Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 6, 1913, Page 9

Lmb —— Pages Nine to Twelve THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE = Rules for Young Writers. 1. Write plainly on one side of the ’lzcronl:lnd'xmmm Use pen and ink, not pencil. 8. SBhort and pointed articles will be given preference. Do not use over z“twoflsm-l only wtories letters Sb%'m.mm”m d ad dress plainly at the :Qttom -:: the mtory. Address all communications to Un- €le Jed, Bulletin Ofice. “Whatever you are—Be that; ‘Whatever you say—Be true. Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, i Be nobedy else but you.” POETRY. = The Little Peach. A little peach in the orchard grew— A little peach of emerald hue; Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew, It grew. { One day, passing that orchard through, That little peach dawned on the view Of Johnny Jones and his sister Sue— They two. Up at that peach a club they threw—! Down from the stem on which it grew ¥ell that peach of emerald hue. Mon Dieu! dohn took a bite and Sue a chew, And then the trouble began to brew-— Srouble the doctor couldn't subdue. Too true! Under the turf where the daisies grew They planted John and his sister Sue, And their little souls to the angels 1 What of that peach of the emerald ue, Warneq by the sun and wet by the dew ? Ah, well, its mission on through. Adieu! earth is —FEugene Field. Uncle Jed’s Talk to Wale-Awakes. Some of the Wide-Awakes tell us they get angry and Uncle Jed would not be surprised to learn that every one of them did on occasion. Getting angry is a bad habit and I regret to think it is a habit the chil- dren often learn too early from the indiscretion of their parents. You may set this right down for Gospel truth, anger and hate are twin evils—that they have done more harm than good in the world. Anger leads to fury and fury is insanity from any point of view. Uncle Jed does npot want the Wide-Awakes to tend in that direction. Not to give way to anger ows power and @ense and Jjudgment; it gives force to dignity and enobles the lives of those who overcome weak- mess. Anger never represents strength. Those who get angry often—who are @pset by trivial things—are victims of an ill temper. They are always doing ¢hings to apologize for and never feel- ing in excellent spirits. In fact, it is charitable to regard them as victims of preventabls weakness. There is nothing which overshadows more completely every good quality lfke anger. It makes a person fin- icky and irrational, uncompanjonabie and grouchy. Wide-Awalces cultivate a sweet dis- position and a forbearing spirit. Do mnot be quick to resent disappoint- ments, imaginary slights and a thou- sand and one things which are all the time bappening to everybody. It s better to be sensible than sen- pitive. Lotters of Acknowiedgment. Hareld Blair of Baltic—I received my book and like it very much., I thamk you for the prize book. The book is & nice one, Agn Aberg, of Taftville—Thank s Boys and Girls Department - vou for the nice book you-have sent me. Please excuse me for not thank- ing you sooner. Robert Krauss, of Taftville—I re- ceived the prize book you sent me and found it to be ome of the most inter- esting books I have ever read. I thank you very much for it. The old woman was really sensible. Annie Henzler, of Taftville—I re- ceived a book from you once, the name of which is “Our Bossie.” It is such a good book that I have read it three times. I thank yvou ever so much for it, and hope I will be successful in winning another one. Freida Retkovski, of Norwich—I re- ceived the prize book, Robinson Cru- soe, I had long been wishing for. T thank you very much for it. Tt is the Dbest book I ever read, because it is so interesting. > Elmira Gereau, of Baltic—I received the prize book you Sent me. Have read it and found it very interesting. Thanks very much for it. Hannah L. McVeigh, of Norwich— Many thanks for the book you award- ed me, Court Harman Girls. It was a dandy. Prize-Book Winners. 1—Edward G. Moran, of Norwich, “Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle,” by Victor Appleton. 2—Robert Krauss, of Taftville “Os- car in Africa,” by Harry Castlemon. 3—Thomas Grady, of Scotland, “Two ‘Ways of Becoming a Hunter,” by Har- ry Castlemon. 4—Marion Sullivan, of “The Young Engineers of H. Ifving Hancock. Colchester, Arizona,” by of by —Marry Bromley, “Left on Labrador,” phens. 6—Annie Henzler, of the Amazon,” by A. 7—Molly Smith, of South Coventry, Stonington, C. A. Ste- Taftvill Stephe: “On “Black Beauty,” by Anna Sewall. 