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By Thornton run SANDPECKER3

".":”II.l2?i his .. be. sold Mother Nature. ..,-,..,g ,1 mm!" said Grandfather PM Hunt:-a-rum! I see. thosei i 5a,..i..m-i.vis are back. i "wliii""askP(i Peter Rabbit. He . huwi niiniod. He was puzzled. ---n,...p Snndpcckers. replied unmdtziiliz-r Frog.

Rabbit.

Pater you know them as well as I do."

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Prirr st-ratt-lied I long ear with . Inn; hind foot. He looked all lrolllltl lie didntt sec anybody whom he didn't know. "Sand- perlu-r."" said he. ”Snndpecker.-.1 Idnnl heiieve I know who the Sandpeckers are. I know the Wo(lt'1IlFf'kf'l' folk. but the Sand- perkPl'.a are new to me. I never urn heard of them before."

Graiiiliailivr Frog. sitting his his green lily-pad. grinned. Anni-ny, that big mouth of his lfWil(P(l as if it was gr' '

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the smiling Pool. or a gravel-pit not far away. which had been dug by men making roads. That really was his first choice. Mrs. Rattles had refused to even go look at it.

”Sandpecliei's!" said Peter over and over to himself. "Sand- peckers! than a good name. That's what they do. peck sand. That's what I'm going to call them."

Peter didn't realize how diffi- cult it is to get a common name changed. Rattles might be truth a Slndpecker. but he had been for so long a Kingfisher. that probably he always would be a kingfisher. Peter should have remembered how he tried to change his own name from Peter Rabbit in Peter Cottontall.

Ito the pasture with a sheep dog. Soon the dog began to dance and howl. Then a cow fell down. Bill went to investigate. 5058371 tail and got a shock.

ta electric light pole had short- c trifying it up to 3.000 volta.

"1 youth was required by law to be

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Bill Trevor's curiousity led him

He pulled An investigation disclosed that the swamp field. elec-

In Manchester. England, they have it machine that composes love letters. using such endearing words as: "Darling Sweetheart."

Yours beautifully etc. The ma- chine is an electronic computer. After he'd finished with an ax- ecttl . Charles Sanson, Chief Executioner of Paris a couple of centuries ago. would play with children. or by himself. Why? Be- cause the chief executioner was only seven years old!

In those days the job was hereditary. Thus. when C ' les' father died. the boy automatically filled his shoes. as the saying goes. Of course. Charles didn't actu- ally do the head Capping. He had an assistant named Prud- homme who did that. However. the

present every time a head rolled. The result was probably the most horrible part of it all. The boy began to acquire a taste for this sort of thing. When he was only 12. Charles dismissed Prud- lkiorknme. and from then on did the

Strange But True

By I. I. Ilacnruiur

This little item tells of the fol- low who couldn't win even though he'd bet on a horses' nose. Who was he. and why couldn't he win on the S10 he'd placed on a horse running at Suffolk Downs. Mass? The horse. Flying Tuck. won and paid 3205.50. But the man couldn't collect because he was a police inspector who'd placed the bet merely to get evidence against a bookie. Henryd. Wales. has solved its number one mystery - the my- stery of its dancing cows. For days the cows had been do- ing all kinds of fancy steps while out to pasture. some superstitious

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"(hiiu-ii-riim! Peter Rabbit. you knmi them as well as I do." said he

”?xmi-i- heard of them before," said Peter.

”(:randfather Frog rolled his his gongly eyes up at Peter. "You may never have heard of them. but you've seen the Saiidpeckers often enough. Listen! There's one of thvm now."

"That's Rattles die Kingfisher," said Peter.

"0! course." said Grandfather Iron. ”But why shouldn't he be called Sandpecker as well Kingfisher? He is called King- fl:-lwr becaiisc he catches fish. Thcre are other birds who catch fish. There is Plunger the Osprey. who is also called Inrl Longlegs the Heron. and other mombers of the Heron family. There ,is Griiywing the Gull. and Snwhill the Mcrgnnsor. and others ti the Duck family. But there

are not many feathered folk who tlii: holes in the sand. lsnit Sandpecker just as good a

liottm: That's what tlllflh of them as. Snndpeckers. Elli idea. Grandfather below. If a bird is called a Wood- pecker because he peclis holes hi wood, why shouldn't who perks holes in a book be called a Sandpecker?"

"He should." replied Grand- father Frog gravely. as It that Iii"? settled the matter.

illennivhlle Rattles the Isher and Mrs. Rattles had come In from the Big River. and were on their favorite perches in the MK hickory tree on the bank at the Smiling Pool. They still were

make their home. Mrs. was in favor of a certain bank on the Bill River. Rattles would hear none of it. He was for either lh-9lllt!llt'Si' part of the bank at

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Pelnr thought that over. "That's said he. "1 never thought of it

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AN ENTRY West opened the spade deuce and dummy'a ten forced East's ace. South ruffed, crossed over to the diamond ace, discarded I heart on the spade king, and then led the low trump. East put in i the ten. South won with the queen. cashed the club ace and threw East in with a trump. The net result of all this. however, was that South lost six trick: and suilered a 500-point penalty. South wu.in far too great I. hurry to get..rld of I. heart. The diamond ace should have been reserved for a better purposi- to take a diamond finesse to the jack. on the highly informative bidding, it was dds-on that West. had five hearts but that he didn't have both top honors. so East was marked with the blank ace or possibly the blank king. Thus, the right plan was to finesse dia- monds without cashing the spade kin , then to lay down the dia- mo Ii king (thus stripping East of that suit) and to lead a low heart from the Smith hand, throwing East in. East's best re- turn is a club honor. South takes the finesse, cashes the trump act. and leads the trump deuce. But would have been wise to throw an honor on declarer's trump ace, then to get of! lead by returning the nve-spot, but South can dc- cline this gift--be can keep Eu! in by under-playing the club live. and East must. then lead up to dummy'a spades, letting South throw an both of his remaining

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Only parents and immediate relatives allowed to visit children.

Children under 14 years of age are not allowed to visit in the unit.

Candy, Fruit. ice-Cream. etc.. must. be left with the nurse in charge.

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