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THE APAIETMENT TREE

Most, turtunate and blessed is he Who w.Lh all neighbors can agree. -Old Mother Nature.

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Over In the Green Forest was 1 tall dead tree. It had been dead a long time. so long that most of the limbs had been bmken oil and most of the bark had fallen from the trunk. There were many holes in that tree. Some had been there so long that no one could remember when they were made. 0! rour,se they were the work oi the Woodpecker iolk. One

at them and perhaps more had been made by Downy Woodpeck- er. ilis miisiii Hairy had made others. These were a little big- ger. but not much. You know Ha;i-y IS .1 little bigger than his COU5..'l.

That ii-cc hiid been used year after y.nr by the Woodpecker folk. It uas the kind of a tree

they iovczi to cut homes in. The too hard, nor yet too suit; the tree was dead but not decayed. So year after year new homes had been cut in it, for the woodpeckers prefer an old home to a new one. Thus that tree had become what we might call an apartment tree.

Tliese apartments had been used by other folk from time to time. Skimmer the Tree Swallow and his pretty mate had lived there. You know they have very small bills, and cannot cut out homes in a tree for themselves. Tommy Tit the Chickadee and Mrs. Tom-

my had lived there. They liked best the houses that Downy had made. because these had the

smallest dooirways. Halfway up the tree was a. big hole. Mr.-. Yellowwing the Flicker, with the help oi Yellowwing, had cut that

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A MA'l'l'EIl OF CARD-PLACIFGI

The shutout bid made by west in the following deal would have been all an expert declarer need; ed for correct card-plnciuu.

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Q 9 g 4 Q 10 s a 9 7 5 N 5 2 Q K Q J9 W E C Q 10 9 3 8 4 3 2 2 4.8 :i S 5 1o . Q5 4143 C K 8 go . QA Q J 10 7 G I E The bidding: f West Nona lhat south ; peter pausfd at the root oi its 40 DbIe- Flu GA iundccided which wn.V iv” 20- :”' 7h P”. P'" .-.jv-w-----A" '- - 'mn”'Tl 33' d'l 'tld '”d bi" li)i?nei'il;.n'1ll1i:1 lllL'Xih;l'Cillfabpe()0i'(:' 111,; Wf-W Said later thin he y had . 'Screeclt Owl had taken posscss- almost. sacrificed with I! bid oft ion of it. One year some aipart-ISFVCH diamonds. but he had imcms had 1390', cmpiy 01 tea-I ielt there might. be A chance to

mend mums. That year Cha1-; beat the seven-ciu-b contract, and terer the Red Sqtili'i'el had us8d:S0 he W85 1109- resigned 10 Hiking two apartments as stroerooms for; it huge SN- his winter supply of acorns midi When it came to choosing the nuts. opening lead. West decided that

Peter Rabbit knew all aooutl I club lead was 110981055 End 50 that apartment tree, or thought he (not too wisely) elected to open did. He omen passed it when helliis singleton spade. South had It was visiting in the Green 1-'orcst.1D1'0ll.V E0051 Idea W31. H W35 3

H5 almost a1m.d)'s looked up. atlsinglcton, but he didn't know. .it to see it any one was looking 'out. This winter he had seen no One moonlight night Peter had one looking out of any at those. watched Timmy the Flying doorways. One morning when he Squirrel and a lot of his relatives had overstayed in the Green For- and neighbors having a wonder- est. and didn't dare go home rui time, gliding this way and across the Green Meadows to they that way from -the top of the dear Old Btxiai--jintcii in liroad;t.aliest, trees on one side of a big. daylight, he had seen Kiliy thcfopening among them( to tree on Sparrow Hawk si I ing on the jthe other side. They were frolick- very top of that apartment lre('.'ing and having 3 wonderful time It hadn't occurred to him that and it wns fun to watch them. Killy might be living there. HcyOnce Hooty the Owl came that had decided that the

old tree way, and all the merry little folk disappeared. When he was out at sight all were back again. But

was no longer used by anybody except to perch on occasionally.

THE- GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN y ' I KING or THE ROYAL MOUNTED

what. to do about it. He hat: on six of his seven trumps. dI.scI.rd- ing two diamonds and A heart Ii-om dummy. but then he could see no hope other than the heart finesse. East. joyiully smothered the heart jack with the qucan, and that was that.

It is only fair to admit that South did not have an easy pm- biem. but in the knowledge thlt West. had ll great many diamonds along with the two clubs he hld shown. South should have !lgur- ed that the major suits were divided just about as they were. That being so. success could be gained as iollows:

South draws trumps. crashes the

' diamond ace. and then ms the

rest or his trumps. keeping the blank spade king and the A-J-6 of hearts in dummy. East is squeezed. If he blanks his spade queen. south leads to the king. returns to-the heart king Ind cashcs the Sipade seven; it Eut keeps less than three hea1'ts,South runs the heart suit.

all good things must come to an

end just as must all bad thtnsl Enough is enough. So that play- time ended as unexpectedly an it had began. One moment the air was full or merry llttll Squirrels glidillg in all directions: the next moment not a squirrel was to be seen anywhere.

Pcter waited and waited, but his waiting was in vain. You let. for the time being, Timmy and his iiiends had had enough of play. ing. Finally Peter gave up. decid- ing that those Squirrels were not coming back. He went on his way in the moonlight to look for his cousin, Jumper the Hare. HI wondered where all those Squir- rels lived and it they had all gone home, but he hadn't the least idea where to look for them.

By and by he came to the sport- ment tree. It stood out by itself in the moonlight. Peter paused at the foot of it undecided which way to go. "Perhaps cousin Jumper will hear me it I thud." thought Peter, and did that. Almost at once a little gray face appeared in almost every one of the door- wa.V5 in the old apartment tree. Peter didn't see them. Presently he went on his way. still wonder- ing where Timmy and his mend: lived.

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