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A TWO-MAN BAITLI

Wat and South engaged in a pink duel in the play at the tollawlng hand. '

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West opened the king of,hearls,. and when East threw a low dia- mond on the trick. South had some- I thing to think about! It seemed incredible that East could be void of taro suits, hearts and trumps. but all the evidence supported this conclusion. But certainly needed at least a seven-card diamond suit for his bidding, and there was every reason to think that he had: an eight-card suit, since West pro- bably would have opened a single- ton diamond. Also, even with a seven-card suit. East would have trumped the heart king if he had been Ilble to do so. Finally. how could West have found the nerve to double live spades without a sure trick in the suit? There were very few side-suit tricks missing!

Convinced that he had read the distribution i correctly, south held up at the first trick. West then shifted to I club. South cashed both of his honors in clubs and laid down the diamond ace, tempt- ing Went to ruff. West was hav- ing none of that, however-he dis- carded I heart. 0

Iloirth now led I low trump to-

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THE CITN-N-NG ONE

The cunning have a clever wit l And live by making use or it. -Old Mother Nature.

Cunning is a word with two very diflcrcnt. meanings. One. meaning is, small and cute. Another mean- ing is, clever and sly. Gluttmi the Wolverine is filled with that kind of running. Yes, sir, he certainly is. Because he is he is hated. not only by his neighbors of the Green Forest, but by the trnppers who set the dreadful steel traps to catch the furry folk.

Now, it sometimes happens that those who are disliked or hated most by their nt-laihbors may actu- silly he doiniz the very ones they hilt; the very best kind of I good turn. or course they never get credit for it. The Hood they do is overlooked, i)ecause ol the harm they do.

Cilution the Wolverine was hav- ing a good time. He was doing something he clearly loves to do. He was doing something that no one else in all the Green Forest can do as well as he. He was up- setting all the plans of a trapptlz

work that. trapper had done nari was doing in setting traps.

Gluiion had chanced to see that trapper squatting down beside I brook. Giutton aw what that trapper was doing. ward dummy, hoping to get West into difficulties. blit West met this challcnee also. He put up the spade jack and made the one return which muld fix declaror the spade seven! Duniiiiy could get in with the spade ten, but South still could not discard on the diamond kinz -vWcr-t would ruff.

Observe that any other return except the spade seven by West would have given south clar sail- ing.

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He was setting a trap. a cruel steel "tip. in the hope of catching Billy Mink, or Little Joe Otter, or Bobby Coon, or Reddy Fox. That trap was set with clever skill. It was hidden so that whoever might come along that way would step in it without seeing it. Glutton grinned as he watched. The trapper went on Io set another trap. Giutwn waited until the trapper was out oi sight. then went over to where that trap had been set. Despite the skill with which it had been set, he found it without stopping in it.

Glutton is. for his size, strongest of all the Green Forest folk. He got hold of the chain of that trap. The other end was fastened to a small log. Glutton turned that trap over so that it was sprung, and made harmless. Then he carried mm" the trap and the little log to which it was fastened. and hid them with as much cunning as the trapper had hidden the trap in the first place.

Glutton grinned as he went on after the trapper. He didn't see the latter set the next trap; he was too late for that. It didn't matter. He found the trap just. the same.

lThere was A halt at this one. The

trapper had been sure that no one could take that bait with-out (irst steeping on the trap. Perhaps no one else could have done it. but. Glutton did it. He took the bait by first finding the trap and springing it without stepping in it. This trap he also took away and hid.

This was fun. yes, sir, this was fun. He followed that trapper for a long distance. He found .every trap. He sprang every trap. Some he hid. and others he just pulled out of hiding and left sprumz and useless. It took wit and cunning to do this without himself being caught. When he reached the end or the trapper's line of traps every one or them was useless. No one

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would. or could. be caught in one of them. some of the baits he had

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Then he carried away the trap and the little log to which it was iastenod.

eaten. Others he had spoiled so that. no one would eat them. All the time he had been doing this, he had been having a good time. He had been matching his cunning rind wits against the cunning and wits ol' the trapper, and this was run. It was !un hecnuse he had won. He had because he had outwltted the trapper. But, in doing the trap- per ii bad turn, he had done a num- ber of other folks in good turn. There were several furry folk who

would have lost their fur coats and '

their lives to that trapper had it not been for Gluttoii, the most disliked of all the folk in all the Green Forest.

So it is all over the Great World. People are blamed and hated tor the bad things they do, and get no credit. for the good things they do. You see, there are very few who arg wholly bad. Many of Glutton's neighbors think he is wholly had, yet some of them actually owe their lives to him.

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