AUGUST 17, 1953 By Thornton SALLY SLY IS SATISFIED ll toojf-tHen blind. is not dontfyoutll find. -Old Mother Nature. Love is it ItlTIl'.'.'! Sally Sly the Cowbird was check- Hg "9, sht was looking about to .:io how many babies she had. and ..,.i- well they were being taken, ..,-c of. Does that seem a queer, iiiiig for at nioiher to be doing? Can maginc a mother not knowinr: -is many babies she has? well, :...lv Sly the Caivbird is not a good iioiliei; She leaves the care of her i-liildien from the time they are l:.itclic(l. iintil lhey'are grown tip. in other folks. She is too lazy to .Oll I 3 W. Burgess was intended for other babies in the nest. Sometimes he failed to get is. but all too often he did get it. The result was that he grew tast- er than the baby Sparrows because he got more food. This made it easier and easier to snatch more of the food as it was brought. It wasn't long before he was, twice as big as any of the 0Ul('!'S,' and he was twice as SIFOIIK. Hot kicked one of tho others out of the nest. That gave him more room. it made it easier ,for him to move about, and to get more of the food. While father and mother were away, he kicked an- other of the IlIII(' Sparrows out of the nest. It was n dreadful thing to do. take care of her children herself. Hlil sometimes she does watch to, so what sort of care their fosterp ll ztiits give them. S-lly Sly had laid one of her eggs i the nest of little Mr. and Mi's.j Sparrow. She had done this .cn no one was at home. At the l'.lllC they had two calls of their IV in the nest.-Wlien tliov rc- iimied and noticed the third eggs: 1 ; ilie'iiest they knew just what had ti il)1)Cl”lI'3CI. Thcv kiiciv ivlio had been .'n.-re. Little Friend was for kick- .r.;z that egg rieht out of the nest. but Mrs. Little Friend said no. sin was afraid that one'of their "'l ezgs mizht ac:-identlv be klt'I(P;I cut and broken. She laid two inorr eggs, then hPL'.ill sitting on viii five the nest contained. S.-illy Sly's egg was the biggest. 0' course when the eggs hatched VII? voitnz cowbird was the bicnest nt the five babies. Being the bit- 'l he was also the strongest. At i this didn't seem to I ich. but it wasn't long before it iv”:-l'i to nl.".It”i' is great deal. Beiiic "hr hlgizest and strongest, the vuiinrz "".Vbll'd would snatch food that ynultex-iI't.'(tll try. The two remaining in the nest crew, but they were not strong; they were not getting food enough. contr ct Bridge By hsep lno Culbertoon What had happened to the egg she laid in the nest of Zee Zee the Redslart she never the others. did find out. It had been taken by Farmer Brown's Boy. He had found the nest, and recognized the egg as one of Sally Sly':. So he had taken that egg so that the rightful owners of the nest might raise their own babies success- fully. This they had done. Of the five eggs she had laid in five dif- ferent nests, she found that three had hatched, and the young Cow- birds had been successful in grow- ing up by robbing the rightful Finally, all three left the nest to go out into the Great World. Then! it was that the young Cowblrd pniaiiiigotl to gr! all of the food. I You see, he already was bigger than Mr. and Mrs. Little Friend. IWhcn they brought food to give 'to the otliors he would rush for- Ixiard, knock the others aside, and incl the food himself. So it was limit in the mid he was the only Ionc left to be taken care of. I Sally Sly, Checking up to finrl ,nut how her cliildrrii were faring. 'found the young: Cowhird over in tllic Old 0i'i'haril, Little Frienil land Mrs. I.llI.Iti liirirntl worn work- Iing from illlllt gret-dy young: bird supplied iWIIIl food. They wore not getting enough food for llicnist-lvcs. was hit: enough and quite able to rflntl his own food, but lie didn't ' lie had no intention of trying until lie was i'nri'c-ti to. I Sally Sly was quite satisfied. Shv .liad nothing to worry about. So ishc went off to check on some of I GET WILDROOT CREAM-Oll. IN TU 3 ES ding Of The Royal Mounted dawn till dark in kP('pI Ilci babies in the nest: of much of their food. Soifrom then on Sally Sly gave no more thought to her children. She thought only of herself. She thought only of having in good time. She had cheated others, and ,had thought herself smart in do- ling it. but she had cheated her- self. and wasn't even smart enough Ito know it. She had cheated her- jself of mother love, and there is nothing quite so wonderful, quite so beautiful. as the love of n linotlter. She had cheated herself lot this, and she had cheated her- self of the love her children would jhnve given her in return. She had tchented herself all around. No one lreally loves Sally Sly unless it. he ,tlio ('ou's. She picks botliersonic IIIISCCIS fiom their backs. p The Channel Islands were the Iionly British soil occupied by Ger- man troops in the Second World i War. a l -IN TUBES ??? I 135 IN TUBES. TUBES TAKE UP I ' LESS SPACE. THEY WON'T BREAK. A HARD-TO-REACH CONIEACT count method" this hand: I .T-I Continued on- Piigevlll PERFEGT row. YOUR LOCKER, DESK otz SUITCASE. tom. FOR MEN IN SERVICE. as sun: 1:: GET witoizoorcizawi-oit IN ruass -irs me Qty HAIR TONIC IN wees CONTAINING LANOLIN. 4343a! 734 Two recent converts to the "polnt- came to nrief on South denier: , V - Not-iii-Cczitii vulnernlilfn Ql-(53 9.1762 ! 5.14 l ' .p8643 sg AJ96 O , .2 NE :lI:18o69o 083' W .7532 S -I-K977 -W35 QQIOT QKQ4 OAQ109 .1.AJ1o Thebidding; South West North East INT Pass Pass P166 west made the normal lead of his fourth-but spade, and South soon found himself in possession of nine tricks-which was not too pleasing in view of the contract. The defense did not slip-there was simply no way of keeping declarer from win- ning two spade tricks. two hearts, four diamonds and one club. South scowled across the table "Something is wrong somewhere in this point-couznt business.” he said. "Here I had eighteen points- a perfectly proper one noirump opening-and you had only five points-not even close to n raise, yet we missed ll cold game." It. was natiiral for South to be disgrixnted but, in questioning the point-coiiiit method for noirump evaluation. he was unfair nnd un- realistic. First, it is doubtful that many first-class partnerships would reach three notrirmn on the North- Soutli cards by any bidding method; second, South failed to observe that a less favorable position of cards might have spelled trouble for a game contract. 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