;i.'s'gtui-day. Jsn.p7, PETER mo ulnar nlsaonaa Ma bad depends on Mll- fuw ytlll feel or what you do. -old Mother Nature The Smiling Pool was covered with a sheet of ice. There had been snow, but there was none now and the ice looked almost like Vatlll black water. Peter Rabbit had gone over to the Smiling Pool from the dear Old Brier-patch. Of course he had no real business mere. But Peter is one of those folks who seldom have any busi- ness anywhere. Folka who do not work usually are that way. Happy- go-lucky Peter isn't a worker. He had gone over to the 3111111111 P001 just out of idle curiosity. Now at the upper and What! Laughing Brook enters on its way down to the Big River there WI! a place where the water had not frozen over. The bank near this was rather high and Peter could look down on the OP!!! ''l'-'''- n was a small opening and lrollld it the black ice was much like glass. Peter could look HEM MW" through it. He was doing Jul! "Ill when he isaw somethlnl 1'10"!!! cc. ""133: hhlnoment or two Peter did- llot know what.it was. It was some- one swimming. but Peter was look- ing down on just the back, and he didn't know who it was swimming toward that open place. in a mom- wt , pend , ,ped out of the wat- ET. ..0h' 11'; you!" cried Peter "Of course it's me Who else did vuu think it might be?" replied Jerry Muskrat. "I didn't think," replied Peter. "Do you ever think?" asked .lerry. This wasn't at all nice or mrlgeter pretended not to notice it- ”I don't like this cold weather. (10 you?" said Peter. "Yes," replied lerry Muskrat- "I certainly do." "What?" cried Peter. "Do WI! mean to tell me that you like hard times?" - - "Who says these are hnrd times?" sqneaked Jerry. His voice is always squeaky. "I do." said Peter. "Everybody does." Jerry Muskrat shook his head. "Not everybody." said he. "I don't. Johnny Chuck doesn't." "Johnny Chuck doesn't count. He's asleep," said Peter. "Ii he's asleep he certainly isn't finding these hard times," squeak- ed Jerry. "I don't believe Happy Jack Squirrel is finding these hard times. nor is his cousin Chatterer 'the Red Squirrel." Peter hesitated. He didn't know lust what to say. "Perhaps you are right." said he finally. "I don't suppose tthoss who have plenty to eat really have a hard time just because the weaihe is col ." Jerry Muskrat swam over to the edge of the ice and climbed out. He shook the water from his coat. Peter shivered. How could any one swim in icy water and then climb out in a bitter cold wind.and TELEVISION ' CKCW - Moneron Television Programme Channel 2 7 SATURDAY .m.-F. M. Pops .m. Ilopalong Csssidy p in.-Junslor Playhollsa m.-Kids On Camera .-Wild Bill liickock m.-Disneyland m.-CKCW-TV News D p. p. .m.-Weather m.-CBC News m.-Navy log .m.-Holiday Ranch D m P P P P m.-stage Show p m.-The Honeymooners P P P a asaraaovuvcn-9.:-ash: P . P P. 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Following the usual business an auction of attr live. useful orb were llmost 314.00. The January meeting will be held will be as follows: McLean and Miss Addie M00lI'. mas remembrance! 10 3103 and other stories for my readers cov- shut-ins were nPP01lI3Gd ll MIOWS. ering the field of telepathic rescue. Mrs. stsnley CIITHB. MIL SNIXEY History is full of such strange oc- Prnude. Ml'l- Giflld 300?" Ind currencea. and many oi them have lcles took place. proceeds of same dommdy Read on and um, Judge at the Rectory. Roll call will be Brooklyn Navy ya,-din was . answered by tellins In lntereatlns misty afternoon in November. The fact about Ceylon. Lunch committee east wind pp cold and damp .3 M11 R0559" Col. Cromwall Stacey boarded the Coles. Mrs. Fulton Willis, Mrs. Dan 81-eat new ship, STRANGE our Tlllll lyl'.ll.HaeAs-that talaefaliiossved recustly our oldest citizens, whom I shall name Robert Brown. net with him at his home. Although neighbors oi many years, this was the first time they'd been together in the same house. The. two men talked about he weather, politics. farming prob lems. and what not until quiteta late hour. Then Henry left for his home, taking a short cut through the fields and Thomas lighted his pipe and looked over some hills which were overdue because that year the crops had been below standard and money was about as scarce as hen's teeth. A short time later he put out the lamp and fell asleep-and the still alive pipe slipped from his hand and the burning tobacco spilled sheep's skin that lay beside the bed. He dreamed that he was trap- ped in a tire and that he was shouting loudly for helP- 1' Seimed to him that his neighbor Henry was the only person who could save him and.he called for his neighbor to come quickly- At this time Henry was home and in bed-but not asleep. Sud- .denly, he said later, he felt an overwhelming urge to return to Thomas' house. He tried to shake off the feeling but Just couldn't, somehow. Lke an automaton, he got out of bed and retraced his steps back to the Thomas farm. He found Thomas fat asleep in I blazing bed. He had arrived only in time to rescue him from certain death. In the near future I shall have had their setting right here in the Garden of the Gulf. Was the battleship Maine fore- tor yourself. The Main was tied up in the His friend Sergeant Wagner was over the bedclothes and on the l Queen." K .. ALI quiet fishing. Following the serving of lunch by hostess and committee in charrsl the In e at! n g closed with "The Retires From Canadian Navy O'l'1'AWA (CP) - When John Grant Khowlton was a boy of nine in Saint John, N.B., he decided he wanted to be a, sailor. Rear-Admiral Knowlton, now 52, today ends a so-year naval career, one oi the most distinguished in ge history of the Royal Canadian IVY. "If I had the choice. I'd do the over again," he said Thursday in an interview in his second-floor office defence department. The navy wanted Admiral to stay on as chief of ' services, a job he has held for nearly nine years. but he wanted to retire to get in some same thing all on deck, to greet him. "Wonderful ship. ey?" the sen; eant said proudly. "Everything is ship shape on this ship." A feeling of uneasiness cut across the other's heart as he followed his friend to the stateroom. What is it? He felt as if the walls were crushing him. Then tluning to his friend he said, "Let's get out of here, -I just can't take it, nonle- how." The sergeant looked at him in surprise. "Why say that?" "I can't explain it. . .but Iwould- n't sail on her for all the gold in Alaska!" Sergeant Wagner laughed loud and long. "The only way one could be trapped in a stateroom would be by a shell or torpedo in battle." So saying the two parted com- pany. and Col. Stacey never saw his friend again. Why? 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A-I mug ll Well have bid a slam." he said bitterly. "At 1 1 ' had the chaucdmfhr vav.re'hioulkflllnh:.v: This, however. was not a only 'S1;il1th'beens laaoxcflliiglt-it was that ruined it. 0 . If West had happened so 1egd 3 heart. South could have blamed the result on late, but -wgu pea W311? Opened the spade jack. which should have put quiz. . an. ferent face on the matter. How- 0V8l'. South promptly played dam. "W8 spade ace, drew the out- standing trumps, and led a dis- mond toward dummy, his inun- ti0l1 Ming 10 Pass the trick to lfast. West, however, put in the dmmond lack. and when declarer Went UP with the ace and returned I diamond. West overtookillis own Partner's queen to shift to hearts. Declarer scarcely could luv; g-5. tused the spade fine”; u )1; pm held two or more spades. and so it was clear to West that the only hope was to Set two heart tricks. 0bV10"51l'. the heart shift defeated the contract. ' A finesse at Trick 1 would have been 9 Safely play for South. 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