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¢ - . For Infants and Children. j; 3 N g n th n overt e wound. 3 1. Write pluinly on one.aids. > fFhe trees are m% - 5 3, Mofllers Know That only, and number the in d the settler is 3 as in & e er RNy Use pen and ink, not clearing the land r¥ & Short and poinfed 'will ind pastuge ' for his But, | gawn’ H ; i i LI S&mm% Ty [ Genuine Casteria aren is greatly 14, 1917 ‘be given 250 words. 4. Original stories or lettersjonly will be used, 5. Write your name age and ad- dress plainly at the bottoms of that! Whatever you say—Be trost . Straightforwardly act Be_honest—in Be nobody else * you'* POETRY. Mister Spider-Spangle-Lege, P long,. each forepaw has five toes fur- Taate. THS NSy nishe! with fclaws, but the hind paws © Mister Spider-Spangle-Lega. Sailing there in your balloon; Salling there beyond the “Gainst the rim of the golden moon! O Mister Spldehsfllfllfi-m The dew is on your @I leaps. The tail is long and ¢ I see it glint like spi stars . and s of grea in balan X it use In c- CZugnt'in the aim web's gausy naze! | anfmal it leaps and In | Frevn e’ trsen 1 o o Uss P g {its Dody when it sits erect | 4137 know thiai. You o, ive. Asiecp on the deck of your pleasant = Bt A0 g lovg ki craft, o o P Light are the billows that float and o 3 m:‘m:fmfigf "m Fflr OVBY float, o g PR o ot o it % On, light as a dream as’they gentiylf ‘most :singular thing about the | LoUve EOL It 4 Fwn pat s waft 4 is the poucn or sort of 7 i Touw up and up to the golden moon £ the mothér carries its | When your flag 3is'in need., Irly B a r q S 2 Light is the breath of the evening } very funny sight to|Help and help & along, ola who had neither fa- But lighter still your.gay ballaon! sitting up, and a eer o 3 1 Yor then you cjan.ch s NEW PO AR out of the pouch,|When the victc wy is near vas very x.,é“&d r.::m 3 my see 1f 1t would be|And celebrate - with 3 her for h e e, % DEROT FiY SASNT, Age 11 oo Nl o B 5 through! ¢ - 0 e ‘was. ‘Though !L’:{fli the kangaroo, when Norwich. , her sleep and sat on her I want you at morning, rosy-clear. 4 omaug” B % gerous enemy, for giAna in tne even baimy ‘and (binetf} CEReCne biow ot ihe Jong pointed claw of g : saw a little_elf sitting on you my rome- L0 tts ind. Toot it will rip open and (A-adm. her bed. She looked at Captain May tham was = retived men surprise and safi: hedge 45 long as you care, as long ascyou | Ll the ATECetifos, Somettnos. (00| captain who iejad vieited mearly every| oL donct will; il = its foekin its fore paws and | Important sea port in the warld ang{ The littlp elf told her mot to be so Oh, T welcome vour sloop at my gar- s hold it under the|Was fond of HWwing over his past ex- to be glad for what she den edge, = periences. 1 oipce heard him tell this {8ot. So Iffink she got over her wick- Sio TS Gaihe 0 G is valuable, not only|Story: | 5 [edness. He was saili1 38 in a vessel that be- LEOLA LEGARY. b all Muskoma, because Muskoma wa. d Buy a Liberty Bond before for the sake offits skin, but for its Our Friend in the Gardem . |4 which 1 spught after by hunt Knaea to e \’:BCD- When the ship Versaillgs. g an Indian village, and ail the other & |ers Both white and binck. The kanga- | ¥as -oce: great storm arose, vs wera redskins. Their skins were | late—at He is not John. the gardener, e e sty sagett el 18 often soen | the vessel was - wrecked, and everyboay 'he Span of Li not really red, you know, only ruddy [ THE THAMES NATIONAL ko | was drowned e: jcapt Captain Maytham | Life is [just a short span of years. brown, and certainly the white boy's o ‘And yet the whole day long in museums andecollections of strange He makes himself quite useful { o and the first @ mte. They clung to a |We're Ilvihg under the same roof, en- skin wasn't white, because the sun ,f ” and the wind had tanned it almost as CONNECTICUT PATENT The flower beds amons. 