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By Jouphina clnboruon

I'&m A BAD PARTNER It out Wat 600 point: to ignore his partner‘: signal in the £o11ow- lng hand.

W;st—deuar. k . _, _ _ North-south vulnerable and 60 on score. ' '

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1 Q Dbl. Pass 24.

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Noodles to say, South was rather wnturssome in bidding" tim) no- trump without a spade stopper, but we felt that North might have a made honor, or, failing that, that he opposing spades might be iivided 4-4. South also Ieit that us hand was substantially better uhan North could expect, and that :nme forward action was in order wer East's mere prelerence bid in apades.

When East doubled the ‘two- notrump bid — rigihtly concluding

.that his heart honors would be

over. rather than under. opposing heairt strength — South stood fast, feeling that if anyone should run, it was North. The latter, however. saw no reason to increase the oon- tract, and it is interesting to ob- serve that a runout to three clubs would not have been an improve- ment on the actual ouitcome. West opened the spade king, and though East played the deuce, ask- ing for a shift. West went right

By Thornton DOME ARTFUL DODGING

, ._.._ Who put: his talents to best use For iailure seldom needs excuse.

-—Old Mother Nature.

Mrs. Grouse had Just _had a nar- row mospe. She had been taking a snow bath. quite sure that there was no danger here. she had care- iuily looked all about to make sure that no enemy was about. She hadn't been oarelem, No one knows better than does Mm. Grouse the need or always being careful.

She saw no danger. no reason at all why she shouldn't take a snow bath. Yet all the time two hungry hunters whom she most tears were watching her. though neither knew the other was in the neighbor- hood. One was Tufty the Lynx. Hr.- was crouching as close to the snow- covered ground as he could get. and he didn't move a hair. Had he moved the least bit. ‘Mrs. Grouse would have seen him for she look- ed straight at him. Because izhere was no movement whatever she saw what seemed to her to be an old gray log in the snow.

The other hungry hunter xx-9*‘ Whitey the Snowy Owl. He was in a tree much farther away than Tulty. Because he was drased all in white and didn't move, Mrs.

ahead with the "spade suit. when he then shifted to hearts, East could win only two tricks in that suit. and so the penalty was only 500 points.

An immediate heart shift was marked in this case, in view or the bidding, and in‘ West had properly shifted ‘to his top heart, leaving East with a spade for communica- tion, the penalty would have grown automatically to 1100 points.

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Grouse didn't see him.

She squatted down in the light snow and began taking I. snow bath in the some way she and a great many birds take dust baths in summer. Perhaps yw have seen Hens take a dust bath. 0! course. she couldn‘t be in-king that bath and watching at the same time. It was the chance ’I‘u4’ty and Whitey had been waiting for. Tully made two quick leaps.-At the same in- stant Whitey shot out of the tree- top on surprisingly swift wings. Both arrived in the same instant at the spot where Mrs. Grouse was teklmz it snow bath. She wa.m't there. She was whirring away

rlhrr,::g*h Ihe treetops on her stouvt

wings, leaving two disappointed ‘hunters to blame each other for her escape.

All the time, Jumper the Hare was watching from beneath a hem- lock bough where he looked like nothing more than a little mound of snow. That is because his coat in winter is snowy white. His cousin. Peter Rabbit, sometimes foolishlv envies him that white coat. You know Peter's coat is bnmvn: it is never white. Jumper and Mrs Grouse are old friends, so he was delighted to see her Izo whirring off among the trees. He watched her admirlngly as she dodged in and out among ‘the branches without hitting one. She is wonderfully skillful in doinc this. She is what might be called an artful dOdiZEl". She has made dodging an art. In doimz this she has saved her life more times than can be remembered.

Her skill in dodging was some-

ifhinz that Jum-per especially an-‘

meciated. Hr, ‘too. is an artful dodger. Hy dorlizlnr-: he has saved his life more ihneslthan he can

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At the same instant Whitey shot out oi’ ‘the treetop on surpriningiry swift wings.

remember. It was a little later that very same day that Jumper had an adventure or his own. He had left his hiding place under the big. green bough oi the hemlock tree. and had started out to look‘ for something to eat‘. Now Jumper ha.-m't eyes in the back of his head, but it sometimes seems as it he has. Like those of his small cousin, Peter Rabbit. his eyes are so plac- ed that he can look behind him without having to turn his head to do it, Jumper often has to run for his liie, and if he had to turn~ his head to see where the one chasing him was. he would be al- most sure to run headlong into something. So. while he is runninz. he can roll his eyes back enough to see behind him.

He looked back in this way just to be sure that all was well. It was lucky he did so. There, un- comfortably near, was Old Man Coyote. In fact, he was almost at Jumper's heels. You Should have

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