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Grandfather Mite was only five months old as you and I count time, but in Mouseville. out on the Green Meadows. he was old. That is, he was completely grown up and was looked up to by other Meadow Mice as one who had learned all the answers. Of course, he hadn't. No one ever learned all the answers, and that is a good thing.

But Grandfather Mite really was wise in the things that a Meadow Mouse should know. The very fact that he had lived to be a grand- lather was proof or this. As a matter of fact, he was it great rrandfather at five months of age, and great-grandfathers are sup- posed to be very old and very wise. Even so, he still had much to learn, and he was smart enough to know rhi.s.

It was very seldom. that he ventured up on the surface of the snow that covered the Green Meadows. The temptation to do so was hard to resist. When winter romes to the Green Meadows there are tall weeds that still hold their seeds in their tops. when the snow is deep. those tops of the weeds are just above the surface. Then it is Plsy for a Mouse to gather the seeds. He is so light that he doesn't :ink into the snow, and he can run about on it with ease. So, he can run from the top of one weed to the top of another and help him- ieli to those seeds.

But that is dangerous. sharp eyes -ire always watching tor foolish Mice. Against the white show their .ittle gray coats show up sharply and can be seen for a long distance. Thus it is a wise Mouse who resists temptation and stays down inder the snow. But even I wise Mouse is ecmetlmes tempted. and it was just so with Grandlather

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Now Grandfather Mite lmew most of the enemies to be watched out for. He knew Reddy Fox and Mrs. Reddy, Black Pussy the Cat, Jimmy Skunk, even Shadow the Weasel. He was one of the very few in Mousevliie who had seen shadow the Weasel and lived to tell of it. He knew Killy the Sparrow Hawk was to be watched out for. In fact, he knew that all the Hawk iamiiy were enemies. as were all members of the owl family. He had learned that Blacky the Crow was not to be trusted too near. i In tact, he thought he knew all the hungry folk who are constantly hunting for Mouse dimers. .

Then one day he climbed a weed stalk and poked his head out for s. look around. A little way from him was a fence-post. Not iar away another weed stalk showed above. the mow. Up this stalk climbed a young Mouse. He was a lively young Mouse. He was just the age to

i think he knew all there was to

know. He did little more than hastily look in all directions before climbing out on the show. There

i were lew seeds in the top of that . weed. so he started to run over to

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"Don't do iti' squeaked Grand- father Mite.

The young Mouse stopped. "Don't do what?" he asked.

"Don't go away irom that hole you have Just come out of." replied Grandfather Mite. "There's a Bird over on that post."

The young Mouse looked over at the poet. Sure enough. there was a

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Bird sitting there. He was near the size of Sammy Jay. He was dressed in guy. with black and white trimmings. very neat. and quite harmlus looking, except tor one thing; he wore a black mask. Just as Bobby Coon does. one is always distrustlul of folks wearing black asks.

"That fellow isn't big enough. to

hurt anybody." said the young Mouse. "True." replied Grandpa Mite.

stay close to that hole you just hurt anybody." said the young came out of." E "Huh!" cried the young Mougg, and scampered over the snow past that post.

post flew down. A moment later he flew back up on the post. The young Mouse was with him. But. cher the Shrike had caught him.

"T00. bad!" said Grampa Mite. "That fellow doesn't look dangerous. either. Live and learn, if we Mice 'llon't learn, we don't. ive.

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ROME. Dec. 7 e--(AP)-A Rug- isian tirade against "degraded" belzbol has Italian sport; cu-C195 confused. "Can this be paliabase?" fans are asking.

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The newspaper Soviet sport said Tuesday:

”Am-erlcan inipcriiilisls are at- tempting to encourage the growth EH10!!! Italian youth of rudeness. cruelty and. hate for the enemy, striving for personal glory as an integral part of the arms race and for this reason iorciiig bcizbol and American fubol on the Italians." Although the newspaper's de- scription of the game leaves much to the imagination, beizbol and pallabase appear to be one: the same Slime the Russians recently claimed they lnveiited 300 years age under the name or lapta. Italians haven't discovered the cruel and dangerous aspects often attributed to the game in the So- viet press. A rliubarh that would have caused an uproar, in an American ball park brought only mild whistles at an all-star game last fall between Italy and Spain. And the whistler: were prompt- ly slapped down. "Pallabase is I technical game." the announcer declared in a stern voice. "There are four iirbiters and two manag- ers." Italians find the roughest pal" of the game the "va alla casa" (gr to the house), or ”slide", as it i known in Yankee Stadium.

They also find the lanclatoi (pitcher) works too hard and oc- casionally will cheer louder for r palla alta (fly) than for a base pci buttuto (nit).

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opening was shaded by one point under the point-count method of evaluation. he shouldn't have raised to five spades. but South certainly shouldn't have accepted this slam invitation!

Observe. however, that 12 tricks would have become ironclad If West, following the practice of so many players. had opened. the dia- mond ace. It was to West's credit that he not only resisted this temptation. but also avoided an- other trap he was soon to encounter.

West's actual lead was the spade jack. Dummyis ace won and the spade queen was cashed, then I third round was led to South's king.

Now the diamond was led toward dummy and though West strongly suspected. from the nature of his own and c1ummy's holdings, that it was a singleton. he shrewdly refused to put up the acei He proceeded on this sound reasoning: it he played low. there was a strong probability that he would lose his ace; but if he refused to lose that card, there was an even stronger probability that he would deliver all the rest of the tricks to the enemv.

when West ducked the diamond lead r and thereby "Went to sleep with his ace") declarer was helpless. Even though the club tinesse work- ed. there was no way to avoid the loss of two heart tricks.

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