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A CALAMITOUS LEAD

'Ihe lead that West chose for "lllety" in the iollowing cue cost by side no lewer than lour tricks.

North dale; Both sides vulnerable. B 'Ax-)3 THE UNWORBIED ONES For peace of mind 'tis sometimes 5 A10 4 R Q J W” . vqiuog N .8 Whagulles ahead none eer can 3:301: WSE :35” -Old Mother Nature. C-73 Thunderer the Grouse and Mrs. ::75h3 Grouse still had a number or their grown children with thenl. The .1032 ' lamlly can come through the sea- GKHH son of dreadful guns with the loss The hiddingf or only three. The slit children. now NM... 3..., 50"", wag grown as big as their parents. tell 1. pa," 1. Dblc. completely grown-up in every way. Pu. pk” pu. They felt that they knew how to

T take care of themselves and really i didn't need any advice lrum any- Discussirig the hand later. East om. said. that he had been tempted to bid at spade over North: one heart, and he had congratulated himself on his own ”self-restraint" when he heard south bid the spade. (Ob- viously, no great sell-restraint was involved G East was substantially ohort at I sound overcall.)

North. !or his part. said that he had considered bidding two dia- monds over West's double. but ill had seemed best to await devel- opments. For one thing. he could not pessimisticnlly assume that East would pass the double for a peli- !"-.V: (or another. it East did, South might well be; able to take care of 1im5ell'. '

Actually. of course. South was ill the greatest dander when he elect- ed to stand pal at one spade doubl- ed. but simply because West lost an- nutgtandjng gppgytunlty on the It was good to feel warm aid opening lgad, south ,1-yd Very well sale with nothing to worry about. West opened the heart queen. Dum- "V m)'s ace won and South discarded This night four of them were a diamond on the heart king. lie down in the snow while W0 MW then ruffed a heart. ilnessed to tllei”m?'GT'-"GGT , Ti j diamond queen. ruffed dummylslhelplessly following suit. Thus,

South had seven tricks home, lul-

last heart. went back to the . , g dinmond we and ruffed R dmmondliilling the contract, beiore he sul.

.. e . s ., . vrendered the lead. ..; ""5 Mm” t;e(,j:ff:1d....erS;xele Now observe what would harl-

llappehed ll West had laid down the ace and ten or trumps as ho so decidedly should have done. East would overtake the ten and draw all of South's trumps, then lead a club. From that point. merely by llplaying with reasonable skill the ldeienders would iind it easy to 1hold declarer to two heart tricks land one diamond. and so would collect an 1100-point penaltyl

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, up in I tree with Thunderer and

d under the snow for a short dis-

Mrl. Grouse. The tour down under the snow didnt have 1 single worry. The snow was deep. Just before dark the tour had plunged down into it. one alter the other.. The snow had lallen bscl: in with holes they had made plunging in. They had worked their way down. until they had reached the ground. There they had made themselves comfortable, and tucking their heads under their wings Xlxd gone" toaleep. Never since they d start- ed out into the Great World had they ielt saier than they did down there buried in the snow. No hun- gry enemy could find them there. Each. hen he or she got down to thevground, had worked nlonlz

tance. Then should a hungry en- emy find where they had plunged into the snow, and dig down, it would be in vain. They would be far enough away irom the holes Jnade when plunging in. so that they would have plenty of time to burst out of the snow, and take to their pnings.

4 The black shadows came creeping ';lll through the Green Forest, and .wrapped it in darkness. But (or the whiteness oi the snow it would have been ve:y dark because neith- ler Mistress Moon nor a. single one or the twinkling little stars, were anywhere to be seen. Clouds were lshuttlng them away. But the four young grouse down under the snow didn't know this. They had gone to bed before the black shadows:

had drawn the curtain of darkness; .0 and at that time there had been "a

low clouds in the sky. So, although. Mrs. Grouse had warned them of. uhzlt could happen, and that she, had a feeling it might happril, theyl were unworried. It was fun to. plunge down into thetsnow as theyl did. It was warm down there. Even sllnlild rough Brother NOTlli'Allld come around and blow his hardest. his cold breath would not touch: them. It was good to feel warm and safe, with nothing at all to worry about. so. they didn't worry

l Meanwhile the two ymlniz clouscl up in the tree with rather andl illnllier were almost sorry that llle::-. had not decided to spend the ntglit ' dowll in the snow. It was very dll-l lcrcnt up there in that tree. They; .could hear I-Iooty the Owl sounding his hunting, call, and every time

