Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 26, 1918, Page 9

round and d they sink , slowly, one t think From the motions that are made Every little leaf conveyed Sylph or Fairy hither tending, To this lo world descending. Each invisible and maute, In his parachute. But the kitten, how she starts, Crouches, stretches, paws and darts! |camps which I have often visited. First at one and then its fellow. Just ae light and just as vellow; There are many now—now one— Now they stop and there are none; What intenseness of desire In her upward-eye of-fire! With a tiger leap haltway e meets the coming prey, it go as fast, and then it in her power again; works. with three or four. Indian conjuror; he in feats of art, bevond -in joy of heart. e her antics played in the eve o anders by, 1 Tabby care hesplandits of the erowd? Jver ha 9 be provd, ver v in the treasure O ing pleasure. {lliam Wordsworth. An After-While. seeurit best emack; dogzone sister omin' back, n't skeereq t' annon Ball" rever had L. eat, R go home a'tafl nagin’ hookey by y'selt Afn't much fun—but gee! Tot more than what my father chouts and stare, 3007 12 the grount, and pla THE TWINS, by Blotse C. Smith of Norwich. EERREDRE S TEERSREIEE S R R R T T what a brave little. girl she was, she gave Ethel some used in buying'Thrift stamps. After all I.think Ethel was a very w girl, for'she:knewy ’ ' Tk, ven If SBetdid isgetiat ek, " ‘week. . HANNAH- BOSSART, Age 14. — How Maple Sugar is-Made. k Dear Uncle Jed: I visiting in Norwich but I live in Verment, so I thought the Wide-Awakes would like to hear about the maple sugar |/ The camfs are little log cabins, call ed sugar houses. On the top is a little cupola, open at the sides to let omt the steam from the boiling sapa 3 s g B o Inside there are great open boilers . g with a fire underneath. The boilsrs =3 are divided into partitions. and as the B > e sap goes through the different stages of hoiling it is let from one partition into another, until when it reached the last partition, it is done, At one end of the sugar house you \ see a_great pile of wood, used for boil- SN !n:klhe sap. All a2round the room_;hr: L tanks, pipes, and sap buckets. floor is the ground, and planks are laid| T HE ETNaY, You would now like fo see how the sap is gathered. u go outside and vau <o first fhe manie trees sur- WIDE-AWAKE POEMS r & The mikah Uy s - punding the sugar Jouse. & grove of Towo Littih Runaways. Ang sing a song to hide my pain—- tree has heen tapped, meaning Two ilitle runaways. Al“’ngxuc;';udto};::'b:&k mnd min T, into with an auger, and in each | Faces round as moons, i s 8ot a spout’ The buckets are|UP to their waists in u e eam R R ORI ST s And 1 can keep the heartn fire iit ce helow tne spout unless it | TRO little Spitz doggies, 1 cannot die! But 1 can e 1 of 8 # Noses in the air, ! i e §EL“«';’,,' et Pnok‘ng for the two rogues, g et the world T4y BOUs e and an 8-oz. box of & 5 AWEEVIN Topie "1 Here and everywhere: faste, not UN-| agging their little tails, SRS . then sea n large hogshead on a |, Searching in vain, . Sother orax rude sted man i hitehing oxen | TRrough the biz farmhouse, This book is all that's left me now, u e 01t e TGP e Down the long lane. Tears will unbidden siart, bush” once & day and gathers the sa n Vith faltering lip and throbbing brow Thon he drives back to the sugar| 7o little tired boys, 1 press it to my heart— house w he empties the sap into Losing their Wiy, Fall fast asl or many generations past the tank from which it runs into the| ‘g ASi€€D Upon Here is our family tree: Soap Chips g le: Sweet clover hay. My mother’s hands this Bible clasped— % boiler pe for vou over the eamp fire. e filg| , Hunting the house, SEE COUPON : Look i somo pans with snow packing it down | 0K IR every corner | | A man now “hofls down” some syrup | Ty, AATlous mammas, ; She, dying, gave it me, ] { Oh! well do I remember those )’!