StNicholas . pictureof some pretty creatures of this kind, and here,too, is the true story about them: During the summer a party of grown-ups werecamping-out somewhere in Wisconsin, and oneday they saw at a little distance a tree-branch with what seemed to be its own white blossoms having arare frolic with the wind ; for they were blowing off,and blowing on again, fluttering up and down, andcircling about, in a very frisky way. But on goingclose up it «as found that what had appeared to beflying flowers really were .a score or more of butter-flies clustering around the branch,—a sort of sur-pr
StNicholas . pictureof some pretty creatures of this kind, and here,too, is the true story about them: During the summer a party of grown-ups werecamping-out somewhere in Wisconsin, and oneday they saw at a little distance a tree-branch with what seemed to be its own white blossoms having arare frolic with the wind ; for they were blowing off,and blowing on again, fluttering up and down, andcircling about, in a very frisky way. But on goingclose up it «as found that what had appeared to beflying flowers really were .a score or more of butter-flies clustering around the branch,—a sort of sur-prise party of white-winged beauties. Your Jack has heard, too, that in Monterey,California, there are three pine-trees called theHutterfly trees because for at least twelve yearsthey have been covered almost all the time withlive butterflies. The trees measure about eighteeninches through the trunk, and they bear quite asmany butterflies as they have leaves. It may be that these particular trees give out an. odor or yield a sap which the butterflies like verymuch ; but my birds have not told me yet aboutthis, and perhaps one of you youngsters will be thefirst to explain to me why butterflies are attractedin such numbers to these curious perching-places. THE MAGIC PEN. [November, THE MAGIC PEN. (A» Operetta /or the Children.) By E. S. Brooks, Author of The Land of Nod. CHARACTERS. The Lord of the Magic Pen. Mr. Fact, and Prince Fable: — His Councilors. Fancy Bright, and High Desire:—Petitioners on behalf of the , Joan of Arc, and Washington :— Followers of the Giant-Killer, Cinderella, and Robinson Crusoe:—Followers ot Gnome Man. Puck, the Pens Messenger. The Herald from Gnome Mans , Dot, and Dick:—The childrens Musical Frolics. The Page of the Pen. The Standard-Bearer. The Elephant Dnver. The Elephant Half of this operetta is given in this number of St. Nicholas, sothat all iviio wish to study it for repr
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