8—Alice Conrad, of Norwich, “Child’s Garden of Verses,” by L. R. Steven- son. 9—Delwin Martin, of Nor (gratuity) “Mother Goose Rhymec Jingles.” Winners of books living in the cit may call at The Bulletin business of- flce for them at any hour after 10 a. m. on Thursday. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. Helping Nature to Wake Up. March is here with its raw, cold, blustering wind. Its snow flurries, rain and sunshine, ail. helping nature to awaken from its long winter sleep. Socn the farmers will be getting their land ready to plant with different seeds and vegetables. I am going to have a small garden this year. I saved seeds last fall and will plant them when it is time. Spring will soon be here and the shrubs and trees will put forth buds, then leaves and later on the blossoms will come bearing fruit. RICHARD W. TOBIM Norwich. . JR., Age 1L ‘The Boy Trapper and Hunter. The boy I told you about soms time ago who gained his health trapping, earned money enough to buy a 22 calibre rifle which I am going to tell You about. Ed One day while walking through a fleld with his dog named Rex, a rabbit ran out of a bush. He stepped back behind a tree, while Rex ran around the rabbit and stopped it. The boy fired and the bullet struck the rabbit in the head and it dropped dead. Rex picked him up and carried it to the bov. On they went, but anything more. They must have gone a quarter of 8 mile before they saw a partridge. The boy fired and killed it, and Rex as before picked it up and brought it to him. Then they went home. The mnext day to their surprise, the boy’s. mother made them a partridge pot poe. In two more days they were still more surprised to have a rabbit stew. HARRY CHURCH, Age 13. Hampton. they didn’t see An Enchanted Prince. Once upon a time there was a king who had three daughters, the young- est of whom loved to-come of an old castle. One day she was wandering about when she saw a poor crow hop out of SUNNY DAYS IN INSECTVILLE O " Coming-Out Days e {Copyrighted.) TR satng ot 1ays o Tn- sectvifie-all-fiwemgh the Fummer and auturfem Lilsotie plamby the insecis ohey (I efetisfthadun Temper- ture pre: * Pprearance and the reason the MEnts are developed and ready for the visits of insects is bscause it takes less heat to mature them than it does the insects. There are plants that bloom before the snow i{= off the ground; and insects which I hatch out and take wing in the heat | of one warm day; and there are other plants it takes months of warm weath- er to develop, and some of the great moths do noi appear until there has peen a week or ten d of real hot weather; and there are insects which it takes from 17 to ears 10 grow to the winged state, like the 17-vear locust, and sonie of the timber bor- ing beetles—so0 you see there are some | ming | insects that do not have a ¢ out day offener than four times in a hundred vears. made last year-—theunr call is a low | temperature or eariy call { This reminds me that you may not | be aware that a part of the business | of every tree is to make the buds | ‘which hold the foliage of the tr for next year. The buds grow ween the leaf-stalk and the stem and when | fall comes they have become so big that they help 1sh off the old leaves, and there, well®sheathed and sealed they stay in cold storage until the sun sets the sap circulating, and the force of that breaks the bindings, casts the | sheaths and pushes the leaves out into their places and into the sunlight to commence work in making fruit and getting the foliage ready for the com- | Angd where, think you, do the insects | come from? Some of them come out of the water, like the mosguitoes, the gnais and the dragon flies; some2 come out of the earth, tree moths and the plant and vine moths, and many of the beetles, and some come from the trees like the wood boring bees, flies and Deetles #nd some from cocoons In the leaves or from cocoons or web nests swing- ing in the, branches of.ihe trees; and some come from heaps of refuse, like the house and horse flies, and some from all sorts of sheltered places in which thev hawvs found refuge through the winter; and they all know their call and come in their turn and the*r appointed time. lome writer has said that nature’'s seeming disorder resolved itself at last into perfect order, throwsn (he ac- quirement of knowledge, but that is another o7y, ¢ Tt will not be long before you wlill Aee tree protecters put in place Lo keep iree moths from eclimbing the trunks in anticipation of the coming out day of the bud moths in the-orchards, and they come early im the =eason because - frujt trees wers like the