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Age is relative and so Time at once is fast and slow. e-Old Mother Nature. That sounds a little odd. You ixonder how everything can be both last and slow at the same time.. Every boy and szirl knows that when they are having inn, or are watch- ing something liite-resting or ex- :-iting, time simply flies. An hour has passed seemingly before it has more than begun. But to a boy or girl in a hospital bed that same .lme. that very same hour, drags llld drags and seoniingly never will end. It is the some way with age. A baby boy or 'r:'irl one year old is

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old has lived a whole lifetime and may be a great-great-ever-so-great grandfather or grandmother. L119 I-5 lived very fast in Mouseville. A day in the hie of a Meadow Mouse is equal to several weeks in the ii!!! 0: 3 boy or girl.

Mite. son or Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse. had lelt home when he wasn't quite three weeks old. He had learned last how to take care of himself out in the Great world. He had learned what was good to eat and where to find it: how to store some of it away for hard times; what enemies to fear and how to watch tor them; how to make a snug home. it nest woven of grasses and hidden either under

ground or beneath something on the.

surface. when not six weeks old Mite had tallen in love with Mix

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She was a coy young Mouse. pretending to rim away lrom Mite. dodging around corners of the crossing and recrossixig little streets of Mouseville, but always making sure that he should know which corner she had dodged around. At long last she allowed him to show her his home, an old nest which he had fixed over. She promptly took pp r .ion and went to work on it. She was a good Worker, a fast worker. In a surprisingly short time, . it was it new home with the roof so Iwell and closely woven that it was ialinozt rainpronf, It had a comfort- Iable bed of fine soft grasses.

Mite was only eight weeks. old iwhen he was turned out of house iillld home. He was peeved. He didn't understand it. He protested long and loud in his squeaky voice. I "There isn't room for you,” lsqueaked his busy little mate as she added more fine grasses to the bed.

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contract Bridge

By Josephine Clubertaon

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to keep the opponents from "getting together," but his only reward was in spurring South to the limit. As matters turned out, however, that was a very large reward!

West opened his top heart. De- larer ruffed this with dummy! seven, then led the trump ten. He intended to overtake with the queen and run his other low heart with dummy's Jack; then he could return to the club king. dra trumps and "claim."

When the spade ten was led, how- ever, East showed out, and South saw that his plan would have to be revised. 1! he used high trumps for overtaking and rulfiiig, West would inevitably win a trump trick. So South did not overtake; he let the ten hold. then overtook the jack, and drew Westls trumps.

All this was sound play. but South's discarding from dummy was not so sound a- he threw oft two clubs! Now when he tried to establish the diamond suit, he met with flat failure. He still could have fulfilled the contract by -4-

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