3 & End: phenll 06 o 4 B — BLANCHE GEEENWOOD, Age 13.} mast a 2 orm was over |joy eachj other’s company and may 6 1 e o A Plainfeid. they saw an islimd in the distance. As [bestow kindly deeds on each other if \ ) i ruddy brown as an Indian's. S50 yoi Hhe Gther Gite ._i ::‘elei:l;:g ;‘ae-y l.:-l:’:nm :vmfi, ©of a|we are ot for each other's welfare. . s e . hwWhu made him difforent from all | Many Useful Devices Are feaithy P H, lar. . but | After afwhil 11 @ . = the rest of the Muskoma boys was his s i With stealthy stride and slistening [ How 1 ‘-;“ ",Y fi:’e’d’vsl;e.;wake found it uneivilkred. Ehey found some i i et ey A Llittle Dutch Girl, by Martha H. Rallly of Norwich. halr; because it was red and curly and 6 £atest Lia He_crept upon his prey. Circle How 2 aielillost ner gold dollas| little wild anim pls there which the see no more. Then finally, theirs were black and straight. There | Tne atest list i ARG = ISR 1o oF WHan T Rt wnine shot, for luckily .their ammunition aid lall are gone and a new generation will E was another thing that made him dlf- [yne 1. & patent He 1s not Dash, the dear old dog, /| My uncle gave'me a gold dollar on|Rof Bet Wwet, L)fier eatistying chelr |take ourfiplaces. [ v Lawen 3009 DD ERewelt 8 y ety ferent from all the Indian boys. They | Connecticut, as conta = ' 4 T ac aro or a shel- | Whi re living, why not make s o could sit stil, and he could not, ex- per e b R A T 1~ LK e P for each other? Then what| MIRIAM SHERSHEVSKY, Age 9. cept when Ossawippi, the old chief, | fony Crerte: Hasuel = You'a come to love him, too. "™ About two yearslago while at schooi | "3 a grand #nd lovely span of years we'll| Norwich. - | was telling him a story, and even then | Crowlay. Feacon . too. B e &t e gl en they ente wed they found a lon |have through. Why even the it wasn't what an Indian would call |pac Asthue G G He's not a blackbird, though he ehj around the organ apd about two ‘hours sleeping. As sopn as the lion saw |starse will twinkle with delight as they The Lost Pig. sitting still. The only time when he | cefling ana floor B though b o e atawnrds X Hmctpared piy ocweis | them he sprang & them, but the cap- view the cheerful situation| Dear Uncle Jed: One morning I took was still was when he was fast asleep. | Holdredge, Stoningt: Yet now he wears a loose, grayi was zone. We huiged all around and| Pil Sprang awm and = the _uniucky jof we tals here below. a pail of dough and went out to fecd His right name wasn't really Sun- |iell; Manfred h e s ¥ 2 Wy mate was eaten, \xemu“ he wasn't s and crickets will sing, fire- |the hens. I got them about half fed rise; but that was what his mot!®r | automatic compe . X A while afterwsnds the organ was gg;ck enough tot|get away from .the help lonhr:,s]'hlen :lhmgs and |when the hens began to fly. I looked sometimes called him: and eome of the | bert R. Gaubsc : & Ve s B . 