StNicholas [serial] . M. HARTMAN,AGE 17. BY ANNETTE PRITCHARTT,AGE 15. face and rag body, for, if you will believe it, Betty was al- advice and went to the High School, but I certainly was most as old as her mother, arid was her constant com- sorry after I had done so. panion; then there were Bo-Peep, Trilby, Julia, Tom Reed, Everything, mainly Latin, seemed very difficult for the 856 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE [July, first few weeks of the term. The studies seemed gradu-ally to get easier ; but the Latin kept getting harder everyday, and I constantly worried about it. I begged Motherto allow me to l
StNicholas [serial] . M. HARTMAN,AGE 17. BY ANNETTE PRITCHARTT,AGE 15. face and rag body, for, if you will believe it, Betty was al- advice and went to the High School, but I certainly was most as old as her mother, arid was her constant com- sorry after I had done so. panion; then there were Bo-Peep, Trilby, Julia, Tom Reed, Everything, mainly Latin, seemed very difficult for the 856 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE [July, first few weeks of the term. The studies seemed gradu-ally to get easier ; but the Latin kept getting harder everyday, and I constantly worried about it. I begged Motherto allow me to leave ; but she told me since I had had mychoice and wished to go to the High School, I must con-tinue my course. After two months had passed, I gradually got to like allmy studies, even the Latin that I had so much difficultywith. As the term progressed, my marks seemed to get better,and when it came time for promotion I had passed in every-thing. I am now in the second class and have no troublewith any of my A KINGFISHER. BY FRANCES CAREY, AGE Io. (PRIZE,CLASS C, WILL) CREATURE PHOTOGRAPHY.) I am now very glad that Mother refused to let me leave,because I enjoy going to the High School very much. I often hear of girls, after they have been in the HighSchool but one week, leaving and going to some businessschool. I am very glad for the choice I made. MY CHOICE—GOING VISITING BY BERYL II. MARGETSON (AGE II) The nicest place, I think, that I have ever been to is inMerionethshire, North Wales. My sister and Lwent therewith some friends. We stayed for a month in the lasthouse of a village which had been washed away by thesea. There is an island near where we were that is called Machorus, or Shell Island; on it are the ruins of ahouse, and on the mainland, up a little bank from thebeach, stand a ruined church and a lot of old havemoss which wonderfully preserves the scraped the moss off of one and found it was dated 1660. Several miles from Ll
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