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Over at the Smiling Pool, Peter often had seen Mr. Watersnake. He had seen him catching fish and Another's way or his may be frogs. More than once. he had seen Impcmibl lot you or me. Biuller the Adder. who, because the -Peter Rabbit. tip of his nose is turned up. is called the Hognosed Snake. or none Peter Rabbit and Mrs. Peter had or these, had he need to be airaldiv Just learned how little they really and he wasn't afraid. knew about some or their eighbors. Now the snake lamily is quite I Ever since they could r member. large family and there were some they had been acquainted with who were quite .iea.r neighbors of different members of the Snake Peter and Mrs. Rabbit with whom family. Prowler the l3lacksnako,they had no acquaintance whatever. often had visited the dear OldlR1n8H9ck was one. Rinsneiik 15 B Eria.l'-patoh. They didn't like him. very small Snake. He is one of the but they were not afraid of 111m. smallest members of the family. They were too big for him to attack. He wears a black coat, a gold collar. so he let them alone. They had and an orange waistcoat. He is 9. Juan seen Mr. Gartersnake, Mr. very modest little fellow, and likes Greensnake, and Mr. Miiksnakelto keep out of sight. He and the None of these was anywhere near others oi! his kind spend much of is big as Prowler the Biacksnake. their time under stones. behind

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Peter hopped up on that rock loose pieces of bark, and in similar hiding places.

That is one reason that Peter and Mrs. Peter were not acquainted with Ringned: and the members at his family. In tact, they had not known there were such pretty small members of the Snake family until iihe day when they saw a Snake take iive baby Snakes into her mouth, and then saw the babies come out again later. It was then that they discovered that each of the babies was wearing a golden collar. This was because they WHO baby Ringnecks. Peter and Mrs. Peter had supposed that the one who had tried to swallow them was their mother. Now they knew she was not.

The live babies. and the one who had tried to swallow them. had been on a flat rock Just outside the dear Old Briar-patch. Peter and Mrs. Peter had been so excited by what they had seen, that they had not kept their eyes on that flat rook, and while their heads were turned. all those snakes had dis- appeared. Where had they gone?

"They must.be hiding in the grass." said Peter.

"Those were the smallest Snake baubles I've ever seen." declared Mrs. Peter "I wonder where they came from and where they have gone."

"Perhaps that bigger Snake has swallowed them again," said Peter.

Mrs. Peter shook her head. "That couldn't be." said she. "I had my head turned only a minute."

"I wonder where their mother is, and why she wasn't looking after them." said Peter.

"Perhaps she is like Mrs. Spotty the Turtle. They do say that she has nothing to do with her babies. They say she doesn't even kncv her own babies, and that they have to look out for themselves from the time they are born. Ii' baby Turtles can look out for themselves perhaps baby Snakes can do the same thing. some mothers are funny; they just aren't real mothers. I would like to know myself where those baby snakes came from. They are too small to have come from far away. It must be they are living some- where around here. Perhaps we will see them again some day," said Mrs. Peter.

Peter hopped out or the dear old Briar-patch and over to the flat rock. It was broad, and the top was only 1 little above the ground. Peter hopped up on the rock. He had oiten sat on that rock while he looked over the Green Meadows. Now as he sat there, he was still

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It is ditiicult enough to choose opening leads at rubber bridge. but at duplicate the diiiiculty ll

pounded by the "overtrick factor." Consider this hand. which came up in a pairs tournament.

South clelleri mg - East-West vulnersblg QQ86 OQ7 QK8763 ' uhA.l4 , .1042 Q1 8 9:03 9.11085 0 E OAQ4 legion WS .5952 , I ' 4AK97 '.A9I2 QJ1053 ” K

When a three-notrump contract was selected by North-South. there was nothing that East-West could do about it - the iourth-best club lead was virtually mandatory lrom West's hand, and the various declare:-s ended up with one or more overtricks.

At quite a iew tables, however. the final contract was iour d by south. In these cases. Most Wests opened the singleton dio- mond, got A third-round run, and eventually cashed in the heart king to defeat the contract.

Only one West who led against tour spades did not deieat the contract -e and the question is whether he was misguided or merely unlucky. This had been the bidding at his table:

South west Norm nus .

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3 Q Pass 3 Q Pan

4 Q Pass Pass Pup

This West, having listened atten- tively to the diamond res, by

North and the diamond raise by south, could not bring himsel! to lead the singleton - it seemed all too likely that this lead would trap Eastls possible queen. Surely. West could not hope that East had both the ace and queen! so West. who had no reason to heel that tour spades could be deieated by any lead. opened a club -- and declarer sailed home.

At rubber bridge. West could be blamed severely for not making the one lead, however, desperate, nut would give him a chance. but at duplicate. who can say that West's punishment was deserved?

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