NANNY MEADOWMOUSI: runes A NEW noun who does his best, no more can do. wmrye; you go, you'll Ilnd Uhls true. -Old Mother Nature. 0319': best may not be too good, but it it really is the best one can do, no more can be asked. The muble in this world is that all too many do notdo their best. It is 3. wonderiui world as is. but. it all the (oils in it did their best. it would be vastly more wonderful. Just take the matter of homes. Mrs. Goldie the Oriole weaves a wonderiui hanging nest. with only bill and claws to won; with she weaves I nest that neither you nor I could weave no matter how hard W tried. On me other hand. Mollmer the Dove builds such a poor nest of sticks uhat oiten you nan look right up through the mttom of it and see the eggs. Yet, Mrs. Mourher would tell you that she does her very best. it in the same way with the folks in fur. Paddy the Beaver builds a wonderiul home out in the water. Jerry Muskrat also builds a house in the water. It isn't as good a house as Paddy's. but it is a very good house. Then there is little By Thornton W. Burgess or Mrs. Harvey. Weaves a wonder- ful little home. It is round, about the size at a baseball, With a neat little doorway, and only one. It olten is up in a bush a Iew tee: above the ground. No other mem- bers of the big Mouse family have such lovely well-built comfortable homes. But some other members do the best they can. Take the case of Nanny Meadowrnouse. She always tries to have as good a home as she knows how to make. In her time, Nanny Meadow- mouse had had many homes. some- . times they have been underground. This is olten the case in summer. sometimes they are in the middle of a clump of tall grass. In either case. Nahrly does her best to weave a somfortable nest. She is very Iussy about it. It isn't as good a nest as Mrs. Harvey makes, but it is so very well woven that usually it is quite dry even in wet weather. All sumlner, Nanlly's home had been underground. The summer had been very hot. Nanny knows that in hot weather it is cooler underground than on the grcrund. And that is why she had been living in a sung bedroom which she had dug at the end of a little tunnel Just big enough for a Mouse to run along comfortably. she had dug that tunnel too. Perhaps because lt l 1 6m00mM)&Ob&OOmO contract Brillga l, By Josephine Clubertson A SOUND PLAN. WELL EXECUTED The inllol-mative East-West bidd- mg was of oonsaderalble help to the deciarcr in the play of the lollowlllg hand, but he still had to "execute" beautiiuvlly. North dealer ,,,,.,-" North-South vulnerable. It was I perlecs place in which to :2?” n ' hide such a home as v haveg Nanny would . AKQ I .em.m,.gg,Mg 4. A s 6 nest itself was not quite as well 492 AQJIOI woven as it would have been had it 9 K QJ N 5 been above ground. 10 9 6 3 W E 9? Now is was autumn, and the O 1074 O moms were cold and the days cool. 4- 5 S If Q J 10 9 Already the brown and red and 73 golden leaves had dropped i'rom the 4 7643 trees. Rough Brother North Wind :o had taken the palce cf Gentle 9933532 Sister South Wind. Nanny had 4'K4 2 gtggiied 121118318118 wanted a new The bidding: ' an 518 wanted it above ' I A ground. She looked around. Nanny fit 20:". F5” has a mind of her own, which is Dble. 4. Due. 5. more than we can say for some 69 Pass Pass 8' folks. She knew what she wanted 79 Pass Pass Pass and she found it. It was a thick clump 04' glass: it was no ionl-zen: green, but brown. lit had been tall and some or it still was, but much of it was bent over or partly broken down. It was a periect place in it ls apparent that both East and West engaged in some rather des- perate "saving." Also, that North's bidding was rather inconsistent in that he ldoubled iour hearts and , - ' ten ec med to double either five ggilcltlv &0ui:d;31a5:lCH 8 home as.or six hearts. electing instead to Nariny. wasted m; H Sh icnd uplat the grand slam, However, M M L V me. e has :; lattcrs turned out, this in- me 0 hasten M05” 01 the WW1 CO!”ISt'3llCj.' was well rewarded! was underground and thus protect- Hsrvey the Harvester Mouse. He. t.l'L ABNEP. ' nears wrwa 111' u.s. owmmrr ls MAKE. 11-l"l'RAGlcAl. MISTAKE 0' ed by the earth all around it, the ll , . tr" g I ,...j A II-I0 :-.'-.-..:.::..2'.:;.::::: ' .. she has aVnl:rrlWel;ciwE-l:abies tn West's lead against seven dis- C”m1"”ed 9” Page 5 Continued onwpagve-8 ..-1y icapp 3.'.?.P-;':.'.L”.l':..z'2trr-'-' -rm: aura c:l.l..'.' W0" ”'”-'-' Tl I all . uu.a-.4uo......4 r...lu.u-u....u.....-. some GOOD-LUCK Ci-lARM.'.' W-IF wou'l: TH' HAN'SOME WE MAV NOT IT MERELV SAVED Hls LlFE- seen me. an? 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