Show abai clrar donos X at 7 ir X SERAPHINA STORIES small seraphana Seraph lna stella stone whose age Is half past four was fond of having all her things upon the nursery floor her books and dolls and teddy bears i her blocks and other tois to hae them all about her was the of her jos but when nearly time for bed and she guht stop lier play our seraphana Seraph lna stella stone just left them where they lay to tell of such a careless child dear dear it grieves me sorel but her dear mother think of her it Rr levei her much much more isow one day seraphana Seraph lna of her tos began to tire and so she lay down on the rug be fore the open fire and there face down upon the rug was her dear dolly dear As seraphana Seraph lna watched the flames that leaped up with the smoke she heard a teeny tiny voice that softly sadly spoke oh dearr it said look erel it said im aing on my face I 1 do wish mother seraphana Seraph lna would put me in my place im rolled oft libie im bowled off there I 1 m tumbled all around I 1 have a mind to start off now and travel till ive found A little girl to mother roe who will not be so careless oh dear oh dear look here look here I 1 ive worried till hairless and then up spoke young ell I 1 am tumbled too I 1 m thrown around and blown around 1 e are a jumbled crew A book thit lay upon the floor cried out alas alack 1 I 1 suffer more than iou my friends I 1 have a broken back and if iou look around you here boull see that there are others alth rumpled leaves and broken backs my sisters and my brothers then let us go cried to some home far from here where children are more kind and we shall have no more to fear where each of us will have a place and hlll be put away to sleep and rest for that Is best when we are tired of play small seraphana Seraph lna caught her breath and opened wide her eyes 1 ikc hean vm f orf rc ho H o eo ar t t s l dmn t wf w she looked about the fire lit room in sleepy sad surprise she heard no more small voices from dolly dear or book but toys were scattered all around wherever she might look oh please don t leave me teddins don t go dear dolly dear til try to take such care of you if ou will stay right here she thought slie saw dear dolly smile a little smile then sigh she thought she saw small once his button eyel she took those toys with loving care and put them all away and seraphana Seraph lna she has been unto this dayl josephine A daker K K H H i K K DRESSED UP PENCILS K K K H K t my oh me exclaimed nanca re fretfully gret fully as she eed the pencil she had finished sharpening it s my favorite one and now it s too short to hold in my hand comfortably I 1 might as well throw it away I 1 can t use it any more 0 o wait john laid down his book and reached for the little pencil nub the desk he took out the mucilage bottle and a sheet of heavy paper from the paper he cut a strip an inch wide and twelve inches long put a drop of mucilage on one corner and stuck the paper strip to the pen cil a little aboe where it was sham ened he stuck it on slantwise then he began to the strip tightly about the pencil up and up went the winding there 1 said jachn as he finished winding ind fastened down the last go around of the paper strip with an other drop of mucilage there Is your now long enough and strong enough to get a alp on for some time to come oh thank youl said nancy and the way you fawd it looked alc such tun III try that plan myself on an other before night all the little cast a way bubs nubs of pencils in the house ap piaree in sturdy new paper holders that lengthened their usefulness con nancy made her pencil holders of all colors and wound some in two strips why prettier than new ones she said alice auson lido jessei JiS sei M |