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The feeling you cannot explain, May save you misery and pain.

-Old Mother Nature.

'1'hu.nderer the Grouse And Mrs.

Thornton W. Burgess

Grouse are wise in the 'ays or the Green Forut. Were it ot so they could not have lived for the several years they had been H. part of the Green Forest life. They are wise in the ways oi their many enemies who are always looking ior s

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THE GUARDiAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

Grouse dinner. They are wise. too, in the ways oi their other neigh- bors. and of Old Mother Nature herself.

The snow was deep in the Green Forat, Indeed, it was deep every- where. Thunderer and Mrs. Grouse had just iinished a dinner or buds on the spruce trees. They didnlt like spruce buds as well as they did some others. but they would do on a pinch. The (act is, it was almmt time to go in bed. and they were trying to make up their minds just where they would go to bed. They

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By Josephine Clubertson

1OOM00sCrQOaf'O0MO0M6 MISINTERPEETING A CUE BID

South thought that his partner was concerned about control oi: the iinbid suit in the following hand, but this was faulty interpretation.

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go to bod dawn in the mow, North-south vulnershlq "My dear ," said he. "you know Q AK7z

how comfortable it is down in the 98543

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as deep as it is now. It is warm dA.

down. there, snd we have nothing 0 SQ Q 108.!

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of at better place to sleep." 0 KJ 7 W E 0 D6 2 Mrs. Grouse nodded her pretty 4KQ'i g Q875

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sleeping there just as much as you ' O Q3 95

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it will be better tonight to sleep up 0 4 3

here in this spruce tree." J93 ";V1"ijy?"tsiired Thunderer. The bidding,

' 011' now." confessed Mrs. V Grouse. "It is just a reeling." ygm Ea" govum yl" "Pooh!" cried 'I'hunderar. s little 4 s 'P”'", 4 l Pi" liliiriirzatlently. That is no reason at 5. Pu, P." (D P”.

..I know nun replied Mu. Own”. West. quite willing to believe

"All the same. I would rather stay up in this tree."

Thunder-er leaned over on that

branch from which he was perched. and looked down at the snow- covered ground. "It isnit otten that we have such a good snow in which in sleep," said he ."We should make the most of it while we can."

"That is true," said Mrs, Grouse. "but I still think that tonight. we should stay in this tree. or mother one if you can find one you like better."

She looked up at the branches above her head, and got a glimpse of the sky. It was oovered with clouds. "I think it is going to storm," she added.

"All the more reason we should spend the night down on the ground in the snow.” Thunderer retoried. "It probably will snow, Mid if We are down there the more snow the better."

That Ieeling that tihev should stay Uri in a tree for the night imiiblcd Mrs. Grouse. She couldn't offer any trial reason why ivllvv should not no down on the ground in” the show She really wanted in. So far this winter. there had been rmly two or three niizhts in which they rnuld do this thing. Some of the time there had been no snow. Some or the time there had been

irom North's cue bid that a. club lead would be fruitless. tried the surprise attack or the diamond jack. but declarer had nothing to lose by taking the image. When it held he found himself in rather embarrassed possession of is tricks.

Obviously, since a finesse was required. North-Soiiih should not have hid it grand slam, but it was a. black mark on their acutoheon that they didn't get to even six hearts or six spades. Analysis of the bidding reveals ,that North did his part. and that isouth was responsible (or missing the slain, South either misinter- ,preted or underrated North's cue lbld. Discussing the hand, South said that he had been afraid that

North was asking for diamond looiitrol -- which South could not supply -- but this was not a real-

istic view. The iiwt that South him- self had the three top honors in hearts and the tillers in spsdu, meant that North was being slam- imlrlded with no higher card than fihc jack in hearts, and miiseduciit- ly he could not have a weaker diamond holding than king-small.

south would have relieved him- self or any further problem it he had jumped from four clubs to five spades. Having failed to make that logical bid. he ceriiainly should have

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bid six shades or six hearts over North's live hearts. ' hunters that fly. "Did you hear that. asked Thunderer. "Yes." said Mrs. Grniise. "I hope

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