. St. Nicholas [serial] . i88o.] FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK. 71. HOW ROB COUNTED THE STARS. Oth-er lit-tle boys have count-edthe stars, but let me tell you howlit-tle Rob count-ed them. Rob wasthen just four years old. It was a warm sum-mer had put Rob in-to bed,and aft-er kiss-ing him sev-er-al times,had left him a-lone to fall stars came out, one by one, tillthe win-dow was full of the lit-tlebriefht twink-lers, and the tired lit-tie boy lay won-der-ing at theirbright-ness, and count-ing them on his fin-gers and toes; but pret-tysoon ev-er-y lit-tle fin-ger and toe was use
. St. Nicholas [serial] . i88o.] FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK. 71. HOW ROB COUNTED THE STARS. Oth-er lit-tle boys have count-edthe stars, but let me tell you howlit-tle Rob count-ed them. Rob wasthen just four years old. It was a warm sum-mer had put Rob in-to bed,and aft-er kiss-ing him sev-er-al times,had left him a-lone to fall stars came out, one by one, tillthe win-dow was full of the lit-tlebriefht twink-lers, and the tired lit-tie boy lay won-der-ing at theirbright-ness, and count-ing them on his fin-gers and toes; but pret-tysoon ev-er-y lit-tle fin-ger and toe was used up, and Rob had manystars left in the win-dow and no-where to put them. If I only had alit-tle sis-ter, he said, I could use her fm-gers. And there he lay,with his arms stretched up-ward and a star on ev-er-y lit-tle fin-ger-tip. As soon as the thought came in-to his head, he popped out ofthe bed, and in an in-stant more was mak-ing a map of the lit-tle pieceof sky which he saw, by put-ting a mark for ev-er-y star up-on hisslate. But soon he grew dream
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