By Thornton W. Burgess

RAGGED-EAR FINDS A HOME iiait-grown, He diuirt ieei tlizii way. Gcodiirss, no! He felt grown- up, inid he tried to appear so wiien others were tirotiiid to see him. In this respect he was very like some boys and girls.

Rugged-Ear had learned a very great deal in a very short time. He hiid had to or else become Just

Tomorrow never will exist Because today will still persist. -Old Mother Nature. .

Wee Bunny was Wee Biiiiny no onger. That r. as it baby iianie aiiii .1e was no longer a baby. He hiici mitgrown babyhood. No Rzihhit as big as he now was, or at least lull. st dinner tor someone hungry and himself to be, should be called by isiiiartcr than he. His teacher had such 8 name. He no longer wzisibecii and still was the greatest oi wee, which means very small. Helail teachers and was iiained Ex- wu big. Tl 't is how he felt, . pt'riCllC8. He had started out know- niiywuy. Wasn't he out in iheling nothing, Now he was quite Great World all by hiinscif. Aiiy- sure he knew just about all there way he hrid another liiIIll(' now: wns to know. Oi course he didn't. he was called Rzuzgeti-Ear. and no No one does, fl young Rabbit least liked the iimnc. it sounded growii- yol all. But he was learning every lip. idriy and in time might Ii-znow as

Sammy Jay hurl i2iVCii him thatliniicli as his lather. which Peter niime the first time he saw” the would tell you is very little, but young Rabbit, and it iiad sti'ucK.;eiioiigii to keep him iiliro and This was because it fitted. Oncfhiippy, "What more can anyone ear had been torn by the Sllal'!)iiV8liL'.'" as-its Peter. teeth of Chatterrr the Red Squirrel: As yet Ragged-Ear had no home. um really wns l”dgi.;E(i. It always He was iii wxiiiderer. looking ior would be. Now he um Ragged-Ear st home but not knowing that he to everyone and would be as long was doing so. It is this way with

H m, lived all the folk in leathers and fur -i.Ao.7----n .r---A when they tirst leave the homes in which they were born and start out in the Great World. He had

lirst to find out what kind or

place he wanted for a home and

then to look for such in place not already taken by someone else.

He hiid been born in n snug nest-bed out in

the Green Meadows. It was a splendid place to be born in because

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Arliially Raggeti-l-.”.ir was about? f

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at in daytime by a Hawk and st night by an Owl. reached a hole in the old stone wall ,ust. one jump

HENRY

" OCTOBER 8. 1952 3! C811 Anderson

ahead of Raddy Fox, seen Bobby Coon barely in time to keep out at sight, had the shivers and shakes as he saw Shadow the Weasel and what he did to 9. tamiiy of Mice. But now up in the Old Rnsture he had tound 9. place he somehow didn't want to leave.

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i yAs yet Ragged-Ear had no home. lit was the safest place his mother it-ould have chosen. No one would .lliilik oi looking there tor zi iR2ibbii.'S nest. so it was the sales: iplace for biiby Rabtils as long as pthey couldn't run about..So that iiiiis Ragged-Ear's first home. But when he and his brothers and sister began lll0i'lllg ilu0Ui., trying out their small legs to find out what ithey were for, the open Green lMcacioiis were no longer safe for them. They could too easily be lscen by wiitciiiul eyes or hungry enemies.

So mother had led them over to the dear Old Briar-patch where bushes and briers and brambles land tangled vines made all sorts oi! Iiiidiiig places. Th... was home for Peter Rabbit and Mrs. Peter. It had been for it long, long time. It

was home for the baby Bunnies -

ior a short while. But it was ll. very short while. It is one of Mother Nature's laws. and a wise one, that lchildren ot the turned and tea.- ythered folk, and or even lesser lolk, lcaniiot stay in the home of their iparciils. because while there may be room enough there may not be food enough. Plenty for two may be less than enough for more than two. Because the home belongs to ifather and mother the children must go out into the Great World and seek homes of their own which they in turn will not share with others.

Thus Wee Bunny. as he was then called, left this, his second home. when he was very small nncl even since had been wandering about. having adventures of many kinds and never staying long any one place. He had been attacked by Ohatterer the Red Squirrel and so had come by his present name or Ragged-Ear. He had been chased by R. dog, been almost csught by Black Pussy the Cut. been swooped

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TOO MUCH KNOWLEDGE

y that on some hands an lcxpert declgrer will lose a contract

THIS FELLOW GAVE ME A -rousu i:iai-i'r - our- HE LOST '.

which a liar less comipetent player lwould make. The following case illLl5li'M.6-I this paradox;

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mason: I5 5TlLL Auedv I AND NOT 5PEAi(IN' To . It does seem that West might i ME

have shown support tor his partner at some stage or the bidding, but our present concern is with what developed in the play or the hand.

West, for an unknown reason, elec- tedto open his partner's second bid, clubs, instead 0! his first bid. diamonds. Dummy took the trick, and deciarer then deterred trump- drawing to test the spade suit. He led the five to his own ace. when the queen was played by East.

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South could afford to draw trumps, and he laid down the heart jack. West's showing-out was an un- expected blow, however. and now

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South was in troiibie. He continued with the heart ten, but East again held up the ace, On the third . trump lead, East won and had the imagination and nerve to return I low diamond. West thereupon

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jack, and thus the sound contract iivss down one.

It goes without saying that South could have made the hand b.V drawing trumps immediately. before touching spades, but from his point of view this was 1 dangerous procedure, West might well have had Q-J-x-x in spades. and ii South drew trumps he would end up by losing two spades.

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won the lead and returned a spade 114 (F: " which East niiieci. south still had .v5';.i,,4';J - f to concede s spade trick tr West's 5 we 4”

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