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AUGUST j. 1953 BY Edwina

MOM AN' deAN'MA

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By Josephine Culherlnan

TEST FOR DECLARERS

The following hand constitutes An excellent test of a declarer's sbility to choose between two lines

road was used by any but the

wood folk.

old road. she looked up the road. No one was in sight. She looked down the road. No one was in

walked out into the l'l1lCldiP or them were in road, Right at the place J0”l'r, round, bright Mr. Sun has shining his very brightest. It was a lovely spot for 8. sun-bath Mrs. Grouse walked out to the middle of the road. She clucked softly. A wee

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one was enjoyed all ecpecittlly by mother. The babiies

just the same they enjoyed being there in the sun. Because they were right out in

the sky as well as all the surround- ings. She was watching the sky to make sure that none of the Hawk family was sailing overhead.

They had been there in the mid- IP die or the road in ihst

the more;

sunny

coming nearer md nearer.

Now. Just a little way irom

another road joined this one. That noise was coming from somewhere beyond where that other road

take the other road when it tench- ed it. Then she and her babies would not be disturbed.

Nearer and nearer. and so ttder and louder. came that sound. And then all of a sudden around that curvs came an auto- mobile. It hadn't taken thsttother road after all. and now it wns com- ing so fast that there was no time (or her wee chicks to get out of 'the road. There was time enough ior her. because she could take to her stout wings us she had done many times before to get out of the way of automobiles. she didn't do it now. She just stood right where she was in the middle of the road. That automobile was slowing down now. but it was still coming on. It was very. Very neat- now. It wasn't gains to stop. All the time she was elucking to her

of play. By Thornton W. Burgess souui dealer. ms uonnvr chick ran out from the ease of "”""'”"”l "”""""'- ' the road. He rolled down from. the - .Ag3 tun is he who holds his own, edge. which was raised a. little. .9314 facing danger all alone. Another followed; then anatgigi QKQ5 .,oldM h Nt e. nd another. Mother's wa 532 la .,e., 0! er 3 ur Eyes counted them as they came. A"! u"" '" "' h '""l''' '"'"”d 10 7 i ' R W” y bemmul dam 8 day She didm mum them as you ma that curve onus Ill sulomobile. ,:q.83 N zggolt . . in euly June. The Green Forest I would: she just knew when there 9.14! W E "n": ”""'""wh'K , y . h 1., warm spot only I. few minutes QQ813

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quiet there grhat old wood-road all she needed io know. Nah: "'9 59"" l0 WWL TNT” ' QKQ2 ' . ogol ,

ms seldoni used. The people in They were I pretty sight. Mother was I am-nee noise. She had heard vAKJ1o t , . the Green Forest like that old Grouse and her ten wee babies zmny t”m9' 19”". by: 5"l”-V3 QAIOO C099. WIIQIXCAPIN UP wood-road. Thunderer the Grouse squatted down there tn the mid- no1se35thd-E"-:lo3n:eh:'cv3”d5;n't Esfmg QK76 FA,::ll'B,5-;l.MOOT LOBIN otten takes a dust bath in the die of the road in the sun. There in the Gran ran”. M mu H , The bidding: -7 . A4

middle 01 that old road. some had been a great deal of rain. W" not ll ux loud bx u” 0! mt hath we” North E y e

or the other ieathered folk cometThe Green Forest had been wet ' . 1 08

down there tor sun baths. It wiislmost or the time. There had been 'm"- n 5”" 19”d"- It 1”" 9 P3” 29 93”

very very seldom that old wood-lno chance tor sun-baths. so this Mud" md mid” b9""" " W55 l. -133" P355 P353

, il North's i':tiSe to tiso hearts was an extremely questionable action.

. , 11 1 Wm where they were, the road curved. and it misled South into tinnit- ...sMr';.?'z."::.P::”:.:e:.;;”.3 tr: ::;:.;t:..:r:t.. .3. .2: mm a tame be

easy. I! North. with only two face- cnrds in the Ilsttest possible hand- pattern. had properly responded

, I G, joined. Mrs. Grouse knew all about with one notrump (for all his ugly she Yxamfi ab:)nl:m.e:;'V;7r Q13; t,I.l;,;'”';,i;,J;'1,,l;t.,i1e't,,;,S”5fvh':f,5 those two roads. Perhaps the thing four-card trump suppoi-tit. South we chins s an)! . - me Woods? she watchea that was making that noise would certainly would have begun to

think along notrump lines.

West opened the club queen; East took his ace and returned at club. South won - and took stock.

Obviously, South could try for the heart iinesse, and if he lost no heart trick. he could well aiiord to lose two clubs and a diamond. This, it is fair to say. would prob- ably be the view taken by the vast majority of players in Smith".-t position. But the aiiilitll declarer elected to pursue 8 dirierent plan - one that would combine two diiierent chances.

South laid down the ace and king of trumps e if the queen dropped, his troubles would be over. The queen did not drop. so now South went ahead with the second phase of his plan. He cashed his three spade tricks, then simply exited with his last clutt. Westwon

BAl'”1':l”n chicks. and they were scramblintz and laid down the trump queen "ikl '9" to set out of the road. They were but after that he was end-pltiyed. Gl'""”n'd so tiny that their short legscouldn't He couldn't afford to give Sotith

carry them over the ground very n ruii'-and-discard by leading the

. t inst. but they were doing the best iourth club. so he had to start the 70,000 word they could. scrarnbliniz up a little diamond suit. and all Smith had to

mm" in rise to the edge of the road, srld do was to play for the "percentage"

a colon then into the brush to hide under of divided lionoi-s. to. he captured

the dead brown leaves on the in-nund. leaves that were very much

the color of their own little coats Mother was hurrying them. urg-

Gharlottetowtt Golf club Dance

TONIGHT AT CLUB HOUSE

Dancing 9:30 P.M. to 1 A.M. Beautiful Surroundings -- Good Music. Tickets - 31.00 per person

in: them on, she herself was standing still. her head held hieh as she faced the terrible monster that promised to run right over her. And than. within just in foot or two or her, the monster stop- ped. The last of the chicks was not yet out of the road. Mother ruined up all her teachers until every one was standing on end. ,She spread her tail like a (an. she it-steed her ruti around her neck. iand her crest. She spread her wings. she was threstoning to right. that great monitor it it dared to oome

an-inch nearer. That was the bravery a! love overcoming fear.

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