. St. Nicholas [serial] . ARDS, AGE I5.(SILVER badge) A LUCKY SNAP-SHOT BY JOHN 5. ROBERTS, AGE 9. THE WHISPERING PINES BY POLLY PALFREY (aGE 13) (Gold Badge. Silver Badge won November^ 1918) Tall dark sisters of the forest. Stretching up to reach the sky,Flowers round your feet are standing, Children on the green moss lie. When the south wind rushes past you,Dropping news from every land. You whisper back and forth among you,Swaying gently as you stand. At your feet all s still and quiet,As within some solemn church — No sound except your gentle rustling leaves of oak and birch. H
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ARDS, AGE I5.(SILVER badge) A LUCKY SNAP-SHOT BY JOHN 5. ROBERTS, AGE 9. THE WHISPERING PINES BY POLLY PALFREY (aGE 13) (Gold Badge. Silver Badge won November^ 1918) Tall dark sisters of the forest. Stretching up to reach the sky,Flowers round your feet are standing, Children on the green moss lie. When the south wind rushes past you,Dropping news from every land. You whisper back and forth among you,Swaying gently as you stand. At your feet all s still and quiet,As within some solemn church — No sound except your gentle rustling leaves of oak and birch. High oerhead white clouds are sailing Golden sunlight all day long;Now the west wind tells his story, And your whispering grows more strong. Should the north wind gallop southwardWith his bag of ice and snow. Then you moan and roar in wave great arms to and fro. Summer, winter, spring, and come in lines and lines, But spite of hail and rain and , unchanged, the whispering a lucky snap-shot. by SARA CAROLINE BEHKEND, AGE 14. A NARROW ESCAPE BY JEAN DOUGLASS (aGE 12) (Silver Badge)The thrilling film ended, the lights flashed on, andthe audience moved restlessly, impatient for the nextnumber. A hum of conversation filled the theater,but partially ceased as a man came forward to thefootlights. Short and fair, with keen, flashing eyesand heavy brows, he was a typical German, and hadI met him on the street, I should certainly havesingled him out as one—perhaps even a fierce prop-agandist. One would never have thought him aLiberty Loan speaker, but he was one, and at firstI was not much interested, and listened idly. I am of pure German parentage, he declared,but I am one hundred per cent. American. Suddenly he leaned forward and said in a tonethat made me sit up straighter : I had a narrow escape, I tell you! I was almosta godson to Kaiser Wilhelm, as every seventh sonborn in Germany is. My mother and father wereGerman citizens, b
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