. St. Nicholas [serial]. Iwas a tiny girl, a neighbor boy brought in his best-beloved present for me to see. T was the first pub-lished numbers of St. Nicholas Magazine. Sincethat introduction the dear old saint and I have beenthe best of friends. For many years I read his storiesand sang his jingles to five little brothers of mine. Oflate I have read and sung them over again to four littlesons of mine. On the lowest shelves in our library arethe most used and most worn of all our books—thirtybound volumes of St. Nicholas. After we read the article about childrens book-plates, we invented a ne
. St. Nicholas [serial]. Iwas a tiny girl, a neighbor boy brought in his best-beloved present for me to see. T was the first pub-lished numbers of St. Nicholas Magazine. Sincethat introduction the dear old saint and I have beenthe best of friends. For many years I read his storiesand sang his jingles to five little brothers of mine. Oflate I have read and sung them over again to four littlesons of mine. On the lowest shelves in our library arethe most used and most worn of all our books—thirtybound volumes of St. Nicholas. After we read the article about childrens book-plates, we invented a new game. We draw all sortsof designs for book-plates, using favorite illustrationsfrom our pet stories. For instance, the elephant whosat on some kegs and juggled glass bottles and eggswas made to sit on Jacks Book, which his weightbent down to look about as crushed and shabby as Jacksbooks generally do. Puss-in-boots strode gaily alongwith Elmers Book. Hop Wings Dragon wasdrawn greedily devouring Juliuss Book. Cheerful. OUR BOOK-PLATE. Cats played hop-scotch with My Book. Browniesand elves ran in and out of Our Book. It is greatfun to see in how many and in what curious ways someof the quaint pictures in St. Nicholas will lend them-selves to such designs. Finally, we have chosen oneto keep permanently—the brave little knight in Overthe hills and far away, with his sweet, wistful face weall like so very much. And when we drew him com-ing out of our own story-book, we felt that he was just theone to stand champion for all the stories in St. Nicho-las, and in all the boys books in our your friend, Mrs. E. B. Grosvenor. 286 COODRESOLU-TIONS ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE DECEMBER NUMBER. Diagonal. Christmas. Cross-words: i. Concourse. 2. Whole-some. 3. Turquoise. 4. Abdicates. 5. Accessory. 6. Persimmon. 8. Cathedral. 9. Cross-word Enigma. England, Holland, on more wood! The wind is chill,But let it whistle
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