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liattles the Kingfisher had hadi ;-.is way, so he was perfectly hilDily- I Having their way is all it takes to .nake some folks happy. Mrs. Rat- :lcs hadn't approved of the place Rattles had insisted on making the entrance to their new home. She said it was too near the top of

26. 1952

"By Thornton

..-" The THE HOME IN THE BANK

homes a home where e'er it be those therein in love agree. -Old

iiic. bank. Rattles said it wasn't,t H85

ixmally, Mrs. Rattles gave in. She had been fishing, and had had

aged dinner and good luck to make ?oli:s feel good-natured. ,It was

Mu diggiiig, for the sand of that

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That doorway and the tunnel were just big enough for them to enter easily, but there was very room to spare, When- they had dug in about three feet, Rut- they had gone far enough. He said so. "Lets make the bedroom right here," said he. head. They were both outside resting at the time. "We haven't dug half

little

Mrs.

work.”

Mrs.

szife

Mrs.

working.

need of digging

W. Burgess

y took turns in doing

tunnel straight in just

vi orth having

thought

Rattles shook her

enough," said she.

"I think we have," declared Rat- ---- Lies. "1 don't see any sense in do- hard The truth is. Rattles was

a lot of unnecessary

ting tired of digging.

Rattles said

inside. Presently

the doorway.

choosing where to make

The longer the safer it will be."

”Poof!”' said Rattles. lift will be enough anyway. Nobody is .going to get in there."

' Rattles: did have her way. and in having it she did most of the hard work. Somehow Rattles not When he did work it was never for long at a time. He really didn't. see any sense in do- ing such a lot of work, for he real- there was any the Rattles said no- thing, but insisted on having her way by continually digging far-

nd a lot of excuses fqr

didn't believe so far into bank Mrs.

the work. They would loosen the sand with their big bills, then kick and push it out. They were digging a long Mother Nature, little below the roots of the grass. It was a lot of work, but any- is worth and they just.had

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nothing. She flew over in the doorway and dis- appeared began io ti'ickle out and roll down to the foot of the bank. Mrs. Rat- tles was at work digging that tun- nel longer. Rattles sat around for a few minutes, then went fishing When he returned, Mrs. Rattles was sitting in "Have you begun the bedroom yet; my dear?" Rattles asked hope- fully. "No." replied Mrs. Rattles a bit shortly. "I let you have your way this home. now I'm going to have my way about where the nursery shall the hall to reach

sand

When ,he returned, Mrs. Rattles

was sitting in the doorway.

their and farther into the bank. At long last she was satisfied. Then began the digging of the room that was to be the nursery. That was even more work than the digging oi the long tunnel. She was fussy about it. Anyway Rattles thought she was and'saiil so. She really did most of the work. Perhaps Rattles thought that was fair enough. as she would be the one to spend most of the time in it.

When it was big enough to suit her. and the last of the sand had been pushed out. she covered the floor with fish bones. You know Kingfisher: live chiefly on fish. You could hardly call it B nest. It was just -a sort of carpet for the floor.

Then Mrs. Rattles began laying eggs. Shelnnd Rattles believe in large families. ”I wouldn't know what to do with just two or three children to look out for and feed." Mrs. Rattles told Rattles. alter laying the ninth egg.

After the tenth egg was laid, Mrs. Rattles began the long task of keeping those eggs warm by sitting bn them. Every so often she turned them. She was very particular about that. This was so that all parts should be equally warmed. Rattles relieved her at times while she went fishing. At other times, when he wasn't fish. ing, he spent much of his time sitting on a dead limb of the big hickory tree that grew a little back from the edge of the bank. and from which he could look down in the water of the Smiling Poul,

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O I; By Josephine Culbertson

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EPIDEMIC OF TROUBLE

The following hand caused grief to a great many South players in I pair tournament.

2-20 North dealer. Both sides vulnerable. 4 K Q U Q Q A io 7 5 4 ' R Q 10 8 5 3 Q A 9 8 7 Q J 5 4 If 2 N O J 10 9 7 I 5 2 . 4 Q J a wq E Q R Q 9 3 .9. 4 - 2 4. A 2 Q 10 s U A K B G 3 Q 5 .1. K J ii 7 a This was the usual course oi bidding: North East South West 1 9 i v Dble. 1 Q Pass Pass 7. Q. 2 Q 3 Q. Pass 4 .1. Pass 5 4. Dble. Pass Pass Pass

One might think that the lead of ace and another spade (giving East a rutfywould have appealed to many Wests, but the far more favored lead (for some reason or other) was the heart live.

In all of these cases. however, the declarers then did for the op- ponents what they had failed to do for themselves! In short, they led it trump from dummy at the second trick. Every East put up the club ace and returned the singleton spade, and the spade ruff defeated the contract.

Very obviously. none of these declarera even considered the poss- ibility that West. might have an eight-card spade suit, but why they should have ignored this dan- ger is hard to explain. Certainly, with the cards in sight, they should :have been ratlher surprised at having been doubled at five clubs! Thus. quite aside from West's iebid of spades, they might have realized that East must have some good reason for his double. and that reason could scarcely be anything but a singleton spade. A sound East would not have doub- led on diamond strength, because. with south doubling one heart and later bidding clubs. he would be marked very short in the dia- mond suit.

Thus. it would have been far shrewder for the declarers to resist the natural impulse to lead trumps and, instead, to cash the diamond ace and ruff a dia- mond for entry to the closed hand. Then it. could cost nothing to lay down the heart. ace and discard I spade from dummy. Trump-drawing could certainly wait.

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After interesting remarks by the distinguished guests and visitors, Lodge closed in due form. Delic- ious refreshments were served by the committee and a social hour enjoyed by all present.

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