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Frequently is worry sent. And with lmppinds is blent. -Old Mother Nature.

For nearly four long weeks, Mrs. Grouse had been patiently sitting on ten precious eggs in a nest at the foot of a tall pine tree in the Green Forest. She had seldom left ihose eggs except to get her food. Those eggs were too precious to be left except when necessary. There were times when she would have

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her legs. Legs can get very stll' when not used for a long time When she did leave "the nest. she carefully covered those eggs with leaves.

More than once Mrs. Grouse had held her breath when Jimmy Skunk, or Redd-y Fox, or Old Man Coyote or Gray Fox had passed! only a. few feet away without suspecting she was near. The ru-stling of a leaf might have given her away, she and her secret. High up in that same tree at the foot or which she had made her nest, Redtail the Hawk and Mrs. Red- tazl had been raising a family without once suspecting the nest down below. Those four weeks had been excitingly quiet.

This morning, very early, when Mt'S, Grouse had started to turn her was as is the way with all good bird mothers. she had dis- covered one with a. tiny hole in it. Her heart had leaped with joy. That tiny hole had been made from tho inside, and that meant that very shortly a baby would be out in the Great World. That baby was breaking that shell from the inside. It also meant that there would be more babies crack- ing shells very shortly. This was the day, the wonderful day. that Mrs. Grouse had worked and waited so patiently and so long for. It would be the birthday of ten babies, Any way, that 15 what she hoped.

Mrs. Grouse didn't go looking for food that day. She was too worried to do that. She couldn't bring herself to lcvavc those eggs even for a moment, now that the babies were almost ready to come

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At long last Redta-ll and Mrs. Red- tail left. t

had she been more worried, yet, never had she been happier. Her very happiness was the cause of her worry. It is always that way with mother love. A mothar may be worried half to death, yet at the same time be conipletely hap- py, So it was with Mrs. Grouse. One by one, the eggs hatched. One by one, the dand-lest small bird babies in all the Great World came out of the broken eggshells, and nestled under the fluffed-out feathers of mother. With each one her happiness increased. So did her anxiety. All ten eggs hatched, for she had taken the greatest care of them. By the time the Black shadows came creeping through the Green Forest to warn that another day was over, Mrs. Grouse no longer had ten precious eggs under her. She had ten separate worries. and was also ten times as happy as she had been before. Very early the next morning, Mrs, Grouse began to fuss about without inakiiig any more dis- turbance than she had to. She was making ready to lead her ten hap- py worries out into the Great World. She was waiting only for her neighbors up above, Rcdtail the Hawk and Mrs. Redtail to go oft hunting as they did early every morning. As soon as she was sure that they had gone, she would leave, and lead her precious ones away from that neighborhood, It seemed to her that those two hunters up above never would start. All the time beneath her spread feathers and wings there was a constant. st.i.rring. Those baibies wanted to be out, and she knew they would be out shortly in spite of all she could do, At long last Re-dtail and Mrs. Redtail left. Hardly had they gone before the first of the babies were running out from under Mrs. Grouse and trying out their little legs around the nesi. Sho cluclced to them softly. trying to keep them in close. It was hard work to keep watch of ten, so she was anxious to get started. She looked them over carefully. She clucked to them softly to follow her, and walked out from under the low boughs that had hidden that nest. At that vety instant. there was 3. whirr oi stout wings and Thunderer, the father of all those babies, arrived

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The theoretically bent contract does not always turn out best! That fact was demonstrated in the following hand in I teun-or-four con-test.

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ed. South opened with one spade. received a single raise from North, and jumped to four spades, The opponents were quiet throughout. West's opening lead was the six of hearts. South took East's king and immediately played the heart jack. West won and, with the idea that South might be trying for a quick club discard on the heart ten, shifted to a club. This. how- ever, was all the better for deolarer; now he could afford the When the board was first play- loas or two trump tricks. a

At the other table South opened with one notrumrp, received I single raise, and, "suppressing" the spade suit. went on to three notrump.

Here also the opening lead was the six of hearts. south captured East's king. led ll diamond to the king and let the club queen ride for a finesse. wast took the trick and, "to maintain communication with his partner, led another law heart. The defense was then ready to operate. Bast went in with his ace on the first lead of spades. and his heart return gave West three tricks in the suit,

This South could have played his notrump contract to better advant- age. If he had led even one spade from dummy before touching the club suit, he would have put the defenders in I very bad position. It East put up the spade ace. declarer would find it ens; 'to make four spade tricks, and so would not need anything else but his high cards; and if East ducked the first spade lead. declarer, with I spade trick home. could clear the club suit (or continue with spade leads from dummy) and easily fulfill the contract.

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Thunderer stood stock-still and

, stared. Mrs. Grouse looked very

proud as she fussed over the babies. "Aren't. they lovely?" she asked.

'tWlicse are they?" asked Thimclerer. Wasn't that a foolish question?

"Yoursi" replied Mrs. Grouse

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