Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 12, 1914, Page 9

Rules for Young Writers. 1L Write vlainly on onc -ide of thez gaper only, and number Lic pages. 8. Use pen and ink, not pencil 3. Short and pointed articles wii be given preference. Do mnot use ove: 250 words. 4. Original will be used. 5. Write your name, age and ad- @r-ss plainly ot the bottom of “th=s story. Address all communications t> Un- sle Jed, Bulletin Office. stories or letters oniy “Whatever you are—Be that! ‘Whatever you say—Be true! Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, Be nobody else but you." POETRY. That Cat of Mine. ®nhe comes and rubs against my legs | When 1 am in the house, Or sits upon my lap and purrs AS quiet as a mouse; While with her paw. quite lovingly, She feels in careful way, The hand she finds caressing her, With kind intent to play. And then she vawns and stretches out, And looks up in my face, And rubs her head against my vest With most enticing grace; I never had another friend ‘Who knew so well the part, Or who could act it half so well, To reach the human heart. And she is jealous—oh, my soul! Her back will form an arch, And with her hair all standing straight Around me she will march; With tail as bushy as a fox, And looking round and fat, If I but have a word to say To any other cat, She always sees me to the door, Whenever I go out, And, too, when I come home again She always is about; I never had so true a friend To fall in love with me; But still it may be nothing strange— I love the cat, you see. ~Jake H. Harrison. UNCLE JED'S TALK WITH WIDE- AWAKES. One Jittle Wide-Awake wants Uncle Jed to talk to the boys about garden- ing, and it seems to be a good subject for the girls, too! What Uncle Jed doesn’'t know about Zardening would make a big book, al- though he has made himself a garden these many years, and met with some sucecess. Whether gardening wili begin in March or April depends upon whether the planter of seeds begins work in ¢he house at a southerly window of a warm room in April or out of doors in = glass-covered box in April, and it may be delaved to be commenced in the open garden patch in May. There are several good rules for be- ginners whether they be large or small. éntend to do—just what seeds you mean to plant—and not to try to do too much at the start, for it is-better to have a good small ‘' garden than 2 measley large one. ‘Whether you begin gardening fin a | Wright tin can at a south window in | the house, or in a glass-covered box in the yard, or in the open ground Yater, vou want good soil and good seeds, and the needful care and atten- tion. YLasziness has never vet culti- vated plants for its reward is weeds, and weeds need no care to grow, only half a chance to gef a good foothold. In cans and boxes the earth should be rich and moist and should be kept so till the plants have sprouted and have made four lesves, when they should be carefully taken up and set a few inches apart in rows to get size and strength for setting out in the open fleld when the weather is warm enough | —about the middle of May. The first thing to go inte the can or box is broken stones and coarse drainage, to be followed by the finer ‘materral. Tt 38 3aid a watched pot never boils, and i seems as though a watched seed i and if they thought him dead. Last week we learned that atoms are wery clever and very orderly. Today we shall’ see thai they are also as strong as giants. When we watch the feathery snowflakes, the flowers of winter, floating gently through the air and settling noiselessiy upon our roofs and gardens we are not likely to think of giants:; but. indeed, giants are noth- ing to the invisible perticles of mat- rer which form these delicate stars Professor Tyndall tells us further that the force of gravitation which holds the planets in their places is nothing to them. either, Why do the waier pipes burst when the water freezes in them? Simp! because the atoms have made up their mind to be stars, and do not intend to let anything so small as a water pipe stand in their way. The siars nat- urally take up more room than the water particles did when they lay | close beside one ansther, and delicate and fragile as they dook, they generally insist on having all the space they need. It is possibie by putting a suf- ficient amount of pressure upon a small quantity of them to curb their aspirations, but that condition rarely occurs in nature. So tremendous is the power of the expanding ice blosoms that the Flor- entines long ago burst a copper