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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1930 TC i PRE rea "3 1 § VW Tr A " Quack Holds Her Breath By Thomton For courage that will stand the test peg Mother Blvd upon her nest, wld Mother Nature, Mrs, Quick, the Mallard Duck was very happy, To begin with, she had & most comfortable nest, Khe had made it of dead bulrushes, Yass And some leaves, Then she Hy taken great pang with the ning, That ining was of feathe 8rg---~tha softest, nicest feathers you "ori imagine, She had pulled them from Nor own hrenst, You, wir, Mrs, Quack had pulled all those feathe ers fram hey own breast, Fo you #06 IL was # very niee nest, Then, as 1 have already told you, that nest was yery well hidden, Mrs, Quack had looked all up and down the Laughing Brook and all through the Nitle alder swamp he: fave she had deeiddd on (hin partie: war spot, fhe had aver gone down to. the Big River and lgnked along the hank there, Nowhere had she found gnite such a perfect spot for n nest, It seamed as If Old Mothey Nature had caused the hushes to grow just where they did for the special purpose of hiding a Duek's nest, I. was only a little way to the Smiling Pool It was anly # few steps to the Laughing Brook, A hetter situntion couldn't have heen made to avder, Anyway, thai Is what Mrs, Quack thought, Be she was vary happy there, But Mes, Quack was nol free from worries, No, indeed! No one In free from worries, This 1s eapsels ally trie of a mother bird on her nest, Whe knows full well that thera is always the chanea that same sharp eyes will find that nest, i There in niways the chanes that some one will aegldentally stumhle over it, as Pater Rabbit had 16 was on the night following the laying of her tenth and last exp that Mrs, Quack had her first real seare, It wan In the dusk of early avening, Mrs, Quack had had » nap that afternnon and she was very mueh awake, You ses, now that she had all her esas; she was settling down ta the wark of hroed ing them, Bhe felt very proud of those eggs, They were (a her the most important things In all the Great World, 8he dreamed of the Pueklings that would come from these precious eggs, You see, there wasn't anything elena ta do hut dream, But while she dreamed she wis alert avery Instant, Rhee was Always Vatening, always watehing for possihle danger, The Black Bhadows erept all through the Mttle alder swamp, Later, Mistvean Moon poured down a flood of stivery Haht, Tt gob Intn the little swamp in patches, Right I where Mra, Quack was, however, ay the blaskest ok Black Shadows ust hevond her wis aulte a hroad pater of moonlight, Ahe happened PHONE 22 © For Your Drug Needs THOMPSON'S 10 Blmlbe Bk 8B, == We Deliver ; Machine Roane NOTHING TOO SMALL Adanac Machine Sho 101 King 86, W, Phone 1814 . Diamonds ! Bassett's On Oshawa's Main Corner W. Burgess Bobby wan ing straight toward oy to be looking al this pateh of moon: Hght when her bright eyes caught f movement in the shadows just beyond, Instantly she fixed hey ayes on that spot, A moment Inter there shuffled out into the moons Hght the last person in the world whom she wanted to ses around thera, It was Bobby Coon, Yes, sie, 16 was Bobhy - Coon! Hobhy was hunting for some thing to eat, There was no deubt of that, Mrs, Quack shivered when whe thought of these ten eges undey hev and how Bobby Coon would lke to get them, Hobby wus headed straight toward her, In the mid dle of the moonlit space he stopped for # moment or two, He turned and looked stralght at Mrs, Quack, Bho held her breath, It seemed a8 11 he must see her, But he didn't, Ne, sir, Hobby didn't see her at all, He began muttering to Wimaalf, "Which way shall 1 go?" sald he, "Shall 1 go up the Laugh ing Brook fishing, or shall 1 go down the Laughing Brook to the AEmiling Pool frogging? 