‘h:\;‘ can hbldefla mouse. { wh 0se names these records bear, N Bt HsHe bl One shaegy big dog, * "ho round the hearthstone used -to . SN mig Coene emow. Thel Onithe gt tragh, close ' 'v,(.‘,‘gf,f'”\ 6\‘9‘:‘2 . "f i" Brings the stray little ones ) After the evening prayer; o Jerreotly Jslisious. I you | 13 Homa an hse back, And speak of what these pages said 0 28, o tha gpoe Tonger | In tones my teart would thrill! pours littls ribbons and Two little hathtubs— ¥ i 3t 2y kaiser, : ner, C. M. Sumner, Brnest M. Howard; . . - 1 HCREE ey 2% o ; longer sorung a leak. Fearful lamen-|me if I had found out ayything about - e Roteie, B M, THaward Shcoka do t me Tt certainly does sti et Mo o i i e A o il Ds heara Ul nwer the her. ¥ocallen hen i 8 room that nof, MARY PRLBCRATE, Age 1. ragtea: o SO0 S & Finiey. ! -Chries C. Jones, in the Kansas City | ¥\ s You cannor open your | Make both the runaways : Skl yestel The water was gushing inone was in end atter shutting the door Willimantic. 3 i Times {mouth until it has dissolve Clean enoush to kiss. | My father read this holy ook “pell gnel!” (so mo one could come in), I told her - g T —_— et Tn to eive the dog‘some. far Lo aretty cot-bad, | To brothers, sisters, dear; I knowing the boat would soon be|all about my dear pet. e BOLTON LEBANON " ’ _[hie will eagerly bite on it and then Smooth as your hand, How calm was my poor mother’s look |filled with water, jumped off the boat| After the rain we both went out to > B e e UNCLE JED'S TALK TO . WIDE- | oyen most remarkable anties. | Carries both the darlings Who loved God’s word to hear! Info the roaring waves. I found a long |see if the chicks were hatehed. To| Mr. and Mrs ‘Ralph C. Faton plan| Miss Nettle Tl - = AWAKES. {and do everything imaginable cxcept| Off to sleep-land, Her angel face, I see it vet! : board agd I swam clinging to that surprise we found elght littie|to move to South Manchester this|day for Springfield, Mass, Where she . 3ed | e j CECELIA SHAW, Age 10. What_thronging memories come! |for a long time. At last I drifted upon Kled chicks. ~They Erew UD VerY|week, to be mearer Mr, Eaton's work.|is taking a course of nursing at mole Jed has a war garden and of| The sugar is. sn deliclous that You! Glaso. Again that little group is met a strange island. The fist thin and now seven of them lay egss S 1. WeGurk save ol SorasnEla ha e e A N | o Ehe siant of o s ol noy A Sold Wif Yo el op howe! Do ianks s fre over b i s s summer home at the| Mr. and Mrs, S. W. Throop are at - noticed artached to the leaf stall ‘ =L Ar S FR A ToY Soldier's Wife. . . 1 dried my clothes. Th I hu a_rooster. Sanar : ML SR : ar st hed to the T6at SEaIK of & |1 tne next dav vou ace just as fond| 1 $0 k55 “rend ith death. - | Thou truest friend man ever knew, - |around in search of food and at luat| Now I have eight eggs to laok for |Center Monday evening for their SOn,!ing heach in Rhode Islaad for a while Y. Pt NI AN SEN M iof it 00 weto S Seitiot Lot the Tty p:ain i Thy constancy 'Ive tried; * |found some®berries and a spring of{every day as the seven voung ones lay [EEdward McGurk who left the follo Mr> and Mrs, Vernon - Boothby of & dilver spots on its back The whit minle sugar and SYTUD |y cannot give my light of life— When ail were false, I found thee true |water. Here I stopped and quaffed |z the old Mother Speckle, as 1 cail{ing day for Pordh:m ”“Ilf‘g"-al?(?