sphere with walls three-quarters of an inch rhick by freezing water in it, and in the year 1667 the great astronomer Huyghens burst cannon in the same way. Our “Giants” who win so many tri- umphs on the baseball field would be slow to attempt athletic stunts of this kind, but they are play to the frost giants, who are constantly doing things of this sort. Part of their bus- iness in life is to =plit up the rocks 50 that in time the fragments may make new soil in which useful and beautiful things can grow. The water works itself into crevices of the rock, and when it expands in freezing some- thing has to give way. Thus great masses of rock are split into frag- ments and boulders are rent asunder. At the foot of every cliff in those parts of the world" where the frost giants live we can see evidences of their labor. Sometimes this work is done slowly, as year after year the frost creeps deeper into the rock, and some- times it is very rapid. One naturalist tells us that at the feot of a cliff on HE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ DEPARTMENT t | stuft for | ¢hought of home. FROST GIANTS By JANET NICHOLLS. 1 I J | { LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.‘ { it and find it interesting. | Center, Rip Van Winkle. 3t is important to know just what you | It would take a long time to tell { what and snow do for us, but it is v to see that serve a warm winter covering for the eart They are cold, it is true, to the touch, but they keep the heat which the earth beauty never grows—it is right at the begin- ning that a garden teaches one pa- tience. Boys making little may ' grow lettuce, radishes, beets and bush beans, and it is surprising how much | may be grown in ten square feet of land. Girls can grow the same, or nastur- | tums, sunflowers, pinks, phlox or pan- ! sies and such seeds as produce good keepinz flowers. It is by commencing small that the greatest success is gained. gardens Helen M. McNamara of Norwich: I thank you for the prize book vou gave | me. The name is Marjorie Banks. It is very interesting. i Lillian Brehaut of East Norwich, N. Y.: I received the prize book you sent | me entitled Duxberry Doings. 1 have read it and I found it very interesting. 1 wish to thank vou very much for it. T Freida Retkovske of Norwich: T! thank you very much for the prize | books. I have read one all through and the other one I have it only partly read. They are both very interesting. Loxetta Piche of Norwich: I thank you very much for the prize book T! received. I think Mrs. Mead's books | | are very interesting. 1 bhave read it { all through, and think it is very inter- esting, and I am going to try to get another one. Fannie Brown of Willimantic: thank vou for the nice prize book gave me. ou I think it is real interesting. of Colchester: I much for my prize Almira Kramer thank you very book. That makes me three books. | Thig last one is The Romance of a | Midshipman. I was glad to get it. | William M. Cushman of Stonington: I received the prize book and found it | as Interesting as the others. I thank ! You very mich. i Edith Hall of Oneco: 1 wish te thank you for my prize book entitled Thei to read Many thanks for it. I shall write some more stories and try to get more books, as 1 am fond of readin; Little Mother. I have started WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—John Shea of Versallles, Black Beauty. 2—Elizabeth Sullivan The Meadow 3—Bertha Allieen Fuller ville, Little Lame Prince. 4—Mildred V. Morley of Eagleville, Animal Storles for Little People. 5—Abraham Schwaitzberg of Hope, Frank on Don Carlos’ Ranc G—Laurence Spencer of The Camp in the Foothills. Edward Kuchle of Mansfield Cen- Joe Wayring at Home. Norwich, Brook Girls Afloat. of Eagle- Mt Colchester, ter, | 8—Kathleen Johnson of Baltic, Anl- | mal Stories for Little People. i 9—Helen Wisheskie of Mansfield Winners of prize books living in the city may call for them at The Bulletin business office at any hour after 10 a. m. Thursday. