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The one great superiority oii rubber bridze over match-pmnt

By Josephine Clubcrtson

e-aieoam-so-as-or PART-SCORE TACTICS

Icoring is that. only at rubber bridge can it piayer' display his Ikill in perhaps the most: fertile oi

nil bidding iiciris - n.-I.rt-score muauomv WHICH SHOULD THEY DO? West dealer. There comu I. time to every one

When he must choose what shall be done.

Both Si(iCS vulnr-rablc. East-Wc:'. 60 on score,

d 7 5 . V 6 -T” 6 10343; It was A bad storm. Everybody Iaaid so. and everybody was right. vRough Brother North Wind howled iand shrieked through the Green iForest, driving fine, hard snow in Tgrcat clouds before him. bending who trces until they snapped and broke, piling the snow over them in great drttts. No one was astir. No- where in all the ”reen Forest did anyone in fur or feathers venture ymit. It was the same way in the Old Pasture, and in the clear Old Brier- patch

-Old Mother Nature.

vu-qt smith 1 . pass 3 1- 11.155 Rcddy Fox and Mrs. Raddy were pus, pas, rimrii in their underground home in

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Le... lxk M One N mmc the Old Pasture. It isnt often that umanzms. they go down in there to stay. But it was a good place to be in such

s w .- '. W ll ,, East had 1.0 d. itli t3 lll xx iiiino a Storm as thlsy Bobby Coon was

ii tricks”. anti I1 'iipc:i:v:al l'lE!ll' V I h H I 1 would he that ii; rcnnir (-2 and mi 9S1 U” 1" Fl 0 aw rec We” ” memod -0. WM. W. ., .M.,m mg the Green Forest. He was trying to reuem a i ' sleep. but the old tree was being g M, 1 ,p ., -2-ozkr.-ri back and forth by Rough Closer nnaist, imxn or rMPai Bram” Norm Wind, and Bobby

that East's Jump to tun li(Il"i'.lli)) V . V . was R mgm-Y q,VW.W::m.lC MC”. '.HIR uoiryiiig a little. What should. Certainly. hr 'had up mmes .01. he rig) it that tree should be blown that call, but that is new thr niilyiii; g critqioii. The point. has that West ' needed an excellent lianrl for there 0'1”? 5W5” mat '3" bid mi” be 3 to he a slam, and if lirr lizid the train. If he has a hand 0! fair required strengtii he would illi3sLlnl- slrcngtii he is forced to guess about ably bid agniii owl" :1 him"? or -IV”? ”0”'”mF ms W55 it ” "HP bid- xiotruinp resprnse. 3lmiix'.'iiile. timt. (77 W35 W m9”'i.V W115” it Purwried same oiic-iimriinip r."Sii(JllS8 niiizhr W be? H hoidoopen WHO"? Aim trap South .nto Slllfififli cnmpciit- "member this! the more guessing inn. The point is that with an U” 0W'i0ii""45 have 10 do- me advanced part-.::o:'c. one notriinip b-””9T 101' W1” 51?”!

becomes an excellent. trap for the 0! CWT55 W15 becom” DU” opponent ,0 (Duo... own if he ,3 speculation, but who can say that - -- --- ------m---- South would not have ventured to irovercall one notrump with two ;hearts? Worse risks are taken time jand again, especially when the iopponcnts have a part-score. And , iii South did bid two hearts. Fast ' iwould get a very fine chance to double, with 1100 points as a reward far better than going game,

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By Thornton W. Burgess

Lightfoot the Deer, Mrs. Light-

crossing and re-crossing which they

foot. and the well grown twins, were lying down under the spread- ing branches of some hemlock trees in their yard. Their yard. as it was called. was simply a lot or paths

had trodden in the snow, and which they kept open by use every day or night. The snow outside the yard already was deep; too deep for them to wade about in it comfort- ably. Now. if this storm lasted long. it would be so deep they couldn't leave their yard at all. They would be prisoners in their own yard. Over in the thickest part of the dear Old Brier-patch squatted Peter Rabbit and Mrs. Peter. They didn't mind the snow too much. They wouldn't mind if it buried them, if it remained 8. dry snow. But if it should become wet, and Jack Frost should turn it to ice. then they would be in trouble. They shivered at the .sound of Rough Brother North Wind's shrieks. Oh. how they wished they were snug and warm in an underground house! To make things harder. so hard that it seemed to them too much to bear. was the fact. that only a. few feet away from where they were squatted was an old underground house in which in the past they had dozed comfortably through just such storms as this one. There it was. and they didn't dare go in. You see. Jimmy Skunk had taken possession of it. He was sleeping down in there, warm and dry and comfortable probably not even knowing that there was such a storm.

At first the snow was dry. It grew deeper and deeper around them. They became just a couple of white mounds, they didn't look luce Rabbits at all .For a long time they didn't move to shake the snow off. They just snuggled close together and made the best of things.

Then there was A chance. Rough

THE GUARDIAN. CI-IARLOTTETOWN ,.

What should he do if that tree should be blown over?

noticed it at once. Now he became renlly worried. He had seen this sort of thing happen before. He had seen Jack Frost turn wet snow into e. crust of hard ice. He knew what that meant in the way of hard times. He wished more thm ever that they were safely in that old underground house that Jimmy skunk had taken possession of.

Jack Frost was busy now. He was making ice all about him. He was covering every bush and tree, even to the tiniest twig. with ice, and that ice was growing thicker and thicker all the time. Peter knew just what that was going to mean It was going to mean hard work to get anything to eat. You see. there wasn't much but bark of bushw and young trees that they could eat while the snow was so deep. And now this bark would be hard

to get. The wet snow on their coats was beginning to turn to ice. ,Peter

thought more and more about that den where Jimmy Skunk was sleep- ing so comfortably. He even ventured over to it, The entrance was already clogged with snow, but this could easily be dug away. What would happen if he and Mrs. Peter should go just a little way inside, just far enough to be out of the storm? What would Jimmy Skunk do? would he drive them out? Should they venture in, and find out? Or should they stay out. and perhaps become coated with ice. Which shoiiid they do? Peter was afraid to do either.

Brother North Wind was not blow- ing so hard now. but the fine grains of snow were turning from

himself.

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OEE WHiNNiKERS.. WAIT TILL POP SEES ME! .

LETS DIN OVER TSEEJOE AN'ANNE. . WE'LL SUPPIIISE iEM .

DECEMBER 20. 1952 . 4 By

Ham Fisher

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Bringing Up Father

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Tippy and "Cap" Stubs '--'cuz SHE isN'T sow -ro

GIMME ONE ii BUT WHAT IF I THOUGHT YOU WEREN'T SHE CHANGES HER MiND?i? GOiN' TO GIVE ETHEL "50 Y GOT TO HAVE ONE A CHRISTMAS R ADY JUST iN CASE"!

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