Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1936, Page 32

Bedtime Stories Wise Old Honker. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Experience doth wisdom give ive t live, 'WISE bird is Honker the Goose. There is none with a greater amour.. of wisdom. Were it not that he is wise with the wisdom of long experience, he would not have been able to lead his flock from the Sunny South to the Far North and back each year for so long & time. i Experience is a wonderful teacher, perhaps the greatest of all teachers. You will find this true wherever you 0. But there are those whom even experience cannot teach. Especially is this true ameng the people who wear feathers and fur. Always they are young, these people who cannot or do not learn from experience. You see, they do not live to grow old. No, sir, they do not live to grow old. When- ever you see one of the people of the | Green Forest or the Green Meadows who is no longer young you may know that here is one wise in the matters that he or she should know, and that this wisdom has been ob- tained from experience. Honker and his flock were resting | for a few days in the pond of Paddy the Beaver in the Green Forest. One ! of his flock, a young Goose making | his first journey to the Sunny South, bhad just lost a mouthful of tail feathers. They were in the mouth of Old Man Coyote. The wonder was that the young Goose himself was not there, instead of merely those feathers. It was the narrowest escape and the worst fright that young Goose had had in his short life. The flock was now in the middle of the pond, staring at the place on the shore where Old Man Coyote had dis- appeared. Honker swam over to the frightened young Goose and the latter wanted to get out of sight. but couldnt. It seemed to him that Honker was look- ing right through him. “Well," hissed Honker, “what have you learned?” | The young Goose hung his head. | *“I—I—I—" he stammered and then stopped. “Well?” prompted Honker. “I've learned that it isn't safe ever 1o go close to shore,” replied the young Goose. | Honker shook his head. “I feared as much,” said he, and he looked at all the young Geese, that they mngm‘ know that he was talking to them as | well. “T feared as much. You haven't learned the proper thing at all. It would be foolish never to go close to shore. You would go hungry many | times if you didn't. You will want to &0 out on shore often, and you should. | There will be times in your long | Journeys when you will find good feeding in flelds far from water. The | | something else altogether. Shortly we | “WELL,"” HISSED HONKER, “WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED?" lesson you should have learned ui will leave this pond, and I fear you are one who will never see it again.”| Honker shook his head. “No, sir, you never will see it again, I am afraid.” | The young Goose looked startled. | So did some of his companions. “Why | are you afraid he never will see it again?” asked one of them. { “Because,” replied Honker, “thh: time he lost some feathers, yet learned nothing. This means that there will almost surely be a mnext time, and | then it very likely will be his life, not just some feathers, that he will loose. | He was careless. All of you were care- less. None of you discovered Old Man | Coyote until it was almost too late. | You forgot. You forgot one of the most important things in the life of a Goose. You forgot to be on guard. You forgot to waich for danger. You thought that because I was out on shore there was nothing to watch out for. You were 50 interested in listen- ing to what I was saying to Flathorns the Moose that you could think of | nothing else. So you were careless, I ‘was out on shore, but Old Man Coyote made no attempt to catch me. Do you know why?"” “I guess he was afraid t0,” said one of the flock. “Your guess is wrong,” replied Honker tartly. “He didn't try because he knew that it would be useless; he | kuew that I would see him in time; | he could see that I was watching, was on guard, every instant. The wise, having once learned, never forget. The wise never make the same mistake twice. It always is important to know what to do, but often it is even more important to know what not to do. | Your mother and I learned that when all the flock but ourselves were killed by the terrible guns.” “Tell us what you did then," begged one of the young Geese. | (Copyright, 1936,) ’ Winning Contract BY THE FOUR ACES, (Davia Burn‘lllna. Merwin D Maler. Oswald Jacoby and Howard Schenken, world's | eading team-of-four. inventors of 'he system that has beaten every other systel Vanderbilt Cup Hand. N ONE of the interesting hands of the recent Vander- bilt Cup tournament, consid- ered the blue ribbon event of | team-of-four matches, B. Jay Becker | of Philadelphia. playing with Theo-; dore Lightner of New York, made a neat three-no-trump contract. North, Dealer. Neither side vulnerable, Mr. Lightner 5 YAK9S Y . - Mr. Becker. The bidding: Worth East 19 Pass 24 Pass 2NT Pass 3NT Pass Pass Pass Mr. Becker's bidding was very good. He first responded with one no-trump with a fairly good hand, because he did not think his holding warranted A two-diamond response. Then, when Mr. Lightner rebid, he showed his additional values by rebidding to two | no-trump, whereupon Mr, Lightner | raised him to game. | ‘When West opened the ten of clube, | Mr. Becker counted eight cold tricks. He knew that as s0on as the oppon- | ents obtained the lead, they could| run off four diamond tricks lnd.. South West 1NT Pass hoping they would do so, he imme- diately led a small diamond from his hand. East won with the ten and shifted to the jack of spades. Mr.| Becker had no recourse but to try | to gain the ninth trick himself, 80| he led the jack of hearts from his | hand and played small from gummy. | When East won with the queen, he | decided that Mr. Becker's diamond | play looked like an attempt to stop the defense from playing that suit, 20 he therefore played a diamond, but unfortunately, it was the ace, Photograph for Christmas Gifts $ No Appointment Necessary o Photo -Studio 'm in existence.) i which effectually blocked the suit. East then shifted back to spades, and the trick was taken by dummy's ace. | Mr. Becker now counted West's hand. It was obvious that he held no more than three spades or three diamonds originally, els¢é he would have opened one of those suits. By playing the king of clubs, then back to his ace, Mr. Becker ascertained that West held only three clubs. There- | fore he was obviously long in hearts. | Mr. Becker now led his last heart and flnessed dummy’s eight-spot, which, of course, held, enabling him to make his contract with an over- trick. ! (Copyright, 1936, The Four Aces will be pleased 10 answer letters from readers if a stamped (3-cent), self-addressed envelope is inciosed with each . eommunication If you desire the pocket outline of The Four Aces’ system of “contract_bridge. with your re- quest. & stamped self-addressed large size envelope to the Four Aces. Inc 130 West Fortv-second stree.. New York City. and you will receive an outline without any charge. The next article in this series will appear Wednesday. . Sonnysayings © 1936, Kiag Parscen Spadent, boc . World cights rowrved Me an’ Baby has put on our smilin’ Christmas faces! Mine is beginnin’ | t’ get sort ob stiff on me! 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They love to go places by trotting along briskly, many sportsmen where the wild herds | and if frightened, break into a gal- lop. At this time they lower their heads, raise their tails, puff and snort, as off they dash. When you see a friendly group of them together, except during the courting season, you will find the mothers with the children and grand- children. The fathers are a clan- nish lot at this time, and often like to seek lonely spots where they ap- parently go into meditation—or some- thing very much like it, in oryx fashion. The oryx have the misfortune to have herns that, once broken or iost, are not replaced by new growth. Sometimes, when the battle waxes strong with an enemy or rival, one or both of the horns are broken off at the base. This, indeed, is a calamity. One-horned oryx have been seen by | roam. It is believed now that some one must have seen a one-horned oryx, and recounting what he had seen, the unicorn was brought to life. 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