Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 8, 1915, Page 23

} The Bu Bees 2 to America, but the work is ing to the National Humane humane work is being prom clon, Chile; Callao, Peru; Great Britain, China and Belgium, Chile the soclety boasts the euphonious name Animales.” Many new names have been recelved for membership and men | of influence, the Intendant (governor of the province), mayor and chief of | police and judges give their very best co-dperation. marked improvement in the treatmen growing all over the world, accord » Review. Among the places where ss are Concep In Protectoras de oted with great suc Sociedad There has been a t of beasts of burden and other ani- mals since the society was organized there. An American woman living in Peking, China, writes that there is a great field for humane workers in China as in other semi-barbaric coun-| tries. Indeed, the jinrikisha coolies are treated scarcely better than the nbf fed, over-worked animals. A Belglan senator, who is a very prominent humanitarian and had| long been a corresponding member of the American Humane association, | remained in Antwerp during the bombardment in order to give aid to the poor and suffering. The humane work there will need to be pursued among | humans now for some time to come, it appears. I am sure the Busy Bees need not be urged to do their share in pre- venting cruelty wherever they meet it This week the prize book was awarded to Helena Carpenter of the Red Side. Honorable mention was won by Lucy Green and Helen Abraham | of the Blue Side. — Little Stories by Little Folk [(—— (First Prize.) ' ey A Bird Story. RULES FOR YOUNG WRITERS By Helena Carpenter, Aged 11 Years, Fontanelle, Neb., Box 42. Red Side. 1. Write plainly on one side We have many birds around our place. 1 We have a blue jay's nest up in a tree | close to our house; I climb up to it quite often. One time when I climbed up in| the tree I found three eggs. I watched | | them closely and before long I saw three | ilittle birds. I was very happy to seo them, buy before long a sad thing hap- | pened. 1 climbed up in the tree and saw only one little bird. When I got down | |1 saw one lying on the ground dead, and T don't know what happened to the other one, but [ suppose one of our cats 'got it. One morning after a heavy rain mamma went out in the yard and found a littls | Lird under a tree almost drowned. She took it in the house, bathed it in warm water and wrapped It in a cloth, put it near the fire and In a short time it was all right and able to fly. So my brother took It out and put it in the tree. I hope it 1s well and happy now. (Honorable Mention.) Story of a Pansy. , Aged 10 Years, By chutar, Nevs Roite § Blue Side. I am & flower, my name is Pansy. I am going to tell you something about myself. The first I can remember I was in a box with many other seeds. One day early in epring a little girl took me out into the garden and she planted me in the ground. It was dark and damp down there. So I was very lonesome. 1 could hear the birds sing and feel the warm sun, but I could not see anything. In & few days I had two little leaves up above the ground, I was very happy, because I could see every- thing that happened around me. ‘When the little girl came Into the garden and saw me coming up, she was very glad. She ran back into the house and told her mother what she had seen in the garden. Every day the little girl took good care ‘of me. So I grew a little bigger every day. When I was three inches high, I opened my first bud. Now I am a foot high and have my eighteenth bud opened. I have two more buds that ‘will open soon. have gome more buds. My flower is purple and it looks like velvet. (Honorable Mention.) | 0ld Cat Mothers Chicks y . Aged 11 Veurs, " Lucszlrd‘.e'kab.K Blue Side. 1 have an old cat. She is black, yellow mnd white. She has three kittens; one is black, the other e yellow ani the other Is gray. I took some food out to the old cat this morning and the little yellow kitten began to eat. I have each of the kittens named; the pellow one’s name is Blanchy, the black bne's name is Midnight, and the gray bne’s nume is Bright Eyes. About a week ago we had some little chickens. It was cold for them outdoors ®o we took them in whore the old cat Rud kittens were. The old cat began to mother them as if they were her own kittens. They would settle down all mround her head so we had a picture taken of them. | 1 hope to see my story in print for this s the first time I have written to ths usy Bee page. I wish to be on the| Blue Side. South Watching the Sunrise. 