grass and | ing season. The leaves have their time 10 come out, as well as the insects and sometimes the insect comes before the foliage and foliage be- fore the ins no pristake made about their appearance. The rustic moths have the come out fate in £o about day to their sticking eggs in the warm earth where fhey hatch into caterpillars and wint and in the spring th infest the gardens and are known as “cut worms,” and they defy the heat stay all through the planting season, doing great damage in all cultlvated lands. How these differ from the bees who come out to get honey and who make three times as much honey as they need furnishing large quantities for the use of man. And of the 4500 varieties only a few live more than a season and the oldest does not exceed five years. 5 Tlle beetleg are the long-lived creat- ures'of Insectville, and they are hard- shelled and usually unsightly ereat- ures. Some of them get to be bigger than mice and half a foot in length; ang a few wear bright colored, bur- nished armor and are=used for dec- orative purposes like coral; and some of them ecarry lights and are known as lantern flles, and the last have thelr coming out days and night par- ades In the very hottest weather. Of some of thesa we shall have something interesting to gay in the future, UNCLE JED, in front | the season, and they | ‘a bush near the princess and he was all scratched and bleeding. The princess felt sorry for him and washed the blood off him. The crow told the princess that he was not a crow, but an enchanted prince, and that if she wanted to free him, she would have to spend three nights in the old castle., “I am willing to,” she said. “You will have to suffer in many ways,” sald the prince, “but if you do not utter a sound in three years you will set me free.” So she went to the castle. At mid- night the door burst open and evil Spirits came in and made a fire and put a big kettle over it, and then they looked for the princess; they aragged her to the kettle, when suddenly a cock crew and all disappeared. She kept on for three years and so freed the prince. He married ’ her and lived happy ever after. PHILIP M. JOHNSO: Age 9. Wauregan. The Travels of a Penny. T was born in Philadelphia on the iwenty-third of May. As soon as { .S born I was put in a place with a 1ot of my brothers. o One day a big hand reached in and took some of my brothers. The next day another hand reached in and took some of my brothers and me. The boy who had me put me in a pocket with a jackknife, a ball of string, a few nails, some writing paper and a few little stones. Then the boy bought a pair of shoes for two dollars, and another man took me. He went to a place where great big ships~come up. He got on one of the ships and it started on a voyage. On the way the ship sunk, but the man was saved. He went to France and I was st with him. the man dropped me jout of his hand and I have been there ever since. I hope some day some child will find me| CHARLES DAVID GEER, JR. Age 8. A Butterfly Hunt. Not long ago twelve little girls had i merry chase for butterflies, and I want to tell you about it The invitations were sent out on a large square card, decorated with but- terili in one corner was glued a | tiny envelove holding a small squa‘e card which invited the <uests “to meet little Miss Butterfly.” | _The little maids came in holiday at- tire, in gowns of blue, pink and white, and before leaving the dressing rocm | the mother of the little hostess pinned to each little girl pair of gauzy W gs, matchi color the dress | worn. The v were made from tinted papers., and markings were put { on with a brush dipped in ink. A lit- ile peaked cap of soft paper was pu on the head of each child, the wings and the caps giving an effective touch | at the cost of liftie labor. A little baz or net for snaring the butterflies was to every girl, and the merry in ngs of butterflies had been cut from coiored papers, and these were hidden in v nook of the large grounds. Many were in evidence over the trees, arbors, fences, A touch | ete o: silver butt but one = When no more could be found the sat down on the grass and after ex glue held them in g | | 1 0 | changing bags counted each other’s | i | | | A gilt o five, all others butterflies. To the one having the nd the one having the le: ph frames were awarded photog: | prize: 1R I T L BREHAUT, Locust Valley, Two Little Girls. Once there were two little girls most alike, and they lived next to each other. One used to morning with al- door 0 out early most every her big doll and doll had a pretty red coat and nice brown leggings. She was a lazy girl and used to make her Ma do everything for her. = The other little girl would stay,_in and help mother. - Her mother wouid say run out and play, but this lit‘le girl would say after I have wiped these dishes and swept this corner. The lazy little girl asked her to play, but she always replied after I have helped Mamma. LILILIAN BREHAUT. Locust Valley, L. L. The Stream. I ran down a long, steep hill and in a pasture. I went on, seeing teams pass on the bridge above me. T still went further down for a very long distance, tumbling over waterfalls, un- til 1 went into a large lake whers some fish,lived. 