StNicholas [serial] . quick and catches them before they empty outthe water; even then the boxesstretch, stretch, yielding to thestrain, so that they come to noharm. Go out, some cold morning, andfind the stones that show above thesnow, or examine carefully thebark of trees, and find the brownpatches of moss of which a singlebit picked out looks like figure1. Cut off a patch of this mossor scrape some from tree or stone,take it home, and moisten it with warm the change in it carefully, for, as if bymagic, the single stem will soon look like oursecond picture. The larger the bunch of
StNicholas [serial] . quick and catches them before they empty outthe water; even then the boxesstretch, stretch, yielding to thestrain, so that they come to noharm. Go out, some cold morning, andfind the stones that show above thesnow, or examine carefully thebark of trees, and find the brownpatches of moss of which a singlebit picked out looks like figure1. Cut off a patch of this mossor scrape some from tree or stone,take it home, and moisten it with warm the change in it carefully, for, as if bymagic, the single stem will soon look like oursecond picture. The larger the bunch ofmosses, the better the effect, and they will keepgreen for a long time under a tumbler in awarm room. This changing and growing is the same pro-cess that takes place in all mosses when thewarm, moist spring comes. A. J. Grout. THE FROST KING. There is in nature a king that rules a greatpart of this fair earth with a pitiless you ever seen his work? If not, thinkof this: What is it that brings the bird tribes.
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