. St. Nicholas [serial]. Washington towithdraw. It is true hehad the darkness and thefog on his side, and hismen, while small in num-ber, were bold in spirit;still, unless the camp-fireshad been kept burning un-til the army had reachedNew York, it is probablethat the undertaking wouldhave been a loss. My great-grandfather, with two orthree others, were stationedas guards to keep up the camp-fires. They were thelast to depart from the island. While the fires blazedhigh and bright, they quietly left and hastened to rejointhe main army. The English, seeing the fires, weredeceived at first, and mi
. St. Nicholas [serial]. Washington towithdraw. It is true hehad the darkness and thefog on his side, and hismen, while small in num-ber, were bold in spirit;still, unless the camp-fireshad been kept burning un-til the army had reachedNew York, it is probablethat the undertaking wouldhave been a loss. My great-grandfather, with two orthree others, were stationedas guards to keep up the camp-fires. They were thelast to depart from the island. While the fires blazedhigh and bright, they quietly left and hastened to rejointhe main army. The English, seeing the fires, weredeceived at first, and missed theiropportunity of capturing theAmericans. JUNE. BY MARGARET DREW (AGE 9). Oh, June she brings the roses, So scented and so fair;I love to smell their perfume, That fills the summer air. Of yellow there are nt many,Of white there are a few; Red and pink are plentiful,All sparkling with the dew. T is June that brings the straw-berries So luscious and so sweet;I like to sit in shade of trees And eat and eat and FAMILY TRADITIONS. BY OLIVE MUDIE COOKE (AGE 14). Most families have a tradition,but there are few which date backas far as the early Norsemen. The Mudies were great vikings,who were famous not only for theirgreat and endless courage, skill,and strength, but for their mercytoward those weaker than them-selves. They were never knownto bring about any revenge, ex-cept once, when a member of theirfamily was taken prisoner and theBlood Eagle cut upon a long time they sought theman who had done this, and, whenthey found him, treated him evenas he had treated their later days it became the custom for the vikingswho inhabited the islands round Scotland to be stoodup in their armor when they died, instead of beinggiven a burning journey to Valhalla, with their shipsand slain followers. Until about fifty years ago two ofour ancestors stood thus,and the nurses used tofrighten the children bytelling them that the Mu-dies would fetch them. My grandfathe
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