5 i 3 es will bless all. da. I boys cailed him that sometimes. His |crometer =auge b - g A B e o axing friend | When the captsiln recovered his wits ENGE GAUTHIER, Age 15. |abont thirty ponnds came . runnies right name was Reginald. Kin and M. N Dow He somelimes sits beside our door, |and as she was iaiing the old onme|ne WORE info the hut and shot the argund the corner of the hovse. © Rornie T HROWIRAN, kS 0. Jorake fec But in a sunny flower bed it to e, for WHIGH T was very thenk- | ound nothing bul o lacss plece af e Den: g' and began to eat the grain I had fed Tio Tl Bi e Abods ful® ™ for WhicHY was very thank-| red cloth, which, fhe put on s high| De e = :‘:::&r‘%hgflgg $ho hens Sy father lesmed & Goor LEDYARD SCHOOL EXHIBIT. He cats the things that cat my plants| GRACE I MAFONEY, Age 12. | hoe o0 2 hill Dhyckly o ship which |08 L B e et harshars |UD againt the post o he couldn't o e e i 8 15 & Triendly toad. oy, | ¥ as passing saw it and etopped at [2DOSLNooking for bl get through. My brother Henry went To Be Held Friday in Conjunction | jnuive weich Jullana H. Bwing. e N | Tae caplaln saw the &hip ™ Whem 1 planted my sweet peas about into the yard and tried to catch him. With the Graduation Exercis ter, New Have - - My Gewden. b four # 1 placed ti tick: e came up to the wire where I was ’ 4 balance wheel; Wilsc % on the ship recogrttzed him and gave [Z2F a5 the tee and tien s |ana Henry crowded him against it and A public school exhibit at graduation | Haven, electric_clo will be held at the church in Ledyard | Greenw na H. J UNCLE JED'S TALK WITH/WIDE-| One day just beSyre school let out|him passage back tb Ensland. i et o bt e e , 2 stringi/from one stick to the other in|I grabbed him by the hind leg and the teacher in histowy p p-| On the way he told the captain of | ST\ from one stick to the other fn |, §0 3 hela nim. supporter clasy Center, Friday afternoon, June 15th, at : AWAKES. plication blanks to fill out for either|the vessel of his adventures and.nar- v i » E 1 T ! o = My father took him by the hind legs ¥ AJl the little Wide-Awake/gardeners osxeg:erg::e;:ns. ”:-.mfil Ganning.” | row escapes. e ke A on’;""“;mmg while T was looking |and carried him down to the pig pen 2.30 o'clock. At this time a copy of know how the constant rains have|T filled out the blank for home garden- T g © |out the window, I saw a sparrow [and put him in it and gave him some each pupil's written work in the vari- hindered gardners this Spring, Some- | ing 3:d promised togifiant at least one- Dog B: fyi bout the garden. I watcied |Warm milk. a ous subjects will be on exhibition. b Tracet Spri = half an acve. 9 him “for I thought he was after my | My mother thought tha: e pig v ve a . ow, almost every Spring/resolves it- ? ‘the ground\fwas plowea my| There is not muchynore danger from s /but I later discovered it was |Delonged to my uncle because he had Each teacher will give an actual dem- AlL: self into 2 cold and backward SPring: |yt wing Sron G [ T il e | the bite of a dog thaktls not mad, that |the gltring he was after. With nis|a little pf. B onstration of the work done in her and if it isn't too wet # may be too]untll it was level Iikhen planted one|lS; not suffering from fhe disease call- | tiny Ik he got the string off of one | Henry went over to my uncle’s that school. 5 4o 9o 1t.hen Quart of beans, one afcorn and plast. | ©d rabies, than thendis from any|of the sticks and was flying about the |43y and when he got there my uncle Special prepared_thems will be pre- e : = ea twenty-six hills afficucumbers and | Other lacerated wound§ A bite from a|othegs stick, trying to get the string|asked him if he had seen anything sented hy the graduate; = We have all wished the rain this|iy, 700" 1T lokmeloniy 1 put In a|dog that is really madBis a rare acci~ uut he ‘could not. of a little pig. = “Kitty and the Butterfly,” by Emile| The school board, teachers and su- Spring had beer divifed with some|&mall patch of o barmipy radimhes | dent which demands mwompt and fear- ent out and took it off myselt | Henry sald he hadnm't seen any be-|p, . ¥ 00 110 TN % pervisor earnestly seek the attendance n an s_ o ers Jess favorable parts of the earth for|and carrots. Y . D e oA & ut it on & nearby tree. The next{Coufe he wanted to have some fun 5 = of every person In the town of Led- ma log’s bite remlly makes a it was gone. I was vi laa the | W - V' is hain Bad Ittle. 