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Aaother's troubles share, and tin

low soon your own are less in

mind.

-Paddy the Beaver. and Mrs. Paddy were in great trouble. Deep snow on the foothills and on the

Paddy the

Beaver

Great Mountain had melted

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Pond. The water

risen in that

driven Paddy.and Mrs.

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2:35-.,e'& ”.?::-7-tlfm 7 "What are yyou doing down liere" asked Paddy.

g g.. ,., river of Laughing Brook and al- most a lake of the little Beaver

pond.

, By Thornton W. Burgess

50 fast that it had made a roaring

had risen and until it had Paddy,

from high up in a tree at the edge of the iiaier. "See who'si coming!”

01 course, everybody who was there looked this way and that way, but it was a few minutes before any one saw two brown. heads out where the water was coming into the pond so swiftly. in a couple of minutes they were, out of the siriftest part of the current and swam over to wherei Paddy and Mrs. Paddy werei clinging to their roof. They were two grown. but young, Beavers. Paddy and Mrs. Paddy knew who they were right away. They were a pair of young workers who had built a small dam, and made a small pond, far up toward the foothills where Laughing Brook) comes down. -

iiwhat are you doing down here” asked Paddy. his opposite E . South at the

other table. stopped at the proper small-slam contract, played the hand properly-and went down! West opened the club king. South won, led the heart jack toward dummy, and when West played low. put up the king. Then, "playing the percentages.” he returned dummy's heart eight and finessed against East. The finesse succeeding, the very opti-

out of their house and they were clinging to the roof. They could feel the house shake. They knew that any time now it might be washed away. They had been through floods before, but this was the worst one. They saw a great log come rushing down on the swift water and knock a hole in their dam. They feared they would lose both house and dam. but what could they do about it! Noth- lng. At least that is what they thought then, and what Croaker the Raven, who was looking on. took pains tn tell them. He seem- ed to take pleasure in seeing the worst side of everythinil Ind IX-

down.

player was not so fortunate, and, ironically enough, it was the fact

worked against him. The-. opening

mistic grand slam became a lay-

At the other table the South

that he reached the sound con- tract of only six hearts that

lead was the same at this table. the club king, but. needing only 12 tricks, this declare won with the club ace and properly cashed the king and ace of trumps. (Surely, he was not going to take a 50-50 finesse when it appeared that he could make his small slam without it.l South then cashed the diamond. jack and led another diamond. naturally ex--

pecting the worst to happen. Per- lisps that is how he not his name

of Croaker.

"Hi!" screamed Sammy -"W

Strange But True

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pecting to discard his losing club. He had every reason and right to be disgusted when East ruffed the second diamond with the heart queen and returned a club to de- feat tho contract.

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The shortest route between two points is not always the fastest way to travel. Old masters of sail- ing ships knew this so they often took a roundabout way to take ad- vantage of the strong tail winds and weaker head winds. Had they used the shorter routes in such cases, it would actually take the vessel longer to arrive at its des- tination.

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in the most serious team-of-tour 5 chem. tcand lpmucu. g .-

contests. 9 good! g'0M.I nu (N. E :

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table in first reference. 24- gong: for I

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For example, there is the clas- mariners 2 I sit: case of the dcclarer who found 84 Negative w 0 himself in a bad granii-slain con- rcply tract. and because of his desper- 8.'i.Apublic ) ate need. had to finesse for the procession 4: queen of trumps. He won out, but I7. Thus (I...)

"We are washed out," replied 38. Assign one of the young Bearers. 89.Bottie-

"Do you mean your dam has lhlilied broken" asked Paddy. COMUMI

''It is more than broken; there. 11. Danger MY GIZEKTIST TIUEISAFI IDI-CONTAMINACQEB :!0JIFdTAg?DIeE7- isn't any dam left." spoke up C2 The 3M5” IMAGINE... "' e'.i,I&5imyA' IN. gpme. "I V3-gy ' the other young Beater. ' 05 Z9”! Pris

"And your house'."' asked Mrs. 53-A939! i,rrTi.u' . , paddy. selling . cow; .,

”Some of it is probably down ”gAh9"5E 3 C here by this time,” was the quick mm”? Q .3 replyg DOWN 2 D

”What air you going to do E" Agmupu ,,' now?” asked Mrs. Paddy. mmmersug D l i

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Of f.'0LIlSe' you can stay. Per- A x Y I, L . A A x p . haps it wont be for long. You . Loh.or:'.Lo' can see for yourself what has happened to our dam we may not one letter simply stands for mother. In this atuuplo A is iuol have any pond either after .. for the three L's. X for the two 0:. etc. lingls icttm. apos- whtle." declared Paddy. I trophies, the length and for Won III! WON! IN all him!

The young Beavers looked over Each day the coda utters are It i. ; to where a big log had knocked , Q a hole in. the dam. and the water T o'"”E'.- . ma 5 : wasrushinguut with greatforce. oxclup! zpxr guqp gy11Q4ppx' . I ”That is what happened to our '4, 0 dam. only of course our dam ua TKMPDXI OX0?-VKXPTDXN. 2 wasn't as big and strong as yours. 9 Couldn't we do something to keep 793'”a7'E Q'P"0W'W "'3' ' ' ' tunxrl-LID 'ARM' 3 . some nf the water from running. ERS BTOOD, AND FIRED THE OHM HEARD ROUND TBI G 0, out?" said one of the yjou n g W03!-D"'lM3R30M ci 3 Beavers. 0 W '7 iT ' :: LD

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