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FHE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

. APRIL 9, 1951

Ily Thornton WHY MOTMOT SWINGS H15 7 TAIL

The past is father of today, '.i'ls bound always to be that way. -Old Mother Nature.

1-0115. 10HE. long ago in the days when the world was young lived the great- great -ever - so - great- grandfather of Motmot. who lives in the Land-of-always-summer, and is known by many as King of the Woods, although of course he isnit a real king at all. He looked very lunch as Motmot does

now excepting for his tail. His coat was jtist as bcautuful as Mot.mot's and he took just as

much pride in it as does Motimot.I He had just as long a tall as has Mutimot today, and he was just as proud of it. lie often com- pared it with the tail of his neighbor. great - great - ever - so- great - grandfather Jacamar, and secretly was glad his own tail was much the longer. He neveri missed a chalice to draw atten- tion to that lovely long tail when Grandfather Jacmnar was in the neighborhood. To do this he used to swing it from side to side like

a pendulum, whereas other birdsi

jerked their tails up and down.

Still Grandfather .laca.mar took noi He had a very good tail.

notice. of his own, His coat was just as handsome as Grand-father Mot-.

So he wasn't the least bit envious and took no notice of Grandfather ' Motmot's long tail.

mot's, if not a little handsomcr. Privately he thought it was. So he wasn't the least bit envious and took no notice of Grandfather Mot:mot's long tail. not even when it was swung back and forth, back and forth. right in front of him. Then one day when Grandfather Motmot was dressing his two long i middle tail feathers by running them through his bill he accident- ally pulled out a couple of the tiny feathers from the side of one i of the long quills. 1: was a little

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C. R. MoQUAID, Secretary.

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more than halfway down toward the tip. Of course it made a little gap there. Great - great - ever - so - great - grandfather Motmot was upset. He was very much upset. There was that little gap on one side of the beautiful long, feather. He fussed over it and fussed over it. The more he fuss- od over it the worse he felt about it. That little gap made that feather look ragged.

He pulled out two tiny feathers from the other side of the quill right opposite the gap to even up the looks of the feather. That didnt help because it made the feather look as if it were break- ing apart there. Then. too. .be- side the other perfect feather it looked doulbly ragged. The two feathers ought at least to look alike. So he picked out some tiny feathers from the perfect long feather so as to make it look like the other.

But this made both feathers look as if they were breaking apart. Yes. sir. it made him look as if his whole tail was broken. Perhaps if he made those gaps is little wider it would look less so. He pulled out a few more of those tiny feathers, making the gaps wider, but keeping them even. This made the remaining parts of the feathers below the gaps look more ornamental. lt made his tail look odd, and this drew attention to it. This he liked. He kept fussing with his tail, pulling out more of the tiny feathers, and so widening the gaps until at last there was only a nearlyvround feather button at the end of each of those two long, now partly bare, quills.

When he sat still on a limit) that long tail hung down looking very much like a double pendulum and when he swung it from side to side it looked even more so. Now everybody took notice of h.s tail, even Great - great - ever - so - great - grandfather Jacamar. But the latter still refused to be envious.

The time came for digging homes and both chose I certain ban-k where the earth was not too tightly packed for easy digging. Grandpa Jacamar and Grandma Jacamar kicked the dirt out of their doorway as they dug and lct it lay where it fell. Their doorstep looked and was most untidy. Grandpa and Grandma. Motmot kicked the dirt out of their doorway in the same man- ner. but when the last of it had been kicked out Grandpa Motmot sat in his doorway and, swing- ing his long tail with the round button tips, swept. his doorstep clean so that Old Mother Nature noticed it. She was so pleased that she ruled that from that time on all Motmots should prune their tails to make them ornamental. and swing them from side to side to make them useful and for the admiration of their neighbors. So it has been in the Mobmot family ever since that long-ago day when the world was young. Any- way, that is the story of why the King of the Woods swings his tall. but of course he may have some other good reason for do- ing it. and probably has. that

VERNON I-IJLL, Secretary.

only he and Old Mother Nature know.

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Unwlllingness to. let declarer win a "cheap" trick has ruined many 1 defense! That was the case in today's deal:

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This deal occurred in a preli- minary round of the recent ipalrs event of the Eastern Tournament held in New York, and at more than one table the bidding went like this:

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Plan Double (final bid)

Usually, the contract was de- feated one trick. but a certain South earned top score on the board through the combination of his own efforts and East”: shortsightedncss.

The play at this table. as at others, started off with West open- ing the club king. The ace won. and the heart king was led im- mediately. West took his ace and, apparently careless about setting up dummy's club nine. laid down the club queen in force declarer. Although this did estavblish dum- my's nine, it did South no real good. because East was given the opportunity of discarding 1 dia- mond.

After rufxfing the club queen, South led a low spade toward dummy and covered Westis jack with the queen. East took the trick.and soundly returned I heart.

Now come the key play - and one East fell inilo the trap. When the good club nine was led, this defender, knowing that it was I high card. ruffed with the five of spades! That. was exactly what South needed. He overruffed. cash- ed the spade king, and eventual- ly gave East only the spade ten.

East could have defeated the contract easily by discarding 3 heart on the club nine. He should have realized that south had four

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