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. A Drummer Boy Hero. When the Civil war broke out little Joe White read the news in glee. “Now I can be a real soldier, told his father. Joe wanted to go as a drummer boy, but his father would not let him. One night after reading especially exciting news about the war Joe stole out and ran away to join the union army. When he appeared before the gen- eral in the northern camp he gave his true name, but said he was three years older than he really was. He was ordered to the front and soon found friends among the soldiers. One day in the midst of a battle the | union goldiers were being driven back. Many northern men were killed and Joe seized a gun and began to fire with the rest of the men; but the confeder- ates overpowered them anrd Joe was taken prisoner. While he was in the prison he often ! He wondered if his father had gone to war; and many other thoughts came to him. Then he thought how he had run away and wondered if his parents missed him he Bering Island he found one September great pleces of rock as much six feet in dlameter split off by the frost. Next spring when he visited the place into in- agaln, they had been broken numerable fragments, No doubt it is because she hiow important these tiny that Mother Nature takes that they shall have their own way, and we ought to be very glad she does, for otherwise we wouldn't be able to live on the earth at all, and then we would miss knowing lots of interesting | things absorbs from the sun during the mer from es um- ping into the air, just as our clothes keep the heat in our | bodies, Thus they enable the plant§ | and animals beneath them to live through the winter, Now, if water did not crysiallize and expand when it freezes, but went on contravting as it gets lder, as it does up to the point of crystalliza- tion, ice would. of course, be heavier than water, and insiead of floating on the surface of lakes and rivers it would sink to the bottom. Then new ice would form at the top and would in turn sink to the bottom, until the whole body of water was frozen solid. Then all the plants and animals in the water would die, and mo summer would be hot enough or long enough to thaw the ice. And supposing the snow feli, not in feathery crystals, “like wool,” as an ancient writer says, but in hard pellets of ice, harder than any ice that we now _know, it would make a very poor blanket for the flowers. It may seem iike a poor blanket as it is, but as a simple matter of fact no covering of down on a baby’s cradle ever rested there more gently and lovingly than does her mantle of snow upon the bosom of the earth. It is warm for the very reason that the down is warm, because of the air entangled in it, and under its pro- tection the roots and bulbs and seeds that are to clothe the earth with during another summer, and give foed to man and beast, rest se- curely, wrapped in tieir winfer sleep, | tle the flag bearer was shot. | tent and questioned him about it. Af- | saw people planting rice. each planter would plant it In a wet| One day while .he sat number of new prisoners were brought in. Among them Joe recognized his father, Ther came a happy hour of talk between father and son. Joe’s father sald they had suspected he had gone to war. “Only a short time after you ran away I joined the troops,” said his father. After a time the prisoners were re- leased in exchange. Both father and son returned to war. One day while in the midst of a bat- Joe ran out to raise the flag t=e dead bearer had dropped, but a confederate had seized it first. Hastily seizing a gun, Joe flred, wounding the confederate. Then, running up, he and triumphantly bearing it aloft he inking a . plunged into the hottest of the fray. This brave deed was noticed by an officer and after the battle he spoke to the general about it. The general summoned Jjoe to his ter hearing the modest account told by Joe, the general praised him for the act and said he would like to see him at the commanding general's tent at noon. At noon Joe appeared. The general ordered all men to appear at a specified spot. telling of Joe's deed and then present- ed Joe with a little sword. After the war Joe returned home with his father. He found his mother well and happy on their safe return. Among the trophies he most prizes is the little sword given him by the gen- eral for tbe brave act Joe had per- formed. WILLIAM ¥. CUSHMAN. Stonington. One Little Bag of Rice. The first white people who came to this country hardly knew how to get & living here. Many of them knew how to hunt and fish. The woods were filled with bears, wolves, deers, rabbits and squirrels. The rivers were full of pickerel and a great many other fish. Many people made a living at this work. Thomas Smith, who had lived on a large island ‘off the coast of Georgia, He noticed place. When Thomas came over to America he wanted to plant it here, but he didn’t have any sced. One day a ship landed at his Georgla port. As Thomas saw it from a dis- tance he went to the shore. When the ship landed the captain