. St. Nicholas [serial]. BY MARGARET I. CROSS, AGE 13(SILVER BADGE) BY RUTH COLBURN BOWLER, AGE II(SILVER BADGE) AT THE CORNER BY SAMUEL RIKER, AGE IS(SILVER BADGE) 1052 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE HARVEST-TIME BY EVELYN PERKINS (AGE 12) (Honor Member)From over the hot summer meadows, Still sweet from the newly mown hay,Come, soaring and sweeping, the swallows; A dip and a bend—they re away! Just back of the old pasture gate-wayThe apple-trees bend with their load. And thousands of purple-eyed astersGrow near by the grass-covered road. The goldenrod stirs by the waysideWith each little whispering bree
. St. Nicholas [serial]. BY MARGARET I. CROSS, AGE 13(SILVER BADGE) BY RUTH COLBURN BOWLER, AGE II(SILVER BADGE) AT THE CORNER BY SAMUEL RIKER, AGE IS(SILVER BADGE) 1052 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE HARVEST-TIME BY EVELYN PERKINS (AGE 12) (Honor Member)From over the hot summer meadows, Still sweet from the newly mown hay,Come, soaring and sweeping, the swallows; A dip and a bend—they re away! Just back of the old pasture gate-wayThe apple-trees bend with their load. And thousands of purple-eyed astersGrow near by the grass-covered road. The goldenrod stirs by the waysideWith each little whispering breeze; The brook murmurs by in the meadow,Beneath all the autumn-clad trees. I love the warm spring and the summer, The seasons of every clime,But best of them all is September, The glorious harvesting time!. A FAMILIAR OBJECT. BY DOROTHY M. JEFFERY, AGE 15 A PROUD MOMENT BY BARBARA SIMISON (AGE 13) (Silver Badge) Benjy, take good care of Prudence, for I may be gonequite a while, reminded his mother, cautiously motion-ing to the sleeping baby in the cradle. Yes indeed, replied the Quaker lad, mothers hastening footsteps died away and thehouse was in utter stillness, the babys regular breathingseeming to keep time with the measured tick-tock of theold clock in the corner. Benjamin glanced around. Theshouts of some lively school-boys called to him to he had promised his mother to stay in. How tempt-ing the rollicking s;ene did look! But how flowerlikehis pretty sister did look! If only he might transferher baby face to paper! The boy looked around oncemore and saw his inspiration in the form of a smoothboard and a piece of charcoal. One moment! Her rounding head grew beneath hisquick touch—first her violet eyes, then her rosebudmouth, until a cherub-face was there. On a
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