. St. Nicholas [serial] . GATHERING ROCK-OYSTERS. the larger it makes its home. The entrance it madeinto this home is small, and now that the Pholas is full-grown it can never get out. The sand shifts in to acertain degree, but there is always an opening. ThePholas has a long neck or tube which it reaches outthrough this entrance into the water, and throughwhich it receives its food. Agnes Dorothy Campbell (age 14). The August Nature and Science containedan interesting article on these remarkable shell-fish. ST. NICHOLAS A HEADING FOR SEPTEMBER. BY JOHN D. BUTLER, AGE 15. (GOLD BADGE.
. St. Nicholas [serial] . GATHERING ROCK-OYSTERS. the larger it makes its home. The entrance it madeinto this home is small, and now that the Pholas is full-grown it can never get out. The sand shifts in to acertain degree, but there is always an opening. ThePholas has a long neck or tube which it reaches outthrough this entrance into the water, and throughwhich it receives its food. Agnes Dorothy Campbell (age 14). The August Nature and Science containedan interesting article on these remarkable shell-fish. ST. NICHOLAS A HEADING FOR SEPTEMBER. BY JOHN D. BUTLER, AGE 15. (GOLD BADGE.) A SONG FOR THE BELATED. If the ladder you would climb, Be on time;Picture, puzzle, prose, or rhyme, Be on and moments will not stay,Better be ahead a day,Dont forget and dont delay— Be on time. In the May number we gave notice in two placesthat the August competition would close five days ear-lier than usual and the September competition five dayslater. Nevertheless, there were, as usual, a number ofcontributors who waited not only until the last day ofthe given closing time before sending in their work,but until three or four days later. Now, the examination of the League contributions isa very big work, and the date when the magazine goesto the printer is not a thing to be changed. It is nouse saying, My contribution this month is a littlelate, but please consider it, anyway, for such a requestis just about as hard to grant as to hold a train for adilatory passenger who is running, red-faced and breath-le
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