3 e that, v write one, t0o, “bul cannot hie Tolion i o me to get on the harrbw and go once My brother sald you will never get|Write with pen and ink very well. cariied out: v - - Here in Southern New England/ we|around. I went ascanfl and he went ilii 1k B i Bl Gammwioine DOROTHY MERRIFTELD, Age 8. | Musio Volces of the Wood, Sates 4 & have 45 inches of water on the /Jevel |Out and went to sleep/and slept un ENell® i wmets sain. o aoa going| Baltic. erry school: Praver, Rev. B. Good- o r Ic - annually, and the last Uncle Jed fkmew | fhe noon bell h‘;""i;_;;{"‘:',:"t',‘,i"mf,'}: to put on my boots and going to look gnough; Tirst Grade Reading, isa A b~ sbout it there had not been rein in|for ft. Bt T it B iy He Wi} Keep the Flag . and Fourth grads, Avithmetie Drill, by The Original Aden, Arabia, for 75 years: butywhere HARCLD WILDE. 3 g BT e on't 2y | Dear Uncle Jed: I am a little boy | Miss Bertha Bxley, Drawbridge: s b e SRR Cleaned the Lawn and ‘Picked® Up|warked very hard to clean the vard, |D€ed of putting on your boots. Come | geven years old. Tty HoNosty In Tadsacd: ANOls Matn Milk ool s ot e i - Stones. I/ raked the lawn and burned some|OVer te our house and you can have| Papa told me our country is fighting | Physieai Trainme. Mics Edna Doy a i dews at night. 7 5 & rass that was old and wasn't useful. | YOUT Pig. He took his auto and came | with Germany. I am a small boy and t . Direct Study, Mias il the bod The Flag. Dear Uncle Jed: Every'sprinameday |7’ over and got him. y Lantern Hill; Directed Stu. s | Upbuilds and sustains the While wo have been having 80 much| g . for o momert] consider the |is set for us to clean up ouroor- [ to0k SomS Dranches from the trees LEROY CONGDON, Age 12. |L,would like a flag. for I love my | Dorothy Hester, Center: Arithmetic| No Cooking or Milk requir in this S E 3 ¥ = hat 3 = & i i o . Drills, Miss Jessi Browning, Geer - 5 ra pring, England was without | origin and development; lof Old Glory- yagi st A i _:msh;';u mehweglas nndn put t;:en;x l:n Moosup. Id\vnsh all American boys were scouts Hn|¥ Silas Deane, Gertrudo Hiather- | Used for ¥3 of a Cer Y e g en when T was finished pick- and when I am older I'll b B . T vl Pro eadin, . er be a Boy | wick, Unfonville; Promlem = Readin, | gupentutes Cost YOU Same Price a drop of rain for 27 days, which is|The most authentic histibrians tell us for that country.|that in the year 1777 GecFge Washing- ing up the twigs and branches, I pick- Dorothy in the Country. Scout. My iacy Toster: Tovter: Thizd Orade up the lawn and pick up the s somsthing unusual ton, having designed anijemblem for [I picked up the chips and put theml|.g up little stones that were in the : Y Papa and_my b - e But Englan®s wettest month in 1836, <3 e i Dear Uncle Jed: T have just come up pz and my brother and a man |Reading, Miss Gertrude Watr : e ottt month in 1830, | e’ thirtetn ‘straggiing tbiaten called |in the atove, The stonce X Bloked i war'or the ras: 1t is much more | sroms Maw Fork'sb stay Witk o Temd oF | work from 5 wciock SN 1ate-at nighs | Tangnts, MEE L Certds ey g & at the little se whiph stands in X put In the cravices in the staie fu