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Show ..Our Boys ana rl$.. Edited by Aunt Busy. This department is conducted solely in the interests inter-ests of our girl and boy readers. Aunt Busy is glad to hear any time from the nieces and nephews who read this page, and to give them all the advice and help in her power. Write on one side of the paper only. Do not have letters too lone Original stories and verses will be gladly received and carefully edited. The manuserips of contributions not accepted will be returned. Address all letters to Aunt Busy, Ir.termountain ' Catholic. Bait Lake City. V MY LITTLE BOY FOR SALE. A mother was busy with her work one day, When her dear little boy. with his toys, Kan in from his play, ae bright as May, W'iih all his traps and noise. "You make such a din." she said to him, While he worked with his tools, his joys: "I'li put you to bed, or I'll sell you," she said, To the man who buys little boys. A little' buy for sale; A lis tie boy for .s;Ue; A little boy for sale; lie makes so muh noise with Iris hammer and toys, My little boy for sale." The dVar little boy was quiet one day; He had laid his tops aside: The mother had eased her work to pray; '0 Lord with me abide!" As she its by the bed of her curly head A soft, sweet pong- she Fines, "vVhn out of the Rloom of that quiet room Ooms the rustle of the aiiRol's wings. "There's no little boy for sale; ThTe'ts no little boy for sale; H was bought by the love of the Father above. There's no little boy for sale; There's no little boy for sale; There's no little boy for sale; He was bouirht by the love f the Father above. There's no little boy for tale." AUNT BUSY'S PRIZE WINNERS. Prf.r Nieces: tiinl Nephews: After many days uf waiting and. cxpectntion. Aunt Tuy at &i announces tlie names of the prize winners in the recent contest, in which the qu.-siion discussed was: "What was the origin of Thanksgiving day The editor of the Interniountaiu Catholic vn Aunt lus.v decided 1o ak two geiillcnien of (ho y j Sidt Lake Tribune staff and two of the Salt Lake. Herald stuff to decide the merits of the essays submitted. sub-mitted. The rcult is that Miss Nora Crawford of Salt Lake wins the girl's prize and Thomas Laugh-lin Laugh-lin of Butte the boy's prize. In the language of the judges, first prize is awarded to Nora Crawford for accuracy of historical histori-cal fact, and leverncss of composition. Tlmmas Laughlin of Butte is the olber prize winner because to use Aunt Busy's language he wrote just like an ordinary boy. Aunt Bus;, imagines imag-ines that Thomas is an independent chap, with ideas of his own. a fondness for lols of play, a;- earnest 1 i endeavor to be successful in school because he is ! j I too proud to fail. She imagines that he whistles, j sings and makes all manner of racket-wherever he j may ho -in short, she thinks he is a splendid type j of American boy, and she slightly suspects that lie j has a few freckles on his nose. Of course Aunt. Busy could not decide the prize, but she does think that Thomas should have been more careful about fads, and particularly about j dates, but four clever, experienced newspaper men. who are or the best western newspapers, decided for I Thomas; so Aunt Busy has nothing further to say. i Alice Lackey of Rawlins. Wyo., ami .Joseph ; Biehard of Fort Collins. Colo., received special 1 ..mention for accuracy and composition. Aunt Busy ; f-ejit the prizes at once to the fortunate young "peo- I pie and will anxiously wait for letters stating that ? the prizes were1 received. I Aunt Busy will be glad to receive photographs I of Nora and Thomas, so that all the dear nieces and. I nephews may see how the dear girl and the dear I b'-y really look. t So now. dear children. Aunt Busy appreciates j the interest taken in this conlest by ail her chil- I drop, and she will offer two more prizes Jan. 15, ; and start another Aunt Busy contest. f iood-byp. for this time, with best wishes and S "bushels" of love, dear children. Your devoted, short, fat and funnv. S AUNT Bl'RT. I ESSAY ON THANKSGIVING DAY, ; (First Prize.) In the early part of the reign of James I. some pe,,;,le in the village of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. innier;ook to establish a church where ihey could V worship as they pleased. But they were persecuted, ' and some of them were thrown into prison. In Tin thov fled to Holland, where thev were not ; tro'.i!,ed.' But. they didn't want to settle in Holland per-Tiiaiient per-Tiiaiient ly. because they did not want their children to intermarry with the Dutch. They wanted to make homes in a. new land and there establish a free government. They went 1o Plymouth. Knsland. and got two ships, the Mayflower and the Speedwell. But the Speedwell was so leaky that they had to abandon it. The Mayflower set out with about one hundred f- people on board. . In November. T2U, they reached America and j land.