1 Willy, Aged 11 Years, He- | By Theodo . Neb. Blue Side, By & neat little cabin sits & maid read- fng Her golden curls shade her face. Now and then she glances eagerly up the parrow path that leads along the mountain side. Now she springe un' drops her book and hastens to meet an aged man, whose beard and hair are Ta: 'T:ay are going to watch the sunrise on the mountain, which is a great pleasure for the forester and his daughter. Now they are standing on the highest polnt, with the sun's rays upon them. As the sun descended they descended. | Many times they have climbed the) mountain and watshed beautiful | bght. the | The Runaway. i y H Mahlendort, Aged 12 Years, By Henry, oka. Neb. Red Side. | One hot spring morning my brother | hitched up his horses, Prince and Nellle, | to the wagon and started home. On the wey home he stopped to get the papers. fn some way the horses started to run.| Then my brother ran after them, but He also had a suitcase with him. Soon | could not catch them. They ran -bou(1 half & mile. They were both large work | horses, 8o they did mot run fast towards | Ihe las t when my father stopped them. They | about three and four years old. We Work them every day now. ‘ Builds Wren House. | By Hazel Bull, 11 Years, Millard, Neb. Side. One day when my brother was work- of the paper only and number the pages. “.‘ Use pen and ink, not pen- e 3. Short and pointed arti- cles will be given preference. Do not use over 250 words. 4. Original stories or let- ters only will be used. 6. Write your name, age and address at the top of the first page. A prize consisting of a book will be given to the writer of the best contribution printed each week Address all communications to CHILDREN'S DEPART- MENT, Neb. Omaba Bee, Omaha, house with a porch and a little hole where the wrens could get in. One day to my surprise I saw two wrens carring twigs into the house, for I had put it on & post out-ot-doors. Every day I would put some crumbs on the porch of the wren house and they would come and eat them. When it was getting to be winter they went away, but have come back this sum- mer, Perilous Adventure. By _Earl Babbitt, 18 Years, R. F'. D. No, 2, Plattsmouth, Neb. Red Side, About 300 miles west of here on the South Platte river 1s the city ot Ogallala. This city Ras about 600 people populating it, while it is also the county seat of Keith county. It was at this particular place that Johnny Upstart and the other boys began thelr adventures. The one that I am about to relate took place two miles due east of Ogallala. This time only two boys were ooncerned, Johnny Upstart, the hero, and Freddie Standstill, the saved. The boys were down by the river and | Freadie was coaxing John to go into the water. Johnnie objected to this, but was When they open I Will | 00 o climb in a boat and ply | oars. Here it was that Freddie's impetu- ous spirit showed itself. He slezed both oars and sent the boat into the middle of the stream. Ah, unlucky boy. For, indeed, the boat, while going at that rate, suddenly turned over and Freddie kept | agoing while Johnnie “staid by.” The boat carried its burden well, but it had lost the biggest half of its load. But Freddie was not far away and soon se- cure on the boat, was helping to push it ashore, but by that means neither could swim. Well, the short distance between them was soon covered by an oar and, once connected, Johnnie Upstart and Freddie Standstill did not part till both were safe on dry land. Alice Helps Grace. By Busie Pinson, Aged 13 Year: 3, Platte Center, Neb, Bl Once Aljce did some work for her neighbor and the woman gave her a quarter. As she started down the street to get & doll with her money, she met Grace, crying as hard as she could. “What 18 the matter?’ asked Alice. “Oh,” sald Grace, “some bad boys | pushed me down with my pitcher of | “Don’t ¢ said Alice, “I will give you my quarter and you can buy another pitcher and get some more milk and I will go with you." 8o Grace took the gquarter and bought a | pitcher just like the other. They got some more milk and Allce went home with Grace and told Grace's mother. Then she gave Alice another quarter. Alice now went home and told her mother of the incident. Her mother was greatly pleased at Alice's generosity and re- warded her. It is always good to help others. The Young Doctor. Lue 8 Yeu BY K6 Eimwood Nev. Bius Ride There was once a boy and girl playing together in & yard. The girl had a doll and a doll-bed. The children lived in town. The girl's name was Nellle, the doll's pame was Ruby and the boy's name was Albert. One day Ruby was very sick. Albert played he was the doctor. Nellle sent for him to come and see Ruby. Albert soon came. He had his papa’s clothes on. the doctor took his watch from his pocket and held it in his hand while he felt Ruby's pulse. After that he fixed in a few days. Has Many Pets. Catherine Treadway, Aged 10 Year: Boone, Neb. Blue Side. We have many pets. We have six lit- tle kittens. We have names for two of them. They sre fmowball and Flufty, By R. F. D.| OCIETIES for the prevention of cruelty to animals are not peculiar | f o | BRIGHT LITTLE BUSY BEE who writes lively ||| and interesting letters for [|| other little readers of this page. | | | Dolores. There are some birds’ mnests |in our orchard. Ome day my sister and 1 were taking papa a drink, and we found s little bird out In the flela, We |took it up to the houso and put it in | one of the nests tn the orchard. next day the little bird wasn't in the nest. Last Day at School. By Flora Fithlan, ing, Neb. Red Side. I thank the editor very much for print- ing my letter. . | I will tell you about the last day of our | school. We mcholars and our teacher | went to the school house in the morning and put the books away. We practiced for our program a while. Then we played games until the people came. When the | peopie arrived teacher helped the women put the table up. We children played until dinner time B clal permission of the author, Yo" B WiL publimn Shapters ‘trom thé tory of Nebraska, by A. E. Sheldon, from week to week.) The Overland Trails Each of the old overland trails which crosses Nebraska from the Missouri river to the mountains has a story. It 1s & story written deep in the lives of men and women, and in the record of the westward march of the American people. The story of these overland trails was !also written in broad deep furrows across |our prairies. Along these tralls jour- |neyed thousands of men, women and |children with ox teams, carts, wheel- | barrows, and on foot, to settle the great |country beyond. Over them marched the {soldiers who, built forts to protect the settlers. Then the long frelghting trains loaded with food, tools and clothing |passed that way. So there came to be { great beaten thoroughfares 100 or 200 feet wide, deeply cut in the earth by the wheels of wagons and the feet of pil- grims. The Oregon trail was the first and most famous of these in Nebraska. It started {from the Missourl river at Independence, | Mo., ran across the northeast corner of Kansas, and entered Nebraska near the point where Gage and Jefferson counties meet on the Nebraska-Kansas line. It |followed the course of the Little Blue river across Jefferson, Thayer, Nuck- olls, Clay and Adams county, then across the divide to the Platte near the head of Grand Island in Hall county, then along |the south ' side of the Platte through | Kearney, Phelps, Gosper and Dawson, to |a poiut in Keith county about seven |miles east of Big Springs, where it |crossed the South Platte and continued up the south side of the North Platte through Kelth, Garden, Morrill and Scott's Bluft counties, where it passed {out of Nebraska into 'Wyoming. The beginnings Nebraska wero made In 1813 by the little band of returning Astorians as they, |leading thetr one poor horse, tramped their weary way down the Platte valley to the Otoe village, where they took |cunoes for their journey down the river. These first Oregon trallers left no track deep enough to be followed. They sim- ply made known the way. After them |fur traders on horseback and afoot fol |lowed nearly the same route. On April 10, 185, Milton Sublette with ten wagons and one milch cow left St. Louls and arrived at the Wind River mountains on July 16, They returned to St. Louls the same summer, bringing back ten wagons |losded with furs and the