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. Peter Rabbit has spring lever. Everybody. at least everybody in the country. has spring fever at 1N8 time or year. It is catching. It is so catching that you may catch it 1mm the Jolly Little Sun- beams. or the Merry Little

or Irom little sounds. happy little sounds, from every- where. Peter has caught it from all o! them, and irom no one or nothing at all. He usually feels it first in his heels, his long nar- row heels. It was so now. He couldn't keep them still. No. sir, he couldn't. They took him lip- periry. lipperty. lip over to the Smiling Pool to listen to the happy pipers there. Peeper the 3311a and his Irlends. Then his long heels took Peter over to the Green Forest.

At the edge oi’ the alder swamp at the head of the Smiling Pool he stopped to listen to the ‘ﬁre-la- iia-lee" o! Redwing the Blackbird. He stopped again iarther on at the edge oi the Green Forest to listen to the “Cheer up! Cheer up! Cheer up, cheerl" o! Welcome Robin in the top oi one of the tallest trees.

"Listening to that how could anybody help but cheer up?" thought Peter. 'I‘hen he kicked up his heels in his iunny way and went on.

He had gone but a little way when he met his big cousin, Jumper the Hare. “Hello. Cousin

Peter! How do you do?" cried Jumper.

"I've got spring lever," replied Peter

“Who hasn't?" retorted Jumper. Then both kicked up their long

i heels in the most ioolish manner.

Any one seeing them would have known that they had spring fever. Happy foolishness is one oi the sure signs oi this catching fever oi’ early spring.

“Rat-a-tat-tat-tat. Raiumtat- tat.tat.tet.tat." Drummer the Woodpecker was drumming as only he can when he finds a drum to suit him. "Rst.a.tst.tat.tet.tat.” The sound oi.’ that drumming was carrying iar through the Green iorest and wt over the Green Meadows. '

“He's drumming a welcome to Mistress Spring. I wish I could drum like that." said Peter wist- Iul . "You can thump, can't you? ‘You can make it mean the same thing. Drumming is only thump- ing very fast. when Drummer drums like that everybody knows it is ttor love" and happiness be- ‘cause Mistress Spring is here," said Jumper. He thumped the ground with a long hind. toot. "And when I thump like that those who hear it know that I do it for the same reason. Anyway Mrs. Jumper does, and she is all 1 care about."

"Listenl" cried Peter. “There's a real drummer! I suppose he is drumming for love and happiness.” It was ‘rhundercr the Ruiied Grouse. The sound came rolling out from deeper in the Green Forest. It began with slo'w beats that quickened and quickened until they became a long roll like dis- tant thunder.

"Ot course he is drumming for love and happiness,” agreed Jump- er. “And ior Mrs. Grouse and Mistress Spring and the Joy of liv- lng." he added.

Drummer the Woodpecker rest- ed. So did Thunderer the Grouse. I-t was very still there in the Green Forest. The stillness was broken by a faint, soft sound that caused Peter to prick up his cars. Some- one was drumming. There was no doubt about that. It was very soft drumming but it was drum- ming. There was no doubt at all about it.

"Whitcfoot the Wood Mouse,” said Jumper. "He does it with his iront feet." '

"He must have spring lever too," said Peter.

"I don't know about that. He does it at other times. just as you and I thump at other times. Per-

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haps we thump. to warn or signal others. And it may be he is doing it now because he really is happy like the rest o! us because Mistress Spring is here. I don't know." said Jumper.

"Anyway he is a drummer," said Peter.

"And it is spring!" cried Jumper. and thumped so fast with his hind feet that he was almost drumming himself.

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South misused a valuable bid in today's deal and as a conse- quence reached a hopeless contract. That is, it would have been hope- less l1 the defense had been even reasonably alert!

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Actually, however, it did suc- ceed because oi East's short-sight- edness. West opened the heart three, which was a clear en- nouncement that he held four cards in the suit. (It was not like- ly that the three-spot was a sin- gleton and that South had four hearts!) The heart ace was play- ed irom dummy and South drew two rounds of trumps. He then led and passed a club. East won and without thinking. laid down a high heart, South ruiied and pass- ed another club. Now it was too late ior East to shlit to diamonds —the 3-3 break in the club suit gave declarer the discard he need- ed so urgently.

Surely, East had ample warning about the clubs in this case. and just as surely he should have shifted immediately to diamonds. it his partner did not have the diamond queen. that was Just too bad from East's point oi view!

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