23. 1951 llv Thornton W. Iurgeu) A DOUBLE TREAT rhe un pecied olt seems best, rhough just exactly like the rest. a --Old Mother Nature. Farmer Brown's Boy had sat iown on the doorway to a Yellow lacket's nest. He hadn't known it when he sat down. He d-id know at a low minutes later. He iound nut in a most painful way. The Yellow Jackets didn't like having aim sitting on the entrance to ;l1eir nest. No, sir. they didn't like it one bit. Yellow Jackets are folks who, when they do not like I thing. do something about it. rhsy did know. You should have seen Farmer Brown's Boy scramble to his teet ind take to his heels, slapping at various parts or himself as he ran rhose Yellow Jackets were giv- ing him a hot time. They are I rind of Wasp. you know, and how they can sting. Never bother a Those Yellow Jackets were giving him a hot time. Jackets met him half way. He lust proved that he could run faster than those Wasps could Ily. Now Wasps are of the daylight. Yellow Jacket if you can help it. rhen you will have no regrets. Now when Farincr Brown's Boy ran away he lett a pail or blue- berries behind him right beside that Yellow Jackets home. When Like the Beefolk ihcyspent their ;nights at home, which is very good place for most folks to spend their nights. Farmer Brown's Boy knew this. so he decided to leave the pail oi berries where it was he ventured back. hoping to get iwhefe it Was until alter dark. the berries. those angry Yellow .Then he could safely get it without E-----4---E-1 danger of being stung. ,, . , M.'-..f. . Now Jimmy Skunk is one of "at(n"'s0O':":"'""' those tolks who likes to turn , night into day, so to speak. That is, he sleeps through the day and spends the night wandering about looking for something to eat. This 3! JOIOPIIIM Cll"Wl'lvl0l' night he was out early. He gm-..,-..,.-.,.'.g..;..;..;.,.g..,,..N,;,,g.,;;qg.. did-n't wait for the Black Sha- ” dows to come out from the Purple THE VITAL TRICK Hills to draw a curtain of dark- .ness over the Old Pasture. South's sacritice bid in the fol-- For once he started out know- lowing deal would have turned out ing just where he was going. He well it he had Played "10 hand wanted some blueberries and he I trick better. know just where they were grow- 7' 'ing. He ambled along an old I 7'”3 icowpath. It wound in and out gmm. W,” Noni an ,among the bushes. Now and 1. P”. P." INT ithcn he stopped to poke under 3. 2. 3. 3N1. ,leaves. or a stick, or a stone, to 4. p..s P.” Due. look for a fat beetle. He hadn't p... P.” pa” quite reached the place where the lblueberrics grew when he came This deal occurred at niat'h-U” 3 stmnge thing beside "Xe '"”'? dlfp”cb”.f,''t,1,””"' ” ”" 3;”. :;tho'1an1o;m:r'ta' atttocxgpultvatsvxlsg we: pa rs rec notrump and . '. ' made 10 tricks for a score of'630 I 5”” 3”” ” W” M” Wh” 5' - fpoked his nose against it. Can points, but at one table this was you, gum what It was? It was me audio": l ganner Brown's pail of blue- souui dealer. "FM . 6 3 5 self to look in. Over went the V 104 pail. spilling berries all over :::aQo725 ” him and the surrounding ground. A Q o i t ' J 9 7 3 N C K -7 7 3 :1!-llliy tliseulligozprd: lahnnet liiieearttoot .: W E 1 heart rufgfnin duimmy. and two or .3 ' ' ' S T3 10 9 Lgotllg: co1El':llol?a:.e saved the vital ' I trick by first leading a low spade. 323039 6 2 l instead of the ace. West could do J m 7 5 p i no better than to put up the spade queen and play another lreart. iDummy would rutf, and now the south tell. that he could hold his remaining spade would be led from loss to three tricks. 50!) points, and I dummy though East's king-jack- he was right-but he actually went, seven. If East failed to "split his down 700 points, for bottom on the honors." South's correct play board. ,would be to put in the nine-spot; West opened a heart. East put then South would cash the ace up the queen. and. when South and give East the spade trick. ducked. cashed his three trumps t setting up his own filth card in and played another heart. South lthe suit. The same result would won. laid down the spade ace andacome about if East covered led another spade. West took the idummy's spade elghtwlth the Jack. trick and led I third round of Declarer would win and return hearts. South soon found that he ; the spade ten to knock out East's could not establish his long spades I king. 4 In not the pail slipped over his ea It startled Jimmy. he backed hastily and stamped with his front feet as he always does when he is startled. His big broad tail went up in a hurry. That always happens when he is startled. He even growled I. lit- tie down in his throat. You see he didn't know just what had happened. Hastlly he looked around. Nobody was to be seen. He sniffed at the pail. then be- III: to gobble up berries. Here was I treat he had not dreamed of. All the berries he could eat and more and he didn't have the trouble of picking them irom the bushes. What a treat! Presently he had had enough berries. Enough is always enough, and more than enough is too much. Some folks seem never to have learned this. Jimmy Skunk is not one of these. He was Just turning away to look for something else when a belated Yellow Jacket hurrying home wihaued past one at his black earl and disappeared in a little hole in the ground. Jimmy grinned. He walked over to that little hole and began to dig. It didn't take him long to open the nest of those Yellow Jackets. Most of the Wasps were already asleep or were very drowsy. They did rouse enough to fly abut a little and try to sting him. He didn't mind them in the least. In the first place they couldn't get down into his long fur to sting him. 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