. St. Nicholas [serial] . y. What do you think of that plan ? I think it would be very nice, said Filamina, and I really believe I will do it. It was exactly what she did do. The next morn-ing, her white horse was brought from the castlestables, and side by side, and amid the cheers andfarewells of the giants, the dwarfs, the gnomes, thefairies, the afrits, the genii, the pigwidgeons, thewitch, the wizard, the ghosts, the penitent hippo-griff, and the faithful hobgoblin, Filamina andthe high-born boy rode away to school. Henrietta R. Eliot. A FAIRY bit of thistle-down Lodged in
. St. Nicholas [serial] . y. What do you think of that plan ? I think it would be very nice, said Filamina, and I really believe I will do it. It was exactly what she did do. The next morn-ing, her white horse was brought from the castlestables, and side by side, and amid the cheers andfarewells of the giants, the dwarfs, the gnomes, thefairies, the afrits, the genii, the pigwidgeons, thewitch, the wizard, the ghosts, the penitent hippo-griff, and the faithful hobgoblin, Filamina andthe high-born boy rode away to school. Henrietta R. Eliot. A FAIRY bit of thistle-down Lodged in the middle of a town. A few years sped; in each bare space A thistle had found growing place. A million stubborn, bristling things From one small seed with filmy wings ! A maiden, idling with a friend,Uttered a jest,—nor dreamed the end;And when ill-rumors filled the air,Wondered, all simply, who could bearTo give such pain ? Nor dreamed her jestHad been the text for all the rest. 28 THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. [November,. iKOFESSOR LOUIS AGASSIZ. THE AGASSIZ Harlan H. Ballard. OU must know that,across the ocean andover the Alps, the boysand girls of Switzerlandhave a bright have formed asociety, and they havea badge. The badge is a spray of evergreen, and thesociety is a Natural a year, in the springtime, when the sun has liftedthe ice-curtain from the lakes,so that the fishes can look out, and the flowers can look in, the£. *! . children from far and near come together for a meeting and a are the boys and girls for a tramp. Theirsturdy legs and long staves, their strong bodies andshort dresses, their gay stockings and stout shoesprove that beyond a question. The long, golden hair of the girls, tightly braidedand firmly knotted with ribbons, keeps out of theireyes, and flashes brightly behind them as they goclambering over rocks, leaping across rivulets,scrambling along glaciers, and climbing steep hill-sides in their
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