Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 2, 1913, Page 9

Thursday, October 2 THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE Boys end Girls Departmen. Rules for Young Writers. L Write plainly on one side of the paper only and umber the pages. 2. Use pen and ink, not pencil. 3. Short and pointed articles will be given preference. Do not use over 4. Original stories or will be used. - 5. Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the idaress ail communications to Unm- cie Jed, Bulletin Offce. letters only tever you are—Be that; Whatever you say—Be true tforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, y else but you. POETRY. Tne Meo-Cow-Moo. dmund Vance Coeke, Little Tot.” s hrovicles of the a up to the mee-cow- S <t almost touch, ed him iples of times, or n T oW raid-cat—much. apa goes into the house 1e goes in, too, like a little mouse, cew-moo might moo! = moo-cow-moo’s got a tail like a s ravelled down where it grows, = just like feeling a piece of All over the moo-cow’s nose. he moo cow-moo has lots of fun st a-swinging his tail about, n he opens his mouth, en then, I run, use that's where the moo comes out, n the moo-cow-moo's got deers on his head n his eyas stick out of their place, the nose of the moo-cow-moo I8 spread over tke end of his face En feet iz nothing but finger-nafls o his mamma don’t keep 'em cut, e gives folks milk in water-palils n he don’t keep his handles shut, e if yoa or me pulls the handies The moo-cow-moo says it hurts, #ut the hired man he sits down clost by Fin squirts, en squirts, en squirts! Juet Before Christmas. = “ather Is me Willlam, sister calls me Will Mother calls me Willle, but the fellers call me Billl yis glad T ain’t a girl—ruther be Witho 1 sashes, curis an’ things t's worn by Fauntleroy! e to chawnk green apples an' go mmin’ in the lake— Ha take the castor-ile they give for belyache! Most all the time the whole year round, {liere ain’t no flies on me, B est ‘fore Christmas I' as good as T kin be! ugene Field. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE. AWAKES, here may be persons who do not bserve the differences in rain- irops. It is quite likely some grown think that all raindrops are of size and all snowflakes are shape. but they are not. ere have been found over 1,200 ¢ snowflakes, all raindrops the same form, for they var mind how much water t tends to form a round ball, =0 water is never level, the water in a little are iipper or wash basin being a higher than s es Do know an Englishman once devoted himself to measuring rain- drops and he found that some rain- drops were five times as big as some There are doubtiess more than e sjzes of raindrops, but that caught for measurement omparison How do you suppose he could & raindrop” #0 porous that the drops sank right in and did not spatter. raindrop was the si he largest a Isn't it wonderful how men invent ways to measure not only raindrops but heartbeats? atch He made plates of plaster e smallest e of birdseed and large as a pea day, if not in a nutshell would hitch up Dolly, the horse, go down to grandma’s and see if she you run a j not be able to find | weeds its sur | & number of Jarge holes i | when it grows on rocks it is covered LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Asa Hyman of Norwich: I thank you ever so much for the prize book sent me. Ernest Forbes 0f Norwich: Thank you very much for the book Robinson Crusoe. ™ I think«t is very nice., Lillian Brehaunt, Bast Norwich, N Y.: I received the prize book vou sent me. ave reac part of it and I found it very interesting. 1 thank you very much for it. MHattie King of Lebanon: The prize bbok you sent me was very intere and I thank you very much for it You certainly select splendid books as prizes. WINNERS OF 7P7F'.IZE BOOKS. _1—Lillian Brehaut of East Norwich, N. Y. A Little Girl in Old St. Louis. 2—Winifred Holton of North Frank- lin, A Little Girl in Old New York. 3—Lucy A. Carter of Scotland, A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia. 4 Circus Boys in Dixie Land. 5—Leon 'E. Dimock of Battleship Eagleville, oy's First Step Upward Rybic! of le Girl Mansfie Four 7—Raymond Welden of Willimantic The Camp in the Foothills. S—Jessie L Brehaut of Ea ington Thu winners' names were omitted by m take. If Richara C. Meran and George Farrell of Norwich will call at 1T Bulletin business office they will re- ceive the books which for three week have been awaiting them STORIES AWAKES. Four and Twenty Blackbirds. You all know the rhyme, but 1 twenty blackbi r and twenty hours. The The four an sent the fo s repre- bottom of the pie is the world, while the crust Is t'.c sky that overarches it. The opening of the pie day- dawn, when the 1s begin to