'7klki....).a.-..-:-u. .-,:,-.- um-"v---4 - WTHI DIET III KNEW HOW howiiietllltlniul m. l 15 N09101: life's seversgg tsstbu -Old Mbther Nature. On the trunk of a fsllenloocoa: "in Film in the bend-of-alwayh summer lay Mother Manicoe. own cousin of tlnc' Billy -Possum of the Green Forest. she lay on one llde Just as she had been placed . there by Farmer Brown's boy. she looked to be dead. Yes. sir. that is Iloll she looked. I-lowevu-, ghg wu dead in looks only. for she was Pretending. she hcped that she '35 1001111! Tommy and his friend. She couldn't tell whether or not she was succeeding. she 0011141 only try her best and hope. Had she been alone this uncer- t-I-lnty would have been much eas- ier to bear. she would have had ally herself to think of. Then she ould have felt fairly sure that an a was doing Just the right thing. '!or it was a trick she had success- fully played more than once be- fore on enemies who had caught her. and from whom there had seemed to be no way of escape. But this time there was someone else to think of. There was a small son. a very small son. a baby lit- tle bigger than a Mouse. and un- able to look out for himself. Lit- tle Manny wasnlt yet old enough anything but to cry for his moth- uz This he was doing now in his small squeaky voice and wonder- ? why his mother didn't come to in He had been carefully placed on that same tree a little way behind his mother where she couldn't see him without lifting her head and looking back over her shoulder. Now of course a dead Possum couldn't do 9. thing like that. It would give the trick away at once. 80 if her captors were to be fool- ed into thinking she was dead she mulCn't move. not even an eyelid. She oould use her ears. but not her eyes. she could hear that small uuesky voice, calling. "Ma! Ma! 113.!" but she couldn't see where he was or what he was doing. on- ly s. mother can even guess how llrs. Manioce felt as she listened to that small squeaky voice and tried to decide what to do. what was the wisest and best thing to do. (Should she jump to hPr feet. try i into the funniest exprenions is when you air heads. And they're all colored, wasbnbln clothes! ll; Thorsten W. Iargets) ' baby Possum was crawling along the tree trunk to get little Manny into her big pocket, and run away with him? Those dreadful two-legged giants might kill both of them before there was a. chance to get away. They would know then that she was alive. They would know it the very instant she moved. Then in a moment she might be really dead. not playing dead. What to have learned to play dead. He:then? wasn't old enough to have learnedjbe dud they mum .0 0" gm gleave her Just as she had known other enemies to do in the past. the and marked my run: any package of would become of little Manny If she continued to pretend to enemies who had lost all interest in her when they had thought she was cead. 1: she continued to play dead these two giants might do that very thing. Little Manny was so very small they might not pay any attention to him. What to do? Mother wasn't thinking wholly or herself when she continued to play dead. No indeed! She was thinking also of that helpless lit- tle son crying somewhere back of her where she couldn't see him. should she try to run away with him? Or should she keep on play- ing deed and see what would hap- pen? Where were these dreadful giants who were the cause or her worry and trouble? she couldn't onnnczctnoonouooecmooo-usmn contract Bridge 3; sanguine Gulbanetn nosx nswxs: i when is little to be said for psychic biddins in this enushtened bridge age-the time II 110-” When many players could be hoodwink- ed with the greatest of ease by ex- perts. However. it can't be denied that occasionally. when it is tim- ed just rum. - "1-mcv" W1 "1" have amazina euccess. That wsls the ease in the following den. which occurred in a 5304 mbb" game. North dealers: . Neither side vuiiiefliie. sans .0053 ossgu 4.10 iolb gods? xqm N on: 74 W E OKJ03 Q10 S 2 Q63 474 gxe OJ! Q95- q.AK.l'9851 The bidding' North met South West Pass Pass lN'l'(!)'Psss ZNT Pose 3NT Pass Pass Pass it goes without say that south had nothing resembling a. sound notrump opening. either in high lcnrd values or distributionally, but .there was considerable method in South's madness! Naturally. he had no intention of staying at notrump it the cpponents did any doubling. but. not vulnerable. South felt that he might be able to steal a. game with his long club suit, whereas no sound some contract at a suit could conceivably be there after North had passed. North. quite innocently, raised to two notrump on the strength of his aces. and south. more optim- iatic than ever, went on to some she wished she knew. Knowing thst they were right there would have been easier to but than this uncertainty. - "Ms! Mai Ma" squeaked the small voice. It seemed to be draw- ing neasrer. It was. Baby Possum was crawling along the ti-ee.trunk toward his mother. How did he know where she was? Perhaps he didn't. Then again perhaps I good see them because she knew it wouldn't do to lift her head to look around. She listened and lis- tened. but heard no sound but the small squeaky voice crying "Ma! Ma!" Had those giants gone? I-low 1VJxi.gl.,. . . Cnaehle and Pap have soft. flung: m y I wave their arms. no in only . picracide. I muff fairy called instinct told him lwhich way to crawl. Mrs Manicoe continued to play dead. Baby Man- iooe continued to crawl toward his mother. The two boys continued to I I IM;VMw.w.r lgslize-Gnome ” Shampoo - wnu uuoun loaves hair soft . . . perfect for homo permaneniml tubes Jle I 59: Jars 59: I SL00 ' J”), VLslY::A&',..- .54., ...f. 1-Hit (Raoul Slum 0" without the slightest heeiililolh 1'- should be observed that while South's opening bid W35 "m" 0" the isntastic side (though. we re- peat, not without merit!) his de- cisicn to bid three notrump was logical. There was a mod Chance that the missing cards were W9" divided between East and West. and that neither could double. West opened the heart kinl. but when East played the deuce-twe-it was afraid to continue the suit- South might be holdinl up from A-J-8. (East. in his Dirt: Nd 5"" afraid to overtake the kiss with the ace because of dummy! 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