Knowledge will be best retained When by observation gained. ‘ —Farmer Brown's Boy.

Farmer Brown's boy and hi, cousin, who were sleeping nights in the sugar house among the maple trees during the sugar sea- 5011. had discovered that one of their Green Forest neighbors was 'I‘rader the Wood Rat. Thvy had not seen him, but they had found his home and in it a couple oi spoons and other things thiit were musing from camp. While they slept Trader had paid the camp a visit and traded for those things, leaving some cones, pebbles and a rusty nail. The hole through which he hacl entered liad been found and blocked. Before going to bed this night the boys had put l. number of useless udds and ends, a. brass button and oilicr bright, shiny things, iii a small box and placed it outside to find out ti‘ their small neighbor would trade for these things. The first thing in the morning Farmer Brown's boy went out to see.

"Hi, Ned! He's a trader all right!" he called, and Cousin Ned went out to look.

Sure enough, everything they had put in that liox had been taken. But the box_wasn't empty. No, sir, nothing like that. it was half full of small sticks, pebbles, bits of bark and other small ob- jects including a couple oi small bleached bones.

"That's what I call an even trade, Tommy," said Cousin Ned. “He traded a lot of stuff he doesn't

want for a lot of stuff we don't|

want.’

"That may be so, but just the same he got the best oi the trade," chuckled Tommy.

"How do you make that, out?" asked Ned.

“He got something he “ranted, ‘but we dldrift get anything we wanted," replied Tommy. "Some- times I wonder if there is any- thing at all that is worthless. That which is trash to one is treasure to nome one else. Queer, isn't it?"

"It is what makes trade," re- plied Ned.

During the day they visited Trader's heme and laughed to see how he had carefully placed here and there on the roof of his house all the things he had traded for.

"I would like to have a. good look at the rascal. You know I've never seen a. Wood Rat," said Tommy.

"Have you a box trap or some other that will catch an animal without hurting anything but its feelings?" asked his cousin.

‘Tye ‘got a wire cage trap at

home," said Tommy. - "We'll get it and set it tonight. Trader will be around again, and In the morning you'll have a chance to look him over and be- come acquainted," replied Cousin Ned.

So during the day Tommy got the trap and before dark it was set in the place where the treasure ‘box had been the night before. “What will we bait it xvith?" asked Tommy.

Cousin Ned chuckled. “A spoon," Quid he.

The trap was set and in it was placed a tin spoon that gicamed in the moonlight. Trader returned during the night, as Cousin Neri had known he would. His eyes had sparkled as he caught the glint oi the spoon. Her» was more treasure to trade for. But this time there was no trade. It had been easv to enter where that spoon lay, but he couldn't get out. He was a prisoner.

So it was that in the morning Farmer Brown's boy saw Trader the Wood Rat for the first time. In size and shape he was much like Robber the ‘Brown Rat, whom everybody knows and dislikes, but there the likeness ended. His ears were larger. His tail, instead oi being unnieamntly bare and scalv like Robbers. was covered with short hair. Robbers‘ coat looks rough and the fur is short. The fur of Trader's coat was long "and soft. nice to look at. His ootit was mixed buff and gray, while underneath

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West opened the heart nine. This was ducked in dummy, and East won with the king. East promptly returned a low club-and right there, South had to make the crucial decision!

There was a 50% chance that he could successfully finesse East's club return, but there was a. great- cr chance that he could make the contract by putting up the club ace! This latter play would depend on a combination oi circumstances. lt‘ the spade suit broke 3-3 (an ap- proximate 36% chance), _South would later be able to discard one club on dummys spades and the other on the heart suit. Combined with this chance was the fair pos- sibility that if spades did not break 3-3, the defender who had the spade length would also have the club king, and this holding would automatically put him into I squeeze. South would hold on to the..club ten, cash diamonds and hearts, and finally force that tie- ic-nder to discard either the club king or his spade stopper.

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