said it was driven from the island. Smith was talking about the island. After a while Smith remembered the old friend the captain. He asked him or some seed. The captain called to the cook ked if there was any seed left. “There is but small bag,” the reply. Smith took it and thanked the cap- i He planted it in his backyard. as the way south Georgia began her rice crop. one was JOHN SHEA, Age 10. Versailles. A Sleighing Party. A week or two ago a few of my schoolm: :nt on a joyous sleighri . took our luncheon with the at and ate with ntry air. . m. and returned at ;T While w » riding along we met er s ; coming toward O, how vballed my fi to the d 1 enjoyed it much he little farmhouses were oV with snow d the chickens runni around—you surely could tell you were in_the country. Before we realized it w and all the people wer of the mill. It dark then, too. us coun- ed ix o'clock coming out was getting rather Fitchville and the driver had to get out and light the lanterns to turn homeward. I was very glad to see him tuwrn home, bécause 1 was hungry I reached home at 8 p. m. and after E a little lunch retired. But I say I enjoyved the ride very 1 suppose many of the Wide-Awakes have enjoved themselves during tha | st few weeks, JULIA DONOVAN, Age 13. Norwich. His Favorite Sport. My favorite sport is goi which is great fun, e y we are learning. As it is hard for | some to learn, they take many falls, | Y ool is I hurry home | skates and my { pond with my friends. and _get We spend two ing and playing games. flve we start for home. is over we next dav. About half After supper do our home work for the If we get our home work done early we play many games. When we have skating we visit the pond every might after school and spend two or three hours in a skating match, I can skate pretty well now I took The a large pond, and many people v cially on Saturda day. As T aid not live far from the pond 1 could run home any time 1 felt cold. it afternoon and Sun- I must say that 1 hope The Wide Awakes enjoyed skating as well as I d1a SLIZABETH V. SULLIVAN, Age 13. Norwich, Samuel and His Pets, Samuel lived in the country a few miles from my house. He was ver good and kind to the animals on h: father’s farm. Old Toby was quite a friend of Samuel. who spent many an hour #eaching Toby tricks He would come up to Toby and say: “Giood morning, Toby,” and Toby would nod his head. He would reach out his hand to the horse and sa “Toby shake hands,” and the wis d horse would raise his foot for Samuel | to shake. Samuel's father and him dearly and they him whenever they do so. mother loved tried to please thought it best to him a might father told Samuel he care of it. was very much pleased with and he began at once to tame In a short time it became so tame it saw Samuel come into to meet him. gave calf, which have if he it that when the lot it always went I Taft Poultry. Poultry ranks sixth among agricul- tural products in value. The products ranking her than poultry are beef cattle, Al products, cotton, wheat and swine, There are four general types of squl- try—the meat type, the general pur- pose type, the egg tvpe and the orna- mental type. Some of the names of the fowls of the ornamental tvpe are Polish, the Game and the Bantams. Some of the names of fowls of the meat type are the Brahmas, the Coch- ins and the Langshans. Some of the names of the general purpose type are the Plymouth Rocks, the Rhode Island Reds and the Wyandottes. Some of the fowl belonging to the egg tvpe are the Leghorns, the Black Spanish and the Minorcas. The most popular variety of chick- ens are the Plymouth Rocks, because they are good for meat and will pro- duce a lot of eggs. It is a quiet hen and will incubate Its own eggs. The most popular variety of the egg breed is the White Leghorn. It is a zood layer and has been known to lay as many as two hundred and eighty- one eggs in a year. The food which laying hens require are whole grains, dry mashes, charcoal, took the flag | Then he made a short speech' We had just reached | and tired, | up to the | < : | or three hours skat- | espe- | water, meat scraps, oyster shells, beets, cabbages and skimmed milk, A good mixture for a dry mash is two parts corn, one part of bran, lin- seed meal, gluten meal, meat scraps, and wheat middlings. A good mixture for whole grains are two parts corn to one part of oats. BERTHA ALLIEEN FULLER, Age 10 Eagleville, St, Patrick. St. trick was sold in Ireland for a slave and employed by his master in tending sheep. After six years of bondage