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By Thornton W. Burgess

.PO0Kl' AND BLACKY MEET 'twere well could we

but know A neighboi”; troubles and his woe. --Blacky the Crow.

It was a tough winter. Blacky the Crow thought so. Reddy Fox; thought so. Liglitfoot the Deer; thought so. In fact all but a few at the little people in the Green? Forest and on the Green Mun-i lows thought. so. The only ones

xvw',. who didn't think so were thosei K”

. good hu ntinz,

that

who ucre asleep. or the t'nritty "If you call

few who had looked ahead and y l dtnit retortcd Spooky womd menu of food to Lake I oai'liei'i-tlidiir usual-V lie" ew :. . , I . p . f t - n . p V Hm" m””””h Em) Wm 0 'flrSl to the Old Ot'Chal'd. He dlG

,h se a"i'co". that it was a tou h . ( a k g ithat. almost. cvcry morning. From

wliiter. even though ttity l.tlt'lll'i V Brown's doorynrd. Sometimes

3 one of those

. .1.” mm”. b there were scraps or food there.

food that had been put out for

tough nter. because ' . . food at. best is very scarce. Blacky iggiffw. L13; ffg”?dva:fl iltdp Lhf 1- . I-MM ,HV 1 ugh”. iriei a apn) a nu., : d 5": mmaye H h 1 1 'eatcn. This morning he was dis-.

some at the family go down where it l5 wariner and food is easier to find. Blacky has always stay- ed the year through in the neigh- borhood where he was born. He has to fly for and wide to find enough food to keep him alive.

appointed. There wasn't a thing he could eat. lie would have to visit, some of the other farnis, and it he could find nothing in any or these. he would go over to the Big River in the hope that he might find a dcad fish wasned

This .5 especially true when snow . t-ovcrs cvcrything. More thaniL3'P '3” me bzmk 9.1 D” the 1”” 1" once 1.-mm”. Brown-5 BM laid happen sometimes.

He was just about to spread his black wings when he was startled by having someone pass him so close as almost. to brush against him. It was Spooky the Screech Owl. lie had come from be- hind Blacky and even though he had passed so close,therc had been no sound. (or Spooky's wings are silent wings, as are the wings of all Spooky lighted in the next tire: it was his home tree. for in the trunk or it was a hollow just big enough for one or Spooky's size to Slectp in comfortably. Spookv turned on his perch to face Blacky. From a corner of his bill hung the tail of a Mouse.

"I see you have had good hunt- ing." said Blacky. his eyes rixeu on that tailhanging trom Si-iooky'a bill. Blacky likes a Mouse when

Blacky had wakcned with the he can catch one.

ii-st. rays of light this morning. ”l hunted all night tor this to is always an early riser, but halt-grown Mouse. It you call hi! morning he was starting outlthat Eood huntinsz. I don't." re-

wnit-hiii; Blacky (lying from the Green Forest. over the Green Meadows to the Biz River. has shaken his head and exclaimed. ”How does he do it?" Mcaninz how does he find enough food?

Spooky the Screech Owl is an- other who has the courage to stay through the winter. In some ways it, is more of a wonder that he can do it than that Blacky can. Blacky will eat almost anything he can find that can be eaten. but Spooky cannot do this. He, cannot eat such things as corn and truit and bread crusts and other table scraps. Spooky must have meat. as must all of the Owl family. So Spooky must de- pend on hunting and catching small neighbors in fur and tenth- ers for in winter there are no meets to help out.

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By Josephine

ENTRY - MANAGEMENT

ccess in the following deal depended on the proper conserva- tion and use of entry cards. South's bidding was so strong. - actually. it was a shade too strong - that North decided to bid the grand slam because at his own sLight "overage." West was sure that. South had

. told the truth when he cue-bld

diamonds. and having no wish tto see his ace ruffed. West open- ed the ten of spades. Right then and there South might have gone winning in dummy.

astray. by but he made no such error. lie took the trick in his own hand

and laid down the ace of trumps. (He was not. in our happy posi- tion ot knowing about the trump

ltorted Spooky. i "It is a lot better than nothing at all." declared Blacy. "There are some days when l have noth- ing. or almost nothing. On such 1d3)'S a Mouse would be a feast. even it he were only half-grown." I Spooky nodded tindersttindingiy. "I know." said he. "There

"I have found nothing at all. This is a tough winter."

"It is so." agreed Blacky. ”II is the toughest. winters I've ever ' known."

l ”Whnt did you stay here tor?" 'asked Spooky.

"What did you stay here for?"

retortcd Blaeky.

contract Bridge Q

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THE GUARDIAN.

North dealer. . Neither side uilncrable. North-South 60 on More

Q A Q 10 1

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' Q A K J 9 7 6 1 The bidding: North East South West 1 Q Pass .'l S I! Q Dblc. Pam 4 0 Pa” 4 4 Pass 6 4. pa... 7 -1. Pass Pas Pun break").

When the Situation was reveal- ed, South saw that his only hopl or trapping East's honors was I coup - he could make only om more actual trump lead through East. and that would not be enough. South counted the en- trics he would need to dummy and found that the total was rather alarming: live! And only four were in sight.

South wcnt to work. He led I low heart to dummy's ten: When

has : been more than one night whciij

i t i I

ito dummy, and rutling diamonds

that card hcld. South led dum- inys trump and just covered Eastli play of the eight: then

he overtook the heart king and ruffed a diamond. Now. by lead- ing two spades and another heart

each time. he so shortened his own trumps that on the last play from dummy, the K-J of trumps lay over East's Q-10.

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