faithful cow which furnished milk all the way.. Theirs Iwere the first wagon wheels on the Oregon trall acroes Nebraska. The track they made from the mouth of the Kan- sas river up the valley of the Little | Blue und up the south side of the Plat and North Platte was followed by others, | and thus became the historic trail. Thelr |famous cow, and the old horse which | seventeen years before carried the bur- dens for the Astorians are entitled to a hign place among the ploneers of the west. In 1582, Captain Bonneville, whose story { But they were both running | some medicine for her and she was well |18 told by Washington Irving, followed ;over Bublette's trail from the Missourl iriver to the mountains. In the same {year Nathaniel J. Wyeth, following the |same trail, pushed through the South Pass in the mountains and on to Oregon, |thus making an open road from the Mis- sourl river to the Pacific ocean. With llll‘hl changes this road remained the | Oregon trall through the years of over- fog, T told him to make me & wren house, | My little brother, Duane, says Fluffy 8 |lang travel. Kvery spring in May the r he had made my s'ster one. An so should make me onme too. He said e would make me one If T would get|doll, it can sit up and hold a block | me boards which he could use. I fin- L‘; found some and brought them to He has a little puppy named I have & his kitten. Shep. It Is black and white. It can also go to sleep. My too. Wa like in its hand. sister Laura has a doll, ;Iont emigrant trains left the Missouri river and arrived on the Pacific coast in November. It was a wonderful trip. Every day the train moved fifteen or twenty miles. Every night it camped. Then he made me & nice little |to play with our dolls. My doll's name s | Every day there were new scenes and The 1 ed 10 Years, Cush- of the Oregon trail in | and then we ate dinner. After dinner we played und then we ate oranges. We children were called in to have our pro gram. After we had our program we had | our pictures taken. Our teacher gave the plotures to overy family of tho| | scholars. Our teacher for mext year is | Miss Nedella Bents | —— Picking Blackberries. | By Menristta Lente. Aged 12 Yo 1, Box 8, Gothenburg, Neb. Blu ars, ¥ o Side, It was Friday morning and Harold had been playing In the fields. Mo in- tended to take home to the cook a bas- kot of blackberries for tomorrow's Perhaps it he had boen left to himselt he would have filled the basket, but he heard some one singing on the other side of the hedge, %o he ran up to the gate und there saw a dear little girl standing near it She wore a large bonnet, out of which her little face peeped prettily. R “Why that Is the little girl that lives In the house yonder,” said Marold to himself, 1 should Itke to play with | her Then he remembered that he had often | seen his father help his mother over gates, s0 he held out his right hand | and said all in a breath “If you please, little girl, can't 1 bhelp you over this stile. 1 know who you are quite well. You live in that pretty white house,” pointing just ahead, “and | my mamma (s coming to see your mamma | wome day, and my namo s Harod, and | it you please, what is your name? The MNttle girl, after thinking a whiie, decided, 1 suppose, that she liked this polite little boy, for she smiled at him | and holding onto the gate with her right hand pisnced her left in his ‘Thank you,’ she sald. My name | is Aline. Pleass tell me what you have | In that basket “Come and see,” sald Harold as he helped her scramble over the gate. “1 have eaten all the biggest,”" he sald mournfully. “These are for the ple. Had I known you were coming 1 should have kept the best ones for you. But we will go and find some more. Jt is so jolly in the fields, and if we happen to meet any cows you needn't be frightened. 1 can take care of you." Aline was delighted and the two chil- dren ran off together as happy as could be, full of fun and merriment. Little Bird Dies. By Evelyn Vogel. Aged 13 Years. 