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No sadder sight is thereto see irhan relatives who won't agree. -Old Mother Nature.

At the foot of a. big tree deep in the Green Forest sat Gray Fox. Half way up the tree. sitting in a crutch. his back against the trunk. was Prickly Porky the Porcupine. whom some folk call the Untouch- able One. Above him high in the tree was a big nest. Perched on the edge of it or flying back and forth over it, snapping their bills and hissing angrily, were Hooty tiie Owl and Mrs. Fiooty, biggest ot all the Owl Iamily. They knew just what Gray Fox was thinking about as he sat there looking up but making no attempt to climb the tree.

”He is trying to think of some way to get past Prickly Porky without getting some of those little spears stuck in him," said Hooty to Mrs. Hooty. He meant the sha'rp quills that Prickly Porky carries hidden in the hair of his coat.

Mrs. Hooty was paying no atten- lloii to what Hooty was saying. She was staring down at a little open- ing among the trees. "See who is coming now! As if we - haven't troubles enough as it is!" she ex- claimed in a low tone.

liooty looked. There in the mid- rile of that opening stood Reddy Fox. There was a. half grin on his sharp face as he listened to the big Owls hissing and mapping their bills and to the complaining voice of Prickly Porky who didnlt like the fuss those Owls had been making ever since Gray Fox ap- peared. -

At first Reddy didn't see his cou- sin. nor did the latter see him. Roddy trotted forward; saw Gray Fox and stopped abruptly. For 3 long moment he watched his cou- sin. Then he barked sharply.

Gray Fox whirled about like a. flash. his lips drawn back to show all his teeth. "What are you do- im: here?" he snarled.

”The sump thing you are.” re- im-ted Reddy. and his half grin hecame a full grin. It wasn't a pleasant grin. It wasn't meant to be. It showed all his long teeth.

"I was here first." snarled Gray Fox.

"All the more reason for you to go away first." retorted Roddy.

The hair on the shouldtrs of Gray Fox and along the back of his neck was beginning to rise as you may have seen hair rise on the slioiilclei-s and neck of an angry

Dog. ”Those baby Owls are mine." he snarled.

"How nice. When will you eat them? Won't you invite me to

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They are not friends, these Fox cousins.

at once that his gray cousin was afraid to dimb that tree with Prickly Porky"in the way.

"I'll get them when I get ready, and when that will be is no bus- iness of yours," growled Gray Fox.

Meanwhile the two cousins, one in gray and one in red. were slowly circling around each other as dogs often do when making ready to dash in and catch the other by surprise. They are not friends, these Fox cousins. They don't like each other at all.

"I wonder if they will fight," Hooty whispered to Mrs. Hooty.

"I wonder," replied Mrs. Hooty.

"Gray Fox is bigger."

”A little," agreed Hooty, "but Reddy is quicker. I think Gray Fox is afraid of him. Anyway, if they fight, I hope Reddy will win and drive him away." .

Wwhat difference does it make which wins?" retorted Mrs. Hooty.

”Haven't you forgotten some- thing?" asked Booty.

"What?" replied. Mrs. Hooty promptly.

"That Gray Fox is a. good climber and Reddy isn't,” replied Hooty.

The two cousins were walking around stiff-legged, growling and

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upon reading that south lost his grand-slam contract in the ioliow; ing deal. but the tact is that even Worm Plays are made in many bridge circles. 'Bouth's last bid was not com- pletely sound. but neither can it be severely criticized. South had loca- ted an ace and a king in partner's hand. by means of the Blackwood Convention, and North's immedi- ate spade rise had solidified that suit. Thus. at the very worst. South would only have to dispose of his diamond jack. and North might easily turn up with the diamond queen or with a doubleton in the suit.

In any case, it was not South's grand-slam bid for which he had to be sorry - it was his play of the hand.

West opened his singleton trump. south won. and, according to his own subsequent statement. could not decide whether he ought to

snarling. It wasn't H pretty sight. It never is a. pretty sight when re- latives fall out. But sometimes if is exciting. It was now.

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agonizing, he decided in favor or the heart finesse, and met instant defeat.

South should not have taken ei- ther finesse. It was elementary to cash the club ace at the second trick. then to cash the top dia- monds. then to enter dummy with a trump and discard the diamond jack on the club king. Now it could cost nothing to lead and ruff a diamond -- it the suit broke 3-3 (as it did) South could discard a heart on the long diamond: If diamonds did not break. he could fall back on the heart finesse.

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