sing, | and surely such a sight for a | king. The king, who Is represented as sit- ting in his parl money, is the that slip throu counts them are his the golden sunbeams. | The queen, who sits in the dark kitch- on, and the honey on | en, is the r which she The indust garden at work before her king, the sun, has riscn, is daytime, and the clothes she lFangs out are the elouds the moonlighi The birds, who so tragically end the | song by ‘nipping off her nose,” are the sunset. So we have the whole a pie HAUT, Age 15, LILLIAN BR t Nerwich, N. Y. The Lost Child. Half past one and Mary 184 net re- turned. Her father and mother wer hunting for her took her doll come back After dinner Mary out to play and did not Mary's schoolmate, sie, said she | eaw her going down the road about o’'clock with her. dolls. Her father told her mother that he was there. was eating her suppe He said: “Mary White, y7" “Why, par ma, Tast g rd you tell mam- that grandma was sick | I'came to sec her.” Her father only la You were a see her. but you know m w worrving and thougt lost, ched and said: mma and I you were MARGARE Bozrahville. M’GRATH Bread-Crumb Sponge. say_that you will be rather surprised to hear that neafiy 300 dif- ferent kinds of sponges have been found in the British seas. You will very many of these, however, for they nearly all live in deep water, 'and have to be scooped up by means ol the dredge. But the bread-crum’ sponge easily found, for it lives in shallow water and you are nearly sure to find it if you look for it in the rock pools. But I hardly,think that anybody on seeing it for the first 1e would take it to be a spcnge at all. For it is not in the legst like a bath sponge. It is | sometimes | just a kind of fles Ereenish in color and sometime low, which grows round the seaweed or covers the rocks and st about it i v crust ypl- stems ot surfaces of nes. And the odd thing 1t when it clings to sea- ace is quite smooth, with it, but that mp Fire in Bridgton consists t a dozen girls and our guardi- an, Miss Evs Howard. We meet in a i rest room on Main street svery Phursday afierncon at half pas At one of our meetings Miss rd invited us over to her camp on Voods Pond to sta uil day and cook sr dinner on the beack She appoinied a dinner committee of hree to buy our groceries, and each girl paid her pa Woods Pond d by a trail hrough the woods and across a sadow, but &3 none of us had ever »een througn it before we were afraid ve would not come out at Woods Pond. | nding Elk and Hawk Kye, two of | e boy scou The tral led 1 ne and on either side of it patches of red'bunch berries which nade it look very pretty. When we reached the readow we maw two large brown henbawks circling around a maple tree which pfobably contained elr nest Just as we caught slgat of the water retween the trees Miss Howard came out to meet us and show us her camp We put our groceries in the kitchen and then Miss Howard told us we might have =vo Doats to use all day. The water was as smooth as glass and we had a ‘ine time taking turns rowing around the pond. Two of the giris, Laveols and Light-of-the-Morn- ing, had not had much success rowing %0 they landed to try their luck hunt- sreed to act as guides, wera the woods lenind the camp, They found some rare specimens of ground- hemlock ooverea wiih delicais. scariet wax cups hold'ng a small brown seed “avesia bigw the dinner horn and ho glits tanded and Dagan to get din- ner The poye had pilsd up a large Howard lighted 1t all at once, The wind was blowing towards the cottage and as Ligze spra Lre Miss ough deep woods of | girls' cooking. down to try | ing for wild Mowers and butterflies mi | and one o enl wild flowess goikg only a short dis, tance, on another chowder or oyster stew f —Constance Walker, in | { ack of brush for ouf Ore and Miss | | e brush was very dry a fleree | up and sel Lhe grass on | ard WAS [righiened and | VACATION HIKE OF MAINE GIRLS B e — creamed for hor brother to bring some water to put it out. Sh he would not get ther quick enough, | 80 she picked up a pole and pushed the brush over toward the water. The fire was 80 hot It scorched her face, but the water soon vut the fire out The ashes were hot and the girls brought the potatoes down to the pond and washed them. Opechee put the po- tatoes in th: asnes and Laceola cov- ered them op with ashes wueen-cf-thc-Woods and made the tcmato soup moosha made the j}‘m‘h!