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PAGýE,.SEVEN* Bird's eye vie Sprmng arrives on, a Sunday rnorning. Saturdy's deluge bas left dead, and drying. earthworms crispy on theapht driv ay Robins rebuild -the nest,, stolen last we bra, neigbouhood child and then returned..- I rake thelan Wonderful elixir,,spring sunshine. Tuiips are Up,.. days from bloom. Weeds too. Avoice: 'Daddy, daâày. That guy with the bicycle and the bell whoý gives out ice cream mn the summer." "Dickee Dee7' Impatient now, jumping, up and down. 'IHe just went ,ýh just went hby. Can I have some monoy?" "Allowance day was yesterday. A whole loonie." "I'saved that. I have saved eighteen dollars. Can I __________________________________ have some money«?" _______-----____________________-__ Time to bo firm, to guide the cbild in frugality. "Tour allowance ifor ice cream or'other treats. You. can always save some and spend some." The lawn: aeration, one company said, would help. Dethatcliing is called for, said another, yes sir, yes air, eight bags full sir. No, detbatch only when lawn is dormant, replied another. $138.50, keep your lawn fa perfect ail year along. Witb weed kcillers, pest killers, chemical fertilizers. Maybe 111 go for aeration, $29.W. Top dress with my own compost. "'Daddy, daddy, daddy, the ice cream gay just wentJ rigbt on past, hoeve stopped, ho nover turned p lil nover get ice cream ever, ever, ever." She lutches a loonie tighly in her first, her knuckles white. Being six is intense. "Which way'?" Sbe,.oints. "Go'catchhbirn." 'Tm not supposed to cross that street."' Decision Urne. Do we stick by the limits or widen the world by just that much? "Keep on this side" She departe with a smile that is its own reward. The lawn iii back is beyond rng. I dig ot the lawnmower. Manual reel, twelve years old, sharpened once, blades eut thin paper. Uses no gasoline, starts flrst Urne, every trne. May 3 seems too early,to cut DTYUNOSALNCPV TRYAAEMY,17 grass., But you can't argue with nature.W TB NLP LNCPVIOR AAD MYet15 "Daddy, daddy daddy. He's gone." A tear trickles The floats in "hi picture are pasung the Toronto Dominion- Banuk and Snslgrove' Drug Store-> down be left heelc.at the corner of Brock and Dundas Streets. The. Whithbr Dunlope had theunique achievement 1Myebl on ak oumyhv owî ni of winning the. AMan Cup ther flrst year as a senior 'A'% hockey tearn. ianoter day." 10 "ell nover corne." "Go to the corner and wait." Six-year-olds can wipe awyA---te _A-Itb-nelog_ niil. 01-AS-G compost thon. Brin returns. She cbews on a red, white and blue double-stick treat of frozen-sometbing stui She is0YA1SG happy. 0YARAG 'He gaveý me some money back Can you put it i froIn the ffday2PvMa , 892 edition of t he my banke' She niland e ifen c e sts. *e Louis and Oliver Sebert bave taken over the Brooklin fouse Hôtel from tba Chinn faniily2 I pcke th nikelanddie, o dpost lter *$150 worth of prizes will ho offered at Brooklin's VictoriaDay celebration on M4ay 24. > "' In the arbour, the mother'robin puills at some of Ontario. Ladies CoUl e as engaged- a needework, artWs from Berlin, Germany as a' lasyea's oring gory vines to add to ber nest.- teacher. Nery ermt hstle hl owtbs u Wanderers'Bicycle Club of Toroto wil visit Whitbytooow Loaleweihave a family to watch this spring. -7-___________________________ -~ ,-- -~ .--,. - .- - "h 14 ~ ;'. ~?Qt'