St Nicholas [serial] . ld hardly get through them. Papa ai.£went up a little canon where a little stream of water trickled didover the rocks, to look for ferns for his fernery, and we had fjt£.and sometimes when papa reached up the steep bank for a beaLffi^fern, his foot would slip and he would slide down among the ferns. We saw great quantities of hazel nuts, but they wenB|^ripe, and we only gathered a few to show to the others at the cotlj^t IOn the road we passed a steam saw-mill, where they make bc%.and shingles from the redwood trees. Great wagon loads of shirl&jtare hauled thro
St Nicholas [serial] . ld hardly get through them. Papa ai.£went up a little canon where a little stream of water trickled didover the rocks, to look for ferns for his fernery, and we had fjt£.and sometimes when papa reached up the steep bank for a beaLffi^fern, his foot would slip and he would slide down among the ferns. We saw great quantities of hazel nuts, but they wenB|^ripe, and we only gathered a few to show to the others at the cotlj^t IOn the road we passed a steam saw-mill, where they make bc%.and shingles from the redwood trees. Great wagon loads of shirl&jtare hauled through Pescadero to the landing by mule teams :*fc -imules have bells on their collars which make a merry jingle irie .woods to give notice to people in carriages to stop, as the id Ithrough the forest is so narrow in a great many places that ?Q *wagons cannot pass each other. Lizz. St. Paul, MLDear St. Nicholas: Allow me to present this picture off!Youthful Rubens Drawing Flies. I drew it as a companioiU^jto the Young Contributor pictures — Father, I Cannot Tell rie,and Sir Isaac Newton Discovering Gravitation, in your JuanaSeptember numbers of last year.—Your young contributor, 7-] THE LETTER-BOX. 357 THE LETTER-BOX. r is very apparent that Dr. Egglestons little Fairy Show fur Sun- -schools, published in the Christmas number of St. Nicholas, a need precisely. We have received, and still are getting, many ..sant letters from delighted young correspondents who saw it played leir schools, or themselves took part in it, and everywhere it has zed a success. Minnie Whitney writes that the people of herday-school, in Hudson, Mich., were tired of Christmas trees,,? arried out Dr. Egglestons plan,—and it was splendid! In a consin town they admitted the children free, but charged the ers and mothers ten cents each, and so cleared almost three times1 r expenses, b
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