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;Who holds his way through toil you and I wouldn't call it fast.
and pain.
In time his goal will surely gain. always gets where he's heading for. -Old Mr. Toi1d.l
Old Mr. Toad was on his way. Hop. hop. hippity hop. Hop, hop.
hippity hop. went Old Mr. Toad,
He was hurrying. He was hiiiryinz as fast as he knew how. Had you seen him you might not
have her or Farmer Brown's garden, a known he was hurrying. You see. pit he couldn't jump out of. Then Old Mr. Toad hurries slowly. He Farmer l3rown's Boy had thrown
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curt run: -all he can do is hop. And he cannot hop fast. Anyway.
But slow as he is. Old Mr. Toad
Yes, sir. he always get there. This is because he is persistent. He doesn't allow anything to discour- age him. Once he has made up his mind nothing can stop him. He had started for the Smiling Pool. He had fallen into a. pit. in a cor-
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MRS; GRACE FRANCIS Grand Secrciriry, L.O.l3.A.
CREAM IIAULING
Hazelhrook Dairying Company will have a truck begin haiilini: creani over the Murray Harbor North route, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1952. includes Bruclciiell and New Perth.
MILDRED PAYNTER, Sec'y.
JOSEPH SHEA will begin hauling cream for the Hazelbrook Dairying Company on WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, over same route as last year.
IIAZELBROOK DAIRYING EOMPANY
The Grand Orange Lodge of the L. 0. A. will meet in annual session in Prince Arthur Lodgeroom, Crapaud, Wednesday, May'14th, 1952, at 10 o'clock
The Graiirl Lodge of the L. 0. B. A. will meet in annual session in the Masonic Hall. Crapaud, Wednes- day, May 14th, 1952, at 10 o'clock a.m.
This route also
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J. A. MURRAY, Grand Sec'y. L.O.A.
outaaboveimlofsandandwltb it llr. man. old Mr. Toad was slu- ken up and thumped and bumped. Yes. sir. he was so. You see. most of that shoveifui or and had fallen on him. It didn't stop him one minute. He dug his way out He shook himself. He blew the send out of his nose. He drew a long breath. then started off. hop. hop, hippity hop. and he was ” ' ” straight for the place he had started for. the Smiling Pool.
Now Old Mr. Toad is a very low- ly person. He nnot see more than a few inches beyond his nose. es- pecially ii tile grass is a bit tall. That didn't make any difierence. He hopped in a straight line. You
see, if he was the least bit uncer- , tain he stopped long enough to-
listen. 'riiat was all he needed to do. just listen. The dusk was fili- ed with lovely sounds. His small cousins, the Hylas. who really are
small Tree-Frogs. were singing their Joy in life and living, their love-songs of early spring. They
were singing as if there was noth-
ing else in the world for them to -
do, and they were all singing in the same place, the smiling Pool. so all Old Mr. Toad had to do was to keep on hopping straight to that joyous chorus. with that to guide him he could have found his way to the smiling Pool with his eyes closed all the way.
But he didn't have his eyes clos- ed. Goodness no! No indeed! Those lovely eyes of his were wide open. He didn't need them to iind the Smiling Pool. but he did need them. just as everybody needs eyes. to watch for danger. That journey from Farmer Brown's garden to the smiling Pool was an adventure. Old Mr. Toad has made it every year since he was three years old, and it always has been an adventure. This is because always there are hungry toll: looking for A dinner and not too fussy about what it is. Old Mr. Toad is homely. He is covered with warts. He doesn't look inviting. yet there are those who ask nothing better than a good Toad dinner. One of these is Bluifer the Hog-Nosed snake. Blui- fer is especially fond of Toari din- ners. Old Mr. Toad knows it. There beautiful golden eyes of his are al- ways watching for Biiiffer or any other of the Snake folk. He doesn't trust any or them.
Then there are some or the Hawk folk. He doesn't WOl'i'V a- bout them much at night. Perhaps that is one reason he prefers to travel at night. The Hawk folk are asleep then. They are day folk But at night there are certain of the Owls. Old Mr. Toad doesn't. trust any oi the owl folk. Then there is Jimmy Skunk. Jim- my Skunk is one of the ve:':.' few four-fooled folk of whom Old Mr. Toad is really Afraid. Jimmyidnes like a Toad dinner. especially when other food is scarce. So, whenever Old Mr. Toad is travel- in: at night. and sees something white moving in the dusk. he squats down and keeps siili. It may be the while with which Jim- my skunks coat is marked. one reason that Did Mr. Toad gets to the place he starts for is that he never takes chances tiniesa he
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beo;eet0et0e;eeQ contract Bridge Dy Juepblle Culbertson gem-00-cue-m-so:saoo-baa AN UNFOITUNATI In) South gave up a lure 1.630 points
in the lollowing deal and actually '
suffered a 100-point 108. but no fair and expert observer would be inclined to criticise his grand slam wort.
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West. rather than experiment in hearts, diamonds or clubs, opened his singleton trump. and South's only play for the contract was to take,the diamond finesse. It failed and he was down one.
It is extremely expensive to give up a sure small slam, particularly when vulnerable, in unsuccessful quest o! a grand slam, but it would take a more captlous critic than this writer to say that South was wrong in bidding eseven spades. From South's point of view. alter North showed at least four spades by Jump-raising the suit. then showed three aces and one King in uespondisig to Blacinwood. there was an excellent prospect or win- ning all the tricks. First and furs- mdst, since North was marked (al- most certainly) with nine or ten cards in the major suits. there was in strong possibility that he would turn up with a singleton diamond. since south himself was so short in clubs. Second, there was the chance that North's announced king was in diamonds rather than hearts. Third. there was the chance that. if North had the heart king. his heart suit would be as good as A-K-J. five long. so that South might easily be able to o'scard four diamonds. With all these chances failing. at the very worst South would have a 50-50 dia- mond finesse for the grand slam.
In sum. South's bid had a great deal to be said for it, the result notwithstanding.
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