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contract Bridge

3: Josephine Cluberteon & waoivo conraacr

offhand, it doesn't seem that North or south made any error in the bidding or the deal below, but

the error was there. nonetheless.

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The defence was everything it should have been, equence was that South had no real play for the contract. He had to concede a club. a. heart and two

Contrast this outcome with the perfectly normal result of A four heart contract. There. South would three natural trump tricks (in dummy). a club ruff in ”ll3 own hand. one diamond and five spades, for the heaithyltotal of 10

This contrast was not merely a whim of fate:

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MITE I5 FUSSY

some fusaineas has real excuse When cleanliness puts it to use. -Old Mother Nature.

Mite, the young Mouse who was finding 9. place for himself in the Great World, was fussy. That 5. some folks would say he was fussy. Actually. he was no more fussy than all his neighbors. Mousevlile. the little Mouse town under the snow on the Green Meadows, was I fussy place. if cleanliness can be called fussiness

Ever since he left home, when he was a very young Mouse less than three weeks old, Mite had been fussy about his person. When he wasn't hunting for food, and eating it. he spent B. lot of time washing himself. Nobody had taught him to do this. In fact, nobody had taught him anything. Mother hadn't had time to teach him anything before

should have reached four hearts instead of four spades. The "key" was South's second action. after getting the spade raise. Obviously. South felt that his hand was worth another bid -e so why not do a little exploring? south should have real- ized that North might have four hearts and yet not be able to show the suit over spades because he lacked the top-card strength. It could cost South nothing to bid three hearts instead of three spades; if North preferred the first- bid suit. he would of course return to it. whereas if he preferred hearts, he would either pass or raise. de- pending on his supporting strength. Needless to say. in this case North would like hearts better than spades, and would have the values for I raise to four hearts.

This dell is a perfect illustration of the fact that a fitting 4-4 suit is usually a better trump selection than another suit of equal scoring

RUDOLPH RED NOSED REINDEER

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By Thornton W. Burgess

he left home. and father wasn't around to teach him anything. He '

lust had to find out things for him- He C""ed "Wm 0" W "W DOINIB self. dump'

some folks seem not to mind dirt two lead to good living. at all. In fact. some folks seem to Mite was living in what had been enjoy dirt, But the Mouse folk are the home of some other Meadow not like this. They are neat. They Mouse some time before. It was keep their hands and faces clean. tumble-down when he found it. They keep their coats clean. Indeed. Tumble-down houses are never they keen themselves clean all over neat. As soon as he had decided he from the tips of their noses to the was -going to stay there in this tins of their little short tails. so it tumble-dQwn'home. he went to work. was that Mouseville kept its homes to lput it in order, or course, he had and its street: clean. Its streets to spend much time hunting for were tiny paths cut through the food, and he had to spend some nrass, and when the snow was deep time sleeping. In between times he these tiny paths became tiny tun- tried to fix up that nest. First. he i neis. Those tunnels were kept as cleaned it all out inside. He pulled clean as tlievxnow itself. Here and out old straws that were more or there little short tunnels led to less dirty. and he didn't leave them dumps. To these all the dirt was around the doorstep either, He car. taken. ried them off to the nearest dump.

Mite was a great deal more fussy He was fussy about it, than a lot of boys and girls are. Then he went, to work an the He not only kept himself spic and tumble-down roof. Of course. it was span. but he kept his home lust as made mostly of grass, and some fine splc nnd snan. and he kept his little roots, all woven together. Whoever nrlvnte path just as spin and snan. made that home in the first place He was naturally so neat that. ii had clone a very good job. But. any by some magic he had surideul" house not used soon goes to pieces. been transformed into a boy. it How did Mite know what to do? never would have entered his head Old Mother Nature must have to throw lzum wrapping.-3, ice cream whispered in one of his small cars cups. popsickie sticlu. peanut bags. and told him how to do it, and what candy Wrapplngs. and apple cores not to do. It didn't take him very out of a car along: the roadside long either. That old roof looked when ridina in the Itnrntzv. or alone almost like a new roof. and he had the sidewalk of a city street. or in a it all finished before that first snow park, or on a nlcmc rzround. Goorl- storm. It was a good thing he did. ness no! Nothimz like that! He The weight of that snow would would no more have thought of have pressed the roof right in if it doing such things than he would of hadn't been repaired. not washins: his face and hands Mite had been lucky to find that many times a (lay. old home with no one living in it.

Mite was fussy about neatness He was still more lucky to find a because he was born that war. He little store of seeds close by. You see, naturally loved to be clean. Keeoing he hadn't had time before the com- so was a habit. one of the verv ing of that snow to store away best habits. There are good habits many seeds himself. Altogether Mite just as there are had habits and was doing very well for one who cleanliness is one of the verv best was only six weeks old. Yes, indeed. because it leads to good health. for a young Mouse starting with Neatness is a good second best and nothing, Mite was doing very well leads to true comfort. Together the lndeedl

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