FEBRUARY 6. 1952

THE GUARDIAN.

CHARLOTTETOWN

PAGE SEVEN

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By Thornton fill: MERRY GLIDERS 'r;.o rund to happines will lay

Where work is interspersed with"

play. i -Old Mother Nature.

Mistress Moon was shining her b;'lgi1i.SSt. Peter Rabbit simply muidnlt stay at home in the deer Old Briar-patch. He couldn't do it an a night like this. It was hard enough to stay at home on dazk nhzhts. but it simply was in possible to stay at home on snli Ii lovely night as this. 50 it ms that Peter was over in the Clan F0l'95t-

He had hoped to iind his big :01)-ill. Jumper the Hare. who ms in the Green Forest. Peter gtnh disappointed that he hadnlt . (:1 able to iind him so lar. He Jkfd to gossip with his cousin. p,.,mcnnore, he always felt saler when he was with Jumper. They

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have tile some enemies. Both are hunted by the same hungry folk. So Peter felt that two pairs or eyes and two pairs oi ears give twice the safety that one pair of ear. and one pair or eyes can give.

”Where can everyone be?" mug. tered Peter.

Truth to iEiT'r?eTeTT&':Ts'7Z&i: ing a little lonesome. He hadn't scan anybody since he reached the Green Forest. He had heard Hooly the Owl in the distance, and been glad that he was in the distance. He had hcard Raddy Fox bark over on the Green Meadows, and had hoped that Roddy would stay there, or go back to the Old Pasture where his home was. Those were the only iolks he had heard. and he had begun to won- der where everyone was. He

, had come to a quite large open-

ing among the irecs. He sat down close to the trunk of a tree. It

would be well to look over be- fore crossing that open space. The

Stewart

Canteen

FIRST BIG OPEN HOUSE

DANCE

COMMUNITY CENTRE

TONIGHT 9.30

Music by Don Messer and His islanders

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ground was covered with mow. and he could me all over openlng. No one was there.

"Whcre can everyone he?" mut- tered Petzr. "On such a lovely night as this. all the night folk 3h0"ld be Out. but.l haven't seen 't onc."

Smock! .Something the tree just above Peter's head. it startled him so that he jumped out all ready to run.

"Don't run. Peter. it is only me." said A rather squeaky voice: i

Peter looked around. He didnt see anybody. Then he heard the scratching or tiny claws. body Peter run around and looked at the other side of that tree. caught just a. glimpse or some one

what he says. I'm glad you and I don't have to Aren't you?

more. Just as he did so something tly asked (or shot out from near i the tree, and went sailing through. rilect. this the moonlight clear across thatlspccilically to choose open space to near the loot 0f'8i5pade and a heart game. tree on the other side. T

cried a luueaky little voice.

'1-ieiio. Mrs. Timmy!" cried Peter. Timmy the Flying Squirrel and Mrs. Timmy were old friend: or Peter's.

that

had hit

if contract Bridge

By Josephine Cluhcrtaon

SAFETY PLAYS ARE A ”MU51'”

A simple safety play would have insured the vulnerable game con- tract in the following deal.

Some- was climbing that tree.

He

dodging around the trunk. He gong. 59,1". couldn't tell who it was. "Who goth gldcs vulnerable. are you?" he called.

Smack! Something hit: the tree 33x35? 2 just is. little above Peter's head. .94 3 Agzgin it startled him, and he .f,A74 ma e is long jump to one side. But when he turned to see who or .1 8 N Tgogsi what had struck the tree, no one VV F, xx-,5 3 wastobe seen, .Km8 S .'.QJ33

"it's me, only me. Pctcr." T. , " squcaked la. small voice. Once 4K5" more he heard tiny claws on ':gB74 bark. Again he ran around the .951, tree with the same results as bc- ET fore. There was something iamil- The biddinsi i iar about those voices. He tried to south west North East think where he had heard them 1v Pass 14 PW before. He scratched a long car 2. Pass 39 Pass with a long hind loot. Doing that 40 Pass Pass PM helps him think. Anyway, that is The bidding was good. North

first responded in spades. to dis- think that way” cover whether that would make a (satisfactory contract. but even once' when South raised. North pruden- mrther confirma- the top all tian by raising South's hearts, In raise asked South

between I

He looked up the tree

W:st's opening lend, the dia-

At first Peter thought it was;-mend jack, let South "relax" in-

one or his leather-ed friends. Then solar as a possible diamond loser he knew it wasn't. for there were no flapping wings. He look:d up again, and again he was just in time one shoot out from the top of that: or tree opening to the other tree. Peter began to chuckle now. it had sud- denly small persons were. He went back and sat down where he had bceu sitting beiiore. Smack! Something 11 hit. the tree just above his head. "it's me," cried e. squeaky little voice.

"Hello. "You and Mrs. Timmy loolcd me (or a few minutes."

Smack! Something hit the tree lobove Peter's head. "it's

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was concerned. but perhaps the lead also made South at little over- coniident. At any rate. he prom- ptly lnid down the ace and king , trumps. This rash procedure 11113 exposed him tn two losers in the trump suit. and the 3-3 spade break which then bzcame .his only hope failed to materialize, two club losers also became unavoid- able. Down one. South had been playing match-point duplicate his defeat could have been termed ”unlor- tmmte." since by laying down the top trumps he might have dropp- ed the que:n and made one or more overtricks. At rubber bridge. however. Sout-ifs method of me." trump-handling was 9. grave mis- e- take. Alter cnshing no more than one high trump. South should lead a low trump toward dummy! J-6, thus guarding against the one bad break that it is possible to ; guard against. Observe that ii it is East who holds Q-10-9-X of hearts. South is truly helpless. 1but'at. least his safety-play has not cost him anything: whereas

to see something or some

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By Bob Gustafsoli

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WANT IT TO I

I GUESS MP. 6lMPKlNS REALLY WANTS TO GO To His CLASS REUNION. l-IE6 GOING ALONG WITH MY IDEAS TO MAKE HIM

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