. St. Nicholas [serial]. YOUNG KINGFISHERS. BY REXFORD KING, AGE 17. (THIRDPRIZE, WILD-BIRD PHOTOGRAPH.) PORCUPINE. BY CHESTER S. WILSON, AGE 17. (SECONDPRIZE, WILD-ANIMAL PHOTOGRAPH.) That is nt much. I 11 stump you, Mary. To-day ourspelling lesson is fruits and vegetables. If the mas-ter calls you for huckleberry, you spell it that way! Oh, Tab! The tone was beseeching. It wasterrible disgrace to be stumped, and this was excep-tionally hard. Stumped? inquired Tab. No-o; I-I 11 take it. Just then the bell rang and they all trooped Tab was wily. She knew that the master al-ways called t
. St. Nicholas [serial]. YOUNG KINGFISHERS. BY REXFORD KING, AGE 17. (THIRDPRIZE, WILD-BIRD PHOTOGRAPH.) PORCUPINE. BY CHESTER S. WILSON, AGE 17. (SECONDPRIZE, WILD-ANIMAL PHOTOGRAPH.) That is nt much. I 11 stump you, Mary. To-day ourspelling lesson is fruits and vegetables. If the mas-ter calls you for huckleberry, you spell it that way! Oh, Tab! The tone was beseeching. It wasterrible disgrace to be stumped, and this was excep-tionally hard. Stumped? inquired Tab. No-o; I-I 11 take it. Just then the bell rang and they all trooped Tab was wily. She knew that the master al-ways called the words out in order, so she could easilyfind to whom huckleberry would come. It wouldcome to her! She stood just above Mary. Just oneperson must miss to make it come to Mary. Second class in spelling come forward! Down the line it came to Tab. Huckleberry! I dont know my lesson, said Tab, so Mary wouldhave to get it. 1140 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE. [Oct. ..V. A LANDSCAPE STUDY. BY KOBERT W. FOULKE, AGE I 7. (SILVER BADGE Then go to your seat and learn it! came the sternreply. Next! What shall I do? thought Mary. H-u — c — she began. Coward! hissed Tab, from her seat a step away. H-u, huckle, b-u, buckle, c-u, cuckle, y; huckle-berry-pie! There! I have said it. And poor Maryrushed to her seat with the hot tears on her cheeks. The second class in spelling is dismissed. I willspeak with Tabitha Reid and Mary Love after the ses-sion to-night. That night the master had a long talk with bothchildren which they never forgot, althoughthey are old ladies now. The master wasone of the few of his time who did not be-lieve in corporal punishment. But he for-bade them, during the noon hours, for thenext week to leave their seats or speak. So, though many things were differentin grandmothers day, little girls were, andalways will be, about the same. THE RETURN OF FALL. BY FRANCES BENEDICT (AGE 16). {Silver Badge.)Skies of deep celestial blue, Air so
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