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By Thornton DRUMMEB. imrunhs

All unaware. through simple deeds. We often meet another'I needs. -Old Mother Nature.

Drummer the Woodpecker was having hard work to get enough to eat. The ice storm had coated trees with ice and that meant that he just couldn't get at the insects or grubs under the bark and in the ivood. He just couldn't chip all the ice. Some of the trees. in fact most of the trees, were bare of ice on one side, the side away from the storm. That is, their trunks were. So Drummer had is depend on these bare parts of the trees in his search for food.

A bird has to have a lot of food. Without food. and plenty of it, a bird will starve to death in a very short time. This is because food makes heat in the body. So they are dependent on bodily heat. Oth wise they freeze to death. A coat of feathers does not nake warmtth; it simply keeps the warmth of the body from being lost too quickly. And because birds have to do a great deal of flying about or run- if they happen to be ground birds. they need a lot of food to supply the strength llllll ls needed.

Drummer had visited many trees.

He had drilled into a few and found a few gruhs. but he didn't fine enough. He was hungry all the time. He grumbled. "I don't like it," grumbled Drummer. "it isn't right. There are plenty of grubs and borers hiding under the bark and in the wood, and I could get them were it not for this ice. I'm not afraid to work for what I need. I'm willing to work for my food. But I simply can't do a thing when there is ice in the way. I Just can't get through It. And how can a fellow hold on to a tree when every twin and branch is covered with slippery ice?"

Dnimmer's search took him out of the Green Forest and over to the Old Orchard. He visited every tree in the Old Orchard. He found Yank Yank the Nuthatch there. Yank Yank was having just as hard s time as he was. Finally Drumme went back to the Green Forest. He would work over some of the trees he had already visited just to see if he had missed anythin

le found Yank Yank lie hatch there.

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so it was that at last he returned to the tree in which Timmy the FM!!! Uquirrel and Mrs. &zuii-rel had been made prisoners in hair own home. The north side of that tree was still icy and the doorway tolthe Squirrel home was still closed with ice. Drummer started at the foot of the tree at the south side where there was no ice. He didn't start to climb at once. He was tired. so he rested for awhile. When he did begin to climb he was more careful than he had been on his first visit. He tap-tapped here; he inn-tapped there. He listened for

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the sound of any borer that mlshl be at work in the wood. He listen- ed carefully. That is the Wily l-B which he finds many of the borers that are doing so much harm to the trees, and they feel perfectly safe because they are deep in the Wood- They would be perfectly safe were it not for the woodpecker folk- Drummer and his family are among the very best friends the trees have. - inside their home Timmy and Mrs. Timmy once more heard the tapping of Drummer, and once more hoped that he would open the door for them. But they lllid ll” way of telling him so. They could do nothing but hope again. Drum- mer was on the wrong side of the tree. 'I'heir doorway was on the other side. Would he I0 lll'0lllll'-l there and find it.

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STROMBOLI, Italy (Reuters!- Stromboli, a 3,056-foot volcano ris- ing out of the Mediterranean off northeast Sicily. belched incandes rent lava and ash for the second day Tuesday. The 1.200 inhabitants of the isle. mostly fishermen, kept their boats in readiness for emerg- ency evacuation, but the eruption

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in; the first four months 1 land- on's centennial year topped the 100,000 mark.

The city's 112,000 wooden nickels soldforagrossintakoofmooo. As a mall messenger for 12 years at Adair, Oklahoma. Sam Trout had the companionship of his dog, John.

months after he began Earrylng the mail. The dog always went along to meet the trains. John helped too. sometimes i was so dark when the mail was thrown off the trains that Sam couldn't see the bags. The dog found them. When Sam resigned his job recently, his dog left home and went to live with the new mail- man, Art Alberty. He didn't want to retire. .

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North "bid his head off" in the in following case, but there was more than a germ slve slam invitation.

out money. When this scribe was a youngster it was the custom oil the people that they help each oth- er to do anything. If a man want- ed a house built in a hurry, all his neighbors would help him to build it. Today a man does not belong to his neighb s, he belongs to his money. On the Island of Mangaia may be seen some unique tombstones, painted in bright colors and hear- ing drawings of people and ob- jects. For example. one ton-ibstong portrays a sinking vessel, a re. minder that the person who rests beneath it was drowned at sea. Another shows a young girl hold- ing a Bible in one hand and press- ing the other to her heart. she was of course supposed to be s real Christian. A third stone shows a full-length portrait of a young man. with his hair neatly parted and his features carefully tinted. "On Mangaia more than a third of the children are living with foa-

wss not at present endangering their two hamlets. - i

ter parents, some adopted accord-

over-one takeout on the first round. thus announcing fairly substantial

on: to Maori custom. others with full European legalities. the arrangement is made soon af- ter birth, but it may occur at any time before the child reaches mat- urity. The bahy may be left with its mother until weaned, but some- times the adopting parents will take full care of the child from birth. sending it to its mother only to be nursed. exchange their children. as an ex- pression of goodwill."

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on the surface. it appears that values. and since he ruiyhamm. has I-Iiggfdlletljli that announeninanti

lll W hav bear coat!!! of logic in his sggres- to bid only four spad.ea over South's lump rebid. but careful analysis re-

.,u.d.u., veals that there was quite. a lot last-Vlostvissrahh. -to be said for North's actual five- O93' spiggfhsglig ii. on .g,..m 1 '"'" Point aside of. cdlurse cu m . , from the :3:.." general. strength shown by South 1o6,g .1 in bidding three spades over two 01x N 'AKQ9 hearts-was South's failure to let ',', W E 35 the heart 0811 go around to North- .."a O,” N0lm811y. an expert, not vulner- 5 3 gig” able. will go out of his way to . Ann" give his partner "a crack" at s 'g vulnerable overcall. The only rea-

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Opportunity to double two hearts -he lumped his rebid. What val- IIEI. short of those actually held. could South have to justify his act- ion? North saw that his queen of spades must be a key card: he in- ferred that South had a fit with the diamond suit. and he was pract- ically sure that South had either first-round control of clubs with I singleton heart, or second-round 00lllT01 With a heart vdld. ,.

A; may he seen, North's ap- nralsal was Il0l'leL'l. and the slain ?0nli'a(-'i reat-lied by means of his invitation was easily fulfilled.

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A sucesslul school concen was held on December 22, in Fernwood School. There was a large gather- s ing with practically every home in lll9 C0ll'lmllnily being represented.

A fine Pmllram consisting of readings and dialogues, interspers- ed with Christmas carols, was car- ried out and much enjoyed by all 0 present. Considerable talentnwas ' displayed by several of the pupils. Much of the outstanding sucess of the concert is due to the efforts of the efficient teacher, Mrs. Frank Aylward.

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