“"‘“fiA‘Vondmnnl were recent visitors - at He knew it had been a caterpillar [are the finest grade, though some peo- |~ Anq never see my land again, My counselor and guide. the cosl wat 1 filled up on her- re had those chicks which | Was enmedh on the plasza and eard|Alonzo Boothby's. 0 Was swalting the change to s |, tBIk it iz not pure uniess it 15] purT can plon snd sor N anide. The mines of earth no treasure give (rles, I then made a tent for my- to me. But I do Itke to|Plaving in the house, afie ich 1 rs. Clara A. T. Gorten of Mont- . dark. And reap the grain at harvest time: | That could this volume buy; self. I stayed on this island four f especialiy in the hay, |freshments were served. . |clair, N. J, is visiting relatives in How the eatirpiiler takes RUTH TRACY, Age 13 S f 7 SEBHLS GASK Charles N’ Loomis, Jr., of Pawtuck- | i + Age 13. | Anq call the cattle home each night, | In teaching me the way to live, and four nights. SOPHIE GASKA, Age 1z o X ey K- | town. oft and afuaments Hesit so ¥ And gather fruit from off the vine; | It t2ught me how to di On the fitth day a vessel came s Jewett City. I, came to his parents’ home| Mr. and Mrs. Lewis O, Potier of:c with.siluer, giving man. a les- Margarct's Summer Vacation. ; LEONA BERGERON. |ing by and picked me up, and my! | e L r wlh b Do iR e o the art, no one can tell. He| This summer I went to the sea-{AndI can keep a smiling face Taftville, how glad T was! ! Little Sunrise. §his titarants since his parenis| :{lerl;s; e:ril;r::rhur:n;%flemm by v the chrysalis in a bottle ‘and |hore (Pine Grove, Niantic) for one |/ £ - | The voyaze home was very o Gt aks B (Es i b i e (= miex Tivesmore, ol S G S Aapeaneh T, "o TN T BURE to M mny | s caiies b O e Sl T ook U Mveodays hefors \ve arrived | ainary sort of boy, but there was nct|” Mrs, C, E. Pomeroy is at her son's,| Uy “breaking ‘every home fn | hen col and aunt up in Middletown, | win s with it the fragrant, in- | e v 3 . Since have made | ] ; 4 = s e 3 S 16 Wb S 00 DA Smt—tha | Mo ol S B 1n Middletesen, grant, or the pond. We had to walk ! another fike him in all Muskoma, be- | Ejeazer Pomeroy's, in Windsor, for & semi-colon butterfly. 1s & member of the Punctuatfon | ouch a good time! grass studded with violets form a |the water long. tainly an incident long with orange wings spotted and vigorating air tha: rustles throush {about a miie, ages, but never h: and had,|the flowers and bushes. The dewy It was rather a cold |TDARY V day and we were not able ‘o stay in |the we had wrist. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick ¥. Manming with their son from Willimantic spent a few days recently with the latter’s were there for three week > Muskoma was an Indian vilags | week's stay. 1 the other boys were redskins. | Clarence Stetson of Cromwell kins were not really red, been ‘spending a feyw days with ghtest accident. That My n has a tainly made use of and we cer-|ltting carpet for ‘the fairest lady's| It was the first time I ha ver | Dered. New York |foot to tread upon. Sparkling invit- 9 Jever 3 il brown; and certain- | grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nir. ana Mca, B K Hoxl® i 0 t 0 gSome in the water with the intention | After the story was = finished: theljy the white boy's skin was not white, | Loomis. nd Mrs. C. G. Cobb, Mrs. Maria' - ordersd with brown and delicately | #tate has wonderfu! scenery. massive | ingly can be seen, the clear water se- |of swimm children thanked old mun e ®e the sun and the wind had Mrs, T. H. Levey left early Monday andA Mrs. William Herrick of edged with lavender. . Beneach each |MoOuUntains and forests; and lakes and | creted below the ancient coverlet of| It is perhaps needless to say that 1|and over again, teliirg him it d it almost as ruddy brown as|morning in her touring car for her vich were callers in town Monday, gy A i e LTS the well, was in water scarcely deep enough te |UShtful. and so exciting. Then h 7 on a brown surface, ero are thres members of this|0ay We went amed for the silver comma,|Bear Mountain—way over by the on and question mark upon r wings, and a fourth has a silver One day w through the a long drive SARAH HY! and another | Norwich picnic to Great an_indian's. ‘i in Indianapolis. 