1 could see them playing in the water. On one side of me was a road and on the other was a grove in which the squirrels and children played. One day a party of schoolgirls b ed by me and said: “What a pretty lake, and see the fish, too ” The girls passed back and forth | | with baskets of flowers. Then | | came to the edge of the lake and to gome water in a pail to put the flowers in ! I then saw them pick up their things £nd go home, and I did not see them any more. One day a bird buiit a nest in a tree at the edge of the water. The bird 1s5d eggs and hatched her young. When auturman came the little birds flew down south and I did not see her | any more. This is the way the world and goes, but T am here forever. ALICE STONE, Age 13 comes Hampton From Bad to Good. s of the little village tood a little cottag:« | it was small is was | his cottage lived a v | & fatt heir mother had been desd several ars. Now ihis famlly would have Nved | very happily together had not the | father been a drunkard. He would not | | work in a factory: he would not werk | {on a farm where he had a chance to | | work, and, worst of all, he would not | jdo a t in the house | | The children felt very bad about | heir father znd often nrayed to the | - God to help them. | | The oldest of the children was a -l of 13, named Clara: the next one | | l.ouisa, age 11: the third was | age 9, and the last was Elsle, | ra would have liked to work either in a factory or for a farmer, but, of course, she could not. She had | to do most of the work »+ home. One night about 7 o'clock their fa- ther went out (of course, I need not state where he went. for vou can easi- ly guess): but his children begged him to come back soon. All he said was: “Yes, ves.” Affer he was gone they all did the work that had to be done, and then sat around the fireplace. All at once Clara jumped up and went to a litile shelf near the window and brought back a little book. It was a Rible. She read a few verses about Jesus helping the poor; then they all knelt down, and each sald a. little prayer. Buf they had not noticed that any® body was watching at the window. It was their father. He had been stand ing by the window listening %o them asking God to make a Christian of their father. The man was So touched by thess “littTa true praverst that he could not wait any longer, but went In and knelt beside Clara. The children were astonished at him, but he explained evervthing to them. He said: "1 was juat coming in the door when | Beach. is not far from there, and we | went there nearly every night. I heard Elsie say: ‘Dear God, pleas:-! help us poor children so that we may be strong; and, Dear God, please help father also, so that he may yet pray with us and never drink again.’ My heart was so touched by that that 1 could not wait any longer, so I came in, and now I will never drink again.” ANNIE HENZLER, Age 18. Taftville. My Home. My home is on the main road. There is a large rock maple tree near the house. Every other year we tap it and get some syrup. In the summer time it makes a fine shade. I often take a chair and a reading book and go out under the tree when the sun is very warm in the summer time. Sometimes my brother and I take the. horse and go to the store and get some frx.in and groceries:- or go tu see a friend of ours who lives in the town of Voluntown On Saturdays I play school with my two smaller sisters. They like to play school as well as I like to teach them. Sometimes during the evening after my brother and 1 have finished our arithmetic we will play a game of parchesi and checkers. After we have finished playing I read. I keep house for my mother when she goes away. I never get lonesoms it there are any books I can read. Sometimes I get the graphophone out and play that for a change. MILDRED BURBANK. Moosup. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. A Little Helper. Dear Uncle Jed: I am one of your ‘Wide Awakes, as Mother. says, so 1| am going to write to you and tell you ‘what I do. Mamma and I drive to the city quit. often; and I love to ride after ot horse, as he goes fast. He is a ver gentle horse and we feed him cookics and bread before we start out for ride, as he is very fond of them. He paws for us to get them for him if we forget to take them out to him. I go to school every day and my teacher is very good to me, and T 1 her and help her sometimes clean the blackboards and pile up papers and books. Mamma Js going to let me go to the high school in the city when I get| tkrough in this school h A I help my mother before. and after hool hours, washing dishes ana sweeping, dusting. and straighteniny out the room Then I can go oui and play with my friends. MOLLY SMITH, Age 1 ventry. South Cc My Christmas. | Dear Uncle Jed: I thought T would | write and tell you about my Christ- | mas. We* hag a trimmed with It was red bells, chains, Christmas tree. paper chains, balls, popcorn nd tinsel. brought me a new dress, four handkerchie four hair ribbons, a set of gold pins, a doll, three books, a box of paints, a paint book, a_ pair | of sidecombs, a white silk pocketbaok, some sachet bags tied with a ribbon and a rose on the top. Santa filled my stocking with all kinds of nuts—peanuts, candy, popcorn and oranges. I got a box of paints, cards, a picture, 2 hox of candy orange at Sunday school. We had a Christmas tree at school also. I was in a song and a piece at Sun- day schoo HEL Lyme. Santa CI some post- and an N A, MAYNARD, Age 11. Naughty Beppo. Dear Uncle Jed: I don’t think any y little as T has written to you. I an Angora cat. I named him David, after the sweeet singer of Is- rael. 1 have a dog named Beppo. T have a boy doll named Gorden, which Santa brought me. I wanted to take him in the yard to play, but Auntie sald I better not. But I took him and put him on the ground and forgot him, and in a little time I look- ed and Beppo had bitten his head off and tore his clothes off. But Auntie fixed hom up, and said that i{s what little boys get when they do not mind. 1 have a papa and a little sister named Gladys, but mamma is up in heaven. I am only 6 years old. DELWIN MARTIN. Norwich. At Revere Beach. Dear Uncle Jed: I have read the let- ters written by the Wide-Awakes for a long time, and would like to join | their circle. May 17 Last summer I went to Lynn to! spend part of my vacation. Revere | I like to go at night better than in the d because the many colored lights are all 1t. ‘The Scenic railway is one of the amusements there that I liked. Shall I tell you aboui it? First, you enter a small car, and very soon you are lost in darkness, When 1 da vou are used to the 1ess vou see | wzns in the water and boys fishing. Soon you are out of the darkness and are flving down a steep hill, only to! climb another. Then when you reach the top of this hill you can look about “Wonderland,” which looks beautiful ‘ at night. Then there is another hill to ! climb, and darkness again. This time | you can see Red Riding Hood and the | ugly wolf, Jack the Bean Stalk and his | bag of beans, and Cinderella trying on | the glass slipper. After you have' passed through the darkness you come | to a long slide and another hill, at the | bottom of which is another dark plac When you arc out of the darkness you find yourself at the starting place. May I write again and tell yvou of the | “Pit” and other places ther MARION SULLIVAN, Age 10. Colchester. (Certainly.— | | Tncle Jed.) My Flock of Pigeons. | Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell | vou about my vigeons. Abcut a year | 2g0 my Father got a pair of pigeons | from my Uncle and gave them to me. | I fixed a nest for them in a shed. In‘ a short time other pigeons came, and‘ in a little while they made their home here. I went to work nests, and my flock 1 have about fifteen good many aw: I will close with best wishes to all the Wide-Awakes. THOMAS GRADY. Scotland. | and made more rew to be large. nd have given a How | Made a Sled. Dear TUncle Jed: I am going tfo tell vou how I made a sled. I took two boards three-quarters of an inch thick and sawed them aff about 28 inches lonz. On one end 1 sawed them to a slant, while the other was curved to a| point from both sides. { Three-quarters of an inch below the upper edge I bored holes for fastening the side pieces on the bottom board, In the middle, or just in front of the center beam, T cuf out a hole for my hand to slip through to hold on with. I made these holes smooth on the edze, or they wouid hurt my hand when holding on tight. i I took a plece of board