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Great. big Mother Bear was on the roof of the' sugar house among the maple trees over in the Green Forest. There was a hole in that root just big enough for her to put hcr head through. She knew that down inside were her two little imps or iniscmel whom she had lcft up in a tall tree when she went to look for her breakfast. The inside of that sugar house was a sight. It look- vd as if there might have been a terrible fiszht in there which had upset. everything that could be iipsct, and knocked down every- thing that could be knocked down. Did that mean that an enemy had been in there after her precious baibies?

. Just then thcrc uas a cry down inside. it was fl cry of pain. Then anothcr small voice began to whimpcr. Xvas someone hurt- ing her precious ones? The hair along her shoulders and back of her neck stood on cnd. She growl ed. An uglier sounding growl

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F! he had been looking at all the hands, West could have open- ed with a diamond and in that way h&lll'C(t his side of three tricks - a diamond. I club and a heart. or the equivalent -- but West was not that clairvoyant; he made the far safer lead of his heart ten. Ea-.-I. won with the Queen and continued the suit. Declarcr ruffcrl uith the ace of trumps. to provide against any ('-0n'?'1HlECnic.V: thcn he laid down! the king of trumps.

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never was heard. Then she be- gan to tear frantically at the edge of that hole trying to make it larger. She hooked her great claws into the edge and began to pull with all her might. She is big and she is very strong. The boards in that roof were old and weak. She ripped a couple up. That hole was big enough for her to get through by squeezing a little. She squeezed. She didnil.

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Shc squeezed through and drop- ped down inside. She was ready to tear to pieces whoever was making her darlings cry out with pain. Yes, sir, she was ready to tear to pieces whocvc-r she might find causinig thusc cubs to whiin-

pcr and cry. She Li'l(ll1'l. i'.r..i anyone doing ariylliiiig of tile kind. Hugging

each other, the cubs were curled up on the bunk. Of course they were awake now. Thciy had heard mother tearing that root open, but they had not known who it was. This had frightened them even more. They were whimper- ing and crying, partly from fright and partly from pains in their little round tummics which were swelled up like two little bal- loons. That was because they had eaten too much maple syrup and too much maple sugar. .

Mother rusiicd over to them. She smelled them all over. which is a Mother Bc:.r's way or find- ing out. if anytlrir.-g is wrong with her babies. The two little imps were glad to see their mother and at the same time they were not glad. They had disobeyed her and they knew that they were like- ly to be punished. Mother Bear is one who believes in punish- ment when she has been dis

course, be on side, but, with East doing all the bidding for his side, that was unlikely, and in any event a far better play was avail- able to South. lle led a low dia- mond toward dummy, hoping to be able to put in the eight and force East into the load; then any return by East would give South the rest of the tricks. A diamond return to dumniy's tenace would let. South discard his club; and 3 heart return by East would also permit the club discard, with ruffing.

All this. however. was depen- dent on Wa:t's cooperation. and West was not a "kind" player! When South led the diamond to- ward thc board, Wcst did not automatically toss on a low card

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nation and thcn vrry deliberate- ly put u-p the diamond jack. He realized exactly what would en- sce if he played low. ic., he knew that dcclaircr was a very good playrr and that he would put in (lLllTlilll,y'S eight .f allowed to do

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obeyed. So the two little Beau expected to be spanked and of course that didn't make them feel happy. But they were not happy anyway. Their little tummies were too full of syrup and sugar. Each had I stomach-ache. So they continued to whimpcr and

cry.

Sure that nothing really seri- ous was the matter with them, Mother Bear gave her attention to trying to get. them out of there. She prowled all around in- sido that little house looking WP a way out. and not finding one. She couldn't get. out through the hole in the roof by which she had entered, because she could not climb up to it. It always is easier, very much easier to get into trou- ble than to get out of it. They were trapped.

Of all bad feelings the worst bad feeling is that of being Hal)- ped. Mother Bear lost her head, as the saying is. People who are trapped often do. She began

of her big paws and scnt ii: flying across the room. Mother Boar's paws are big and strong and She can hi; hard. That pail crashed against the wall and fell back with a great dcnt in it. She was snarlin-g and gruw1ing- NW9? had the cubs seen mother in such It state before and they wlilmpercd and cried more than. ever. Mother knocked the stovapipc down. if came down with a frightful 913” i

ter. Soot flew all over the room. It got up the noses of all of them. Mother bumped into the evapora- tor, which is a sort or 3 Hell'- pan in which the syrup is boiled. 3-Icr short temper became shorter still. She blamed the evaporator for the bump. She hit it with her stout paw. It hurt the paw. That made her madder than ever. She shoved and she pulled until the iron evaporator won-t clatterinl to the floor.

How were they going to 893 Out of there? That was the question. Tearing around and smashini things as Motiicr Bear was doing wasn't going to help them any. She had lost lier head. which means that she didn't know what. she was doing. She was trapped.

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