2 N, Aze 14, [come up to my knees. departed for the night, feeling - pnter nome L evening. . ¥| What made him different from all| " Camello Boero left Wednesday for | ““An b, 129 s Bishop and soniers, Defore 1 had been in the water (Nappy that the old man came to Visit|the rest of the Muskoma boys was his | Camp Gordon, Ga., after having been | ;. et " many times, however, I realized if I|them. i 5 : visiting Hartford relatives, on a \ } because it “was red and curly | home some time on a furlough. George Btiggs is teaching in the 3 was go! i 3 HELEN E..FRINK, Age 14. a T % straight. el legs b Hudson. The Inn and picnic grounds Joan of Arc. % SRt e L wodld Baver bl and thelps was hiack and straight. | o o ' liowing. mominations were| Waterman disteict: : are tight niak Hhe iver,. by ots| .Joan of'Afc was a Frensh sitl who | oy A2 deeper water, 5 There was another thing that mad: X E I am not an ex ' ol e from West Point, and the drive always helped her mother spin while xpert swimmer as vet, A 2 % the Tndtan|made at the democratic caucus last| , but I am quite proud of the success Be Kind to the Birds. et o i ann 20 | Weck: Assessor, William B. Williims; [ “Smith is a lucky man™ s They are known as the Grapta| s great! Perfect state roads all | her sisters plaved out of doors. The || have had so far. 3 3 4 e :ould not, except wien Ossawippi, the | board of relief, Fred 5. Doane; select- [ Brown. . W : the way, and lakes dotted here and|Dlace where she lived was called ARLENE PEARL, Ago 14 Dear Uncle Jed: One morning when | S001¢ oL eXeepE Whex aopls S | men, Frank H. Strong, Marvin How-| “He certainly is agreed Jomes. and survive the winter. there with Boy Scout camps around | Domremy, on the border of Lorraine.| Ay M. ARL, Age 14. |1 got up early I went out midst old ciief, was telling o Sty and|ard: auditor, Harry Milburn: grand| “He has raised six daushters and ed took SemilColon to the|the cdzes, and some Camp Fire (irls'| France and Englanc were at war| U Susts, Me fresh air. All of a sudden [ heard some jeven then it wasn't what an Indian|S700 200 U ' froward, [he doesw't have to support even ene| d set him frea and he floated | tents were there, too. and the whole country was in troube. The Game of Numbers. iind of 2 hiyd chirping s0:sadly N he nly time he was really still|Ernest Strong: tax collector, Andrew |of his sons-in-law."—Cincionatl em= - gracefully away into the flower gar- | 1ear Mountain Park is a govern-| When the soldiers went by her home re “lhe were in trouble. Tt sound#1 Ii ety Y : THE WINNERS OF PRIZES. Hannah Bessart of Storre—A |3nd wh Thrift stamp. stamp 3—Helen E. Frink’ of Norwich—A Fairfleld at Sea ©—Sophie Gaska of Jewett City— |and making the worst noises 1 ever| Joan was dressed in a white armor,| It seems easy, bnt one must think Ethel Morton at Sweethrier Lodge, Tows . fact or whatever it may be in the T of Norwich—The Bay stop over for a few hours, and then |followed her. They stopped swearing : Bcouts in the Blue Ridge. and If he escapes hungry birds, hunting fles, and trapping spiders | there are so many of them in that| Joan read a prophecy that ons of |IUMber, and a half minute is allowed he will live through the winter and|T®8ion. And it's an i be among the first butterflies to ap- on the wing in the spring of | mount ment reservation for the Boy Scouts |She would give her bed to them and |, Each guest draws frem a basket on A.'N. Skin- | quirer. and Camp Fire Gi was when he was fast asleep in bLed.