FEBRUARY 26. .1951

By Thornton

THE sausnauz i

W what lichth-in-its to be his "am a a t Iihts

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we uuy n-Old Mother Nature.

i-uirmcr Brown's Boy had put up xrtrl"li birdhousesyon poles Just it little way out from the edge oi (hc Green Forest. He had put mm, up the year before for Skimmer the Tree swallow and his ii-lends, but other birds who imp to nest in houses or boxes Mm welcome, too. He had no iiiuught. of any one but his fea- thered neighbors when he put those houses up, each one on top M ii pole. He hadn't thought of hmmy the Flying Squirrel. But liar Squirrels had found those houses and moved into one or them. What is more. they had taken possession of another to use ,-.: - storehouse.

.COUl'Se

W. Burgess

Night after night they had 1 trips to their old storehouse ds. in the Green Forest to bring ntzt;'. seeds and other things to this new storehouse. You, see winter wasn't yet quite over. and they were mak- ing sure of having food near at hand in bad weather. Like all the Sanirrel cousins they are thrifty little folk.

Now while it was not yet spring. it was near enouzh to it for some nf the feathered folk of the Green Forest to begin thlrtklniz about where they would make their nests. Those who nest in hollows In trees and in birdhouses or boxes began looking over those they knew about. Tommy Tit the Chickadee and Mrs. Tommy were among these. They knew about those houses Farmer Brown": Boy had nut up. In fact. they had nested in one of them last; spring So this morning they went to look their old home over just to make sure that it would be waiting for them when they wanted it. Mrs. Tommy went in first. Almost a: once she popped out again. There was never a more indignant small Bird. ”Dee. dee. dee. dee! some one has been in here! some one has left A lot of stuff here! "she cried.

Of course Tommy Tit had to see for himself. He popped in and then popperd out again. He was as in- dignant as was Mrs. Tommy. ”of you know who has been here," he said. -

Mrs. Tommy nodded her small

v,;lifAn'. .. t l'

,”Someone has left a lot of stuff here." she cried indignantly.

ing this their storehouse. They are not living here themselves. so y-" Tommy paused.

1 "So what?" demanded Mrs. Tom- imy.

''So they must be living in one of the other houses. probably the nearest one," replied Tommy Tit.

”But this is our house. They have no busines to be using our house. It is ours. We found it first, and we lived here. Do you know what I'm going to do?" cri- ed Mrs. Tommy.

"Dee. dee, dee. dee. dee! Don't get so excited, my clear. what are you going to do about it?" cri- ed Tommy.

,”'I'm going to clean house." re- plied Mrs. Tommy. She popped in the house and A moment dropped an scorn down to the ground.

"You better not let one of those Snuirrels catch you doing that" cried Tommy Tit.

"Those Squirrels are not around. Wherever they are, they probably are asleep. You know they are night folk," said Mrs. Tommy, and a nut followed the acorn to the ground. i Tommy Tit had a sudden thought. He flew over to the near- sst house. He peeped in at the doorway. Ae he had suspected.

later

. FHE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

fgdixract . Bridge 6;

4; lly Josephine Culbertson p03-'&0sMe03s&0Ot3e0Ds&0v'

BEWABE Tl-IE ENEMY! "KINDNESS"

In the following deal West should have stopped to ask him-

self why the declarer "was being so nice to him" ' North dealer. Both sides vulnerable. 'o A Q 9 A 10 4 Q 8 7 3 1 I 4;. A Q J 10 a g 5 2 Q K J 9 0 y 7 3 2 N 4 QKQJD w E QQ-195 6 S O 10 .y. n 4 - 4. 9 7 2 .) 10 7 3 V K 8 6 Q A 5 4 .4. K 8 5 3 The bidding: North East Ninth West 1 .5 Pass 1 N T Pass ZNT Pass SNT Pass 5 Pass Pass

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West made his normal opening of the diamond king, and when East's ten appeared and declarer played low, West naturally con- tinued with the queen of diamonds. on this round East signalled vig- orously with the spade nine but it is questionable that this made much impression on his part- ner! South took the second dia- mond lead and ran the tour club tricks, West discarding the spade deuce and the heart deuce, while East let go the five of hearts.

Declarer knew East to be

an .”honest" singnaller and was there- ifnre quite ready to believe that the spade finesse would not work. So. instead of trying for a finesse in which he had no faith, South

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By Zr - Grey

1 WA”! WAS PERFECT, Ma. PALOOKA. you READ ' ; ms DIALOGUE CARDS ' A5 mo rr WAS YOUR NATURAL TONGUE.

THANK YOU. PM GLAD I WON'T STUMBLE. HOPE IT

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THE FILM WILL BE DEVELOPED AND SHOT OUT BY PLANE - BY THIS AFTEKNODN .

By Carl Aiidcrson

Lani. ANDIJI .4 .-

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.. xi f;'5t!SqV'ii3r9rt;tg1'i1Ys'l)eTg';i:f1'. pesky F13 ithere was a nest in there; a nest.

4, , ,, . . yo! soft shredded cedar bark. 11.1 West felt Quite ignoring the fact T Th5”Ti-'1 3””: ”&"(;fil1-eachcd in and pulled some out. An that his Partner COU1d not be EX- .ogr2g:iygue&' Tttzliymnyustcahl; x-miik-Slangry. squeaky voice greeted him,'pected to keen on discarding

threw West in with a diamond!

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ATTENTION

RURAL

roorn

The P. E. 1. Junior Farmersl Federation is again

sponsoring a debating competition.

Participants must

be under 31 years of age and members of any rural

organization on P. 3.

He flew up on top of a house just as Timmy the Flying squirrel pok- ied his head outside. Timmy blink- ed in the sunshine. Tommy gleaned over and scolded. Timmy ;scr:1mbied out and up on the roof. iTommy Tit flew. You see. he did- yn't dare stay there. He had heard lwhat to him was a very dreadful ;thing; he had heard that Flying isquirrels. like other members of the Squirrel family. have a lik- ing for meat. especially tender Bird meat. Tommy was too small to successfully fight any one as ibig as Timmy. All he could do was use his tongue, and he did. Mrs. Tommy joined him, flying about

Tit

safely. West cashed his good dia- monds - and East was squeez- ed. He had the unpleasant choice of unguarding the spade suit com- pletcly. or giving up another heart. which would let South cash three tricks in that suit.

Actually. West could not cash even his next-to-last diamond without ruining the defense. be- cause if East was reduced to the K-.1 of spades and three hearts South could keep three spades and two hearts, and in that way deve- lop an extra spade trick; where- as if East kept three spades and two hearts. South would make three hearts tricks.

that house and scoldlng, M;-Sp West should have realized that Apply before lrC;J;.um-y ggth tmg ,Timm.V came. out. and what. a dccla-1'9? W55 "05 KlVlHiz him N16 cqn:-bble followed then! lead out of kindness. and so he

BOX 9, DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE,

Charlottetown.

WTERS OF'EM Mi-L QHITE A JOB.

Wztiitiictin and Uncle Elby

IBIPORTANT TRADE Nigeria in Afrirca supplied 175.- 009 tons of palm oil to Britain in moi for manufacture of soaps nnd

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' margarine.

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QETOVEIW 70:Ill.ITARY

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should have shifted to spades im- mediately! COLLEGE FOUNDER

William of Wykeham. Bishop of Winchester in the 14th century. founded Winchester College and New College. Oxford.

By Walt Kelly

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DOTTY DIPPLE

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