onc-half of | an inch thick and about 17 inches long. ' T had it just wide enough to come on | the beams and come oven with the | runner boards. [ took flathead screws | and fastened them. T painted It red with black bands, and was much pleased with my weork. I bored in fromt of each runner a hole ja g about they found an apple lying oun the ground. “I'll have said Tom “No, T will have it myself, and T wen't give a single bit aw said Peter. “IL.et us cut it in three,” said Archie. ol “No, mno!” said Tom. and he I | Protect to fasten in a small rope, so as to pull the sled along 1 will close and hope some of the boys of the Wide-Awake Circle will try to make one and have a good re- sult. ROBERT KRAUSS, Age 12. Taftville, My School. ; Dear Uncle Jed: I am writi a lit- tle letter to you to tell you about the school I attend every morning. The school team comes to my house at a quarter past eight. I have to ride about five miles and we reach the school about 9 o’clock. The school is situated in the center of the town of Scotland. It is a large brown building, two stories kigh. The class rooms are on the ground floor and there is a large meeting room and library upstairs. The two class rooms -are known as | the little room and the big room. There are three grades in the little room and five in the big room. I am in the first grade in the big room. There are eight scholars in my grade and 89 in our room. My teacher’s name is Mrs. Geer, and I like her very much. ‘We study geography, history, spelling, arithmetic and writing at school. School closes at 3.30 and I arrive home at 4.30 and study my lessons after supper. MARGARET GRADY. Scotland. She Saw Seven Deer. Dear Uncle Jed: T will tell you what W _on my way to school this morn- ing. I saw seven deer in the road. They ran very fast. I watched them for awhile, bue they were soon out of sight. I saw the tracks in the snow where they had been. Thelr tracks were far apart. I saw many tall trees. Some of them were bent over the road: others were covered with snow. There were some pine trees near the road. They were white with snow. I saw the snow lying upon the ground. In some places there was none; in others it was several inches thick. There were many brooks cov- ered with ice apd snow. 1 came by several houses, Some were painted white. There were many pretty flowers in the windows. T came by a button factory. There were four or five people at work in it. I also saw many other things which were very interesting. ETHEL CLARK, Age 15. Eagleville. Battling in the Snow. Dear Uncle Jed: I am writing to tell you about the sport we boys are hav- | ing since the last snow storm Wi thhe snow was soft we made | large rts., one to represent the, North, the other the South. Ten are on each side. and we had five snowball battles. Sometimes | the North won, then the South. The North won three times out of five and v declared the winner. { We raised the American flag over he | for sang “The Star Spangled | Banner.” It was great sport. Now it is so cold we slide and skate. | st Sunda 1 saw one of the deer | that ecaped from Mohegan park. I| g was so close I could almost put my hand on him, but then he ran away. EDWARD G. MORAN, Age 10. Norwich. | Fritz and His Skates. | Dear Ur Fritz was a little | ch bo Every boy in Holland can so Fritz could. ed with his grandparents on a about five miles from town. | One night his grandfather called him out of told bed and docto: hou and tell the doctor to | come to their house as quick as pos- | sible for his grandmothher was very il He put his skates on very quickly | and took his skate sail with him. He went very fast and got to the doctor's house in quick time. He flung off his | skates and scrambled up the bank to the doctor’s house. As soon as he got | to the door he used the brass knocker so hard that the noise echoed through | the streets. ‘When the doctor came to the door he told him what it was he wanted, and the doctor started off very quick, and got to Fritz's house before Fritz did, and this was how Fritz saved his grandmother's life. HENRY G. SCHRIEFER, Age 13. Columbia. My Leisure Hours. Dear Uncle Jed: I live near a large cove which was frozen over last week. My friend and I have been on the cove »at many times since it has been frozen over. Last Saturday when we were out there we heard a noise. I looked ev- erywhere but could not tell where the sound came from. I looked up in the air and to my surprise it was an aero- plane. it was Mr. Jones, the parcel post mail carrier. He stopped 2t the Alden Fish farin in Mystic. HBarly Sunday he started