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By Thornton W. Burgess

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winter is hard and the snow piles deeper and deeper so that the Deer folk can no longer wade through it, they would starve to death if they had no yard of their own making. It the yard is too small to supply enough food to last until the Deer can once more move freely, some of them are likely to starve to death. or to be- come so weak that they cannot escape from hungry enemies. So it is very. very necessary that the yard shall be big enough.

No one knew this better than did Mrs. Lixhtfoot. She had once

THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN KING or THEVROYAL MOUNTED L

Blsckiy often wlxhes he could get a meal as easily as you do. It is

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IANUARY 19, 1952

at all was by plunging through . -.- the snow by jumping instead of yhngggshhnaalyfgflgighjgz f0H0Winl hand- A foolish wish is wasted thought. walking. That was very tiresome. leinmd sh'e would Mvhl, (Oriel And oft with discontent is fraught. too tiresome foi- one to go far 50 Mrs Llghllool had lhlh yeah smllh dealer. ..oid Mother Nature. Rho twll: yoluhnz Elle? lieddletamed looked "tar and wide to find a sour aides vulnerable. iswen ey a no ego Lightfoot the Deer. Mrs. Light. on by themselves and llhd 3 hel- Exlcewllfeige lhgebcxhsesuvgstgogi OJ 10 3 3

loot and the twins. now well ter place. When they finally got enough ol ll. Then when the wow '1075s.

grown, were in their winter yard back to the yard. they were al- chm, and they stalled lo lmmhlh -l .A1o '

in the Green Forest. Had you seen most too tired to move. paths lhl, way and ll,” way W ' ,, ' 'hQ8i 7 WWW; IAlD...OKAY, it. and never before seen a Deer At this time of year the ten- hlhhe lhe Vml. she made sure lhhl 55," N .Q J 9 3 llgywholywl-mluhyh M'5TEFoV0U'3E50NNA yard, you probably wouldn't have der twigs with next year's 1eal- mg yard ghould be blg ulough for . K 3 4 , F ' 4 3 AIE'PARKIN'IN FRONTA an A3-'c'A" called it a yard at all. It was buds on trees and bushes were Lhg browse lo last, howevel. long .K 1 lv d 9 on GRAND CINTIAL... ' 5lmPi.Y 5 big place trampled out about the only food the Deer the wlnlel. mlghl, be hnd the deep CA Kh S :33 . DONWCHA 555

an the deep snow that made it could find. This sort of food is Show ml. ”5 AKQNH THAT elm...

possible for the Deer to move a- called browse. and those who live Al llrsl the young De" had not .A 6 :-

'bout. and get the food they must on it are called browsers. A deer minded sllwlhg lh that yard. Bull :l.l3

thave. Outside that yard the snow yard is made where there is good as the days went bl. they grew

was too deep for even big Light- browsing. Of course. if a winter med ol movlng aboufflh me same -l I 6 C55

(foot to get about much. There is mild and there is little snow, old lmlhsl M llm may dldn-l The biddinr: 5';,,?fl

9. yard is not needed. But if a South West North East ' '

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have to even reach to get the browse they needed: there was plenty of it low enough for them to get easily without reaching. But after awhile all this was eaten. They had to reach higher and higher. It wasn't as easy to get enough to eat as it had been. One morning Blacky the Crow flew over. He was on his way to look for his breakfast. The two Deer watched him out of slglifh One of the young Deer sighed heavily. "lt must be wonderful to fly." said he. "I wish I had wings. Yes, sir, I wish I had wings. That fel- low doesn't have to worry. about deep snow. He can go where he wants to when he wants to. The snow doesn't bother him. Yes. sir. I wish I had wings. I wouldn't stay here a minute, That Blacky has it

pretty easy these days. I wish we had it as easy."

Mother happened to be standing very near. but hidden from the two young Deer by a low-growing hemlock tree. Now she suddenly appeared. "So you wish you had wings and had it as easy . as Blacky the Crow? That is a fool- ish wish. I cannot think of is more foolish wish. What would you say if I should tell you that probably

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west opened the club king, and East started an echo with the eight. West then cashed the club ace and continued with a third round to let East kill dummy'a queen by ruffing. East duly ruf- fed. and South over-ruffed.

Now. before drawing trumps. South laid down the ace of hearts. simply on the chance that he would later be able to trap West. The latter, however, being an expert. looked at this unulull play with dark suspicion! Why should South be cashing side aces before touching trumps? West saw the danger of keeping the heart king blank and inviting a throw- ln play, so he boldly unblocked the king on the ace.

South was 9. little disappointed at this turn of events. but he drew trumps in two leads and then excited with his last heart. East took the trick and led an- other round of hearts, which South ruffed.

Since West had escaped the throw-in play. South now had to solve the diamond situation for himself. Presumably, West had one of the missing honors. if not both-but who had the nine-spot? lf West, then South could lead to- ward dummy and put in the eight: but if East had the diamond nine, the play of the eight would be fatal.

It was a difficult guess. but South decided that since East wag marked with four diamonds against West's three. there was greater chance that East had the diamond nine. On that analysis. South led to dummy's diamond ten, and after East had taken the trick with the queen, he was helpless. A heart return permitt- ing a ruff-and-discard was pat- cntly hopeless, so East led back a

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