1613 Ohio 8t, Omaha, Neb, Red Side. Ome morning last week while mamma and 1 were sitting on the front porch & | woodpecker dropped down onto the drive- way. As he did not move 1 ran and picked him up. He was not dead, but seemed to be stunned. A man who nap- pened to come along to leave a circular for a furniture house told us the bird might have touched an electric light Stories of Nebraska History events, New friends were found among the truvelers. Children were born on the way. There were weddings and funerals, It was a great traveling city moving 2,000 mlles, from the river to the ocean. There are five periods in the story of the Oregon trail. The first was the period of finding the way and breaking the trail and extends from the return of the As- toriang in 1813 to the Wyeth wagons in 1830, The second perfod was that of the early Oregon migration and extends from 1832 to the discovery of gold in California in 1849, The third period was that of the rush for gold and extends from 1840 to 1860. During this period the Oregon trail became the greatest traveled highway in the world, wider and more beaten than a city street, and hundreds of thousands passed over it. The fourth period is that of the decline of the Oregon trail and extends from 1860 to 1869, The fifth period, from 1860 to the present day, ls witnessing its gradual effacement. The best brief description of the Oregon trall is that of Father De Smet, who knew it well and tells of its appearance when first seen by him and his party of Indjans from the upper Missouri in 1851: “Our Indian companions, who had never seen but the narrow hunting paths by which they transport themselves and their lodges, were filled with admiration on weelng this noble highway, which Is as smooth as a barn floor swept by the winds, and not a blade of grass can shoot up on it on account of the continual pass- ‘ing. They concelved a high idea of the countless white nations. They fancied that all had gone over that road and that an immense void must exist in the land of the rising sun. They styled the ‘Great Medicine Road of the In another place Father De Bmet tells of the great government wagon tralny he met on the Oregon trail in 1866: “Fach train consisted of twenty-six wagons, each wagon drawn by six yoke {of oxen. The trains made a line fifty miles long. Kach wagon is marked with |a name as in the case of ships, and these |names serve to furnish amusement to |the passers-by. Such names as The Con- | stitution, The President, The Great Re- |public, The King of Bavaria, Louls Na- |poleon, Dan O'Connell, 0Old Kentuck {were daubed in great letters on each |side of the carriage. On the plains th | wagoner assumes the style of captain, | being placed In command of s wagon |and twelve oxen. The master wagoner is admiral of this little land fleet of 2 captaine and 312 oxen. At a distance the white awnings of the wagons have the |effect of a fleet of vessels with all can- | vas spread.” | The second important trail acioss Ne- |braska is the ome which started from |the banks of the Missour river near | Bellevue and Florence, followed up the north side of the Platte and North Platte |to Fort Laramie, where It joined the older Oregon trail. This was the routs {moross Nebraska of the returning As- torfans in 1518 and some of early fur traders. The Mormons made this & wagon road in 157 when their great com- pany which wintered at Florence and { Bellevue took this way to the valley of {the Great Salt Lake. It was often called the Mormon trall. Some of the immi- grants to Oregon and California went over this route, and hence it is some- times called the Oregon trall or Call- fornis trafl. Thore was less travel on {this trail than on the ane south of the Platte because there was more sand here. This north side trail ran through the counties of Dougles, Sarpy, Dodge, Col- fax, Platte, Merrick, Hall, Buffalo, Daw- son, Lincoln, Garden and Bcott's Bluff, The third celebrated traill across Ne- braska was from the Missourl river to Denver and wus called the Denver trail. It had many branches between the Mis- souri river and Fort Kearney. Near this OROWN PRINCE HUM- BERT of Italy selling patriotic emblems on the ||| streets of Rome in connec- tion with the recent Red | | | | wire and had a shook, the bird was such a pretty feilow end We felt so sorry, | helped keep bugs and worma off the maple trees. So we asked the man what . By A. E. Sheldon point they united and followed up the south bank of the Platte to Denver. The route from Omaha to Denver was up the north bank of the Platte to Shinn's ferry in Butler county, where it crossed to the south side, and continued up the river to Fort Kearney. There wae also & road from Nebraska City up the south bank of the Platte, which was jolned 1 am rending the stories every Sun In the papers and 1 enjoy them much. 1 wish 1 could Join them, end would be very happy to see them In the Sunday Bee. 1 §o to the Cass school. | 1 passed into Sixth A and my age ls 1 My birthday Is September 1 and I hav nditle white which 1n my My | father I8 & merchant. 