1 believe li , SR ---- TIME TABLES pb biniiliiinbdeirdiidairb diddy ¢ y TIME TABLE ivitive dane: MAM: girly! : Wily (Except Bunday), " ily (Except Sunday), ¥ Dally' (Except Sunday) Fost y 1) ily' (Exeept Bunday), ily (Exeept Bunday Daily, m-- CANAD ILWAYS 1) five ov y Wh ( ard Time Wnilay only EN ily, eneept Bunday, Jail, exept Bunda, ¥ al vy saoept Baturday {vy ally Wally (Except Bunday) NATIONA y lh, "Ghee Bunday, Jaily, seep Bunday, iM = Tw Westhound Daily, li a sacept Bunday, MW ¥ exept Bunday, i ily NR i i Ad vy sAeept Bunday, My Ay only 0b Io nt Whi Oshawa, Bowmanville on GO tiNe WERK DAY SCHEDULE (Effective "esd Soph 10, 1000 Leave NY the fA i Bit mass "am 4 am x VTTESEEET toes Er Frys TEPP =e $3233333 IN LY Wateh ta wot giving | Beka a [10 Aah HAAR rah and thoy are [7] 00d eating," hy digappenred in the Bluek Adown, The nest story "Light Vools steps," f RED SENTIMENT DYING IN CHINA Improved Attitude Towards Foreigners Noticeable Says Official Montreal, Que, Aptil 12 == Ching today In # meh more pleasant sountey for a Britisher to he in than has heen the ease for some years, declared Colonel Gerald Wi Birks, upon, his return, after a stay of sin months In the Orient where he stu died Young Men's Christian Associn- ton matters, Cel, Birks was lust year Yq inted linison officer between the M.Cy of Ching, Japan and that of North Ameries, "I'he pendulum of public sentiment 'which wits so vielently anti-British a few years 1igo, has swum well over the other way," he sid: "This Is up- dotibtedly due In 'large part to the fet that Russi Infuence, which did mi 'v to digest China's fren Ants foreign feeling against the British in partieular, has waned to almost the vanishing point, The other reason Is i greater toleranes of foreigners In general, The Chinese seem now Ulta eager to receive whatever help they ean from outside, and willing also to shoulder a much higrer vesponsibe ity for the Present state of thelr country than formerly, DEPLORES LIVING CONDITIONS AT CAPE BRETON TO Ralph Connor Outlines Hardships Experienced by Miner a, Toronto, April 12, == Living condi tions. in Sydney, Cape Breton, were nothing short of deplorable, 1s (he statement stiributed to Dr, C, Gordon, (Ralph Conner), who has Just nell # survey of the steel plants, eoke ovens and blast furnaces of Canada, for the Becind Pervies Counell of Canada, Dr, Gordon wlso finds that thous ands of Cindi workpien engaged in these industries are working long hours, thirteen hours dolly one wee and eleven the next with a straight twenty-four hour stretch at the end of every two week period, Dre Gorden Ineluded Hamilton, Sault Sta, Marle and Sydney in his itinerary, At Sydney, conditions are Ising from the keen competition of United States wip given we the reas son' for the hardships found there And were Whely to continue for an indefinite period, At Bale Ste, Marte employers and employees ulike expected remedial ghanges to come In the near fulure, while at Hamilton the long hours had alresdy been aholished, Dr, Gordon W. | sald, The findings of his survey will be made public at the All-Canadian conferences on social work te be held here April 28 to May 1, Salada quality and rics make premiums unnecessary "SALADA" 'Frosh from the gardens' Dr, Gordon will address & mass Norweglang are now making use of airplanes Lo catch, whales, It pounds rather a ponderous form of fly-fishing =Montreal iar, mesting of labor unions here Aptl) xn ELLA CINDERS--Finny Business Weesaion Wo " YAR TOMMY, ---- Ee THE FRENCH DURING THE WORLD yy sam m-------- | FAMOUS'BIG BERTHA' SLIGE GUNS WITH WHICH GERMANS SHATTERED THE THE STEEL AND CONCRETE TORTS OF LILGE AY THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR, HE LARGEST CANNON EVER DEVISED HAD A BORE OF 20% INCHES, A BARREL 76 FELT LONG , AMD FIRED A SHELL 1 WEIGHING 3200 POUNDS, THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECT OF THIS GUN SURPASSED THE | +53: - ye WE FAMOUS &% GERMAN 78 § MILE GUN - y= THE GERMANS IN SHELLING PARIS AS DESIGNED 10 SPREAD TERROR BY 11S STARTLING TANGE MORE THAN BY THE EFFECT OF ITS FIRE. \ HUH! 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