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By Thornton THE TWO DRUltIlVlER.S
When drum the drummers ttis to brine
The Joyous message of the spring- -eold Mmhcr Nfllllrf.
In a lone cedar tree. In a lone- snmg part or the Green Forest. 3. long cx-aw was P(il'iV?IiPF(”ll'1, That. is 3 big word for small folks, but it hag 3 very s.mplc lil(”ll"llllE that
srnoll folks can Iiiidor.-i.:IIId It means simply geuiiiz hr-Itrr, 'lllIaty lone Omw linzl lyrrn hnrl'v iur-I.
He had been shot lira" !I:Iri hcmi S0 hadly hurt that no war. my stay in that cedar tree IIII1'l "ii .IIrred wing should i:;Ive horilcri. and
of course he was all alone. lie (i1(i
have visitors. Evui-y cliiy. sonic member of the r'n-.--L: lirniiqliv litm food. Crows arr like that u-::h rum
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!Crow in the cedar tree had slept in little later than usual, he was awakened by a. sound that startled him. It was a sharp ra't-n-tat-rat- ya-tat-rat-II-tot-rat-a-tat! His eyes Eflelw open, and he hastily looked Ithis way, and that way. Who could 'be- limiting all that noise and why? At first, he couldn't tell just where the sound came from. Then hap- ipr-nlng to look up in a neighboring rtree he saw a small person dressed
;in black and white on a dead limb
high above the ground. He uoII!dn't. have noticed this small Imimri in black and white. had it not been that just as he looked. small persons head with a band or read acrws the back ot i: i)9lZlali to fly back and forth, and once more sounded that sharp, clear rat-a-'Iat-rat-a-ta,t-rat-s-tab tail That snvall'pers0n in black
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Iinotiher. They heiieve III IvclI'aI'e: imfl Wm” WM ma-kink I434 that hhm is harp. whm 19 gs mod I liaise. He was Drummer the Wood- hm only when it 5, nwdodv pecker. and he was drumlming with
'lils bill on the dead limb to which the was clinging.
Mist-YES 501403: had WV .l'Pi. "How in the world does he make "cached the Green Fours? She '.i'nS'an much noise" wondered the lone ztill on her way up from the l.:IIirl- Crow.
-7!-Always-Suninicr, and she iyns 1., WHY” y nmn mind. R was due to arrive any day All the Wm a noisy Sound. Yet somehow 3799” F””'F'" Wk Ihn Iinhaprpv lone Crow suddenly "mm"? her" A'”””" ilclt a lot better just for hearing nesengcrs would ar:'1I'c, saviiiizi mm dnmjmmgr sham and loud as 5" 3”” V35 ”””'1'" i'”””"-I'n' 3”” that rat-a-Wat was. iihere was some- :oon would be there. 'I"l'P?”-P (lifts-Ilvhgng Joyous in W Nobody could zmge” W9” "W"-"”d Wk mi” hear it and not feel better for 7”"-K 011 ah?” ”' ”'”v III-ariizq it. It contained a message.
0”" momm" i !'”:9.Yes, sir. Drummer was drumming ' tom 71 mcsage. It was a message imennt for everyone within hoar- ilng: a message that awakened yhappv thoughts. Lhougihie of love lfiild homeniakimz and.jny in living. rlt. was a. message from Mistress ispring. In a few days. she would lbc there, and she had chosen
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He was Drummer the Woodpecker,
and he was drumming with his bill
on the dead limb to which he was clinging.
i Drummer the Woodpecker to spread that memage far and wide.
The lone Crow felt better. He felt 3 lot better. He seemed to tteel better wiLh every rat-a-tat-tat. When Drummer finally flew away to loci! for another dead llmlb drum on which to beat out ifiist message again, the lone (now forgot he was lonesome. He forgot he was the Iinhappiest Grow in all the Green Forest. He continued to listen, hoping that Drummer would drum again.
Because he was listening. his keen ears picked up the sound of another drtun. It was faint, but clear, It started slowly boom-'boom- boom-boom-boom, and then went faster and faster. It seemed almost like distant thunder, but it was very different in another way. Thunder is always a. threat of a storm. It often carries with it fear. This sound carried with it no fear. It carried with it the same mes- sage the drumming of Drummer the Woodpecker had carried. It was the same message from Mistras Spring. but it was being drummed by a dirferent drummer. The lone Crow wondered who that dnimmer could be. He wished, oh. how he wished, he could fly so that he might go look for tli.-It drummer. But he couldn't fly. All he could do was sit in that tree and WOI1dEl'.i And it spite of himself he feltr happier than he had felt since her had been hurt.
Many other folks were listening happily to the message of the two drummers. 'I'hey kept it up as if they wouldn't or ooIIldn't stop, and nobody wanted thorn to.
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This was the blddlrrg at A great many tables:
North East South Wesl- Pass Pass 1 Q 2 m Pass Pass 2 Q P353 Pass Pass
Every West opened the club
king, and every East automatically started a. high-lmv with the five- spot. Every South took the trick and immediately played the dia- mond queen.
The matoh-point scorer earned by the various East-West pairs de- pended on the decision West made at this juncture. some Wests went right in with the diamond ace; others held otf and took the next diamond lead; and still others held off for both. rounds 0! dia- monds. The failure to hold up the ace at all, and the double hold- up were equally disastrous. In the first event, South could reach dummy with his remaining dit- mond and discard his heart loser: in the second event, south lost no diamond iriok.
It is sirange that since this was a master event, all the Wesis should not have made the marked play of holding up the ace on the first lead and watching attentively for East's rollnur-suit play, which would dictate West's proper course. If East correctly followed suit to the first diamond with the seven, it high oard. he would announce a. diamond holding of two or four cards. and in either case West should of course win the next diamond load. If East held exactly three diamonds. he should play his lowest card In the suit to indicate the fun.
There are many npportiinii-iiu for 'the use of this sitrnal; therefore, readers are advised to familiarize themselves with it.
The area of the Iint.a.I-ctic conti- nent hus been estimated at 5,000,- 000 squarn miles.
The Maldive Islnnds.-a British-
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