healthful if it is clean all around the [ mine for a few weeks. Iam very fond | trying to do their best for the country | Fimmagan Tmpromptu Remarks NOTICE! BEE of water 10 sad fn Fitrodry offANSE RESRE SRR 'fi:fi e‘iy in a £mn and carted it away. house, and is nicer for children to'do|of the country and often go down by | by planting Geography Drill, Miss Haraldine Stur- - the same vear three-fourths of anstnch | ROSS conducted an upholspering estab. | in, C WO8SP P08, SNCY o arom the work outside than for the mothers | the brook which runs all through the | 'When all the boye in Bozrah join a | gic’ History Sfories, Miss Grace |On account of illness, Dr marked the dryest month. Amnite: % he mad 1 ® A5 parnyard, the o hay that was € B e oo et aeeing § e Doty of o, eedewarn "+ | the tont so ovecyano Sholl seo thet ] | Ghavman. Cales Feriy: address. A1, Sinay’s D. 1 Offi : 4 : : s - 50 evervone shall see that 1|, state bo ear in t In India they have fwice as much| Those of you who have been to|ped last year Then ] put it in o the lawn asain and also the garden. |mustard and Mayflowers. . |am an American: Jounw, Rienj of Mate boaca of sdiea: | Sinsy § Denta 3 rainfall as we—from 7 to & feet on the| PMiladeiphia must have -qme'qua%m :‘-:édi':g Lt el ~ It made the grass grow better on the | There were so many violets that the G BERNARD SCHATZ, Age 7. | 490: CWictnl O Sohool noara: Na- | Alice building will be level annua'ly; and Brasil has twles|lioe DIoce and It mot I Caienided |and burnea them up. I also T e e T pulled all the weeds out of |PFe man and myself picked four [ Yantic. tional Fiyme, audience; Benediction, | . . as mucs rain annually as India and'in | and_uniformed general (Kcoping Mls |up the larger pieces of wood a B i Tocames T et e | e Pen omit et them to some She Rev. F. E. Goodenough. till further notice. : b . ittle Sunrise. sectiong of Africa and ‘Pera no rain. |broad shoulders and ramosipe his three hem I e o ed e en roosts jand | 72Ul eat all the food of the vege- | We have thirty-five Hittle turkeys and | Dear Uncle Jed: T e raonie st And4 the general average of rain ffor ent threw the dirt out in the,corn. y :de ‘m.:;;d tm»ke the vegetables dry |sixty chickens, four horses, mine cows, hyoy about Tdttle Sunrise, STdtile Sun. the earth is five feet on the level; /but wonderful | 1 swept out the shed and made: 1t |*T DT 12 Bome cane some chil- five. helfers and two calves: also two ”me was just an ordinary sort of boy, New England’s rainfall for the ‘past triots [look neat. PR for | 8760 had thrown around and I made | T went fishing in the brook the other |20t there was not another like him in twenty years has fallen off morefthan v e e e erey P o M ¢ hole in the ground to put them in.|day and caueht two. - — Sen Wi e los; ot the ! T also made a diteh from the Warn |foo'a E°t them. and throw them on|country and a hard thunder shower 2 e bee e B R aI\oard fo the corn Nekl Decamsedthe| cotie s do0 around the honss. came up and the lightning struck a -up Day is set aside in SPring | tree across the road. It knocked my A33_how much water do youf think | her eyes with reverent tears,\put Betsy w Ross was a brave woman ai\d we are |barn vard water runs into the Wilter |pecause there isn't any snow and the fons upon an acre per month?’ FYom| igig” that, undismayed by tat great|wo drink and it makes a bad taSt& |ground fsn't frosen, and besides, the | eo morwimd i, JOW7. and the others 40 to 50 tons—mdrs than a ‘ton of | persomaiity, she bodily euggerted that| I worked quite a few days, buti al- |grood 3 grows and we can tell where the water a day: and perhaps’you have|the etars be made with five pryints in- [though it !ookkmuc.h time -na‘i\-.. Stunes B hflfl;fil&:—m&-fl?nbi‘:hzr%mg{ oy o en o g [ It is very nice to have a Clean-up |Iike them & bit. I resd tne chidrens nevér thought of the speed of*drops stead of six as the men had, igned Sbiairen- 000 to 506 ectss S ; S the Iat [nked mimmo) SN Day in spring because our vards necd | stories in The Bullefin and like some ana you have noticed long end heavy BARBARA SOHLITHOFER, ASl12. |2 tins of the oy, o7 than any oth- | of them very much, and so I thought 1 rains harden the surface of ithe earth BEaARIA Danot CARRIE HAMFERLIN, Age 13. 2s 11t had been hammered,' which in Burned the Dead Leavesfand Rufisbish. | Mansfield Depot. fact it has. Dear Uncle Jed: On {Clean-uy Day And those who study rain find that 4 mics cho jawn, and ielebetouy S Tore Down and Rebuilt the Hog House = ticks and stonos. wn/i9¢ very | Dear Tncle Jed: On Clean-up Day R e i s i e anr large and takes much work and drakes | the first thing 1 dia was to pall down a bullvfilm', and that the higher ‘up M= b flnnndb-m Ahfi::mlgl.?.l‘b\lflnl wiiter §s measured from the earth/the 'eq_with the stas | he Freen Tho smalt 'aficke T n back of the shed where it could 5 wore bt |upein & basket ai Seen. R A 2 less the water guage measures. ‘For|, On the original fag thers wers o, /1. Then I got the horse and wagon and You can have a picnic at any time with a Kodalk. instance, 2 guage on Westminster/Ab- | tne otiginal thirteen states. Thoje| I piled the stones on the wall fapd[hauled the manure in the field to be by in London measured a little, over then raked the whole mgd s plowed under as fertilizer. The pictures will refresh your memory long after the experience is past. Years from now you can live your good times over again. LET THE CRANSTON CO. DO YOU DEVELOPING AND PRINTING. There are reasons why. Here are three: 1. The work is done on the premises. 2. The finished gl:turu are returned to you in 24 hours. 3. The work is done by a man with many years experience in this line. The results speak for themselves. L) A jz . THE CRANSTON CO. Amwy,nuqv.&' ot!_Sauire Goose, by Rose. Biain of Ver- . the dirt from the steps 12 inches of water in a year: while bright he: it I g e, infiuence the guage upon the ground measured 5 also were a lot of corncobs, as all last winter we threw them out to the en. We had an ash barrel near oug hen houss which T put on the stone WMrig 22 1-2 inches, or about twice asimueh In the temperate zone they have artzsiing or misty rains, but in- the tropics the rain never drissles but fust 3 and pulled in the meadow and : : g | am pu n ow and spread T —— t Right near the wagon shed there is LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. o tud a hog house that was located between the fall has a lot of leaves that fall, Jdossio L. Brohaut, Huntington, L. L jom. 2nd n the spring there have to b —7 wish to thank you for the,lovely \ / “in{raked off. After T got them raked up book you sent me. It is a very inter- 1 set them on fire and burned them all esting book and I am very much th D, pleased with it. years of loyal devetion ,of unseifish - .:!.flnn needed to be cleaned up 1 o Lawience Gauthler, of Broskiyn— Tt s Wice io have a Clean-up Day thank you very much for it. I have o2 the spring. _So we stoull try and Tead it through and liked ft. L Ry ot Whilimantic some” Diaces the STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- - Fmut comid be improwed by a little such ¥ 3 AWAKES. " Australian Sights.