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WHITEFOOT BECOMES CURIOUS

In curiosity, ‘tis plain, ls sometimes loss, but often gain. Whitefoot the Wood Mouse.

Whitefoot the Wood Mouse. he of the dainty white hands and feet, the spotless white waistcoat, the fuwn-cdlorea coat and the long slender tall, had lived all summer at the edge o! the Green Forest ivhei-e only a narrow road separated it from Farmer Brown's cornfield. It was the first time Farmer Brown had made a cornfield there.

1n the spring Whitefoot hJd pooped out. from his home and WElLCiiPd the field plowed and lharrowcd nnd seeded without

knowing what it was all about. He never had seen land plowed before, having always lived in the Green Forest. So at night. a dark night. he had ventured to run over to the ‘CIiQC of Lllc lield. He had found two or three grains of seed corn that had been dropped. They were

[By Thornton W. Burgess)

So Olie night when the way seemed clear he scampered across.

and brush between the field and the road. He is a very timid person. is Whitefoot. so timid that he prefers to sleep all day and come out only at night when it is dark, for then he [eels much safer. Few- er hungry Nlouse hunters are about then, and it is much easier to keep from being seen by these than it is to keep out of sight of hunters

imNniiY, December 5 . .. . . . . . . . .. .. 1:30-.4:30 p,m_ good eating. m wished he had s! .YT!HCR:SIDE__ 1801f. He ran about this way and ‘ f. q . . _ lﬁ- wa on the b. tn, b t, H. iusDAL December 6 and 20 . . . . . . . 9:30-12:30 p.m. ‘ always oylose to the zfliqoeivrhere hie Silt HEBP- . ‘Icould dart into Safety in the grass JilUNDAY, December l2 . . . . . . . . . . .. 1:80- 4:30 p.m.? mmmwlmﬁﬂlliﬂwuﬂﬂvﬁmw‘ .\l(ll\"l‘A(il‘lﬂ— I MONDAY, December 19 . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1:30- 4:80 p.m. ciilllfﬂlli BflligG i'lll)\‘l1\'(‘lAl. SANATORIlJM- E _ Eu-ry Thursday . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00-12:00 a.m. g B! Josephine Culharmn xJQCUQJQDQJSLQIIQ

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Dept. of Health and Welfare Tuberculosis Division.

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I HAND-EVALUATION I Hands containing more than 3% ,il0l’10l'~Ll'iCi-(S can usually be classed as "strong," but this is not always true-the factor of distribution is part and parcel of hand-evaluation!

y The South player in the following \ deal was far too "honor-trick- y consclousl" South ‘dealer. North-South vulnerable. 1 ‘KQ Q A K U ¢QJmil 41084 J s a s 2 O A 1° T i :Q1()4 .3985 i . 5 2 Q 4 8 1 g, Q 9 5 S a. J a a z 4943 i I 7 3 2 » Q A K 9 I ‘ sax: The bidding: South West North Baal 1 Q Pass 3 Q PM! 4 4. Pass 4 Q P"! rs e Pass a o PM! Pass Pails

l North's bid of six diamonds was not particularly expensive. because the salient fact was thﬂt S01E11 could not have made even five dia- ,monds! Thus, North's final “push” ‘cost only 100 points, whereas south had made a bid which was responsi- ble for the loss of the vulnerable lgamel

I This far greater loss could be ‘attributed to South's quite unjustl- ‘fled and illogical rabid of four

in daylight.

He found a rain of corn partly [buried and this set him to digging in the soft earth. He found more of the planted seed. He didn't take much because he didn't like being out in tho open even in the dark. All summer he watched the corn grow. In thc fall it was cut and stacked in what are called shocks. the stalks brown and dry.

He became curious about those brown shocke. He saw them in the moonlight standing row on row. But Vlfhltefoot doesn't like the moonlight. Hc doesn't like it any better than he does daylight, or not much better. If he goes out at all while Mistress Moon is shin- ing. he is careful to keep in the friendly Black Shadows, the good friends of all the Mouse folk.

So he waited for a dark night. a really dark night. You see he had got to run across open ground from the grass at the edge of the field to the nearest shock. To you or me that would have been a very short distance, but to one as small as Whitefoot it was -a very long distance, one to be run just as fast as his legs could go. Suppose l-Iooty the Greut Horned Owl, or Spooky the Screech Owl, should happen to fly low while he was running across there. He shivered at the thought. It certainly seemed a long way over to that. nearest shock and all the way there wasn't a. thing to dodge under or behind or around. He could be picked up with ease and there was nothing he could do about it. So getting over to that corn shook really was a great adventure.

But curiosity had to be satisfied. You know how that is. So one night

when the way seemed clear he scampcrcd across. I sus- pect his heart was in his mouth all the way. But once

there. he was no longer afraid. Never had ‘he been where there were so many hidingplaces. It was wonderful. Anywhere he happened to be around or on that shock of

clubs. over North's three dlamondsnwfn he 601114 instantly (104189 W‘ 0f Later’ in the postﬂmortem, sougmsight among those cornstalks. It qnalnﬂvely argued ma; he haqiwas a wholly strange place but it held a mu honor-trick over a mini-i “w: a friendly plan.

{mum bid, and that this had givenlofﬂlmOSbltlib once he félllridiﬁilthiﬂ;

1. 55g corn. was wrappe up n c

mm the ﬁght m bid {our c“ husks. His eager little nose told him that there was something good to eat inside and it didn't take

What South overlooked, however. was that distribution could not have been worse than it was! Ex- perts follow a very sound principle in this respect; They mentally de- duct at least one-half honor-trick from their holdings when faced with this utterly barren 4-3-3-3 hand pattern! Thus, instead of regarding South's hand u "strong." an expert would consider it. almost. y. minimum. and therefore would not dream of going past the three- notrump level voluntarily!

When South, instead of vruwrlv bidding three notrumip over three diamonds. canted the auction to the four-level. North could not- be blamed for visualizing more winners in the South hand-—and in any case. the damage had already been done, since North-South were now committed to at least five diamonds.

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