|B. Maneggia; constable: When he was awake everybody else the .table aslip of = song of a canary. so I ran to see ] take care of the sick. able aper pearing a|was the matter. In 2 moment I v . e f o 12 where the bird was. It was a b o toflieny awake Tt s " place to | tie maids from Domremy would save o €ive some ofd proverb. A large|canary, hopping slong the stone wall, [ This was why ihe Inlians cailed mp It doesn' look like a park at|France. Wheh she read this she|fact or Thyme containing the num-|and a stone had fallen on its foot. As|lim Little Suntise, though perbups because 1t's so wild looking and |dreamt she saw visions, She heard | Per; soon as I could, I took the stone off, | the eolar of his L ing notls, but it really St, Michael's voice say to her, If the player fails to respond with- £ and set the-bird free. But before it |00 With it 3 Oanainoia, bul it e 4 to| “Go to the king and vou will save|in the time a forfeit is required and |flew away it chirped for a while as if| His real name was Rennie. At least the TH-Biate Rok e man on ‘o | France” a3 afterward redeemed in some manner|he was thanking me for rescuing him. | that is what ;fis fmhl?rdl;? m!zn:elr i3 point of land at the place whers the| She told her father this and he|!® ;Mlmfin the company . Another time when our cows twere | called mm.h Chey vmaez b.rq c.,e» 5 Delaware and Neversink rivers meet; | §aid: “I would rather drown vou." 0 make the game moré clear, sup- |1ost I went te look after thom. While |121d When they wanted to be very se- e ou_stood on the rock vou| S0 she went to the priest and he|P08Y the number drawn is ten, then |going I Lieard robbins flying from one N HERING DRISCOLL, Age’ . were in New York, Pennsylvania and |told her tg go. qu_ifrkelx rgl{l:w!;;ke! SR tree to annthe; and chirping their| ol o gl F o and — e New Jersey all at once. I She said if she had to wear her 2 nakee o o saddest melodiés. It was beceuse their B (ol Infan Children, = - ret Nesworthy of Hamnton | o' v do (o ¢ W28 QU b to-the knees she would £o. 1t number nine: “Of the muses of | three little ones had fallen out of the Lt s LD The railrcad was not very far from | She went to the king and ‘he told [ ©!d. there were nine we are told. nest, and as they couldn’t fly vet, they Think Before You Act. ¢ my aunt's house and we used to hear | her tn go. so she started. She veach- | If number two: “Two is company,|had no safe way of getting up into the| "Deap Uncle Jed: A motto I shall - the troop :rains going through every | ed Orleans and told them to open the | there is none tree. $ never forget is:-“Think Before You 0 rs now of jewett City—Tom | day, sometimes two or three of them, |8ates for her to go through to the f number one: “One, two, buckle| When I saw the birds T picked them Actr with the soldiers yelling and cheering | forts. my shoe. : up. climbed the tree and placed them safely in their nest. As soon as the parent birds saw that I put their | @hink Before You Act) young ones in the nest they flew right| ® We were given a certain amount of there was “tumult in the eity. Ths | and became good. When she was zo- | time_allowed. toward them. K : i . soldiers wauld march through the |ing by the city people gave her beads,| LAWRENCE GAUTHIER, Age. 13. e A large examination for promotion as given us, and we. were told to heard: and sometimes they would |and drove a horse. Ten thousand men | QUickly to give the required proverb, . Genuire Casteria I was feeding the fowl just before|tain amount of time. As I was in a Al 7—Edna Frank of Norwich—Camp |streets and sing; and the _canteen | books and other things to bless Buj| Brookivn. I started after the cows ad as Some | hurry to.get: through and set to work W4, Fire Girls in the Outside Worid, there would be just packed., Their es. |she told them they could bless them LETTERS TO UNGLE JED. grain fell into my pocket, T had some {'without thinking. $—Mary Pelechatz of Willimantie— |Pecial joy was to imitate dogs and |as well:as she. R Lics thing to give to the threa liltle birds| ihen we received: our examination Navy Boys at the Siege of Havana. cats, etc, until they sounded like a|{ When She reached Orleans she was A Cold Night in Wint 1 rescued. They could fly soon; but|papers back with the marks