l oi“: L; 83x10 4 no”? qglc inf‘ o, Q Iaaay to roll- delightful to smoke KNOW no FAVORITES i , B8 Great Geo. St. Telephone No. 320 Napoleon and Uncle Elhy . THE NEXT FIRE MAY BE IN YOUR HOME OR PLACE OF BUSINESS If You Need Fire Insurance- - Telephone, Write or Coll ol ll. L. SEAR By Clifford Maolirlllo Charlottetown’ P. O. Box 356 _ new! 60E‘: 1w us-r or an or! THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW! rill: GUARDIAN.‘ ca a an roo oaaap! Greed almost always finds a way Tb make the very greedy pay, - -—Old Mr. Toad. It was dusk. 1n a corner of Farmer Brown's garden Old Mr Toad sat in front of the Toad co- °Derative Home. a big board be- neath which all the Toads in "e garden slept through the heat of the day. Despite his warts and his bulging eyer and his big month and his bowed legs, Mr Toad his 5min! HOW- trying to make up ht". mind which sy to start to look for his dinne . Perhaps it was age that gave him dignity. for tn- mantle of dignity most often cloaks the self-respect of the old. and O.cl Mr. Toad had lived long. Beside him sat the littlest Toad who only a little more than a year gone had been a long-tailed lywog. in the Smiling Pool. He had no dignity, lor the very young are not yet learned the meaning of it or to respect it. Fireflies were flashing their love lights all over the garden and over the Gresn Meadows. Gne flashed right in front of the littlest Toad and ‘.1: jumped for it and missed. "Greedy." said Old Mr. Toad, re~ provingly. "Too greedy. You avers in such hurry you didn't wait to be sure he was near enough." "But one must hurry to oaLlh those who move fast." protested the little Toad. . "You mean one must be qultk That is true. But there is a dilatr- ence between quickness and hurl,‘- ing. Be quick and sure. but do not hurry and be unsure. The greedy are apt to hurry. and ln the and find it doesn't pay_ Always be sine dignity when he sits as he was‘ ' water baby called Tadpole. or Po.-_ l .. i fir. Toad unawallowed him even more quickly than he had swallowed him. Beetle. shuthis eyes hard. and swallowed it. He was >0 greedy that he had swallowed it heiore he even lmow it was a Beetle. But as soon as it was down Le knew. He not only knew that ll was a Beetle. but he knew that it was one that he wouldnt have thought o! touching had he not been in too great a hurry to really see who it was he was catching. lt was Stag Beetle, and Stag Beet- le is one to be treated with respal’. He has big, curved pointed laws called mandibles. and how he can pinch with them! l-le was pinching with them now in Old Mr. ToaJs stomach. and howl Old Mr. Toad unswallowed him even more quick- ly than he had swallowed him Stag Beetle Wélt of! about his business as it nothing had hap- pened. Old Mr. Toad sat rubbing his stomach. He had losthla appo- tite and his dignity. \ a "I told you it doesn't pay to be too greedy." said he severely to the 01' Just whet Yo“ m 601"!» 5* little Toad. just as if it was iii quick but be sure," said Old lttr. the 1am“ “up, Told- The next story: "Old Mr. T016 He led the way down the garden Show, Howy path, hop. hop. hop. hipperty-htp- __i____ and no longer was he dignified, for Q dignity cannot hop. The littlest I a Toad followed hopperty. Yloppertlf- i‘ Contfact Bfldge hopperty-hop. trying to keep up. i M cunnmn Being so much smaller. he had to l.) B! “*9 n‘ make several hops to one oi Old ' ,\._,,\.,‘,_ ~ ’ ‘f’ Mr. Toads. A BAD MISTAKE Old Mr. Toad was‘ hungry, Ila A player is more to be symm- always is hungry when he stalls ghlzed with than censured when out In the early evening after fast» ing all day. His golden eyes were wide open. He was alert, watching for anything that might walk or crawl or fly within reach and no.