. St. Nicholas [serial]. ingly uponthe shivering pair at the shop-window. Presently the elder child, a boy of ten, spoke : Oh, Maggie! I wish I had that tool-box. Jiminy!Is nt it a beauty ? Yes ; and I should love the little stove, sighed hissister. Well, we cant have em and—I have an something you want, and I 11 try to guess it inthree guesses. Is it the sail-boat? No. The tool-box ?No. Of course the third time she guessed a fire-engineand was right. The game went on merrily. Maggie could nt guessSams third choice, and Sam gleefully jumped up anddown like a jack-in-the-box. Heigh-
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ingly uponthe shivering pair at the shop-window. Presently the elder child, a boy of ten, spoke : Oh, Maggie! I wish I had that tool-box. Jiminy!Is nt it a beauty ? Yes ; and I should love the little stove, sighed hissister. Well, we cant have em and—I have an something you want, and I 11 try to guess it inthree guesses. Is it the sail-boat? No. The tool-box ?No. Of course the third time she guessed a fire-engineand was right. The game went on merrily. Maggie could nt guessSams third choice, and Sam gleefully jumped up anddown like a jack-in-the-box. Heigh-ho! What s all this? cried a gruff voice,and, on looking around, Sam saw an old gentleman,with his little granddaughter, who had just stepped outof a limousine. The g-guessing game, sir, was all Sammy couldstammer, but later, with Maggies help, he explainedeverything. Then the old gentleman took them into the toy-shop—fairyland to them—and some time afterward twohappy children, clasping two large packages—one the. BY PERCY WINTER, AGE 13. BY CONSTANCE G. CAMERON,AGE 14. (HONOR MEMBER.) THE FAMILY PET. BY PEGGY GANTT, AGE I4.(SILVER BADGE.) BY ELIZABETH W. GRAVES,AGE lO. 19I5-] ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE 181 miniature stove, and the other the tool-box—-fairly stag-gered up the steps of a gloomy tenement, while an auto-mobile glided slowly away into the darkness. Kitty, dear, said the old gentleman, thinking aboutyour new pony and doll-house, eh ? No, Grandpapa—about the little boy and girl andthe guessing game
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