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IERRY ls REDELY AWAKENI-:DiNo Muskrat likes to be out in the open where there is nothing to The wise will always be discreet, hide under or in, and Jerry had Whatever danger they may meet.Ito be out in the open in order -Jerry Muskrat. to cross fields and pastures. Just hiow he was in a cornfield. He liked Jerry Miiskrat had iinnted in seeiit there. He liked it for two rea- iomething of the Great iwnrld. He'sons. He felt safer there among the was seeing it. He was seeing a lot tall corn stalks. and he had dis- nore of it than he wanted. Just covered how good corn was to eat. mw there was nothing he would It was the first com he EVE? hid ike to see quite so much as thettasted. He had found is stalk bro- smiling Pool and his home. He ken down and a husk partly pulled timed he IiFlCi' had thought of ;from an ear. That was how he had Favlllg it Just iiliere lioine iiaslliappciied to taste the corn. io didn't know He hoped he wasl p leading for it He was. he couldn'titi-avel overland in the daytime. how that for sure. He was just Like most members of his family iheying an instinct. the prefers darkness of night. Look- Jerry couldn't go back by waiter ing up between the tall cornstalks, '11 the way. He had to go across he could see the stars twinkling tountry He didn't like this at all-Eat him. They twinkled in the same

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RESIDENTS OF SOUTHPORT AND SFRROUNDING AREAS

A meeting will be held in Souiiiport school on Wednesday. October 14th, at 8 p.m. for the purpose of rl;-sriissin: the possibility of inc0i'poraiing the area

I under the Village Services Act. t All residents are urged to attend.

Hon. Eugene Cullen and the Director of Town

Planning will be in attendance.

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friendly manner he had so often seen them twinkle when he look- ed up among the bulrushes at the Smiling Pool. it gave him a good feeling. He ate all that iias left of the ear of corn. It vias all he could eat at one time.

Now a full means a sleepy licad, providing that the stomach is not painfully full. Jerry felt sleepy. He looked for a place to curl up. Just out- side the cornfield he found a pile

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Jerry had traveled a long way. iThzit'tis. it ii as a long irziy for a small person with such short legs as a Muskrat has. e was tired. He had intended to take just a -short nap. but the Black Shadows were hurrying away front the corn- ;field, for it was almost morning, when Jc-rry opened his eyes. He had been wakciicd soinewliat rude- Vly by 51 noise close by. It came from the cornstalks growing just ,beyond the fence under which he had crept to that pile. of brush. iTll1lllHN lie pct-kril out. At first lire could see iioihxiiiz iiiitisual. Then he saw a coriistalk waving back and forth while the surrounding icornstalks were perfectly still. Even as he looked that cornstalk iivas broken. Almost at once he ;heard growling. It wasn't A ipleasant sound. It gave him an

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THE .GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

contract Bridge

By Jouphlne Culbertson

BY REQUEST

There is this to be said about "trick hands" - no matter hoiv often they are published. in news- papers. bridge magazines. and so forth. there are always many re- quests for " he hand where all the aces and kings are put to sleep": or "the hand where a slam is ritade with only two trum s in declarer's hand and two in ummy.” 5 Lately, the largest number of requestii has been made for the rtwo-trump hand"-so here it is:

The legend goes that a North- South pair addicted to fancy cue- gbidding became involved in a series of niisunderstaiidiiigs and landed at six spades in this deal. with South the declarer!

More probably, the deal was actually the brainchild of some bridge wag, designed to impress his friends, but there is neverthe- less interest in the fact that, under the extremely far-fetched condi- tions obtaining in this deal, South can really make 12 tricks at spades although the opponents have nine trumps against his side's four! True. the small slam in spades gcannot be made if West opens a Jtrump. but (continuing the fic- tion) West can scarcely be that clairvoyant, and he therefore makes the normal lead of the dia- mond queen. South then manuevers triumphantly as follows:

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