I was The winners of prizes living in Nor- | "*E1ar menagerie. wounded. Her men wanted, to give 0! gt in- Yeinter, it happen>d more than once that I|horpor-stricken. Bvery example was o - e e e There was a big government hospi-|up, but she told them to eat and| Dear Uncie Jed: It was a cold night|helped birds in different ways. marked wrong, When I lopked' them . § Sffice for them-at any Nour atter 1o o | (21 fOF gassed soldiers from the front | drink, but not give up. in winter. The farmer's chiliren were $ W Thursdey. _ —— the birds and she told me that. I had|name. B * |are more than 1,0 her head and she ly fainted, but o4 . LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. an 1,000 soldiers up there, nearly fal ping was heard outside. Opening the STELLA GASKA, Age 10. |spoke and said: “Do you know.what big corridors, and rooms filled with|bold. When it was time Zor Ler to|clothed in rags, who begged to be ad- wett City, Mury Palechatz . of . Willimantie—I e sthed in i o begged Jewett City. fhank you very much for the prise |cence, and the bake shop, and the kit- |but he wouldn’t let her go. Miss.Moppet. It is the best book | chen and everything. In the kitchen| Just as she was leaving the gute the Bawe read in a Jgng time. Eleanor*Frost ot Cushman, Mass.— | Vats, enormous tins full of macaroni, |her very cruelly. They heaped a lot |meal. Soon the delicious things that|hen ef mine. I like her very much ived the mrize Hook which you so|and chocolate pudding by the cish-|of rubbish and wood and bound her|the everready Samaritan was cooking |She s so tame that she will eat from got to write the. subtrahend. This was sent me, 3nd 1%was very much|Pan full. I hardly lever saw so many |to a stake and burnt her. Pat just as|began to smell savory. After he was|my hands. Every day I hunt for her|the ease in all of them. with It. I have read it|Provisions together in my life. the flames reached her a oruel soldier |warmed the farmer brought him into|ege because she mever lays in one| Ay teacher -then -spoke and- said, ‘and-found it more than inter-| When we came through lew York |made a cross and gave it to her. She L the dining room and there he sat down |place. . , ‘Think Before You : harbor we saw the big transports and |looked at it, then clasped it to her | ang haq'a joyous feant ® Biie 025 1 nuntea £ her exg aimost | Abay et B i AelpfulRemedyfor§ Y Rose Eagan of Willimantic—1I thank | iP5 _ 8ll camouflaged—they're the | hosom. She had time to say “Jesus” | After he had eaten all he wanted he |everywhere about the vard and T could EDNA FRANK, Age 1. | * ES2S o and Diarrhoed; Y s the > peize book ‘you sent | 1UCCTest loooking things. | | when her head dropped on her chest|came out into the kitchen again and |uot find it. I told mother about it-and| R, F, D. No. 1 Gonstipation sy’ > : _ ‘m\ e 1 wish I could write more, but I|and she died. . seated himself near the fire. The chil- |she helped me lool® for it. hut she, too, § . and Feveristmess 2 Very | simply must study now. Just then all the Bnglish seldiers|dren begged him to tell a story amd|cowid not find it. Every day for two y ‘ Loss OF SLEEP o 2 With best wishes to the Wide-|turned around and said: this is what he told weeks 1 missed Speckle's egegs. RBut A Busy and Happy Day. & Lk it Awake Cigele. “We are lost, we have killed a| In my younger days. when I waslone day when my mother fed the| Dear Uncle Jed: I will tell you of or v e MARGARET NOSWORTHY. |saint away from home, I was very fond of |chickens, I noticed Speckle running |a very" pleasant - and - profitable day |" i ANNA GAYBSKI, Age 1. |sep voyages. Oftentimes I would play |very fast to the place where the other|ye spent this past summer. Nature's Riches. Colchester. 