he made his escape to France, | but he could not forget the land which he had left. He devoted himself to religious studies till he was forty-five | vears old. He asked the Pope if he could return to Ireland to preach Christianity to the pcople. The Pope granted his request and Patrick returned to Ireland about the year 1432. MILDRED V. MORLEY, Age 10. Eagleville, LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. The Care of Country Roads. Dear Uncle Jed: A few weeks ago we had a lesson in agriculture whicl has led me to think that the roads in { Mansfield are not repaired in the prop- er way. When the recent storms be- gan the water collected in the center of the road, forming mud puddles. In other places the water, instead of go- ing in the gutters and then running into the culverts, ran across the road in rushing streams. On Monday morning when I was a short distance from the school, I saw the water flowing very swiftly across the road. Although I wore canvas boots, the water was so deep that it reached over them. When I arrived at the schoolhouse I found the teach- er and one scholar there. They told !me a young man had carried them across, There are a few points in road ilding and repairing that should be membered, If one expects to walk along the road without getting his feet ! wet. They are as follows: Roads should be higher in the cen- ter, The gutters and culverts should be kept clean. Rubbish should not be scraped from the gutters into the center. The knolls should be cut down and the hollows should be filled in. If these notes are foliowed there will be less mud, and trouble. ABRAHAM SCHWAITZBERG, | | | ‘ Mt, Hope. Age 13. } Be Up and Doing. Dear Uncle Jed: Last year my father | | told my sister Ma that we could | | have the ground at the end of the gar- | den, to do with as we liked. So we made up our minds to raise flowers. ' Mary went to work at once. She was up bright and early, digging, planting, and looking after her gar- den. But while Mary was at work in the} morning I was still in bed. When I did get up there was only time to get something to eat and hurry off to | school. After school I played a while, and after, that I studied my lessons. Now and then I thought of the garden but only to put off the work until at last it was too late. When I saw the flowers E: garden I was both sorry and hamed, sorry beca: I had no garden and ashamed because 1 had not done what I ought to do. It has been a lesson hope, and after this T shall {ry to do at once | whatever 1 ought to do, and not put | it off. to me, 1 | | HEI EN WISNESKIE, Age 14. t Yantic. How the Old Jay Acted. Dear Uncle Jed: I wonder if many of the girls and boys fed the birds while the snow was on the ground?| | They seemed very hungry and would | come to our door and ask for food. We gave them grain, tallow and crumbs They acted very tame. One old bluejay came up to our win- dow and took some corn. It was my brother’s seed corn, so I went out and | got it and put some boiled potatoes | there: he came agafh and looked for the corn, but couldn’t find it, so ate the potatoes, and I think he liked it just as | well H | I heard somebody found eleven dead . but all the quail are not dead | yet, for I saw nine and my mother saw four of another flock. My brother found a little dead bird in the henhous None of us knew its name, so we looked it up in the natural istory and think it must be a st 1g. It is very pretiy, and about the size of a robin. Its color is purplish- green, and its feathers on neck and back are tipped with buff, also the edge of the wing and tail feathers. The neck feathers-are pointed and its bill is one inch long, round and pointed. | I think this bird a new one around | in one place and fourteen in an- | them to read | here. Can you tell me what is it? | CARRIE E. MAIN. Norwich. (The description leads me to think | lit may have been a stariing.—Uncle | | Jed.) ! My Tame Ferrets. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 am going to tell you about my pet ferrets. white ferrets with pink ey large brown ferret. One of the white ones is quite ugly. These ferrets are very good hunters and they also catch a great many rats. One day .I was sitting on the back door step and one of the ferrets crawled up my back. 1 did not know whether it was the ugly or tame one. Then the ferret came up and sat on my shoulder. 1 was afraid to move. |1 shonted to papa to take the ferret away, which he did very quick then took him and put him cage. Papa has made two cages and has painted both green. 