JANUARY 8. 1952

DRUIIIDIER TELLS ALL

A kindly deed of little cost May save a lite when hope is lost. -Drummer the Woodpecker. There was great excitement a- mong the feathered folk at the (ceding shelf at a kitchen win- slow 0! Farmer Brown's housc. Such I chattering! Such a flitt- ing back and forth between the shelf and the nearest tree! And it was all because of Drummer tno Woodpecker. Drummer was more, yet in a way he wasnl: there. lie was inside that win- dow. while All his iritnds were outside, and that made all the difference in the wo;!d. Yes, sir. Drummer wet: in Farmer Brown's house. and he couldn't get out if lie wanted to any more than his friends could get in if they want- ed to. which they didn't. Everybody was curious. How in the world did Drunimer happen to be inside? What -was going to happen to liim? You shoiilcl have heard those tongues chatter

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TONIGHT 3.30

The prizes are the name an thou prevailing at other Bingo: in the city.

ernmeiit announces again

of instruction in cooking,

at 2:00 P.M.

ment of board. Applications should be

HOME MANAGEMENT

The Vocational School, operated jointly by the Do- minion Department of Labor and the Provincial Gov-

course in Home Management.

nursing, crocheting and knitting is open to all young people of the Province and will begin on January 14th,

Those between the ages of 16 and 30 are eligible for an allowance of b6.00 per week to assist in pay-

Director, Vocational School. , V

look things over..ggwwg " that iieedvinig shell! You should have seen the way those feather- ed folk stared through the glass!

For several days no one knew what had happened. Then Sam- my Jay happened to be flying tnmugh the Green Forest near where, for a long. long llmer 3 dead tree had stood. a tree in which Sammy knew that Drum- mer the Woodpecker had been spending his nights in A Sllllil bedroom he had cut out for him- self.

Sammy blinked. He blinked a- gain. That dead tree was miss- ing. Anyway it wasn't standing where it had stood for so long. He perched in the nearest tree to look things over. Th-at tree lay on the ground. It had been cut down. Sammy knew it had been cut because there were chips all around on the snow. His sharp eyes looked that tree all over. They made a discovery-

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sent immediately to the

That tree had been cut open right where Di'u.mmer's bedroom had been.

Once more Sammy spread his wings. Hle headed straight for Farmer Brown's thouae. and the feeding shelf there at the kitchen window. As he hoped. a number or the other feathered folk were there. You see, he bad news to tell. There is nothing Sammy en- joys more than being the bearer oi news. Good news or bad news is all the name to him as long an he is the first one to spread it around.

"What; do you think?" cried Sammy.

"What do we think... about what?" demanded Speckle: Starling a bit testily.

"Drummer the Woodpecker's tree is down and his bedroom broken open!" cried Sammy Jay.

At at all the birds turned to stare through the window at Drummer the Woodpecker inside. They were excited. Of course

' that fallen tree must have had

something to do with Drummer”: being where he now was. in I cage inside that window. 1'! that tree had been cut down by Far- mer Brown or Farmer browms Boy. why hadn't Drummer flown away before they could catch him? They screamed questions at him. but the window was closed, and if he heard, he made no sign.

Then one morning, when the birds had gathered on the feed- ing shelf, they made 9. discovery. Drummer wasn't just inside the window. The cage he had been in wasn't there. Had something dreadful happened to him? Could it be that they never would see hliin again? How the tongues did

y.

Rat-a-tat-rat-a-tat-rat-a-tat. All the tongues stopped. Every head was turned toward a tree in the Old Orchard. Then there was a rush of wings as every one of those feathered gossippers head- ed toward that tree from which the sound had come. There. drum- ming on :i dead limb, was Drum- met the Woodpecker. In a jiffy he was surrounded by his cxcibed friends demanding to know what had happened to him. how he had happened to be in Farmer Brown's kitchen and how he happened to be free now. When those excit- ed tongues kept still long enough for him to be heard. Drummer told all. He told how Jack Frost had locked him in his own bed- room by filling his doorway with ice. He told how he had tapped and tapped in vain until he had 3131055 given up in despair. He to.d how Farmer Brown's Boy had heard him and rescued him.

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THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN ' KING or THE ROYAL MOUNTED

had fed him and cared for him and finally given him his liberty that very morning. Then they all flew back to the feeding shelf to talk it over. --

&oo contract Bridgo By Joaephlno Gulberuon .-Otao-C-tom-on-34-.o&ce sunnwi:-.Xi'vaLrsis South brought home a "touchy" contract in the following deal

by drawing a shrewd deduction from the bidding.

VVL-at dealer. Both sides vulnerable. ' North-South 20 part.-score.

gas CA7! QQJ63 , .4.AKQ5 axons 4Q10-H QKQJ - N 2 i109 W E v82 gap 'S 910872 517 ljj .y.96 .517 V653 9x54 ,.1.1os432 The bidding: West North East Soudl 10 ,Dbic. Pass 2 2' 4.1. Pass Pass Pass

West opened the heart king. Dum-myts ace was played. and declarer carefully noted Eastln follow-suit play of the eight-spot. The ace and king of clubs drop- ped the outstanding trumps, and now declarer took stock.

West. he reasoned, must have started with at least a five-card heart suit, and possibly had six hearts. He had shown two clubs. If he had fewer than four spades, East must have started with at least six spades. With that num- ber. wouldn't East have grasped the opportunity to make a weak spade takeout over North's double? Surely. he couldn't afford to wait and show the suit at a higher bidding level; it he did Wall. his partner would look to him for genuine values. Thus. East's failure to bid one spade over the takeout double seemed iair evidence that he did not hold a. six-card. so he must have four diamonds. Moreover, South knew that with six diamonds at large, the probability was that he would find a 4-2 rather than a 3-3 break. On these sound con- 5id'8l't&T;l0lIB, declarer played as follows:

He led dummy's low club to his own ten and returned a low dia- mond toward dummy. West did not make matters easy by putting up the ace but this had no effect on declarefs play. He won with dummys jack, then returned I low diamond from dummy and ducked in his own hand! West's ace fell. and it was all over. West could take two heart tricks, but declarer had safely. provided for

his ownylosing spade on dummy': fourth diamond.

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