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Marooner’s Island.
The third chapter of this story came to hand so
late that we are compelled to omit a portion of it
until next week. The story is steadily increasing
in interest as it progresses.
“Tales of a Great Traveler, No. 2,” will make
our little readers laugh. It is accompanied by a
capital illustration of the contest between the par
rot and the monkey.
Mrs. Ford’s beautiful story, “The Little Wo
man in Green,” is completed in this number. We
have rarely read a more charming fairy tale, or
one conveying a better moral.
Dramatized Fairy Tales.
A lady contributor, who loves little children
and has written a great deal for their amusement
and instruction, sends us the first of a series of
dramatized fairy tales, which we are sure will de
light our little readers. The one in hand is a dra
matized version of that old favorite of the nur
sery, “Cinderella; or, the Little Glass Slipper.”
We shall try to make room for it next week.
To Correspondents.
C. M. W., Eranklinton, N. C. —An anagram is the trans
position of the letters of a word or sentence so as to form
another word or sentence. The enigma you send is de
fective, as you will see by looking it over again. One of
the logogriphs we publish—the other is held over until
you send us a fuller answer to it. Your answers to Puz
zles in No. 1 are all correct.
Jennie J., Houma, La. —Answers to charades, puzzles,
Ac., must always accompany them, or we can never judge
of their correctness. YAur answers to those in No. 1 are
all correct.
J. A. F., Savannah, Ga.—Your answers to puzzles in
the first number are all right, We shall always be glad
to hear from you.
Ching and Chang. —There were two short
sighted men who were always quarreling as to
which of them could see best; and as they heard
there was to be a tablet erected at the gate of a
neighboring temple they determined they would
visit it.together on a given day and put the visual
powers of each to the test. But each desiring to
take advantage of the other, Cliing went imme
diately to the temple, and looking quite close to
the tablet saw an inscription with the words, “To
the great man of the past and the future.” Chang
also went prying yet closer, and in addition to the
inscription, “To the great man of the past and
the future,” read from smaller characters, “This
tablet was raised by the family of Ling in honor
of the great man.” On the day appointed, stand
ing at a distance from which neither could read,
Ching exclaimed, “The inscription is, ‘To the
great man of the past and the future.’ ” “ True,”
said Chang, “ but yon have left out a part of the
inscription, which I can read but you cannot, and
which is written in small characters : ‘ Erected by
the family of Ling in honor of the great man.’ ”
“ There is no such inscription,” said Ching.
“There is,” said Chang. So they waxed wroth,
and, after abusing one another, agreed to refer
the matter to the high-priest of the temple, lie
heard their story, and quietly said, “ Gentlemen,
there is no tablet to read; it was taken into the
interior of the temple yesterday.”
A Justifiable Doubt*— When the brave Cor
poral Caithness was asked, after the battle of
Waterloo, if he was not afraid, he replied —
“Afraid! why, I was in a’ the battles of the Pe
ninsula !’ ’ And having it explained that the ques
tion related to a fear of losing the day : “ Na, na ;
I did na fear that. I was only afraid we should
be a’ killed before we had time to win it.”
BURKE’S WEEKLY.
Y.::'
THE SAGACIOUS SQUIRREL.
ANY years ago, an old
hunter who lived near a
small stream, was sur
rAr wmsMi lß prised one morning to
* discover that a colony of
beavers had thrown a dam across
it, and that the water had formed
quite a lake in the valley above
I f the dam. Near the centre of this
lake stood a clump of tall trees, now of
course surrounded by water. Among the
tops of these trees he noticed a number
of squirrels, leaping from branch to
branch, evidently much disturbed at find
ing themselves cut oft* from the land, as
these animals do not take to water unless
compelled to do so.
While he stood looking at them he ob
served all at once that they became great
ly excited —passing from tree to tree —
running down their trunks to the water,
and then up again, and running out to
the extremity of the limbs, as if they
meant to leap into the water, and then
galloping back again. He soon saw that
this commotion was caused by a small
lo<>* which had got into the stream above,
and was now floating down the current
in the direction of the little island.
On came the log slowly ; but instead
of drifting directly toward the island, it
was borne by the current in a direction
that would carry it at least twenty yards
from the nearest trees. The squirrels had
all gathered on that side, and were on the
topmost branches watching the motions
of the log. As soon as it reached the
nearest point, the foremost squirrel made
a leap into the air, and the
next moment pounced upon
the log. Then another and
another followed, until the log
was covered with the little
creatures and floated off with
its cargo.
But there was one squirrel
who had been too late, and had
not escaped with the others,
and he was running to and fro,
in a frantic state, leaping from
branch to branch, running
down the tree to the edge of
the water, and stopping to look
hopelessly after his compan
ions. At length he got into a
tree whose bark was very
rough ; in fact, crisped upward
in great hard pieces or scales
a foot long, which looked as if
they were going to fall off. He
began to run backward and
forward around one of these
large pieces of bark, and it
was soon evident that he was trying to
detach it from the tree. At length he was
successful, and the piece of bark fell into
the water.
It had scarcely done so before the lit
tle animal leaped upon it. There was no
current where the bark fell, and the old
hunter watched whether the bark would
carry the squirrel out from the trees. —
But he soon saw that Bunny knew what
he was about. As soon as he had fairly
balanced himself on his piece of bark, he
hoisted his broad, bushy tail high up in
the air, for a sail, the breeze caught it,
and the little craft was soon borne out
ward. Having cleared the trees the wind
brought him into the current, and he and
his tin} 7- bark were soon floating down
wards after his companions. Both log
and bark reached the dam in safety, and
the squirrels nimbly leaped on it and soon
scampered off into the woods.
cat caught a sparrow and was
about to devour it, but the sparrow said,
“No gentleman cat eats till he washes
his face.” The cat, struck at the remark,
set the sparrow down, and began to wash
his face with his paw, but the sparrow
flew away. This vexed puss extremely,
and he said—“As long as I live I will eat
first and wash my face afterwards,” and
this all cats do to this day.
A Strong Argument. —There is one
single fact which one may oppose to all
the wit and argument of infidelity, viz :
That no man ever repented of being a
Christian on his death-bed.
Be just and honest in everything.
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