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Who is in Ill he does discreet. will Very leldom trouble moot -Farmer Brown's Boy

The black Shadows were troop- ing down from the Purple Hills across the Old Pasture and the Green Meadows to Farmer Brown's house. Farmer Brownls Boy was Preparing to start back to the Old Pasture.

"Where are you going'."' asked Mother Brown.

"I'm going back to the Old Pasture to get that pail of berries I left there when the Ycllow Jackets stung me this afternoon. ”he replird.

"Humpli!" exclaniud Mother Brown. ”Tlicy inay sting you Again."

Tommy shook his head. ”No

danger," said he, "The pesky the ings aren't out after dark. There is no danger now."

So Farmer Brown's Boy started off across the Green Meadows to the Old Pasture. It was dark en- ough to lie shadowy. but not too

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By Josephine Culbertson

A BAD HOLD-I.'i' PLAY

The game conti-hot. in deal hinged excli1.sivrly on rjccldr. us first play

today's

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made his normal foul: - tbe-ii. licart opening. and the later, an ”;ivei-age” player. A- llowed the practice which seems to be favored by other average players: he ducked in dummy. East produced the heart. jack and, after wziininu the trick. prnrnptly "c'.i1i'iiedil1'r five of licaris to lo-H-k wit r.'i.i'ii:iix's ace, From that point on declarer was struggl- in., wi'..i .1 10:1 ctiiac. Even with the club king mi one side. he could not win enough tricks without knocking out the spade ace, and tho. nioiiiciit he led :1 spnde, West not in and tZ'l.4llN'l h:.': established lie.-iris.

There '5 no excuse for losing such a ro....:ict. as this. South's first-trick plziv was the evidence of faulty tli.nking. If he had stopped to consider the situation. he wuld have rezi.-zoned as follows:

No player in West' srosiiion. if he holds the K-Q-J :'. the head of a suit, lends a low card away from the three top honors. For

ihc one time lil fifty or more that such a lead would work out, it would rost a trick (or many tricks! the rest of the time. Thus. it, could safely be assumed that West. did not have a heart suit headed be K-Q-J, and that East had one of tlirsc lionnrs. Declar- or was in no dancer it the adverse hearts were divided 4-3; the thing to pzuarci nmiiisit was a 5-2 heart break. and the way to guard against it was to put up the heart set! Thrn, no matirr who had the spade ace. the heart suit would be blocked for the defenders, and ihcy could not win more than three trick: in it as n. maximum W only two tricks if the break was 6-2.

' uEdDVoW.;'”.'1.l.. Meaiin-hiie Boomer. for it was he. was back high in the sky scream- ing. Scap! Scap! as he flew chas- ing insects.

dark for him to make his way easily. He whistled as he went.

Boom! Th:it. was so close Farmer Browns Boy almost ducked. Then he chuckled.

"Boomer the Nighthaw ," he said. "He really made me jump that time.”

Meanwhile, Boomer. for it was he, was back high in the sky screaming, ”Seap! Soap!" as he flew chasing insects. You know it is in the air that Boomer gets all his food. Boomer and Mrs. Boomer used to have their nest: on the ground up in the Old Pasture. it wasn't. really a nest: it was just 2. place where Mrs. Boomer laid two eggs. For some reason they seemed to think that a nest isn't necessary, whereas most other birds connot get along without nests. This year Boomer and Mrs. Boomer had not made their home in the Old Pasture. They had moved to the village. There was a building there with a flat-gmveh ed roof. Mrs. Boomer h-ad dis- covered it quite by accident. Right away she had made up her mind that her children were not to be brought up in the country. That gravcled root would be a perfect. place for her eggs and the babies that would hatch from them. There would he no prowling enemies to watch for there.

So, Mrs. Boomer had laid two white c gs among the pebbles on that mo and she and Boomer had taken turns sitting mi them. The two little Boomers had grown up there and now were out in the meat World for themselves. Boomer and Mrs. Boomer still did much of their huniting over on the Green Meadows.

Still vrhLstlin';. Farmer Brow-his Boy trampcd along the old row paths in the Old Pasture. He lind- n't a doubt that he would find that pail of berries just as he left it. Then he reached the place where the pail had been left. It uzis still there. but it was upset and cnipty. Berries wem scattcrerl all about the ground. That nliistlc stopped

abruptly.

"Now who did that?" cried Farmer Brown's Boy. He sounded angry.

All about him were Black Shadows. Some were big: some

were small. One of the latter right in front of him was a little blacker than the rest. Now it moved. This was fortunate for it was right. where Farmer Brown's Boy would have taken the next stcp. Farmer Brown's Boy saw it then and stop- ped abruptly. There were two light thumps on the ground. Farmer Brown's Boy saw the white stripes that are 5. part of Jimmy Skunk's uniform. He saw another white spot. the tip of Jimmy's big ball. He knew the signs. He stood per- fectly still. Of course. be guessed right off that it was Jimmy Skunk who had overturned that pail. Per- haps he felt an-gry enough to want to do something to Jimmy. lie didn't try it. He was discreet. He knew that any sudden movement might be misunderstood, and that would be just too bad for him. Besides. he and Jimmy are old friends. So he stood still until Jimmy had wandered off a little way.

He picked up the empty pail. "I guess Im just out. of luck. This wasn't my day for berries," said he, and started back for home.

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