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By Thornton THE STRIJTTINCI DRITMMER

Who strut: in pride has small excuse. ,

For such the world has little use. -Old Mother Nature.

There were two drummers in the Green Forest, and somehow all the Green Forest felt better because of them. One or the other began drtrmming at daylight. one or the other was drumming when the

Black Slindnws began creeping out from the Purple Hills. All

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heard that drumming felt better for it. You see, those two drum- mers were drumming a msesage. 3 message that everyone was eager to hear. It was that Sweet Mistress Spring was very near. Ewen a lone Crow, who cou-id not lily because of a badly hurt wing. felt better for the sound of that drumming. That Crow's wing had been hur: by :1 shot from Zl dreadful gun. Tigrtiu: to kill that Crow had been tun for a hunter; it hadn't been fun for the Crow. What queer ideas of fun.some people have.

One dnttntner sent a sharp ra't- a-tat-iut-tat ringing through the Green Forest. It always came from high in a tree. That drummer was Drunnner the Woodpecker. The sound of the other drumming sounded like tijstnnt. thunder that came rolling along the ground. The one who made that was Thunderer the Grouse. The lone Crow listen- ing could sometimes hear both druinmers at the same time, and thongih the sounds were entirely dir-ferent, they both carried the same message.

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Thunderer came walking out from under some low boughs.

The lone Crow saw Drummer the Woodpecker drumming on a dead limb of a neighboring tree. Just watching Drummer's head fly back and forth so fast as he hath- mered on that dead limb with his bill made the lotie Crow's neck ache. He didn't see how anwue could keep his head flying back and forth like that without mak- ing his neck ache. So his owt. l'lCll- ed in sympathy, But for several days he heard the other dninuiier

know who was doing the druiii- ming, and he wanted to know. He was curious. There was sometlitnrg pabout the sound oi that drumming !i'll8i. gave hint an odd feeling iti- side. a sort of a longing. What he longed for he ddntt know. It was just a feeling.

Then. one morning as he locked down from his perch in a lone cedar tree. a tree in which he liztd been living ever since he was hurt. he saw one of his neighbors whom he had often seen in the Green Forest during the winter. It was Thunderer the Grouse. he wilt) the lovely black ruff around neck. Thundcrer came walking out from under some low botitrhs. lie was holding his head it izh, A little crest on his head was raised. So was the black ruff around his neck. He looked very handsome as he stepped out into the open. H's eyes were very bright as tlicy

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K . By Josephine Cluberuon 0&0. THE TRAPPEB TRAPPED

In expert games, there is quite a lot of "trap-passing." There is such a thing. however. as trapping oneself - and that was what East did in the following case.

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North dealer. , North-South vulnerable. Q 10 I 8 5 4 2 , v 4 Q A Q 9 3 Q. A 7 Q 7 Q R J o. 9 9 s s 5 3. N v R Q J g J 7 4 2 W E . :2 8 6 ''.Q S J. K 10 6 4 4 A Q 3 Q A 10 '9 K 10 6 5 l .1. J 9 3 2 p The bidding: l North East South Welt l 1; Pass 2N'l' Pan T 3 Q Pass 3 N T Pans Puss Dhlc. Redbl. PIS! '3 Pass Pass in the postmortem East said

lihttt, holding the K-J-6 of spada llxtck of North's bid. it had seemed holler to lie in wait than to look for a. prom by mentioning the heart suit. When the bidding

the three-iiotrump contract to de- mand if spade opening. He realized the said) that he was running at risk in making this double, but it certainly seemed advisable to stop

West from opening ll diamond, which East's singleton indicated would be opened in normal jCCUl'SC.

It goes without saying that South ldid some speculating on his own hook in this auction. His failure to support spades after North re- bid the stilt was certainly ll lquestionable tactic, but it can't. be tdenied that south built up it beauti.fui ”situation" for himself. and that his redouble of three Hotrumti was It sort of killer- stroke.

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undouttitcdly would have opened from his long heart suit but East's double demanded ll spade opening and so West led his singleton. The outcome was that South picked up both of East's spade honors on finesses and collected 12 tridcs - six spades, one heart. four dig. .monds and one club - for ll. total .s.:nrc or 2350 points. It is true 'that South could have tinade the same tricks against anv lopening lead. but in the absence .of East's double and the spade opening, he scarcely would,have taken the double spade finesse.

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I John Pringle, native of Prince Edward Island who died in 1935. earned fame as a. missionary dur- ing the Klondike gold rush.

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