. St. Nicholas [serial] . lbe in Deutschland far North,And the first F, I find, strange to say, is the Forth. The great river Ganges can go for the G,And for H our blue Hudson will certainly be; The quaint Irrawaddy for I has its claims,And the J is the limpid and beautiful James. The K is for Kama, I know in a jiffy,And the L is the Loire and the prosperous M we have plenty to choose from, and well,There s the noble Missouri, the gentle N we have Nile, and the Onion is O,While for P you can choose the gray Pruth or the Po. The Q is the Quinebaug, one of our own,But the
. St. Nicholas [serial] . lbe in Deutschland far North,And the first F, I find, strange to say, is the Forth. The great river Ganges can go for the G,And for H our blue Hudson will certainly be; The quaint Irrawaddy for I has its claims,And the J is the limpid and beautiful James. The K is for Kama, I know in a jiffy,And the L is the Loire and the prosperous M we have plenty to choose from, and well,There s the noble Missouri, the gentle N we have Nile, and the Onion is O,While for P you can choose the gray Pruth or the Po. The Q is the Quinebaug, one of our own,But the R comes to front with the Rhine and the the S there s the Shannon, a beautiful stream,And the T is the Tiber where Rome reigns Ural, I think, will with U quite agree, And the turbulent Volga will fit for the W s Weser, and Xenil is X(You may find it spelled with a J, to perplex).Then for Y, Yang-tse-kiang is simple and easy,And to end the long list with a Z, take Zambesi. JACK AND JILL By Charles Frederick Holder. ACK and Jill Rey-nard, before I be-came acquaintedwith them, lived ina deep dark valleyin the Sierra MadreMountains of South-ern California ; acanon that was agreen river in itsbeauty of foliage,as it wound awayfor miles throughthe heart of themighty range. Jack and Jill weremountain folk, hav-ing their home inthe thick growth ofgreasewood and manzanita* that covered theslopes; perhaps lying on isolated rocks in sunnyplaces during the day, and only occasionallyventuring down into the lowland at night,when their human enemies were sound foxes talk, I have no doubt that Jack andJill were cautioned about these lowland expe-ditions by certain old and gray foxes, andwarned that there was danger even at this as it may, Jack became the unfortunatepossessor of the secret, brought perhaps on thewind itself, that in a certain ranch yard therewere some dainty young chickens. Jack, apparently, did not trust his secret toany
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