3 hookey from echool just to go for a|chickens were feeding on.oats. After| We made up our minds to go for It is a neglected garden. The sun = b sail on the ealm, blue water. At the|eating as much as she wanted to, she|berries that day. The day &mwied | rising higher and higher above the Leamning ta Swim, age of twelve I took my first vovage off. clear and brigi It was an ideal 1 got the cows that day and when|aver to see’ what was wrong about not very far from Midlietown, and| When she was able to walk she|sitting around e cheerful fire. They (I got home T fold my mother all abont | (hem T hesed the teacher call out my We went up to visit it one day. There | Went to church and thoughts eume to (were joking and chatting when a tap- done a kind act. 1 Dbled when I stood up and she It was intensely interesting to see the | after she got courage and beeame |door, the farmer saw an aged man, G n i i V] g ‘about vour examples " men in different degrees of convales- |80 home she asked King George VIL,|mitted. The farmer let him in and I aprons. 2 4 o I replied by a nod of the head. She made him sit in front of the fire where e Tade hin L the firo when Skl then called me forward and told me e coul get warm. e armer’s b pd to look ‘my paper. as I was they were cooking corn in big round | Enslish captured her. They treated [wita then went to prepare a warm| Dear ‘Uncle Jed: Speckle is a pet|icid - Iooki Looking it over I saw that I written the deminuend and'I for- horizon causes a faint rose bloam to| For a long time I have wanted to|across the Atlantic. This veasel was lowly and quietly I went after her. envelope the turquoise sky with Wits|learn to ewim, but until this summer [going to the Bast after spices. We|Soon Speckle came to an old shed, of fleecy white dotted here and there.|I have not been able to. started at sunriss one Sunday morn-|and I continued to follow. As there day for picking berries, becase It was rather cool, i A troop; of' us started off_edvly in A gnarled -old apple tree ’is a huge| My mother would not allsw me to|ing. It was quite gloomy when we|wasn't any door to it, she flew right|the morning about 9 a. m. ~¥e picked G ALl bouquet of rose and snow. The li-|g0 swimmipg unless I had somecme | Started but it turned out to be a lovely |in and seated herself in a box. Ivknew | berries until noon Wwhen We ate a DosEs lacs are arrayed in their most becom- | with me who knew how to swim. |day. Calm and peaceful was the wa-|I couldn’t reach the hox, 5o I ran for|iunch “in the shade ‘of an old apple v - ing raiment, théir purple and white| This summer one of my gizl friends |ter the vessel glided over. But the|q Jadder. T was back very soon, and|tres Then apout 1 o'clock we mingling ether. 1rom the” hirds' | decided she would like fo learn. Her |next day, Monday, a change eame up|placing it toward the direction of the started picking again and picked until about 4 o'clock. ; We started home very :merrily -with heaping pails of berries. quivering ts peals forth a med- |father is a good swimmer and he|and a fearful storm arose. The water |box, I managed to climb up. I lifted ley of flute-like notes. Bees buzz in- | spends quite.a lot of his time at the |became very reugh and the boat began |the hen up and counted eleven s. dustriously as they gather the nectar [ponds fishing. So he teld ns if we |to toss hither and thither, and the sea- [ Then I stepped off the ladder an. g 3 from the world of flowers that bloom | wished to swim he would stay in sight | weed, which we used to eaii “night- [ran heme verv hapny. I wouldn't tell| We had picked - seventeen 'quarts year. Velvety moss|of us in his boat and fish, rack,” at home, eame rolling over the {my seeret to any one. that day, and all felt sure~that while hers year after Wi delight The. ves- | One day it rained very hard. Moth had been havinz a- good time we Wm W one morning we n‘:‘m‘l"&'fi& ot ,.‘L'g;"*,.m any | worried gibout. e dotnig_our “bit"-to help ¢an the