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There was nothing very oom- plicated about the play of today's tleal. it was simply a case 0f selecting the "combination chance" hstcad oi’ trying to guess a finesse.

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ioutli bid tuo hearts on the Iecond round because he was pos- itive that North, having made g two-over-one response to the open- "18 Spade bid. would not drop the bidding.

West laid down the diamond ace Ind. 1991118 110 porpilious shift. continued with a second round 50M?! W0". and had to decide on l Ions-rims: Plan of play. Obvious- ly. South could "handle” the club lull: in several different ways. He could finesse through West; he could cash the ace and then finesse through East, letting the club jack ride; or he could try to drive out the club queen by nifting. dfiiis latter plan. however, WHS also sub- JecLto variation.

Not. too confidently, South final- ly laid down the ace and queen of trumps, then led to the club ace, discarded a heart on the club Xing, and lcd the club jack through East. That defender. not being a traitor to his own side, impertuh- W1? played low _- and South

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For worry. though o! little use. At times there may be good excuse. —-Old Mother Nature.

In an old house dug long ago by the grandfather o! Johnny Chuck in the middle oi the dear old Brier-patch Peter Rabbit and Mrs. Peter were snug. warm and com- fortable while outside hard, icy grains of snow hissed through the bare bushes and the bram- bles. When that house ivas dug it just had been outside the Old Brlar-patcli. The latter had grown around it until now it was in the middle. Peter and Mrs. Peter seldom had use for it, but when they did have it. was right there. Just now they were glad oi it, very glad indeed.

Now and then Peter poked his wobbly nose out the doorway tn see how things were outside. Porr a while he had grumbled, but he

had stopped when Mrs. Peter had declared that lie was just as happy as she was to be in that. old house- snug fllid warm. and “'85 grum- hiiug just, tor the fun oi’ grumbling, when really there is liOiliiIig to grumble about.

"I wish," said Peter, "this was

guessed wrong. Afraid that; West had the queen, declarer ruffed. hoping to drop the vital card, but \\|‘.(‘n West played the nine. all hope vanished.

The best plan was to combine bwo chances, in this way: South leads only the trump ace. then leads a club tn the nee, rashes tllo club king. and ruiis a club. The queen may droi) —- but. when at docslit South still ilfls lite. chance for a 2-2 trump break. Ho over-

takes the spade uiue with dummyfls king and ruifs away Exists club queen. then leads the trump three to the five and can cash dumniyls

f A / //./. / . She Ila it her head out to see what the weather was.

If it were it would make things a lot easier for a lot of folks."

Toward night rough Brother North Wind went back to wher- ever he had come from. Anyway he stopped blowing. Then the snow turned to rain. a fine rain. It was Mrs. Peter utzo discovered it. She had put her head out to see what the weather was.

"Yoirve got your wish, Peter," said she. "It is rain now instead of snow."

"That is good," said Peter. “We've lracl too much snow already. Rain will take away some o! 1;, pm glad it is raining instead of snow- ing. I dent mind rain."

But a little later when he put his head outside he changed his mind. Yes, sir. he changed his mind completely. He no longer was glad it was raining. He wi red, and he wished mosf ltcartilyi, that. it would stop raining and do it right atvny. He even wished that the rain would turn to snow. You see he discovered that. though Brother North Wind had gone away Jack Frost hadn't and he was in the \VL)i‘$L kind of mischief,

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the very worst kind. Ha was frocl- ing that tine rain as last. as it vouched tho bushes and trees and suriace o! the snow. He was coat.- ing them with ice. Yea. sir. he was making a crust o! ice on top oi’ the snow, and coating evcry bush and bramble and tree, from the highest trunk to the tiniest. twig, with a smooth, hard. slippery coat o! lcc. It iwu then that Petu- began to worry, really worry.

"I thought the snow was bad. but this is worse." said he.

"We are all right; in her, so why worry?" said Mrs. Peter.

“We haven't anything to cat. in here." said Peter, then added, “I'm hungry right now."

“There is plenty. such as it Is, outside. A little rain won't hurt.’ us. We can get what. we need when we have to have it," replied Mrs. Peter.

“Can we?" Peter added, "I hope so."

"Do ‘you know any tclacl IQ we can't retortcd m. Bk l bit sharply.

"We can it it isn't locked up," said Peter.

Mrs. Peter looked at Peter. "What do you mean?" she dc- manded. "Who would lock it up? \\|-o can lock it up?"

"Jack Frost: is locking it right now." replied Peter.

Mrs. Peter looked startled. She knew what he meant. With every- thing else buried in snow, they had only the ‘bark and tender twigs, with SUUl leaf buds as they could reach, (or food. Now these were being coated with ice. Then she remembered that it had hap- pened beiore, but they had man- aged to crack the ice with their teeth and get enough food to keep them alive. it could be done again. She said its much.

“It is not just ourselves I am thinking oi. This is bad. very bad. for a lot of people who can't help themselves. i wish it would stop raining or Jack Frost would go away," replied Peter.

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