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However hzgz. however small, There's nothing commonplace at all, --Old Mother Nature.

Tliis is true. Old Mother Natu:re'

Knows mhm-an-1 shn speaks. Often he runs? cc-ninion ilrnrzs about us ire in reality very wnndorfIIl. Oftmi fne things that svoni usrvlom. and of no Tl.lTnlll)I at all prove to he oi the very greatest Importance.

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In; all the tune in the Green Forr- nst and on the Green Meadows. and all the other places where her rhzldren live. y

The Q'l'Oll'lld in the Green Forest was covmrd vr-th dead brown leavcs, the leaves that had once been so beautiful and no useful on the trees. All winter low: they had been lying on the ground, seemingly of no use. Now, in the spring, no one look any notice of ham because the new leaves were

i ioniiruz on the trees and by most

"wile; the old dead leaves were for- Milan. Tliimdoresr the Grniine and Mrs.

W. Burgess

.Grouae were hurrying their hix ifami-ly of ten hwbiexs away from iuho nest in which they had hatch- .ed out the day before. That in, they were trying to hurry those babies away from that particular part of the Green Forest. They really couldn't hIu'r,v very fast be- cause the wee legs of those downy

I-rims had hard work to keep IIpI

with the longer legs of father and mother.

Mrs. Grouse led. and Tlhunderer came behind to make sure that no wee chick got lost or left. It was a pretty sight. that family on the move. Where were they going? It is doubtful if even Mro. Grouse knew just where. Just then any- where out of that neighborhood would do. That was because Mr. land Mrs. Redtajl, The big Hawks. lhad a neat high up in the very gtree beneath which those wee Mrliloks had come out into the Great

World.

Of course. those babies didn't travel for. As soon as she dared to do no. Mrs. Grouse called them about her and gathered them under her to rest. Such small legs as their: needed a rest,

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rested. Thunderer kept watch for possible hungry onemlea coming that way.

Now the place where mother had chosen to rest was oavered with brown. dead. oak leaves. When the babies had rooted they came out from under mother and began to may around her. she taught them o sort of game. Really it was their first lesson in living. and it was a moot mportant leisom. It was. in a way. a game of hide and seek. only the babies did all the hiding. Their downy little oooto were very mudh the oolor of those dead leaves on the ground. They were so much the color of those leaves that when those babies kept per.- fectly still as they squatted down, they looked very much like the leaves themselves.

Mother picked up a leaf and dropped it over one of the babies. She did it when the others were not lookinz. She told him to keep perfectly still. Then she set thn others to hunting for him. They

almost stepped rm hjmg when mother clucked. and he popped out from under that dead leaf. Anotfhor Chick tried hiding under a leaf. It was fIIn. One after anotiher the ten small chiclos hid. and were hunted for. It was great fim. Then mother taught them that when she cluoked in a certain way they were all to hide. and were to do it Just as quickly as they Could. Each was to duck under a big leaf. squat as close as possible to the glound. and not movp the least tiny bit until she should call. Mrhat part of the game was fun. itoo. They would be running about hunting for what they might find anion: tho loaves, when without Lwarning mother would Rive the isifmal. Then each would dodge lunder the nearost lhrown leaf big enough to hide under. and there keep perfectly still. Sometimes they ' would get impatient because it would be so long before mother ywould give the signal to come out. I Later they moved on. mother in l the lead, and father befhlnd. Then. when they had almost forgotten about that game, she suddenly gave lthat warning cluck. It was such a (surprise that some of the babies iwere a little slow in hiding. Alter ism had called them out again.

...n1ot'hc-r scolded the slow ones. She

lexplained that while they had been ;p1a3iIig that game for fun, there Imviglit come a time when it would lbe the only way in which they could escape from hungry folk who would dearly love to gobble up tender baby Grouse. She explained .that until they were big enough lfo fly they would have to depend Ion hiding if they wanted in live to igrrvw up Until then. those brown leaves were their best friends.

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A contract Bridge

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Of”-l.OOs N0 CLAIEVOYANCE NEEDED

By Joaophlno

In many cases a defender has to be almost a fortune toilet to hit upon the key play. but in the following hand all East needed was reasonable foresight.

North dealer. North-South vulnerable. Q K Q 4 U K Q O K Q 10 7 . I Q A D 7 4 , - 4 A !0 8 5 Q A 9 1 N o J 10 5 6 3 4 W E 3 2 -LK Q 8 6 S 0 9 3 3 - 5 3 2 J, , Q 9 7 6 8 2 Q 8 5 4 ' 0 AJ 5 2 y 4. 10 The biddIng' North East south wood 1 6 Pass 1 Q 2 4, Dblo. Pass 2 P35; 7! Pass 4 Q Pass Pass Dble. Pass Pass Pass South's mur-spade bid was a

shade doubtful even in the light of North's strong bidding: but it had a happy outcome. (Incidental- ly. South was quite right in taking out North's double of two clubs - that contract could have been rul- filled without difficulty).

West opened the club king. The ace won, and the heart king was led immediately. West took his ace and apparently can-lesa about set- ting up dummy's club nine, laid down the club queen to force de- clarer. Although this did establish dummy! nine, it did South no real good. because East was given the opportunity of discarding 3. dia- mond.

After rufflng the club queen. South led a low spade tomird dummy and covered Wests jack with the queen. East took the trick and made the sound return of a heart. But now came the key play and East fell into the trap. When the club nine was led, East. knowing it was a high card. ruffed with the five of spades! That was exactly what South needed. He overruffed. casihed the spade king. and eventually gave East only the spade ten.

East could have defeated the oontract easily by discarding a heart on the club nine. He should have realized from the hidding that South had four diamonds and that a CIi5CE.Fd on the club mine would not help h.im. Readers may be interested in working out this end-position for themselves.

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