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L950 Le Thursday, March 9, 1950 THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL i Page 7 id | J glisten at the ends of the pine that J /) . - 7 O.B.BERGQUIST || The Cookee Col tre orn, sv, sive a al e OoOKkee OIUM N ||sparkting down on the ico that mae 1 WATCHES, CLOCKS, covered the pond. It looked like Ee BK a sheet of diamonds. It was the ee JEWELERY BOOK TWO most beautiful thing that the W 6S SILVERWARE ; 53 Weather-vane had ever seen in all ehed AN Patsy's Kid his days and nights of looking, ng 68 Colborne St. E. Phone 1231 and he could not take his eyes off ee Fudgee % Tr it for even one instant. | "Now, just as he was looking | > By HERBERT. C. MERRY t the icy- h i § |[IDirectory | © : curious ing beginning to map. | curious thing beginning, to hap- CHAPTER 7 Oh no, you have the wrong span. Pen. From out among the dark ] INSURANCE ELECTRICAL lel girl, for sure you have" said trees that grew along the bank 0 = 1 . PUPPIES PICNIC Ln y e said gr g anks rE «p 3 a g : SS Be a Eo ot il he oS Real Estate and Insurance| COMMERCIAL we found an excellent spot for [had been sitting up thers oo and heavily steppi nt Hr : DOMESTIC a 5 g up there in the eavily stepping onto the 139 Colborne Street Bast | DOME SERVICE [ou Plemic. It was a shady little sun watching the feeding with |Dond. They appeared to be men. | Was hardly any sound at all, He Oakville - - - - Phone 532 BROWN ELECTRIC oy. tar from the main high- |great interest. Now she jumped [for he could make out that they |MIVeled at the way they moved 19 Minas St. 2% CONTRACTORS way. Cedars almost surrounded |down and ran a few steps away (were wearing hats and carrying | '© 82d fro, in and out, round and Toronto - - - A de 2761 it, and a lovely little brook gig- [so she wi i round, without once falling. elai Gol EB ' ouldn't be near enough |canes. But on the other hand they Evenings - - - Oakville 712 Ton out or | H. S. THORNTON Cimon | Phone 874 a Lakeshore West, Oakville , think | GENERAL INSURANCE RADIO - APPLIANCES "Sales & Service Phone 521-M Dunn St. North "Oakyville's Active A. F. BERRILL Broker" L. F. CLEMENT HOME ELECTRIC Phone 1059 Oakville BILL ANDERSON Oakville sight around spot near the brook, stood on lone silver birch, queen of all th found the spot ahead of us, bu gled itself through the middle of the clearing and wound. out of a clump of hem- lock. Almost in the middle of our e (said and added, under my surrounding trees. In it sat a breath--'yet." lovely little blue bird. She had "Don't you want to be a big to be caught for a nurse-maid. "Oh come on, Taff" I coaxed. "Come and take a real close look at your little wee brothers and € | sisters. They won't bite you." I t | sister to them?" my wife added. were much too big, and too round, and too snowy-white to be men. The next moment he recognized what they must be. And he rec- ognized what they must be be- cause. just then, he heard a thumping noise on the path just below him, and'saw the Snowman that the children had made the "But something dreadful hap- pened at last. Suddenly the Snowmen stopped moving by themselves and joined in a long. tally-ho. It was led by an enor- mous Snowman with a tall black hat and a woolen muffler that streamed out behind him as he pulled the rest of the line after Real Estate and Business| AUTHORIZED FRIGIDAIRE quickly flew away to leave us in| "No Dribbi! I do not!" said|day before, thumping and clump- him, faster and faster . . . and i "DEALER sole possession of her little dell. (Tatfee to my wife, "And if the|ing as he hurried toward the [still