‘» and Light-o th Wenonah while Nene- sandwiches and the-Morning set table under the trees. I'he tomatc soup was done and we all sat down tc eat it and praise the Some of the girls did not like tomato soup, so they went the pots sure and turn your potatoes After we finished the soup, we cut some green sticks and put a slice of bacon on them to fry. the bacon made the fire burn so brisk- v that the stick caught fire bafore the bacon was quite done, We had our meeting on the piazza and chose our Indian names given, The fat from some of which I Lave About 4 o'clock our guldes came ‘in from fishing and after thanking Miss Howard for ot home across the trail. On the way some of the girl i ber 6fwelintonla berries and berries Lo sults which we are golng (o cut out at Uie nexy mecting - good time we started picked a large num- bunch ceremonial string for our One day we bad = fower he wivis pi contest Led 67 differ When it is Cosler we ure going hike and have o clam v dinner ortland Ex. e T | commen mass, very Harold C Maynard of Lyme, The | Old New Or- | | t Nor- | wich, N, Y., A Little Girl in Old Wash- all byer with little prejeetions which 160k just like the eraters of velcanoes. It is rather diffieult to describe the animal which lives in the sponge, for it really eonsists of a larze number of tiny animals all joined together in one mueh like the pelyps of the sea-finger, But they are So very small, that unless you examine them by means of a good strong mis- €resecpe they only look like a mass of brownish felly. P 'fhese little creaiures ovtdin their foed in a very curious way. If you look at the surface of a sponge through A magnifl) g glass you will see thatl it is pierced by a great many very tiny holes, as well as by a number of bigger on Now water is always passing in through the small ho and as it does so the little creatures manage to suck out ail the tiny atoms of animal and vegetable matter which were float- ing about in it JESSIE L. BREHAULT. Edst Norwich, ¥ Elizabeth Disappointed. It was very early in the morning, so early that the sun was not up; but the birds were awake, and were 1y chirping and calling. Someone else was awake, too, little Elizabeth had been promised to the country She was to start this very mornir As soon as she heard someone talking, she sprang out of bed, ran to the window and=“she saw was raining hard he felt sorr and disappointed. But after breakfast, she cleaned her doll's house, and then made her doll new dres and after | playing awhile, she sent for agother little girl, who lived near her. ETTA. M'GRATH. Bozrahville. The First Shot at Lexington. Early in,1775 General Gage in com- » | mand of the British forces began to erect fortifications around Boston. General Gage planned a surprise to capture the es of military suppli t Concord, and dispatched a day, Sept. 11, the prize book | { Adams he | WRITTEN BY WIDE- | | tween seventy and eighty minute men have | | You ever heard what it really means? | dered his men to jand atter destroy ous maid, who is in the | 1 he | hunared and thir | man and | | dians. When he got there Mary | | >w dare good girl to come and | | Indian | carried the | her back. The fire was built by rub- | leaves no longer was afraid | | metal rivets or toes. The small | ones were dcne and these thay ate, but the rest were only done on one side, So be over if you try to cook them in the ashe of S00 men direeting them to go way of Lexington and arrest Samuel nd John H K. Pat Revere was nformed of the route of the troops by the aid of lan- terns hung in the belfry of Old North hurch and started on his famous ride, warning the inhabitants and aiso Adams and Hancock, who fled At davbreak on April 19, 177 be- Lexington on the n to oppose the eight hundred were drawn up at com itish The British major in command or ire and a volle was poured into them; eight minute men fejl dead“and ten were wounded The British marched on to Concord where they azain met the minute men 12 the few militay , Roston. HAROLD W. BLAIS stores returned Groton Monument. How many of the Wide Awakes would e to hear about my visit to Groton monument? 1 went to New London in An aute, crossed over the river on the ferryboat and then we we to the monument, It s very high, one ve feet; and twen- ty-iwo feet square at the base We had te take lanterns te go up the ene hundred sixiy-six sieps to the top, and then we could see a gr different places: and Block and and a great mar and heuse where e wounded Amerieans were left by ire British sc diers, After loeking around we came down and went to the eld fort, I saw the eannen and weni th h the en- rance from the fert te rifle pit. I think ali the bevs and girls would se interested te visit the fort and mon- iment, RAYMOND WELDEN, Age 9 Willimantic ther island The Indians. When white men first came to meri t was settled only by In- The Indians did not occupy the land, but simply possessed it. In go- x through the, for uld sometimes travel for days, per- aps weeks without meeting a human g To the Indians the land was mainly a hunting