‘ too big lot him in swallow. Hf he makes the wrong choice o! tw.) fairly close alternatives. In such a ease as today's, however. there is no excuse for a declare! t0 B0 WTOHQ. wasn't fussy as to what it might North dealer. _ be. A caterpillar would be very North-South vulnerable good, and ho wouldn't care whetlz» ‘Q a 5 a er it was one of the smooth kind '* ‘ 3 or one of the hairy ones. Bugs. .53 Flies. Worms or Beetles. even tn» . A Q . k _ _ hard-shelled ones. would be equal- 7| ‘g ly welcome. Ali he asked was that g. 7 a 5 . N .3 1° | there should be enough of them. 3 w E .3; Q 3 He had hopped some distaste § 9 4 3 s Jo g 1 without seeing a moving thing. ‘J 9 g I g w] With every hop he grew hunifl" QAKJIO I and more impatient He was bc- Qxq ginning to think that he had made ‘A Q a mistake in comingHln hthdis direc; ‘TBA ' tion for a dinner. e a mmos n. uddmr made up his mind to try sornu- thing else when out from unstr .1 ffl“ f.“ rnh w* plant beside the path a little way a In." ‘gr ‘Pa... ahead of him a beetle started to u. P“. 5N1, P“. run across. 4 I o‘ P". Q. P‘. Old Mr. Toad saw aomet nng P‘. n. move. 1t was big, but. not too hi3 to be swallowed. That was all he made sure oi’. He was so afraid that it would escape him that he did the very thing he had advised the little Toad never to oo-hur- rled. He didn't first make surc._He made a. long hop, grabbed that big ' By Fugoly and Shorten l (UNGELY _ . \T’8 AN APPtiCANT F02 min" sweuo vou AU/EIZTIZED =02, BOSS! sue vows tlntewemrszamirasete; cewaavrwlr/ oo You - some: ne Wih-l vou , STENO. AQE t YOJ THE MAN VIEW ME ? ‘THE IGENCV SAlD MNTED A ' ' WHULL INTEQ- c-o BACK 1o v0.12 DESK,CQlNGELV.' - I'LL l-lAmLE THIS MYSELFHHlS IS PEETTY '- lmeoelam! ////vz.:...e.e. West opened the top card of his partner's suit. the diamond nine. and East overtook with the ten. south won. drew the opposing trumps. then cashed his own heart tricks. He went to dummy with a trump and discarded his losing dia- mond on the heart ace. then led the diamond from dummy and ruffed away East's seven-spot. Now, with the contract! fate de- pending solely on the club suit. de- clarer led a club toward dummy. Perhaps his ides was to duck this lead in dummy and in that way pass the trick to East, who would be forced to return a club to dummy! major teneze. or. by m- turning another suit. give South a ruif and discard. West's play oi tile club eight, however. thwarted any such ides. Now declarer put in the queen for a flnmse, and when East won the trick with the king and returned a club. South waa help- less. If South had paid the slightest attention tn the diamond "spots" he might have found his slam eon- tact exceedingly easy to iuillif. /// “U” T”"""‘"‘“/ - $2.23“{fi¥....‘*“.5‘}"..2§‘.§“Yi§ A J3 W5’ "‘ diamond from dummy was ernlu- (_ ently correct - but it was not ooz- root to rut! this trick. e open- .-._ _ ing lead and East's pla thereon E‘ (to say nothing oi’ his diamond ma. ,- ' v==~ //’ clearly marked the oosition of r! l ‘ / the high diamonds. and since it \“ , was obvious that East. not Wait, / Qt‘, ~ would hold the diamond trick l.’ / mm‘, South did not hm, elementary logic dictated .that South give East the trick. discarding a club a / / / / from his own hand. Then. let last 8y, Alex loyrnond mw-mwrw up...“ s.‘ LOTT ETOWN xlflexofriiflftiv L“ MOUNTED . w/g/Z DOTTY DRIPPLE now m. SWWWAN’ ‘v4 PéSSmTHEN nu. Fottow, ‘iMnJLL see moms NUSSYISIES OtLLWON/ l WAlT. ‘ DADDY.’ urocts M l HORACE! - /\,(, 1 55m? HIM TO éALL MY BROTHER Jenw- r mven‘? 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