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South to bring home his doubled p contract in the following deal.

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JUMPER SITS FOR HIS LIFE when everything is white with snow Jumper it sitting still is almost sometimes the IPEIW” 'l""K"1 9' impossible to see. When he sits Wm perfectly still even right out in the is needed lllll ll" lK09PllIK Illll- open. even his sharpest-eyed enem- -Old M0ll'"' Nl"""- ies fail to see him. Peter Rabbit. on the other hand. is much easier to see when there is snow on the ground than when the ground is bare. So Peter isn't fond of snow. Peter had gone over to the Green Forest. He felt quite safe when he got there, because the low bran- ches of the evergreen trees were bent almost to the ground by the snow on them. This made a lot of little caves in which a Rabbit could keep out of sight. Peter was sit- ting 'ln one of these little caves peeping out and wishing he knew where to find his cousin, Jumper

the Hare.

Hare is Peter Rab- bnJ':n1;i)gercdii:in. lie is often called snowshoe Rabbit, but he isn't I we rabbit. He is a bare, Of course. ,9 doesn't wear snowshoes, hut he does manage to get around on soft now as though he did have snow- dwes, lie has still another name. Hg is known as the Va!'Yl1l8 H8”- Thls really is a very sensible name because he has two coats. one for summer and one for winter. in sum- mer he dresses all in brown. In winter he dresses all in white. Peter Rabbit has often envied his cousin that white coat. You see

EX'u?sTuTrT:

By F. ll. MacArthur

Beethoven's pulse rate was I .0,-msl 72, and strange to say mat of the music he Pllyed ll narked for 72 beats I minute.

To recover a single diamond tram the Kimberley mine in South ifrica, 320,000,000 times its own weight in dirt must be removed.

Another reason why our Island is becoming top-heavy with old PC0-

CONTRACT BRlDGE By Josephine Culbertson

EXPERT HANDLING

It took considerable skill for played the Spade King, forcing West into the lead.

West cashed the trump Jack to draw declarer's last trump, and also cashed the nine ofpspades in I futile attempt to squeeze South. The latter, however. simply dia- card i his last diamond, and now

West dealer. Both sides viilnerabie. Both sides 60 on score.

had to out In the (Iona ta declarer from winning with I low card, and South won with the ace.

South now had seven kicks home and needed Blunt one more for his contract. e found it by laying down the club jack. once more putting West on lead. West could cash his club ten, but there was no way of shutting out South's nine of clubs. which became the fulfilling trick.

N. B. Moves To Regulate Trucks

: :5”, West had to lead clubs. He chose . M3”, the seven-spot. East. of course, 453 QAJN 5313 QKQ9 N Quota 1 gas W E out almost 8 son QKQIOO2 0!. 91093 4.AJ9t I The bidding: g g West North East South INT rm Pass 2. Dble. Pass Pass Pass

l Needless to say, East was not I

enthusiastic about his side's pros- pects against the two-spade con tract, but there wasn't much he could do about the situation. It he took out West's double to two notrump or anything else. his side might be slaughtered-and maybe his partner could defeat two spades, virtually on his own.

clarer, after winning with the blank ace. took the diamond finesse, and when the queen help he ruffed a heart. He used the diamond ace as entry for a sec ond heart ruff. thus deliberately

West opened the heart king. De- .

that everybody appreciates. Get some today.

You'll be Thanked Again and Again

for a real holiday spirit.-and it's so easy and inex- pensive. Keep a supply of Wrigley's Spearmint Cum on in-ind, to treat your family and friends. especially at this time of year. Here's a pure, wholesome treat

HALIFAX, (CP)-C. W. Mol- fatt, executive secretary of the Maritime Motor Transport As- sociation. said Thursday Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island will be the only Canadian provinces without reg- ulations governing truck oper- ations ahter Feb. l.

The New Brunswick govern- ment will institute special lic- enses for trucks transporting merchandise to or tlirough the province on that date.

Mr. llfoffatt said regulations similar in those being introduced in New Brunswt-k have been urged on the ntlwr three Atlan- tic provinces by the (nation

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reducing his own trump lengtl tand incidentally. taking all the hearts away from West. l Now