faster. Then--CRASH! the as Commercial Sales & Service| Patsy and Taffee = scurried |truth were known, which my mo- | Pond! first Snowman tripped and fell. x Livingston Stoker about the clearing and down the | ther says it ain't hardly ever sel-| .. And the rest of them all piled on Oakviltey On, Phony 1235 | onl Ob momen ly ee oe her ever known, but if it were 1] Le they were all Snowmen; [ind fe IS Service & Monae allo iy, ere I Snowmen from miles and miles | °° ervice nstallation o rink from the friendly little |don't want i ve PROFESSIONAL Maks Brook an ray about, coming down to the pond| "And that's why, the next CARSTEN GLAHN WORK GUARANTEED | "Now isnt this a nice place for| be a sister of there n ayes BM aes then uetsing, When the So Optometrist -- Optician PHONE 1441 a picnic?" I said as I brought| She looked so worried about it Te maxung all over down to ths pond ithey Sgn 168 Colborne St. E. 16 THOMAS ST. out the old family picnic basket |we reassured her and told her she a oy A a LE a Phone 1375 GENERAL ELECTRIC | ind placed it on the car rug un- could be Aunt Taffee to them. or St non or as [ven tug naa blown ; Oil Burners der the silver birch tree. This pleased her-and she scur- J ¥ ? WILLIAM C. MILLIGAN, R.O. Commercial Refrigeration "Any place is a nice place for [ried off to find Patsy. When they Optometrist Optician Sales & Installation a picnic!" said Patsy, as she|returned from their little 69A Colborne St., Oakville, Ont. stopped drinking and looked up. |scrounging expedition we packed |s : (Over the Bank of Commerce) A. C. NN Th i Et er i Professional eye examination &|94 Maple Ave, Phone 1544|The water was running down [them in fhe cur, puppies aap nor i | SE ln Oakville Both sides of her jowls. "What|and started on our way once omen "Hsu Monday 35, ai REPAIRS EYL he tn oy Es Walter Anderson urday, 9.80 am. to 5 pm.|Tq a types of commercial] 2, 1oP8 as there is food to eat" Tuesday and Thursday evenings, (ang = omectic refrigerators |, Or, 20% food, to be sure Christopher's M t 7.00 to 8.00 p.m. : chimed in Taffee. "How I love ristopher's Myster and electric ranges. > : y Telephone 1507 food. I think that eating food is|1T STARTED WHEN HE SAW W. A. CAMPBELL, PR ARAN ECE Tone feastime. Wel--| "snow oN THE POND Vv S. EW. B E ext to collecting treasures, or By MAX TRELL Q . me ian Re nh maybe collecting gossip. But I .do| "As you know," Christopher arm Istri utor or redi ring love eating. Leave us eat food!" | Cricket Hours by Appointment Telephone 521M or 1423W = zving to Raarfiang Home Office 29" Horald Ave Oakville tp ppd zeat food! echoed |Hanid, the shadows with the oe . I a J Patsy. "What else would we eat |turned-about names, "when the Br t1 h A Oil C H one offi NURSERIES but food? It's like saying, let us children went down to the pond ILS merican 1 0. Trafalgar Farms ce cut grass. Now what else could this morning to ice-skate, they i Phone 1344 RE LEiLsEN you cut but grass?" > found the ice covered with piles "Toe-nails!" yelled Taffee, as|of » Garden D. or y snow. OSTEOPATH en pr she cantered up from the brook | "Yes" that's right," said Han- Guaranteed Q lity Product 8 CARL YON DCE TREES -- SHRUBS -- ROSES [0 the picnic cloth. "Also hair-- ig. "Now ordinarily there would antee uality Croducts steopat s and your paws too, if you step on [be nothing very strange about 3 63 Division Street We Grow - Desiga - Plant [broken glass." that. Only, as it happens, it did 3 By Appointment Only. , = PL We fed the two dogs first. not snow last night. So how could : / Phone 82 akville R.R. 1 Then we ate our sandwiches |the piles of snow have got on T k d P } 5 Phone 1444.W while Patsy and Taffee explored |top of the ice?" anKs an umps Evenings, Wednesday After- i eo D ; "LINBROOK NURSERIES [the surrounding woods, They "Maybe the wind blew the noon, Saturday and Sunday.