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THE GUIDE TO NATURE-ADVERTISEMENTS 
MOTORS 
FIXTURES 
APPLIANCES 
MODERN LABOR SAVING MACHINES FOR 
THE HOUSEHOLD 
The 
Downes-Smith Co. 
Electrical Contractors 
Stamford, Conn. 
79 ATLANTIC STREET 
over the pile of earth so that they 
formed sort of an outer covering to 
tunnels she was digging, and she con- 
tinued packing the earth against my 
hands so that it formed a complete and 
solid tunnel, my hands holding it in 
place.” 
A curious fact is that the story has 
wandered around perhaps for cen- 
turies. I recall hearing it repeatedly 
told in my boyhood by persons who 
frequented saloons. It was a stock 
story, intended to put the bill on the 
other fellow. My grandfather, then over 
eighty, frequently told me he had 
heard the story in his boyhood from 
his parents and his grandfather, but 
invariably the chipmunks were the per- 
formers. 
I can understand how, in these days 
of prohibition, drinks should become 
tickets, but what made the change from 
chipmunks to rabbits? 
How to See Venus! 
Posted in a women’s college by in- 
structress in astronomy : “Anyone 
wishing to look at Venus please see 
me.” — Boston Transcript. 
Phone 953-5 H. Eichenbaum, Prop. 
THE ATLANTIC TRUNK AND 
UMBRELLA SHOP 
Stamford's Uumbrella Hospital 
285 Atlantic Street 
(Opposite Catholic Church) 
Near Worth Street Stamford, Conn. 
LOUIS A. SPEZZANO 
GENERAL CONTRACTOR 
Post Road, 
Riverside, Connecticut. 
Telephone : Sound Beach 145. 
M C ARDLE’S SEED STORE 
Florist and Seedsman 
SEEDS, PLANTS, BULBS, INSECTICIDES AND 
FERTILIZERS 
BIRD HOUSES, FEEDING DEVICES AND BIRD 
FOODS 
Telephone 317 Merritt Building 
Greenwich, Conn. 