-d . mi Plymouth Kock. By spiing half of their iimnbor were dead, and they hid to plant coin over i 'li" craves -o the Indians wouldn't know how few I tb-i- numbers were. That year their crops did not ! yield very good and they nearly starved. The next j onr 'hey had a good harvest, and Governor Brad 's f"fd proclaimed a general Thanksgiving. J The people, were very busy preparing for it be- -;ii-e ihey had invited Massasoit and his Indian b-av. :-s to the feast. The men went into the woods r:;d shot wild turkeys and rabbits, and they got j 1 iries from the woods, too. The women were busy I n.: pumpkin pies and cooking other good I things. The feast lasted three days and even then the Indians didn't want to go.' 1 NOKA CRAWFORD, f 2:H B street, -Salt Lake. ESSAY ON THANKSGIVING DAY. Manv rears ago a lot of people came over from j Ki.dand "in a ship called the Mayflower. They j lmd a hard time coming, and a mighty hard time at tev ih,y p,,t here. I Tlwy at last had nothing to cat and were afraid I ef ih,. Indians, so they all said prayers, lots of prayers .,ut real loud, for God to help tlicin. One ! dav after they had prayed a very long time a big whii--. ship came over the sea with everything good 1 to e:ii. '. everybody was glad and lots of In- di.-n;s were invited to have something to cat, too, . ! everybody was thankful, so this is how Thanks- giii;ir day first started. J I d.-.n'i expect to get the prize. Aunt Busy. I l "' ly wrote b(M-ause you wanted all the children to I 'vrite. and I like vou, so this is why I did what you ac:-d. ' THOMAS LAUGLIN, Butte Citv, Mont. J 4 I LETTERS AND ANSWERS. j Salt Lake City, Jan. 1, 1905. I Bear Aunt Busy May you have a happy, pros- I porous year, Auntie Buevfl am one of the nieces 1 'ho i verv fond of you I always have loved old i "nVs. Did vou like old ladies when you were , ynne. Aunt Busy? Good-bye. Your loving niece, 1 V MARY CALLAHAN . j Aunt Busv appreciates tlie kind wishes from her ,1 dear niece, Mary, as well as the kind opinion s I i . .. frankly expressed. Really, Aunt Busy must con-' con-' fess that she has not liked all the old ladies she has met but some were very dear and lovable. If old ladies la-dies are not always liked it is generally their own fault, just as it is the fault of all persons, young or old, if they are not liked. So let us all try, both young and old, to like everybody, and then everybody every-body will like us. Buty City, Mont., Jan. 1, 1005. Dear Aunt Busy I have made my mind up to be very good during the coming year. My auntie says it is right to make resolutions. What do you think. Aunt Busy if Do you make resolutions, too? I never made any before. Perhaps it will be easier to be good if the resolutions are made. Wishing you a happv New Year, I remain your affectionate nephew, ' JAMES E. CONROY. Aunt Busy is pleased to hear 1 hat you intend to be very good for the future, James, but she thinks you are a fairly good chap, anyhow, es, of course, it is well to feel that you want to be very good, but really, Aunt Busy does not exactly believe be-lieve in New Year's resolutions. If we are doing wrong we should try to change at once and not. wait 'for a certain time. Of course, as you write, it may be cosier to be good if you really make the resolution, but a resolution reso-lution is really' a promise, and a promise to do right should not be broken, so do not make promises even to your own dear self unless you intend to keep them. But if you will really feel better, dear, by all means make your "resolutions." . Salt Lake City, Dec. 27. 104. Dear Auntie Did .ou have a nice time at ChristmasJ T gol everythtns- I wanted, and some more things besides. I believe everybody had a good tiuu and I hope mv dear old auntie did. too. Your loving niece, " NELLIE BECK LEY. Yes, Aunt Busy had a very pleasant Christmas. How very nice to receive everything one wants, and more besides ! Aunt Busy thinks- that niece Nellie must be more ihan fortunate. Aunt Busy remembers remem-bers feeling ju.st like you do now, dear. once, a long time ago; oh. ages ago. when she w-s a little girl. One Christmas Santa Claus brought her a doll that went to sleep and could rea'lv talk, and Ann Busv thought ihen that she had everything in the world that she wanted, so she knows how you. feci. Nellie, even though she is funny, old and gray 1 .May you always get what you wont, and more besides, dear. |