i i bleeFadyen Grocery rnoa- ran i‘ i A‘ LAQQAAAALA Anuooeicrno THE OPENING OF THE and Meat Store l 135 zusrou sr. - rnons s4s-l We are carrying a complete lino of MEATS, Fresh and cured; also a complete line of GROCERIES. MocFADYEtl COAL CO. Office located in same building. We solicit a share of your patronage. Thank you, E. S. MacFADYEN. V b OGO-O-O-O-UO-O-FFO Vegetables We are in the market for a large quantity of PARSNIPS, CARROTS and BEETS Highest Prices paid-Delivered Charlottetown Write, Phone, Coll or Contact our local agent. Thompson Produce GUMPANY LIMITED ,Mouse he might find, whether a l Bu géss BEDTltiE ‘TORI l. my" ~~v~ . rm: cunuolnn. (By Thornton W. Burgessl THE SELF-SUFFICIENT ONE l l The self-sufficient come and go.i And joy oi.’ friendships never knniv. ‘ —0ld Mother Nature. When Spooky the Screech Owl moved into ,the Old Orchard for the winter he received no warm, welccme from the folks ziireadyi living there, For from ii! lie was as unwelcome n5 Jack Frost ill‘ the middle of summer. Yes. sir.‘ he was so, And Spooky didn't, care. He didn't care a snap of his hooked bill. 'i‘lli.= was because he was self-sufficient, This means that. ho was independent. so com- pletely so that he had no use for friends and didn't maul any. some folks are like that, They cheat themselves, but don't know it, for they never have found out that warm and true lfriendshlps are among lifefs richest blessings. II was in carly winter that Spooky had happened ovcr in that part oi the Old Orchard one night hoping he might find a careless Mouse or two for he was hungry and, nothing suits a hungry little Owl equal to a Mouse for dinner. Spooky didn't care what kind of Meadow Mouse, a Wood Mouse, a House Mouse or some other kind of Mousc. Any Mouse would he a good Mouse. He wasn't disap- pointed. He caught a young Mend- ow Mouse in mi|chief, gnawing the bark from around the base of a young tree in a new part of the Old Orchard. Taking the hark from around the trunk of a tree is called girdling. When a Mouse eats the bark completely around e trunk the tree dies, for there is no way for the sap to go up lll the tree in the spring, So that Mouse was in mischief; ‘he was killing a young ireef Spooky caught him. just in time to prevent that. 5pooky's wings! made no sound. The wings of, Owls are like that; they are iluslrf wings. It was gli so quickly clone; that the young blouse didn't. hnve time to even be frightened, Spooky swallowed it whole, A few ml...‘ utes later he caught another Mouse also killing a young tree. Ffllouflh is enough. The little! Owl knew when he had enough: He knew, too. that the wise ihingl to do after a ilcarly meal is tol I \"-‘R:\.\ -\ . l'i[An1 He poked his head w. inside jit an open invitation to come over and look inside. _ "I do believe that doorway is bit enough for me to go through Wm!‘ nut squeezing." thought he. I ‘The longer he looked nt that ln~ vitlng doorway the more he wanted to try it. It looked big enough yet not too big. Not that spooky was needed, but, like all feathered folks who live in houses he preferred one of just the right size. Then no one bigger than himself could Bet. in- side. l So when at last the tail of that Mouse he had swallowed last had disappeared in his mouth he 119W over to that. house. H0 poked his head inside. The home was empty- He went wholly in. Like the door- way, that house was just the right size. Ile went outside and sat on the roof for a fow minutes. He decided he would like livlni! 