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out: , The darkest shadows put to rout. -Old Mother Nature.

Drummer the Woodpecker was in a bad way. Truly he was in I dreadful way;he was: prlsoneinlt was true that he was 1 prisoner in his own house. but it was also true that this was just as bad as if he had been a prisoner some- where elsc. You see, even in 11.: own house he i-oiiltlstarve todcaih as quickly as he could anywhere else. for there was no food there. How did he liiippen to be a prisoner in his own house? While he slept, Jack l-lrost and rough Brother North Wind had locked his door. Rough Brolher Wind had filled the doorway with wet snow. and Jack Frost hzid frozen that into the .hai'dcst k.iid of hard ice.

Jolly, pi-ound. biught Mr. sun was shining his brightest this morning. but poor Dru-mmer knew nothing about this. There were no windows in his house, and with the doorway closed. it was very dark inside. Di'um:ner had now been a prisoner for two nights and all or on: day, this be- ing his second day. He had tried to cut his way out through the ice and failed. THOR he tried to cut through the e.dC of his house and had failed (l'.!2i1lI. There wasn't room in that snug little house (or him to strike hnrcl enough blows to cut I hole ihriizigh. He tired

himself out try: 2. But he kept trying all through that long frightful da-y wlicii he realized

he was ya pl'lSOltCi'. Now on the morning of this day he was too weak to strike as hard as he could the day bcio;-c, or to keep trying as oltcn. But he did keep trying from time it) time.

NOV It h3PDencd that that morning Farmer Brown's Boy visited the Green Forest. There was a crust on the snow. an icy crust, and it was quite thick. It rnuzle Farmer Brown's Boy aux. mus. You see. he know that seine-

. Sometimes they sounded from one

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Farmer Brown's Boy stood for some moments still listening. I

Mrs. Grouse buried themselves iii.

In the lollowing deal. played at match-point duplicate. South could have earned a "top," simply by going down 300 points. He took 9. needles risk in the Dummy rufled and declare? led I Play. however. and ended up with a ”zero!" '

at four or five hearts and scored) I Ls! times Thunderer the Grouse and-480 points for winning 1?. tricks. concede A penalty of 500 pom

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Westlopcned the heart king and (East haying played the queen) continued with the heart toe.

spade to his blank king. west ,won and led still another hetrt. IAgain dummy ruiled. and now the 'spade jack was led. When Ellt 1.3A lplayed low. South thought Ibout South dealer. , ipasling the trick to West. dil- Nclthcr side vulnerable. vcilrdlntt 3 Chub "Om W9 C10!” Lfatcfppojnt duplicate. -hand, but he evidently concluded -.

.5 109 8' ,round and then, It the queen did

8 lno drop. pass the next spade. ,2 Unfortunately. however, East took I hand in this pi eeduru. lwhen South ruffed the spade jack, led a trump to the nine and returned the spade ten. East 10 n 7 imnde surtcl thatkdcclavifrt wourld i ;not pass to ric to cs - e 43 Irutlcd! This was a fatal blow to . the declarer. He could not afford to let East win the trick and re- turn a club, so declarer over- rulled. But now he had to give

up three club tricks anyway and

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Most East-West pairs ended up,

the snow when it was dccip en-' ough on the ground and spent thel night there. You see. they felt quite sale. They would dive in-

to the snow clear to the groundn and then work along a little way so that they were not right where they had entered the snow. Then

it Roddy Fox found where they

had gone into the snow and tried to dig them out he would notl know just where they were. Thus! they would have plenty of timel to burst out or the snow and lly

up into a tree. What Famier

Brown's Boy was afraid of was; that they might have buricdi themselves in the snow and Jack

Frost might have made that hard: crust over them while they slept” so Farmer Brown's Bov had goncf over to the Green Forest to lookl around to see it he could find Mr.i and Mrs. Grouse.

Now when Farmer Brown's Boy goes into the Green Forest he uses his ears as well as his eyes. You know things that cannot be seen often can be heard. He had vis- ited all the favorite places of Mr. and Mrs. Grouse without see- ing so much as a leather 0! one of them. He was even more wor- ried than he had been when he started out. Where could they be? 0! course they might have flown to some other part of the Green Forest. He hoped they had.

He had turned to go back home vi hen those keen ears oi his heard a sound that caused him to pause abruptly and listen hard. The sound was very faint. He could just hear it and no more. In fact at tirst he really didn't know it he actually heard it. or imagined that he heard it. He cupped I hand around one ear the better to listen.

Ta-p, tap. tap. tap. tap. tap. The tapping stopped. Farmer Brown's Boy stood for some minutes still listening. The tapping began again Tap. tap. tap. tap. tap. Though he listened as carefully as he knew how he couldn't tell from which direction those sounds came.

way and then from another way. And who could be doing that tap-

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ping? Could it be Thunderer the Grouse. or Mrs. Grouse trying to make a hole through that crust? He couldn't think of anyone else who would be doing it.

He began moving about in I small circle. Every lew steps he stopped to listen. He made the circle larger and larger. All the time he was looking this way and that way.

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