saturday, Sept. 10. 1955 The Guardian Page 9

By Thornton THE LOST LAUGHTER some act of mine. some deed you

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across Laughing Brook. of course no water can come down here. I hope they haven't built a big dam."

"I told you it was a little dam." replied Little Joe "I suppose they

STRANGE BUT TRUE

Pioneer Days In P. E. I.

"Believe it or not". but there was

a time when wild life abounded in

the forests of this Island. Bears,

wildcats. deer. etc.. were so num-

erous that people were at their wit's

end to know what treasures

should be adopted to keep their livestock intact.

A ratheramusing yarn came to my ears not so long ago. that had to do with a pioneer family who had lost their only cow in the woods. Now, the man of the family did not like the idea of hunting for bossy in the bear-ridden forests;

ly l'. I. MaeArhIr

from his high perch, staff Q a poke at. He bad ', ruched the Rood earth when he heard a limb anapand' ;,aroundaawhis nearest neighbor sliding down a tree trunk. not twenty feet from where he stood. .

When the two compared notes they had quite a laugh, for each man had been treed by the same bear.

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Tilly The Toilet

but his better half, who happened ' -p,.aay the BeIVeI'- are building it bigger all the time. to be of the nagging type, incess- POWER it JUST Dieove UP ANDE' , oicavf I HEr'S TO E , , ' 1 , k ti ed he an to the task. WENPIN Ermis Hous . 25, A v wt P-i ET Afwiwz W" ""0"?" ",'.feSd'.f,,f,'; Tiify re .”m"'; y:" h "Wh . "riir ltlhgee whi-Jlemdays and a part CHMN 5AWS THATS HIS CAR PAPJCED ALL HE our TO seem n- uowevaie LET

””"” the G19?" ' in thin I don. care W at er ' ey re of three nights the harried husband Aw OVER THERE 1!: HlM BE ALONE wm PEI? A MwurE'

Wm m the Blsgmnelthiiiz siiiase yer? learning or not they have '1" trarnped through the forests. keep- F?:s'iK WELLW0r5i"3 N 5HIF7So'0PUoV-' i”'ih'l'r::::';I”l'g (ll! was the laughter business i0 take Laughing Brook ing his ears open for the sounld of IN STOCK. E a el .'fr”ar-e ' IN” ” ” owbell. and muttering wor s 0 Q; 'jI' '”

I , B k. Th re wgg not away from us. Do they need a 8 C 1 , !

US, 1;:1:::::'”:; gmmunnal. to Show new pond?” Isked Jerry. ' gomplaing ageiainsjl his mis.;ius,wliiil))rlI; LOWEST PRICES. Z V ' x g 5 i ii

that iii"? ""5 5"Ch ' mm: "ii "I wouldn't think so." said deioigg iwmgould Lxorgadpeosfn I D

i.:iii::iiinzlBr0::-T0" i'w;::., Little Joe. "That pond of Paddy's wife. FIRESTQNE 5 l Whuui Eiiiliizle of running water, is big enough for the whole family." unlike Rip van winkie, he had & L I N ' M E N ' I. 93".” 1;: mm or the happiness "if they just had to build a no dos to accompany him on his bdglv-:hf;edvd-n4- 5. -1" . ll dd ".'l'h -"-"-

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ll'iIlmut Laughina Brook there muid be no real Smiling Pool. It n..,.1,, wasn't big enough to really gmin Jerry Muskrat and Mrs. Jmwl whn had long made their hi-um in the Smiling P001. Were hm very worried little DBOPIC "1 my. They couldn't understand whore the laughter of the brook h;ul;1(InP in. They had known other xumim-rs when there had 1,...-n ml min for a long, long time. hm ncver had Laughing 3T00k dlwd up as it had now. Never had it quite lost all its laughter.

up above the pond. instead of

below it!" cried Mrs. Jerry. "That is something I don't know.

You'll have to ask them." re-

plied Little Joe. and grinned.

”There is nothing to grin at. it

isn't a joke for us," protested

Jerry.

' "Some folks never think about

other folks." squeaked Mrs. Jerry. "And it probably wouldn't ma"-

any difference if they did," said

Little Joe Otter. "They are smart

youngsters. those young Beavers," be added.

luck and Mr. Pioneer was trudging along stealthlly through the woods when he was certain he saw a bear moving among the trees.

immediately he climbed the near- est tree and. crawling out on a great spreading branch, prepared to spend the night in the safety of its shelter, Several times the snapping of n ea r-by branches name to his ears and he lay tlivre. hardly darimz in hrcatlie lest Mr. Brtiin came up far tho supper he'd missed below.