1 love to live In| Omaha. 1 think it is a nice place live 1n, and 1 aiso love to go to school and have my teacher temoh mo. e name s Miss Hewett. She is & vory nice teacher. 1 am glad she passed me and now my new teacher's name is M Wallace. very too, | Red Sido { | | | f vt pot to The Liberty Bell. By Enola Render, Aged 10 Years, Brigh- ton, Colo. Red Bide. 1 have been reading the children's page for some time and I enjoy it very much. I will join the Red Side. I am golng to tell you out the Liberty Bell. The Liberty Bell came here and stopped ibout five minut I went down to the depot to mee it. There a great crowd had as- embled. The Liberty Bell had not been ussl ever since that great event in 1776 when it rang out our independenco. We oele- brate the Fourth of July to remember | the day when we were declared free from | England. | Little Visitor Here, By Dixie Loulse Mullins, Aged 11 Years, No. 12 Angelus Amntlrdlmnnu, Omaha. e. 1 enjoy reading the Busy Bee page and I would like to join them. I am visiting my aunt in Omaha, but my home in in Kingsville, Mo, I would like to join the Red Side as it is my favorite color. I hope this short letter will escape Mr. Waste Basket. Books of Knowledge By Martha Johnson, TIT East Fourteenth, Fremont, Neb. Red Side. My mother kept buying sets of books, thinking they were good books telling all about. the world and to help me in history, but every time she was disap- by the Omaha road after it orossed the river. It was called the Fort Kearney and Nebraska City road. A new and more direct road was laid out in 183 from Nebraska City west through the counties of Otoe, Lancaster, Seward, York, Hall and Kearney. This was the shortest and best road to Denver. It was called the Nebraska City Cut-off, It became very popular, and during the years from 1862 to 1860 was traveled by thousands of immigrants and freighters, Over the Denver trall went the Pike's Peak immigrants and the supplies and machinery for opening the mines of | Colorado. | After a few years the mall and stage coach and pony express followed the im- | migrant and freight wagons along the overland trails. In 1850 the first monthly mail coaches began running from the Missouri river to Balt Lake and Call- fornia. The hard winfer of 1866-67 blocked this route for several months, | The California mail comch was then placed on a southern route through Ari- Zona, but with the breaking out of tne elvil war it wi brought north n and in 1861 the first daily overland mall began running from the Missouri river to California. This mail at first startes from St. Joseph. After a few months |1t ran from Atchison, joining the Oregon trall a fow miles #outh of the Nebraska state line, and following it as far as the crossing of the Bouth Platte near Julesburg, where it diverged, making a new road, called the Central route, Imr-mm the mountains to Salt Lake City. This was sald to be the greatest stage |line in the world m 1861 to 1566 daily icoaches ran both ways except for a few months during the Indian war in 1884, Over this line also ran the pony express, ibeginning April 3, 1860, and continuing for eighteen months, until the comple- tion of the telegraph line to San Fran- clsco. ‘The pony express was a man on horse- back, carrying a mail bag and riding as fast as the horse could run. As the horse {and man, covered with dust and foam, |dnshed into a station, another man on | hormeback snatched the bag and raced to {the next station {and dispatches rushed day and night Across the plains and mountains from the | Missourt river to the Pacific acean. The quickest time ever made by the pony express was In March, 1861, when Presi. dent Lincoln's inaugural addr was |carried from St. Joseph to Sacramento, {18% miles, in seven days and seventeen hours, | The old overland tralls fell out of use with the completion of the Union Pa- cific rallroad in 1869, Short stretches from one settlement