ground to roam over, or a battlefield to fight on The Indians were tall, and their skin e old capper. Their hair was long black and straight. Their eyes were small, deep-set and black. had hi; eek bones and long noses. he wgmen let their hair grow long The mén cut theirs off close to the coarse middle. It was called the scalp lock The Indians were savages. They lived by hunting, fishing and agricul- tur They used bows and arrows, hatchets and clubs for weapons. The women did the wo ‘hey built the wigwam, planted and ed the tobacco, made deerskin clothes for the family and when they moved they furniture and house on bing fwo dry stick together. The' Indians made moccasins, snow- | shoes znd canoes. The moccasin was made’ of buckskin. The canoe was made of birch bark. Kach tribe of Indians had a chief The Indians believed in a Great pirit. who lived in the sky. They wor- shipped the water, sun and other objects. They white man how to kill trees by burr ing or girdling them, and when the grew, the m would shine on the soil, and ripen the corn moon, stars which had been planted there. In- | dians were cruel enemies but good friends. They always kept their wor —UnSigged Riches Gained by Small Inventions. When you look at the rubber eraser inserted in the end of your lead pen- ¢il you wouldn't think the man who originated it received two ~hundred and dollars. would you? Yet that what a man in New Jersey got A miner who thought of Dutting eyelets at each corner of coats and trouse; of the pocket | to reinforce them against the strain of the weight of ore and tools car- ried in them, got more money than if he had “struck it rich.”’ The one who hit oh the idea of put- ting metal plates on the heels ¢ shoes to protect them from wear made at least two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and ‘‘copper brought their inventor about a million Toys brought quite a little money to people because the man who made the return ball got a nice fortune in the shape of a million dollars. . The same amount was’ given to the one who in- vented roller skates and an -Englis minister got fifty thousand for a toy which would dance when a string wa wound around it in some way and then pulled. HATTIE M. KING. Tebanon. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. My Summer Vacation. Dear Uncle Jed: School has begun onaa more, which I am no glad of. I have been three vears steady. My teacher's name s Miss Willlams, but think we will have another soon, ; My studies are reading, wriling, ariihetie, history, language, geography citizen: inhu'. physiology and fire-drills I am golng lo tell you about my I havs only fifteen now, had very bad luck, [ have got = pair, whieh will average squab per montl laite, Dve spotied ones, ane two fayis I have one blren one and six cheeke als, lite squabs, ~ I have buill anether large house. An- other vear | hepa to have betier luck 1 worked all my vagation for Mr, soft- | s the explorers | which looked very much | They | i, with the exception of a lock in | taught the | | fine success with them. | the State Fair at Be | cateh large fish. and after going home soles and | It is one thing to make soda crackers that are occasionally good. It is quite another thing to make them so that they are always better than all other soda crackers, always of un- varying goodness. - The name “Uneeda’”—stamped on every biscuit—means that if a million packages of Uneeda Biscuit were placed before you, you could choose any one of them, confident that every soda cracker in that package would be as good as the best Uneeda Biscuit ever baked. Five cents. Noyes. I picked seven hundred bask- ets of spberries. Some of it w I did not wish to do i 1 pleasant work, and some of it wasn't.| thousht it would hurt the little Those very hot days it was pretty | I clipped off the end of his wing tedious work., but I got along very|he could not fly away. When nicely | a vear old he could fly at leas I picked all the vegetables, which! top of the wall was a good deal of work. I harnessed| If I"said “Come here two herses twice a.day. I swept the|would fiy to me. He ate with the barn floors once a day This the | His featl shone, and second year I have worked there, and |a king of the barnyard. But expect to work there next year. { he heard a flock of crows in o T had a garden, same as usual, hut it | field and called to them wasn’t so good this year | guage. Soon he hopped to the I had some pansies, and everybody | I never saw him again who saw them said they were the | MARY RYBIC, A handsomest they ever LW 1 had a Mansfield Four Corners few other flowers of all colors and de- seriptions My=Trin it Spriaafatd HAROLD E, MAYNARD, Age 14. | AR et o I | Dear Unele 1 ng my Lyme A |tion T went to Springfield and My Pet Dog. | ey r Willimant from Dear Uncle Jed: I have a big pet|took the train for . Hartford dog whose name is Jim I have had | there to Springficld him two years. He is black and! One day we went to Mount white, He likes to- go to | While we were there we went the mail with me. When 1 Mountain Park Casino.. We school he comes to meet | supper up on the mourtain jump upon me with delight | he car that goes up the mountain is He can carry me on his back. I|drawn up by the car that goes would net like te part wit him. He | the mount by a chain. is a very geod watch do At night enit many other f he will net t anyone com good time. vard. 1 hewe that all the boys and FLOYD HILL, rirls have pets of some kind ! Norwich, CATHERINE MAY RIDDELL, 14 5 2 sazeo i Her School Dear Uncle Jed: I amtgoing m schol T n ‘. the Dear Uncle Jec ou a I study history ading, little laugh for s a e et Srthitici anc true story The stor bou e| og We write man poey Tewett City, when 1 used to live there | poem of o Vision:of My dog is pet and he doesn't like I am going to try and g ANy 2ly man to look him And so a man looked throu 1¢ window and said Rags ags! And tk dog came runming up and jumped to the window sill and ran to his face, e man ran away and there | The dog picked up the rubbers 4 clothes and dragged them to the kitch en | Oneco My mother: saw the dog do it, and | B she wendered wi he zot them Uncle Je I -wi Willimantic fair. SOFHIE GOLER. | L Norwic A Beautiful Morning Rainbow JéG: This morning, Sep ond _day_of the Dear T » could tember 1 I'saw the most wonderful sight T ever saw ahout half past | S e papa came in from his milking and 8 sod time he things I p if you want to see the most bheautiful thing vou ever saw.” | We all went to the 1 or and noise. the fair ground. | luck ‘to get one. around up in the air, and then when it landed thought it w. {down on our heads. 1 don’t think 1 should care to take a ride in one of them. In, sight it was up so high that it did not look to be over two feet long an: the man looked to be very small. It It was not without just cayse that went around over the lot several times, coming down lower each time, when all of 2 {then it run along-on the ground. have seen them, but this is the first one went.past our | the ancient functionary. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY |suh. T got to =4 you , | “Nevah, but crow’s tongue it would learn to spea because was | hanqueters’ Ib smmy!” |an opportunity for a e looked 1 there T 0 ’ st writter Launfal.” | What Lucy Saw at the Fair. d the INTERESTING PEOPLE. You could hear her all over i Francols Ferthlalt, the latest chev< There was a merry-go-round; and men selling ehances' for teddy bears |aller of the Wrench Leglion of Honor, and dolls on all corner: 1 didn’t toy | published his first volume in 1830,when chances to win one; but there were | he was 17, and his latest in 1912, This ral 1 know whe did, and had the | makes a record hard to parallel. There appear to be only two other instances 1 saw o great many kinds of hens|of & centenarfan writer, and neither of ‘and pigeons and oiher poultry. I think |these could show a literary life extend- they were pretty. lng over 82 years. Michel Chevreul, I'liked to see the horses trot. There [ who died in 1889 at the age of 103, is- vas. one horse that went without any |sued his earliest publication at the ver, and it won the race, too. age of 37 and his latest sixty years afterward,. Miss Caroline White, whose death occurred last September in her 1018t year, came nearer than this to the recordd of M. Ferthialt. She began writing for the monthly magazines when she was 22 and continled her literary labors until within a few months of her death. T saw the airship when it cireled I was real near it. We s going to come right It was fine, but When it came Mr, Gladstone’s name was given to the handy “Gladstone bag.” The grand old man was master of every detail of the art of packing. At a untry house they were discussing at breakfast the right way to pack a sponge bag when Hagcia the sponie had boen used and was ok P Air there was | consequently waterlogged. Mr. 5 The frst day of the falr there WAS | stone, who apparently Liad been wholly e kame one | absorbed in his morning’s correspond- ence, suddenly closed the discussion by informing the party that they were all sudden it gave a drop, and I suppose most of the Wide-Awakes road. We that was over to the i think it was 1 can't tell you all T saw, as it would 5 e take up too much room. wrong. “The only proper method,” he LUCY" A. CARTER, Age 11. said, “is to wrap it in your bath towel and stamp upon it. Then put it in your £ sponge ha. You will find it perfectly ry.” Father