1 also have a large white Bull Ter- rier. His name is Gueliph. He thinks everything of me. When I play | | in his He does a great many tricks for me and T am going to teach him to sing, which I have seen many dogs do. ALICE HAGGERTY, Age 12. i Norwich. | A Little Prize Winner. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 hope you will i talk to the boys about gardening as it is getting nearly time to plant seeds in the house. wire four feet high and planted a row_of pole beans near the fence so the vines had support which saved getting poles; and also saved room so I could plant sweet corn, potatoes, turnips, beets, squash, and some small seeds. 1 had to hoe this garden very often, and sometimes carry water to keep things growing; but when I received the prize money on my beans, tur- nips and Hubbard squash I thought gardening pays; and I shall try again this year. LAWRENCE SPENCER, Age 11. Colchester. Her Trip to England. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 am nine years old and have crossed the Atlantic twice. I went te England. There I had a lovely time. 1 went to shews, plavs, and moving pictures. He | tag and if some one is it and touches" me, Gueliph things they are hurting | me and jumps upon them; but he| doesn't bite. He knows what will happen if he bites anybody. 1 have two ! , and one | I live in the country and have had some experience in raising vegetables. | 1 spaded up the ground and put on some fertilizer and then turned the soil over and over to make it fine and mellow. I fenced my garden with ponitry The thing T liked bes o e oSy T B e ALCOHCL 3 PER CENT. AVegetable PreparaionforAs- simitating (he Food and - ling the Stomachs of INFANTS ~CHILDREN Promotes Di ness and Rest Contains neither Opium.Morphine nor Mineral - NOT NARCOTIC. sz-n\x}n COMPAKY, * MNEW YORK. Af6 months old: 35 DosES=35 CENTS A aranteed under the Fe s was the parks. In most every town or city| there is a park In these parks they have swings, | hobby horses, old-time stocks and pillories, 'and lots of other things to amuse children. It would take a long time to tell about the flower gardens, the bowling greens, cricket fields, and many oth- | { er things. I hope the Wide Awakes will have a chance to things see tes h I r thought Tuck. KATHLEEN my them ad Iw Baltic. She Enjoys Natural Uncle book entitled very Dear thank vou the Wide the amuse it did me. stories and to you and try ocean to and go across which would something as Awake write ould JOHNSON, Age 9. History. Jed: I received your “Robinson Crusoce,” and much for it. 1 wrote the composition, not for book, but for the pleasure I take in writing. 1 will write you about my liking for studying Natural History have quite a few books pertaining to Nature and thought you in the names of them. H “Half Hours follows: “Woods’ Natural Deep “Young Folks' “Bird Neighbors;” and are Hunted; the Rocki at Home Trees and How Life;"” book one and Home;" “Rep Home, Birds . Home. I think I have of N, L now frien I kn them I d Balti ird So a fi ve It it their love, not to be LEROY EARL F like titio tile wtural to ledge ds ow o not in t on eart vorst bird h ¥ s st 1y ¢ brings them fellow I enjoy of about agree with Master Blais o America, ravenous bird, might be interested They are in the Great Natural “Birds That Hunt » “Wild Birds East of ;7 “Butterflies and M eshwater Fishes; to Know “Wild Flowers two;” “Wild “Mushrooms at got quite a library History impart to others the f. I tell my 1 animals 2> in telling m Wirds rejof the and he Eagle being the worst h. I think the largest and of prey is the Condor of Ithough the Eagle is and has more ories about it. me reads I should advise Natural History because in closer contact with creatures and make uel to dumb anims “CLESTON, Age He Belongs to the Corn Club. Dear Une cle Jed: Last Saturday the corn club members had a meeting at the college. club so I went about ten o'clock. h, president Agricultural college, talked to us about | After that Mr. | Bea the rasing of Southy also the corn Mr. Connecticut I belong to of the corn. talked to us. As soon as the corn comes up use a weed deeply. er. Th After use a cultlvator the corn gets hen quite about two feet high lse a spike tooth culti- vator, quite shallow. Th corn. the Ther en re were four supervisor looked at our prizes given out on the corn. Ou gets the trip to r wort president, Mr. Washington. hy Storrs, We also had one pig, a calf, and a pen of chickens given to the boys who had the best corn. Th also papers. subscription