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contract Bridge Dy Josephine Clubertaon 0?00&03Q. resume-'51-E ENEMY

lxpartn 'do not take kindly to the idea or letting the opponents rot on score, and so, even at ru- de: bridge, they do considerable "pushing" at low levels. Observe

Thornton W. Burgess

the mat-W?Ilt tactiu

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MM: was BUNNY The tender heart i.rid thoughtful deed, Q Went dc Are quick to serve anotherls need. 1 Neither -Old Mother Nature. In a hollow log lying on the ' ground at the edge 0! the Green Forest a small Rabbit lay whimper- ing from pain and (right, It was Q 10! Wee Bunny. ono of Peter Rabbit's .510 i'lElblOS. He really was a baby even ..AQ though he was out in the Great 4.107 World trying to find a place for

"The bidding:

What Pass Pass Dhle. Pass Fur

himself. Just now the Great World was a terrible place. Yes. sir. it was a. terrible place. Although (or the moment he was safe he was still pretty irigihtened. He had been tlutough a terthble experience. His coat, was torn. and the tear- ing or it had been done by sharp teeth, One ear was torn, and this had been done by those some sharp" teetnhl-Ie smarted and ached all over. i

Wee Bunny had been unlucky.

is handiwu too thin for an He hadi met Chatterer the Red

opening bid, so he not only passed isquirrel when Chatterer was in a originally, but also wisely passed lbnd temper. He had been in a bad again over Souths hcari. opening. itemper ever since daybreak. There However, when North could merely 'is an old saying that when a persczi

give A single raise.

when I gets out of bed feeling out of sorts

South himself did not rebld, West and cross, it is because they hav: decided that the situation justified gotten out the wrong side of the ”competition.”From astrictiy acadc bed. Chatterer must have gotten

mic point of view,

his double out on the wrong side or his bed

might be considered of the penl1l- this morning. Certainly he acted as if he had. All too often a person in a bad temper seems to think that the only thing to do is to take it out on some one else, to pick A. fight with some one who cannot right back.

Chatterer had done just this.

ty variety. but the fact that West had passed originally negated this interpretation - it passed hand could scarcely guarantee to take six club tricks defensively! South. or course. was a little rash when he bid again. over thice clubs, but it is East's double of

three hearts which requires the

moat explanation. It is not usually wise for I player to double on a

singleton in the opponents' suit,

that East sized up the situation per- ieotly! He knew that ii he passed. West could not possioly read him ior so many honors; moreover. West would scarcely stand the

cellent defense. In short. the double "smoke West out," and would be practically forced to R

The doubled three-heart contract was defeated 500 points and though South might have saved one or these tricks, it still would have been a victory tor the bold East-West bid-

He had attacked Wee Bunny for no reason at allrexcept that he

was in a bad temper. He knew i

Wee Bunny couldn't right back; he had never been in a. fight in his life. Hod it not been for Kitty the Catzbird and Mrs. Kitty. the small Rabbit wouldn't have had a chance to live to grow up. They had put Chatterer to flight. peck- ing him with their sharp bills and giving him no chance to use his sharp teeth on them.

"I'll never dam go out oi here again." whlmperecl the small Rabbit. i'I don't know where that dreadlul fellow lives, and so I don't know how to keep away irom him. Whatever shall I do? Oh. dear. oh. dear!"

Now it Just happened that Farmer Brownls Boy came along that way. Like Peter Rabbit. Farmer Brown's Boy is full or curlosity.,But it is the curiosity that leads to knowledge. He had heard the excited shrieks of the Catbirds. He is very lond or Kitty and Mrs. Kitty. Right away he wondered what was exciting them so, and went to lind out. They saw him coming. They flew to meet' him, then turned BBC? llew back toward the place they had come from. They ilevw only a little way. and waited. When he drew near they flew a. little farther.

When they reached the neighbor- hood of the old hollow log. they just flew about twittering and call- ing back and forth.

"They are trying to tell me something. What it is I don't know," said Farmer Brown's Boy as he began looking this way and that, He walked all around. When he went away from that old log Kitty and Mrs. Kitty scolded. When he was close to it tihey kept their tongues still. They just hopped and new around anxiously and excitedly. Once. Kitty flew down on the old log.

He was doing his boat toggel: Farmer Brown's Boy to look into

, . They just flew about twittering and calling back and iorth. that old log. For the space of 3 minute or two there was complete stillness. It was then that Farmer Brown's Boy heard the faintest of sound; breaking -the stillness. at iirst he couldn't tell where that sound came from. It was a sort of pitirul whimpering cry. Farmer Bi-awn's Boy listened in- tentiy trying to decide just where it came from. When he moved away from the old log he lost the the sound. when he walked back to the old log he heard it again. He knelt down and put his car near the open end. lcight away he knew that there was some one in trouble in side that old 103.

Cautiously, he put a hand in. His lingers touched a quivering furry body. Gently k draw out Wee Bunny.

"You poor little thing." said he. as he saw how torn and hurt the small Rabbit was.

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