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The delense n'a:prQfty good in he following hand N but not quite good enough.

By Thornton

South dealer. ; N.-A path aides vulnerable. gn MISTAKE .;(m3 4 Look well, but always look ngain, Q Q J 1 2 A second look may save you pain, 0 6 5 4 2 -4-locvly the Owl. E7 c.- .,.. ," Young Hoot;-. son of Hooty the :38”, N 9 8 3 Great Horned Owl and Mrs. I-iooty. .K J9 7 VV E .A 10 8 J A was really out in the Great wot-id, gq 5 3 2 S gig 10 9 5 I He was learning to hum; 10,- ms . ” limit! and he was learning last. 1;;-0 8 F i Once in ii while father or mother :Q 1 4 i)'.'0I;1Ehi hit: something to eat. but g ii. appme less and less often. 4-5 -73 4 You-ng l-iooty had first learned by The bidding: sfruiil. watching his father hum, south west vnrii. imsc WV he was ieammiz by dome. and .1 . pass 3 Pays p he was doing very well. He seldom 4 . pus mm pass ; lint hungry for long at a time i ore and more Young Hootv was lone. Night alter night he niinr (ii In fRil'll”” to li.'i'r.'. i' mu” hei 3' . ' 9 admitted that lie Wirisr an '7llPlli.Dg 11;?ltt::rG:::nr;x;:,L::4 m? pm" '”d' ” 'M' , "l ”'i;'f" "V" 1:? nest in which he had beeer: r (Me A ch.-iri.e, A nib opening; Less d 1 would tiaic 'VViil1 ':ie cntitraci; 3i an 955 One" he went backi lmdmw y there. He had found out for himseit

iiihere there were few hunters, es- ,pccially those of his own kind. Of course this was as it should . as Old Mother Nature means it to be. Each must have his own hunting ground. Where there may, be enough food for one there mai: not be enough for more tnaiii . one. so the children of thr ,”(mg' mp mm from hmfurred and feathered folk as I led mmmtr mnnrl. rule scatter as soon as they are nhunumn mm "amm H pgnhlcmiable to look out for themselves. (N rdutht HO rmxm Um ham M Olllix. ii-i1(-re the kind of food is so N1, an M ms (mm. Sn hr rnrrecm, piciitifiii that there is enough for huwd to mp spam, mm m bmmi many do families stay together for an extra trick ii"lDrP. He led the deuce, and wlirii West played the five. simply passed the trick trii East. y Now East was iioiplcss. (in his. mm diamond return, Smith riilied. their dummy. WES 9XCe1i9nt. but West ruffed a club in diiiiiniy, rutlcd an-' missed an opportunity when he other diamond and another club. failed to put up the spade queen and entered his own hand with the; on declarer's first lead of that suit! spade one to draw Wests lasiilf declarer took the trick with trump. Oh this trick East was. dummy's king, his communication squeezed -a he either had in dis-; from hand to hand would be bro- card the club ace or give up his' ken; if deciarer let West win with spade stopper. the spade queen. West could lead

w' "'I K With the diamond am ' i '."rNdiY shifted In his sit: on -2 . '::iip. This was taken on --r- iii-W1, and cleclarerf ihen Irrl ::.:icion club. East! '0 by playing low .'.ion. a mi south by putting in his

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E. This night Young Hooty was hunting in a. place he had not been before, Mistress Moon was

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watch and from which to hunt." I-Is headed straight tor it. intending to find I perch near the top where he would not be noticed himsell: but from which he could see all.

He was still quite a distance from it when it seemed to him that something had moved over so little in among the branches about half way up that tree. As he flew he Iixed his big eyes on that spot. It was very still there in the Green Forest. Not single little Night Breeze was around to stir ever” so lightly the branches or the trees. If anything really had moved it had to be someone alive. Could it be that Blacky the Crow or one oi his flock was sleeping in that tree? If so. what luck that would be! It would be almost too good to be true. He hadnit forgotten how Blacky and his friends had three- tened him and tried to torment him when they had found him :- lone and still too Young to fight and defend himself.

There! something had moved! He was sure of it, His eyes had not fooled him. Like all Owls he had special eyes for seeing at night. There was something dark in a- mong the protecting braiiches and close to the trunk of the tree. it had moved again! It must be it M Crow. Who else could it be? Any- I way, he would strike first and find ..gm out afterward. Whoever it might , 5t- 1" W35 Ry he he was sure at a good dinner. mV9lY mum m be NUHUIIEA YDUHK His wings made no sound. in the Hooty wiis in high spirits. He had moonngm 11,, was me 3 gwlm), not yet had his (iinher, but he had: moving shadnyy. 5,5 yeuow eyes no doubt at all that on such a were He,-Ce with hungry de5jrg' mgm h” WW” have "9 ”0"m9- His great claws were set to strike. no trouble at all, in catching a good Jun, men there was 3, grunt and dmnth 11 would be easy to see any Prickly Porky the Porcupine start- one near who nioved even thouglii eg to climb 3 little higher in mm tht'.V moved ever so little. I use. ”AWk!” cried Young Hooty as

Amad 0f me .V0i"1i! OWL M 0" he swerved aside and just missed silent wings he flew low over the clutching Prickly Porky's tell. it tops of the trees in a lonely partl was 5 no” mistake Ann wmic g M We C'”9” F””5'- W35 5i "99, mistake it would have been! that had a numbt-r or branches' that were white in the moonlight. This was becaiise they were hart-,5 -...-.. no bark helm: left on them. Youmzi OSLOH iCP)-Dr. O. G. M.Vklt'- 1-footy had seen branches like thisybust, leading Norwegian mission- before but had given them noiary. has proposed the establish- tliouglit. They had meant nothing merit of an international institute at all to him, You spa, he had nmlof scientific missiomiry research. been out in the Great World ioii;!i'H9 505199515 it Shmim 1”, mcaufd enough to have that there is notli-' "1 ”"' Umlcd s”'”5: ””h” 1” lng without some nieaniiig. JNCW Ymk (W C””””'”C”tt

That tree sloo'd somewhat apart. That is, it was not crowded by other trees growing too close to it. It stood out in the moonlight al- most as clearly as hy day.

"Just what I am looking for," thought the young Owl. "A per-

In the moonlight he was like swiftly moving sh ti w.

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'APRII) 14. 1952

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