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Mother Nature speaks truly. “Didn't. mean to" is altered as an

. excuse more often than all other y i-xcuses together

~et it isn't a real accuse at all.‘ he harm done by; he careless. the unthinking, those iilO know no better, l; just”; rcat as ii planned beforehand‘ nrl done purposely. So "didn't. niczin to" as an excuse doesn't. mean a thing, Over among the great maple trees in the Green Fiirest these were what are known as sugarlng-I :01! days for Palmer Brown and Farmer Brown's boy, From early snorning until late at night they wore busy making maple syrup

land maple sugar from the sweet.

sap of those maple trees. in a

f rough little house called the sugar before leaving (or home that eve~

house was the evaporator in which the sap was boiled until it became syrup. Some nights ~ Farmer Brown's‘ boy slept there..

There were many visitors both. by day and night. Some came openly and were not at all bashlul Others came secretly and tried

| their best not to be seen. Curiosity, handle with his tongue Just; to i alone brought scme. Others were get the taste, 1t it were possible for 1 hopeful as well as curious, hopetullhim to smile I am sure he would y that they might iind something to have lulled then. That dim memory . cat. These visitors were the iurred'

and feathered toil: o! the Green l-‘orest, and most ot them were, welcome. To Panner Brown's boy‘ ‘ hall‘ the lun of sugaring-ot! was‘ in having glimpse-s o! woodland ‘ friends and adding to his know-l ledge oi them and their ways. l OI the many seen and unseen visitors there was only one who was not welcome. Indeed, he was unwelcome. 1-le came in the night one oi’ the nights when Farmer Brown's boy went home instead ot sleeping in the sugar house. Long alter he had left and all was still in and around the sugar house, this visitor came shuffling out of the foods. It “wasn't Qhat he needed food and couldn't get it. He had plenty to eat and no real trouble in getting it. Unlike some of his neighbors he never has known what starving is like. He never has had to hunt. tor his ioorl There hasn't been a day since he was born that he couldn't. climb a tree and get all the food he need- ed. Sometimes after an ice storm ll; wasn't easy to get, but he could gel, it it he was hungry enough. You see in winter he lives on bark and twigs on trees .especlally the evergreen twigs oi the hemlock trees. Now you know who that visitor to the sugar house was. Oi course you do. It was Priclll! Porky the Porcupine. Some folks call him Hedgehog. He. is no more a Hedgehog than you or I.

Two things had brought Prickly Porky over to the sugar houlm. Curiosity was one. He is slow be- cause he seldom has need to

stupid than he really is. But he has his share oi curiosity. For two or three days he had heard strange sounds in and around that little

ihouse. It must he looked into. ‘Those sounds had aroused some- rihlng besides curiosity, g, dim

memory 0i having found there on ,previous visits something pleasing [to his taste; ago-retiring that he had liked very much. He couldn't remember what it was, only that. it _had something to do with that llii~ tie house.

He came to the chopping block

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just out in front. 0n it Farmer Brown's boy chopped wood for the tire to boil the sap. The axe was leaning against the chopping block. Farmer Brown's boy had IOPBotten to take it into the house

pins. whining and grunting. talk- ing to himself as he often _does, perhaps because he lives alone

else to talk t0. Prickly “orky Stneiled of the handle to the axe. There was the Man smell. but lie didn't mind that. He touched thg

was no lonier dim. There was-a taste to that stick of wood, i'or to him that handle was merely that, that made it to him what a stick 0t candy would be to a boy o;- girl who hadn't had one for a long time. It wasn't a sweet taste, but a salty one. and salt is to Prickly Porky what candy is to boys and girls. That salty taste had Come from the hands that had handled that axe. At once Pricki Porky was in mischief without {snowing

it was mischief. l-Ie was making himself most unwelcome. The next story; Prickly Porky Has a Treat.

The Place For A Salety-Play The contract in today's deal w" highly conservative—South might well have reached a grand glam instead oi’ the six clubs he act- ually bid. When. however h; 151194 i0 BPDIY the Proper safety measures, even the: mall slam faded away!

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Alter discoverlnl, via Blackwood, that North had the spade ace. South was naturally tempted to go all out tor seven clubs, and. as he explained later, restrain him- sel: only because he teal-e that he would get a very bad break in either clubs or diamonds.

Unfortunately, when it cezne to the play, South forgot about this iearl West, observing his partner's double o! spades (which had been a bit prematuremupened the spade eight. The ace wen and a diamond was led to the ace» uth_ careiully observed that East payed the dia- mond‘ ten on this trick. but ap- parently he either ieit that East was false-carding. or th‘at the dia- mond jack was soon to follow. At any rate, South now laid down the diamond king-and catastrophe struoki East rutted, and »now.de- eiarenhad irwo losing diamonds la Ila hand. with only one trump inidummy that was worth anything The contract was hopeless.

Regardless of the diamond play- ed by East, on the first lead o! that. suit, South. playing for on! six clubs, should not have riske lay- ing down a second high diamond lrom his own hand~he should have led s. low diamond. cheerfully con- ceding the trick to the encmy. Now he would obviously be able to con- trol any return, and would still have the club jack in dunmy [or as ate ,and sure rut! of the one losing diamond in theiouth hand-

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