Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1937, Page 24

Bedtime Stories Yowler’s BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. ¥ul charity for seeming greed: 'ou never know how great the need. —Old M Mnmex Nature. VER in the Green Forest was distress. It was Yowler the Bobcat who was in distress. He was unhappy, was Yowler. He was very unhappy. Could you have talked with him he would have told you that he was starving. He would have told you that never before in all his life had he suffered so from hun- ger. This wouldn’t have been true, for he had lived through times just as hard in other Winters. You know, with most of us present suffering al- ways seems the worst suffering. But Yowler really was so hungry as to be almost desperate. Not since the ice storm left everything coated with ice had he been able to catch so much as a single Mouse, although he had e F i // NN / LR [ o HE SNIFF’ED, AND WITH THAT SNIFF HE FAIRLY QUIVERED ‘WITH DESIRE AND DESPERA- TION. hunted far and wide. Usually he does most of his hunting at night, but now he hunted by night and day. He hunted every minute he wasn't asleep, and he didn’t sleep very much. ‘Yowler prowled along the shore of the pond of Paddy the Beaver. He kept under cover, for although there was no one around of whom he need be afraid, and it wasn't likely that any one whom he might like to catech was around there to see him, it has 80 long been his habit to sneak about under cover that he did it now. Yow- ler doesn’t like to come out in the open. Paddy’s Pond lay smooth and white. It first had been covered with ice. This has been given a blanket of snow. Then had come the ice storm to form a hard crust. A short dis- Winning Torment. tance out from the opposite shore a white mound rose from the otherwise smooth surface. Yowler knew wnat it was. It was the house of Paddy the Beaver. Yowler stared across at it. Many times in the Summer he had wished that he could get out to that house, but couldn't without swim- ming, and Yowler does not like the water out there. He knew that noth- ing was to be gained by so doing, but somehow the desire to examine that house, to climb up on the root and see if there was the least possible chance to tear it open, was noi to be resisted. Now he could just as well have crossed the pond directly to that house. Of course. There was nothing to, prevent. But that isn’t Yowler's way. Instead of going straight across the pond, the shortest way, Yowler went around, all the time keeping under cover. When he reached Paddy’s dam he hesitated a few minutes. Then he sneaked across hurriedly. On the other side he kept under cover until he was opposite Paddy's house. There for some time he crouched, staring at that house, undecided what to do. ‘You see, he did hate to go out in the open as he would have to do to visit that house. At last he made up his mind. He looked this way. He looked that way. No one was in sight. He ran swiftly over to that house. He circled it, looking for a place to climb up on the roof. All his movements were stealthy, for it is Yowler’s nature to be stealthy, even when there is no need for stealth. He made a long leap up. His claws, sharp as they were, failed to hold on that hard crust and he slipped back. The next time he tried he was suc- cessful. He found the ends of some projecting sticks, and these gave him & foothold so that he was able to scramble up. He glared hastily in all directions. Then he forgot everything but his great hunger. He sniffed, and witn that sniff he fairly quivered with de- sire and desperation. You see, with that sniff his nostrils were filled with the warm scent of Beaver. It was ‘warm and strong. It came up tnrough tiny holes in the snow on top of that roof. Those tiny holes were melted by the warm air from inside Paddy's house. Do you wonder that Yowler quivered all over? Here was he, starv- ing, and right beneath him, with ouly the thickness of the roof between them, was a dinner such as he had not had in many weeks. With the scent of those Beavers in his nose he f. Contract BY THE FOUR ACES. (David Burnstine. Merwin D. Maler. Oswald Jacoby and Howard Schenken, world's leading team-of-four. inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.) Resourceful Response. N RECENT years we have intro- duced two conventions for re- sponding to a two-bid, intended Yo show strong distributional hands without. high cards. The first conwmmtion is used when responder hol® ™o ace or king, but has fine trum@ upport; the second when re- spondé holds a seven-card suit to the king-jack-ten or queen-jack-ten and no other high cards. In the first instance responder jumps his part- ner to four; in the second instance responder bids one more than neces- sary in his own suit. Recently Harold Colvin of New York had a hand that not only answered both descriptions, but also was improved by the fact that he was void in a certain suit. South, dealer. Both sides vulnerable, Mr. Colvin -~ Q J109765 ¥J653 South opened the bidding with two hearts. With a high-card value of 14 and nine apparent top tricks, the two-bid is fully justified. West, of eourse, passed, and now Mr. Colvin, after going into a long huddle, finally decided that his hand showed such great slam possibilities that it be- hooved him to make a positive re- sponse. Accordingly, he bid two spades. South rebid to three hearts, and now Mr. Colvin raised to four, feeling that his partner would make one other bid. Sure enough, South bid five clubs (a control-showing bid), whereupon Mr. Colvin bid five dia- monds, showing his first-round con- trol of that suit. South now jumped to seven hearts, which was, of course, & laydown. ‘We especially wish to commend this bidding to our readers as an example of resourcefulness with a freak hand. If Mr. Colvin had made sn immediate Tesponse of either four spades or four hearts, his partner would undoubtedly have felt that there were two losing diamond tricks, and would have passed, whereupon not even a small slam would have been bid. The Four Aces will be pleased to answer letters from readers if a stamped (3-cent). self-addressed envelope is inclosed ~with each communication. If you desire the pocket outline of the Four Aces' system of contract bridge send, with your request, a stamped (3-cent). self-addressed. large size envelope to the Four Aces, Inc. 13 West_Forty-second street. New ‘York City. and you will receive an outline Withoub The next article in this ar Wednes: Brain Twizzlers any charge. series will BY PROF. J. D. FLINT. Hm!: is a modified form of Twizzler Burton’s story about murder in broad daylight! And on a big city street, too. The murderer calmly walked up to a policeman and surrendered himself, saying that he had just shot a man. 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