to another were used as roads, but they were no longer the | #reat highways of travel. The sunflower jand tumble wecd settled in thelr furrows and for many years these trails could be |traced across Nebraska prairies by a wide ribbon. With passing years the |breaking plow ran its furrows across the furrows of the wagon wheels and the harrow and cultivator smoothed away their wrinkles until over & large part of our state the old overland trails can be traced only by the records of the early surveyors and the recollections of tho few old-timers. In the far western part of Nebraska, and especlally along the course of the Oregon trall on the south #ide of the North Platte, the old wagon tracks still remain and the long ribbons of sunflowers still trace the routes of the old tralls mcross our country. | 8o the bag of letters | Page we could a5 the bird seemed to be | pointed. One day & man onme to our suffering we th he might be |iouse und told mamma about he bes taved The man » sted a drop of [Looks in the world. She thought sha whisky In a spoonfu f water We had [ should not buy them, but finally she did no whisky but did have wome grain | and they are the best hooks, the books ulcohol, which we tried, but the poor |of knowledge. I have made much use bird died any way rlgit In my mamma's | of them. They tell, about everything a hand. Mamma thinks we did not uss ' child wants to know and it heips you in the remedy soon enough school and In everything. There Is not - |n auestion you can ask but whet e n Play Cirous. the book of knowledge. By |.,.A'm Van {I\x,lwn .;M.w 8 Years, | i Kearney, eh. Red Side % It wus a warm day In suinm We Llhfl“ I"d Eth(‘l ough! ould ve elre o ather! vay, Aged 10 " thought we Would have & cifus W By Cathgrine Traadiway, Aged 10 Yeas . i a hay loft I was a funny 1 clown. We had a parade in the morning. ‘ N8 thare Were e “!"" P When the circus was onded they all said | "®Mmes were Lillan and Kthel. Ethel was they lied 1t vory mueh. gontle and kind, but Lillan was roush Py and selfish. One day their mother said, It you will each pick a galion of ap- Reads P‘fl} Bf‘[_“l“l)'- | plea, 1 will give you each a big peach’ By \l\hfr‘:‘x‘llm\‘\klnt-\gv‘:i_ ;e L South | g5 both of the girls went out and in & Thise is the tirst time 1 have writton r“‘lv whilp they Hnd & GAUSR o8 SPVRS My father takes The Hee, and [ read the § then they ran®BEPsSy S/RYLNES chidren's page every Sunday 1 am house. Thelr mother gave them each & years old and 1 am in the sixth grade, |Nice large peach ,and then they went I would like to join the Blue side; also [OUt to play, and were yery happy | Wish to see my letter In print L | Makes Mud Pies. Reads Busy Bee Stories, By lLeona Walter, Aged § Years, Wahoo, Anna Moskaviten, Aged 12 Years. 718 N Neb. Blue Side Bixteenth, Omnha, Nob. Once the little nelghbor by and T were making mud ples, We made cakes, cof- fee rolls, doughnuts, ples, cookles, angel food cake and all sorts of things. My would come and buy sister and brother | them. After we had plaved awhile we | got tired, o T went home, cleaned up and got ready so T could go to the pic- ture show 1 think I had a very nice time that day The Sparrows. | By Madeline Kenyon, Aged 14 Years, Omaha, Neb Plue Side. I have a small stand and on it & pan of water and a few crumbs. Every day 1 mee about ten birds gather around the stand and have their meals They enjoy themselves very much, for every day they bring more of their | triends to help feast The grey little birds are very common, but useful Busy Bee Rhymes. By Helen Vals, Aged 13 Years, Clarkson, v Helen VeltnBlue de. A little girl went to town' one day. With_Rover, the dog, at her side, Her father and mother were both away, And she was left home with the mald. With her basket in her han They went together for an e atrand, Rover carfying the money mou The Bout bag ‘they went was the sunny With the roses abloom In the path, And the walk leanding where there is not wrath, | Down by the river where the sweel flow- ers grow, Where the little girl plcked and then she strow— Strew them at Rover's fee The dear large dog who wi ‘When they had restod (h-{ And soon they were comin cel brown, Rover l'lcking the little girl's hand, Wondering how long they had been on their strand. 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