31.   A guest triumphantly spotted one of the snakes poking its head languidly out of its dirt hole.

32.   A pollster knocks on a door and a frazzled looking woman, holding a broom, pokes her head out of a window.

33.   A frightened Rottweiler poked his head out of a school, the windows smashed, the filing cabinets ransacked, and then went back inside.

34.   A raccoon pokes its head into the house.

35.   A squirrel dashes through the fresh blanket of sugary snow, stopping briefly to poke its head up to see who has invaded its space.

36.   A small child kept poking his head out of a room.

37.   A short time later one of his lieutenants poked his head inside the door to tell him how work on the bomb was going.

38.   A woman pokes her head in the door and asks if the bank is open for business yet?

39.   Above, groups of people jammed fire escapes or poked their heads out of second-story offices and factories.

40.   But even as the first crocus poked its head out of the still-thawing ground that spring, signs of trouble were sprouting on the economic landscape.