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y CONCERNING THE SLACKWOOD CONVENTION ,. Theoretically. the player who In-itiatel the Blackwood conven- tion lh any hand become: capt- sin pro tem and. alter hearing his partner's response, has the sole privilege of determining the contract. There are occasions, however. when the responder himself can and should take the

final voice in the proceedings. Here is I typical case:

South dealer. 'Both sides vulnerable. Q A..1 5

U Q J 8 4

O A. 7 63 2 i5 '

An expert North-South pair bid as follows:

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1 Q Pass .". Q Pass ' l4 N T Pass 5 9 Pass 8Q(.',' Pass 70(3) 33.55 Pass Pass

Any fairly competent pair would reach six hearts on the North- South cards. but few PB'II'5 WWW arrive at the graid slam unless one or the partners simply "look a gamlble." It is obvious that even better cards might have been held by one partner or the other with- out there being R sound Play (07 thirteen tricks - the crucial point. aside from the excellent heart tit and the location of all the aces. was North's singleton club. it is in such distributional factors that most slam conventions fall down. - but North-South overcome this defect with pure logic.

The "logic” was in South's shrewd selection or the six-club bid and (even more importantly) in North's imagination and sound interpretation of that call. South reasoned that his own failure

I l iDeer folk. Mr. and Mrs. Lightfoot land the well grown twins. Snow iwas deep in the Green Forest, so ldoep that they had to stay in the jplsce where they had trampled

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NOT SO BAD

However bad things seem to by They could be worse you must agree.

-Old Mother Nature.

These were hard times for the

paths in all directions so that they could get about to get their food. Such a place is called a Deer-yard. The two young Deer did not like having to stay in that yard. You see. they .nre quite like boys and girls. it had not been so bad at first. In fact they had felt quite contented. But after a while it grew tiresome to wander about in the same old paths. You see, before the snow came. they had all the Green Forest to roam about in. At first there had been plenty of tender twigs with next year's leaf-buds on them within easy reach. But as the days and weeks slipped by. they had to reach higher and higher to get enough. Of course mother and rather, being blgg:-r.. could get their food withoutl reaching for it long after the tWDi young Deer were stret-hing their necks for every mouthful.

"I hate this place," said one. "Yes, sir, I hate this place. I hate fact that South was not nearlvl so interested in kings as in thci club situation. and since he obv-l io-usly would not be asking fort first-round club conrtol - North having already responded in that field - the club query could onlyi concern subsequent. clutb con- trols. i

North, sure that he had read, South's intentions correctly, and- blessed with a singleton, club,i boldly acted on his own under-i standing.

"I-a '. Some folks call him the Snowshoe Rabbit.

to have to reach for every mouth- ful of food. I hate having to stay in these paths. It is going to get worse. What will we do when we have eaten all the food we

can rear:-li'.”' "I wonder if this stuff is going to last for always'."' asked the

other. He meant the snow. This was their first winter and they know nothing as yet about the melting or snow and the coming

of Sweet Mistress Spring. Per-'

haps mother had tried to tell them about it. but if so it didn't rcally mean anything to them.

"Mother says things are not as bad as they might be. but I don't see how they could be any worse If there are any folks in the Green Forest worse off than we are. id like to know who they are." said the first one.

"Look!" whispered the second one. He was staring off beyond the yard. oft where there were no troddcn paths. Jumper the Hare was moving along over the snow as easily as it he were on biire ground. He would take two or three hops, then stop. alt up.

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and look and listen. Then he would do it all over again.

"How does he do it?" asked one. He spoke as it -he felt a little envious. Probably he did. That deep snow wasn't bother- ing Jumper in the least.

The other shook his head. "I don't know how he does it," said he. "I don't think it is fair. You and I are prisoners. That is, we can't go where we want to go That fellow can go anywhere. How In the world he can walk on this soft stuff. I don't know."

It was no wonde that the young Deer were puzzled. They knew nothing about Jumpers snowshoes. Of course they are not reai shoes that he has. It is sim- ply that his feet are so big. and his hairy toes spread so, that he doesntt sink into the snow and so gets around just as you or I would get around with snow- shoes. Some folks call him Snow- shoe Rabbit.

Now it happened that there was a very light crust on the snow that morning. a thin crust. This made it easier still for Jum- per to get about. They were still watching him when suddenly Roddy Fox sprang out from be- hind a little snow-covered heap of brush. Away went Jumper in long leaps. Away went Reddy af- Itcr him. But Reddy didn't go far. iThat thin crust broke and he iwas floundering in the mow. jJumper sat up at a little distance, llooking back and grinning. Raddy lmanagecl to get back on the crust. but only went a few steps before it broke under him again. Jum- per grinned more broadly than ever. "Can't. catch mel Can't catch me! Can't catch me!" cried Jumper in the most pTOV0klnK way.

Roddy tried to grin back at .Jumrpei'. It was a feeble sort or grin. Redidy was hungry. very .'hungry. He was thin. which meant ithat he hadn't had much to eat lfor some time. The deep snow iit very hard for him to get a- v round. I The two young Deer watched iReddy floundering off, then look- :ed at each other. "I guess we are not so badly off after all." said one as Reddy floundered out of lsight. of guess we're not." agreed the

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