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300-&OOsQ00s300-&00s& BLIND SPOT Successful defense in the follow-

ing deal was almost absurdly easy - but East couldnlt see it.

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ht!-at North East South Pass 1 4. 4 0 4 Q

Pass Pass 5 0 PM” Pass 5 Q Pass Pass Pass

In fairness. East deserved credit for pushing the vulnerable enemy to the five-level, but there is little profit in this tactic unless the

defense is everything it should be. incidentally. North-South might

well have doubled five diamonds

instead of going on to five spades.

5: Jose pblne Clubertnon &

AN ANXIOUS TIME

. it sometimes helps if we can share

Anxiety that's hard to bear. - Peter Rabbit.

Peter was an anxious Rabbit. Yes, sir. Peter was an anxious Rabbit. Mrs. Peter was just as anxious. There was going to be a storm: Peter felt it in his bones. Well, perhaps it wasn't really in his bones. but he felt it just the same. He and Mrs. Peter sat at the edge of the dear Old Briar-patch look- in: over toward the Green Forest.

The day was dark. It was mid- day, and yet it we: so dull as to be really dark. It wasn't possible to see very far. It seemed as if the heavy

riiirk clouds were resting right on lthe tops of the tall trees in the Green Forest.

"It is going to snow some more," said little Mrs. Peter in a worried tone.

"It already is showing.” said Peter.

Sure enough, very fine grziiiis of i snow were sifting down between the

but of coiiisc the i'ulrie.rabiliiyibMe branches Of the bushes and (70Ddllvl01l5 37”” MW” Chm”: Some; vines in the Old Briar-hatch Al-

logic. West opened his singleton dia-

mond: East won and collected

. th t i k i the suit. Then, with "no N r C n East 1001;. was nothing to be Rained by ieiiriing

ma heart. so East shifted to clubs on

riummy out or diaiiimids. ed around for the possibility of

trick in A different direction. Therel 1m

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ready it was as if a white curtain was slowly being drawn over ihc

the fantastic hope that West, who had discarded a club, might now be ,able to ruff. That happy result. ihowever. was not forthcoming. and iwhen South laid down the triimn lace and saw East's void, it was all 3 over. '; East was not very astute! The chance thiit West might ruff a club lwas virtually nil, considering his lshortness in diamonds. but the ,chance that West could force out idummy's king of trumps, and in lihat way set up a trump trick for himself, was good! Obviously, then. East should have led a third dia- mond - and permitted West to ruff with the eight of trumps, thus absolutely safeguarding his trump

queen.

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By Thornton W. Burgess

Green Forest. One by one the trees

disappeared behind it. In a little while the Green Forest couldn't be seen at all. Rough Brother North wind was beginning H9 blow. He blew the falling hard little grains of snow before him. They hissed as he blew them through the dear Old

THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN - Joe Palooka

The snow hissed and piled up around them.

"His breath is always cold. but it

Briar-patch. Peter and Mrs, Peter. side by side, were squatting as close to the snow-covered ground as they could, their long ears laid back. The hairs of their fur coats were held down as close as possible. so that the snow might not get in among them.

”I'm afraid it's izolng to be a bad storm," said Mrs. Peter.

"I know it is," replied Peter. ”Iye

going to be. and now I know it. Of matter too much. Snow makes a

comfortable just buried lll the snow. But I have a feeling . . ." Peter stopped right there.

Mrs. Peter waited. She knew what Peter wanted. He wanted her to ask what kind of a feeling. She tiioiight she knew withoiita askinsr. As a matter of fact, she thought she had the very same feeling her- self.

"If you ask me." said Peter after a while. ”I think this 11 coins; to be a bad storm, more than just a snow storm."

"I didn't ask you." said Mrs Peter. "It wasn't necessary, If you must know. I have the same feeling myself. I think the sooner we get back in the Briar-patch where we will have at least a little cover, the hetter."

Peter aizrced. In fact. there was nothing else he could do. They got to their feet, shook themselves and hopped info the dear Old Briar-

they could find. There they squat-

Rough Brother North Wind."

Peter.

course if it is iust snow it won't!

warm blanket. We can be veryl

patch to the most sheltered place ted down side by side once more.

"Anyway, we can keep each other warm," said Peter. "Just listen to

"I don't want to listen," said Mrs.

seems to me it is colder than ever before." said Peter. "He is blowing the snow so hard that it stings my face."

, "You don't have to tell me." said

the wind. Peter shifted. too. The

lsnow hissed down and piled up

aroiind them. They snuggled close

togeilier. They squatted low, their

-heads drawn back between their

had a feeling all along that it l5'shoulders. and their ears laid back

on their necks. y They had to keen their eyes closed against the stinging grains of snow. When tiiev o ened them lfor .a moment. they gouldnt see more than a foot in front of them. lit seemed to them as if all the snow in a great cloud must have dropped on them all at once. It would have been bad enough had the snow come shitting down gently. but it was being driven hard by Rouzh Brother North Wind. and his breath was icy cold.

"I'm' worried." whimpered little Mrs, Peter.

”Me, too." said Peter,

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