DAILY CROSSWORD

pie is that most of them keep alive ; N4, h A0305; DOWN 19' S '- week-el1dl by 5l3Yl11E It home. WV' gnludlh led hthe Spade qgeent wfst l.Often !. Leather i0.Api?oliie- An old timer remembers when I 9 "P l 9 399- lllll Wlll ll-Xl (poem nuk shaped he could get a square meal W L: 4.Tocheat spam or 1,. What ll” expected '0 ill” "'9 Val" Whitey the Snowy owl aliglitrd .-. hams that mmeone whom 1,. (slung var.) aoit course: range. 795' "”w' . I snow-covered stump only I in ould catch would come that way. 7-SW9” 3-N0”! 30d . "Wit M0” Wrk mm" (mm 3 kmd 0! feet from Jumper. That is a favorite method of hunt- 9tN3llV" 4- SP0?” " Of oak tree. It is removed in Emil WV? WM” V" mg by owls, me, gugssed just ofarnhta 5.Persia ribbon slices. then allowed to season inpom them was 3'' nmmml in "K. what had happened, Jumper had l2.AsIate- 6.Mocrasin- ".l.Hnrd the 5”" for 14 dayl Next ”'9lGr('en Forest wlirre some trees hadl 509" lllf lllg Owl C0mlll8 and had colmed 1”” Sh” dllrallle SW95 5” Placed "1 "ls wh"'3.”" been cut away. Something moving Sl0PD9d before the Owl saw him. unsulate 7- Consumed wood 11-: bark is softened and made into N,” M ms 9.1.5. I. was M, gh gar Now it was going to be a test of (trop.Am.) 8.,MIndatI tpl.) Yesterday's Answer . E . 9 bales. A good healthy oak will side "1 this hula n,,...,.n,;,1n amom. patience. If cousin Jumper should it. Parrot l0.Atine. 22.Serve yield aboutsopounds of cork. pnl he saw that 11 nag his big move even the tiniest bit that big ll. Pitcher cotton fabric 23. The 29.PiunderI I have a great deal of faith illI('0liSlll starting to cross: that opcn- Wlllle lllllller Would ll? 5""? '0 59? Wllllilld 11-0"! WM WP 31-F-Elie?! the future. lbelieve there'll be asving. when he reached the mirltilellllmv ' l5-C0l"l-HP-2 Swlil-5 it'll?-l Of 33-Monster much of it as any of us will everlnf it he suddenly slnupvri and For a long time neither moved. l5-TOWSN1 15-Dlllrml lllelower 34 Silt (Chem-) need. croiiclicri rlmvn. ills lnni: ears were Then Whitey. turned his head so l7-COW” 3lK7l5l l'”85l 35rCl-”ll'l"lS Nobody can make . (001 we M laid back. His head Was drawn in. quickly that it was almost as if he l9. Dialect 18. Goddess of 25. Owns 37.Mnnsnuu-no ,ofnebody 91,, 11 be my; the Him His legs couldn t be seen. He look- hadn't moved at all. Jumper didn't variant harvests 27. Fabulous 38. Sign of kind or material 10,. the jobg like nothing in the world but a move. He even had his eyes closed of”get' ',!t..) bird the zodiac If "Vina is wow, what "5 "ISL little mound of snow. A mnmentponalmnst rinsed. Would he be anle I0.'f'apI mg today, people were certainly iziier a 'Sia2lllllt( tgiitlg 'lliillllt'llf'ri.llft liner) that Way longer than the again - men men an . .';;-i..'..I."..:..';'.'i'Z......'.. :.:.:P";"-:.".irr..i;:'l ”' t ries i t - ' t - ' feet from Jumper. Peter know then what that white :4 com nu Th! bell WP! ol home is one . l - ' p ---u ..i:m:':.:':.:i:”'3.r.l:..:;:;; ::8'..":::.;”.:-3.”:..i:i: :;:::'".::: .":-mi your ""95 on that low stump seemed to be There was Jumper right out in the l .1 The elegant fabrics in Kin s 1. - - l . 'l""'5 ll” omon's palace were made of gottgn Elisa:-lllgllt-iillellfe1:139:-v0illi?flllll:': i,e:enlt1vrV)'l:iIng, nestghilglist fllell:cehsltItlcn::)d .7. &1,'fcV.::'.' brought from India. In those days known he wasn't part of that stump. not seeing him A only I few Chinese knew how to It was clear that he didn't see "I wish '1 had I white coat" nxemnm make silk. and silk weaving had Jumper. He was simply perched sighed Peter under his breath. "Yes "'D:n:.uh'u not yet spread to any other country. there to watch and wait on the must be wonderful." ” tzeulz Archery is the oldest known 'mo ".3 t. It d t - - ' iii”... " ” """ M" 25-90” Our Boarding House Maior Hoopla 'W'""P" Thieves are strange Persons u They don't s e to ' V J”? they operate farmwhat iii? izvillifeerre -. gs .p1.h::: Take the case of Bob Cronin Willi GREETNE5.-5NUFFVd NO.THi5lst)'T " uwm II tone of utter disbelief ih his A 6lFT-- HEH'HEl-ll-a--I DROPPED .9 manly ;'fr1::.(lile reported to police in New lN AT A wl'llTE ELEPHAM 5&5 composiv wguet ty that somebody stole his (o.Betlmos uable' iaialiaearximii-zonciuhniand Tl .tuM.m'm. while he was standing onsthepoc at IT-v--I MAY CARVE A .. steps 01. --too 0! I church in I crowd waltin a'A55lEAL QJSTFORW Grecian for the servi : 5 --'I.'MASCULPTot2v0u , .; ”” ” '”'”"" mow! """'

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