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tridges came to hear the wonderful drummer, 

 and he soon had all the lady partridges in 

 the woods about his drumming log watching 

 and listening. 



" No matter how saucy or hateful they had 

 been to him when he was only Mr. Rusty 

 Feathers, all were ready to praise and admire 

 him now. 



" Well, it ended just as it always does, 

 Harry. They were so persistent that he 

 finally had to marry one of them to get rid of 

 the rest, so he picked out the most beautiful 

 and the largest of all his admirers, and they 

 were married by the Woodchuck, who was 

 then Justice of the Peace, and I presume they 

 lived happy for ever afterwards. 



" You see this partridge's drumming had 

 turned out such a success that all the other 

 partridges soon learned it, and they have kept 

 it up to this very day." 



" Is that all, Ben? " I asked, my eyes riv- 

 eted upon this wonderful magician of the 

 camp fire. 



" Surely, Harry," replied my companion, 



