. St. Nicholas [serial] . wfr« ; w\ i ( ^ \\£ fathered moss tor a throne of tfreen . \ \\ j i JX J) And with violets blue we Crowned her •, i jF v •I M\ /■I/ We played that she was a Tairy Queen ,And gaily we danced around her . A robin San<^ to us overhead ,A scjuirrel capered and chattered ; -Then a little ejray mouse popped out of hi;; O how we jumped and scattered ! THE CONSPIRATORS. By Emma Sherwood There werethree of them,John, Helen,and Fliciano,—and as they laidtheir heads to-gether, in a glim-mering corner ofthe library, it wasclear to see thatFliciano was thelead
. St. Nicholas [serial] . wfr« ; w\ i ( ^ \\£ fathered moss tor a throne of tfreen . \ \\ j i JX J) And with violets blue we Crowned her •, i jF v •I M\ /■I/ We played that she was a Tairy Queen ,And gaily we danced around her . A robin San<^ to us overhead ,A scjuirrel capered and chattered ; -Then a little ejray mouse popped out of hi;; O how we jumped and scattered ! THE CONSPIRATORS. By Emma Sherwood There werethree of them,John, Helen,and Fliciano,—and as they laidtheir heads to-gether, in a glim-mering corner ofthe library, it wasclear to see thatFliciano was theleading spirit of thethree. And why not,when his fatherhad lived and died by means of plots, andFlicianos very presence was but the result ofone ? Down in San Domingo, whence he came,they used to have plots for breakfast, dinner,and tea, and Fliciano had learned to makethem as cleverly —poor fellow ! — as any of hisolder companions. Meanwhile, as we have said, the conspira-tors laid their heads together, in a corner ofMr. Stetsons library, and connived at a planwhich was to bring happiness to all understand the matter better, however, it V/-\ devise a particularly clever plot just at thisperiod of his life. He had been sent from San Domingo, explained to the gentlemen of his ac-quaintance, for political reasons; and thisphrase was about as clear to Fliciano as if had quoted a line
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