JANUARY 3. 1954

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By Thornton W.. Burgess

ma STRANGE! BEING! TROUBLE rroubie nster is all your own; - It is never yours alone. -Old Mother Nature.

no is true. and it is too had that it is true. Whoever gets in trouble. makes trouble for others. were this not so the Great World pouid be a far happier place than it now is.

Two young foxes, Too-Smart and gait-Eyes. had made a home for themselves in aneighborhood where here had been no foxes for a long

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time. All that they had had to worry about was getting food enough in bad weather. But now tr6ubie, real trouble had been brought to them. I handsome stranger who said his name was Silver Fox. had come to the neigh- borhood. He said he really was a red fox even though he wore a. silvery black coat; and this was true. although Too-Smart didn't quite believe it.

Silver Fox didn't spend all his time in that neighborhood. He was a wanderer. He' was alone and had no settled home. Sometimes he would be gone for several days. and Too-Smart would rejoice, thinking that he had left the neigh- borhood for good. Then Silver Fox would return. That in itself made trouble. Food was scarce, and hard enough to get when there were but two of them. So it was that

Fox out of the neighborhood. Also. he was jealous. Soft-Eyes admired the handsome stranger.

All this was bad enough. but how something worse was happening.

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Almost everyday a hunter with a dreadful gun would be seen some- ywhere in the neighborhood, and it

was all on account of Silver Fox.

It was that beautiful coat of his.

He had been seen, and now he

was constantly being looked for be-

here in that neighborhood.

This meant that Too-Smart and Soft-Eyes had conslantiy to watch iie it was! he wanted. he wouldn't hesitate to shoot them for their red costs if he had enough, but quite by accident they found something worse in the way of trouble. A pair of dreadful steel jaws nearly caught Soft-Eyes. As it was, she lost a toe. Of course.

out for that hunter. Wh that silvery black coat that

got the chance. This was

Too-Smart wanted to drive Silver

cause that lovely silvery black coat iwas the most valuable coat any- W

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Almost every day a hunter with a dreadful gun would be seen some- where in the neighborhood.

it was a trap. It was the first experience of either of the two young foxes with traps. It made them suspicious of everything everywhere they went. By watching, they found that it was the dread- ful gun who was setting those traps. In that way. they found out where most of those traps were set.

GUARDIAN.

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by Josephine Cuibertnon

FROM PILLAII TO POST

A correspondent asks whether it is not true that many squeeze plays could have been broken up by farsighted defense.

The answer. is yes and no, some squeezes can be destroyed by shrewd defense, but it is possible for a defender to break up one type of squeeze. only to fall victim to a different type. Here isaclassic illustration.

Of course it all made hunting harder than ever. They couldn't know that those traps were set especially for Silver Fox. All they knew was that a new and dreadful kind of trouble had come to them. That it was all due to the coming of the handsome stranger to the neighborhood, they didn't and couldn't know. But they did know

no such trouble. so of course he had the same trouble. In this mat- ter they were no worse off than he was. But this didn't make the trouble any easier to hear.

The two young foxes were hav- ing such a hard time trying to avoid the hunter, keep out of traps, and get enough to eat, that they began thinking of looking for a home somewhere else. They hated to give up that good home, but living in that neighborhood was be- coming more difficult every day. ......:?...

MERCY FLIGHT

EDMONTON, (OP) -An RCAF Dakota carrying medical supplies Monday began a 1.300-mile mercy flight to Spence Bay. about M0 miles north of the Arctic circle, where an ROMP constable is re- ported seriously ill. He has been identified only as Constable Ox-

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