| LINBROOK NURSERIES Ir Growers of carefully examined each spot and [snow on from the fields," sug- - J BARRISTERS High Quality Nursery Stock [every tree. returning every few gested Knart. supplied to F armers re Designers of Fine Gardens |MiRutes to see if there were any | Cricket shook his head. "There en b crusts from the sandwiches for|was no wind last night either-- 1 Contracting -- 8] Barrister -- Solicitor EIGHTH LINE N. Phone 137, | them When Patsy came back to [not even a breeze. And no one was 1 p> Notary Public rest for awhile T brought the box | there to shovel it on top of the ---- 107 Colborne Street East FLOOR SERVICE of puppies from the car and let ice. No, it got there in quite an- 24 Hour Service - Telephone Oakville 532 BRONTE FLOOR SERv on FLOOR SERVICE| "feed them. They too were other way." He said this last dal AI 0) ] oS TRIE VICE | joining in the picnic, It was the sentence in a very mysterious R E FLOOR SANDING Puppies' first picnic. Of course |way. "You'd never guess how. But Trg a - wm they didn't realize it. They were [I know I wasn't there to see it Notary Public LINOLEUM FLOO! LAID far too young to remember it. myself. But the weather-vane-- 61-A Coihorne St. East uy Why, their eyes weren't even |the iron rooster--who sits on top|| 3.1 Deane Ave. Phone 1571-w Telephones NTE open yet! Just imagine going on [of the roof and can see the pond \ Office 65: Residence 1487-w W. H. PARKIN Picnic when you were only a few [very clearly, saw everything that ||, t : Floor Sanding & Refinishing [days old. happened. And he told me." AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS °° McConachie & Jones Phone 1058-W. "That's all Tm feeding them| At this Knarf and Hanid beg- oJ] MH D. A. McConachie now," said Patsy after a few [ged Christopher Cricket to tell -- A Richard Jones ROOFING minutes had passed. Why, jump- [them what the weather-vane told = S-- Barrister - Solicitor Y, § : ing thimbl cri 2 aw last nig] ie 7 Sos rom EI Lm ; 169 COLBORNE ST. New roofs & Old roofs applied |e © 2 91 No arsten ann 3 Tnsul-Bric siding & Asbetos siding | 101't Watch out. T never saw| "Well" said Christopher, "Ill : I Telephone Oakville 1304 0 Materials such hungry kids in all my born |tell you the story just as the Optometrist Opticiar = JOHN F. ISARD Haves Troughing days. No; I never did! Yes, no-- weather-vane told it to me. You ptometrist, Sa Optician ) -- Bie Seer Materials supplied & sold = |yes, no--TI never did!" She got up|can believe it or not, just as you 163 Colborne Street Oakville Notary Public Successor to W. N. Robinson, : 142 Colborne St. "Phones: Bus. 15 JACK A. SEE Barrister-Solicitor Notary Public 27 Park Avenue Telephone 1237- K.C. East Res. 216 D R wos is ACCOUNTING Peter P. Nichols New Phone 2544 Burlington Oakville 1445 38 CLARKE AVE., BURLINGTON (Estimates Given) BUILDING THOS. SHIELDS . "Building Contractor" 81 Colborne St. Oakville Ontario Estimates Supplied Phone 698 C. L. OLIVER and Accoun haunt- 888 Business Systems | sal and | | yy well P.O. Box 402 ey are and Auditing, Income Tax Returns 32 Thomas Street Ham. 7-5452 - Oakville 1268 CO. nstalled ene SURVEYING ONTARIO LAND SUR! faithful n with - porn ng SEAN kinds of Carp A. S. Wright and gs, Carpets iture Cleaned In You Home. ion Guaranteed 08 Kerr (N.) H. D. SEWELL TURNBULL & HOLDRIDGE 1578W - CHAS. 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