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Show BOYS AND GIRLS.. ! Dear Nephews and Neiccs: Thanks for your bright interesting little letters. We will gladly publish them. Be good children and write very often to "Aunt Busy," Intermountain Catholic. prinve always rescued the princess and killed the dragons; when, hearing a buzzing, she looked up. Above her, on one of the book shelves, she saw Anderson's An-derson's fairy tales, ragged and torn, talking in a very excitedi manner to his friend, Robinson Crusoe. The latter l was short and stout, and his legs were thin and bowed. His coat was shabby and frayed at the edges from much handling-, for. he was a great favorite vith Betty, and her brothers and sisters is well. "It is very queer," said Hans, "that oiks don't believe in me. It makes me tncomfortable. I am a very good friend o all the children, and was a friend f their mcthers when- they were young. . have told them wonderful tales of en-" hanted princesses and dreadful ogres, f dancing- fairies, ;igly ducklings, riendly bears end fairy godmothers, vhen they had colds and could not go ut to play, or when It rained' tao hard. have whiled away many an hour for hem, and worn- myself cut trying to ilease thera: but when they grow older hey shut me up in a dark box and send ne to anr old musty garret." "Yes." said Robinson, Cfusoe, "it's too ad. They treat me the same way, voiding on to me a little longer, per-"naps; per-"naps; they mark up my pictures and aint my cheeks brick-red, and my ?yes sky blue, when everyone knows hey ere brown. It isn't respectful." ) "I think you are too hard on. the ihildren," broke in dear old Mother i'roose. "You only remember the ill xjeatment you have received, and for-,et for-,et all about the many years you were oted upon. -Think how often you are galled for when mamma asks what she hall read." The kindly speech of "Mother Goose" jWie is a great friend of the children) ;ade Hans Anderson and Robinson rusoe feel very much ashamed of lemselves-; but they were to be pun--4ned still more, for Mother Gooose had Tird!y finished talking when up spoke St. Nicholas, a pompous, handsome little gentleman, in a red coat with black trimmings. "Yes," he said, "you don't deserve to be so well treated and have so prominent promi-nent a place on the shelves. You are old-fashioned and rusty. You ought to be sold to the rag man or sent down to Mary to start the kitchen fire." St. Nicholas, thinking he had said enough, leaned back in his place between Swiss Family. Robinson and Gulliver's Travels, Trav-els, and subsided. Betty was very much surprised to hear the books talk, and made up her mind to treat kind . Mother Goose and good St. Nicholas much better. Hr rev-ery rev-ery was disturbed by a very deep voice coming from the corner. Looking around quickly she saw Webster's Dictionary Dic-tionary In earnest conversation with the Encylclopedia. Mr, . Webster, very handsomely dressed in sheepskin trimmed with, red, was sitting on the edge of the shelf with his legs dangling over. Mrs. Encyclopedia had a great many children, all the same size as their mother, and dressed exactly alike. They were lettered on their backs, so that one could tell which was which. |