Show 12 INI OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINETEDNESDAY EVENING MARCH J Bedtime Stories Burgess u 5 1952 By Thornton Bargees Peter Is in a Fix No matter what the fix you're Uncle Ray's Corner Aus-tra'- :ot him and the cruel claws of Hooty the Owl Then he had spied a hole in the ground somebody's in Gold' Keep faith that in the end you doorway and he had dived in Ha will win Peter Rabbit hadn't knocked He hadn't asked Peter Rabbit was in a fix This if any one was at home He had was nothing new with Peter All just dived in headlong and he had his life he has been getting in and done it just in the very nick of out of fixes That is partly be- time Hooty had been just reachy Getcause he ia ing for him It was a close call he was safe now or thought but a own fix into his is ting usually was Hooty had stopped on fault the result of heedlessness or he outside He had poked the doorstep carelessness or too much curiosi- his head in and had even thicat-eneto come in but Peter knew ty Getting out of a fix is usually because he never loses faith that if he did this he wouldn't come Peter would just go on down hall find some way out in the end far to the underground home he knew and does must be there So for the moRight now Peter was in one of ment he felt quite safe Old- - fashion? d wacon In South He was quite safe from Hooty the worst fixes he had ever been Africa in To begin with he had been for Hooty is a Bird of the trees more than all the mines of running and dodging for his life not of the ground Had Peter been t'alifni Alaska and Australia More than once as he dodged there- living out in some parts of the had been little more than that pow- Great West he wouldn't have been together During the past 10 years South South Africa Is Chief 'Land of The Union oi South Africa hasa enly one sixth the area of but it has more people than the whole continent of Australia That may sound like a great population but let us remember that Australia ia the home of only about eight million persona Trying again we may compare the Union of South Africa with the state of Texas The Union has almost twice the area of Texas and one and a half times as many people We may think of South Africa as a nation of whites but it contains only about two and a fourth million white persons There are about four times that many colored persons In some of the cities the whites are in the majority and they make the laws and run the country to a large extent Most of the whites are of British or Boer descent The colored people of the Union are mainly Negroes of Bantu stock Many of them -- take care of herds of cattle sheep and other livestock If you want to look at "a land of gold" you might try a trip to South Africa You will fail to find the people drinking out of golden cups or anything of that sort but South Africa leads the world in production of gold It has provided tail of his between the der-puff f happy-go-luck- e- I Africa has produced more than of the gold mined in the world Canada ranks second as a gold country and the United States third When we talk about the mining of gold we may think of gold nug get but South Africa s gold is obtained chiefly in fine bits There is ridge in South Africa known ss the Rand In this ridge g if n vast amount of rock The rock is blasted and the chunks are crushed Then with the he p of mercury and chemicals the gold is taken from the powdered one-thir- d Then mingled wih thosefready to orr outside and wmewhre p hare" inside was Prickly Porky and grunts was the rustling sound he Peter "Oh dear what shall Iste m rxe is inuoi nuw sounds he was mak- uma nisi ucaiu Judging by the come tf up Hit Mil' and wait" somethinS w ing ready to side him whispered "Oh dear what can I do?" Peter heeded that inside adagea thought Peter "If Prickly Porky bebut I suspect he heeded it not comes up here he'll fill me full cause he thought it w of those little spears of his If to good vice but because there didn't get away from these I have to go to be anything else to do m§b$ nt Hooty the Owl will catch me" often get credit for wisdom! in What could Peter do? Just keep still and hopi doing a thing when the truth! a they do it because they don't knv It sometimes takes more courage what else to do That is the kihi to sit still and hope than it does of wisdom Peter was showing no to try to fight and run away Peter Snap! Snap! That was an ttjlf sat still and hoped He didn't see sound It was the bill of Hoot? how that could possibly do him any the Owl just outside good but he- did it just the same Rustle! Rustle! That was a wof- Long ago he learned you never know until it happens what can i I3UHIC suuiiu ii was maae 7 happen about bele Prickly Porky moving There was a new sound down bein a fix peter certainiy-wa- s low him In the bedroom down what a fix! there Prickly Porky was grunting Copyright 1952 by Thornton W Burgess) Probably he was talking to himself but to Peter it sounded like Hooty the Owl waa sitting an the ine next story: Feter nothing more than a number of doorstep outside Desperate safe l Had he been living where4-teJohnny Chuck's cousin Yap Yap the Prairie Dog lives he would have found living tnere a cousin of Hooty's called the Burrowing Owl wno lives down in the ground just like Johnny Chuck and Yap Yap and other ground-livin- g folk So Peter gave a lone sigh of relief and felt safe Then he heard something that upset that feeling of relief completely He heard a rustling sound somewhere down below This meant that there was some one down there Who could it be? A moment later Peter found out He pricked a paw on something and looked to see what it was It was a quill one of the drwn-egrun- if Pe-p- WELL NOW WE'VE LAST I SAW HE GOT HOLXlSOUTOFiANDSOME INDIANS! - IUUKMKLti- k MY Funny Business VW ITl FRIEND WERE CARRYING J SACKS FULL OF SOMETHING DOWN TO A boat V AM I SAY IN1 AT YOU HAVE SAVED WA5NT JAMESTOWN FROMlNUT S OOP! le - thousand little spears that Prickly Porky the Porcupine carries In bis coat and on his tail Peter knew then that he had got out of one fix only to get into another and worse fix Yes sir Peter was in a worse fix than before Hooty the Owl was sitting on the door- II -- t r3 V HOLY COW tV& BEEN A TERRIFIC DEAL AN' If IT MADN'1 PWNCESS? 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