St Nicholas [serial] . When mamma was putting Katie to bed that evening, a little voicewhispered: Mamma, wont you make Pecky stop doing that? What do you think mamma said? She whispered to Katie: WhenPolly does not see any little girl doing so, I am sure he will forget it. Then I 11 never do so any more! said Katie. And she kept her word. 826 JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT. [October,. JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT. This month, I m told, somebody gives in thepages of St. Nicholas full directions for makingpretty landscape-pictures out of moss, lichen, tinyfern and other lovely things to be found in a coun-try walk. S
St Nicholas [serial] . When mamma was putting Katie to bed that evening, a little voicewhispered: Mamma, wont you make Pecky stop doing that? What do you think mamma said? She whispered to Katie: WhenPolly does not see any little girl doing so, I am sure he will forget it. Then I 11 never do so any more! said Katie. And she kept her word. 826 JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT. [October,. JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT. This month, I m told, somebody gives in thepages of St. Nicholas full directions for makingpretty landscape-pictures out of moss, lichen, tinyfern and other lovely things to be found in a coun-try walk. So your Jack advises you, dear young folks, tolook about you as you wander in the fields andforests and to collect carefully and preserve finespecimens of delicate ferns, leaves, grasses, moss,and lichen, for possible future work. It will do noharm, at any rate, to examine these exquisite won-ders of nature closely and with an eye to business,—for, even if nobody comes to help you, you canhelp yourselves, and arrange your treasures in someway, so as to delight yourselves and others. HOW NOT TO DO IT. The birds tell me, by the bye, that some folkjust load the walls of their living-rooms with stiffwreaths or chains of varnished leaves and pressedHartford fern, strung about in the stiffest and mostabsurd fashion,—up one side of the picture cordsand down the other,
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