his afraid of almost. no one. was in AN UNEXPECTED BATH What lies ahead no one can know. We should be glad that this in so. -Prickly Porky. 0 U Prickly Porky the Porcupine, who carries II. thousand little spears hidden in his coat and so the top of a tall tree near the edge of Paddy the Beaver's Pond. I'hat pond is quite tar in the Green Forest, almost to the foot )1 the Great Mountain. Paddy and lVirs..Paddy made it them- selves. It really is their very own pond. But they have so many visitors day and night that some- times they feel as if it is every- Jody's pond instead of their own. Prickly Porky had been one of those visitors. He had dined on lily-pads growing in the water. They are the leaves of water lilies which we call pond lilies. You know it is on a great big lily-pad that Grandfather Frog delights to sit and watch for foolish green ilies. Prickly Porky is very fond of those leaves tor a change from . GKEBN" contract Bridge By Josephine Culbertson ,-.xB::c-V.-we-cvo-:-0cnooougmi;-c-cizozu COUNT YOUR. TRICKS! There is only one possible ex- planation when a declarer loses 115 contract as South did in the following case-he has failed to sount. tricksl Smith (icalcr.'-dag Lismt-West vulnerablr-.' . He had a long nap. the bark and twigs on which he lives most of the time. He doesn't like to travel any more than in 11.23 to. I siipposc some folks would call him lazy. He seems to live for just two things, to eat and sleep. To have all he can eat with no real trouble in getting it. and to sleep when- ever he fxels like ii. is Prickly Porky's idea of real happiness. He doesn't look happy. It you should meet him you probably would think him a very grumpy sort of person. He grunts and whines and complains. But that is a part of his happiness, too. Perhaps you know some folks who are never so happy as when they are com- plaining. After eating all he could of these lily-pads Prickly Porky liea'le'l for the nearest tree. When he takes a nap he likes to take it up in a tree. The nearest tree was :1 big aspen. He never had climbed it before. He found it very much to his liking. There was a certain crotch 'way high that Old Mother Nature must have grown especially for him to take a. nap in. It just fit- ted him. Perhaps I should say he just fitted it. Anyway it was one or the most comfortable places he had ever napped in. He had :1 long nap. That was because he had a big dinner. It always is wise to take a nap after a hearty meal. Mother Nature's children know this and many or them do r? 462 Q A Q 10 8 5. Q 8 4 3 , 4.7 5 2, Q J 10 9 5 '4 K 8 4 l 5 N goes: IK7 W E OKJ Q Q 10):: 5 up! 10g8j some HQAQ7 l,O J 4 :1 vgasse tgkxis ;'.i'he'hl'dding:- tun Wu! N56 i ll. , Pass: 1 O Pa.sI , mum Pus -30. P J :tNT Pass Pass 5 The three-notrump contract wasi obviously risky, since an oiiside position or the heart king (with a hold-upgby East) would have held South to about six tricks. How- ever, with the cards lying as they did, South should have had a lay- down-and it should be noted that I four-heart contract would have been much harder to make, even with the spade and heart king's- right. ! West opened the spade Jacki South captured East's king and led the Jack of hearts. West pl'0D-g erly covered with the king-andl South made a terrible play; he; went up with dummy's ace! After! that, he could win only eight, tricks, in all. V Apparently, South did not re-', nlize that he needed only i'our5 heart tricks to insure the contractl f-not live! The right play, oi' course, was to let West. hold the: trick with his king oi hearts. in was not very likely that West hadl five hearts, and if he had only one! -the king--there was nothing de- clarer could do about it. The con-u tingency he could and should havei provided against was the highly. probable 4-2 break of the suit,anill giving up the trick to the king! was the only way to make this' provision. : The situation is precisely the same as if dummy's long suit were A-K-Q-x-x, with two small cards in the closed hand. Needing only four of the five tricks. declare: should of course give up the first trick in the suit so as to keep his other card for communication. He it. When Prickly Porky awoke and Continued on page .12 0 pocket pack of live up 6 K0 cntc Contest to closes.July Scotia will 0 O O I O O C O O O O O I O O I 0 53,000 ESSAY CONTEST FOR PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ALL public high school students in Canada are invited Partner in My Community" (500 to 1,000 words). 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