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'By Thornton

AFIIAID TO GO. AND AHMID TO STAY Uncertainty is hard to bear To feel you must yet not to dare. -.0ld Mother Nature.

This is just how it was with Jerry Muskrat. It was 31133 In" daybreak. Jerry was JUN 1115149 N rornfielcl where Bobby Coon and another Coon were in mischief. they were breaking down many :ornstalks to get at the ears of :orn, but were taking only a bite

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would be very very knew when he found what they had beenldo-, lng. Who could blame'him? Every minute the light increased. Jolly. round. bright Mr. Sun was already

well started on his daily climb up in the blue. blue sky.

Jerry was a long way from home. He felt that he ought to be on his way. yet in the growing daylight he was afraid to start. You see. it took all kinds of cour-

age to cross wide open spaces. it

took courage to do it even at night. and Jerry had a feeling that there

in two from each ear. The firm" lwould be open fields that he would

Celebrations will be held

MORELL. Oct. 14' at 8:00 MT. CARMEL. Oct. 16 at

tertainment.

INTERNATIONAL GIIEIIIT UNION DAY

TIGNISH. Oct. 13 at 8:00 p.m.: Tlgnish Legion Hall. g).m.: Morell llall.

There will he speakers, moving pictures, and en- tertainment at all meetings.

CHARLOTTETOWN, October 15 at 6:30 p.m.: Legion Hall, 57 Grafton Street.

This will consist of a. banquet, speakers and en-

The new Credit Union Film, ”The King's X", will be shown at all meetings. General Public cordially invited. Tickets now on sale-31.50

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have to cross. He really didn't dare do it in the'daytime. At the same time he was afraid to stay there in that cornfield. It was a strange place. He had never been in a cornfield before. He didn't know what might happen in the way of danger in such a place in daytime. So he was afraid to stay. He was afraid to go. and he was afraid to stay. That is what is called a dilemma.

The two Coons had gone, where. he didn't know. He had taken care to keep out of their sight. After they left he stuffed himself with. the corn they had left on the ground. He was doing this when he heard footsteps. It was the farmer. He caught sight of Jerry just as the latter ran under the fence to get under a pile of brush on the other side.

”So that's the fellow who has been doing all this mischief!" ex- claimed the farmer. "I never thought a Muskrat would bother corn. What in the world is this fellow doing so far from water? lAll the time I have been blaming Coons." f r I He climbed over the fence, and ;with it stick began to poke under fthe pile of brush. Poor Jerry. Never yin his life had he been more ifrightened. Yet Jerry was no coward. Compared with himself .this man was a giant, but Jerry lwould fight for his life if he had

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l-to. It was a big pile of brush, and lJerry managed to keep out of lreach of that poking stick. Final- ly, the farmer gave up, and wont thome. He went home to get his iDog, but of course Jerry didn't ;know that. However, he did know that he didn't feel safe. That giant might return. ' 4 Jerry crept out from the pile of brush. Not far away, he saw I! big rock. Perhaps there was a hole lunder it. He went to see. There 'was. It was an old Woodchuck hole, no longer used. He knew no one was living there. because there was a Spider web across the yentrance. He promptly entered. Ha stdyed where he could peep out. It wasn't long before he saw the farmer return. He had with him a. Dog. The Dog ran into the cornfield. A moment later he be- lgan to bark. and away he raced. he had found Bobby Coon's trail. In vain his master called to him. It was a Dog that had been trained to hunt Coons, and his master know now that Coons hnd been in the cornfield. as well as Jerry Muskrat. He no loose-r blamed lderry for all the mischief.

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SIMPLE LOGIC

Only the simplest sort of logic was needed to defeat the contract in the following hand.

North dealer. Both sides vulnerable.

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i West opened the club ten ,3; good 'choice from his holding. East xx on with the ace and laid down the king and queen of spades. West followed suit with the eight and deuce-and that was the end of the rubber.

It was almost incredible that West did not see the right de- ifensive play. When East's spade 'queen was played and declarer followed suit, the defenders had :three tricks. Where was the set- lrtlng trick. if any, to come from? East had passed originally. and then had shown up with the club ace and the king-queen of spades. Certainly, he could not have an- other ranking card. West himself had nothing in diamonds. and he could be all too sure that his singleton queen of trumps would be quickly extracted by the declar- er, who would scarcely take a first-round finesse. Thus, the only conceivable hope, from the dr- fcnsive point of view, was that East's king-queen of spades had been blank and that South had started with three cards in the suit. West should have overtaken the queen with the ace and re- lturned another spziric without giving the inatttr a second thought. and obviously, East's ruff would pave set the contract.

wanting to establish the spade Jack by overtaking the queen, in case it was South who held only two spades." but this was scarcely a valid argument. West should hale known ifor reasons already mentioned) that dummy's dia- monds were solid. and that South couldn't possibly need or use an- other (liscard. Besides, had East the-Id K-Q-x of spades. he would have led king. then small.

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