After what seemed like an etern-

l2AST'S defense in the follow- ing hand suffered from faulty analysis. -

CONTRACT BRIDGE.

By Josephine Culbertson

IINBOUND ANALYSIS

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West opcnnd the heart icn. South won and immediately led a

"They are too smart," grumbled ity, dawn broke across the eastern

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low diamond to the queen. East i Little Joe Otter had come down Jerry Muskrat. skv and Mr. Pioneer climbed down Neither side vulnorabfe took his ace-and then took time we , (mm the Green Forest and had m r 1096 out to ponder his next move. -? .2; mid ill('lll that Paddy 1119 39”" D A I C R O S S W O R D :34 As he explained later, East fclt h O ' and Mrs. P8ddY had 85 300d 3 . . K0 7 3 that the only defense would be to pullii as ever way up in the G799" 503953 3- WIN 30. A screw g K86 4 iind West with a club stopper and Fm-psi, And then Little Joe had l.Haws.lian Ii-ler.) holding . A pl, . KQ 7 a third heart, so that he could put rlI'0PPPd 3 M"" He had '"'il how amt? 3' H”" ""0 wry. .105 vel 1g! But back on lead. It seemed in. Paddy's children were learning tn! 3. Scniunme 1. Bronze, machine ,'l-ag . sg W E , "edible um; west mum my, 9,, mild dams. and TIM hum ”"9i 36”” "3-"N ""0"'3iV P3?” Em gm": . A Sp spade ace. So, acting on this across Ltillghinil Rllififlii I h0l0Wp fposs.) .'5.Disdam to. BB 2 S go lllBl)'5lS. Ens: returned the heart Paddy's pond. ll wnsni I! hit: iiMI1.; 10- Helga" M Small talk gather 331 g J ur queen to clear his suit. but It was across Laughing Brook! 12. Poo Au slant. B. Blunder Vuumr ' tags:-1 ' A K. After that. of course, it was sll Sudilenlyh ad thoulht poi-nvd Inf" ”'"'””! , '30” 5 . no" ever. south took the men and .leiT)"5 ea - ' r r eaahed enough diamonds and "That's it!" cried Jerry. 3- hm” O 3' "”a O ”"” , ” OA Q1 clubs to round out the contract. J”il'hat is it?" squeakerl Mrs: ;”;lV':':;u.'m ” mart: zgl nnd'";;dgx:':;:' 'l'heiiUdiM'1 To start with, East was un- E cri'.V ' ' v realistic in ho.-mg that his rt- r-:::.::-... .. 223.... .. r" .. .. .. i.::::::.m 5:: ran r::: rte "in v Dli!'ii Jerry. "They VI! stolen "a "M '.od d tmuamu W P". 'N,' R. ha number, headed by the ten. West I lialiihlnl .Bl'00k- The)? W 8'01?" m Nu,” pd '...''e S. Bounk" I,-Dem R. would have led his lowest card of our water. ' . n'Bwch m” n .,”e .06” aglmhntlu 36 Ram.” ire suit. Next. East was a little "what are you two talkmz t i ,,,,,,, i t '" In mwuee netmnnornu too fast in mm. his diamond .-ihnut'.”" demanded Little Joe Oi-i mtg. a, 2m,” at 32. garfgligticiu South lied not.-hing resembling a ace. He should line held that4 W 1 ' - card u as ion as ossihlo. nd "Wh-Vv Y9" 1"” "M "s W"-' 2g :2 Bmhmam 33in”. name knew” "Me 'm"”'' ”" ”"d"'m" then viiost wofld ligve had Itha there isn't any water in Laughlntzy ztkd-G "on Ivnsbl bl GMWII Hill Hill! were i. to Magma. by dlscudmg Brook-" "plied Jerry. "ii "'0"! ma:-tuna poet unlike: in '0l0MM that -0- a low club. that sum should not Nuns Beam! '1!" W" I film areas an trump. but this conclusion is not look to him for anything It not g Venison justified. Such contracts cannot suit. This would have left llast . Now 'p MAGGH; g H-8'-I903 nlwa a be avoided. and in any with only one fair chancevto THPOlV5ANY1'H4N& ' ' JP id”??? caseyit is not invariably fatal to shift to spades on the hope. how- BiMMV'l-L 6"" y 3.0! n genus bid game at notrump without ever remote. that West had I. . -' f” , do-cans rs h all four nulls. rho four-curd new unit headatl bi. 1 -lush Hddlvq was not One lee. '

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