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hwy has no place or use: Kntefui, and without. excuse, -Old Mother Nature.

On one fairly high bank of a bmfi long pool were Mother Bear aiidy

. he two small cubs. In the hater.

near the foot of the nppnsilr hankk was Mother Otter. In lwr mouth. was: fish. On the shore at the foot of the bank. were two sinail Otters. her kits, as little Otters arr culled. She seemed to be roaxui:

them to come into the water anrifrlie kits fairly bounded to her not that fish. Anyway. that. in tho now, leiwintl "D and trying 10 way it looked and the way it sounderlfsiiatch a bite from the fish, Mother

"'I'hey've never been in the

water." decided Mnihri Emir as siiry waicliinsz them as they greedily ate watched. "They've never been ilii that fish, qiiarreliniz and each try- xhe water, and they are airaid.:inir in push the 0th" WIV-

IX I were in Mrs. Otters place. iseifishi Selfish!” muttered f'd just push them right in, TheiMni.'iei- Bear, watching from the

Jory idea of the children of two

auch wonderful swininiers as Mrs l 9ll'i!lkM't Tizt fish was a small one andl

)tt,er and Little Joe Otter i)”lllE uraid of the water!"

Those kits simply refused to llinr” han wet their toes. T'hPv wiiliird md t-hey cried, for rhtiv m-ro 2-r-rip

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vory hunzry. but they wouldn't go in the water. would mother take that fish back to them. or would she seifishiy eat it herself? That is what the watching little Bears wondered.

After a while Mother Otter swam in close to shore. she swam along in a place where the bank was not quite so steep. There was a very small beach there. As she swam the inn liitie Otters followed along the sliore. At that low place. that tiny beach. Mrs. Otter came out of the water carrying that fish.

EJHP it to them, then sat near

other shore. "They ought to be

it rlidii'l, last long. Then Mother Otter went into the water again. But thLw time she wasn't alone. She hvl the two littietotfers on her back. Perhaps she carried them that way on 1-ind. Anyway they acted as if they had ridden there Hafnre Now she turned and moved qiiickiy, Before those small kits know what was happening they were out away from the shore. Mother was swimrniiig while they clung to her back. Were they sear- ed? They looked so, but perhaps if was only looks. Mother was wvlniiniiig around the pool. she was swimming slowly and carefully, Oh. how tightly those kits hung on! But pretty soon it was clear that they were rnjnyimz the ride

This was fun. it new kind of fillil

"The little Bears watching were envious. Yes. sir. they were envious. I "Vvhy don't you take us for a

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piaddled after her.

and lower in the water until those kits of hen were in the water. and being towed along as they clung to her. Then, when they were near shore, mother went completely under water. Her small paaengers were pulled under, too, but they prompt- ly let go and bobbed up again. Mother came up again to just I little way from them. You should have seen them paddle as they tried to get in her to climb out on her back again.

Mother turned toward the shore where it was low Fraiitically the two little Otters paddled after her. They were so near that they could almost touch her. but not quite. She didn't let them get any nearer. Quite suddeiily they stopped crying and begging her to wait. They had discovered they could swim. It was a wonderful discovery. Mother went ashore. The kits fol- lowed her. They shook themselves and began to rim about. Presently one of iheni was back in the water swimniiiipz. The other watched. then could stand it no longer nnd slipped into the water too SNi'll'll-, miiiK was fun: it was great fun. They didn't quite dare to dive and swim under water the way mother did. They were content to paddle about with their heads out of water.

Looking on from the opposite bank, Mother Bear's two little black lmps of mischief were filled with Plil'Y. They wished they could swim like those little Otters.

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By Josephine Culberbon

THE WRONG BID

North felt that he was shawlna neat. strength in the following hand by making a jump bid but his selection was wrong on two counts: first. his partner did not under- stand his bid: and second. I. far better. completely clear bid Wu iWl.IIIbIE.

North dealor., East-West. vulnerable: QQ9852, Q7 oAJ7543 9 new N grs VAQJ QK62 943 W )3 gm: .Q6l 5 4.12101 Q.K85 632 QAJ643 91085 9102 q.AJ4 The bidding:

North East south West Pass Pass 1 Q 2 V 4 9 Pass Pass Pun

North went down a trick It the absurd four-diamond contract - and then the argument started be- tween him and hLs partner. North said that his jump bid had strongly indicated a fit for South's spades andthat South. with I five-card suit, should not have hesitated about rebidding. South said that that was ridiculous - he had made a very light third-hand opening. and he wasn't going to tell ai whop- ping lie about his strength by re- biddlng such a weak suit and iund. Whv hadn't North jumped to four spades?

And so on. and so forth,

Actually. neither the diamond lump used by North nor South's suggestion of a four-spade bid came even close to an adequate descrip- tion of North's support for a spade contract, coiisideriiig that North had passed originally, True, with the South holding what it wu, ii four-spade bid would have worked out perfectly e but that is not the test of a bid. south might. well have

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MAY 11. 1953

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ri laydow-n slam would be missed. No. four spades would not have been 1 tremendously better bid

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