St Nicholas [serial] . MR. TORTOISE: IT S MOST ANNOYING! EVERY TIME I DRAW IN MY HEAD MY HAT TUMBLES OFF!. MR. FROG : DANGER, EH ? IT S ALL THE SAME TO ME WHETHER THE ICE IS THICK OR THIN ! THE LETTER-BOX -Our readers will remember with pleasure the cleverrhyme by Ellen Manly, in our Christmas number, entitledOh, Dear ! What Can the Matter Be ! And they will be equally amused by a heart-felt responseto those verses, written by the original Benjamin now a grown-up man himself, he recognized cer-tain touches in the picture of the occasionally naughty boythat he once had been, and sent t
St Nicholas [serial] . MR. TORTOISE: IT S MOST ANNOYING! EVERY TIME I DRAW IN MY HEAD MY HAT TUMBLES OFF!. MR. FROG : DANGER, EH ? IT S ALL THE SAME TO ME WHETHER THE ICE IS THICK OR THIN ! THE LETTER-BOX -Our readers will remember with pleasure the cleverrhyme by Ellen Manly, in our Christmas number, entitledOh, Dear ! What Can the Matter Be ! And they will be equally amused by a heart-felt responseto those verses, written by the original Benjamin now a grown-up man himself, he recognized cer-tain touches in the picture of the occasionally naughty boythat he once had been, and sent the following lines to hismother when he had read the verses in St. Nicholas. His name may be Benjamin Bennington Brooks, But I m sure that in days of yoreHe differed not only in name, but in looks — As he pounded and kicked on the floor —From the wee lad so aptly described in your verse,The original s thankful you made him no worse ! He acknowledges he was as bad as the bad,That he smashed his toy soldiers to bits ; Also roared like a lion wheneer he was madAnd incited a kitten to fits ; But it s
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