en the: Farmer. After that we ing. There were ther plasy I shot EDW. . After >d basketball. At three thirty re was money given out; I got one dollar, also a to the had some rifle shoot- ten times. about twenty boys up the rifle shooting we we left ARD RUCHLE, Age 11 Manstield Center. Dear Uncle Jed: farmer’s best the The Farmer’s Helper. friends. He during the heat of the day under stones, stic whic! lies s h giv forth T any other kind of shelter shade and moisture; but soon as the day grows cool he sal- | in search of food, which consists mostly of insects. Like changes his skin; but no skin can be | all other animal the toad found after he has changed it, like the snaki es. ‘When a toad changes his skin he hides in some shady place. He acts as if he were in severe pain. The skin splits on his back and the opening gets larger and larger, forward and off till he works it off is hind legs, which looks like a boy taking off his trousers. Then he works it off his front leg and with his feet pushes it over his head and rolls it up into a ball; and what do Hi body u think? He swallows it. is covered with humps as | o Connecticut The toad is one of ; hides | CASTORIA Zsrlutunts snd Chilipn, ¢ The Kind You Have - Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR Fa1v. NEW YORK CITY. in summer. I e to ride on the salt water in a rowboat, and it is lots of fun to pick vp shells on the beach and pick « rs from the rocks. Some of the ovsters are small, but they are fine, just the s: I am seventeen lessons. e a neighbor who is a civil ¢ of all, he makes h has made some worth ench air which father calls it of the Wide- sraded school, and T am in the grade. I am taking his- tory this vear, and like it best of all lies. T like to read about Wash- Jefferson, Franklin and Lin- | { coln, | 1 enjoy stories about Washington. I |m<o the one about the cherry tree, the one about riding his mother’s colt, and | the one about throwing the dollar | across the river. ome people do not ihvlie«\'e that anyone could throw a | dollar acros a wide river, but Wash- ington may have done it, because a dollar would go further in his day. VERA GAGER BRIGGS, Age 11. Sayvbrook. The Bob-Sled Race. Jed: There was a big t Norwich, .-Y., Hill day afernoon to see the bob-sled My sister and I were there, as d vacation. Only a day’s notce was given, and fourteen bob-sleds were there. Dear crowd Thur: race. This was the first real bob- sled race and it was a success. Althom the hill was slow on ac count of 1dden change in tempera- zero on Tuesday night, was fixed up, to 40 or 50 on T d the course was de- clared by all to be the finest on Long Island. The arrangements for the af- fair were in the hands of Oyster Bay hbors, but the prizes were given residents of this village. % he Locust Valley bob 1911”7 proved in any kihd of weath- there were thirteen contesta with Mrs, Weeks at her helm, the 911" had no difficulty in taking first honors. There were fiv ture from near when the event by h prizes of $40, $30, $20, $15 and given for distance only, the distance being measured from a given point. | JESSIE BREHAUT. | East Norwich, N. Y. A Sieighride. Dear Uncle Jed: Last week a party of schoolmates and I had a very en- joyvable sleighride to ]“ltch“ilh".~ We started from Washington Square about o'closk in the afternoon and arrived at Fitchville about 7: but on ! the way home we came along much faster. The sleigh was large and roomy, but ! with thirty boys and girls we managed fill it up pretty well. Such a glorious time we had. I don’t think it can be equalled, and I wish Uncle Jed, you had been there to en- 1 joy it with us. b *Mid a great tooting of horms, which we had, we started off, and I don’t think I ever spént a more enjoyable ! afternoon and evening. When I arrived home, about 9 o’clock, I was very tired and after a hearty supper I fel eep. “MA RET M'VEIGH, Age 12. Winter Sports. { Dear Uncle Jed: Perhaps vou and i the Wide-Awakes would like to hear ur sport Uf\%», h:’i(l)t a fort last week and made a tunnel through it. We each made 2 chamber to stay in. We had great going in and out of the fort. We made holes in the sides for loopholes. The next day we had a snow fight. One side s the Americans and the i other the British. We also made a snow man_ and planted a hat on his head, and we | tried to knock off the hat. I made a pair of skiis last summer. I tried them on end and went up a hill, but the snow wouldn’t hold me. ASA HYMAN, Age 12. ! Norwich. 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