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ract Bridge

3, Jouphllll Culbertson

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un. Culbertson continues

my presentation of the new Culbertson point-count Ine-

thod.

........j...... - rwo IMPORTANT points

-11,. proper technique in today's leal involved two points on which may players go astray.

North dealer. nut-West vulnerable. Q A 3 V K J 10 4 9 J 10 3 3 .1. A 5 2 K J 8 7 A Q 4 . 5 N 9 A 9 8 s u s 1 2 W E 6 7 6 5 Q K 4 S L 7 6 4 3 .',Q 10 8 Q 10 9 5 2 9 Q 5 Q A Q 9 2 j K J 9 The bidding North East South west 1 9 Pass 2 N T Pass 3 N T Pass Pass Pass South's jump to two notrump

uas shaded-since this call norm- ally requires 3 to 35-1. honor tricks, nr 13 to 15 points. whereas South had only 2!; honor tricks, or 12 points. HOWEVET, the final contract was a. reasonable one, in view of the bolstering intermediate cards. Lens and nines, in the North- South hands.

West made his normal fourth- best lead, the spade seven, and right here, at the first trick, South had a minor problem to solve. There was no reason to suspect the lead as from a. short. suit; it was far more apt to be an honest fourth-best; so, by the Rule of 11, East had only one tard which could top the seven. Fhis must be an honor, since West would have led the king from a iolding of X-Q-J and others. if he spade ace was put up, and if Nest had started with a five-card suit, the suit would be blocked. l'rue, West might have both the diamond king and the heart ace, but that was most unlikely, and in any case there was nothing de- :iarer could do about that possi- aility.

Observe that ducking the open- in: lead in dummy would be ruin- )us, but South gave himself the tight start. by playing the spade ice. East, hoping to get in with .ne heart ace. and hoping that his partner had a tenace position in ipades, unblocked the spade queen -a good try-but it dldnit matter rith the actual spade situation.

Having negotiated the first ne- :essary maneuver, South now had in avoid another pitfall. It is of- :en vital to knock out an ace be- fore setting up another suit which requires a nnesse, but in this

By from I TERRIBLE smanoan

There are times it may not be

An unmixed blessing to be free. -Old Mother Nature. . o 3

Freedom is the greatest of all blessings, yet there are times when it may not seem to be a blessing. Little Too-Smart, the runaway son of Roddy Fox, had thought it very wonderful to be off by himself with no one to tell him to do this, and not to do that: to be for the first time wholly free. He hadn't intended to run away. He hadn't known he was running away. He had thought he could go back home any time he pleased. But when he started to go back home, he couldn't. He hadn't the least idea in the world where home was. He was lost. Right then and there. freedom wasn't so wonderful as he had thought.

He had spent that first night under a bush way up in the upper part of the Old Pasture. He had had two bad frights in the night, Old Jed Thumper, the gray old Rabbit who lived in the Old Pas- ture, had startled the tlittle For: out of a sound sleep by thumping the ground close to him. of course Old Jed Thumper was perfectly harmless, but the little Fox didn't know this. Old Jed Thumper would have chuckled had he known what a fright he had given that little Fox. A little later, I-looty thr: Owl's fierce hunting call close by had made the heart of the little Fox almost stop beating. How he did wishvhe was back in the snug underground home with his broth- ers and sisters!

But when morning came, he caught a Cricket and a Mouse for breakfast. Knowing that he had caught his own breakfast was a wonderful feeling, Once more he began to feel quite equal to look- ing out for himself. He began to feel very brave, and thought less about trying to find his way home. The Great World was a very wonderful place, and there was so much to see. Of course, the Great World was only a small corner of the Old Pasture, but to a little Fox, it was full of won- dcrs.

There were not so many little paths winding here and there. crossing and recrosslng and mixing one up. Presently, there was only one little path, and it led to the edge of the Green Forest. The little Fox sat down and stared at the trees. He had never seen tall trees before. None of the trees in the Old Pasture'was tall, and of course there were no trees on the Green Meadows. The only trees the little Fox had ever seen W811!

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at a distance, and they had not looked tall.

At first, he hesitated about go- ing in among those tall trees. In the first place, bushes to hide under. be easy to get out of sight in a hurry. Somehow, looking into the

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Green Forest between the trunks of all those trees made him feel very small and all alone. He was a little afraid. He had almost made up his mind to turn back. He had a feeling that he would be less lost among bushes than among those great trees of the Green Forest. -

Just as he was, about to turn back, he heard a sharp scolding voice. At ilrst he couldn't. make out just where it came from. Then he saw a small person in a red coat coming headfirst. down a tree. The small person in the red coat was halfway down the trunk of a tree when he saw the young Fox. He stopped right there, halfway down, and how his tongue flew as he scolded! with every word he jerked his tail. Just watching him made the little Fox feel as if his own tail was getting tired. It . was Chatterer the Red squirrel but of course the little Fox didn't know who it was. However, he did know that he didn't like be- ing scolded and called bad names by one so much smaller than him- self. And if this small person was not afraid in among those trees there was nothing for him to be afraid of. '

Suddenly, Chatterer seemed to forget the young Fox. He had caught sight of some one else and now his scolding tongue flew fast- er than ever. The little Fox looked to see who it was Chatterer was scolding now. There, shuffling a- long, grunting and whining and complaining, was a terrible fellow. He was big and black. Anyway, he was big compared with the young Fox. Little Too-Smart stood

He was too scared to move.

still, staring with frightened eyes.

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