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How very true this is Peter has found out many, many times. "If" is o very small word, one o! the smallest. Yet sometimes in mean- lm is becomes the greatest of all word-s, being the difference be- tween life and death, peace and war, Joy and sorrow, triumph and defeat, all sorts of the most im- ‘portant things in the lives of-ail of us.

Peter is one or those folks who need to be reminded of things over and over. He forgets. Yes, sir, he forgets. But do you know anybody who never forgets? One of the things that Peter has found out often and then forgotten just as often is how foolish it is to envy others. There is nothing in all the Great World more foolish or more likely to make a person miserable than envy oi’ others. Yet every once in a while Peter forgets this and envies others something that they possess and he doesn't, usually something that would do him no good if he had it.

Most often it is the useful tails

of some of his neighbors that make him envious. You know his own tall is almost too short to be called a tail. It is Just a little bunch of fluffy, soft, snowy-white hair much like a downy powder puff. Some- times Peter has thought that, so far as concerned his tall being of any use, he might just as well not have any at all, and he wishes he had a nice long tnii. Then some- thing happens to make him ever so glad that his tail is no longer than it is; he is no longer envious until next time. _ Chatterer the Red Squirrel had been telling about how he uses what he called his high-Jumping tall and how important it is when traveling in the treetops. jumping from limb to limb; how it keeps him from failing. You know the tolls o! most Squrrels are flat and bushy, some more so than others. Peter once more became foolishly Ihvious. It must be wonderful to have such an important tall.

0! course this was silly. Peter lhould have know it. He had forgotten. It is easy to forget things we don't want to remem- ber. Ho had been just as envious before and then found out how oiliy it was.

‘Tex?’ barked Chatterer sud~ dimly. And again, “Fox!"

Peter knew by the excitement in tjhotterer‘: voice that he wasn't

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fooling, wasn't trying to III! him. Peter didn't wait to see where that Fox was. There is an old say- ing that the wise look before they leap. but Peter round out long ago that there are times when it is best to leap first and look after- ward, especially when he pan see ahead of him and knows that the danger iszft there.

It was so now. Peter bounded away in a long jump as if Chat- tere‘s voice had released a spring under him. He wasn't the least tiny bit too soon. Teeth clicked together with a horrid sound so close to Peter's funny short tail that the longest hairs in it tickled the nose of .the young Fox who had stolen up behind Peter and leaped gar him at the very instant that

eter had leaped. Had Peter waited even a teeny weony bit he would havebeen caught.

“Go it, Peter! Go iti" screamed Chatterer, himself safe as ho clung head down to the trunk of a tree too high to be in any danger from that Fox.

“Run, Peterl Runi" cried ‘Trader the Wood Rat. ready to dart out o! sight should that Fox turn his way.

Peter did run. He did go iti And he dodged. You knew he il an artful dodger. There is no better dodger at full speed on four legs. Even so, he was lucky that n was a young Fox. not Rvddy Fox. at his heels.

He dodged this way. He dodged that way. Each time he dodged the teeth of that young Fox clicked unpleasantly as they snapped shut on nothing. They disappeared in the brush. _Some time later Peter was back. He had fooled the younz Fox, and escaped. He 1001161! B‘ Chatierer and Trader.

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enterprise os ho did in this call. and perhaps tho more amassing fact that North was a plays:- of some experience! After tho hand was ovor, South asked his part-nu‘. as gently as possible, why he had not made o strong heart bid on tho second round. over West's double o! the two-spool cuo bid. North answered that he had felt that South's two spade bid might have represented an Yhonelt" suit, and that ho wanted to await dc- volopmentr.

This or course was an absurd point of view. In the first ploioo, North hod no right whatsoever to assume that South's bid WII any- thing but o cue bid. In the‘ loc- ond place, North should have real- ized that his own holding was magnificent under tho circum- stances, and should have laid so by Jumping vigorously in hearts. At tho very least, North could d- ford to bid four hearts on the second round. '

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