Ohrwalder,who for eight years was a prisoner among the African der- vishes and escaped, has died at Omdur- man. Hie career is one of the ro- mances of the Sudan. Born in Lana, near Meran, in the Tyrol, in 1856, he went to Cairo in 1879 after being train- ed as a missionary. The following year Seotland BRIEF YARNS. As he is naturally generous with his touring car, a_young Clevelander of- fered to take ‘the old colored janitor of the apartment in which he resides downtown the other day. ‘“No, suh, boss—no, suh, thank you, suh,” grinned “I reckon I'll ‘i\\z(n and go on de street cyah.” i covd ce ‘o |he went up to Khartum, and in 1882 {What's the matter, uncle Are you < 2 [hia s o duh—me afraid? No, | he was captured by the Mahdists in the e awg|Dar Nuba. He made many vain at- e el mave | tempts before he escaped. oncet, an’ den I didn't D. D. D. let all ma weight down!” America’s custom of giving banquets for men only, and then allowing the —for 15 years— The Stawdard Skin Remedy ever * wives—hungry and thirsty | to look down on the feast from a | lcony—this custom afforded Tord | Morley, on his recent visit to New York pretty compli- ment Morley, at one of these ban- quets, looked up the baleony, glittering with lovely women, and e: claimed Ah, now I understand the | meaning of the biblical phrase. “Thou | madest man a little lower than the angels. Camels are the only quadrupeds that cannot swim | Druggists. W / [/ T REACH ANY ‘SPOT ON THE MAP Hiiith i &x’ ou can reach any one or all of the 103,000 Telephones in this state, or the millions in adjoining states, from your Telephone by means of our TOLL LINE SYSTEM \ AW S :. etill and-send your spoken wish — your personality—over the wire, stating your business £nd obtairniag your answer in a single call. A TWO WAY TRIP AT A ONE WAY PRICE looking out saw a wide | Sy rainbow in the west a from | > . northwest to southwest rming more ! to have one than half d circle. If'shone s0 brisht- 1 pet for they are.too d lv that it seemed as if cach color st0od 'snit me. Th 4L A out distinctly, one fr another” Itl ey had Jata tent o wikl had all the shades of red, blue and | ghe kept making a dreadful vellow { ““Then, as we looked, another rain- | bow grew in the heavens higher than the first. The colors were just'the same, not so distinct All the clouds in the sky were red and pink nd the Finally sun came out beautiful colors faded away. WINNIFRED HOLTON, Age North Franklin, Leon’s Vegetable Garden. { Dear Uncle Jed: Last spring the Con- | necticut State Agricultural society gave me seeds to plant, and I have had | er gave me a place in his carden, and | raised pumpkins, corn, turnips, onions, carrots, beets, squa cucumbers, lima beans and watermel- } ons A sample of these w lin, Conn My f exhibited at Sept. h LEON EDWIN Gurleyville, DIMOCK, Age 9. Has to Do Lots of Work. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 had a very good time and a long vacation. we used to tip over lots of times. We had great sport . After that I used to go fishing with | some of our. friends. We used to 2 we. went in bathing the thing. Now I go to school and do not have so much sport as in vacation time. I &0 to school every day. 1 have to do lots of work when I come home. LOUIS POLLOCK, Age 11. Bagleville. My Summer Vacation, Dear Uncle Jed: T will tell you about my vacation My school was out the ath of June. T went up to my grand- parents’ and stayed a week. T then went home, and my mother took me to New York with her. We went to Oneonta first and stayed there two weeks. Then we went to South Gilboa and staved a week. We visit- ed several other places. . The last place we visited was Jamaica. We staved there a week. My cousin came home with us. Fvervbody was glad to see us. We were away five weeks, We came home the last of July My school opened the 2d of Septem- ber. BERTHA FULLER, Age 9. Eagleville. Mary's Pet Crow. Dear Uncle Jed: 1t was a spring day end | was golng to the woods Lo see if | could find sometbing to please my little brother, 1 found a few winter- gieen berries, but 1 knew that those| woildn't please him 3 | Afier I had walked some tarther 1} heard u erow “Caw.” It was a little one which had fallen from the nest. [ picked it up and took it home. 1 had heard people say that if you split the The Crawford Gas Ovens are safe; explosions are impossible. Ovens there is an extra set of burners at the top for broiling. = = — s You need a coal range in Winter for kitchen warmsh B ""\‘““; ; and for continuous hot water supply, but in Summer when | you want a cool kitchen and less hot water a Gas range is You get both in the Crawford Combination Range and you get the best of each. In the End For sale by M. HOURIGAN, Norwich Agent.