St Nicholas [serial] . IN HASTE. BY REGINALD SMITH, AGE 14 IN HASTE. BY SARAH H. TALBERT, AGE 17. (SILVER BADGE.) WHAT MOST INTERESTED ME DURINGMY VACATION BY HELEN G. SCOTT (AGE 12) (Silver Badge) While traveling in France we stopped at Paris for a few days. What most interested me was my trip to Fontaine- bleau palace, thirty-seven miles from Paris. We started out on a fairly clear morning on this all-daytrip. Our route was partly through an immense forest,one of the most beautiful in France and the second largestin Europe. For that reason the kings built a palace atFontainebleau, so that wh
St Nicholas [serial] . IN HASTE. BY REGINALD SMITH, AGE 14 IN HASTE. BY SARAH H. TALBERT, AGE 17. (SILVER BADGE.) WHAT MOST INTERESTED ME DURINGMY VACATION BY HELEN G. SCOTT (AGE 12) (Silver Badge) While traveling in France we stopped at Paris for a few days. What most interested me was my trip to Fontaine- bleau palace, thirty-seven miles from Paris. We started out on a fairly clear morning on this all-daytrip. Our route was partly through an immense forest,one of the most beautiful in France and the second largestin Europe. For that reason the kings built a palace atFontainebleau, so that when they wanted to hunt in thisforest they could go to the palace. When we arrived at Fontainebleau, the guide showed usthe spot where, many years ago, there was found a beau-. IN HASTE. BY ALICE WANGENHEIM, AGE 13. tiful fountain of clear water, which, in French, is the wordwhich became the name of the place, Fontaine-bel-eau, orFontainebleau. From there we continued our trip to the palace, sometwo miles away. It is a large two-story building formedin the shape of a square, with a court in the center andopen on one side. The buildings were low and had large,glass doors. We went through the rooms of Louis XIV, XV, andXVI, also of Napoleon and Josephine and Marie Antoi-nette. They were all furnished with the original were also little anterooms where people who wishedto see the King or Queen would have to wait, according totheir rank. The highest would have to wait the shortesttime, and so on down. Beautiful fountains and gardens surrounded the palace. THE COUNTRY OF HAPPY HOPE-EE BY LAURA MOENCH (AGE 17){Gold Badge)Were you eer on the beach o Be-Lazy BayWhere the Hobbledy-Hopes hop out o the spray,With laughing and smiling and ways so beguilin
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