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By Thornton SAMMY JAY EXl'I.Al.N'S

When you hear a uarntng. lived it. Another time you uill not in-cii

-Sammy Jay.l

Sammy Jay had (i4'llC his i)t':-l in keep iuu youiisz loxcs, Too-Siiiititt and his pretty mate Snft.Eyrs, out of trouble llilll Pi-ick.y Park) the Porcupine. He klltlxk that :1 was the first time they ctcr ililii seen

Prickly Porky and that they knew-

nothing about hint. and l.l' thous- and little spears. c:ti'.i-d qtirl-. unit which he is pit-'.ct-ted. He had succeeded lll keeping them iroin iouchinc Prickly Porky, but altrr the latter had gone it"-WW TU0' Smart found one of i illlllib 0”

the ground and dust .- S.illllll)' Jay's vtarniii: not ill tmi it .t, he had touched it and now he tvished he hadn't. Act-iclvntallv hc nad

stopped on the sililill point of Ilia: quill and it had been pushml ueli

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into lns foot. Trying to get hold 01 it and pull it out, he had work- ed it still farther in. Of course the result was a sore foot.

Sammy Jay came around cvcry day. More than once he reminded Too-Stuart that he had been warn- ed to leave that quillalone. ”Youare

iittcky," said Sammy on one of his

l'iSllS.

"Him am I lucky?" asked the young fox. He didn't feel lucky, not the least bit lucky. He was going about on three legs, because he it-ould not as yet put that sore foot :o the ground.

"You are"iuck,V that you didn't try to fight Prickly Porky." re- plied Sammy. Jay. "If you had a lot of those little spears in your mouth and tongue, as you would have had if you had tried to fight Prickly Porky, you would know it hat real trouble is. You just can't pet those things out. I have heard lthat Pekan the Fisher, who lives inn the deepest part of the Green Foivst, has learned how to kill a p0i'(.'upine without getting too many of those little spears in him, and ,that he doesnit seem to mind much those that do stick in him. But everyone else with any sense at all leaves Prickly Porky and his kind alone .

"Does he throw those little spears?" asked Soft-Eyes who had been listening.

Sammy .lay shook his head. "Of course he doesn't,” said he. "Some- times when he is switching his tail back and forth some of the little spears on his tail may be loose and be thrown off. But when it happens Prickly Porky doesn't know anything about it. It is just , accidental.”

"Does he carry those little spears

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I "No," said Sammy Jay ,and began

to chuckle. "He fights with his Inn. I

all over him?" asked Too-Smart. He stopped licking his sore paw long enough to ask the question.

"No," replied Sammy Jay. "He hasn't any at all underneath. Hc car- ries them all on his back and sides and his tail."

"He has ugly-looking biting teeth," spoke up Salt-Eyes.

"True enough." said Sammy Jay. "But it isn't. with those that he does most of his fighting."

"What does he fight with, his claws?" asked Too-Smart.

"No." said Sammy Jay, atid be- gan to chuckle. ”He fights with his tail.”

Both young foxes looked up at Sammy Jay with the funniest ex- pressions on their faces. "How in the world can he fight with his tail?” asked one of them.

"By slapping it about from side to side. Anyone hit by that tail is out of luck," explained Sammy Jay.

Slight Increase in Immigrants

()'I'rAWA, (OP) - The nutnber of immigrants admitted to Canada in 1053 is expected to exceed the 1952 total of l64.498 by is slight. margin. an immigration depart- ment officisl said Thursday.

He made the forecast on the basis of immigration figures for the first ll. months of 1953 and preliminary figures for December.

During the ll months 157.638 im- migrants landed in Canada, an in- crease of 0.4 per cent compared ;with 157,068 admitted during the same period in l952,

1 The number of arrivals from the j U. K. totalled 44.651. a. gain of nine lpor cent. A total of 65,830 linini- iprants arrived from north Emm- ipcan countries, an increase of nine iper cent compared with 19.52. Ar- rivals from the United States rose ,to aaza from 6,619. i However. the number admitted from all omher countries declined lto 38.529, a drop of 18 per cent.

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HIGH-LEVEL DISAGREEMINT

It is not only average players who disagree over the ntcaiiing of s bid. Here is a case in point:

East and West knew a good thing when they heard it - neither was at all inclined to double four hearts and perhaps let the enemy get straightened out. The outcome. then, was that South found him- self in a vulnerable four-heart contract without a trump in his hand.

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Northduler; North-South vulnerable QKJ1084 QKB32 QAK AQ8 40 6735 QQ107 N OAJDB 64 W E .109! QQJ85 S AKJ5 43 QA AAOGI ...-.. Q72 Q10976432

The bidding: g North East south West

1Q Pass 2Q 3. SQ 4. 4.(l)Pll(. Psss(l)Pua

Down 700 was a pleasant result. for East-West, and it was prob- ably ali the more pleasant because their opponents were very famous experts, and East-West could then listen comfortably to the converse- tion going from North to South and vice versa.

South said: "Don't you know 1 cue bid when you hear one?"

North said: "That wasn't a we bid. necessarily. You could have been too weak for two hearts over one spade, but wanted to show the suit finally. Maybe you had raised on only three spades and were looking for a. safer contract."

South said: "Rather unlikely. 1 made two bids. If my hand justi- fied them, then I must. have enough to bid two hearts over one spades. And anway, everyihinl pointed. to the fact that we had

been at least suspicious of the heart bid. and gone to spades in self-protection."

North said: "You shouldn't have made such an ambiguous bid."

And so the discussion cndcd -- on thr usual note of disagreement.

Obviously. Bouth bid the hearts because he expected thcjnonvulncn able cnemy to save at diamonds, and wanted to beat them Ide- quatcly by getting a heart lead uhich he could ruff. True, his bid has somewhat ambiguous. but. tcvcrything considered. North should have gone back to spades.

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