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Trader the Wood Rat couldn't quite believe his eyes. No, sir, he couldn't. I suspect that had he thought of it he would have rubbed his eyes just to make sure that he was really seeing what he seemed‘ to be seeing. not dreaming. There before him, beside Farmer Brrfwirs‘ sugar house in that purt of the] Green Forest where the sugar , maples grow, was a box of [TENS-q] ures such as he was sure no tvood Rat ever before had found. ln it; were things that in the moonlight shone or gleamcd or sparklcrl. For a few minutes he simply sat bcsidci that box staring with bright bcarlyl lyel at these treasures and gloat-i, ing over them. i
It was a small box but to Trader it seemed big. He walked around‘ it and peeperl into it from every, side. moment or two staring and gloat-I,
ing. He would take all these trens- l
ures home. every rme of them to ‘didn't love that even more.
add to his collection. Yes, sir, that| is what he would do. And right then sprang up doubt. Or was it suspicion? Doubt and suspicion are s0 much alike that they amount to the same thing. Where had treasures come from? been there the night before. was sure of that. Why was it there ‘l now?
All the little people of the Green i Forest and the Green Meadows; early learn that anything unusual, any sudden change from what has been, is suspect. It is to be regard- , ed with doubt and approached with caution. Those who never forget this and act accordingly are the‘ onus who live longest. Trader was cautious, very, very cautious. l-Ic walked around that hox several times before he ventured to put his paws upon the edge o! it and lean. over for a close look inside. Nothing happened. He reached in slowly, carefully, and pulled out‘ one of those treasures. And such a treasure! It was the handle of al broken, white, crockery cup. Still,
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On each side he sat for abutton,
the first littltfiwcre several empty brass
. K _ /__ Trader seized his prize andwaced home with it as fast as he could go
there. Nor did he appear again that night.
Never had Trader spent such a fright. Never had he had so many desirable things to take home for his collection. There was a brass Now he loved that. Then was a broken but shiny nickel belt buckle. He was not sure that he There were two or three shiny nails and half a dozen bent rusty ones. There pistol cartridges, a small piece of tin, an empty spool, several pieces of the broken cup of which he had ai-
that box of ;reatly taken home the handle, and
other like treasures. It was day-
He ilight by the time he had it all stor-
ed away in his collection and had half filled the treasure box with things in trade. You see he was an honest Rat: a happy and tired one.
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When a declarer can make hil contract by winning either of two available finesses, his prospects are excellent, since it is 3 to 1 that
nothing happened. ‘he will have success with at least
Trader seized his prize and raced I homo with‘it as fast as he could go. He carefully looked all over‘
. the roof of his house of sticks and|
trash trying to decide Just where’ that treasure would look best.‘ Twice ha changed it. Then he! raced back for another. fearful} that those other treasures might‘ have vanished while he was gone.
They were just as he had left Qiem. Now there was no longer doubt or suspicion. He pulled out a small round pocket looking glass ouch as advertisers sometimes giva away. It fell on the ground at hlsi
feet and he started to pick it up in his teeth he was startled by the face o1 another Rat close to his own, tho beady eyes staring right into his. He Jumped ‘back with an angry squeal. startled rather- than afraid. He was ready to fight for his treasures.
But there was no one to fight. Where had that other Rat gone! He must have run away. Any- way he had left that precious prize. Trade-r moved forward swiftly to get it before the stranger should reappear, but he was too late. As he reached for it there was tho other reaching for it too. With a squeal of rage Trader sprang at the other. But there wasn't any other! As be- fore he had vanished, But he had loft the treasure. it had become turned over. so Trader no longer saw his reflection. He picked up the little mirror, glass side down, and raced home with it as last as his legs could take him.
He wasted no time seeking the best place to put it. He pushed it in among some sticks and raced,
one o! the finesses.
Unquestionably, 3 to 1 are good odds—but they are not nearly good enough when declamr has a sure thing by playing correctly! Ob- Serve today's deal:
South dealer. _ North-South vulnerable.
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West opened the spade ten. De- clarer won in the closed ‘hand. drew trum s in two leads. _ then took the cub finesse. East won and returned a tlub. ‘ Now South was faced with the problem of guessing the position of the din- mond queen, and, to his own dts- gust (which was doubled and re- doubled by his partnerl), he guess- ed wrong. thus losing the vulner- able slam.
It was not South's guessing abil- ity that merlted criticism in this case-it was the fact that he foist- ed a guess upon himself by failing to play the hand in such a way as
‘would have to return a diamond,
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