Page 12 The Guardian Thursday, iug. 18, 1955

By Thornton W. Burgeaa THE MERRY LITTLI ithere vias soiiietliiiig like tilmilflr I

BREEZES HELP poinlnienl in his big goggly eyes. Helping others should be fun. EThe trtith is. (Grandfather Froi; iiznl Thus it is that friends are won. been hoping that he might hate

-The Merry Little Breezes. I dinner of tender young Kloiise.

Tito little Woodmice, Snowioot He had ta mouth hig k'Ilf1ll,L'll ll) Ind Tinkle. ivcre prisoners in their take in one of those little tlire. own home. That seems I funny and his appetite was equally liiu. place to be prisoners in, but so The Merl.-V Lmit. 3,99-,e5 i,i..w ll Wax Th?” h0hW W35 3" "15 softlv, and that floating hoiiie llh ("ah "1 hhlch lh9.V had "hide sltitvlv drifted oiii ttiuartl the llI9iT nE'Sl They had l0!-"Kl ll hi" Illl(.l(llD of the Siiiiliiig Pool. in a ltd? ltllullhlhi BFOOK lh lh9 GT9?" ttay. Snotvtool ziiid Tiitkle tteie Forest. A heavy rain had caused more ri-igiitem-ti than eter. for the I "ha" "OWL hhd lhelr ht-""9 had land tins getting farther and fartlir zieen washed down to the Siiiiling er I-may. Pool There the old rain had been wee" naught in stiriie floating trash. and there it floated. Never in their short lives had those two little Mice heeii so tnighteiied, or so ticliiless The only wa) in iihieh 'he,v could get hark on dry land aas tn suiiii. They net or had been .11 water They didn't know if they :rItlltl awin, and liar woo afraid to try. i

I . av. "What are we going

to lo?" I Ililmperad Tlnklemouao.

Ail they peepad out beneath the l partly lifted lid of the old can. it was I strange watery world they looked at. They could see Grandfather Frog not far away.

Strange But True

3: I. I MacArthur

We speak of certain things as being sky-high today vs but if you were living in Dawson in the l(i0ld Rush da)s you would have 'to pay 75 cents I piece for lemons and uraiiges. Apples east 35 cents each. potatoes and unions. 75 cents a pound. butler Sl per pound; eggs 2'2 dollars per Cl()ZPIlvIll0Sl- ly stale. Bass's ale 2'1 dollars a pint. sti-gar (10 cents I pound and iiaternit-Ions &25 each. i Hay hriitiglit the iiiilielieiahle price of H00 rlnll.'irs a ton. Think ' it'

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l The st-coiitl lztri.'.est dizitiioiitl ev- ier ttisrotuietl W9ll.Zll0('l 971 rariits. ior about ti'-.- miii('e.s This iiioitsler rziiiie froiii ilie .l:iizei'sfoiilein niine il'l South .-Xtriea.

The litrtzest (liaiiiond. the culli- ii.iii iias not rli.x'cuvci'c(l tllllll 1905 iii the Preiiiier Mine, 'l'raitst:ial. ."liiw' lv(IllLl til i.:eiiis weighs 34131! Li-arnix. or nearly one and I half iioiiiitlx It iiieasures -ll: int-lies by

T: iiirhru its value is said to he lllt tilt iilalile Sign on a slim-iii.'iiti'i"s door in lltltllllltllll Street. Uliniiltitiettitiii: lite tltIt'ltlI' sliiies, lleel Theiny Ti-nil ihe l))lllR. and Save Their Stllt'K llir lthit-iuii Sertiw holtls the ioh ot tiittor Sr('i'et.'ii't of State .in the t'S tioieriiiiieiit in Wash tnztnn lltt

i One -lioultinil he N'tli'pI'lsi'lIl at

illlylllllln H lttllllall nears Oll her head for a hat

('l.ER(lY.VlAN'S SON The lltIl(-'(l British actor Sir Laur- ence Olivier is the son of a clergy- l man.

He was sitting on his favorite groan lilypad. They didn't like his looks I bit. Somehow or other that- hlg motith of his gave them an' tinrnmfortnhle feeling. Beyond thel lilypads they n n ll l d we tha alinreu when they looked in the other direction there seemed to be water

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every;-vhera and the shore was AND O.iAMpA5NEg,,. very ar away. l I "whm I" V" mi" .. M?” UM-ITIZUSY MARTHA whlmpered Tinklurioiisa. l

"I don't. know. I xueisa t!nra'si nothing we can do!” aqtieakedl lnnwfoot

Presently anma Merry little Br!- preii name dnnriniz nut lrom ahore It-roan the green lilypada. and; dlaenvered the old ran They apiedi two little nose: just above the open edge Right away they saw the trouble of the two little Mice. l

Now the Merry Little Breezes are full of mischief. They do I lot of rYllS('lIlPYfHIS things that some-l time: cause people II lot of trouhle.i

On the other hand. the Vlerry. Little Rrt-exec t-an lie. and very. nften are. very, very helpful.

