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By Thornton W. Burgess

Iliad tried his best to catch up with lthat fox. He intended to drive the Sometimes being teased is plrasastranger from the neighborhood: he wanted that neighborhood for him- self alone. '

Pretty Miss Soft-Eyes had led him a merry chase. Somehow she had

Too-Smart. the young fox wholmanaged to keep out of sight. She had named to live by himself. liadlliad proved to be quite as smart had a change of heart The truthjaa he even a little smarter. Now is. he had fallen in love. He hadlat long last he was face to face fallen in love at first sight of Miss with her. and instead of wanting Soft-Eyes. as pretty a young fox asito drive her away he was filled ever wore a red coat. Where shelwith a great fear that she would had come from he didn't know. go away. Love is like that. nor did he care. He had knownl For a few minutes they stood for days that there was aiiotherrjust looking at each other. Too- fox in his neighborhood. and hellsmart was sure that those eyes

TOO-SMART 15 TEASE!)

l-Dz. It depends on who is teasing. -Old Mother Nature.

I New Year's Party

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CHARLOTTETOWN Y. M. C. A. THURSDAY, DEC. 31 Dancing 10.00 p.m.-1.00 a.m. Dress Optional ;t2.00 per couple Novelties Refreshments

A limited nunilwr of invitations available at Y. M. C. A. Office.

CHARLOTTETOWN HOTEL

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Supper Dance 9:30 p.m. to 2 am.

Buffet Supper Served at 11 pm.

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THE GUARDIAN.

contract Bridge

by Josephlna Culbertoon

AVOID THAT GUI!!!

There are innumerable cases in which the declarer can definitely locate a missing queen instead of having to guess where it lies. The following deal is a run-of-the-mill illustration.

East dealers. ,,, ., Both sides vulnerable.

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right after her at once she would pu, sit down and wait for him. i ' M1!" tmlgl lzygzlfgdnlotltftlg. telling llrrespectiva of the result. the ur er.. m t tit if r 11 lhin H9 "En bemml Sllllkv. and pI'e-lieiisorionaiiiic Nosisth-gziiitlviudegveived mlded um” he was 81Vlng up Ihelcredit for reaching it against an chase and was going off by him-lopposing opening bid. As so often self. She followed him at a little happens. however. less skillful bid- distance. Never before had the'ding would have returned a profit young fox known what it was tolinstcad of a loss! he teased as pretty Miss Soft-Eyesl West opened the spade deuce; W85 leasing him now. He didn't East put up the ace and returned like 11. Net he did like It. Twice the spade queen. Declarer won and ii.io?;”23S.t3f..J2f?.3”12ia”” ””"",””l' f””'..,””""”' 3”"; ””i .1 nnscs - s ' 1, hi "Vllh h5'3 mm dafled BWBN. Ioilutlie ecI:)ilixtI'Zact awaa stgngliiecssntlliz 31"? 3'4 lens last. when he was lOgIOCBl.l0n of the club queen, led the discouraged he was almost ready;1he club jack through west, to coax 10 Hive Up, she did let him louch a cover if west had the queen. noses uith her. That much of the west, however, was not gullible: llfgsulirck Tl"l59S5 Ellhdedbelhe 101115,! he played low without any reveal- P v 00' mi" Ban 0 h (tat , r d d l 't.h - prance around her. Perhaps he wasllilggon cfgiit I3: clelicbnraclte f:Io:n showing oft Presently. they wereidummy in a belated decision to chasing each other in a merry sortl finesse the other way. When Em Of Hamil T00-Smart Caught up 8 showed out. it use all overedown little stick in his rmuth. She tried onp, to take It away from him. It W515i South should have taken the 3 HOW 0' Khme Of tus-of-war Thevlpains to find out something about raced this way and that. sldeiby how the cards were distributed.

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