JANUARY 31, 1952

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-Old Mother Nature. , ky the Crow is canny and . .ll the way of his neighbors. in, : Mink is just as canny. Both Ht, ncquircd wisdom through rx'pCt'iCll(.'('. the best teacher in

ihc Grcat World.

ii:iicirv had just seen Billy Mink .. .r. one of his children nway i,..,.., .1 !.ltlc p.ece of meat that 5nP:iIF(l in be lying on the snow '1. ,1, cdge of open water in I

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lcngt h was frozen

OVET. here and there were there stretch-

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es where the water ran too swiftly to freeze. Blacky knew that a little farther down that brook was another little piece of meat nt the edge of the water.

. He had discovered those pieces of

meat very early that morning when he started out to look for his breakfast. He had bcen tempt- ed to pick them up for his break-

fast. tempted as seldom bcfore.'

You see, he was almost starving. But he had been suplcious be- cause he had seen a Man stopping at catch of these places where the meat was. He had finally found a breakfast over at the Big River and had returned to see if any one else had taken that meat. He was just in time to see a young Mink reach for a piece and Billy Mink drive him away.

.Billy had told Blacky what was

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Crow for dinner." said Billy Mink with an unpleasant sort of grin.

"What do you mean?" demand- ed Blacky. ,

"You would have been caught in a pair of jaws you couldn't get away from. Then I would have come along." Billy grinned again.

"Caw. caw. caw! Enough said." cried Blacky. ”I' hope that young son or yours has learned ai lesson." l

"I hope so, too." replied Billy ”but I doubt it. He is headstrong, he always has been headstrong. He is one of those children who think they know it all and really know very little. lie will learn only by exipcricnce."

"Have you been down the brook any farther today? " asked Blacky

”No." replied Billy. "Why?"

"There probably is another trapi at the next open water, anyway there IS another piece of meat like

this at the edge of it." replied Billy Mink made no reply.

I I Blacky. l l

smoothly, without I splash. he. dived into the water and dis-1 appeared. He was swimming down l the brook, swimming under thel ice. You know Billy Mink is a; wonderful swimmer. and he can; stay under water longer than youl would think possible. 1

Blzicky spread his wings andi headed down the little brook tly- ling just above the treetops a-1, long the banks. When he came in!

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CONCERNING CROSS-BUFFB

Cross-ruft hands are popularly supposed to be "the novice's de- light," and yet the fact is that correct cross-rufi'ing often re- quires meticulous planning and timing. South in the following deal was far from being a novice, but he went wrong.

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wro” with Hm" mu” 919" of sight of the next stretch oi openijunip-raised hearts bid five din-

"mal" He "id me” W55 il "api water the little piece of mcatlmonds

hidden there. and that explained everything.

”I almost picked that meat up mysclf." said Blacky.

”If you had, I would have had.

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,was still lyiiig at the edge of it.! lBcforc Blacky could get tiicrc,' lthc young Mink scrainblcd oiitl on the snow. He saw the bit o:l lmeat. He looked hastily this way and that to see if any one was In-arching. He didn't see B'.aL'ky.l lilo moved .str.'ii,r:lit toward tluitl ltcinptiiigz bait To pick it up he, lllad to step in a certain place. licl did. A frightful thing happcucd.i A pair of steel jaws leaped up; mid out of the light snow thatl .llad been sifted over them andi isnappcd together on one of the Thinrl legs of the young Mink. Ho i arrcaincd with fright and pain nnd plungrd into the watcr. Blacky. from overhead couldpsce the wa- 7 lcr boil as down near the bottom ltho young Mink sti'ii(.:i.:lcd fur- iously to get away from this dreadful thing that was holding and hurting him so. ”Caw. oatv, cowl” Blacky. Caw, caw, caw

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to indicate a control. it happened to be second-round control. but that was sufficient.

Correct play "would have tri- umphed against any defense. but it was to West's credit that he found a lead whit-h gave South I chance to slip. This lead was the deuce of trumps. Declarer captur- ed I-lasts ten, cashed the blank spade king, then launched a cross- ruff. He cashed the top diamonds and ruffed a diamond, cashed the spade acc, dist-iii-ding a club from his own hand, then riiffcd a spade with the (.'l.'1lIl. of trumps. West promptly over-rui':i'ed. and his trump rcturn dug South's grave I. little deeper!

After the triiinp opening. care- ful figurin: by declarer would have revealed that ii. cross-rut! plan would not "reach." There was simply too much to do via this method. A far more realistic idea was to try for the establish- ment of dummy's spade suit. and, with the favorable spade break that existed. this plan WOUIO have had notable success. All South had to do, after cashing the spade king. was to enter dum- my with a trump. cash the spade ace and, when West's jack tell. to draw West's last trump and then continue with spades, dis- carding if East played low. Even if this spade lead lost to the queen in West's hand, declarer would have his 12 tricks.

LIVERPOOL. N. 5. Jan. 2'7 (GP; - Donald Willard MacKay. '28, a former Conservative member of the Nova. Scotia. Legislature, died at his home here Saturday.

By Clifford McBride

By Al Capp

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BRINGING UP FATI IER

WELL-Ml2.l2Ex BARNES

TI-E BANKER IS GOING VAONEEQCUL? TO HIRE Mv BIZOTHEI2 or ig. DANNY-ISN'T THAT

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TILLY THE TOILER

Foe HEAVEN? GAKE, MAC,1'VHY ARE wu CARRYING THAT CARDBQAPD?

sue DOESN'T REALLY FEEL me MU5lC THOUGH. 1 CAN TELL Bv HER sacs...

sue HAS A LINDY HOP EXPRESSION on HER sac: outaivs A STRAUSS WALTZ.'

AGNES I5 OUITE A RECORD CCX.LECT& TX, ISN'T SHE?

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