. St. Nicholas [serial]. SHOITING. VIRGINIA Y>. BKADFIELD, AGE I7.(HONOR MEMBER.) THE OPEN GATEWAY BY EMILIA BELKNAP (AGE 9) Look ! said the speckled hen to the white hen. Ihave always heard the worms are very good in pansy-beds. Look, the gate is open. What do you say togoing in there and getting a few? Fine! exclaimed the white hen, and together theyboth went through the open gateway. My! ejaculated-the speckled hen, that s good!I m going to that other bed. Oh, you are, are you? asked a voice. Neither the white hen nor the speckled hen paid anyattention ; they were too busy eating. Su


. St. Nicholas [serial]. SHOITING. VIRGINIA Y>. BKADFIELD, AGE I7.(HONOR MEMBER.) THE OPEN GATEWAY BY EMILIA BELKNAP (AGE 9) Look ! said the speckled hen to the white hen. Ihave always heard the worms are very good in pansy-beds. Look, the gate is open. What do you say togoing in there and getting a few? Fine! exclaimed the white hen, and together theyboth went through the open gateway. My! ejaculated-the speckled hen, that s good!I m going to that other bed. Oh, you are, are you? asked a voice. Neither the white hen nor the speckled hen paid anyattention ; they were too busy eating. Suddenly therewas a ruffling of feathers, an awful cackling, and outof the garden scuttled the two hens. My! exclaimed the white hen when they weresafely in the barnyard, I was never so scared in mylife! I guess I II look out for open gateways afterthis. ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE 377. BY KEZIA M. K-


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