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A proiit some one else may take From each mistake that you may

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mat truth Raddy Fox found out mg ago. As a matter or iact. much or his success in living is ti-om watching for, and taking advantage of the mistakes of others. A lot at ml... and women are just like Reddy Fox. They make their living through me mistakes of others.

snow covered the ground to a depth or several inches, and had brought comparative safety to the Mouse tolk. It: was making it dil- liciilt ior Reddy Fox and Mrs. Raddy. It was a llglit snow, and "9; easy to get around in. Small lull: like Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse and all their kind could run about on it with no trouble at all. it they were foolish enough to try ll, But bigger folk couldn't do that.

rhev h ad to wade through the Iii0ii'. Moreover, the snow had covered all the tracks of those

whom Reddy was in the habit of hunting, and it had killed the scent of these same folk. Getting a dinner was largely a matter of chance. and lhe ability to make the most or ghante when it happened. No one Ls sinarter in doing this than is Redd?! Fox.

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Reddy stood on his doorstep in the Old Pasture looking down over the snow-covered Green Meadows. He was trying to make up his mind whether to go down there and hunt ior a Mouse dinner, or whether to go over to the Green Forest to see if he could catch a Grouse. He knew his chances were not too good either way. Then he thought 0! Peter Rabbit. Perhaps Peter had been out all night in spite of the storm. Per- haps it had caught him out in the Green Forest, and now he would try to get home. Reddy looked all over the white covering of the Green Meadows, but nothing was moving anywhere. Peter certainly wasn't on his way home, if he wasn't home already.

"I think," said Reddy to Mrs. Reddy, who had just joined him, ”I'll pay Mousevllle a visit first oi all."

Mouseviile was a part of the Green Meadows where a. large number or Meadow Mice lived. Meadow Mice could be found in most parts of the Green Meadows but not in great numbers living to- gether. Raddy shook the snow from his bushy tail and started down to the Green Meadows. Before he stepped out into the open he once more looked this way and that way to make sure that no one whom he might want to catch was in sight. He knew that the moment he stepped out onto the snow on the

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Reddy piodded along through the snow.

Green Meadows he could be seen irom iar away. There would be nothing to hide behliid. or under. There would be no tall grass to creep through.

snow. He didn't sink clear to the ground, but the snow was hailwa up hs black stockings as he waded through it. He waded slowly; there was nothing to hurry for, and he couldn't hurry very well anyway. Trying to run in that snow would be very tiresome.

As he drew near Mouseviile he

stopped to look. The tops of many weeds, still holding- their seeds, showed in brown patches above the snow. It was these weeds that Reddy was watching. Reddy knew all obout the iondness of Meadow Mice for those seeds. He knew, too. that where there are many Mice there is sure to be careless ones and foolish ones. He sat down, and sat for some time just watching those brown heads or the weeds. At long last. one began to shake just a. little. There was no Merry Little Breeze to shake it. Very, very slowly and caretiilly Reddy moved toward that moving weed. A small gray head appeared above the snow close to the stalk of that weed. Reddy kept still. A young Mouse climbed out. He reached up and got two or three seeds, then scampered over to another weed, the top of which was full of seeds. He had looked all around, but he hadn't seen Reddy because Reddy hadn't moved. Reddv moved now, and he moved quickly.

That foolish young Mouse. who hadn't been content to stay where

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he was safe, never ran again in the tunnels of Mouseville.

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A slight case or partnership misunderstanding led to a remark- able vnntract in the following deal.

South dealer. Both sides vulnerable. Q Q 9 7 4 9743 ' O A Q 8 4. A. 7 3 Q A 10 6 Q K J 8 3 5 2 N o 9 e v Q 2 w E 0 J 1 . Q 10 6 3 g 4. K lo 6 F3 .1. J 8 4 t z 9 M. 9 A K J 10 8 5 Q K 9 7 5 4 4- Q 9 The bidding: South West North East 1 Q Pass 2 N T Pass 3 Q Pass 4 Q Pass 44(!) Pass Pass(!) Pass When North passed the four

spade bid, South emitted a groan or pure agony, but this did not absolve him from playing a. ten-trick vul- nerable contract without a. trump in his hand and without much trump strength in dummyl when the smoke cleared, South found himseli down iour e and there was also the little matter that a. grand slam could easily have been made at hearts, or a small slam at dia- monds.

The argument then started: Who was responsible for the debacle - South, for bidding four spades, or North. for passing to that call?

in an expert partnership there would be no question of responsibi- lity, because no properly seasoned North would dream of passing to such a. bid. The only pertinent question, then, should have made the call with his particular partner. A perfectly sound hid under one set of cir- cumstances is an extremely rash bid under different conditions.

To revert to the expert basis - no expert North would be led astray by the iourespade call. The expert

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