Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1935, Page 26

THE EVENING Bedtime Slimlegs Goes BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. | !;:m every one will fAni I ween, [ s %o have & change of s injanod —Mrs. Lightfoot the Dear. | he felt about it. You know, whenever we go to a strange place we have the feeling that we are edventuring. His mother and his | father didn’t look at it that way at all. You see, they were not going to new end unfamiliar scenes. They had made just such trips in the past. It all came about through a report that| over at the foot of the Big Mountain | was a grove of beech trees that were | bearing heavily. Most of the beech-| nuts under the trees there in the| Green Forest on the farm of Farmer LIMLEGS was going adventur- S ing. At least that is the way S&)Eies Adventuring. they had heard. There were beech- nuts aplenty, and there were many there to feast on them. There were other Deer there, but to these Light- foot paid no attention, nor did they pey any attention to him. The nights were sharp and frosty. They grew longer, and, of course, the days grew shorter. Most of the leaves | were off the trees now. The nuts were becoming scarce. Slimlegs noticed that often on these days his mother seemed uneasy. Frequently she would stand, looking and listening, as if for something she expected to hear or see. Sometimes he saw his father doing the Sonnysayings (o ==y same thing. Once he heard his mother | N say to Lightfoot: “Do you thing it is safe to stay any longer, my dear?” “I think we can stay a few days, | anyway.” replied Lightfoot. “It would | | | | | be just too bad to leave while there are any of these sweet little beechnuts to manners,” they says. There may not be any body mnotice my little finger an’ my | Burchell's white rhinoceros. When | be found. danger here, anyway.” So they continued to stay and Slim- legs seldom thought of his former home in the Green Forest. He liked this place at the foot of the Great Mountain. He liked to look up at the | latter. He liked the thickets and the | tangles of fallen trees. There were | wonderful hiding places. It wa§ easy to slip out of sight of any one. He really couldn’t see any real reason for | going back to the Green Forest, and | | w e “I DONT SEE HOW IT CAN BE.” REPLIED SLIMLEGS STUB- BORNLY. Brown had by this time been picked up. “We'll go over to the foot of the Great Mountain,” said Lightfoot to Mrs. Lightfoot, when they heard about the beechnuts over there. Mrs. Lightfoot nodded her agree- ment. “A change of scene will be good for us,” said she. “Then, too, it is well that Slimlegs should learn| something of the country -over there. Some time he may have to leave this part of the Green Forest, and when he does he should know where he can go.” | “Very true,” replied Lightfoot. *The youngster needs all the knowldege he can get.” So that very evening they began a feisurely journey toward the foot of the Great Mountain. There was no need for hurry. There was plenty to eat on the way. So with Lightfoot in the lead they wandered away from| the Green Forest that was familiar to| Slimlegs and deeper into the Great| Woods, as they made their way toward the foot of the Great Mountain. So at last they came to where the beech trees grew, and they found it was as Contract BY P. HAL SIMS. Bottom in Duplicate. 'ODAY we have two golden lessons— | the wisdom of silence and the misapprehension that, because your | partner goes on bidding after an in- | formatory double, he necessarily has | anything that will be of value to your hand. South Dealer. v J-9-5-4-3-2 E ¢Q-10-7-6 | replied his mother. he said so. “You don't understand, my dear,” “You just don't understand. It is safer in the Green Forest where you were born.” “I don’t see how it can be,” replied Slimlegs stubbornly. “There are good hiding places there, but there are bet- ter ones here.” Mrs. Lightfoot shook her head. “You 't understand,” said she again “The hunting season is almost here | Over in the Green Forest, where we came from. the hunters are not al- lowed, but here they are. There we will be reasonably safe, but there is no knowing what may happen to any of us here.” “Pooh!” retorted Slimlegs. “I'm not afraid. As long as my father is around I'm not afraid.” Mrs. Lightfoot shook her head sadly. “Even your father would be afraid if the hunters came.” said she. But this was something that Slim- legs couldn't imagine and didn't be- lieve. (Copyright. 1935.) This Wesld BY ANNE CAMPBELL. | This lovely world holds so much | happiness The sunset hangs a promise in the skies. The tranquil stars shine out at night to bless The lonely with a dream of Para- dise. Sometimes the beauty of the golden day Floods over every hedge and apple bough. Death seems a shadow very far away, As if we two were safe in Heaven now. (Copyright, 1935.) Both sides vulnerable. If North and South didn't get into trouble on this hand, East and West did. South naturally bid one spade, end a sound spade bid he had, too. After that the bidding varied. Those ‘West players, who had cut their eye- | teeth, passed a spade like greased lightning. North bid one no trump ! and South mentioned his other suit. | Here a little point came up. West | passed again, and some Norths gave a preference bid of two spades instead | of passing two hearts. They argued that a five-two suit is much better | than a four-three suit, but without going into a long and involved dis- cussion, I am going to state simply that I pick a four-three suit every time. West has a chance to double two spades, and he will mot fail to seize that chance, but he must lie low when South mentions hearts, and it is very doubtful if East will have | nerve enough to double. As proof of | the pudding, a number of teams played | the hand at two hearts undoubled. | At a few tables, however, Calamity | Bouth wreaked vengeance for the fate | that was overtaking the other players | in his position. West bid over one | spade. West doubled. East bid two | hearts. South passed happily. West | bid two spades, East liked that bid | even less than West liked his bid, so he tried three diamonds. And then West unfurled a bid that was a corker. He bid three no trumps. North was there first. He doubled. East bid four hearts. South took a crack at it. The final contract was five diamonds, dou- bled, down five. The high lights of the defense are Bouth’s diamond opening and North'’s diamond return. The defense raked in three hearts, two diamcnds, a spade and a club. 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