StNicholas . inting would liketo know how to decorate paper like this for Christmas pretty pictures can be taken from this magazine. Fluffy is avery cunning little girl to paint. The poem and illustrations about ht-rare in the .\iay number, 1877. Another good thing for painting isin the February number of the same year ; it is three little childrencrying. Each figure makes a complete picture. First draw the outline of the picture with a lead-i^encil, tint it withwater-color laid on ver>- thin, and then re-line with burnt sienna. Itis best to use paper without lines. For a chil
StNicholas . inting would liketo know how to decorate paper like this for Christmas pretty pictures can be taken from this magazine. Fluffy is avery cunning little girl to paint. The poem and illustrations about ht-rare in the .\iay number, 1877. Another good thing for painting isin the February number of the same year ; it is three little childrencrying. Each figure makes a complete picture. First draw the outline of the picture with a lead-i^encil, tint it withwater-color laid on ver>- thin, and then re-line with burnt sienna. Itis best to use paper without lines. For a child that can not writestraight without them, get watered lines. —Your little friend, Beatrice Brown. Dear St. Nicholas: I think T can interest some nf the readersof the Letter-box by telling them of a Pig-a-graph from which 1had great pleasure. I took an old account-book, and asked eachperson I knew to draw a pig in it with their eyes shut, and then signtheir name under it. —Your constant reader, W. Peoria, Sept. 15, St. Nicholas : I saw in the September number how tomake com-husk dolls. I made some the day I got the St. Nicho-las, and they look very funny. I am sorry the com is gone, because1 cant make any more dolls. I like to read the stones in the very much. Irene. Dear St. Nicholas : I am one of your English readers and resideat Congleton. I am thirteen years of age. I have read your storiesby Mrs. Oliphant of Lady Jane Grey and Mary, Queen of Scots, andsince reading them 1 have been to Westminster Abbey and theTower. I looked with great interest at the tombs in the Abbey, andlike your corrcspondcnLs, Carl and Norris, I saw the monument toMary, Queen of Scots, and also that of her rival. Queen saw the fac-simile of the letter in James Ls handwriting, givingdirections respecting the building of the monument to his also saw the chapel where Queen Elizabeths tomb is placed, andwhere Oliver Cromwell, and John Bradshaw, who pr
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