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TH! HANDBOME STIANGEB

Too often looks for little count. To less than nothing they amount.

...o1d Mother Nature. In hen he was at a distance. he "who are you?" he demanded. South dealer. lseemed to be dressed in just black. North-south vulnereblo Too-Smut was Jealous. There iris was all black excepting white "ed In U .K..,.

wu no doubt about um. And he inear the end of his tail. But in FWD 5:6; vol; cmm rm .3

was Rowing more jealous all the the sun, and especially when near 5 red um H my one would know! .K-,5,

time. The strange tax that hes: hand. that black coat aeemed.ju,,g bv imkmg all me you hawwti, 1.6532

thought had left the neighborhood in be frosted. That IS. he looked a red ha”. m vow 'mal so mu; .Qmx .AJ9t had done nothing of the kind. For silvery. It was it very lovely cost. Mm” be I Nd fox Yo'u cimm ha I 'KJ1'02 N ' BB5 several days Too-smart ran across it is no wonder that Soil-Eyes said Way lax when fox” and nevi . may W E . Q.

Iixns or his presence before he saw that the stranger was handsome. .10”: am the only taxes umma yAKJ S .Qw” him. soft-Eyes, who had seen him As he stood staring at the stranger, hen" declared Tomsman

the first day, had said that he Too-Smart forgot that he was Jeal- THC buck 31”” or mmeed "SM. Q62

Wu handsome. When at last Too-.0115. I-le forgot that he had declai'- you. he replied 5&1? that 8065:! VAQ743

Smart did see him. he had in ed that he would drive this stranxef Mm. the mm H; E I helm t the OK-'52

admit to himself that Soft-E305 out of the neighboieiiood. He stared red brmch of La? mmuy'5-mitt H . 591

was right. mcist impolitely. and there was much as you do. 'MV tamer wen” 1-he bidding:

pThe young fox will never forget something very much like sdmira- la "d can my mam” wen" E South we” Norm E."

his first glimpse of the stranger. tion in his eyes. trad Com! an my bmums and mu” 1' Pm 1 . Pu. He happened to be Standing Wm" M Imam found his VD)" wear red coals. Underneath this 7' Db” PM-1 VIM the sun mane m h”.n' and Tm" are Wu demandpdi. black coat nf mine I'm Just. the P933

Smart didn't. know wriai in think lm Silver Fox, said the stiaii- same Ry mev 3" Im N” R

T0 basin with the stranger was gm mi mg in in black coat why Like most artificial devices this hil and young. Too-Smart had 'Whnt branch of the family dn.MOmer Nature gave me . hm; one has an extremely "Ham db never seen it fox like him. The you belong to. asked Too-Smart. mat, 1 dm” know; but ah, did. feet. It leads to the sort of abaurda

stranger was not nearing A red

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and that is all there is to it." While they had been talking, the sun had been behind A cloud. Now it shone fully on the handsome .sti:anger. And once more he had ithat irosted look, as if he was silvered over. Too-smart mentioned it. "It is because the long hairs of my coat are iipped iiith white." ex- iplained the stranger. "You don't see that at a distance; but when I am 'near enough and the sun is shin- ing, my coat looks silvery. I wish it was red like the coats of all the rest of the faniily," he added wistfully. The Theatre Francais in Paris was founded in 1789 by the French actor Francois Talma.

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some players-not the very best -treat a "change of suits" by the as an artificial of announcing a better- than-minimum hand.

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it is true that South oould have saved himself by running to three diamonds after West's double. but it is equally true that South could not have the faintest idea. whether nr not this course would be jump- iniz from the flying pan to the

The real error was in the two- heart bid - or rather, in the aya- tem that South himself had elect- ed to play. Obviously. if his philosophy had permitted him to bid we diamonds, nothing could have happened to him, but when he felt obligated to "sign off" by i-ebiddlng the first-named suit. he was simply tlirting with disaster, Certainly. North had no option but to pass over the two-heart double!

West opened the club king, then led the ace and Jack. East overtook with the club queen, and south ruffed. A spade lead to the king now gave declsrer quite a shock, becausr East turned up with the arr and promptly sent back the nine of trumps. Deelarer ducked.

of diamonds. then, hoping to get home another trump, ruffed I. club. West overi-uffed, drew South's last trump. then led the queen and ten of spades. and East accounted for the rest of the tricks. Down tour. 1.100 -A and on a contract for only

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