. St. Nicholas [serial] . pointedknob. On this thick part they put strips of lead, to make the endheavy. When complete, as I have tried to describe it, the snake is held byits thin end and thrown along the slippery tracks made by sleighs inthe road, or over a clear space of crisp snow-crust, or on the ice ofsome lake or river. It slips away and away until it is almost out , and you think it never will stop ; and as it slides over unevensurfaces, its up-and-down, wave-like motion gives it the appearanceof a snake gliding swiftly along over the snow ; hence its name. The Indians try who
. St. Nicholas [serial] . pointedknob. On this thick part they put strips of lead, to make the endheavy. When complete, as I have tried to describe it, the snake is held byits thin end and thrown along the slippery tracks made by sleighs inthe road, or over a clear space of crisp snow-crust, or on the ice ofsome lake or river. It slips away and away until it is almost out , and you think it never will stop ; and as it slides over unevensurfaces, its up-and-down, wave-like motion gives it the appearanceof a snake gliding swiftly along over the snow ; hence its name. The Indians try who can make their pet snakes slide farthest,some one going with the umpire to send the queer things skimmingback to the players. Messages slipped into covered grooves can besent in snow-snakes across long stretches of ice too thin to bear aboys weight, or hurled along a road from house to house, and sosave time and labor, besides making fun of the kind that warms truly, A. C. H. 172 FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK. [December,. Once there were two sun-flow-ers who lived in a gar-den. Oneof them knew the lit-tle girl wholived next door; but the oth-erdid not care for any-thing but thesun. The friend-ly sun-flow-er oft-en leaned o-ver the fence andbowed to the lit-tle girl. It wasso tall, that she could not reachit, e-ven if she stood on her tip-toes ; but it some-times would putone of its broad leaves o-ver thefence like a hand, and the lit-tlegirl would shake it, and say, witha laugh : Good morn-ing, dear old Bright-face ! One day she said: Would you like to know mydol-ly? The sun-flow-er nod-ded; so thelit-tle girl reached up as high asshe could, and held up her dol-lyto be kissed. And they were allthree ver-y hap-py. Then the big-gest sun-flow-ernudged the oth-er, and said: How fool-ish you are ! Why doyou not al-ways look at the sun, asI do? Poor thing! It did not knowhow bright a lit-tle girls face can be. KITTY AND DODO. BY W. S. H. Oh ! Kitty and Sir DodoWent out to take a rid
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