FEBRUARY 1, 1952

By Thornton A DREADFUL LESSON

That which you learn the hard- est way p You find is in your mind to stay.

-Old Mother Nature. "Caw, caw, caw!" shrieked Bliicky the Crow as he circled

above I. little stretch of open wa- Lcr in a. small brook flowing through the woods. "Caw. csiw. can 2" Blacky was excited. He had ,iu.st scan a dreadful thing hap- pen. A wicked steel trap had leap- ed out of the snow and caught 3 young Mink by one leg. He had plunged into the water and now was down out or sight making the water boil and swirl as he struggled to iiear liinzuclf free

from that frightful trap. I There wasn't a. tiiiiig tliati Blacky could do. Of course nut.

He was helpless to help. He circl- Ni about in small circles over- head screaming at the top or his: lungs. Perhaps he thought that? would bring some one who could help. The head of the young Mink appeared above the water as he gaspcd for air. Then he disappear- ed again. The weight at that steel imp was pulling him down. That Hap had been set in such .1 wayi that any one caught in it uouldl he likely to plunge into the water. i 'l'h:it is what the trnppcr wanted. Whoever was caught would but l.kcly to be drowned. It looktdl very much as if this was whiit has going to happen to the young Mink.

His head appeared above wa- Itr again as he struggled to rczicli the bank. Just then Billy Mink shot out from under the ice. All .-. glance he knew just what had ngpptncd. He had seen sucht drcndful things liiippen beIorc.i He had learned a lot a-boiit traps- Rlore thnn once from a hiding

-place he had watched a trapper before. He knew just what would

5I'l his traps. Now he swam

s:i'aiglit to where his young son wt. struggling pitifllllh Bliicky stopped (':iwiiig.

fgrcat that it was tcrror. He didn't

get free. lie kncw that he would tliavc to lie Heiday and all night Until the trap-

W. Burgess

There wasn't a thing Blncky could do.

was so intent wzitchiiig what was going on below that he held his- ionguc. D.lly Mink wiis doing his bust to help that unhappy son of his crawl out of the water. lle got under him and that dread- ful trap. Between them the young Mink managed to crawl out on the snow-covered ice.

lie lay there paiitiiig. tryiiig to get buck the breath he had lost nlmnst. completely under the wa- ter. in his eyes was fright so

understand at all what illld hap- pcncd to him. All he know was that a pair of hard. drendful jaws had grabbed him by the leg imd they still held him, hurting terri- oi):

Hc wliimpcred as he lay thezc. Billy Mink climbed out after him. He followrd the chain that held the trxip back to where it was fnstencci. There was no way in which he could get it free. He hadn't thought there would be. He had seen folks in fur trapped

happen it his young son could not all

there and suffer

PRINCE OF WALES.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, AT 8:30 Suzanne Brenton. pianist and the Prince of Wales

College Girls I An outstanding pianist a

Lillian MacKenzie, director.

Mrs. G. E. Full,

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Ensemble. nd 18 talented singers.

accompanist .

Napoleon and Uncle Elby

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per should come the next morn- ing.

That is, he would have to un-

less Roddy Fox or some other hungry hunter in lur should find him. Then he would be promptly killed and enlon. It was dread- ful to think of, but this would be better than lying there suliering pain and dread and lright until that trapper should come to put him out of his misery. 'Carciully Billy looked at that leg where it was held tight in the wicked steel jaws of the trap. He shook his head sadly. "It you are to get free. you will have to lose that leg or part of it." said he.

”Wha-itha-who-what?” ed the young Mink in a that could barely be heard.

Billy Mink repeated what he had said. The young Mink shiver- cd. "But-but-but-but I can't do that,” he whlmpcrcd. ”How can I get along without that leg'.'"

"You'll have to or else-" plied Billy Mink."

"Else what?" cried the Mink.

"You will lie right here and suffer until you are killed," ex: plaliicd Billy Mink. and somehow the young Mink knew that his father kncw.i-and what he said was true.

Minnwliile, Bliicky the Crow had flown down and was walking dboutnnthe snow :1 little vrayoil. lie couldn't keep still. Would that young Mink be able to get away? If so. how would he do it.'.' ”If he docs get away. he has learned a lesson he will never forget." thought Blacky.

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By Josephine Culbertson

.V BETTER PLANNING NEEDED ..'BetIer planning by declai-5; would have overcome the bad

breaks he found in the followlnz hand.

South dealer. Neither side wlnei-able. 4AJs V 7 5 3 Q K Q 6 3 4K J 4 42 4154 9 A K .1 N v Q s at .;o9o4 W E 911031 6 1 4. 10 9 5 3 3 "'Q Q K Q 10 9 6 3 ' LL. 0 A 5 4 2 .'.A 8 7 The bidding: South West North 11.", l 4 4 9 4 4 Pass 5 V 7'8-11 6 A Pius Pius Pass West, well acquainted with

South's style of bidding. was sure that South had told the truth when he showed hcart control and so West made the desperation lead of his singleton diamond. This selection should have been in strident warning to South that he could not depend on a break of the outstanding diamonds, but. ignoring the danger signals. he went right ahead and drew three rounds at trumps and then cashed the diamond see. (He had won the opening lead in dummy.) when East turned up with the diamond stopper, South tried his luck with the club lincssc, but that failed rind he was now helpless.

It would have been a good idea for South to do a little "testing" in the play! The bidding itself strongly indicated that West had at least seven hcai-ts, and so dec- larer should have taken the palm to extract East's cards in the heart suit by ruffing. All South had to do was put dummy's en- tries to work so that he could ruft a-way three hearts; then, af- ter drawing trumps, it would be easy to play out the diamonds and, when East turned up with the stopper, to throw him in with the last diamond iind lorce a club return up to dummy's ten- ace.

This strip-and-tlirow-iii plan would have been absolutely tool- proot it trumps had broken 2-2, but even with the 3-1 break, it would have been safe enough, since the chance that East might hold more than three hearts was exceedingly remote

GR.I2tVEE.'I'HORPE, England-(CPI --George Harry. a 70-year-old Yorkshire miner, did not attend the official tea party to be presented with a certltlcate for 50 years in the industry. He was working an extra shift.

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