1n tho Old Orchard. Once more he went inside. He didn't come out again that night. He hed decided to live there for the winter anyway. It didn't trouble hir-n. at all that he was alone wit-h not a friend in the neighborhood. The next story: "spooky Upset-I the Neighborhood." Con tract Bridge Dy Joleiphme Culbchol A MATTER OF PSYCHOLOGY The too-aggressive grand-elem "5"- He new l0 aflfiilihel‘ Pall of contract in today's deal could have "l? Old Orchard. where the trcesrbeen salvaged by the application were old end big. In One of these or advanced bridge psychology, he made himself comfortable do keep quiet while his tlinncr settled‘ ' As he sat there, the tail of the‘ last Mouse hanging from e corller_ 0i hi! bill. his round yellow eycs.' special night-seeing ayes such 55 lll Owls have, were looking over his surroundings. On some trees‘ and on a couple qt poles just out- side the Old OFClIBYQ were ‘houses Fanrner Brown's boy had made “ml put up for such of his fcathercdl friends as make use of houses, Ati first Spooky wasn't interested. He‘ had seen such houses before, llel knew from experience that the dOOPWBYS were too small for any‘. one his else to enter. So he didn't‘ really look at these houses until he happened to notice that one 599111811 iflfflfihow different from the others. What thedifference was he didn't see at ‘first, 11 w“ just different. that was all, f Gradually it came to lrm that‘ this house was a little bigger than The Communist Party he: seized control of Cieehoslovekle and Rational Defense Minister Ludvik Svoboda Irighi.) has ordered the Army to “be on guard against foreign spies, their domestic helpers 1nd people who speak against the Soviet Union." Here he nides through Prague with soviet Marshall Ivan Koniev. l ‘HERE 5u@n BE A LAW! the others, Otherwise it was the same, Then he really saw ihe door- WB)’. Here was a real doorulay. so much hi8gcl' than ihc doorway; m1 any other house of this kind llel ever had seen that it seemed like‘ By Fagaly and Shorten TuEwAv CLAMBAKE TM" PROPOSEDJT souuoto LIKE A slulzE-llls-vlrilu , Lin?‘ Burrrololrruus , NO! gggggyEg _//////fi/ "r our THE own sluuile WANT n FOR! y \ o‘ r l sill: oors is me ANSWER lS NO. THE rmlu out . Want?" mlwv/viawsw, sr LOU/S, m North dealer. Both sides vulnerable. QAQJQI Q1 84 ‘A1101 exam @1604 {K964 ‘38158 ‘Q10’! QU_ {Q52 §K9J3 Q2 AQ102 QAKGEBZ (.84 The bidding. North East Bout-ll WU‘ 1Q Pass 2Q Peel 5Q Pass 7Q Peso .Pale Peas Zfllotqh lt can be argued that North might have gone more slow- ly, and that his leap from two to five diamonds "jammed up the Id’ cling." it was South who was really to blame for not being satisfied with a small slam. Certainly, after the two-diamond response to the opening spade bid. North had every right to count on a game at diu- ‘vznonds. and indeed from North's point of vie-v, South did not need‘: great deal to snake shrodd, assuming a little luck in spades and or clubs. South should have stopped to think that his impressive heart strength might easily be "duplic- ation of values." llowever, the fact. was that. South found himself in a, grand-slam con- tract, and it was up to him to bend every effort toward its fulfillment." lf West had opened a club. South would have had a difficult guess us to how l0 handle the spade suit for tile vital establishment of at least one trick, but actually West opened the spade eight! This should have given South food for thought! Why should West, an experienced and shrewd player, lead into North's first-bid suit instead of attacking the unbld club suit‘) He might, 0f coilrse; be leading the top of nothing; but a more astute inter- pretation was that. he had made a bold attack in spades to dil- cournge a finesse for the king which he knew the declarer would soon find lacking! Actually, South automatically reached for the spade ace, and later led the queen through East. for a rafting-finesse. thus losing the contract, whereas ‘an immediate bold finesse against West on the opening lead would i hue secured the contract. 8y Ales ‘Raymond ‘JHARLQTTEYFQWN _..___ “EFF Fffiiftfififmovilrro OH, we ALREADY ORDERED A BLOUSE DOTTY, WHY oowr YOU so our AND BUY $0M:- THlNG FOR YOURSELF '9 v mutt FEEL BETTER! NOT e0 FAST- ml wizmu’ A5 cater A5 r KN-YES- THE TWO HATBOXESL- " , SAALL TPLIK- CLIZ N 1704- E.ECTRC PAD" Tl F4. FAMILY Hmbizv ANYWfAY m‘ MAKE u‘ UP. 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