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IO For the OLD SKID] By Herl OKI Sklddl e-d e-Wlnk w And he couldn't se V?.? -1 ~ - ?*;?. VIUU'I u? you lUin Had a most remar Old rikiodle-de-Wink 11 Away in its topmos And solemnly there, wi He sat from morn And then?what a surr That funny old owl < And, I rather think, M Was as happy, as ha; When T was a boy, a I went in the woo. When the sun was lov What Skiddle-doW He spread out his win; Till he lit on an o And what do you think He talked in this " 'Tis time little childrei Now run along hoi I ventured to ask him, He answered nie, And if you went into tl A6 I when a boy Old Skiddle-de-Wink, w Would talk the sa THE STORY OF THE RED FIRE IN A. L. Sykes in One day in the cold tim by his mamma, Tiny Hai who went step, step, stef the red fire." So his mamma gave hin "Once upon a time wa how to run fast when Ma hide when the Dog was n< spot in the sky that Hawl to his mamma! But Wee and run and jump and pi; "I do not want to run a I want to run far, far in th I have seen it away off in to eat, I know." "It is fire," said his ma it, and it is not good for You may eat the good fo< home," and she bit his cai "I do not want to eat llprP T v?ro n f f/N *"ni * . x want IU UU J LIS L < red food from the red bu: the warm time." itkta THE PRESBYTER ; Children DLE-DE-WINK. Jert Randall. ent. blinkety-blink, >e a mite; k! Old Skiddle-de-Wink kable sight. ived up in a tree. >t height; th a wild, wild stare, ing till night. trise!?'With his magical eyes xmld see; r. Skiddle-de-Wink ppy as could be. wee little boy, ds one day, r. just so 1 conM k r?nw ink would say. and went flopping about, Id dead tree; ! with his comical wink way to me; 1 were snug in their beds; ne?Booh! Booh!" "Who is it you mean?" "Whoo! Yoo, Yooo!" he woods tonight, used to do, ith his blinkety-blink, me way to you. ?The Owl. : WEE HARE AND TH SHORT WORDS. April St. Nicholas. e when he lay snug and war e said: "Tell me of the hai ? in the snow till he came 1 n a hug and said: 5 a wise wee hare who kne in came by. He knew how 1 :ar, and when he saw the dai < made, how fast he did jurr Hare did not like to go oi ay in the sun. nd jump and play in the su e wood, and find the red bus i the dark. It is good for it imma. "Only man can mal you. It can burn and hur }d that you can find near 01 for a kiss. the pood food that I can s< as I like. I want to pick tl sh. I know it is like buds IAN OF THE SOUTH. "Hush," said Papa I are not good. When ? high in the sky, and it tar out in the wood, a eat the food that is hcs "I do not want to jump and play when t' want to do just as I li! from the red bush," sai "Shut your eyes and your nap," said his m; away from me. Now, 1 The red bush is the R Man has it, and Dog is and if you run far in hard for a wee hare, ; you. Shut your eyes a your nap." It was noon ; the sun Good Papa Hare tool her nap. The Wee Hai clown but he took no n the door, and ran and Then he ran and ran in to the Red Fire, and 1 feet were sore, but he d he ran and ran and ran run any more, and no down to rest in a busl shut, and he did not s< the hour for his nap. 1 the open ways of the leap from his bush, foi deep and deep, and a w< he did wish he was at i The sun was far rlnu lay red on the snow, wee hare in the cold i wood to try to find his in grew dark, and snow g re had hard work to walk to cold, and blew him ou wish he was at home! went. The wind blew w "I cannot walk; my f to Hare, and just then he i -k path in the wood, and t ip the Wee Hare felt! K Lit grew cold, and he was said: '"Wow!" and he pu n. down," and Dog lay do h. Hare went into a tiny, 1 ie feet to warm them. H( i:i-~ * ? iikc to see 11. man ana ce them, and he saw them t. "They fear it, too," < it good for me. I must ta me." He sat on his col ;e a nap. ic By and by Man put J in and Dog went away, step, step in the snow, June 2, 1909. Iarc, very low and deep. "You you arc good, and the moon is is just like day, I .will take you nd you may run and jump and t for you." 0 out in the wood and run and he moon is high in the sky. I ke. I want to eat the red buds d the Wee Hare. 1 put your ears down and take ama. "You are too tiny to go iush, do not say one more word, ed Fire. It can *hurt and burn. wun .vian. i ney can hurt you, the wood, Wind may blow too and Snow may come and bury nd put your ears down and take . was high in the sky. k his nap. and Mama Hare took re shut his eyes and put his ears lap. By and by lie went out of ran till he came to the wood, the wood, but he did not come le ran and ran and ran till his id not come to the Red Fire, and and ran till he was not able to Red Fire did he see. He lay ^ I l, and very soon his eyes were ie or hear, for it was long past When he woke Snow lay on all wood. The Wee Hare gave a he knew that Snow can grow ^e hare can not walk in it. How home! rn in the west, and its last rays Step, step, step went the lame snow. He went back into the way home. It grew gray, and it jrew so deep that the wee hare . Then wind came. It was so t of the path, and how he did Step, step, step in the snow he more and more. eet are too lame." said the Wee ;aw the Red Fire! It grew in the >y it sat Man and Dog. Oh, how lis nose grew hot, and his ears > not able to move. The Doer it his cars up, but Man saidLie wn by the Red Fire. The Wee :iny hole in a tree and sat on his : saw the Red Fire. He did not Dog did not let it come too near i keep away from the Red Fire, said the Wee Hare. "It is not !,? li. ...Ml __J I ixv. caic ui it win tome ana nurt Id feet, and did not dare to take 5now over the Red Fire, and he and the Wee Hare went step, soft, soft, soft, for fear. ....