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A Silly Bird

By Thornton W. Burgess

Not only is it always right. It also pays to be polite. -Old Mother NatiirG. "Do you know why it is that: ' Hooty the Owl and all his family

it like darkness better than day-

light?" asked the Old Hermit. , "No". said Farmer Brown's boy 1 "Tell me " The eyes of the Old. Hermit twinkled. ”of course it is only a,

. fable." said he.

I "But I would like to hear it just . the same." said Farmer Brown'sl Buy.

"Long. long ago when the world

was young lived the ever-so-greab

grandfather of llooty the Owl. He had great broad wings as Huoty has now. He had the same kind of great curved claws and stout hook- ed bill He had big. very big. round yellow eyes which he could make look very fierce. He would fluff

out all his feathers to make liim-.

self look twice as big as he really

was, then open his big round yellow

i-yes as wide as he could to look. as fierce as he could. He would map his stout hooked bill as loud as he could. Then most impolltely he would stare at all who came his uliy. lie woiildn”i wink. He woulilnit blink. He would justl stare and stare and stare. Downl inside he would chuckle to see.

(right grow in the eyes of small;

folk who tried to stare back andi,

couldn't because they were so; gcarvd. Always they would soonl

fly or Full allay. l ”lt is fun to scare folks." thought .

the silly old hird l

Mr. Sun lust stared and stand right back

"Soon he didn't have a friend in the Green Forest. The more he was feared the bigger it made him feel. Like other folks he went about hunting his food in daylight, sleeping at night. He didn't like the dark. Then he couldn't stare at others. he couldn't see them and' they couldn't see him.

"At long last came a day when Mr. Owl found someo e who could and did stare back is him. It was jolly. round, bright Mr. Sun Perch- ed in the top of the tallest tree. Mr. Owl fluifed out all his feathers. tipped his head back, and tried to look his biggest and fiercest as he stared without blinking up at Mr. Sun. Mr. Sun just stared and stared right back. He didn't blink, either. i

"At long last Mr Owl had to turn his head and look anomer way. His eyes had pains in them. They felt as if they were being burned by a fierce fire way back in his head. Something was wrong. very wrong. He couldnt see a thing. Once more he tried to look up. and wished he hadnit. Hastily he turned his head as far as he

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could so that he was looking straight behind over his own back. He was trying to get his eyes as far away from Mr. Sun as possible He kept his eyes closed for awhile. When he opened them. he was still blind. So he had to stay right where he was.

"Other birds saw how helpless he was. They flew around him screaming. The boldest darted at him and pulled out a feather here and there. When at long last lic could see enough not to bump into things too hard, he flew to the darkest place he could find. There he stayed until jolly, rounii. bright Mr. Sun went to bed bcliiod the Purple Hills. From that long ago day to this, most owls liorc rust- cd and slept by day, flying about

Fewer Polio Cases lieporied

OTTAWA (CP) - Case: of polio. . myelitis in Canada from the first of the year to May 5 showed gi sharp decline from the correspond. ing pdriod in 1955, the health da- partment said Monday

The department's first weekly; polio report this year listed 37 cases for all of Canada, 3 of which were paralytic. This coin. pflare? with 78 cases last year and ie ire-year average f 106 3 the 1951-55 period. 0 (om

The department said the tiotall does not take into account any cases in British Columbia for which yfiizurcs hail not yet been received,

l)L'-'llllS from the disease so far this year total three, unchanged from last year.

Cases by provinces so far this il)l'Zlfllx(il5I

Xciioiiiirllaiid. 3 mil); Prince -l4iiii.:ii'd island. 2 (1); Nu", scout .1 lti'. New Brunswick 4 till; Que

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CONTRACT BRIDGE-A

By B. JAY BECKER (Top record holder in Masters' Individual Championship Play)

South dealar. Neither aide vulnerabll.

waxes ;u”o 459'

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standard bidding procedures. but the fact remains that the four heart contract was decidedly in- ferior to a three notrump con- Itract. o Against the openliig spade lead the declarer can see that he has no losers in hearts or clubs, but two losers each in spades and 5 diamonds. South must discover some means of avoiding one of ithese losers, or else he will finish with only the nine tricks in sight. if he looks closely enough he may find a legitimate plan to make

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IQ Pass 2;. :9 pm in

Opening lead-qui-on of spades.

Despite all the advances which have been made during l".'4.'t'Ill. years in the science of biildi:i:- .and they have been i-oiisidcrulilc --there is still quite a distance to go before the absolute in 12l1';'l- sion bidding can be attained. When one i'onsi(ler.s that there are 635.013.559.600 different thir-

mv lg teeii card hands you can be dealt

13 R.”-V" El from a bridge deck, and that your ' (Tex) E partner may hold any one 16 ve ' H 8,122,425,444 hands in conjunction 'h. if Q with each and every one of yours, lg Rig, g the difficulty of arriving cun- t”':ln'g') sistently at the best contract can i be better appreciated. It would z1”:):f::P Em appear to this. writer that the ' , , contract arrived. at by North-

II in hrnlrrday a Anavrau ,

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WIBLDI A DHGHTY SCEPTIQI

0'IR Llliillli POWERS THAT BE - WALLACE. Diotubuted by King rectum aviidlcato

proved no barrier to romance when Mrs. Alice Salmon and George Shaw were married here Saturday. The bride is 84, the groom 72.

The couple. who have known each other for 20 years. said . they married for love and be- I

lthe hand, and in fact will become

a favorite to bring in the con-.

tract.

p S0uLli should win the spade with the ace and play a low club from dummy. This play deliber- ately loses a trick which is not a loser. But there is a method to the madness. as can be seen when East goes up with his qizccn of clubs. Declarer nmv has ten tricks instead of nine. After the defenders cash two spades and shift to a diamond, 5""'ll viiiis, plays his jackgof clubs. and plays three rounds of ll't'”.ll). ending in (luniiny. The two diamond losers go on the arc-kilig of clubs. The low club

01' play will succe 3 also if the queen

of clubs is moved to the West hand. Since East would in such case follow low to the l'lllli. Smith ought to presume that l'l'i-st has the queen, and play the nine find not the jack of clubs. This would bring about the same win- ning position as before.

cause of the advantages of combined old age pensions.

The wedding had Mrs. Shaw "as nervous as a May bride." The couple are spending their honeymoon at the groom's home here.

Both had been mzirrii-d before. I The bride was giveii away by her grandson, William David Owens.

The engagement was announ- ced on the bride's hirtliday last Thursday, after a year of court- V ship.

PONEI. of Leeds.Enqland WALKED 400 MILES IN 5 DAvsi,.3;s H0118

SO MANY SW1? LGPS AND YHAT IT FLOWS HALFA MILE (DV& A DISWIMY Y

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