StNicholas . rs of the roomsany little furniture, such as a three-legged table made of a cross-section of a sugar-cane and three points of wood, a wee woodendresser, and so on. The roof for the main room Is in two pieces, and made the sameway as the walls, and is just glued in so as to make two slopingsides from the topmost point of the back and front, but no gables,and you will find the right and left walls make two triangles whichstand up from the roof and form a pretty addition to the wholeeffect. The small room should have deep projcciing gables. Thechimney is shown in Fig. 4. Paint the ca
StNicholas . rs of the roomsany little furniture, such as a three-legged table made of a cross-section of a sugar-cane and three points of wood, a wee woodendresser, and so on. The roof for the main room Is in two pieces, and made the sameway as the walls, and is just glued in so as to make two slopingsides from the topmost point of the back and front, but no gables,and you will find the right and left walls make two triangles whichstand up from the roof and form a pretty addition to the wholeeffect. The small room should have deep projcciing gables. Thechimney is shown in Fig. 4. Paint the card-board round aboutgreen for grass, and lay out the garden with walks as your fancysuits you, and for proper gravel-walks gum them and sprinklewith sand till well covered. Put bits of mossy bark in appropriateplaces and make as nistic a garden as you can, and finally incloseIt all with a fence and gate. —Yours truly, Emily H. S., isJ^ years. 86 THE LETTER-BOX. [November, AGASSIZ .-ill allow a It may be well to explain to the many children who are now read-ing the pages of St. Nicholas for the first time, that the Agassiz Association is a society organized for the purpose of studying naturalobjects. The Association has been in existence for about seven years,but has consisted of less than a hundred members, chiefly li%^ngamong the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, until last No-vember, when a general invitation was given, through the columns ofSt. Nicholas, to all who were interested in nature, to join this that lime a general outline of our plan was given, a simpleconstitution was presented, and the kind indorsement of ProfessorAlexander Agassiz was noticed. To the several numbers of since October, 1880, then, we beg to refer all readers whowould know more of our society. We will repeat, however, that theinvitation to membership is unrestricted by considerations of age,ability, or place. Most of our members are unde
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