JULY 30, - 1952 Contugtulhldge 3, Josephine Culberlaol aavina ans xu rnxcx d ell to take the bid gwsgoyflufirodrgi the opponent: in the fougwlng hand, played at match- paint duplicate. but he lost the .u.unportant trick in the play. seam dealer. . aqua aides vuinerabfe.- ;K9d OK 6Q .00 on o no N as "'0: ”'u W S s E ?”?D so- L iI'OC-D J 62 J LK81 10532 (1 was the auction at one table: South W'nt North East pm Pm 2 .5 Dbie. goal. 1 9 . Pu: Pan 2.; Pan Pug 2 Q 2 Q Pass Pass Pass West opelzed the heart deuce, dummy played low and East won with the queen. East returned a low diamond. and West aacriticr.-d his ten to dumm;:'s queen. Declarer's spade resources did not permit trump-drawing. so he went about establishing the club suit, even at the risk of an op- pollng.l'IJH'. On the low club lead lram dummy. East put up the ace ma again returned a diamond, zieclarer winning. Now. on the following club lead, West went in with the king and, seeing his partner: nine, led another club which East ruffed. Once more East exited with a diamond. with a. good diamond and a road club in hand, it was now ---:-:-:--s-- m Belfast church TEA WEDNESDAY August 6th By Ln-'rr.s . 'roo-man-rs sons Nose Inquisitiveness always goes Y Before a sore and smarting nose. . . -Reddy Fox. - Being inquisitive does not al- ways pay. Many times it leads to finding out things not at all im- portant to the one sticking his ose out, as they say. often find- ing trouble waiting around the corner. On the other hand. it may be of great help. Again, it may cause pain, especially when trying to find out things that would be better left alone. It was just so with Little Too- Smart, young son of Reddy Fox. He had left home without mean- ing to. He was the smart one of nve cubs. and had started out to show his brothers and sisters how smart he could be. He wasn't as smart as he had thought he was, for he had become lost. Perhaps it would be better to say that his home had become lost. He had looked for it and looked for it, and the more he looked the more lost it had become. So he had wandered away to a far corner of the Old "Pasture where it joined the Green Forest. and there he had spent the night hidden under a. bush. v . The next morning he had wan- dered into the Green Forest. and there he had met a terrible fellow. necessary for south to attack trumps. He led a low trump to- ward dummy. West unhesitatingly ducked- nd declarer went wrong. Apparently. he felt that playing the king would merely be to sac- rifice it to the ace in East's hand, and so he put in dummy'a nine. This, however, was a. costly dq- cislon, because when West got in with the trump ace he returned his fourth diamond, and whatever South did, East was sure to make his blank trump queen. If south had put up the spade king instead of ducking, he would have saved a trump trl k and gone down only one. A se of 100 points would have been excellent. since almost all the other East- weats bid and made two hearts : tor no nonm- wmnocx TIRE SERVICE WILL CLOSE AUGUST 3rd to AUGUST 10th Inclusive L U FOR ANNUAL HOLIDAYS Thornton W. Burgess It was Prickly Porky the Porcu- pine. He was terrible to the little Fox. chieiiy because he was so much bigger. and so strange. He can be rather terrible-looking to one who has never seen him be- fore. especially when he raises the thousand little spears hidden in his coat. Little Too-Smart had dived into the first hole he saw that was big enough. It was be- tween the tools of a tree. He had hoped it went deep down in the ground; but it didn't. There was Just room enough for him to curl up out of sight. Hardly was he in there when along c me great big Buster Bear and rlckly Porky poked his head into that same hole. His head was all he could get in there but the little Fox didnt know this. Perhaps you can guess how he felt. How he did wish he was safely back home. when Buster Bear finally left, growling deep down in his throat. Prickly Porky still kept his head down in that hole for some time. At every little sound he lashed with his little spear-covered tail. He was making sure that no one LTHE GUARDIAN , CHARLOTTETQW 1') They were different from any sticks he ever had seen. gone away. he wlthdrewefrom that hole and whining and grum- bling and complaining climbed a tree. After a. while Little Too- Smart poked his head outside. With fright-filled eyes. he looked anxiously this way and that way. Then he crept wholly out. At first he saw no one. He didn't know what had become of Prickly Porky. He hadn't seen him climb that tree. Then curiosity began to replace fright: almost at his feet. what looked like whitish and black sticks. They were diilercnt from any sticks he had ever seen. 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