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COUNTING OUT THE BAND

It is difficult enough for the declarer to time the play precisely under varying conditions. but it is more difficult for the defendm to do the sameA

Above everything else, the de- fenders must make the keenest effort to visualize. from the bidding. the exact distribution of declarerts hand - which is a matter quite apart from "placing" the missing honors.

Observe how this distribution- eounting process works out:

M?” ”"d' Um” fme” ”1”Y'h”d snow was still soft. But the food axed 1" c””5m'1"' S”: 1? Y3” ” they live on in winter. called browse, I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHY WELL WHAT'S 'TH' I DON'T W31" 513319? y c? ran mm” " ” eh me WW5 the tender twigs or several kinds of I.CAN'T WEAR UP-TO-DATE UKE YOU Nonhsoum t-uinemhie. Lilli through the grass, they had to trees including evergreens. was now MoTHER,YOU'RE NOT THINGS. SAME'S YOU H N T5447 4;; 310,3 WW” 10' den!” M8” W1 day locked in ice. It wasn't fit to eat SEPIDUS--Pl YOU'RE ww Do YOU ALWAYS H-HA7, Q 103532 h”l”gf5' m1khw”e fV'M;3hm3 b;?""' even if they could have eaten it. ”AVE 70'' GRAN MA"! vie n the ope o ge ting a nner i . . .3 there A Mouse couldn't afford to Thunder” me Gmu” am M” 4.17 be wireless or headless M101. Grouse were finding the same ' ' "ML trouble with the buds of trees. :15.” N Esnypgggle ca” Mwrd m be' but which largely make up their Winter ' Right away they ML b6NPl'- food. There were others too. The O 10934 W E O 7 But when the snow fell all was , . ,, ' . rs ' " Woodpecker folk were not having 0-Q1052 S a..-xxss changed. The few older folk lot The Wm W” R blmm to an my mm. Bmcky me Crow and .7 icvhom 1hlL:. ft.” mm: Micmmtlmiiitelr Mousevilie It always is" Never are Sammy 335' Mid Tommy T” me '53 neww 3 mean Wm" W rs . ' 1 h . f Chickadee and Yank Yank the . AKQJg52 snowflakes came floating down. "W56 M10 W? i 9" 5” 55 C as Num”Ch'md hard work to get 96g mum, away may gel; better, To me when it is buried in the snow. Most p t I '. younger mm who never hm seen of the Mouse folk. especially the ;i;-ll;nkE:3B:gw:;?S1- v'i?:;5rlg'v1;1K fzgmilg This deal came up in a team-of- snow, 11, had no gpecm meanmg older ones. have food stored away h H ' ke E mled for them at four contest conducted on a ”board- when 11, mg; began to fan. They where they can 293 13 CHSILV. Thev 5 C 1”” V g g I I-match" basis. and this was the comdnw, understand why the old;-,; do not have to worry about food. 311tme5- -Id,',,l,.m”MmMiA-d.mwK(,"

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West, hoping for I. ruff. led the tee and seven of hearts.

East. in with the heart queen. then did some thinking. Of course South was sure to be set on almost any defense, but if East-West didn't collect the maximum penalty, they might easily lose the board.

Let's see what could have hap- pened.

suppose, for example, that East shifted to trumps, to prevent south from ruffing a club in dummy. This would 'iet South collect his seven trump tricks. Or suppose that East continued with another high heart south could simply discard his

BUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER

By Thornton W. Buress

MOUSEVILLI-2 REJOICES

What brings to some relief untold, In woe may other folk eniold.

-Old Mother Nature.

The first deep snow prought a

certain form of relief to Mouse-

vilie, that place on the Green

Meadows where many Meadow

ones seemed toihave such a feeling of relief and happiness. Later, when the snow had buried Mousevillc until only the tallest weeds stood above it, they began to understand. And when at long last all their little paths had been dug open and made into tunnels. and they could run about without any danger whatever, they understood why their elders had seemed so happy when the first snowflakes fell.

spade, with the same result.

The full measure of defensive success was gained by East's laying down the spade ace at the third trick! When he then played the heart king, South was helpless. If he ruffed low, West would over-rufi and return a trump, and South would still have to lose three clubs: if South ruffed the third heart high, West would eventually get his trump trick. Thus, South was held to six of his seven "solid" trumps.

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They renllv do not have to worry about anything. The sharpest eyes above cannot look down through that snow.

For a few days after the snow fell the weather was cold but clear. Then Rough Brother Northwind blew up some storm clouds and for a little while there was rain. Of course it wet all the surface of the snow. Then the clouds were blown nwav, and Jack Frmt got busy. He froze all that wet top show. He mode it into ice.

Of course the same thing han- pened all over the Green Meadows. all through the Green Forest. all over the Old Pasture. Mousevillc was happier than ever. It had been possible for Raddy Fox and one or two others to die down through the snow. hut noiv it wasnlt. Reddy and all others were locked out, and the Mouse folk were safer than ever. This made them happier than ever.

But it was not so with some other

snow brought hunger. because of the poor hunting that resulted from it. And when the snow was covered ivith ice life was harder still. Hunt- ing had been hard enough when they could get about in the snow, but now they couldn't get about at all. Anyway, some of the bigger ones couldn't. The ice crust wasn't quite hard enough for them to wall: on it without danger of breaking through. When they did break through, it cut their legs. Lightfoot the Deer. Mrs. Lightfoot and the Twins. could get about in the paths they had trodden out while the

So. that which brought happiness to Mousevilie, brought suffering and worry to many Green Forest folk. and folk of the Old Pasture. It is this way all over the Great World. The joy of one is the sorrow of another.

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