They do nice things, On hot days. they drive away the heat. They, fill the sails of boats. and drive them on their way. They hlnw Quay dust niid smoke i

when they San" the two frighten- ed little hlice peeking out of their

Our Boarding House Maior Hoople

Tloatttiil home, thev also saw tvhati the trniilile was. Riizht away thpyl

derided to help. All together they. out our way

hlew. and they lilmv. and they

By J. R. Williams

hlew. At first. it was all in rain "',';lE 9257 W999

hlew REllll1Sl the old can They llllliailtllllzillii

Then the floatiiti: t-an heznn tn THE55E.'gQI,'1gg." more I little. The hltwry I.ittlt- Aw:-,3 izg-gg. Breezes lilew lt:irdri' than ever M'E'M- REM

They got the old can loose from the tr:isli in tl'lll('ll it uas ('.'llIL'lll Than thev hPl.!t'lll to liltiw it :i(-rnss the Smilini: Pniil They hlew gently now so .1: not to tinsel the queer craft in ii-hit-h the little Mice were nailing. It floated otit farther and farther from the lilypads. Grand, father Frog watrlied it no. and

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Refdgerahon Iopalra 1. All Makes l

EM- BrE'R- REMEMBER

WHY, TH' one Bum .' now He's

"BUT HE MAKES PM SO LONG THEY CAN'T GIT 'EM READ TILL HE GlT5 BACK!

NUCLEAR ITUDY

HELSINKI (CPI-The cabinet of Finland has appointed 8 cniniiiiilec lto study the problem of power te- sources with special atteiitioii to be given to the possibility of hav- ing atoniit--genemted p'otu:-in Fin- land has no coal or petroleiiiii and uaterpuwer reserves are being ex- ploited. i

COMBATS CASUALTIES

BROMLI-DY. E nigl and iCPlu- ('lioirl.ioys of the parish church in. .this Kent town are allowed to read, ”'missionary thrilleri" during the sermoii. The vicar. Rev. W. H,i Murray Watson. says it's one way of coiiibaling "casualties" and huldiiii: the boys in the choir attei” their voices break.

OLD FESTIVAL The Three ('linirs Ft-stixzil in liiiizlaiul. started in 1724. is claimed the oldest musical festival in Europe.

MOI! BICYCLE!

NEW DELHI (CF!-India has decided to expand bicycle produc- tion io more than 757,000 I .Vl”3l'e Pmtluclitiii has risen seven times since 1947 and now is 350.000 an- iiiialty. There are 24 factories iihich manufacture parts.

MORE POWER

NEW DELHI tCP'vThe goterltv ment of India experts to spend about S534.000,000 during the next five years expanding the counti'y'a potter output. Duriiiiz the last five years about 3200.000.000 has been spent on hydro projects.

NEW ROYAL R('0T'I' RIINN. (Eeiriiiniiy iCl'lt A new thrtiiie for Eiiipcror Haile Selassie of Ethiopia has lieen made by I 37-yearaold sculptor from I village

' in Westphalia.

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By Josephine Culbertson

IT Is NOT It all uncommon to see I declarer guard Igainat I phantom danger, only to tail vic- tim to his own llcaziefulnua.” Consider thia cue:

North dealer. North-South . lnouhla.

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North”: leap In the slam waa not nearly II Ionaational II it may appear The net that South had come in with I free two- ilcvei bid in I suit. that North i could support at: well. made slam, proiipecta very bright. l Weat opened the apadc eight. i-Declai-er won with the ace and then got off to I good atart by playing ltnaingteton heart from

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dummy and, when East phyed low, putting in the Jam ton the sound thought that East would not have ducked with the acct. West won and led another spadt. South rulling. '

Now. cashing the trump Ice N- vealul the diatrtbutiui. and than ahould have given South food for thought, but. he went right. ahead. drawing Wests truinpa. South then cashed the ace and king of diamonds and led I third round. Unfortunately. hta rulf at. thin point did no good-East still had the not stopped. and there' who only one entry left in dummy.

South explained that he had been afraid to cash two diamond! first-West. might ' have had I aingleton and ruffed. But thia fear of I alngleton diamond in Wcst'I hand wu silly in view or the fact that South lost the contract be- cause of I far more probable break. After cashing the trump ace, ha couldn't make the hand I West. had I singleton diamond. Thua, the right. play. Ifter layiiag down the trump ace, Wu to cash the two top dlB.mOlldl and nil I diamond wlt.h the club queen, than to take the proved ftneaae Igalnat the club jack. Now the club king would draw West's last. trump and another diamond nil! would an! up the tifth card of that Hill.

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