I they heard it. they 8hlVPrEd. It wasl - ' in frightful sort of sound. It. kepllF'ne Paper H'gh.r

lthem awake. The unworried ones :down under the snow couldn't hear Hooty. They couldn't hear any sound. so there was noth.ng to keep: them awake. nothing (or them tol worry about. It wasnt too Eatel even now. They were tempted to? plunge down in the snow, and join: their brothers and sisters. But they didn't do it. HAUNTED HOUSE BORLEY. England (CP) - Re- puted Britain's most haunted house. the rectory of this Suffolk town will be checked by a scien-l tific team. Eight men will use lapel recorders, radar detectors, photo- electric cells and infra-red cani- eras in an attempt to detect spooks.

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the least little bit, Arsen ult: 2. Edward Rlchardi 3.

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Grade IX.-l. Mary Gallant: '1. '

Fauetina Gallant: 3. Sheldon hard. Grndo VIII.-1. mt: Gallant: 2. Luetta Gallant. Grade VII:-1. 3010!! Smith: 2. nnmeline Gallant; s 8. I-lucid- Gallant; 1. Earl Proctor. Grlde V.-1. Louis Proctor; 2. Ed- ward Gallant. Grade IV.-I. acorn Proctor; 2. Shirley Mathelon. Grade 111.-A-1. Wilfred Smith: 2. Pran- cia 'Gollont. Grode Ill.-D.-l. Roy Proctor; 2. Pauline Gallout. Grade m.-o-1. Voids smith: 1 lion Marie Gellent, Grede II.-1. Marg- u-at smith; 2. Heather Matheeon: -3. Pirmin Gallant. Grade I.-A-1. willred Gallant; 2. Ralph Proctor. Gndle I.-B-1. Garth Bullntn: 2. Billy Gallant and Patrick Gallant. (equIl.)

Highest average in Senior Grades -Helen smith 00'7". Highest average in Junior Grades-Velde. Smith. 3896. Perfect nttendlnce - Hllln Smith, Wilfred smith. Voids Smith and Margaret smith. '

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TIGNIBH HIGH SCHOOL ' December Report:

Grade xu (Over 80 per cent) - 1, Beverlcy Howard; (over 15 per cent) -- 1. Vincent .DuRocheI: 2. Hazel Murphy; 8. Geraldine. Handrahan. (Over 70 per cent) - 1. Mary Rix.

Grade XI - (Over 80 per cent) E1. Yvonne Perry; 2. Pauline

Myd-5; 3 Auldi Arleneult. (Over '75 per ccntt - 1. Lillian Mclnnis: 2. Joan Shea. (Over '10 per ccnll - l. Edna Richard.

Grade X - l.Gerald McCarthy and Ernestine Macdonaid (equal); 2. Joan Shea; 3. Mon: I!-landrahnn. Grade IX - 1. Elm 1' Perry! 9.. Doris LeClair and Lil ' n Kennedy (equall: 3. ;Marie Shea.

Grade VIII 7 1. Clillord Martin; 2. John Richard. T

Grade VIII G 1. Lorraine Gal- lant; 2. Freda Bernard: 3. Peggy Shca. Grade VII - 1. Eileen Gavin: Ann Marie McAldot!; 3. Mary Irma Perry.

Grade VI - l Helen Conway; 2. Bruce Phce: 3. Leonard Hogan. Grade V - 1. Philip Macdoneldz Freda McPhee. Grade IV -- 1. Judy Gau- dol; 2. Billy Perry; 3. Frankie Dliucelt. Grade lV -- 1. Edward Gallant; 2. Lucy Conway; 3. Lest.-r Perry. g

Grade Ill -- l. Lorraine Phee; 2. Emmett Gavin; 3! Victor Hogan. Grade III -e l. Alban Deslloches;

Roberta LcClair: 3. Aubrey cs ches. Grade II -- 1. Joan Bernice Gallant. Grade II - 3. Elaine Myers and Bani: McKin- nnn: 2. Peggy She'll Ind Judson Maillette: 3. Catherine Fraser.

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