NOVEMBER 4. 1953

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when fright is added, it is plain. The victim suffers more than

pain. -Old Mother Nature.

A dreadful thing had happened gr, Young Jerry Muskrat. Without

my warning whatever a pair ofi

dreadful jaws had leaped up and grabbed him by one front leg. It

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him most, or frightened him most. It did both, nvore than anything that had happened to him before. Never had he been hurt as he was hurt now. Never had he been frightened as he was frightened now, You see those dreadful jaws held him last; he couldn't get away from them.

Poor Young Jerry. He struggled with all his might. but it was all in vain. Of course. those dreadful Jaws wcre a steel trap and, the

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By Jouphlne Cuiberinon

THE ELEMENTARY SQUEEZE PLAY

-1 Many of the letters addressed to this column express interest in the squeese play and request element- Iary instruction in this field. A Itypical remark is: "I would get lsuch a thrill if I over executed ;s a squeeze in actual competition." ""' " ' Here is is hand that has been He struggled with all his mighi..r"manufactured" (obviously so) to M" hi "I0 WM”: now on shore. iillustrate the simplest type of k squeeze opportunity. k

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l that-on the cool night air the squeaky voices of other Muskmts,i swimming about not far away,i came to him clearly. As yet none!

- t h s I 5 question Wham” i -L& trap had been fastened by a chain to an old log at the water's edge. The Young Muskrat knew nothing about traps. He had been warned by his father, Old Jerry; but Young Jerry had never seen a trap. and he hadn't half listened to the warning. One moment he had been reaching for the most tempt- ing bit of food he had found in a long time. The next moment he was squeaking with pain and great fright. All in a moment the Great World had changed. It. had been a wonderful place to be out in, to explore in, to Visit new places in. Now it was a terrible, terrible 'place, and how Young Jerry did wish he had never left the Smil-

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malros air swuI'n'fi-uh in irchens. cellars, dos-

ers, living rooms, bath- y rooms, nurseries. . kills unollyedau

from fish, cabbage, on- mg poo” ion:,gulrc.tobIi:C0- It ' as if those steel jaws In

would crush right through the bone of his leg. Never before had

had found him. Would they help! him if and when they did fin i him? Or would they hurry away.' How that leg ached! It ached not only where those dreadful jaws were biting into it, but all the way up to his shoulder. He tried to: gnaw and bite that trap, but he soon found that that was useless. When he had rested a'littie he once more began to struggle. He still didn't know what had hap-, pened to him. By and by an oldi Muskrat swimming a short way offi heard him splashing as he strug- gled. H-Ild came to find out what it was all about. He knew the in- stant he saw Young Jerry what .the trouble was.

"Young fellow, didn't you know enough to keep away from that trap?" squeaked the old Muskrat.

So, that was what had him. is

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he been hurt like this. But he felt that he could stand the pain if only he could get away. But he couldn't get away. Bad as was the pain the feeling of helplessness was worse. Added to this was the dreadful fear of the unknown. of what might happeninext

He struggled with all his might,

COMPLETE VISUAL

REFRACTIOII AND now in the water, now on shore. He" struggled until he was so tired

ANALYSIS he just had to sit still. Heylooked

. up at the little stars twinkling

far overhead. Always before when

G. F. he had looked up at them, those twinkles had seemed to be friendly

& twinkles. Now those little stars

were twinkling just the same,

twinkling just the same as if there

Opmmetmu was no such things as suffering.

no such thing as dreadful fright, no such thing as hopelessness. It was very still. It was so still

i NOTICE

All past the accounts owing to me must be paid or a satisfactory arrangement made for payment of the same on or before November 16 next. Accounts- not settled before the above date will be handed in for collection.

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I EARNSCLIFFE W. I. I 1 Members of Earnscllfte Women's Institute and their escorts, motor- ed to Montague Oci. 21 to cele- brate the 25th anniversary of the organizntirm of their Institute.

They partook nf a delicious turkey dinner, with all the trim- mings at the "Bison". After all partook of this sumptuous repasi, .1 vote of thanks. tn the propriet- rrss, Mrs. Clay was moved by Mrs. J. J. Mclnnis, seconded by Mrs. Marie Quinn and extended by president Mrs. B. Doyle.

The remainder of the evening was spent in playing cards and a jolly sing-song.

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WHAT TH' HECK ARE y WHO

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The bidding is not iirgsortaiit; simply assume that South becomes deciarer at a grand slam in no- trump.

There are, it will be noted, 12 sure tricks in the North-South hands, and ii South does not have the great misfortune of running up against a 4-0 spade break, he has "tricks to burn."

The competent declarer does not, however, give up when the un- expected (and outrageously un- lucky) break descends on him, as in this case. When West opens the jack of spades, and East shows out. the truly competent declarer does riot excoriate the goddess of luck and let it go at that--he tries to outwit the lady at her own game, and in this instance he easily suc- ceeds. Here is the advanced play- er's reasoning:

There is no earthly hope of tak- his more than three tricks in eith- er minor suit, but there is a pos- sibilty of the crucial 13th trick in hearts or spades. Maybe West. who is known to have the only spade stopper for his side, also holds four or more hearts, which means that his partner cannot have a heart stopper. South simply cashcs all of his minor-suit tricks- and' hopes West is spueezed. He can only hope, in this case, because if, East has the heart vstopper, there is nothing that South can do about, it. Actually, however. in this set- up, West must make a discard on the sixth minor-suit trick, and that discard is very obviously fatal to him. whether in hearts or spades.

HISTORIC CASTLE

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