to deliver his message to Mayor Mahan of New London. I am now going to tell you about my trip to sehool and my teacher. Every morning I have got to go on the car. ! T go quarter to 9, which makes mo late to school. Our teacher’s name is Mr. Edwards. I like him very much. I think he likes all his scholars MARY BROMLEY, Age 12 Stonington. Topsy Could Play. Dear Uncle Jed: When I used to live out in the country we had a pet cow and her name was Topsy. She used to play with me and I used to run and hide and she would come and fine me, | and she would moo for me. And some- times I would get over Into the next lot and throw her appl and she would run and get them One day my Mamma and T went to the woods to get some blackberries. We soon heard Topsy lowing, and we called her “Topsy, Topey,” and she {came running and stayed with us till we came home. ALICE Norwich. CONRAD, Age 10. An Orange. Dear Uncie Jed: 1 am an orange and I came from lorida. My color is a very deep vellow. It was a colored man who picked me off the tree. T was sent in a bushel basket. There were a great many of my friends with me who were also picked off. I was sent dowm here by boat. I am a seed- less orange. There are a great manyv people who don’t like me. S%ne would rather have bananas. JOSEPH KEENAN, Age 12, Norwich. The Lost Apple. Dear Uncle Jed: One day Tom, Peter and Archie were playing near their home. 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She too but a bite, or a swallow or two, and the apple S seen no more. “r said Tom to Peter, “thai e'd n two so that we'd all had share.” HYMAN, Age 11 Norwich My Dog Rover. you z | with black sr loves to play E Saturday I had company and we played hide and 1d every place T hid I was e found. as the dog would follow me. bird dog, because he o not like him to run > T like to hear them MAY CARTER, Age 10 Norwich. Washington’s Rules of Conduct. D Jed: Here are some of Behavior” that George compiled when he was ought 1 to those action some company of respect nd obey your natural gh be poor e not what you cannot per be careful to keep you Use no reproachful language againet anyone: neither curse nor revile. Associate yourselves with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. MARY NOLAN, Age 12. Taftville. The Hard Lesson. Uncle Jed: I will tell you a son. One even- dy a lesson as he threw Dy Henry had to st L sald Hen his book down, “I cannot learn this lesson, and I shall not try.” “What s that?” asked his father. “Jot try! Then you may be sure you will not learn »it.” “Well, it is too ir hard,” said Henry, “and, besides, it is s0 long I know 1 shall never be able to recollect half of it, no matter how rnuch I try.” His father said no’hing, but waited to see what Henry meant to-do. Henry opened his book and looked at it again and at last put the book down. ‘Henry,” asked his father, “4id you gc to the postoffice? “Yes, 1 went, Papa,” said Henry. o you did.” said his father. “May k whether you got there all at I got there step by step,” satd P by step,” said his father: “so is the way you ought to study and you can learn So Henry returned to his study and in a few moments Henry shouted: “¥Father, I know my lesson!” “Good,” said his father; ‘“never you cannot when yvou didn’t try.” Henry, who called his lesson hard, found it was very easy at last. TRENE CHARTIER, Age 11 Wauregan =ay A Pleasant Surprise. Dear Uncle Jed Christmas was drawing near. My mother and father had decided on a Christmas present for us all The Monday before Christmas, about 2 o'clock in tne afternoon, I was play- ing on the organ and my sister was sitting by the window. I heard a nolse that sounded like a bi~ team, but I didn’t pay any attention to it. Just then my sister came and grab- houlder and said: bed hold of my “Do come and look here.” I jumped nd went to the door. s team with a large ob- d over with a cloth cov- were two men on the team. They brought it in the house and took off the cover, and there was a beautiful mahogany piano. My sister and I were both surpriged and wanted to play on it right then, snd now I should miss it very much. EVELYN BEARD, Age 11. Norwich. ject all covere ering. There Going to School. Dear Uncle Jed: I have been to school every day this year. Last year I got a certificate for going to schcol every day. I have two sisters. Their names are Edith and Mildred. They have been to school every day this year, too. T am in the fifth grade and Mil- dred is in the fourth, and Edith is in the first, and she is in the second der. My teacher Unionville No. 9. INES" P, AUSTIN, 3 is Miss Lester. T 7 Age .