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JANUARY 23. 1953

By Thornton W. Borges

THE ONE WHO DIDN'T WORK

Life's greatest blessing lies in work. They cheat themselves who try to

shirlr. -Old Mother Nature.

"I don't work but I manage to llve." boasted croaker the Raven, as he watched Paddy and Mrs. Paddy repair a. leak in their dam.

Of course it was true that he managed to live, or he wouldn't have been sitting there in that tree looking on. It wasn't true that he didn't work. although he un- doubtedly thought it was. He had been flying this way and that ever since break of day.iooking for some- thing to eat. so far he had found nothing. He was resting now, for he was very tired. some folks work harder doing nothing than doing something. when he had rested he would go hunting again, flying here and flying there, searching for a scrap of anything that could be eaten. Managing to live really was work of the hardest kind. and how he managed to do it was the marvel

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Croaxer is well named. His voice is a. harsh crook, Also. he is one who sees the dark side of things rather than the bright side. But he has courage. If he didn't have. he couldn't possibly live through a winter so hard as this winter was proving to be. The snow was deep everywhere and deep snow" covers up many things that can be eaten by those who are not fussy. There had been ice storms when everything was coated in hard ice. Yet, somehow Croaker the Raven had managed to live. He had managed to get food enough to keep from starving to death.

"How he does It. I don't know." said Lightfodt the Deer. stroking his head. "I almost pity the rascal." From his yardlwhlch he and Mrs. Lightfoot and the twins had kept trodden out in the deep snow. he watched oroalrer disappear over the treetops. He really was sorry for Croaker. The queer prirt of it all was. Croakeir was sorry for him.

"It must be awful to be a prisoner like those Deer," said Croaker to himself. "I don't see how they man- age. I suppose they have enough to eat, but just the same, it must be dreadful not 'to get around, I may not got enough to eat, but I do get around. Yes, sir, I do get around."

That- was very true. He did get around. He covered a lot of the Green Forest every day. He almost never knew what it was not to be hungry. All he could think about was food. It was no wonder that he was "true to his name, 3. croaker. You see, unlike Hooty the owl. Ter- ror the Goshawir, and Whitey the snowy Owl. down from the Far North, he was not a trained hunter.

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tired.

He was not swift of Wing. It was true that sometimes he caught a Mouse. Now and fihen by pure luck he caught a Rabbit or a squirrel. But it was only now and then that this happened. He had to live on what he could find rather than what he could catch, Often it was what others could not eat. Often it was scraps of what others had left. Whatever it was. he didn't com- plain. He just ate it, and was thank- ful

No one is fond of Croalrer. In fact. he is very much disliked. even more than is his smaller cousin. Blacky the Crow. But in winter even those who dislike him arepsometimes sorry for him. and there is one thing they admire in him. It is his courage. At such a time. under such con- ditions as Croaker faced every day. it took courage of the highest order just to try to keep alive.

"If I had wings like that fellow. I know what I would do," said Red- dy Fox 'to Mrs, Roddy, as they watched Croaker flying over the Old Pasture.

"what would you do?" asked Mrs. Roddy.

"I would get away from this snow and ice and hard living. I would do what most of the feathered folk have sense enough to do. fly away to where It is wamier. I really don't see why that fellow sticks around. I'm sorry for him. and I'm not sorry for him." declared Redcly.

"And probablv he doesn't care a flirt of his tail whether you are sorry for him or not." said Mrs. Raddy.

Why didn't Croaker fly South? It is doubtful if he knew the answer 'to that himself. Probably it was because of his love of his northern homeland. As long as he could find anything at all to eat. he would stay, That wu home. Not even Rough Brother North Wind and Jack Frost at their worst c uid drive him away from it, He he the courage to live in spite of every- thing. . -

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West led the diamond ten; East won and continued the suit. South ruffed the third round with the spade jack, and West. seeing no possible advantage in over-ruffing. discarded a low club. Moreover. he did so without any revealing hesitation!

South could not be blamed for hoping that the spade king might be on side. He went to dummy with a club and returned the spade ten. He felt (logically enough) that if this trick lost to West, the spade nine would still be in dummy for an entry with which to take the heart finesse.

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