. St. Nicholas [serial]. ation, sincethe first time I ever noticedit particularly and found outits exact meaning was whenI read Miltons LAlle-gro. Now, whenever I seeit, it reminds me at first ofthe lovely description of anEnglish country landscapein which it is used ;n thispoem, and that in turn re-calls the whole poem, withall its beautiful sights andsounds. For this reasonthe word is a little fairywho holds the key of themost wonderful poems Ihave ever read, — those ofMilton,—for it even has thepower of bringing othersbesides LAllegro beforemy mind. THE TREES IN WINTER. BY GLADYS NELSON (AG
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ation, sincethe first time I ever noticedit particularly and found outits exact meaning was whenI read Miltons LAlle-gro. Now, whenever I seeit, it reminds me at first ofthe lovely description of anEnglish country landscapein which it is used ;n thispoem, and that in turn re-calls the whole poem, withall its beautiful sights andsounds. For this reasonthe word is a little fairywho holds the key of themost wonderful poems Ihave ever read, — those ofMilton,—for it even has thepower of bringing othersbesides LAllegro beforemy mind. THE TREES IN WINTER. BY GLADYS NELSON (AGE 13). Deep lie the snow-drifts,The emblems of purity;Low bend the trees oer the icy stone wall. 1904. ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE. 277 The wind has free will,The squirrel security,Tn the snow-laden pine-trees, so grand and so tall. The oak-trees branches Are ice-covered yet,And crackle and bend oer the cold frozen stream ; The gray darkened sky Gives no sign of sunset,And the leaves neath the snow-drifts care only to THE WINTER MOON. BY LOIS D. WILCOX, AGE 14. Through the slumbering forest The winter winds sweep,And moan in the branches, so dreary, so cold. Softly the night falls ; The earth s wrapped in sleep ;T is the same old winter—the same trees of old. THE STORY OF A WORD. BY JAMES J. PORTER (AGE 12). {Silver Badge.) I HAVE chosen as my subject the word car. Sometime ago, while preparing my lesson in Caesar, I noticedthe word carries, and this furnished me with a subjectfor my composition. Among the old Celts—called by the Romans Gauls —who in ancient times dwelt in what is now France, therewas a word meaning wagon or cart, namely, cam. TheRomans had no word for the Gallic two-wheeled carts ;therefore they simply Latinized the Celtic word earn;causing it to become carrus. When the Roman soldiersconquered Gaul, they forced their language, slightlymodified, upon the inhabitants, and thus the word re-turned to those from whom it was borrowed in its orig-inal form,
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