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By Thornton rm: risnci: ones IN DESPAIR

who all things

The fiercest. ones, dare. At. times are victiins of despair. -Hooty the Owii -- I Of all the feathered folk in tho? Lireen Forest none is more lierre Elan Hooty the Great Horncd Owl We is fierce and he is fearless. All 1i! neighbors his own sizc and '-mailer and some who are oiggcr. Ire afraid of him. They i1Eli'F thr- trcatest respect for his big. sliarp. turved claws and his wicked look- ng hooked hill. But big and iicrcc Is he is he knows what it is to despair. He was in despair . . . . H

was all because of Prickly Poi-kyi ”j",,H yg by Vmyyyygpy the Porcupine, He was climbinglllllll and it. Also the moonlight did the tree in which was their tiesi.ill0l, touch that nest, so it is no llld in that nest were the two niostywcnder ho kncxv nothing about it. precious babies in all thc Gr-cahJi'KL why those silly birds were World. Every baby is the most prc- ll'a'i(illg such a fuss and saying clous baby. Just ask the mother oi that this was tlicir ll're he had no my baby. idea. And he didnt rcally ciirc. All

The big Owls had stopped f'i)'llI';lllC wanted was to be l('iL alone. about Prickly Porky and threat-iBut he was obstinate. He wasn't

.-r.ing to do all sorts of dreadful going to be driven away from that things to him. They didn't dare do tree. No, sir! any of those things. and now theil Up on lll" edge of the nest Hooty knew that Prickly Porky kncw i'.,and Mrs. Hooty talk:-ti llllll2S over. He just didnt pay any nttcntioiif"P:-rliaps ho docsn't really care to them. aiiytliiii: about our babies. I've He had climbed up to His lowest never lit-ard of him stciiling ain- llmb and was sitting in the crotch; body's bnbics." said liooty. trying t0 makf Uil his mind' "That doesn't mean that ho Whether 10 Climb hiiclier. All the nr-ver will.” snappcri Mrs. I-footy. lime he W35 wonderimz Wh,V lrlootybff it isnit for our bzibics why has and Mrs. Hooty were niaklns SUCH il(' started to cliinb this: tree? a fuss. He is somewhat ncar-siglit-:Tlierc are pic: 3' of nilicr trt-cs Ill 25 and he had not seen that xicstlany one of i'.ll!Ch hr could findi hlzh above him. And there were plenty of good rating of the kind many spreading branches bviwrmi n-. fond ho is Siliiilnsctl in out But

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he didn't find I. tree to suit him until he came to this one. Right. away he began to climb it. Why? I ask you, why?"

Hooty shook his head. "I don't know," he confessed. "You tell."

But Mrs. Hooty couldn't tell. She could only guess. and there is no- thing in the world more misleading than guessing. Guessing is ignor- ance pretending to be knowledge.

climbed this tree he was after our darlings. It Prickly Porky isn't in this tree for the same purposc why didn't he climb one of the other trees? He isn't here for any good purpose, you may Just make up your mind to that," she declared.

"What is he doing now?" asked I-footy. Both leaned over to sec. Prickly Porky was as far out on

Don't guess. Just say you .don't know.

Mrs. I-footy was guessing. ”We , know that when Bobby Coon

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The old practice of holding the bidding open for partner. almost regardless of how weak respond- erls hand may be. has been aban- doned by every player of expert standing. It is all very wall to "conceal weakness from the enemy." but the dangers inherent in a bid on n near-Yarborough are so num- crous and cxtreinc that other con- siderations become relatively un- important.

Let's look at the effect of one of these "wt-aknts-concealnieiit" bids hi it team-of-four match.

Westdealer.

Both sides vulnerable. AKQ105 VAKQ843 QA6 4.9

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At Table l. Sotitli was not afraid to pass his partiiei”s opening heart

bid. and the iuictioii proceeded

quite simply: West ' North East soun- Pass 1 Q Pass Pass (!) Pius

So Nortli pltiycti ilie hand at one

that first limb. as far as he could get. He was reaching out and pul-f lincin to him the slender twigs and' stripping them of their green leavcsi which with pine trees and spruce trees and fir trees are rall- 1 cd needles. He was eating thcso and also the tenderest twigs andl the bark of the main part of the i braiich on which he was sittzng. i "You see." said I-footy.

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. "Of COUFSP I see."' retorted Mis. I-footy. "But just because he has stopped to get a bite to eat. we can't bi- sure that that is all he is after. He may climb up here later."

Just then the babies who. hav- ing full stomachs had been taking 3. nap. awoke and Began to cry. Prickly Porky lifted his head and listened. Ho grinned. The two Owls didn't SC9 that grin. If they had they would have been still more worried and uneasy.

so that is what is the matter with Hooty and Mrs. 1-footy The silly things think I am um their babies. By this time they should know that I never touch babies of any kind. I didn't know their nest was in this tree." thought lie. And then he did something that made Hooty and Mrs. I-footy more worri- ed than ever. He crawled back to the trunk of the tree and began to climb higher.

Once more the big Owls looked

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'WNY AREN'T sou SMART LIKE we .ilA26HAL'.' woe? LOOK AT BEIZTIE 1:4-gm-5 IN was I svswina P.-wen: .'

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!F YOU WANTS '11-! EU. 1 Gt YOU THE POL!-AI

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hcart. ziiid lllado foiir-odd! Natur- ally. he and partner were 3 little apprcheiisive about the lost game -but they need not have been! For, as it iIlli)pPlIC'fl. this was the auc- tion at Table '2:

West North East South Pass 1 9 Pass 1 5 Pass 4 N '1' Pass 5 iv Pass 5 Q Pass Pass Pass

When North heard his partneris one-spade response. even though he was familiar with South's style, he still could not well afford to lose the chalice to investigate the possibility of a slam. and so he used the Blackwood four noirumn From North's point of view, this seemed safe. because even if South had no two. the partiiorship figur- ed to be safe at the fivc-level. This was not lhc case. however-and so

Nortli-South at Table i did bet- ter. even though they missed the game!

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The village of Ginili. first Ice- landic scttlcinent in M:initoba.was named after the legendary resid- ence of Odin. him hissing and snapping their bills. The truth is Hooty and Mrs. I-footy were in despair.

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MY LAND! I THOUGHT

You smo You COULD

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