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JOHNNY CHUCK MEET! Ill MATCH

i Jealousy will soon or late Turn to bitterness and hate. —0ld Mother Nature.

Johnny Chuck had been in man! rights during the years he had lived on and near the Green Mea- dows, lor he is one who always has stood up lor his rights. one who does that oiten has to light for them. This is especially true in the Green Forest and on the Green Meadows. Johnny is nothing if not ' dependent. He asks no favors ol any one. He doesn't think that the world owes him anythihg at all, but he does believe that he has a right to try to get what he wants, and that what he does get is his, and it it is worth having it is worth lighting lor.

Never bi-lore had Johnny laught another Chuck who was quite his match. Now he was lighting one whom he had found living in a corner or Farmer Brown's gar- den. He had started out merely to drive this stranger away because he didn't want another chuck in the neighborhood. That was alL

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Some e:aperts—comparatively iew —-believe that an opening two-bid should be based on some-in-hand. not merely the strong probability oi’ game. Well, the writer leels that these players have so lime

' to gloat over their results, that, simply in kindness, she pre- sents the loliowing hand, in which the "incautious type" ol "-'-‘-‘A came to (rial.

South riener. Both lidesyulnerable.

Gollll West North East 2 Q Pan 2 NT Pa- 8 9 Pan 3 Q Pan 4 Q Pas Pan Pass

It is obvious that South could not actually count ten sure tricks at a spade contract, but anyone who failed to open this hand with two spades would. on the one side. exhibit lantastic pessimism, and on the other, equal optimism! His pessimism would spring lrom his rel-usal to insist on a. game contract right (mm the start: and his op- timism lrom the totally unwarrant- ed assumption that a one-spade opening would surely be held open, thus giving south the chance to do what he was alraid to do in the iirst place!

Remarkably enough, however. south ended up with exactly eight t.ricks—-two tricks short or his con- tract! West. to preserve his con- siderable strength in three suits, oped his singleton spade, and since last did not part with the ten. south found it impossible to reach dummy. (As the cards lay, this would not have done him much aood, anyway.) He not only lost one club and one heart. but actual- ly had to give west three diamond iricksl ii he had known the exact position at cards. south could have maneuvemd west into an and-play which would have saved a. trick. but there was no reason to expect such a bad diamond break, and so 8outh’s two-trick deleat was at- tributable to bad luck rather than to bad play—oi' to the tact that he had "bid too much."

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Most or those looking on were lor Johnny Chuck because he was an old neighbor.

Then he had seen how big and good looking this stranger was. Suppos- ing Polly Chuck should see him? What would she think oi him? What would she do? Then she whittled and he knew she did see him. Sudden jealousy filled him and all in a llash the jealousy turned to hate as jealousy so often does without cause. That was when the light started.

And what a light that was! some ol the ieathercd lolk from the old Orchard hurried over to look on. Sammy Jay and Blsrky the Crow were there from the Green Forest. Winsome Bluebird and Welcome Robin, who had arrived only a few days before lrom the sunny south where they had spent the winter. llew lrom lence post to lence post as they looked on, too excited to sit still. somehow even the gentlest people get excited watching a fight. Most ol those looking on were do: Johnny Chuck because he was an old neighbor, and they screamed encouragement to him. Not that

that did him any good. It didn't. .

He didn't even hear them. He was too busy using his teeth and claws and trying to avoid these or the other to listen to anything. Johnny had met his match and he knew it.

Yes. scr, Johnny Chuck. wise old fighter though he was. had at last met his match as every lighter. good he may have been. surely will it he keeps on fighting.‘ You see. the stranger was younger, much younger, and because he was younger he was just a wee bit quicker. He was as quick as John- ny used to be but no longer was. Johnny wasn't really old. He would have been quite angry with any one -who suggested that he was. But he was old enough to have slowed down just a. little. and in a light just a. little is likely to be too much. It was only his clever- ness. making the most oi what he had learned through experience, that made it possible for him to hold his own lor even a little while. Everybody knows that. lor 9. lot ol lolks seem to forget it, Knowlcdgr: gained through experience often is of more value than all other things combined.

One other thing was helping Johnny too. the very thing that had gotten him into this light- jealousy. He suspected that Polly Chuck was looking on and that if this good looking young stranger should win this light he might also win her admiration, and admir- ation is sometimes mistaken for love. ll he lost the light he might also lose her. Just the thought of that gave him new courage and strength.

Polly Chuck was looking on. She had seen Johnny Chuck light lor her in other springs after the long winter sleep when others had tried to woo her away. so perhaps down in her heart she was all the time hoping that Johnny would win this light, But she oouldn‘t help admix- ing the stranger. .1-le was so young. so good looking. o big. so strong, so quick, so full of courage, ' she just couldn't keep her eyes off him, she -wondered where he had come from. andvit he had known that she was living in the neighborhood. she knew that Johnny Chuck was lighting lor her. She liked, to think that the stranger was doing the same thing. It was exciting. what a light! she didn't really know how she wanted it to end. .Anyway that is what she thought as she «watch-

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