky point.

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mu of that old stump. Once or L-.t--we lin stripped and took hold

1 15 lAR”nLE Hold him that he couldn't pull that

. .stiinip over. Anyway he couldn't 1' ll 0"” Hm”! 1'” 5"'W”” i””t"iinlcss he dug I way around the

her to game w'i.h (our SlIlfIil.l.nn'5.

"ids 1" his 'r”"”V i N” V ”Tlwrri's no Mouse there," croav

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p , I-Wm "ll'llfI said there is?" gro-.i"ird of trump Si1ppDll.. LL :.i.lL.l ili..x Bus,” B”, lookinl up at .n case; iispraker. it. was Crotiker the im- ' Von. who had perched in it neigh- North dealer. bnrinx U09- Both !l(I('5 viilncialglcu , h,,Th""k :;lhP(lj- HI? S00 digging .nr. ' as c .i-on 1-in .5 "That's mv business." said Bus- .36;' pier Boar stood tip like a man. My, . K i-what a lmg fellow he was when he MQJ10875 Hvtood tip! .095 AJ1053 ”I thought I might, help vou A, N .A2 bv telling vnii what I KIIOIW" .Qlo W E NJ95 vtiuakoti lhEAbl" liiack bird loch- ..Q1o73 S 42 in: dmi-n at him from up in the M98 '53z - pine tree. hKa7 J 'tWhar- do vou know," grumbled 'KJ97l Buster Bear." M:2!8(4 "I know th;it imi are wasting .V('llI time if iou think mu re gri- me bidding: i in; to dir a Mouse nuf. of there." want E", south W”. croaked the harsh-voice cousin pug pus 1 . pa” 0f”BlaCk)' the Crow. an an pu, 25-rp pas. How do you knnw. growled 4. pg” 5' pas, Biister hair. and started digging Q. pa” pasi pa” again. but only in a half-hearted

. p . way. Rem”k3”A zviri :i.:. T” "Kn"nsi "Thorn hamlt been H Mouse part wniiid have f':.'. ,'n the run-

p ' bu. h 5 of F Nd inoar that stump for days and rat. 1 e wa n . 5 com - V dp Vs). 9 led Cmakor. llRM9d- and 179 W97" dmm (mi 1'l'herer iBHlS a twinkle in one of c"”'9C'- P133" Buster Bear's small eyes. "Then W”-"l "95"”d 3 1”” 5P,”'1'"' ”,”d, tluire was one." he said. at the sfemndd trick ('lPEll'il.'Pl .on ..I dldntb my mt,” wasnitlw ,9- 3 "um? "Om 1”" '”” Pl”-W” torted Croaker, His voice wasn't 3" d5””?- ""d S” h N” i" '"e pleasant. it never is pleasant. Jack Thli is W9 h”,' ”Pe"9"t' but some times it is more un- AK9 W37" Wm” d”C”'”" lack? pleasant than at other times. "I ?-;9d:'C'3, -'mtdh;1”:?Ft 3”bd”m;:l ilikggiysaid he hasn't been here for days P r in . u: , i ' and da-vs." Wmni "H5 t'”””' H . "How do ynu know he isn't H.' was N” S'”.m15 z””5”.":.liei'a now?” growled Buster. "Just Whlch "mm b” 1” '”'”"d :" mes because you havenlt seen him is Q59 - he Shmlld ""1 MT" NE," ! no reason for his not being here 1" tn” slam mntmc". Tim .r;Mlnow. You aren't watching all the g ml"? gzeai pl” -"--"5" P””””-i time. Maybe he's asleep down here .ou mtg 0. ,:M.M...u T...

nv have had lnsoi

twn trump irirks: in t.hri sot-tmtli place he mizh:. HIPS: w"mi':: in H1, mud pig:-0 ihrra mi:h' iinv" been a defensive cluh :'. .. with East or West holding a Sll'iL'lPi”Yi.

North should not have accepted l

Eouiiifo slam invitation. Siirvliul South's biddinz was jiistilioriyt ; Shut. North fail:-d in rnnsizlcr

that his own lrap in four llP.1l'i3l (though also justifiodi n1':ht have:

made Smith ovnrnnnfident nbout I

the trumh suit Vnrth knew that1 Th" P"I"'l"'i ('AI""-'7' he had no heart linnor, but could South know that?

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